Archive for September, 2009

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This puts the Labor in Labor Day

Short one today.

* Infomercial hell. Because all of your problems can be solved by any major credit card. Sorry, no CODs.

* If you serve our fried chicken for dinner, Robocop will jump out of the TV and steal your appliances.

* Nonsequitube.

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The Internet Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal With Disney

* And here are 50 other things the Internet is in the process of killing.

* A couple other Internet-related articles at the Telegraph: the oldest sites on the web, and the Wayback Machine oldest versions of some of the more popular sites.

* One thing the Internet didn’t kill: Scooter, the world’s tiniest dog. Complications from [...]


Let my Cameron go

Not much for today.

* Shamelessly ripped from my earlier tweet: Someone’s looking to re-create Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The only day you can do it, of course, is the day of the Von Steuben Day Parade. Also, the Cubs have to play that day and you have to make sure to make it to the [...]


Come On Down (With a Steel Chair)

* I might want to actually watch Raw for the first time in years, especially since it’s at the Allstate Arena… and Bob Barker is hosting. Fuck it, I might get tickets. (Eh… nah.)

* A decent Cracked list: six oft-quoted “facts” about animals that are actually lies. St. Bernards will not offer you booze. Sorry.

* [...]


Daily Paper: September 2

* Knew of this before, but tweeted my way today: a beautiful travelogue of Chicago circa 1948. A lot of the Chicago you see here is still here and pretty much looks the same.

Some notes:
00:28 This railroad yard you see here is now Millennium Park.
00:56 The “Stevens Hotel” looks the same now as it did [...]


Daily Paper: September 1

* Let’s start at Ben & Jerry’s changing the name of Chubby Hubby temporarily to Hubby Hubby in order to celebrate Vermont’s legalization of gay marriage. Gotta love that ambitious packaging.

* The California wildfires apparently claimed a famous filming location

* This song is ten years old. This song. is. ten. years. old.

* Na [...]