net division

Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under

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myspace:greasers::facebook:socs?

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y’all - “it’s science”

Posted on June 29, 2007 - Filed Under

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Grammar Girl, in a discussion of speech regionalisms, etc…
And, here’s an aside about y’all. Most sources agree that y’all should only be used to address groups (8, 9), and Southerners say that Northerners give themselves away as Yankees when they use y’all to address one person (8). In addition, I’m not absolutely certain about this, [...]

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color me curious

Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under

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two nights, starting tonight, at 12 Galaxies:
Inside A Broken Clock is a small-scale spectacular featuring dance, puppetry, and risqué vaudeville weirdness, set to the music of Tom Waits and played live by Austin’s No Salvation Army Band.

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73 New Galaxies?

Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under

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Frank Chu has apparently confirmed news of an additional 73 galaxies, as seen in this photo from IMPEACH on Flickr:

Suggested Listening: They Might Be Giants - Till My Head Falls Off
There were 87 Advil in the bottle now there’s 30 left
I ate 47 so what happened to the other 10?

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homophone home

Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under

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M & I are heading back to the Big O for 4th of July weekend. I just got One Percent’s show email and see that July 2nd at two different venues I can choose between Page France or Sage Francis. I’ve been confused enough previously by their similar names and now I’m going to be [...]

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grammar podcast

Posted on June 27, 2007 - Filed Under

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I just ran across the podcast blog Grammar Girl. Looking for concise, fully transcribed podcasts covering language & grammar? Look no further. Now the question remains, did I come across this blog on accident or by accident?
Answer next week.

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Arrr!

Posted on June 27, 2007 - Filed Under

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This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
* death (3x)
* ass (2x)
* suck (1x)

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I’ve got a feeling I’m not in Kansas City any more

Posted on June 26, 2007 - Filed Under

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Playing around with “Windows Live Search for Mobile” 1, I thought I’d test out search/browse:
Categories >> Restaurants >> Barbecue Restaurants
(waiting a second, anticipating tomorrow’s lunch)
only to find the top results:
McDonald’s
701 3rd St.
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415)278-0416
back to the drawing board, I guess.

1 Who’s the ad wizard who came up with name “Windows Live Search for Mobile”? [...]

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Nice Music Festival On The Bay

Posted on June 19, 2007 - Filed Under

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Just caught wind of the Treasure Island Festival and its impressive lineup which includes BMK-Approved DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Spoon, M. Ward and the ubiquitous “more”.
I have to admit that I’m a little afraid of flash pirate mobs showing up for this one, though the run on 826 Valencia [...]

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BMK: Mobile

Posted on June 16, 2007 - Filed Under

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I’m playing around with a Wordpress Plugin that makes this blog mobile device friendlier. Any mobile readers out there, please let me know any suggestions. (I’m testing it out on my new MotoQ). If yer interested, this is the plugin I used (after taking out some of the Advertising links & such) written by Andy [...]

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Gay Bomb - $7,500,000

Posted on June 12, 2007 - Filed Under

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The US Gov’t reportedly spent 7.5 million dollars trying to develop a gay bomb, proposed by the US Air Force in 1994, that would include a two pronged attack on enemy soldiers:

Include a chemical to make them gay.
Include an aphrodisiac so they would drop their arms & pants.

On the one hand, I have to give [...]

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They built it. I may come.

Posted on June 6, 2007 - Filed Under

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Nicolai Ouroussoff, writing for the New York Times, likes the changes at Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins
The waiting is over. Mr. Holl’s breathtaking addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, opening here on June 9, is his most mature work to date, a perfect synthesis of ideas that he has been refining for more than a decade. [...]

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19.97

Posted on June 6, 2007 - Filed Under

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According to my last.fm nee audioscrobbler profile, I am 19.97% main stream. My full breakdown here. A few excerpts:
My most mainstream band: The Arcade Fire (58.05%), edging out Bright Eyes (53.12%)
My least mainstream band: Los Chalchaleros (0.04%). Though I am surprised to see these other bands all under 1%: Mayday, David Dondero and The Mendoza [...]

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the new pornographers

Posted on June 6, 2007 - Filed Under

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As of today: 364 matches for googling: “london 2012″ “lisa simpson giving head”

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A whole lot of walking to do

Posted on June 6, 2007 - Filed Under

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At bluoz blog: another liberated billboard

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“plagiarize” likely a given

Posted on June 5, 2007 - Filed Under

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100 words every high school graduate should know. I’ll come back later and quantify my lexical deficiencies.

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Synergy Paradigm (file under: Ad Wizards)

Posted on June 5, 2007 - Filed Under

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Via FJM: “Log on to ESPN.com and search ‘Excedrin’ to answer additional trivia questions.”

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excerpt

Posted on June 1, 2007 - Filed Under

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“He came back about five minutes later and asked for the Miller Lite back. Needless to say, there was no moshing.”

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Blasts/Pasts, Stumbling

Posted on June 1, 2007 - Filed Under

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Funny how things work out. Friends of mine are friends with friends (or something) with a band (The High Strung) playing at the Hemlock. I’d heard good things about them around the horn and was already looking forward to checking them out. Looking over the line up, I see Speed! Nebraska band Brimstone Howl will [...]

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