2008

When you can't tweet...

… Tumble!

marsz: satan drives to work Angels bike or take the train,...

Consumers spend more when they feel...

Re-blog this statement if it applies to...

robot-heart: “I am a straight woman, and I am confident about my appearance and happy with my...

Should mainstream media pay bloggers?

“Geekdom is a measurement of class and social status. This is...”
— More here (via...

karmcity: In response to Marco’s post. Are you sure you’re...

This is how the affirmative action cookie...

dihard: The Mason Dixon Wine Though I don’t typically...

ruhi: Big Three- (from here) There are other, scarier...

Seth's Blog: The power of remarkable

the internet is for oversharing

karion: Does the internet have a consensus on sending an email to an ex with whom you ended things...

Twitter / Penelope Trunk: Late-night run,...

Are You Using The F Word Around Your Clients?...

Study Shows Blogging Now 'Mainstream' Among...

“Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying...”
— Unknown (via...

German guide to Brit-free holiday or 'how...

Mugabe flies in for food summit |...

not just CYA but an excellent business...

toldorknown: Whenever it’s clear that a person chose phone over email to avoid a paper trail, I...

“They go and get themselves bloody pregnant and I say...”
— Theo Paphitis from the...

Crib Sheet: Key Terms of a Licensing...

6 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Be a Web Worker:...

Terror Alert! Watch that scarf!

You say he is 60? Really?

Shifting tectonic plates...

They say rats are the first to deserve a ship, when it is sinking. But it is also true that when the...

Sharon Stone on Karma (next up - Abu Hamza on...

Unfortunate but some crazy could see this as...

The legal bitchfight over the Bratz doll

This is my ideal image of a wonderfully...

The good thing about having spent one's...

.. is that when trends come back around, one is prepared and no extra expense is required to be...

Graveyard of relationships past

karion: You know what no one tells you? What the fuck do you do with the remnants of an dead...

Random wisdom: the cat flap

… was invented by Sir Isaac Newton. The falling apple did more than just get him to...

Dalai Lama tour begins; Gordon Brown shows he...

Writing Things Down (WTD): 13 Reasons to...

Warning: If You're Using These Job Titles,...

Emily say: Brad Pitt and Benicio del...

emilyposts: Update: Things We Lost in the Fire is slow and boring. I am tempted to turn it off,...

Pampered Chef? I must run... fast...

emilyposts: I’m thinking of becoming a Pampered Chef consultant. I think it would be really fun,...

Newsflash: The world's ills are all down to...

And this is just one reason why a fearless,...

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is...”
— Buddhist saying (via marsz) My...

A courageous way to try and redeem oneself...

Think your area is too noisy? Find out if it...

The US is safe, Jolie considers birth in...

How is the NYT padding its opinion page?

How to stalk: an online guide

emilyposts: “If you are still relying on Google to snoop on your friends, you are behind the...

emilyposts: Marriage Rating Scale from the 30’s (via...

Stuff White People Like: Grammar

Does an absentee vote count if the voter dies...

Realisation

As I set out to scoop some ice-cream for my nephew (21, visiting from Georgia Tech so not quite a...

Guide to the women of Paris

Efficient queues

foodinmouth: I am very petty. Stupid shit bugs me. Every time inside a Duane Reade (that’s a NY...

“A village in Texas is missing an idiot”
— Bumper sticker on a car, while...

curious...

foodinmouth: earlier sarah posted about some woman having her 18th kid and how she thinks the...

Evelyn Waugh's observations on Guyanese...

“The more I saw of the Indians the greater I was struck by their similarity to the English. They...

“‘Chefs should be fined if they don’t have ingredients in...”
— Gordon Ramsay to BBC (via...

aja: via NYBetty_Finds And that is the point of blogging?...

Wedding Etiquette

emilyposts: This post is written as a partial rant, but mostly I just want to save my readers from...

Obama Needs a History Lesson

To all you amateur economists out...

emilyposts: squashed: What are your thoughts on inherited wealth? Is it somebody’s right to...

The world's 1st billion dollar house ...

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy...”
— Albert Einstein (via vinh)

vinh: Recycled Circuit Board Earrings with Vintage 1950s...

A stroke at 20, yet a full life - as a...

“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life explaining myself....”
— Frank Zappa (via hydeordie) ...

DC Madam commits suicide in Florida?

“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life explaining myself....”
— Frank Zappa (via...

ruhi: I’m totally out of inspiration and don’t know what to write about here. Sorry for being so...

Where is the adult (photographer) in this...

Being called a 'lesbian' violates human...

The final trip for the man, who invented...

"True Life: I Still Find 'True Life'...

karmcity: cakeordeath: Remember when “True Life” on MTV was really kind of shocking, in an...

The Irredeemable Blogger's Pledge*

Researchers Discover Massive Asshole In...

ruhi: Toilet (via Daedalus12) This is just why unisex...

‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’,...

Student 'Twitters' His Way Out of Jail

All those, who keep sending me 'friend'...

Guys, as long as you have more friends than you have books - at least as far as Shelfari is...

Banks lose overdraft charges case

Skype Introduces Unlimited International...

Apple sues NYC over a logo

karmcity: ejronin: Apple, Inc. the computer company is sueing New York city over the new logo...

E-mail etiquette

karmcity: Whoever came up with the idea that all e-mails are informal, and thus, can be excused...

emilyposts: (via tumblinas) I laughed out loud. Those...

Science and Politics: Greenpeace and why a...

“I have to yell “Yeaoaoww! Turn it up!” everytime I hear the...”
— Sparkling Pants (via vinh) Is...

Victoria stole Katherine's bra? Hmm...

A science question

Why does eating spicy food make me need to blow my nose right after? Does it have anything to do...

gauntlet: sarahcroberts: reverse land(via feministing)  ...

gauntlet: atherdiscretion: Oh! Hedy You would see this...

Feet Hurt? Stop Wearing Shoes (on NPR)

ruhi: I don’t have much cabinet space in my new kitchen. But I can’t complain because I have a free...

But is it really cricket?

Company credit cards cannot be used to pay...

Muslims call to adopt Mecca time

Bosses 'weigh up pregnancy risk'

Alleged jumping of housing queues by new...

“Men explain things to me, and to other women, whether or not...”
— Men who explain things - Los...

ruhi: Saw this at the grocery store yesterday And sure...

Ambitious Goodwin in a tenuous position

Mobile Luddites? a.k.a Nerds, handsfree...

For all the technology in Silicon Valley, why can’t drivers use bluetooth headsets when...

On living and dying

If you think life is hard, have you thought about how hard it is to die - voluntarily? In most...

Between R and S

One recession just a few years into a career is bad luck, but a recession bordering on stagflation...

Sexual Blackmail at Immigration Services

On Laziness

ruhi: sharingtime: I am too lazy to get up from this chair, walk to the fridge and pour myself a...

Five most commonly heard words..

In the cafe attached to a golf course in Sili Valley, USA: monetisation, deal, advertising, pitch,...

Rise in women doctors "bad for medicine" so...

“Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose...”
— Lawrence J. Peter (via...

Dr Joseph White speaks on 'the browning...

.. at Pace University. If you think this is a cruel and racist joke of some kind, and are inclined...

Dust Therapy | Harini's Point of View

Your Facebook Profile Isn't Really "You": -...

Study: 'Fat-ism' More Widespread Than Racism

BBC is an unpaid advert for Andrew Lloyd...

Indian footie captain refuses to carry...

Judgements of potential

“Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre...”
— Albert Einstein (via...

marco: From marsz: Puppy the World is a dog rental...

“It’s part of the romantic tragedy of our age that our...”
— Essays about Love and Literary...

sarahcroberts: Anti-domestic violence T-shirt Says it all....

“The Google Generation … are one of the most...”
— High-flyers demand love and...

Sex in return for housing? It must be...

.. or must it? In various guises, exploitation of vulnerable young people continues - whether...

“The research found that men who were single were far less...”
— From research showing regular...

How to get divorced by 30 (15 simple steps)

ruhi: tumbl-me: tumbld: Kansas does the Periodic Table...

A hierarchy of disagreement: Paul Graham

Unhappy, unloved and out of control: and...

kevindavidcrowe: This was something I designed for fun as...

Arthur C Clarke on UFOs

” They tell us absolutely nothing about intelligence elsewhere in the universe, but they do...

baby

ruhi: postcardsfromyomomma: You were the most adorable baby…everyone went gooey over you,...

Randall Munroe (XKCD) on Web 2.0

Amazon's Mechanical Turks from ReadWriteWeb

katydid: Hand-knit organs by Sarah Illenberger via i heart...

A marker of a healthy marriage

“There’s been research that suggests that’s a marker of a healthy marriage —...

Those irritating mobile jibber-jabbers on...

Cherchez La Femme

Where have all the strong women gone?

Switch off..

… to save the earth (that explains the 3-hour outage on Thursday night in my area,  about...

dchly: Olay ad for makeup “paste.” Tickling funny! But...

“When social and market norms collide, trouble sets in. Take...”
— Prof. Dan Ariely, Predictably...

Ben Casnocha: The Gritty Reality of the...

dchly: This is a picture of a really long bridge — the...

Geek Talk

ruhi: jonathandeamer: Ruhi says: Why doesn’t Google documents work with Safari? With all the...

How come BA gets all the bad press, while the...

marsz: didyouevernotice: The games of Beijing. With Tibet...

“If you want to go forward, you put it in D. If you want to...”
— Hillary Clinton (via...