August 2009
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Swearing
Hugh Abbott: So, how do we respond to this?
Terri Coverley: Right, we don't exchange insults with bloody Simon arsepipes... tittytwat.
Oliver Reeder: Is that honestly the best swearing you can come up with?
Glenn Cullen: This is a bucket of shit. If someone throws shit at us, we throw shit back at them. We start a shit fight. We throw so much shit at them, that they can't pick up shit, they can't throw shit, they can't do shit.
Hugh Abbott: That's top swearing Glenn, well done.
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Better BBQ Through Chemistry →
“Understanding how the human sense of taste operates can help hosts pick the right thirst quencher to accompany their barbecue. Just as food changes the way wine tastes, one bite of food affects how the next mouthful tastes, said Corriher. Salt tends to suppress bitterness. Similarly, eating or drinking something sweet intensifies the taste of the next mouthful. So, she noted, serving a...
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1994 interview with Quentin Tarantino after the release of Pulp Fiction.
He was a lot more humble and a lot less cocky back then. Regardless of his personality, Inglourious Basterds was incredible.
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Inflatable heat shield.
“The temperature the shield can withstand depends on how wide it is, says chief engineer Robert Dillman of Langley. A wider shield slows the craft down more and spreads the heat over a greater surface area.”
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The Longest Poem in the World →
Tweets that rhyme, strung together infinitely.
(waxy)
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Bad Seeds: A History of Creepy Kids in Film.
Matt Zoller Seitz and Nicolas Rapold put together a video essay about villainous children. Includes films like Orphan, The Exorcist, The Omen, and Let the Right One In.
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Data Is Journalism: MSNBC.com Acquires Everyblock →
The local news aggregation service has been bought. Might be a big deal.
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Cartagen →
Cartagen is a framework for adding rich styles to map data, to produce better cartographics.
You utilize the GSS (geographic style sheet) spec to style map elements from OpenStreetMap data.