February 2009
January 2009
Columbian Exchange
Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no tomatoes in Italy, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no cattle in Texas, no chili peppers in Thailand and India, no cigarettes in France and no chocolate in Switzerland.
“Johanna is a very private person. A lot of people didn’t even know she was...”
– An “Icelandic government source” on the world’s first gay Head of State.
Sarah Palin's New PAC →
It’s designed with tables - that’s so 1996. The new WhiteHouse.gov is down with CSS like the rest of the planet.
REMINDER: Never design a website with a brown background. It looks like garbage.
WatchFor my lady-friends on Tumblr.
Is it Chipotle ‘o clock yet?
Schools Phasing Out Cursive →
THANK GOD.
Witchdoctors defy ban on selling albino parts
Police in Tanzania have recently arrested almost 100 people suspected of murdering albinos and/or selling their body parts to witchdoctors. Apparently the limbs, hair, and even genitals are used in some folk medicine. The government has responded by pulling the healers’ licenses to practice. The healers are reportedly ignoring the ban.
Read more from the BBC
Breaking News: Chipotle Employee Just Gave Guy In... →
CHIPOTLE—In a lunchtime incident significant enough to warrant you pause, an employee at the fast food Mexican restaurant Chipotle has just dispensed to you a smaller serving of rice than the customer ahead of you.
Though it appears likely the less-generous helping of rice was a simple oversight on the part of the employee, and was in no way a personal slight against you, you reportedly cannot...
1,005
The smallest number whose name includes all five vowels is ONE THOUSAND FIVE.
Top 43 Worst Bush Appointees
From Think Progress:
9. Douglas Feith — Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 2001-2005, Feith headed up the notorious Office of Special Plans, an in-house Pentagon intelligence shop devised by Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to produce intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. A subsequent investigation by the Pentagon’s Inspector General found the OSP’s work produced “conclusions that were...
What's Happing in Oklahoma?
Folks in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma are disturbed by an intense blasting sound and window-shaking tremors that apparently have been occurring at noon every day this week. Hundreds of people have called the sheriff’s office to complain. The source of the rumble remains a mystery. From KHBS:
Ron Lockhart, the Sequoyah County Sheriff, said the department has checked with every mining company in...
My girlfriend is top scallops, not top chef - I suspect the judges were paid off.
Phrases From The Financial Times’ Final Editorial...
“Executive hubris”
“Imperial overreach”
“Epic incompetence”
“Preternatural ebullience”
“Fathomless lack of curiosity”
“Disdain for empirical reality”
“Most fiscally incontinent (!!!) of presidents
“Terribly wrong”
From my new favorite movie.
