September 2008
The People's Choice Music - Komar and Melamid &... →
adamadam:
composers arranged music that, according to kolmogorov-smirnov (or “goodness of fit”) statistics, would represent the “most wanted” and “most unwanted” songs. the main feature of the “most wanted” song is moderation—small number of instruments, moderate duration, moderate pitch, tempo, etc. the “most unwanted” song is long (over 25 minutes), switches haphazardly between soft and loud...
CHUT UP! →
“Watching food TV is like taking an Ativan.”
– Debbie does salad: The Food Network at the frontiers of pornography (via interweber)
“When you have experts with PhDs who disagree with [Cesar Millan, “The Dog...”
– Claudia Kawczynska, the editor of The Bark magazine
cats i am near →
type in your address, and this site will show you pictures of cats who live nearby you.
Hall-Abaluk-Knac-Aknac Hall-Abaluk-Knac-Aknac All Hail to Grand Prairie High School Raise High Your Colors Blue and White-Fight-Fight Let’s go you rough and ready Gophers We’re going to win this game tonight Fight Fight on That good ole’ Gopher spirit Thrills us- And makes us yell and yell and yell Go Blue! So fight hard you loyal sons of G.P. High We’re going...
Mp3 Experiment 5 - New York Details at Improv... →
interweber:
I’ve always always always wanted to participate in one of these. Of course, this one is this weekend and I am going to be in Boston. Next time, I swear!
needs a dc date.
“There’s this gorgeous model that’s been trying to get with me for me for a...”
– Aubrey O’Day (of Danity Kane fame. really.)
Love, Daddy →
a woman’s well-written blog about her “jailed deaf dad.” this is both depressing and hilarious (DEAF HIJINKS!!!).
One Sentence →
True stories, told in one sentence.
John McCain's Bizarre Spanish Gaffe →
adamadam:
in short: mccain conducts an interview with a spanish journalist. throughout the interview, he shows that he (1) is unaware that spain is in europe and (2) is unaware that zapatero is the leader of spain (even after being told so). he launches off into talking about mexico and latin american foreign relations until the journalist politely nudges him, “Okay, but I’m talking about...
Watchhow the hell could anybody say no to this man?
wedding at waffle house →
4chan hacks sarah palin's email account →
The potential Veep is in a bit of trouble for using her personal, unarchived email address (gov.sarah@yahoo.com) to conduct state business. Which is, you know, questionable, because it violates public records requests and could stall information gathering in the Troopergate scandal. Now comes word that Anonymous, the fun-loving Internet gadflies based loosely around mostly lawless message board...
