LeBron James is the current face of the NBA.   He is this generation’s Michael Jordan, and gets paid as such.   James is currently having a new house built for himself outside of Cleveland (he plays for Cleveland’s NBA team), and it is going to be… big.   As in, 35,440 square feet big.   The master bedroom […]

If you own a mom & pop store and can’t get rid of some of your inventory, you can always clear out some shelf space by holding a sale. If the Supreme Court sides with business interests in a case they heard today, however, such sales may no longer be possible. Since 1911 it has […]

Old comic books are unintentionally hilarious sometimes, especially when they bust out the sexist “Women can’t do anything, you need a man for that job” shtick.  Or ye olde “feminine vanity”:

And anytime the word “boner” is used, I can’t help but laugh.  Yes, I know I’ll never mentally age past 12 years old.   It’s […]

Members of Mennonite sects that permit driving but not “graven images” (e.g., driver’s license photos) are being told that the no-photo-required religious exemption once offered by Missouri is being revoked as part of the War On Terror.    Because, ya know, Al Qaeda has Missouri as its #1 target.
The Mennonites are being told to basically violate […]

This site uses targeted search syntax in Google to look for MP3s the old-fashioned way (and keeps you away from the whole P2P/RIAA drama).   You can also search for ebooks!

Or for more fun, hack it and control someone else’s!
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Of the 200+ RSS feeds that I read daily (I’m an info junkie, what can I say), one of the more interesting feeds is BLDGBLOG. The blog is a mashup of architecture, urbanism and technology, but Geoff Manaugh writes his posts in a style reminiscent of JG Ballard or Chuck Palahniuk. […]

I’m a huge MST3K fan, and this bit of history is brilliant.  (Youtube)

May I present the Squeezable Breast Ball with I Love You Sound
PS fellas: “do not hit with bat.”

Pretty cool little “all about you” thing.  You pick images from a webpage on your preference and another, and so on.
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