June 2009
29 posts
David Foster Wallace tells it like it is
toldorknown:nictate:
Excerpt from a commencement speech given by DFW in 2005.
“In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship — be it J.C. or Allah, be it...
“Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness...”
– Robert Fulghum (via julie911)
Land of the Lost Review
Two hours of my life I’ll never get back.
US fisherman hooks live missile →
A commercial fisherman in Florida had a lucky escape after netting an unusual catch - a live air-to-air missile. Long-line fishing boat captain Rodney Solomon reeled in the missile in the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles (80km) off Panama City in Florida.
What bait was he using?
If you have two iPhones on a FamilyTalk plan, do they share the data plan or do you have to buy one for each iPhone?
“The softball field collects water like a sieve”
– This kid’s classic. I’m convinced he’s an idiot savant. (via vb)
He’s channeling Yogi Berra.
superfluidity:rd67:
Ali Farka Toure - Ali Aoudy...
“Public schools got some good news this past week in the release of a major...”
– Studies suggest public schools do as well, sometimes better, than private | Admission Sync (via robot-heart-politics)
“Since I moved to this new platform, there have been over 300,000 comments on...”
– John Cole
That’s how you close a thread.
“Helen, dear, I sent an email to that talented Susan Boyle telling her that I...”
– Margaret Schmechtman (Margaret and Helen)
'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick →
Two “gay” male penguins have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents, says a German zoo.
The zoo, in Bremerhaven, northern Germany, says the adult males - Z and Vielpunkt - were given an egg which was rejected by its biological parents.
It says the couple are now happily rearing the chick, said to have reached four weeks old.
The zoo made headlines in 2005...
WatchBlanket!
O'Boys Bar-B-Q near downtown Orlando closes →
The West Colonial Drive store of Orlando institution O’Boys Bar-B-Q is closed until owners can find a new location, store employees said.
Noooooo! This is the closest one to my office.
“The notion that someone would bother to kneecap a bunch of Chysler dealers seems...”
– Matt Taibbi
mabelmoments:
You don’t have yorkshire pud with lamb, silly, you have mint sauce. yorkshire pud with beef.
FYI. To us yanks pud is something very different from pudding.