My friend Stacy tagged me with this little “Meme of Five” thing, and I decided to go along. Here are the rules:
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning.
Each player answers the questions about themselves.
At the end of the post, the player then tags five people and posts their names, then goes to [...]
Mike Norman, a bar owner in Marietta, Georgia is selling “Obama ‘08″ T-shirts featuring a monkey eating a banana at his establishment. It’s crap like this that makes me doubt that we’re living in the twenty-first century and still stuck in the nineteenth:
According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Norman sees nothing wrong with the t-shirt’s imagery:
Norman [...]
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Found via The Triumph of Bullshit, via The War on Folly.
I’ve been enjoying my friend Cory’s latest book, Little Brother, reading it in bursts between work and all sorts of other things I’m doing. I certainly wish there were socio-politico-techno thrillers like this when I was a young teenager! I’m sure my friend Stacy, who gave it a good review on her blog, Booktopia, thinks [...]
The Director of Communications corrects me, and I apologize: the TTC used their safety poster design (shown below with NYC’s MTA safety poster) with the MTA’s permission.
The question remains: did they have to mimic it so closely? You might as well put up a sign that says: “Toronto: We’re too dumb to come up with [...]
I should let Angry Asian Man know about this one — a pair of joke glasses in the same racist spirit as “Commander Riker” in this poster:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Look closely at the package: it says “Made in Hong Kong”. Yowch.
Here’s an infographic featuring counts of men in the United States who will die in 2008, broken down into various causes ranging from all types of cancer (about 308,000) to suicide (about 26,000) to HIV/AIDS (about 8,500).
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
The numbers are projections based on the CDC’s WONDER database. WONDER stands for “Wide-ranging [...]
I’ll leave it to the How I Spent My Stimulus blog to explain what it’s all about:
In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. We hope this website [...]
Click the photo to see it at full size.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Meanwhile, he’s thinking “She’s hawwwt!“Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
With the notable exception of Shaq, does anyone over the age of ten do that thing with the eyes anymore?
There’s something about photos from the seventies that I love. Maybe it’s the way the colours came out in photos taken back then and the way they fade over time, or perhaps it’s the hair and the clothes, but those old photos have a certain special something that present-day photos don’t. Case in point, this [...]
My friend Pete Forde suffers from “Rich Man’s Disease”, which the medical profession has given the less colourful name of “gout”. He saw my earlier post, Quackery in the ‘Hood, in which I wrote about the IonCleanse system, a footbath which purports to remove harmful toxins from the body…through your feet. One the ailments that [...]
The b5media office is just south of Accordion City’s downtown Chinatown, so I encounter “Engrish” — gramatically incorrect versions of English from southeast Asia — quite often. It’s quite rare to encounter Engrish that accidentally makes sense, as with the T-shirt shown below:
“Think twice before making any trunk calls,” the shirt says. Given that the [...]
Back in high school, after reading Space-Time and Beyond for the umpteenth time and drinking one too many zombies with my friend Henry, we came up with a theory:
In the infinite set of universes, there had to exist a particular universe in which the events in our lives were being watched as a TV show.
We then made a solemn vow to live the kind of life that got high ratings.
This is the continuation of that story.
