2013 archive
Twits on Twitter 0
Jack Ohman:
One of my favorite presidents, “Silent” Calvin Coolidge–why? Because he was a jerk– was famous for his terse responses. My favorite was when a drunk woman came up to him at a reception and said, “My husband bet me I couldn’t get three words out of you.”
Coolidge responded, “You lose.”
Backstory at the link.
Critique of Poor Reason 0
At Tampabay.com, Dan DeWitt tries to understand teabag theorizing. A nugget:
It contained the results of a survey of “citizens,” who I’m guessing (Hanson declined the chance to tell me for sure) consist of a few fellow members of the Glenn Beck fan club and who I know are stunningly ill-informed.
For example, they classify fire protection as “one more non-essential service when it comes to protecting our rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Read the rest.
It’s important to know how these folks think.
Twits on Twitter 0
Ponder the football twits.
More Adventures with iJunk 0
Thoreau summarizes:
The Los Angeles public school system has a well thought out plan for improving academic achievement:
1. Hand everyone iPads.
2. ???
3. Test scores!
Details at the link.
Facebook Frolics 0
The ACLU takes on the Zuckerborg’s limitations of statue.
A “Non-Exclusive License to Our Own Lives” 0
How the NSA thinks like Facebook. Watch it all the way through.
Facebook it. We’re all zucked.
International Reputation 0
It turns out that Fox News has one.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Be polite during bathroom breaks.
The men saw a large snake in the road, and Jared Hemphill, also 18, decided to shoot it with a semiautomatic rifle that belongs to Dustin Downer, 21.
Hemphill heard a noise in the bushes and assumed it was the snake, so he fired the Remington Speedmaster and accidentally struck Rapé in the left thigh, he told investigators.
Guns and stupid, always a great combination.
“Sooey, Sooooo-ey, Heeere PigPigPigPig” 0
Warning: Language.
“Naked Is the Best Disguise” 0
I’m torn.
On the one hand, considering that everyone has at least one naked body, I’m having trouble figuring out what all the fuss is about.
On the other hand, the sights might be just too haunting.
Maybe just host a boring, regular haunting house.
That’s the conundrum facing Patrick Konopelski, the owner of a Halloween attraction called Shocktoberfest’s Naked and Scared Challenge, after disapproving reaction to his idea about the “naked” part.
Facebook Frolics 0
Art Museums need not apply. John Aravosis reports:
Ruh roh.
The exhibit in question, called “Masculin,” is a look at the naked male form from 1800 to the present.
Details at the link.
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
In the usual bad taste.
“Members Only” 0
Reg Henry has a wonder:
I think he’s on to something . . . .
Read the rest.
News from the iJunk Yard 0
Trouble in the walled orchard’s workers’ paradise.
Authorities in the northern city of Taiyuan sent 5,000 police to restore order after what the plant’s Taiwanese owners Foxconn Technology Group said was a personal dispute in a dormitory that erupted into a mass brawl.
However, some employees and people posting messages online accused factory guards of provoking the trouble by beating up workers at the factory, which employs about 79,000 people and is owned by the world’s largest contract maker of electronic goods.
Via LQ.