January 2009
49 posts
“People keep telling me that Twitter is a great social tool.
Yeah, just like a...”
– (via shuffstuff)
RT
bennylope:
RT @BarackObama White House will use Twitter live during press conferences http://tinyurl.com/349ygu
“Q: Shall we leave Iraq next interview, or just —
MR. GIBBS: Yes,...”
– From the transcripts of Obama’s interview with Al Arabiya. So great to have a President that speaks like a President again. I especially like this exchange at the end.
Middle East News | Obama tells Al Arabiya peace talks should resume
“Just realized that being a bad enough dude to rescue the president is cool...”
– via @strutting
syska:
Ohio Players - Funky Worm
Like nine...
Spam
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“Happy 40th birthday, cousin. I tried to come up with a snarky way to rub your...”
– A birthday greeting I left for a Republican cousin on his Facebook wall (via weskimcom)
Protectionism by Another Name? (Baseline Scenario) →
(via tiffehr)
1,474-Megapixel Photo During President Obama’s... →
This photo has more fur than the January 1974 issue of Playboy Magazine.
Find the following:
Yo Yo Ma taking a picture with his iPhone.
Aretha Franklin and Mr. Invisible.
The man with the biggest head you’ve ever seen.
Cosby (I can’t find him.)
Is the Navy photographer clapping? I think he is.
Clarence Thomas
Washington State Congressman, Dave Reichert (R) (‘R’...
“You know those rules cops have to play by? What if one cop *didn’t*? I...”
– @aedison
“A besotted Mickey Rourke informing Zac Efron that he loved her in The Accused...”
– @highindustrial
“If I really wanted to make good use of Twitter, I’d only use it to tweet...”
– @aaronmatte
Watch“They do that all the time in movies. An Afair to Remember. Sleepless in Seattle. And that remake of An Affair to Remember that I was in. A Blaffair to Rememblack.”
justincharles:bebelestrange:drned: Ice Cube “It...
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The global BBQ
bennylope:
Human civilization is built on an absurd assumption of continuity. The human species has gotten where it is, and has thrived, due to a series of unlikely absurdly unlikely events.
And yes, I was just watching a History Channel show about super volcanos.
WatchSeattle P-I put up for sale
Takes some kind of balls to walk into a newsroom, tell a room full of journalist that you’re selling them out and not take any questions. And by “balls” I mean “a decade of ignoring the Internet and ineffective disconnected management.”
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Watch-via lonelysandwich
This is the Foley Artist sketch reinvented. It’s what Merlin meant last summer when he wrote about doing it better. I can almost hear him saying “Let’s take it and turn it…” in my imagined backstory of how this came together. There’s also lots of coke, hurt feelings and an “accidental” walk-in-on-Adam-naked-what?-that’s-gay...
