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Something Other than Love in an Elevator

This video of a man’s 41 hour ordeal in a New York elevator is chilling. I am chilled.

2008 04 15 ac Comments (0)

Why I love Easter.

Peeps and chocolate bunnies.

(WARNING: If you can’t stand the thought of a chocolate bunny being melted in several different ways, don’t watch the chocolate bunny video. Also, if you can’t fathom the thought of Peeps as marshmallow overlords, don’t click the peep link.)

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Updated to add: Peeps for Passover.

2008 03 23 ac Comments (0)

Charts and Graphs

Scientific RickRolling.

2008 03 03 ac Comments (2)

Bacon and Mustaches? MSN A-List is Spying on Me.

I thought it was cute on Friday when I got a link to the MSN A-List blog entry about mustaches. Hahaha, I have a mustache and the internet says they might be cool in 2008. But it got downright creepy yesterday when their entry was about bacon. I like bacon. I think people think I like it more than I do, because I get about 2-3 bacon related links a week from friends. I can’t be the only bacon lover with a mustache that reads all the internet, but really, it is odd. Though, if MSN thinks you’re cool, how cool can you be.

(As an aside, apparently the MSN A-List blog prevents Wordpress and Blogger extensions from working, preventing lazy bloggers from linking to them. Well, this lazy blogger loves bacon and his mustache too much to be thwarted.)

2008 01 29 ac Comments (0)

Feltron Eight

Feltron Eight is out. I want to document like this. So many numbers. (Via kottke)

2008 01 14 ac Comments (1)

I Guess That Means Edwards is Willow?

Neil at Cogitamus has helpfully identified each Republican presidential hopeful with the appropriate Buffy villain.

Perhaps the Nerd Trio is a better fit for Ron Paul than Moloch who, it must be said, was a very minor villain?

2008 01 07 matt Politics Comments (1)

End of the Year LINKS!

-Rolling Stone comes through with a long article about how America is losing the drug war and wasting money.
-Here is the The New York Times Magazine List of Ideas and the
The 2007 Esquire 100. I had grand schemes to read both of these all the way through so that I could comment more thoroughly, but alas.
-Huzzah!!! The Big Dig is finished! There’s a stat in there about how the average trip through Boston has gone from 19.5 minutes to 2.8 minutes. Which is true and beautiful.
-Someone is killing musicians in Mexico. Probably the drug cartels.
-Two movie relate links from kottke.org. Ebert’s 10 Best Films of 2007 and a list of movies coming out in 2008. Ironman and Batman both look great!

2007 12 29 ac Comments (2)

Links

-Long profile about Scott Boras, the superagent, in the New Yorker. Since this was published, at least 2 of his bigger clients this year had to negotiate their own contracts with teams who didn’t want to deal with him.

-Sort of long article about place kickers by Michael Lewis (Moneyball, The Blind Side) in the New York Times. Focuses on how a kicker can never win because he’s always supposed succeed.

-Not so long article in the New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink) about criminal profilers. Basically, they give profiles filled with contradictory, half facts, so that regardless of who is caught, the profile rings true.

-Super long profile about David Simon, the creator of The Wire. It’s so long, I haven’t read it yet, but if it’s anything like the show, I’m sure it’s good.

-Not very long article about a guy making Hummers with engines that run on anything but gasoline. These converted Hummers have more horse power than regular Hummers.

2007 11 26 ac Comments (2)

Rankings

My last name is the 247th most common in the United States, while Rachel’s isn’t even in the top 1500. I never would have guessed that mine was so high, or hers so low. I even beat my illustrious cob-logger.

2007 11 18 matt Comments (10)

Bruuuuuuuuce

I’ve never been a huge Springsteen fan, but I know some of you are. Clearchannel is telling their stations not to play his new record.

2007 10 31 ac Music Comments (3)

Who You Gonna Call?

The CIA’s Counterterrorist Center “Terrorist Buster” Logo must be seen to be believed.

2007 10 23 matt Comments (5)

Unlikely Words’ Linky Post

It’s time for another post of interesting links as it’s been a while. More importantly, one of the Vanity Fair links is turning my Firefox into a memory sink and I need to shut some tabs.

*The Darjeeling Limited is out in most markets by now. I’m excited for it as The Royal Tenenbaums is one of my favorites.

