January 2008
End of 2007 Listathon... Part 2!
Without further adieu… more year-end lists! (Also see Part 1) TOP 5 VIRAL VIDEOS OF 2007 (Yes, I realize I counted down backwards.) **1** Miss South Carolina answers a question. Well, tries to anyway. Those darn US Americans and their lack of maps. . **2** Chris Crocker urges us all to leave Britney Spears alone. He claims this isn’t acting, we claim he needs to stop watching...
“In order to watch television, the first thing that has to be done is to turn it...”
– WikiHow’s How To Watch Television article (Digg it!)
J.K. Rowling wants to write another Harry Potter... →
December 2007
The last day of 2007... must be time for YEAR-END...
I would say something really generic here like “Another year has come and gone… seems just like yesterday when we were counting down the seconds until 2007,” but the thing is, it doesn’t feel like just yesterday. 2007 was a really fucking long year. Let’s take a quick look back. There was the Virginia Tech shooting, probably one of the biggest stories of the year...
Hiatus.
EDIT, DEC 31: MINDSET IS BACK mindset will be back eventually. Probably. Well, we can hope, right? Go read this guy while you wait. It’ll be difficult, you know, without me, but I figure you can do it. Cheers!
Christmas card takes 93 years to arrive →
"Winter storm warning for: Waterloo - Wellington"
“A NEAR-CRIPPLING SNOW STORM WITH HEAVY SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW AS WELL AS SOME ICE PELLETS TONIGHT AND SUNDAY.” … “THIS MASSIVE SNOW STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE NEAR-PARALYZING CONDITIONS AS ROAD TRAVEL ON ANY UNPLOWED STREETS MAY BECOME NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE ON SUNDAY.” … “THERE IS A HIGH DEGREE OF CERTAINTY WITH THIS STORM AS THE CONCENSUS OF WEATHER...
Music was my hot sex first
Not that I’m, y’know, bragging or anything (although everyone knows I listen to bands that don’t even exist yet), but you know the recent iPod Touch commercial? The one with the song that says stuff about, erm, “touching” music? Yeah. That one. Well, I just found out today that it’s by novice new ravers CSS, also known as Cansei De Ser Sexy (translated from...
Coal ash is 100 times more radioactive than... →
“Josh can has other verbs.”
– My Facebook status now that the mandatory “is” has been dropped. It’s about farkin’ time.
No one got this pissed off when I lost MY foreskin →
Technodanceaphobic The Enemy We’ll Live and...
Father kills daughter for not wearing hijab
“Friends and classmates of a 16-year-old girl who police say was murdered by her devout Muslim father in a Toronto suburb told local media Tuesday she was killed for not wearing a hijab.” Living so close to Toronto myself, I heard about this on the news yesterday afternoon. Since then, the story has spread rapidly worldwide, and it now currently sitting at the #2 spot...
“It’s like saying “yay”
– Definition of w00t according to Merriam-Webster dictionary. It’s 2007’s Word of the Year (yes, really)
The man who can make oil from anything
“I’ve been told the oil companies might try to assassinate me.” Meet Frank Pringle. He’s created a machine. But not just any machine - this machine extracts oil from anything with hydrocarbons (that’s most of what’s around you). Rocks, tires, plastics, vinyl… all of this and more can be turned into oil and gas within seconds. Every hour, 10 tons of car...
“When an individual makes a copy of a song [from a CD] for himself, I suppose we...”
– Jennifer Pariser, Sony BMG
“The year 2007 may well be remembered by future generations as the year the Earth...”
– Adbusters issue #75
