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For You Skiers: How to Blow a Knee Properly

Ouch! Ick!

posted at 4:36 pm
on Dec. 29, 2006

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If Real Men Ran the World…

A list by Chris Erskine.

posted at 4:47 am
on Dec. 29, 2006

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Do NOT Buy a Horn for Your Child

Or this will happen to you -- listen to the sound clip.

posted at 1:12 pm
on Dec. 24, 2006

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Monique is Cured of Her Food Allergies

It's astounding. Truly, truly astounding. And I've seen both the before and after reaction.

posted at 1:07 pm
on Dec. 24, 2006

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Santa’d Better Watch Out! Will He Be Laid Off?

I love Joel Achenbach -- holiday humor that's actually funny.

posted at 9:37 pm
on Dec. 23, 2006

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Use TCP Port 587 For Mail Submission

Is this true? Does anyone do it?

posted at 3:32 pm
on Dec. 20, 2006

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A World of Panoramic Photos from 2006

All from the trip of Lee and Satchi. It's a beautiful collection.

posted at 11:09 pm
on Dec. 19, 2006

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Riddle: Pi, a Mobius Strip, and Operation Enduring Freedom

What are three things with no end in sight...

posted at 4:05 pm
on Dec. 19, 2006

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A news report on The Blasphemy Challenge

Here's The Challenge itself.

posted at 12:46 am
on Dec. 15, 2006

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Tehran International Trade and Convention Center, Conference Schedule for 2007

Worth a chuckle. You have to know that Iran is sponsoring a conference questioning the Jewish holocaust, to get the joke.

posted at 4:56 pm
on Dec. 13, 2006

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Desperately seeking Zune

A San Fracisco columnist sets out to find another person who bought a Zune, so they can trade files wirelessly

posted at 3:34 am
on Dec. 12, 2006

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Is George W. Bush the worst president in U.S. history?

There is .. one extremely simple measure of who is worse, summed up in the question that antiwar demonstrators asked LBJ back in the 1960s: How many kids did [he] kill [each day]?

posted at 2:52 am
on Dec. 12, 2006

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How to Order a Pint in a Real Irish Pub

Invaluable.

posted at 6:05 pm
on Dec. 8, 2006

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Site-Flavored Google Search: add search to your site that brings up somehow more relevant results

Basically, it's a good search box that's "biased" towards a certain type of result, i.e. politics or movies or stocks, as determined by you in advance.

posted at 1:57 am
on Dec. 5, 2006

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Live Hamster Stuck in a Video Game

It does better than I do when I play Mario.

posted at 9:22 pm
on Dec. 4, 2006

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Hand-Carved Crayons

If you haven't seen them elsewhere online, take a look; they're beautiful.

posted at 9:17 pm
on Dec. 4, 2006

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Video: Sexual Consent Forms

From Boing Boing.

posted at 1:02 am
on Dec. 2, 2006

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Put paper ballots on the agenda

Why can I get a receipt from my ATM, but not from my electronic voting machine?

posted at 9:56 am
on Dec. 1, 2006

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Overheard

“Oh boy! Another great opportunity for personal growth!”

...who said it?

“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”

...who said it?

After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.

...who said it?

“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”

...who said it?

“We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

...who said it?

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