March 2010
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February 2010
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Enjoy your gold medal, Canada
It’s not like you have a team with chance in hell at hoisting the Cup this year
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Tyler Durden or Toyota executive? →
Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of...
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Five minutes of every hour is lost to total...
iheartstats:
Intriguing podcast from Radiolab explores why we blink. Among the many sick stats in this podcast is that fact that we lose five minutes to total darkness. Better still, our brains delete the darkness from our conscience completely! Also, movie go-ers blink in unison.
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/10/05/blink/
I love stories like this
Two Carpentersville men were charged with burglary after police said they were caught with stolen jewelry stuffed in their pockets.
Local police were called at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to Arturo’s Jewelry after a break to the front window triggered an alarm in the 100 block of North Kennedy Drive, which also is known as Illinois Highway 25.
Police said they found the men by following fresh...
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Chuckmore eviscerates fucknoliberals →
I guess this is worth reading. Buddy has done a pretty thorough job of going through just about every ‘what if’ scenario that we pro-abortionists throw at the anti-abortionists, and has given as detailed a rebut one could ever want. It’s nice to see all the reasoning laid out there in an easy to follow, semi-dickheadish voice that I can relate to. I have no qualms with the author’s tone. We are,...
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Instant hilarity at Team Canada's expense
(via)
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Tremendously Tremendous : The Greatest Hockey Game...
soupsoup:
While NBC was airing “Ice Dancing,” their sister network MSNBC was airing one of the most exciting hockey games in recent history. It didn’t take a genius to figure the matching of the home host Canadian team taking on a surging USA team would be a compelling matchup. NBC realized the error of their ways in the final moments of the match, cutting off the two-man bobsled, but they...
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Do you believe in Millercles?
(stolen from puckdaddy)
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With all the IRS agents in that building in ATX
What’s the over/under on whether the pilot was a teabagger?
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HuffPo article on hockey fever in Chicago →
I’d like to think I’m quoted in this because my raves about the Blackhawks and rants against the local media’s coverage of them have gotten noticed, but I’ll admit it’s just because I know the editor (thanks Jen!).
Being on other side of the writing for once, I now know how it feels to have your quotes chopped, but I’ve already explained my thoughts on...
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Local bird theft suspect charged in shootout →
After the return of Hollis Green in the last episode and seeing the previews for the upcoming Sunday’s “Big Love,” I’m not sure whether this is art imitating life or life imitating art. But whoa.
Illegal sales of stolen exotic birds across state lines
Armed standoffs
Scuzzy looking dudes showing up with assault rifles wearing body armor
SWAT teams
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“I’m always getting hit in the face or bleeding somewhere. But to win a...”
– David Backes, Team USA
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My other mail today?
A lovely letter from my health insurance company informing me that my monthly premium is being raised 15 percent. My only medical visit of any kind in the past year and a half was a trip to the dentist this past October to have my teeth cleaned.
Stay healthy, America!
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Thank you, Twitter
For proving to be the best reliable news source in seconds.
I was wondering if I was crazy for feeling my room shake and waking me out of a dead sleep at 4:00 a.m. Got on IM and Rachel felt it, too.
Got on Twitter and nothing was really new. So I went to the search bar and typed in Earthquake. Hundreds of tweets within seconds from all over the state. Rockford. Champaign. Chicago.
Knowing what...
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Watchannicka:
I hope this turned out as awesome as I think it did
This makes me miss the el. This doesn’t.