June 2010
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Patrick: If you type with your right hand over one key, everything looks like swedish. check it out:
Uf tiy ttoe wutg tiyr ruggt gabb iver ibe jet ceverttgubg kiijs kuje swedusg
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There is not a single existential crisis or self-congratulatory epiphany that...
– ‘This American Life’ Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence (onion)
(via jesse)
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Panera Co. to open more pay-what-you-wish eateries →
The idea for Panera’s first nonprofit restaurant was to open an eatery where people paid what they could. The richer could pay full price — or extra. The poorer could get a cheap or even free meal.
…Its cashiers tell customers their orders’ “suggested” price based on the menu. About 60 to 70 percent pay in full, Shaich said. About 15 percent leave a little more and...
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Dear NYC,
See you at 6:15am when our Greyhound bus arrives!
Love, Adrienne
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Overhearing a Plattsburgh cover band
Me: Oh no, that harmony is painful.
Andrew: It's called a tritone. Or a try-tone. He's really trying.
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Though the event is intended as an exploration of mass creativity and shared...
– City Tunes Up With Pianos (WSJ)
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My biggest concern was one hour before the wedding when I looked out on the...
– Gulf Oil Spill Putting Slimy Wet Blanket on Beach Weddings (Consumerist)
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old...
– Lady Gaga (Rolling Stone)
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Bexley Monk owners decide to close restaurant June... →
(via CH)
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South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered By... →
“Do you know how difficult it is to get everyone situated, tuned, and focused for a vuvuzela concert?” said Juilliard-trained vuvuzelist Donald Frederick Gordon, a noted soloist and renowned performer whose boyhood dream of playing vuvuzela in every stadium in South Africa is now at risk. “These brash, inconsiderate outbursts of impromptu athletics have made us a laughingstock...
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His new technology…is called Swype, and it allows users to glide a finger...
– Swype Reinvents Typing on Touch-Screen Phones (NYT)
Will all of this auto-correction and spelling eventually cause us to completely lose the ability to spell and punctuate?
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Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this summer won’t have much to do with...
– Gawker
Talk about a wedding dictated by parents. The wedding planning books give more advice about tactfully dealing with parents than CR and I need, but don’t even approach the amount of tact required for a situation like this!
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Eating Brown Rice to Cut Diabetes Risk (NYT) →
I now see why CR made black beans and rice for us last night, and stressed how great it was that he made BROWN rice, even though we always make brown rice.