A lovingly eviscerating graphic design parody. From Kyle Webster. (Based in Winston-Salem, NC)

[Read more →]

If you close your eyes and listen to Rainn Wilson, especially in Six Feet Under re-runs, you can swear he’s about to say, “Dave … I can’t let you do that.”
Creeps. Me. Out.

[Read more →]

… the Violent Femmes song “Blister in the Sun” is being used to advertise a sandwich from Wendy’s.
Big hands. I know you’re the one.

[Read more →]

I’m at work, trying to parse exactly how MS Word’s templates function. I knew this much better back in 1998, when I was a tech writer. I managed to master much of the workings of Word styles and templates, but it was all still pretty arcane even then. I remember having long debates over conference […]

[Read more →]

I ran across the story about Bill Gates watching YouTube and ‘admitting to watching pirated content’ just now, even though it came out in June, but the bit that really got me was this quote:
“This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.”

[Read more →]

I read this article in the New Yorker a few weeks ago, about “The Perfect Mark” — a man who, in spite of being relatively intelligent, fell for one of the Nigerian “419″ scams. (The ones where you get an email saying “I have a million dollars in a blind account and need your help […]

[Read more →]

Annual Bock Fest & Goat Race

There’s gonna be a goat race! I didn’t know about it until Laurie sent me the link.
Why a goat race, you ask? Well, evidently “bock” means “goat” in German, and bock being an especially German beer, lots of them have goats on their labels and such. So the […]

[Read more →]

Roswell castle house

Originally uploaded by inkblurt.

A friend sent me a link to some info about the house that’s almost as much fun as the house itself. The page on the DuPont Castle website (which has lots of info on other American castles, it seems) has […]

[Read more →]

wacky castle house

Originally uploaded by inkblurt.

Last time I visited my folks, on my drive between their place up around Canton, GA, and the Atlanta airport, I ran across this strange castle-like house, tucked in the midst of semi-rural suburbs.
I’m dying to know what the […]

[Read more →]

A while back, I couldn’t help myself, and made a little badge for my link to the IA Institute:
And now it’s popping up in really cool places like Japan! (Noriyo Asano’s IA Spectrum).
Yay badges!
(Yeah, I know they’re somewhat tacky … somewhere between pink flamingos and happy meal toys, but like I said […]

[Read more →]

Minutes from the ADD Support Group
Either Ms. Chast has ADD herself, or she knows somebody very well who does.

I saw this in this week’s New Yorker. The text goes like this:
1. Call to order.
2. Speaker introducted. Didn’t catch name.
3. Talk talk talk. Blah blah blah. Sooooo BORING!
4. Speaker looks like Cousin Jeremy.
5. Note to self: […]

[Read more →]

No need to comment on this. It speaks for itself.
From an article in September 2004:
And indeed, some in-need areas have been inexplicably left out of the program. “In a sense, Louisiana is the flood plain of the nation,” noted a 2002 FEMA report. “Louisiana waterways drain two-thirds of the continental United States. Precipitation in […]

[Read more →]