Daily Archives: August 19, 2011

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Flash Back Friday: Songs for a Broken Heart

Well we’ve all been there. Nothing stings worse than rejection by the objects of our desire. Fortunately, one of the things that pop music is good at is soothing a wounded soul.

Today’s Flash Back Friday is all about the broken heart. Give us your best break up songs. Feel free to add what a jerk/bitch/douche the person who dumped you was. Tell us something embarrassing about them if you wish. Don’t worry honey, in time it will be better. Here, take a Kleenex and tell us all about it. Continue reading →

The West Memphis Three May Be Released Today – Updated

The West Memphis Three may be released from prison today in a plea deal. Since their conviction and incarceration in 1994, Damien Echols has been on death row;  Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. have been serving life sentences.

In May 1993, three young Cub Scouts, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers, were brutally murdered. Their bodies were found in a drainage ditch in Robin Hood Hills, a suburban neighborhood in West Memphis, Arkansas. Continue reading →

QOTD: What Do You Subscribe to Online?

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As in, stuff you’ve asked people to send you via emails automatically every day or week.

Word-a-Day aka Wordsmith, been getting this one for years, since before the interwebs were invented, no, really. Definitions, etymology, examples of usage that are often quite snotty/amusing. Its founder, Anu Garg, is the pleasant gentleman pictured to the left.

A booksellers’ listserv. Several rare-books catalogues. A couple of auction houses that do book-auctions. Weekly book reviews from the New York Times. Publishers Weekly news, a daily service. News-alerts from the Economist. I got the Guardian’s fashion articles for a while, but then decided I didn’t like people telling me what to wear. Continue reading →

Hewlett Packard Abandons WebOS Only Thirteen Months After Buying Palm for $1.2b

Products and strategies fail sometimes, but rarely so quickly.  Tech giant Hewlett Packard has, withing 6 weeks of launching the TouchPad tablet, not only ceased sale of the tablet but announced it is withdrawing from the tablet game completely and that it is ceasing to develop webOS tablets and phones – the very things which were meant to have been the reason it acquired Palm Inc for $1.2b just over a year ago.  That’s a very expensive mistake. Continue reading →

Michele Bachmann: Beware the Eye of Moron

Michele Bachman is scary. Behold her terrible gaze! Already the Eye of Moron has used her eldritch power to drive Little Timmy Pawlenty weeping from the GOP race. Tremble, America!

What makes Bachmann scary?  First, she’s, well, sort of crazy. She believes some pretty wacky things. Perhaps “crazy” is too harsh. Let’s just say she’s not a big fan of the fact based environment. Bachmann got her start in politics doing things like trying to get Disney’s Aladdin banned because of it’s pro-occult stance. The Lion King is dangerous because of all the gay music by gay Elton John, which might make your children gay. In the Minnesota Senate, she would go over to the desk of Scott Dibble, an openly gay senator from Minneapolis, and pray the gay out of the Senate chamber. Apparently, in the Bachmannverse, gay is some sort of virus that can be spread through children’s DVDs and office furniture, and Elton John is Patient Zero. The Eye of Moron sees all, Elton John!  Continue reading →

Friday Morning Headlines

So The Markets are freaking out again. I feel like Markets should be capitalized because “the markets” has become this phrase you hear all the time now, some presumed entity with a will of its own. News anchors will say things like “let’s see what the markets are doing,” or “the markets are not responding well to this news,” like they’re talking about some unruly sentient being, a deranged stallion to which all our fates are tied.

  • Homeland Security has announced a new deportation policy that will allow many illegal immigrants to stay in the US.
  • An Egyptian border guard has been killed in an Israeli raid on militants.
  • HP will no longer be making PCs and shitty laptops.
  • British Council offices have been bombed in the Afghan capital.