Month: October 2006

  • Arkansas traveler

    ken-jennings.com: “Maybe I was punk’d and the whole thing was some kind of confusingly high-concept performance art. If so, way to go Memphis! Many of my book escorts have been…

  • Kotaku: "Life on a Train"

    Kotaku: “The whole thing felt a little unsavory, forced. It was like a bath house hook-up but instead of man sex there was Tetris.”

  • I'm happy

    I haven’t written much original content in the last six weeks. I’m sorry about that. I started a new job at a new company, a place that’s smaller, more specialized…

  • Deep-fried Coca-Cola

    Boing Boing: “An award-winning junk-food inventor debuted deep-fried Coke syrup at September’s Texas State Fair”

  • Pentel Pocket Brush Pen

    Cool Tools: “Leave it to the Japanese to create a brush pen.”

  • DOJ Approves AT&T Buyout Of BellSouth

    paidContent.org: “One down, one to go for the next phase of resurrecting Ma Bell … the Justice Department has approved the $78.5 billion deal that would make BellSouth part of…

  • Halloween Habiliments from the past

    MAKE Magazine: “Here are some, er, interesting DIY costume ideas from Popular Science 1939”

  • HOW TO – Make vampire bat decorations

    MAKE Magazine: “CRAFT Instructable group member Honus posted up a clever/simple bat decoration”

  • Martin OM-15 Guitar

    Cool Tools: “I’ve owned and played professionally close to a hundred fine instruments in the 35 years I’ve been playing and I’ve ended up being something of an accidental Martin…

  • VIDEO: Wheel falls off race car and returns to its home

    Autoblog: “In the ‘Easily Amused’ category for today is this video of an unfortunate racer who loses an all-important component — a tire (or tyre, if you’re so inclined to…