Month: February 2011
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Indiana lawmakers: I’m ashamed of you. And Ralph Foley of Martinsville is being deliberately obtuse. This Amendment means that people with skills and talents to offer Indiana will leave to live elsewhere where bigotry isn’t enshrined in the State Constitution. OH, LIKE ME.
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Chocolate, 2010 by Martynka Wawrzyniak. That may well be one of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen on the Internet. Ten minutes of a woman getting chocolate poured on her face. Yes, seriously. At one point she has to blow chocolate out her nose to breathe.
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Shared today on Google Reader: How do you transport pavlova? And do you pre-assemble it or not? Inventor Makes Fuel Out Of Brewery Waste [Graph] Quality of game graphics vs. enjoyment over time Giant Knitted Squid – Amusing. I tend to prefer knit graffiti that involves actual skill and creativity, like this. You can follow…
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My 9th Annual Oscar Contest is now up to 120 entries. Don’t forget to put yours in before the big show! (There are clear favourites in just about every category, so I hope we have some upsets!)
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Amanda Palmer has released a video for “On an Unknown Beach,” a lovely lonely song she covered by a New Zealand artist called Peter Jefferies. You should go watch it, then go buy her album Amanda Palmer Down Under if you haven’t already.
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Shared today on Google Reader: A Chronicle of Misspelled Slurs – Except 'Fat,' 'Ugly' or 'Slutty' Hello, I Am Fat – A-frickin’-men. Secret Messages – Awwwwwwww. Giant Settlers of Cataan – Ahhh, Burning Man. What won’t they think of next? Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz's guide to getting a sitcom cancelled | Culture | The…
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Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #4: Curry Rogan JoshThis was our fourth official cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. The weather this weekend has been cooler, so we thought something warming was appropriate. We also had some pumpkin and carrots to use up from the veggie box, so one recipe leaped out at us: Curry…
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Injury update: Regular readers will recall that about a year ago I started having some weird tightness and aches in the arch of my right foot. I took a few weeks off and had a bone scan – and was radioactive for a day, which was fun – that didn’t show any fractures or serious…
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For those of you who don’t know, back in 2004 I actually posted a photo tutorial for making your own sock monkey. So even if you don’t win this year’s Oscar Contest, you can always make your own!
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Week 6This week I bounced back from last week’s chin-up related setback. Sunday was my “long run,” but as it’s a cutback week I was only scheduled for 4 miles. The Snook and I did another mile time trial, and though I felt we were speeding along, the time was a disappointing 10:58. (I went…