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I don’t know when it happened, since I hadn’t checked in for almost a year, but McSweeneys’ Internet Tendency finally added RSS feeds for new posts.
It’s great, and a good percentage of what scrolls past me in Snackr is now McSweeney’s-derived.
This is a really great (albeit strangely late) step for McSweeney’s, but their reluctance to […]

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Update 5/17/08 Two of the best photos so far posted at end of post

By now I assume the cat’s out of the bag, as keeping secrets this big usually doesn’t last long, so I’ll go ahead and offer some thoughts of tonight’s mission.
First, since this is my first blog on the topic, know that I […]

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In college I said these words:
“It’s just that most of America is so apathetic!”
Now I say these words:
“I just don’t CARE anymore!”

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Solution: Quit and start a blog! Give them your ideas for free!
Screenshot:

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I just invented a new game. Turn off the “Safe Search” feature on Google Images, and search for a first name. Any first name, really, but first let’s do men’s names first.
My screenshots will only include the first four results to save space, but know that in a full browser the results are […]

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It’s the same every morning.
I hit up Los Amigos Deli in Long Island City for a morning cup of coffee due to its proximity to the train I take to work. And every day I order the same thing.
“Large black coffee,” I say, already nervous, knowing, shivering. “No cream, no sugar.”
I shouldn’t have singled […]

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Hoods are prevalent in modern society, much like the pocket. Hoods however, are not external, provide shelter, and allow misanthropes to hide in their comforting shadow. Sometimes hoods protect heads from raindrops and snowflakes. Throughout history, hoods in various forms have provided both sexes with the aforementioned protection. Another, more recent […]

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I’m sick.
Man sick, even. The kind where the tone of my voice never changes from a whine and when I got out of bed this morning and nobody was around to console my mansickness, I had no choice but to spend a half hour describing my symptoms to my cats.
So I went to the […]

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Hi, I’m a Pole and here is Dyngus Day.  We Poles like to party, which is why we celebrate extra days of the holidays most people get one of.  This theory explains both Dyngus Day and Wygilia.  Dyngus Day, the day following Easter, is a day of joy for Polish people.  Doesn’t that peasant woman look […]

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Hopefully all of the readers of this blog are now well aware of the audience-led IRL raid of the keynote interview Sarah Lacy conducted with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at SXSW.
Let’s take a look back, now that we’ve had time to digest.
Discussed: Sexism. Would the audience have been as cruel to Ms. Lacy […]

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