Tag: language

Sappy Sunday – Happy Mother’s Day

Over the weekend, a guy I used to play hockey with posted a status update with a link to the blog he and his wife kept of their

George Carlin’s Greatest Moment

Definitely one of them… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1lZMTCqf

Obama Comes Out

Barack Obama made history today as the first US President to officially come out in support of gay marriage (not “civil unions” aka the semantic wankery that gets

A Great Way To Fire Someone

I was talking with a colleague today about the process of having to fire people. I said I’d had this experience twice – once when I had to

Music Monday – “Your mom busted in and said, “What’s that noise?”/Aw, mom you’re just jealous it’s the Beastie Boys!”

It’s a pretty well-known trick for making a successful cover version – take an up-tempo song and slow it down. Still, Coldplay makes the old trick work by

“There’s a bear…strung up. I assume murdered. Maybe a suicide. I dunno.”

Christopher Walken read’s “Where The Wild Things Are“. Probably a fake but either way, wow, just wow.

Happy May Day!

You’ll see this graphic a lot more in a couple days as “May the Fourth Be With You”. But I think this variation is quite appropriate for May

Birth to 12 Years in Three Minutes

These are two pretty amazing videos – a father takes a brief video of his daughter every week for twelve years (and separately, his son for nine years)

What Is The Most Epic Photo of All-Time?

A great Quora thread that will make you laugh and cry, take your breath away and make you puke and make you realise how big and small we

“I am very real” – Kurt Vonnegut Addresses The Teacher and School Board That Burned His Book

A great defence of the freedom to read by my favourite author when a North Dakota community burns his book. More at MetaFilter. In completely unrelated news, we’re

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