November 2008
17 posts
Motrin's new apology
“So…it’s been almost 4 days since I apologized here for our Motrin advertising. What an unbelievable 4 days it’s been. Believe me when I say we’ve been taking our own headache medicine here lately!
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changed from their initial apology
hm…no one ( as in only 3ish) in my google reader blogged today (as in saturday not sunday).
how disappointing.
Testing...
I think I really do hate Chinatown.
It’s very obnoxious and way too crowded.
um, how does the citation show up?
my formatting should
now be p r e s e r v e d.
now a short quote that learning to purl is strange.
Insult of the Day
(sorta)
“Pimp, you are my adversary! Come over here!”
from Dede Korkut’s recount of “how the outer oghuz rebelled against the inner oghuz and how beyrek died” :
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Random Word of the Day
ignoble:
1 : of low birth or common origin : plebeian
2 : characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness
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as in, this ignoble apple has been smothered by beeswax pesticides! burn it!
which leads to this article via zklein: The Food Miles Mistake
basically about how sometimes, locally grown foodstuffs is more harmful to the environment because certain veggies and fruits...
Insult of the Day
“You are a big polymer block. With a lot of water on you.”
-from m.weck during the polymer folding lecture i went to tonight.
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oh shoot!
“All e-mail sent to the e-mail addresses of the AP becomes the property of AP. AP reserves the right, but shall not be obligated to, publish any email message received, in whole or in part, or make such other use as AP in its sole discretion sees fit.”
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I found this in my “Occasions for writing” book.
“Read this brain teaser…bet you CAN!”
“The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit...
what is the purpose of computer viruses?
and don’t tell me it’s to “propagate itself by traveling from file to file and from computer to computer, often destroying files in the process”
Wikipedia tells me it started innocently, enough, telling users that “I’M THE CREEPER : CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.”
what happened and why?
i think i remember seeing a...
organized by first name…how interesting!
authors of the big moo l