As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him flint. -Deep Thought of the day by Jack Handey
It’s a mashup of Google Maps with Overheard, which is a site for people to post random stuff they’ve overheard in NYC. So together they’re unstoppable. You just click on the links on a Google map to see what went down there. Example:
Chick: Let’s go to the other wing. I’m not that interested in seeing the modern art.
Guy: Then why are we at the Museum of Modern Art?
Mindless fun in the bash.org vein, I know, but mindless doesn’t make it any less fun.
In case you ever feel like complaining about how boring your job is, stop. There are always openings in the telemarketing industry, and you can have interesting conversations with colorful characters all day long. For example…
I’m not going to say whether or not I have purchased a defender robot, so be on your guard and think twice about poking your nose where it doesn’t belong. If I have in fact acquired a heartless killing machine-type robot, you won’t know until you’re being gunned down by up to 16 foam discs. By then, of course, it will be too late.
Forget the Freemasons, the Illuminati, or Bill Gates. If you have the stomach for it, gaze upon the faces of the men who truly do run this sick and corrupt world. I will probably be quickly and quietly “disappeared” for revealing this.
Once upon a time, I was smitten with those 3D stereogram things that afflicted nearly every shopping center in the world. Now, thanks to the magic of the internets, you can make your own. Send your friends an internet to tell them all about it.
Wow. Just incredible. Zinedine Zidane, a soccer player on the French team in the World Cup, took out a rival from the Italian team with extreme prejudice.
The Guardian Unlimited found that the infamous headbutt was punishment for a titty twister:
115 mins Replays show that Materazzi’s crime was to, erm, tweak Zidane’s nipple. I kid you not. Tyldesley, the Zidane lover, is now launching into the darker spots of Materazzi’s CV, but he’s a fool: Zidane is slap bang out of order, kinky nipple tweak or no nipple tweak.
Meanwhile, to put things in perspective, someone youtubed a highlights reel of Materazzi’s fouls:
A few weeks ago I got a note from Schmap informing me that they had included one of my Creative Commons-licensed Flickr photos in their free Portland travel guide. Schmap travel guides are cool little Ajax-y things (though not actually web pages) that have remarkably detailed tours of several major metropolitan areas, and Portland. Sadly, they’re Windows-only, which caused me great sadness. Fortunately Boot Camp doesn’t leave me without options, so I booted into Windows to check them out again this morning. Their tour guides are huge and have hundreds of photos. The Portland guide isn’t very useful to me here in LA but it’s good to know I’m published. Speaking of, here’s the picture they published (it’s the Lloyd Center):
I’d have some reservations about my photos being grabbed and used all willy-nilly by some company, but Schmap abides by the license I set for the photos, so the guide is free and I get attribution so there’s really no reason to complain. Check them out sometime.
