Though I wasn’t invited to this design-heavy games-n-cupcakes new years party, I’m thoroughly enjoying the digital results. Pastries and gaming — playstries? Count me freakin in. These folks got together and made 100 cupcake honoring 100 awesome games. Some highlights, from video games…
…and old school analog favorites…
Even the site itself is kind of a game. Pure gold.
Posted in Information Stupor Highway, Unhappy Media
Tagged cupcakes, games, video games
Did you read this article in the current New Yorker about a philanthropist revitalizing Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park? And did you find it strange when the writer, Philip Gourevitch, used the word “shit” in describing hippos’ important ecological role?
It really caught me off guard. Not that I think it’s inherently inappropriate to use expletives (fucking obviously), but it’s jarring in a quasi-scientific context. I studied wildlife management and ecology in East Africa, and I don’t remember ever discussing “shit.” (Unless we were talking Typhoid and pit toilets.) Just sayin.
Posted in Unhappy Media, Write and Wrong
Tagged gorongosa national park, new yorker, shit
How do you know that you rinse and spin among the intellectual elite? When this is on the magazine rack at your neighborhood laundromat:
As an added bonus there was also a recent issue of PopSci, so I could distract myself from the sad triviality of my days by perusing my own bylines. So easily salved, the tender ego of a writer.
Posted in Lab Results, Unhappy Media
Tagged biblical archaeology review, intellectual elite, laundromat, popsci
To the AP’s credit, the lead headline writer got food poisoning in Rome once and it totally ruined his vacation.
When I murder someone, I’m gonna pull for 25-to-life in Thailand.
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Tagged amanda knox, headline, murder, sentence
...and has little David had his flu shot?
This is why land lines should be obsolete:
Gov. Charlie Crist made a recording for parents who are put on hold when they call KidCare for information about the health insurance program.
“You can apply at http://www.flkidcare.org or by calling (number),” the recording says.
But the number the governor gave had nothing to do with KidCare. It sent callers to another number, which eventually sent them to a recording that says, “Hey there, sexy guy, welcome to an exciting new way to go live one on one with hot (expletive) girls waiting right now to talk to you,” reports News4Jax.com.
The governor’s office said callers have been hearing the wrong number for at least two months.
“He read it right, the script was wrong,” said Sterling Ivey, a spokesman for Crist, in a phone interview.
[via Sun Sentinel]
If you’re going to quit today, may I suggest you do it thusly:
The artist behind the creation is a designer named Juan Carlos Pagan. Perhaps ’twas he who left this Dear John image on the desktop of his temporary work station. Or perhaps someone else copped Pagan’s Photoshop for his own dramatic departure. Either way, that’s some good stuff right there.
One day maybe I’ll have a job I can ditch with indignant impunity. Or any job. Or any computer skills. For now, simple, analog, and non-employed, I occasionally leave myself Post-Its that say, alternately, “I quit” and “you’re fired” — keeps me humble.
[via alltop]
I’ve hated on Jimmy Fallon and his late night show before (and will again), but this bit is pure brilliance. Jimmy Fallon doing Neil Young doing the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song. An epic joke, expertly executed. A tip of the cap, sir.
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And speaking of hating: “If hating is your occupation, I’ve probably got a full time job for you.” Orientation starts December 3rd when the bros and hos of “Jersey Shore,” MTV’s newest serial Ipecac, make their primetime debut.
This is the true story… of 7 guidos named Tony (Toni if it’s a chick)… picked to live in a share… have their hair gelled and their tans faked… to see what happens… when people start drinking at noon… and stop having dignity.
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Tagged jersey shore, late night with jimmy fallon, mtv, neil young, the fresh prince
…you’re reading about one of The Pixies’ awesome Doolittle reunion shows and you see this photo:
and this comment:
Sing with me. With your feet on the air and your nest egg in a diversified portfolio…
[Ed. note to purists: They played Where Is My Mind as an encore.]
Posted in Information Stupor Highway, Unhappy Media
Tagged accountant, doolittle, retirement investing, the pixies
If you’re into college football then you probably already know that the Bowl Championship Series isn’t a fan favorite by a long shot. Now the much maligned gridiron matchmakers have hired former Bush Press Secretary Ari Fleischer’s PR Firm:
Ari Fleischer Communications, a sports public relations firm headed by the former press secretary for President George W. Bush, has been hired by BCS officials to help remodel the tattered image of college football’s postseason system.
I don’t know the first thing about college football. Certainly Fleischer’s got ample experience as a blocker of bad publicity. What I want to know is: Does this constitute a step down for him, or a step up?
If you laugh at any of these jokes, performed by “science comedian” Brian Malow, you are officially a nerd. Welcome.
Bonus: if you watch/enjoy the additional video on his website, like I did, you’re super geeky.
About two-thirds of the way through it he wonders, “Why is it that if you like science you’re labeled a geek or a brain? Has that ever struck anyone as unfair? Is it any less geeky to have vast knowledge of sports trivia and statistics?” Yes. Much less.
[via Boing Boing]
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