December 2008
Firefox Script That "Removes Obnoxious Gawker... →
(via blakeley)
Come on, his head isn’t THAT big.
I’m trying to find a clever “Microsoft Word HTML came all over your post” joke.
Sure baby, just not when you're on your cleanse
whatcriscilikes:
“I have so many more posts in me, but prefer to concentrate on backend activities.”
— –Meghan Asha. It’s just too easy. (Thanks Mark Coatney, pointing it out.) (via frangry)
Spinach "Pings"
2 boxes chopped spinach (20 oz altogether) 2 eggs 3 cloves garlic (minced) 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese (or more if you like) 1/3 loaf Italian bread - water-soaked 1/2 tsp salt vegetable oil for frying Start with the spinach. If the spinach is frozen or otherwise not dried out, put spinach in a large frying pan on low heat and simmer/squish until it no longer yields water. Let spinach cool,...
In another 15 hours, this stupid fucking year is...
And good riddance.
The 2008 Ho Ho Ho/Humbug Index
The holiday season, by numbers. In no particular order:
(+2) Fewer incessant holiday promotions this year
(-1) But starting earlier
(-4) You can take Thanksgiving 2008 and give it back to the Indians.
(+3) Stayed warmer, longer
(-2) The annihilation of Christmas holiday parties
(+2) But I still went to plenty
(+2) …and my company at least had one.
(-2) No one’s asking for...
Consumerist sold to Consumer Reports as Defamer... →
(via blakeley)
Inbox Bankruptcy
Fuck it all! I’m just, metaphorically, sweeping the desk and starting new. If you posted it to a mailing list or a pointless event-promoting service in the past week, I’m filing it without reading it. Too many messages. Fucking hell.
Love ya, Shelia
http://gawker.com/5120428/sometimes-the-best-decisions-are-the-ones-that-are-made-for-you (her last one on Gawker.)
marco:
It should be illegal to bring a magazine or newspaper into a multi-toilet office bathroom and sit there for a half hour, solidly defeating anyone else’s attempt to wait you out in the uncomfortable silence.
Do your business, then leave in a timely fashion. Save the bathroom reading for home.
How ironic! This is my primary use of Instapaper on my iPhone.
Rocket Hit Beersheva
youngmanhattanite:
lowlife:
Multiple rockets just hit Beersheva. We had the adom air raid siren go off and the explosions were loud.
Glad the bomb shelter is in the basement.
FUCK.
Reblogging to let Neal know we’re thinking of him (and everyone over there). Hang in there, man.
Daily Dose of New Releases
poortaste:
All Torrents
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Wrestler Burn After Reading Disaster Movie
What is a .Torrent and How do I download it?
I LOOOOOOOVE YOOOOOOOOOUUUUU
New Year's Champagne Toast and Late Night Dance...
I’m having a New Year’s party at my apartment so that I don’t have to go out. Why should you battle the crowds and overpay for parties, either?
I’d sent this invite out last week to my email list; here’s a reminder for some of you and an announcement for anyone else who’d like to come. The dance party will be a loud, crazy affair, and there will be plenty of...
Sonofabitch! The ceiling’s leaking in my apartment. Do you see any rain outside? Neither do I. Had to call the super for what is obviously a building pipe leak. They found it and fixed it, which means we now just have a massive mess to clean up. Oh, and guess who’s apartment it was coming from… eh?
(No, I have no idea how bad it is up there… I just know the paint’s...
Hey aniceshadeofred, stripping alone for the...
aniceshadeofred:
Who said anything about stripping? Perhaps you misunderstood my post, I wrote it in about 30 seconds and maybe I didn’t make myself clear.
What I was trying to say was: currently, fashionable clothes for females are rather constricting. I also like to eat a lot. Sometimes these two things create a problem for me, which I solve by retiring to my home/to a friend’s...
Hey aniceshadeofred, stripping alone for the...
I like our friend Shira, and I want her to keep blogging, but this is just too much pervert bait. Keep safe and DON’T talk about taking your clothes off for others, lest someone think it’s something you should do for them too.
(And, unlike LiveJournal, probably everyone sees this.)
aniceshadeofred:
All of these are just TOO TIGHT sometimes, and I have to just take them off wherever...
Hey web20morons, I'll buy you a pine tree. Should...
Hey Canadian girls, keep drinking
Hey Apple, come out with a tablet
Hey Michael Cera, get excited about "Arrested...
Hey nudawn, whatcha so afraid of on my Google?...
