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30 Jan 17:04

Super Bowl

My hobby: Pretending to miss the sarcasm when people show off their lack of interest in football by talking about 'sportsball' and acting excited to find someone else who's interested, then acting confused when they try to clarify.
27 Jan 20:14

Brodeur to announce retirement

Paulahmartin

I AM SHOCKED

Hall of Fame-bound goalie had filled in with Blues while Elliott was hurt.
26 Jan 22:25

Snowrollers

by snopes@snopes.com
Rumor: Photographs show a collection of snowrollers formed in Idaho.
21 Jan 22:52

E-Cigarettes Can Churn Out High Levels Of Formaldehyde

by Rob Stein
Paulahmartin

I'm sure that's good.

Unexpectedly high levels of the cancer-causing chemical were found in an analysis of the vapor from e-cigarettes, researchers say.

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21 Jan 22:47

Think About it, People!

Paulahmartin

I don't know why I share these things with you. Probably because I kind of miss hearing things like this on a daily basis at my last job.

15 Jan 16:36

It's not that bad...

by Lydia Marks
14 Jan 19:27

It's a Deconstructionist Piece, Clearly

13 Jan 22:49

Aziz Ansari Piles on the Criticism for Rupert Murdoch

Paulahmartin

Azis Ansari is awesome. It's the perfect response.

09 Jan 15:37

You Got Your Weirdo Satire in My Recipes!

09 Jan 15:34

It seems that Spiderman is happy to see me.

by Lydia Marks
Paulahmartin

Just bad design

Via
08 Jan 20:09

Great Job, Internet!: Real people are referring to sandwiches as “homemade Subway” now

by Marah Eakin

In a move that’s either astoundingly stupid or one of those “Kanye fans don’t know who Paul McCartney is” pranks, Buzzfeed is reporting that regular people are now referring to plain old sandwiches as “homemade Subway.” The site compiled a bunch of tweets from actual people who post pictures of their sad-looking “homemade Subway” sandwiches, some of which are just on regular sliced bread, not even fancy sub-style rolls. They even come with chips, just like the classic restaurant style combo—albeit chips that are just hasily poured on a plate and not served in their own individual bag. What, are we some sort of animals now?

Thx Luv for my homemade subway sandwich it made me feel a lil better #sickdays #someonelovesyou pic.twitter.com/FFc9wAsmrk

— JDBR* (@Jrobin08) November 23, 2014

Homemade subway.. by chef eiz.. #chickenslice pic.twitter.com/wcnQxjiSNO

— Hariz Hassim (@jawa_nation) October 26, 2014 ...
08 Jan 15:29

Cardinal Raymond Burke: ‘Feminized’ church and altar girls caused priest shortage

Paulahmartin

Yeah, I think that's why.

Burke also blamed gay clergy for the church’s sexual abuse crisis, saying priests “who were feminized and confused about their own sexual identity” were the ones who molested children.
05 Jan 19:55

The plunging price of crude oil is NOT due to fracking

by Minnesotastan

The graph above, from last month, is already outdated; CNBC is reporting this morning that the price of crude is now below $50 per barrel.

Certain special interest groups are attributing this fall to the shale oil production derived from fracking in the United States.  It's not that simple:
The cause of the fall, by $40 a barrel, in petroleum prices since last summer is almost completely on the demand side. Asian economies, especially China, are dramatically slowing, and won’t be requiring as much petroleum to fuel trucks, trains and cars to deliver people and goods around the country. Most petroleum is used to fuel transport...

US journalists seem to feel it obligatory to mention US shale oil production as a contributor to the price fall, since prices are a matter of supply and demand, and US supply has increased by a couple million barrels a day. But frankly that is a minor increase in world terms– global production is roughly 90 million barrels a day. Between Iran, Iraq (Kirkuk), Libya and Syria, enough oil has gone out of production to more than offset the additional American oil. It isn’t that there is more oil being pumped, it is that the world doesn’t want it as much because of cooling economies.
05 Jan 15:56

Microwave Privileges: Revoked

Paulahmartin

I guess it's not just at my work.

17 Dec 21:36

CNN Wanted to Start a Roundtable Discussion About Cops and Public Relations. Let's See How Poorly That Went.

cops,twitter,bad idea,hashtags,failbook

Submitted by: (via Daily Dot)

17 Dec 21:36

Who Wouldn't Want to Eat at a Restaurant Like That?

Paulahmartin

This is one of my favorite restaurant reviews.

reviews,customer service,what,yelp

Submitted by: (via Acid Cow)

15 Dec 22:45

Now We Know Where He REALLY Stands

12 Dec 15:29

Star Wars Christmas Tree

by noreply@blogger.com (Joanne Casey)
10 Dec 14:58

So majestic.

by Lydia Marks
Via
21 Nov 21:41

Dat Walk

by noreply@blogger.com (Joanne Casey)
21 Nov 19:51

Jose Canseco Has an Impromptu Twitter Garage Sale

Paulahmartin

I am going to follow him, or at least check in from time to time.

