Tilt-Shift Monster Truck
Posted on November 29, 2008 - Filed Under Perception | Leave a Comment
Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
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New Blog Project
Posted on November 29, 2008 - Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment
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/
Read More..>>last words
Posted on November 22, 2008 - Filed Under Books, Death, Language | Leave a Comment
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.’
stewball
Posted on November 22, 2008 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
Nice Saturday evening timesuck: Falcons66 on youtube has videos of 78s playing. I’m partial to this one (Lead Belly - Stewball).
Read More..>>Ahhhh, it’s in b minor! nice!
Posted on November 19, 2008 - Filed Under Music, Television | Leave a Comment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMri_RR7hto
Read More..>>death alert! (language edition)
Posted on November 18, 2008 - Filed Under Death, Language | Leave a Comment
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.
Read More..>>glorious hair
Posted on November 15, 2008 - Filed Under For The Record | Leave a Comment
Guinness World Record for tallest Mohawk haircut set in Omaha, NE.
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via (tim_mcmahan > worldsofwayne)
Stagnance: Addendum
Posted on November 12, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Race, Religion | Leave a Comment
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)
Stagnance unto Death
Posted on November 11, 2008 - Filed Under Politics, Power Rankings, Race | 1 Comment
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 [...]
O! Omaha! Obama!
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Caffeine, Politics | Leave a Comment
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)
Read More..>>ipso facto*
Posted on November 10, 2008 - Filed Under Crime, Religion, Turf Wars | Leave a Comment
(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 [...]
bad language
Posted on November 9, 2008 - Filed Under Language, Power Rankings | Leave a Comment
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).
Read More..>>Boughten
Posted on November 8, 2008 - Filed Under Language | Leave a Comment
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.
Read More..>>Puppy Cam
Posted on November 6, 2008 - Filed Under Diversions | Leave a Comment
Read More..>>linguistic
Posted on November 2, 2008 - Filed Under Language, Statistics | Leave a Comment
According to The Internet, I am “linguistically” intelligent.
Your result for Howard Gardner’s Eight Types of Intelligence Test…
Linguistic
31% Logical, 20% Spatial, 61% Linguistic, 18% Intrapersonal, 8% Interpersonal, 41% Musical, 16% Bodily-Kinesthetic and 39% Naturalistic!
“Verbal-linguistic intelligence has to do with words, spoken or written. People with verbal-linguistic intelligence display a [...]
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