Monthly Archives: August 2007
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Exploding Whales
This Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia brings us exploding whales. If your a “save the whales” type person, you may want to skip this one. Exploding whales have been documented on two notable occasions, as well as several lesser-known ones. The most famous explosion occurred in the United States at Florence, Oregon, in 1970, when [...]
Coffee Drinks Illustrated
The vast number of ordering options and new words with accented characters can make ordering fancy coffee drinks a bit intimidating. Lokesh Dhakar gives us side-by-side diagrams of a few common espresso drinks to help understand some of the differences.
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Spelunking Fulford Cave
A bunch of friends and I went up to do some exploring in Fulford Cave this weekend. We didn’t arrive till late on Friday night and ended up setting up our tents in the dark at the Yeoman Park Campground. We still had enough time in the evening for some s’mores and a few beers [...]
You Know What I Mean
You know what I mean.
Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Year Zero
For this Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia we try to figure out if there is there a year 0, a year between 1 B.C. and 1 A.D.?
Whatcha Whatcha Whatcha Want?
Caught a great Beastie Boys show at Red Rocks last night. I was pretty impressed with the whole crew but it was Mix Master Mike that blew me out of the water. He made each of there songs sound spankin’ new. Even instantly recognized songs like “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” were reworked with different beats [...]
Sea Of Humanity
When you’re in a sea of humanity, don’t drink the water.
Bacon Tomb
The Bacon Tomb. One year later.
IMG_8888
Unfortunately photographs don’t com out of our digital cameras with appropriate and witty titles about the subject matter. No, they come out with titles like IMG_2457 and IMG_3396. What are the photographs titled IMG_8888 pictures of? (Eight is my lucky number).
Cirque Du Soleil – Corteo
Cirque Du Soleil’s show Corteo was gravity defying amazingness – completely brimming over with incredible acrobatics requiring superhuman coordination. I have never been to a Cirque show before but I had a bit of an idea of what I was in for and it didn’t let me down, it fact it far exceeded my expectations. [...]
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Peanuts, By Charles Bukowski
These short stories and poems called “Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski” (actually by Hanstock) could possibly the most brilliant thing I’ve seen on the internet all year, maybe ever.
Flaaaaming Cursors
“I like my beer cold, my tv loud, and my cursors flaaaaming.” – A corruption of the famous Homer Simpson quote.
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Fiddle And Spoon