Archive of October 2008
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Disco tune “Stayin’ Alive” could save your life - Yahoo! News
What tune could be better at keeping you alive than “Stayin’ Alive?”
John McCain’s Dirty Little Secret: He Hates Women
This disturbed me a great deal. Read and then tell Steve Almond (who’s on campus today and tonight) how awesome he is for exposing this sad, sad truth.
Somebody (I don’t know who) built a robotic band. It must be seen to be believed. Every instrument you see and/or hear is being played by a robot of some sort.
Jingle – the classic 1960 ad for John F. Kennedy.
Frank Sidebottom on Granada Reports in the 80’s!
Possible Sadie Lou Redesign
This is still pretty preliminary. It’s based on this Meta color scheme. Any thoughts?
Official Gmail Blog: Stop sending mail you later regret
Google has a solution for everything! No more drunk-emailing— ever!
Yankee Pot Roast: William Carlos Williams Is a Really Bad Roommate
There isn’t all that much I like about NY Penn Station except in the NJ Transit terminal there is poetry engraved into the walls. One of these poems is “Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. William Carlos Williams didn’t write the poems in the link above, but he could have.
McCain is Really Old
A website dedicated to the obvious.
The Choice
The New Yorker editors endorse (surprise!) Barack Obama. It’s a thoughtful overview of the divide between McCain and Obama on the most relevant issues of the day.
Fight Communism. Use Scots Toilet Paper.
So I love ukuleles for many reasons. This is just one of them. The “Theme From Shaft” from the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
(via Lake Neuron.)
Sarah Palin’s dream of the presidency. (via Andrew Sullivan – I need to get another source for quality links.)
America the Gift Shop
Artist Phillip Toledano asks, ‘What would it be like if America had a gift shop devoted to selling foreign policy-inspired goods?’
I know I keep posting political stuff (not much else is on my mind these days), but Zina Saunders has been creating some incredibly good Election ’08 satirical art.
(via The Morning News)
Obama? McCain? Palin? According to Stephen Colbert, they are all Shakespeare’s children.
In case you missed it.
And bingo is their name-o
Not that the Debate won’t be fun…this will just make it better.
(Thanks, Doug.)
Another nugget from xkcd.