21 Nov 17:03

Newswire: Jon Hamm, Rashida Jones, and Rob Lowe all returning to Parks And Recreation

by Caitlin PenzeyMoog
Paulahmartin

I can't wait for this season.

We’ll be seeing more of Jon Hamm’s Ed, the most incompetent person Leslie Knope ever worked with, in the seventh and final season of Parks And Recreation. Hamm appeared in the last minute of season six’s final episode, got fired, and thanked Leslie for “the literally hundreds of opportunities” she gave him. “Goodbye, everyone!” he said cheerfully. “It’s been a great three years.”

According to showrunner Mike Schur, flashbacks to those three years will reveal what Leslie meant when she said Ed is more incompetent than even Terry (Larry Gergich, nee Jerry). “If I have my way, every episode where you see events that take place before that moment will include a shot of him doing something insanely incompetent,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

Meanwhile, TV Line also reports that Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe will be returning to their roles as Ann and Chris, who left ...

19 Nov 23:23

Great Job, Internet!: Someone recreated the entirety of Final Fantasy VII in LittleBigPlanet

by Matt Gerardi

Two years ago, Jamie Colliver started using LittleBigPlanet 2’s adorable and versatile game creation tools to recreate the widely beloved role-playing game Final Fantasy VII. He wasn’t going to stop at just a few key scenes, like the death of Aeris or that weird snowboarding interlude. No, he set out to remake Square Enix’s seminal RPG from start to finish—dialogue, music, boss battles, that half-hour-long Knights Of The Round summoning animation, and all. Two years later and just in time for the release of LittleBigPlanet 3, Colliver has completed his giant-polygons-to-digital-burlap conversion.

If you have LittleBigPlanet 2 or 3 on hand, you can play through all 30 of Colliver’s Final Fantasy VII levels for yourself. For those without the games or who want a peek at his handiwork, Colliver has created a convenient YouTube playlist walking through his entire recreation. The levels are your typical ...

18 Nov 16:46

Toyota to launch hydrogen-powered car

Paulahmartin

It is cool that consumers somewhere can get this.

World's largest car maker experiments with Mirai model, hoping to sell about 700 in the first year.
17 Nov 18:56

Jose Canseco Has Some... Interesting Ideas About Space Travel

jose canseco,twitter,baseball,what,failbook,g rated

Submitted by: (via Uproxx)

14 Nov 22:17

Block & Tackle: The sweet stupidity of the first-down measurement

by John Teti

Measure for pleasure

The dumbest thing the officials do is measure for a first down. To begin with, the device they use for this routine is laughable, a 10-yard chain with panicky orange pennants on either end. It looks like it ought to be guarding hazards on an aircraft carrier. Instead, it tells grown men how far to run on a lawn. On a close first-down call, the refs trot out this Wallace and Gromit contraption and line it up near the ball. Sometimes they lean down for the exactitude of a closer, squinting look, similar to the process used to detect the Higgs boson.

The funniest part is, the pigskin technicians are assessing a spot determined by a guy who tried to keep track of the ball while a couple dozen other guys careened around the field like a bunch of Higgs bosons. Don’t get me wrong, NFL ...

12 Nov 21:32

"Series of Tubes" is No Longer the Dumbest Thing Anyone Has Said About the Internet, Thanks to Ted Cruz

twitter,net neutrality,facepalm,series of tubes,politics

For those of you unfamiliar with the hot button issue of Net Neutrality: Lawmakers, cable companies, and media groups are arguing about whether the internet should be classified by the FCC as a utility (like electricity) or a telecommunications service (like your cable television). If cable companies like Comcast had their way they would prefer the latter, and your internet would look an awful lot like premium cable - complete with certain sites or services that had to be "bought into." Thus why the rest of the internet is saying "NO THANKS PLEASE" to the rest and calling for Net Neutrality.
But really, Ted Cruz gets to the heart of the matter, because clearly an open internet where businesses are on an equal footing to compete with one another is the socialist Obama-geddon of the internet as we know it.

Submitted by: (via Ted Cruz)

10 Nov 17:13

Nah, I'd Rather Have the Vaccine for the Disease I'll Never Get

06 Nov 20:18

Octopus arms are both creepy and cool.

by Lydia Marks
Via
05 Nov 21:34

McKendree rec complex proposed for O'Fallon, Ill.

Paulahmartin

I hope this gets finished while I'm still here.

A privately-owned rec center with two NHL-sized hockey rings, pools, fitness area and other amenities is being planned for a 45-acre tract in O'Fallon, Illinois.