Song of the Day - Destination Moon
Posted on January 2, 2009 by Tito
They Might Be Giants - Destination Moon
Why?
Because.
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Possible Resolution
Posted on December 29, 2008 by Tito
2009 - May be my year of sleeve-facing. Can I do a sleeve-face a month?
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Best Frakkin’ Recap Evar!
Posted on December 18, 2008 by Tito
Run don’t walk to BSG mega-catchup: http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/video/?sub=specials&clip=3 (for Rillz)
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super disco’ breakin’
Posted on December 18, 2008 by Tito
Of course the Bollywood classic “I am a disco dancer“:
How bout the 1979 UK Disco dancer finals (featuring pre-MTV Downtown Julie Brown? {via amoeba}:
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Choosie Bloggers Choose GIF
Posted on December 16, 2008 by Tito
What are the post-web 2.0 metrics for measuring the “stickiness” of a news “event”? Perhaps there is nothing better to ask than: How many animated GIFs can a story launch?
Then again, when it comes to animated GIFs, only one can reign supreme:
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Preach it, my brother
Posted on December 7, 2008 by David
From “Thirty Seconds with Jimmie Johnson” in this morning’s Times:
WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU’RE STUCK IN TRAFFIC ON THE HIGHWAY? Man, I’m so impatient. I hate it. One of my biggest pet peeves would be somebody in the fast lane not passing the car inside of them. I mean, you’re in that lane because you’ve got to go somewhere, so why do people get in that lane and run the speed the guy next to him is running? It drives me nuts. Traffic is not fun. I’ll drive 20 miles out of the way to avoid it. But New York City traffic is quite fun. I love driving in the city because it doesn’t seem like there are any rules.
Out-maneuvering taxi cabs truly ranks among the purest of sports.
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The Music Meme
Posted on December 5, 2008 by Tito
1. Put your iTunes (or any other media player you may have) on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
Go! {via}
Also, I’ve done these Magic Eight Ball MP3 quizzes in the past. This one was borderline freaky with some of the answers. I say it’s a Repeal Day Miracle!!
IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY?
Those Magic Changes - Sha Na Na
WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Cream - Prince
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
I Love The Night Life - India and Nuyorican Soul
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
Goddess On A Highway - Mercury Rev
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Everything Falls Apart - Husker Du
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Temptations - 2Pac
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Rock’N’Roll Is Here To Stay - Sha Na Na
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
The Only Living Boy in Omaha - Simon Joyner & The Fallen Men
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
The Chase , Part II - A Tribe Called Quest
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Oh Take Me Back - M. Ward
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Close To Me - The Cure
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
The Steve Martin - EPMD
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Waiting In Line - Turtle Moon
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Resignation Superman - Big Head Todd & The Monsters
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Don’t Believe The Hype - Public Enemy
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
Alibi - Elvis Costello
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Victory March - University of Notre Dame Marching Band
WHAT’S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Sweet and Low - Fugazi
HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Amorous in Bauhaus Fashion - The Faint
WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good) Duke Ellington
WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Jane - Ben Folds Five
WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Stone Age - De La Soul
WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
I Summon You - Spoon
WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Lose Yourself - Eminem
DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Take Her Out of Pity - The Kingston Trio
IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
Six Days - DJ Shadow
WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
Coin Operated Boy - The Dresden Dolls
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Tilt-Shift Monster Truck
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Tito
Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
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New Blog Project
Posted on November 29, 2008 by Tito
In case yer interested, I’m starting a new blog focusing specifically on whether or not restaurants have hot water in their bathroom sinks: http://didthebathroomhavehotwater.wordpress.com/
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last words
Posted on November 22, 2008 by Tito
The OUP Blog brings word of the Oxford Book of Death, with excerpts of notable last words.
GIDE (1951): ‘I am afraid my sentences are becoming grammatically incorrect.’
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stewball
Posted on November 22, 2008 by Tito
Nice Saturday evening timesuck: Falcons66 on youtube has videos of 78s playing. I’m partial to this one (Lead Belly - Stewball).
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Ahhhh, it’s in b minor! nice!
Posted on November 19, 2008 by Tito
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMri_RR7hto
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death alert! (language edition)
Posted on November 18, 2008 by Tito
I used skedaddle (in an email at work) just last week! Part of me feels like that guy from the past looking at his photo in the future where he is beginning to disappear.
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glorious hair
Posted on November 15, 2008 by Tito
Guinness World Record for tallest Mohawk haircut set in Omaha, NE.
::youtube::
via (tim_mcmahan > worldsofwayne)
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Stagnance: Addendum
Posted on November 12, 2008 by David
Further and final note on the sliver of America voting redder than ever:
Half of McCain voters believe Obama is or was Muslim, with 31.7% saying “He used to be Muslim and still has too many connections to Islam.”
(Source)
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Stagnance unto Death
Posted on November 11, 2008 by David
A few fascinating data points on the Times’s demographic comparison of counties that went deeper red vs counties that went deeper blue in 2008 vs 2004. (Please click on the Voter Shift Multimedia Graphic for a frame of reference.)
Not surprising that the strip of deeper red is in the white rural south, but a number of demographic areas really stood out sharply:
* The direct correlation between college degree and depth of blue and indirect correlation with depth of red, to the point where the citzens of the deepest blue counties were 2.5 times more likely to have college degrees than the deepest red.
* Similar correlations on population density, with reverse trends on income under $30,000 and Southern Baptist proportion.
* Perhaps starkest of all is an old favorite of mine, population growth: only the deepest red were, on average, stagnant from a growth perspective.
The depth of color on the chart is only change vs 2004–it was already understood that population density correlates to democrats along with wealth and education–but what this data means is, when the vast and overwhelming majority of American counties trended toward a Black man and away from Bush’s failed policies, there is a silent and increasingly irrelevant minority of poor, white, rural, Southern, Christian, undereducated voters in isolated stagnant counties who strongly resist such change.
This could mean that rather than asking “what’s the matter with Kansas?” future democrats may well be able to ask, “so what?”
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O! Omaha! Obama!
Posted on November 10, 2008 by Tito
This is me celebrating the Nebraska electoral vote for Obama in my official “Big O!” Omaha mug.
(Peet’s Darjeeling for those scoring at home)
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ipso facto*
Posted on November 10, 2008 by Tito
(according to a Slate commenter1): implications of Nebraskan judge dismissing suit against God:
1. God is not present in Nebraska, nor expected there anytime soon.
2. God does not have a house in Nebraska.
3. God has never done anything in Nebraska.
4. No one in Nebraska is authorized to speak or act in God’s name, and all of the people who claim to do so are violating State rules of Civil Procedure.
and
5. God does not read any Nebraska newspapers.
* I know this isn’t used corectly in this context, I just like the sound of it
1 the mother of all caveats, I suspect.
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bad language
Posted on November 9, 2008 by Tito
Oxford’s 10 most irritating phrases. (BTW, I personally am not absolutely sure how I feel about a single word being counted as a phrase).
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Boughten
Posted on November 8, 2008 by Tito
Please read this excellent anecdote at WFMU’s blog surrounding usage of the word “Boughten” (Iowan for “store-bought”). Excerpts would not do it justice.
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