March 2010
103 posts
February 2010
97 posts
Former police officer pleads guilty to Danziger... →
The cover-up of what Lohman immediately judged an unjustified shooting began just after supervisors arrived, according to the bill. While police attorneys and police reports have asserted that officers were fired upon by the victims before shooting their weapons, the bill maintains that the victims were unarmed.
American Beauty: A Brief History Of Abercrombie's... →
WSJ: Why Won't Anyone Clean the Refrigerator? →
Hey there aint nothin wrong with using the crisper for beer, and the cheese drawer for hot dogs, and the milk place for red bull.
leilacohan:
I’m not sure why I’m so very tickled by this article about refrigerator manufacturers desperation with the fact that Americans don’t know how to take care of their fridges, but it made me giggle a lot. Particularly this segment:
Four years ago, in an...
Adam: if you were a mortal combat character, "lighting a bitch's hair on fire" would be your fatality move
Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean So Much (New... →
psychotherapy:
…in recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm — can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and...
New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other
Totally obsessed with this video and the utter disconnect between his face and voice. (Yours Truly Presents: The Morning Benders “Excuses”)
Oh come on, that's just being descriptive.
clientsfromhell:
Client: “The blue isn’t right.”
Me: “What PMS color are we trying to match?”
Client: “Oh, you know, the color of the Texas sky around daybreak.”
According to my 13 year old niece, she is not going into a STEM focused role...
– Is Computer Engineer Barbie Going To Get More Girls Into Tech?
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer...
– How sad.
Eugene Wigner (via scienceisbeauty)
Love Twist
dearoldlove:
I guess it’s only fair that the things you liked about me were the things you missed about her, since the things I liked about you were the things I missed about him.
It’s preppy, yes, but it’s definitely not Republican.
– This is what people are going to say about my babies, one day.
New York Magazine on the aesthetic of Andy Spade, founder of Kate Spade, Jack Spade and Spade & Partners in NYC (via putthison)
Well that's just awesome.
clientsfromhell:
Client: “We’d like to illustrate the power of our new product in the PowerPoint presentation. So we’d like to have a man in a business suit flying through the air with a cape, but we want the cape to be a screenshot of our website”
Me: “…”
I think you know your relationship has reached old...
sade:
when you take a shower together and you’re literally just taking a shower together to save time and water. Welp. Straight up just washing your hair and elbowing each other out of the way.
This phenomenon has been well-documented by the onion: Showers With Girlfriend Increasingly Cleansing-Focused
How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America →
givemesomethingtoread:
The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar men. It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities. It may already be plunging many inner cities into a...
Ten Unexpected Collective Nouns
wordjournal:
rout • a rout of wolves
clowder • a clowder of cats
descension • a descension of woodpeckers
disworship • a disworship of Scots
mute • a mute of hounds
raft • a raft of ducks
unbrewing • an unbrewing of carvers
neverthriving • a neverthriving of jugglers
drunkenship • a drunkenship of cobblers
shrewdness • a shrewdness of apes