Today’s “Why do I get out of bed?” headline: Taliban burning and beheading its way through Pakistani valley
On some weekend days I’d like to go burning and beheading through Prince Street in Soho.
I'll Fucking Kill Every Man If I Have To
tylercoates:
“Sorry ladies and gentlemen, Zooey’s off the market. She just got engaged to some guy who’s not you.”
— All this can be yours
Actually, I think Zooey’s iPod playlist would be a dealbreaker for me. I want to take all the twee precious rock music out there, the stuff you’d skip down the street to while thinking of an Apple commercial, and burn it like Disco Records...
Win, Win, Win, Win, Win ... →
whatcriscilikes:
upsider: In this NYTimes op-ed, Thomas Friedman presents a convincing case for imposing a gas tax.
So, over the past week, I had a chance to caucus with some rural Republicans, and I have some news for us city liberals: not only is most of America incredibly opposed to ANY gas tax, and not only do they blame everyone in New York for having Wall Street rack up prices in the first...
GMAIL COMPLAINT #1
whatcriscilikes:
verenasays: (Seriously, my first one ever. That I thought to write down, at least.) Why can’t I sort by read vs. unread? I have 76 unread messages spread over 10 days of emails. Don’t make me search page by page for every one.
markcoatney: Gmail Complaint #2: Why, five years later, is it still in &#@*(!ing Beta? Seriously, this drives me crazy.
Gmail...
adamiss:
The Cutting Room is closing because of a huge rent increase
I guess Noth doesn’t have any big projects in the works. This is really sad. It’s a block away from my apartment, and we just had a great party there last Friday. Great place, great bartenders, good crowd. Sucks.
(via brianvan)
They’re reopening by (next) year’s end in a different location, apparently. The...
The Cutting Room is closing because of a huge rent increase. WHY ARE LANDLORDS STILL RAISING RENTS IN NYC?!?! I am frothing at the mouth over this. I cannot wait until all landowners in Manhattan go bankrupt.
“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!”
– John Waters (via everybodycares:lemonsugar) (via arod)
marco:
“If you think other industries don’t have shit jobs, you’re deceiving yourself. If you think 99% of our industry is like your little Office Space neck of the woods, look around a bit.” — Joel Spolsky responding to a programmer wanting to change fields because he thinks the entire industry is as bad as his crappy job.
yeah, but…
It’s no one’s duty to look around and...
Oh, and Iggles fans: one more year of Reid and McNabb! Muhahahah.
Dallas Cowboys
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
NeoCons in the NYTimes attack college education... →
whatcriscilikes:
Murray is wrong, frightening and wrong.
icanseenewyorkcityfrommyhouse: Charles Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author, most recently, of “Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality.”
I have a response to this, I just need to wait for the tightness in my chest to pass. Too furious to organize my thoughts.
...
I'm with you on this →
ninety9:
you may not be surprised to learn that there are no cw shows in the top twenty:
Actually, I’m not. I’ve been carping about the same point. Not to get all ‘liburl media is biased’, but there is clearly a proportionality problem. I don’t think that GG or the Jonas Brothers actually produce outsized absolute economic activity of their own accord, but they do provide high value content and...
Twitter: Your All Access Pass
erin:
So screw criticisms of mundane status updates about eating bagels, the real value of Twitter is that is an all-access pass to anyone you ever wanted to listen to or speak to. In time, valuable conversations may move off the network, but the introductory connection can happen on Twitter where it would never happen in the real world, the professional world, the Warcraft world, or the other...
Seconded
fimoculous:
I miss the visceral feeling that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs were super important. So long ago…
I also miss The Rapture. While we’re here, I saw Nick Z. at Beauty Bar the other night! I totally picked him out of the crowd and confirmed my sighting when our friend the DJ was later introduced by the manager. This led later to some offhand stories about how “Karen O back in the day...
aniceshadeofred:
A word of warning though: girls are told from a young age to beware of creepy strangers on the internet, and the phrasing in your initial reblog set off some alarm bells in my head at first glance.
That is the general dilemma with discussing someone else’s underwear. Adding in explanatory context somewhat settles the “flirty/creepy” problem but kills the joke...
I’m now reminded of a joke once told in a very inappropriate situation. During a fund-raiser for our HS senior class, this one young hunky male teacher (really, there was just one in my HS) got stupendously drunk and started talking shit in the staging/production/changing area. Lots of it. The highlight was when, in front of nearly the whole senior class, he says, “You know, we can get...