4 month ago
adamrg : Knock Knock - Gifts, Stationary and Unique Crap -- I really like the high snark level.
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5 month ago
mmb : The Website Is Down - The Website Is Down via programming: Can Any of you Programmers tell me what software this guy is using to Jump from OS to OS, and login to the remote servers? [via]
adamrg : The Website Is Down - This was my life, for years.
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6 month ago
adamrg : Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - Surviving the year 1000 with 21st century knowledge. Fun thought puzzle.
philgyford : Marginal Revolution: Time travel back to 1000 A.D.: Survival tips - The post that resulted in Jason's post. Yet more conflicting but interesting ideas about how you'd survive. (via Kottke)
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7 month ago
adamrg : Contrary to belief, local linguists say Northwest has distinctive dialect - Say "caught" and "cot" out loud. If you're a true Northwest speaker, the words will sound identical. Linguists call this the "low-back merger" because we've merged these two vowel sounds. On much of the East Coast, these same
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7 month ago
adamrg : The only 7 investments you need - Interesting in the ease of simplification. I'm hoping to start putting a few more dollars into investments in the future, and I'm currently teaching my students about investments and finance.
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Things Younger Than John McCain - I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever [via]
adamrg : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate
Rod Begbie : Things younger than John McCain - The state of Alaska, the polio vaccine, and both of Barack Obama's parents are younger than John McCain. [via] #
jcgregorio : Things younger than Republican Presidential candidate (oh, and did I forget to mention “war hero”?) John McCain - List includes the Golden Gate Bridge.
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7 month ago
adamrg : Using Humor in the Classroom - Aimed at college professors -- who generally suck even more than high school teachers at basic human interaction -- but applicable in a variety of classrooms.
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7 month ago
gleuschk : McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied. - I expect a very similar note after the trustees' meeting this weekend
adamrg : Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied. - "Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist's tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver."
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7 month ago
adamrg : Best entry-level salaries for new grads - I like this article... it says that not only do I make more than the average for people with my degree, I make more than my ex-girlfriends :)
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7 month ago
adamrg : The politics of obliteration - (In which I'm link-checked... I love me some MSM.)
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7 month ago
adamrg : On Being Neutral - Mr. Moses suggests that neutrality in the classroom is a fallacy because neutrality is a fallacy and pretending not to have an opinion is just going to inspire a lack of opinion if your students.
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7 month ago
adamrg : Bitter Patter - If Clinton is running to the bottom -- ABC is pulling the rest of us down.
Ethan Marcotte : Bitter Patter - “If Gibson and his partner, George Stephanopoulos, had halted their descent at the level of the fatuous, that would have been bad enough. But there was worse to come.” ∞
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7 month ago
adamrg : Amnesty International launches advert protesting against waterboarding - Unsubscribe me as well.
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7 month ago
adamrg : Border Patrol "spot checks" on ferries provoke outrage in San Juan Islands - If you like your *intra-state* travel to be hijacked by the US Border Patrol, move to Washington State! Thanks McBush!
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : Improv Anywhere's Best Little League Game Ever - hopefully, they managed to avoid post-gig bitterness
adamrg : Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere - I love it. Pure fun.
Rod Begbie : Best Game Ever - Improv Everywhere make a Little League baseball game into a massive event. Lovely. [via] #
philgyford : Best Game Ever at Improv Everywhere - Brings a tear to my eye. Another lovely, lovely event.
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8 month ago
adamrg : The Rise of Big Water - I can live without oil, but Big Water scares the crap out of me.
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : NYT's interactive tribute to the Mad Magazine fold-in - the full article details Al Jaffee's illustration process
cobra libre : NYT: Mad Magazine Fold-Ins, Past and Present [via] #
adamrg : Fold-Ins, Past and Present - NYT web extra showing mad fold-ins through the last 30 years.
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8 month ago
Richard Rutter : Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes - The usual suspects – didn’t know about the currency punctuation though.
43folders : Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes | Life, Tutorials
adamrg : Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes - Guilty as charged. Worse, I knew better in many cases.
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8 month ago
adamrg : Cash-strapped Clinton fails to pay bills - If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills she reported as debt and had not loaned her campaign $5 million, the cash she would have had available at the end of last month to spend on television ads... would have been less than $2 million.
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8 month ago
adamrg : Mr. T brought boy out of coma - Former The A-Team star Mr. T once stunned a sick child's family by bringing him out of a coma - after doctors begged the actor for help.
deusx : Mr. T brought boy out of coma - Yahoo! News UK - "Former The A-Team star Mr. T once stunned a sick child's family by bringing him out of a coma - after doctors begged the actor for help."
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8 month ago
adamrg : 'Cheese' Heroin Hooking Young Users in Dallas - "We didn't know what to do with a 9-year-old in opiate withdrawal..."
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8 month ago
adamrg : Tracking the nukes - and evidently radioactive cats. Not that I haul around radioactive materials... but still creepy invasive.
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8 month ago
adamrg : Obama Camp Memo on Clinton Saying She “Misspoke”
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