Pittsburgh, where even the Internet is unionized

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This is seriously getting out of hand.

Sunday Silliness: beer snob edition

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This billboard was visible from Pittsburgh’s Liberty Bridge last baseball season, though I’m just now getting around to posting it: So what is it that Budweiser does with this ad?  Are they trying to link their beer to the first North American professional sports franchise to have 18 consecutive losing seasons, or to the yellow P? [...]

Sunday Silliness: they really make that? edition

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From the Whatever Works website (and, I presume, catalog) comes what is quite probably the most useless product I’ve seen this week (and it’s probably patented):  a sheet tucker.  Yet for years we’ve been doing hospital corners with our hands, silly us….

Sunday Silliness: only Bruce Willis can save you now edition

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From Purdue University (hat tip Reason) comes what is apparently an updated version of something I’ve somehow missed all these years:  a global meteor strike calculator.

Playing around

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I’m not 100% sure that this needed to exist.  But it does.  God Bless the Free Market.  :)

Sunday Silliness: who’s naked now edition

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As if the news that 1 in 4 UK lap dancers has a college degree isn’t funny enough by itself, the more specific details of the finding are absolutely howl-worthy (emphasis all mine): The researchers found arts degree graduates were most likely to report that they had turned to dancing after being unable to find [...]

Thoughts, interrupted

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Fun with dictations.

Sunday Silliness: 1984 edition

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Courtesy of security expert  Bruce Schneier, a link to SnapScouts, an Android program for “crowd sourcing crime prevention.” If you have any doubt as to what point the website owners are making, their company is called “MiniTru.”

Tonka tough

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Engadget is mostly a consumer electronics site, so it’s kind of odd that they would have a brief blurb about the Lifepak 15–but at least they came up with a great title for it: Medtronic’s LIFEPAK 15 defibrillator for extreme conditions, or extremely clumsy paramedics

When no means no

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Turning a compliment into not-a-compliment, one missing word at a time.