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I've seen my book and science nerd friends (well, that's all of you. Whatever.) mention it, and I posted that Golden Compass animal-character meme a while back, but I don't really know anything about the book or author. Until my mom tells me in an email,
Must read info about the Golden Compass--both the Movie and the Book. La Salle has ( Read more... )

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Given that Jeff saw the movie Die Hard over 200 times between 1988 and 1999 (and then discovered Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and instead annoyed everyone by watching that all the time for the next half decade), I should probably let him post this find, but I'm going to do my own take on it. Jeff, your challenge is to jump on your soapbox and ( Read more... )

Blake is a big fan of Grand Theft Auto and when Jeff is out here, he loves to play it with Jeff. Blake's such a good kid, but he likes the game, mostly using cheats to drive a tank around or drive through the water or fly. I never had access to it before I met Blake, and I was always dying to play. Blake is the one who first showed it to me. I' ( Read more... )

Woah. Watch Paul Abdul sloppy-ass drunk in an appearance on a Seattle FOX morning news show.

A crazy relative forwarded me these strange Grand Canyon photographs that allegedly show a man taking a really stupid leap from one cliff to another. My first stop was Snopes (as is usually the case with emails from relatives), and the story behind the ( Read more... )

I've always been embarrassed by Al Gore. He's just a goofy moron, in general. He actually gets a worse rap in the media than he deserves (see Sarah Vowell's The Partly Cloudy Patriot for discussion of a prime mis-quote of Gore), but still, I've never liked him. The Dems should have picked a way better candidate in 2000 (for that matter, so ( Read more... )