My internet friend Tracy wrote a post about Deadspin that kind of blew up. Here’s the lede:The thing about sports is that it, well, tends to be an old-boys’ club. The sports world is full of sexist shit that pisses me off if I think about it too much (and, honestly, I’m not often prone [...]

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After I take the bar, maybe I’ll have time for posts based on something other than my site visitor logs (or cut-and-pasting from someone else’s blog). Until then…I’ve been thinking about my most popular posts, in terms of hits (most coming from web search sites). The common thread is that Googlers really want to know [...]

Posted in Internet Hi-Jinx, Links, Tech

Billy West, voice of Fry, the Professor, Dr. Zoidberg, and probably the Hypnotoad, has a weird interview at the Onion’s A.V. Club (warning—some salty language there!). It includes audio clips. Whatever, Billy West rules.

Posted in Links, Television

So, a guy on the internet got his hands on an old cache of files from the company (now defunct) that released a bunch of great text-based computer games, including the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a huge hit game (based on Douglas Adams’s masterpiece) that made a lot of money. They also worked on [...]

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This site is so much better than Stuff White People Like. Not Hating Just Saying is a pretty simple concept—a bunch of things that suck, and a description of in what way they suck.

Highlight: Diet Dr Pepper.

Highlight #2: Hipsters. Now, this is really just another Stuff White People Like, but I found it funny and [...]

Posted in Irony, Links

I don’t know why everybody is suddenly discovering Garfield Minus Garfield. I tried to tell you about it two years ago1. It is pretty great though, so I guess I’ll just have to accept the fact that a link from me isn’t quite enough to propel something into worldwide popularity.

1 Although that was [...]

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“Descendant of Davy Crockett, 5, kills 445-lb bear”I’m not even going to read the story—it couldn’t possibly live up to the title.

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All of these have RSS feeds that you can use to keep track of them in your favorite RSS feed tracking thing.
this blog
the other blog
twitter
shared RSS items
shared other stuff

I tried to use Yahoo Pipes to put them all together into one stream, but it didn’t work. Probably because I’m not that bright. Anyway, that’s pretty [...]

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