Jason McGlone

Here’s some cool stuff I found on the web this week.  LINKAGE.
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4/20/09

Charles Barkley fails the bread challenge
Are there different brands of horseshoe, like with gym shoes?
Wild-ass football game commentary
It’s a train, dummy!
xkcd has a book coming out.  This is awesome.

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4/21/09

What’s up with the Promise Keepers?  You know, besides the hating women thing.
That #11’s pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmdTlWLVGqc If only they were all like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asXrhqsU4Tc Or this.
I hope Stephen Hawking [...]

4/13/09

Hey: curses aren’t real.  Come on, people.  http://www.nbcchicago.com/sports/baseball/cubs/Dead-Goat-Hung-at-Wrigley-Field.html

Mythbusters’ rocket sled is awesome.

Awesome anti-piracy videos

$7 solar oven

Denny Neagle! http://www.diamondhoggers.com/2009/04/denny-neagle-will-creep-on-your.html

Zimbabwe $ posters

There’s apparently an office chair that tweets when you fart.

Baseball card collage art by Pat Riot

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4/14/09

This is kind of cool: http://portwiture.com/maoglone/

jizz

Storm by Tim Minchin

As much as I think his wife is the worst politician in the [...]

This is all the stuff I avoided during the work week.
4/6/09

6 ideas for improving publishing
Chiropractors are dicks, mostly.
Mister Rogers swing!
Neil Hamburger–awesome or not?  I think he’s kind of awesome.
Cheryl Miller vs. Scot Pollard: I love when television personalities melt down.
Baseball starts today!  Go Reds!
If I have to hear the word “diminutive” re: Daniel Ray [...]

4/2/09

What was the name of that Flashdance song?
Why would the Reds even consider Gary Sheffield?  He’s an asshole and he sucks now.
http://www.derbynewsnetwork.com/2009/04/02/derby_news_network_power_rankings_april_2009
I still need to see King of Kong. http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/04/steve-wiebe-don.html?xid=rss-popwatch-Steve+Wiebe%27s+E3+attempt+at+%27Donkey+Kong%27+record+will+be+televised.+Discuss.
Brooklyn Brewery Pilsner? I think there’s a drinkin’ for tonight.
namechk is very cool looking, and apparently unavailable…
Singing gay serial killer?  Whaa?
Google’s Data Center is pretty crazy.
Cat [...]

3/30/09

Radio Jingle singers?
Eri Yoshida
Sweet freaking Jesus: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2009/03/twins.html
The Bengals appearing on this list more than once is not encouraging: http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=532971
http://www.cbssports.com/spin/story/11552916
Adam Savage interview on lifehacker
Grow your own pineapples!
Chinedum Ndukwe twitters.
That Shamwow guy sure can land a punch.
Where is the computer’s “throat,” so to speak?

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3/31/09

The Roku player died after two weeks of use.  Replacement’s on the way.  Grr.
Jizzlobber.
Torii [...]

Every weekend, I post the tangents I managed to avoid during the workweek.  Enjoy.
3/26/09

Homebrewing–what goes into it?
The first 15 minutes of Toxic Avenger do nothing to make me want to watch the rest of the film.
http://www.cagepotato.com/10-best-signature-moves-mma Signature moves?
John Thornton from the Bengals has a blog.  It’s pretty good stuff.
http://www.beardedgents.com
Who @ beardcommunity has a website?
Escaped convicts [...]

I feel like there’s a pretty specific definition of what it means to be a man, but we don’t often think about what that definition is, or how we can best define what exactly it means to be a man. More specifically, I think the question is this: “What does a man have to [...]

3/18/09

I used to work with a guy named TJ Carty.  He was kind of a douche, but I liked him okay.  I wonder what happened to him.

Also, John Dailey.  Except he wasn’t a douche.

The Robin Williams version of Popeye was ridiculous.

Whatever happened to Kurt Stillwell?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/meteotek08/sets/

Is aspartame poisoning real?  What concentration would reliably make someone sick or kill [...]

3/16/09

Wondering whether the Reds play today.

Who’s pitching?

Overheard @ work: ”What is a Twitter, and why does Tom Green want to follow my Twitter?”

I wonder what happened to the cast of Freddy Got Fingered .

Mr. Show had a scene about actors playing retarded people and based an award ceremony around that (the Bob LaMonta Story came out of [...]

“From the Depths of the Tangent File” is a rapid-fire blast of things I didn’t write about, look at closely, or bother to Twitter (you’re welcome).   
http://forgetomori.com/2009/ufos/worst-dressed-grays-list/
Roku player
Netflix Watch Instantly on my t.v. looks to be awesome.
There was a Gamera movie with a giant humanoid robot in it.  I think it was on MST3K.  What was [...]

At work, I’ve started to keep a tangent file to help me stay on task a little bit better.  I was going over some of the stuff in there the other day, and thought it a good idea to let a little bit of the tangent file spew forth occasionally. 
Wait.  Let me explain what a [...]