Category: Asides

short lit­tle sound­bytes

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I love com­ic strips. “That shirt’s got more holes than a Goth chick­’s nose.” I might actu­al­ly use that line some­day.

Get Fuzzy by Dar­by Con­ley, August 26, 2012 Via @GoComics

House­cats are known to be aloof, but cat-titude reach­es new heights in Get Fuzzy, the bit­ing­ly hilar­i­ous com­ic strip from car­toon­ist Dar­by Con­ley. Avail­able dai­ly and Sun­day and appear­ing in 650 newsp…

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This is kin­da cool. So there are twen­ty moments in a minute?

Do we expe­ri­ence life in 3 sec­ond chunks? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Ever won­dered how long a hug lasts? The quick answer is about 3 sec­onds, accord­ing to a new study of the post-com­pe­ti­tion embraces of Olympic ath­letes. But the long answer is more pro­found. A hug last…

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I would say that with the excep­tion of rule #4, this 100% applies to church sound guys. But most of them are sin­gle and are fans of rule #4 as well. 🙂

Sound booth guest rules. — Imgur

Imgur is used to share pho­tos with social net­works and online com­mu­ni­ties, and has the fun­ni­est pic­tures from all over the Inter­net.

Clips From The Web

Osborne brings his usu­al wis­dom — espe­cial­ly point 3.

SLOW DOWN – YOU MOVE TOO FAST!

Because North Coast Church has been some­what inno­v­a­tive over the years and suc­cess­ful­ly made lots of changes, I’m often asked by oth­er pas­tors and lead­ers about the best way to go about mak­ing majo.…..

Race and Party

Very inter­est­ing — and con­trary to what you nor­mal­ly hear. Be sure to read the pieces linked to in the adden­dum.

Racism by Polit­i­cal Par­ty

It is unde­ni­ably the case that racist Amer­i­cans are almost entire­ly in one polit­i­cal coali­tion and not the oth­er. Chris Hayes, Up w/ Chris Hayes, August 18, 2012. Here is data ask­ing whites the quest…

If You Forget You Are Sad, Are You?

The bit about amne­sia made me laugh out loud. Wow.

Do sleep­ing pills like Ambi­en work because of the place­bo effect? — Bark­ing up the wrong tree

Join 25K+ sub­scribers. No spam, ever. Enter your email here: Sleep­ing pills on aver­age only make peo­ple fall asleep 12 min­utes faster and sleep 11 min­utes longer dur­ing the night. The place­bo effect m…

Donations Buy Access… Why Not Taxes?

I love the idea of a din­ner for the top tax­pay­ers. That’s bril­liant. If dona­tions buy access, then why not tax­es?

Sen­tences to pon­der

…I find it remark­able that I have yet to receive a thank you note for pay­ing my tax­es. When I fill out my tax­es, I notice that even receipts for $25 dona­tions have thank you notes attached. But for t…

Depressing

Wow.

Freako­nom­ics » Speak­ing Ill of the Dead Appar­ent­ly Okay if the Dead Worked for Chick-fil‑A

Sysco is the lat­est food giant—it’s the largest food dis­trib­u­tor in the country—to come out against ges­ta­tion crate con­fine­ment of pigs. The Nation­al Pork Pro­duc­ers Coun­cil’s com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor w…

XKCD Gets 4 Stars

The mouseover text on this XKCD is fab­u­lous.

xkcd: Star Rat­ings

< Prev · Ran­dom; Next >; >|. Per­ma­nent link to this com­ic: http://xkcd.com/1098/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/star_ratings.png. Select­ed Comics. Search co…

Lolo!

Lolo wound up plac­ing 4th. I wish she had won a medal. 

Lolo Jones can’t be sexy, Chris­t­ian and a hur­dler » GetRe­li­gion

Some read­ers sent in a recent piece from Salon, which (for those who stopped read­ing it back in the 1990s) bills itself as “the lead­ing pro­gres­sive news site, com­bin­ing award-win­ning com­men­tary and re…