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TV Won't Steal Your Vision After All
A recent Scientific American article offers up some insight regarding that modern-day question of the ages: Does TV ruin your eyesight? I know until I hit my mid-teens, my mother was always yelling at me and my brother to “sit … Continue reading
The Topless Bikini
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a staunch supporter of the “-less” suffix when added to either the top or the bottom of a woman’s bikini. But can a topless bathing suit really be called a “suit” at this point? Isn’t … Continue reading
Ugh…
Jesse: No new nothing from me until next week. Hopefully. It’s like The Stand around here. Buzzards are collecting outside my bedroom window. One of them chiseled the initials R.F. in the bark of a nearby tree. I’m screwed. Theo: … Continue reading
Oates Kill Fan Video #2
Abbey sent me this fan video by Salvador Solis: It really is a love-hate thing with oatmeal, isn’t it? It either gets your day off to a healthy start—or it stalks you in an abandoned warehouse at the edge of … Continue reading
Nine, Ten, Nine
Hmf. I missed the whole “the world will end on a trio of nines!” thing until just now, when I spotted this article in my inbox: Today’s date has the sort of symmetry which some people think will bring them … Continue reading
Oates Kill Fan Video #1
I just posted Mitchell Lee’s fan video for The Oatmeal Man over at my YouTube page: It’s good to know the dangers of high fiber are finally getting some attention. Oatmeal may be the ultimate cliché in a health-conscientious diet, … Continue reading
The New Literacy
Clive Thompson has an article over at Wired.com that hints reports of the death of writing may have been greatly exaggerated. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn’t a school assignment. Unless they got … Continue reading
Instant Oatmeal
Just so you know, we’re not the only ones wasting camera time on oatmeal: The best thing about this video: the finger in the bowl, poised, patient, self-assured. It should have worked, but didn’t. Bachelorhood can be hell sometimes.
FMyLife: I Have to Go Potty
Someone just recently introduced me to FMyLife.com, and I have to say it’s a fabulous way to burn time. Since I’m too fat and lazy to register for an account, here’s my FML contribution. There’s this cute-as-hell, totally-in-shape gal in … Continue reading
Books That Taste as Good as They Read
In lieu of shelling out nonexistent big bucks for billboard space, indie / DIY authors are turning to shopping bags, cookies, and cakes. The LL Book Review posted a blog on this over the weekend, and it syncs well with … Continue reading
