May 2008
44 posts
Yes! Special prerelease for Tumblr folks. The...
Marc Ambinder (May 27, 2008) - Obama Campaign... →
Neither the Clinton nor the Obama campaign is clear what the DNC’s rules and bylaws committee will do on May 31; depending upon how or whether they re-allocate delegates, Obama could wind up within to 20 to 30 votes of the nomination — a situation rectifiable by a piddling performance in Puerto RIco, South Dakota and Montana — or more than 100 delegates short, requiring solid...
The Fishstick
The Fishstick has been hailed as the latest dance craze. Get it straight. The fishstick is a stance, not a dance.
Ramon Ayala Amazon Recommendations
“5.0 out of 5 stars By Jorge A. Hernandez (Corona, Ca) This CD is a must have, i have bought it twice. The first one, Someone broke into my car and took only this CD. By J. Collins (Brooklyn) I am buying this CD because, like the reviewer from Corona, CA, someone broke into my car and stole only this CD! Who are these bi-coastal Ayala-CD banditos” from the SFRP forum
Owls - Weebl's Stuff →
I don’t normally buy into the crazy internet music videos, but this one is goood.
four years in ethnomusicology school makes this a LOL yourmonkeycalled: New curse: “May Ry Cooder discover your people’s traditional music.”
WatchYou’ve probably seen this before. But always good for another laugh. Dating videos from the 80s including the real-life Dwight K. Schrute!
The 100 most clichéd clichés in pop song titles →
djnitrogen: “Andy Baio has been writing about The Whitburn Project - a vast spreadsheet with data about the 37,000 songs that have been hits on the Billboard Chart since 1890. Those 37,000 song titles use a vocabulary of fewer than 9,000 different words.” Click through for the top one hundred words….
Next viral trend
alexbalk: Reaction videos from jurors forced to watch the R. Kelly sex tape This made me laugh out loud
Schmap this →
Shameless self-promotion ahead: Schmap is an online guidebook that is sort of a Flickr/Yelp mashup. They are using a picture I took at last year’s Aloha festival to illustrate their article on the event. Here is the link for posterity. Posting will be light through the weekend. Its Bay to Breakers time in SF. We’ve put together a 15 foot giraffe float and a 15 person jungle animal...
San Francisco Tumblr Meetup - Tonight 5/16 7PM @... →
I’ll try and be there for a little bit. Tonight is Bay to Breakers prep time and my costume still needs some work. confessions: letsmeetinsf: Roll call! It’s on, Tumblrs. If you or your followers are in the Bay Area, please reblog this reminder. I’m in!
passive-aggressive (and just plain aggressive)... →
WatchThankfully this is not a cat video, but another hilarious Zack Galifinakis bit.
Things younger than John McCain →
well written blog about things younger than McCain’s 71 years. My favs include chocolate chip cookies and the polio vaccine.
“16: Casey, An Amateur Skydiver & Freefall Jumper; Was Fined $5,000 For...”
– The Official J. Randall Casey Website !! - Strange Facts & Records !! J. Randall Casey is the fastest guitar player in the world. Not really, but this is a funny parody site with lots of great web 1.0 pages to explore.
Ants on a Plank
New variation on the classic “ants on a log.” Substitute some sliced bread for the celery you don’t buy and you’re in business. Bonus Round: bread has room for more raisins.
“My friends, the Iraqis have divided themselves into these two groups for one...”
– Opinion | Shiites ruin McCain’s Sunni disposition | Seattle Times Newspaper
BBC NEWS | Pelican 'bombs' bather in Florida →
A woman required 20 stitches to her face after a pelican crashed into her in the sea off Florida, apparently diving for fish. The bird, which died in Thursday’s collision, ripped a gash in Debbie Shoemaker’s face as she bathed near the city of St Petersburg. The city fire chief said he had never heard of a diving pelican hit a person. Pelicans grow to up to 30lb (13kg) and can...
Think Progress » Suicides among Iraq and... →
Thomas Insel — director of the National Institute of Mental Health and the U.S. government’s top psychiatric researcher — said today that “the number of suicides among veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may exceed the combat death toll because of inadequate mental health care.” Bloomberg reports
