December 2009
18 posts
“He said he had been stabbed during an attempted robbery half a mile away, then...”
– http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,580964,00.html?test=latestnews
“planes are tested by how well they fly, not by comparing them to birds.”
– goofing around on wikipedia. a hobby of mine.
“Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother,” Obama told DeFazio during a...”
– To which DeFazio replied, “What are you gonna do, compromise with me?”
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(via spiegelman)
“The spacecraft’s urine-management system was not much more than a tube...”
– wired (three things about the vacuum of space)
so beautifully human.
this is cool! →
(via josephrose)
The Mathematics Of Pizza →
“The mere fact that people use religion as their justification for anything other...”
– found a great quote in an old movie review (of all places).
Watchcash rules everything around me
Fox News Hires Temp to Help Organize Tapes
tomoatmeal:
After recent blunders involving recycled show footage resulted in embarrassing on-air apologies, the Human Resources department for Fox News reached out to local temp agencies this week; the first step in an effort to build a more organized system of filing.
“I think it’s clear that the way we’re currently storing tapes simply isn’t cutting it,” a representative from Fox said. “We...
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“Mrs. Clinton wanted to make sure she was a formidable player in the process....”
– New York Times
After another meeting in which a senior Pentagon official pointed out targets with a green laser pointer, Mrs. Clinton demanded of her aides, “Why don’t I have one of those? You, Swacker, get me one. With greater lumens than the General’s.” She arrived at the next meeting with a...