“What happens if you let the notoriously fickle and sometimes downright dirty Google search autocomplete feature take over U.S. geography? A completely new State of the Union heavy on universities, history and other peculiarities, thats what.” via Google Autocomplete Redefines U.S. Map. See the map and what happens when you let autocomplete fill in for each [...]
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Vermouth’s commercial origins date to 1786, when Antonio Benedetto Carpano began marketing the aromatized wine he produced in Turin, but the consumption of vermouth and its precursors stretches back centuries. Typically made from neutral-character dry white wines that have been flavored with herbs, roots and barks – typically including cardamom, cinnamon, marjoram and chamomile – [...]
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The Telegraph is one of the newspapers that I regularly read (although admittedly mostly for football stories) one of my favorite sections is called “Sign Language” and consists of funny signs from the UK and around the world…one such example below.
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“A year ago, when I heard that some audiophiles were using Sony’s original PlayStation 1 as a CD player—my friend Michael Lavorgna, who writes for 6moons.com, was the first to cross my attention—I was more than a little confused. Sure, I’d heard of the Sony PlayStation, just as I’ve heard of the Game Boy and [...]
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This past week on This American Life (one of my favorite things of the week is listening to this) had a unique show: 20 Acts in 60 Minutes Instead of the regular “each week we choose a theme, and bring you three or four stories on that theme” business, this week we throw all that [...]
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So if you read the title you probably don’t have a clue what I am talking about here. Two things, one is I recently changed my cable provider from Wide Open West (WOW) the budget competitor to Time Warner here in Columbus (and other Midwest cities) back to Time Warner Cable (TWC), who despite having [...]
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This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold. – William Carlos Williams ‘This is just to say’ is a famous poem by William Carlos Williams that you may have come [...]
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An interesting case from the other side of the pond (fictional mind you) from column of the late Miles Kingston, humor columnist for the Independent (via Volkoh conspiracy blog) : “A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more [...]
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Clicking over to ESPN.com you may be surprised to see the top two stories are boxing and horse racing, leading one to wonder whether we are reading the screen correctly (is this 1920s?). Horse racing definitely is not big news, Barbaro, the Derby, Tripe Crown contenders do make national news and get coverage, but in [...]
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Well aside from all the reasons it couldn’t actually happen, I thought this was kinda a funny post on the Columbus Underground, the comments get into the proper legal arguments of why this wouldn’t actually be possible, but its always okay to dream right. See “Should Columbus join the European Union?“
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