From the Depths of the Tangent File
by maoglone
4/13/09
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Hey: curses aren’t real. Come on, people. http://www.nbcchicago.com/sports/baseball/cubs/Dead-Goat-Hung-at-Wrigley-Field.html
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Mythbusters’ rocket sled is awesome.
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Awesome anti-piracy videos
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There’s apparently an office chair that tweets when you fart.
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Baseball card collage art by Pat Riot
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4/14/09
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This is kind of cool: http://portwiture.com/maoglone/
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Storm by Tim Minchin
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As much as I think his wife is the worst politician in the history of the world, there’s an interesting article on Todd Palin: http://www.esquire.com/features/todd-palin-bio-0509
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Some dude passed out during Glenn Beck. whatever.
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I need to pick up some replacement shoelaces.
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Twitter can be magical. That’s where I found this: http://www.oddee.com/item_87332.aspx
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4/15/09
- Was it Teddy Ruxpin that had the Fobs? I think it was. What a weird product that was.
- Cool interview with Richard Dawkins that I need to read. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2044-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m4d14-Meeting-Richard-Dawkins-Part-1–The-prelude In other news, Friendly Atheist (where I got linked to the Dawkins article) is a frickin’ great blog.
- One of the better FailBlog entries I’ve ever seen.
- Blood-squirting lizards
- What is the Metrodome’s wall made of?
- Marshawn Lynch & ee cummings mashup is one of the more brilliant things ever.
- Mail hoarding looks fun.
- Horrible sports radio audition.
- Disturbing Strokes
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4/16/09
- Just in case you end up in the distant past: http://www.theskepticsguide.org/sgublog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/qw-cheatsheet-print-zoom.jpg
- 26 year old baby man
- Wolf and Pig animation
- Video series on Radiers fans by With Leather
- All this tea party bullshit is for the birds. There’s something bizarre and disingenuous about a bunch of rich people protesting. Nothing like a bunch of people in expensive suits and twice-as-expensive Revolutionary War costumes screaming about how they can’t stand having to pay taxes & complaining about how the gov’t spends. LOOK, EX-HIPPIES, YOU FAILED IN THE SIXTIES. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING TO GET PROTESTING RIGHT THIS TIME? AND BEING SCARED OF GETTING ARRESTED IS NO WAY TO PROTEST THE GOVERNMENT, YOU GIANT POON. YOU SHOULD HAVE DUMPED THE TEA ANYWAY. BY NOT DUMPING THE TEA, YOU EFFECTIVELY PROVED THE POINT THAT YOU’RE SCARED. IF YOU WANT TO REALLY STOP THE GOVERNMENT FROM SPENDING YOUR TAX DOLLARS IMPROPERLY, DON’T PAY YOUR TAXES. IF YOU ALREADY PAID YOUR TAXES, CHEAT ON YOUR TAXES. Assholes.
- Some dudes put a camera on an eagle and it flew around.
- Landscrapers? Where have I heard this before? Turns out, it’s a Mucky Pup song. I forgot about them. God, I’m old.
- Todd Marinovich’s story is pretty awesome.
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4/17/09
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I like this Shepard Fairey guy. http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/case/fairey-v-associated-press
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See, closed captioning IS funny sometimes.
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Bones really, really missed the mark with death metal 4/16. Contrived plot, and really entirely stupid. Stephen Fry was awesome, though.
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John Waters on teabagging.
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John Oliver’s bit re: the Teabaggers on the Daily Show this week was brilliant. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/john-oliver-lectures-tea_n_188116.html
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Michael Jackson’s not-ghost @ an Ali fight: http://forgetomori.com/2009/paranormal/ghosts/michael-jackson-ghost-haunts-muhammad-ali/
Comments
How is Palin the “worst politician in the history of the world”?? Have read anything about her besides the bias elitist crap on huffingtonpost.com?
I see what you’re doing there, taking my obvious hyperbole and turning it into my trying to state a real opinion. Shut up.