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All the usual suspects are well-represented.
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“Airports are funny places. I tend to become quite introspective in them. In a place where everyone is going somewhere, it somehow allows me time to think. Most probably because when you’re surrounded by families - it gets you thinking of your own, seeing
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Boris’ 2007 in review. Makes me look like a piker.
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Ethan’s 2007 roundup. What did you do in 2007?
December 2007 Archives
Tragically, Boxing Day “has nothing to do with pugilistic expositions between tanked-up family members who have dearly been looking forward to taking a round out of each other for the past year.”
Well, that’s what I always thought when I was growing up….
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What it takes to turn a tenor into a wicked witch.
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The WaPost aks its readers to come up with fictional questions for Car Talk.
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Fascinating black-and-white photoblog from Minsk. I have no idea what he’s writing about, but the pictures are great.
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So, what came first: the universe, which then had natural laws? Or did natural laws exist before the universe existed?
If, by some magical time machine, the Beatles covered Stairway to Heaven in 1963, it might sound a bit like this:
According to the Eater of the Year Poll (which features contestants as varied as Joey Chestnut, Padma Lakshmi, Anthony Bourdain, and Chocolate Jesus), “writing ‘Padma Lakshmi’ multiple times in your blog posts really boosts search engine optimization from India to Indiana.”
Well, we’ll see if mentioning the former Mrs. Rushdie really is all that….
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“Tina is aware that Ike passed away earlier today. She has not had any contact with him in 35 years. No further comment will be made.” — Tina Turner on Ike Turner’s death.
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And you thought that your car insurance was too expensive.
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including “Penguins With Shotguns”, “Garrison Killer”, “Ringo Deathstarr”, “Wookie Hangover”, and “Bi Furious”.
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Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out a NHL team?
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An illustrated history of Pixar in-jokes.
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Fascinating interview with Philip Pullman. Now I have to go read the books, dammit.
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Great isometric map of Hong Kong. Doesn’t work in Safari 3.0, though Firefox seems to handle it well…
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Flickr now has stats logging for pro users. Hot.
Parky is just along for the ride….
See also Part II, Part III, and Part IV.
Related: Sellers does various English accents.
Holy cow! You can now edit your photos straight from within Flickr!
Now, if they’d only add a way to export all your pictures….
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This might be the greatest thing on the internet ever.
Yesterday in college football, the last weekend of the regular college season the following occurred:
- The #1 team in the nation was an underdog to the #9 team…. and went out and got trampled.
- The #2 team in the nation was a four-touchdown favorite to an unranked team with a losing record… and went out and lost, despite some very favorable officiating.
I’m not sure when the last time the #1 and #2 ranked teams in college football lost on the same weekend, if ever, but that leaves us with the following situation:
- #3 Ohio State will end up in the National Championship game.
- It would make sense that the other team in that game would be the #4 team, which is Georgia, but… Georgia didn’t even win their conference.
- Which leaves us with #5 Kansas… who not only didn’t win their conference, but managed to lose to #1 Missouri, who, as mentioned above, lost last night.
- And then there’s #6 Virginia Tech, who actually did win their conference, but have been underwhelming all year.
Other teams with legitimate arguments for playing in the national championship game:
- #7 LSU—SEC champions, but they did lose last week to an unranked Arkansas team.
- #8 USC—PAC-10 champions. One of the hottest teams in the nation. Too bad about losing to Stanford.
- #9 Oklahoma. Hey, they did just bump off the #1 team in college football…
- And then there’s the long shot #12 Hawaii. They are the only undefeated team in major college football, and they have a QB who threw for 4,174 yards and 38 touchdowns on the year. When you consider that he basically only played in 10 games, that’s 417 yards per game and almost four TD passes per game. They have, admittedly, played a soft schedule, but there’s nothing they can do about that.
And if you thought the weekend in football couldn’t get any stranger, this afternoon features a game where the 0-11 Dolphins are favored to beat the 2-9 Jets. Not to mention the fact that the Monday night game features the largest point spread in NFL history….
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