*One of the reasons our country is so messed up is because the Bush administration creates their own reality and expects everyone to live in it. At least that’s what this 2004 article by Ron Suskind says.

*We’re going to attack Iran and the marketing press is going to be the same as it was for Iran. And besides, Clinton did it, too.

*Jena.

*Send $12B into a warzone. What could possibly go wrong? Well, we can’t account for $9B of it.

*The REAL Stephen Colbert.

*And finally, an article about the traditional media going after Gore during the 2000 election. I wonder if they’re happy now?

2007 10 05 ac Politics Comments (2)

Baseball music

This list of entrance music for baseball players shows me that 1) baseball players aren’t very original and 2) baseball players don’t have very good taste. I guess I shouldn’t judge.

I was going to go through and pick a couple to point out, but there’s too much ridiculousness going on. Needless to say, many pitchers consider themselves “The Jungle” and enjoy welcoming hitters to themselves.

2007 08 18 ac Sports Comments (2)

Ha ha! Sorry, Chuckles.

Dinosaur Comics is usually pretty funny, but I thought this was especially good:

aw, MAN!!

I think, just to spite T-Rex, I shall now go make scrambled eggs for breakfast.

2007 08 10 matt Comments (2)

My Friend got BoingBoinged

My friend Matt got BoingBoinged for an interview he did with Femi Kuti. Femi says not to feel sorry for Africa, but to visit instead.

2007 07 25 ac Comments (0)

Please, No More Dog Food!

Sheep in Japan refuse to eat dog food and never bark. This wouldn’t be such a huge problem if the people buying the sheep knew they were sheep and not the poodles they thought they were buying.
Fleeced indeed.
Or
You can put lipstick on a sheep, but that don’t make it a poodle.

2007 04 26 ac Comments (0)

You Want It? You Got It.

Ladies and gentleman, please enjoy this video of Unlikely Words’s very own AC performing Young MC’s “Bust A Move”:
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2007 04 24 matt Comments (2)

In Cambridge?!?!

This is a story about a monologuist’s performance being interrupted when 87 students of a Christian choir, along with their parents and teachers walked out in protest, one of them dumping water on the performer’s notes on his way out.

There’s a video of it, which is insane to watch. And I can’t believe it all happened in Cambridge, MA!

None of the posts that I saw about this mentioned the fact that the show is now probably better off than it was yesterday, if only the fact that those 87 folks bought about $3,306 worth of tickets and generated tons of publicity for the show. I only hope the performer isn’t scarred…

In other news: Fuck, fuck, fuck. Hopefully that’s enough to get some Christian choirs to protest this site. I bet you sing like shit, too.

2007 04 23 ac Comments (3)

More pie!

I’ve pointed before (through others of course) to an interesting way to document and present one’s life. I will continue to do so. This time in pie charts!

2007 04 04 ac Comments (0)

Unlikely Words’ Third Linky Post

I used Send Tab and ScribeFire to make this post. I’m relatively happy with both of them. (UPDATED TO ADD: Sorry, scratch that, ScribeFire is not ready for primetime and has been summarily uninstalled)

* I’m going to give up trying not to post youtube videos. Here are three. Sneezing pandas, leprechauns, and hardcore turtles. Which is your favorite?

* Veterans issues have kind of taken a back seat with the Admin’s latest scandal. Maybe it’s because the military has muzzled the troops at Walter Reed. You can keep up to date here.

* When I drive Jessie’s Prius, I try to get as many MPG as possible. This guy is much better at it.

* Probably a bad idea, but why not try making your ownlaundry detergent.

* The latest in what’s become a recurring theme of long, interesting looking articles that I didn’t read. Lot’s of people were talking about this a couple weeks back.

* Keith Olbermann could be changing TV. I always forget to watch him, though.

* This means way more to me than it does to you. Three eggs, grits, and toast.

* Excel Keystrokes.

* Cheaters never win. But they do write books.

* You are what you think you are, what others think you are, and what you think others think you are.

* Parts 4 and 5 of an American in a Japanese prison.

* Crossing the border is hard when the border patrol thinks you have porn and doesn’t know how to look for it on your computer.

* These folks are wiping their butts with a bowl of water for a year. What are you doing to save the Earth? Does it matter if they’re doing it to write a book?

* Houses cheaper than cars? What kind of house can I get for a used Jetta?

* Damn, you, Kottke. So addictive.

2007 03 27 ac Comments (2)