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The Kingdom of Polystyrene
Dow wants you to know that their Styrofoam™ is is a global success, and moreover that it isn't what birds are choking on. Meanwhile, The Polystyrene Packaging Council wants you to know, among other things, that "Modern man has known about styrene for centuries" and that "Wherever you live, wherever you work, chemicals are a vital part of your life."
For this I fetched?
Cat and Dog Toys for the Jewish dog. In the interest of fairness, I looked for some Jesus-themed dog toys, but came up blank.
dowagers
Apparently wealthy dowager is redundant:
Main Entry: dow??a??ger
Pronunciation: 'dau-i-j&r
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French douagiere, from douage dower, from douer to endow, from Latin dotare, from dot-, dos gift, dower -- more at DATE
1 : a widow holding property or a title from her deceased husband
2 : a dignified elderly woman
Take that, Margaret Dumont!
Lehrer blogs
Brian Lehrer of wnyc.org is blogging. Or at least his show is. So far the emphasis seems to be on national politics -- I hope they get into some local stuff though, because on the internet, there's plenty of political bloggery, and a near complete lack of cranky New Yorkers complaining about dog runs and the school commission.
Thank you for not wearing tights.
Evidently, a real-life batman and robin have found their own Gotham in Whitley, England.
Who do you look like?
N-dimensional vector space in action!!! See which celebs you most closely resemble. Warning: has to be front face shot (not quarter turn), takes an awful long time, and doesn't seem to work in mozilla. Also: Not particularly accurate.
dood
people need to get out more. and use more soap. and open and shut their doors more. and count the tiles on the way to the elevator. and ride the elevator seven times. and not touch the mailbox with bare hands. and not step on cracks.
ok.
fine.
it's better that they make art.
no seriously. it looks interesting... albeit a bit over my head. like the scantron one...i don't get it.
yeah...
but somebody get me the etymology for a word reminiscent of gaylord fokker and means to beat against rapidly. well?? huh??? for unlawful carnal knowledge? what is it huh, what is it? english blows.
nah
tried the amazon thing. in the words of those who felt the telephone to be a flash in the pan, this amazon thing will be over before it begins. viva google!
peeps
i could eat my weight in peeps. not the green ones, though. that requires the skills of a professional peeper.
a9 is less verbable.
Has Amazon created a Google-killer? Their new site spread through the blogosphere without going through the standard PR channels. It seems to work fine, and the idea of being able to search the text of books is phenomenal. I'm gonna give it a week and see how it feels.
etymology of debauchery
I always thought it had something to do with Bacchus, but no. Old french, desbauchier. Bauch meaning wooden beam. Ergo, to fall off the beam.
Revenge of the Nerds: The Prequel
The importance of removing alpha babboons. An important lesson for this election year.
The persistence of candy
OCD Art. Media include M&Ms and miniature sugar easter eggs.
The 17-year itch
Cicadas are coming. But why 17 years? Because it's a prime number, according to this study.
It's like near-beer, but for dating.
I'm not sure what demographic this is for, as your standard guy isn't really looking for relationship talk via email. Maybe the kid who said he had a girlfriend in Canada?
Not a link, just a question
How do you filter your email if you're really in the nigerian oil business?
fools rush in
April Oneth on the net:
Google's Copernicus Center job applications.
Think Geek sells a PC EZ-bake.
Get meta with this giant list of april fools day pranks for this year.
