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Archive for February 2008

Redefining “Tom”

Okay, so I went all ego and “redefined” the word “tom” tonight on The Big Word Project. You can thank @leahjones and @extraface on Twitter for me going there.
You know you want to get all wordy and buy something of interest.

Helmets for 1st & 3rd base coaches in pro baseball

MLB.com has an article on Monday about how all all Minor and Major League 1st & 3rd base coaches will wear helmets - ear flaps optional, it says - as of the 2008 season. This all went down in the wake of minor league coach Mike Coolbaugh, who was in the Colorado Rockies’ system in […]

Jimmy Kimmel gets his response on

Well, Jimmy Kimmel apparently had had enough of the fun that girlfriend Sarah Silverman had pulled on him a short while ago when she announced that she was … ahem … knowing Matt Damon, so Jimmy responded in the only way he knows how - to get with Ben Affleck, of course.

Probably NSFW for most […]

Indy gets his Mighty Muggs on

Late last week, Chris Thilk let me know about the latest addition to the Mighty Muggs “trendy” figures that I’ve been seeing around town - Indiana Jones. And no, ladies and gents, we’re not talking characters that are new and that you don’t care about. We’re talking about scores like Mola Ram. Delusional facial features […]

WOW @ this library

Check out the staircase featured in a post over on the dwell blog. That’s a pretty fantastic way to store your books, if you’ve got the space to do this kind of thing.

On Barack Obama and viral stuff

I can’t decide if it’s good or bad that I’ve been sent the link to “Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle” (just click on it…) like a dozen times or not.

What scares me is that this could be for real

One of my colleagues (thanks, Bob!) sent me a link to this post from Google Blogoscoped, where they’ve got a fantastic writeup of a review of some colored pencils, done the way that the rest of us review software and tech products. It’s quite … enlightening … to say the least once you take eveything […]

Daft Punk needs to get its due

With the (apparent) success of Kanye West’s “Graduation” album, a record whose “Stronger” track is one that umm, leans heavily on a certain Daft Punk track, I thought it worthwhile, post-Grammys, to give good ol’ Daft Punk some props. I mean, if your song is sampled THAT quickly, it’s gotta be good, right?
Enjoy the hands […]

OMG on Uggs

Okay, I’m re-stating which Twitter post I now think is the best one I’ve seen. Check out this item from Michael Allison about Uggs and sheep. That’s classic.

On warranties and such

If you’re a car dealer that sells one make of cars, but offer quite a few other cars in the used car lot, and you sell warranties on those cars - meaning you intend to fix those cars yourselves, or have them fixed *through* your network of mechanics - and you have a car come […]