March 2008
8 posts
I grew up reading Mad Magazine and doing the fold-ins that came in the middle each month. Well, now the New York Times has digitized them all, and here they are. Spectacular.
For some reason, I find this Chippewa Lake thing fascinating: Hidden on a lakeshore in Medina County is one of the state’s most unique forgotten treasures: the abandoned amusement park called Chippewa Lake. What you’ll find there today is the tragic shell of a once-glorious family fun park, one with a history going back to the 1840s. The crying shame is that it’s been reduced to an...
create your own visited states map
If there is one thing I am in favor of politically, it is the idea of changing the way that big business and government are intertwined. Lawrence Lessig’s new website, Change Congress, allows people to see their district’s representative and how much of their money comes from PAC’s. I don’t know what effect this will have on voting, Congress, or anything, but it is an interesting concept and is a...
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“I don’t care if it’s 3 a.m. or 10 p.m. or any other time. I don’t want her...”
– Larry David on Hillary Clinton
tonight i was reading blake and mo’s blog and i clapped a mosquito between my hands. it fell right on my computer, so, naturally, i opened photo booth and took a picture of it. what amazed me about this was not that i killed a bug in mid air, because i do that all the time. what amazed me was that my computer can take a picture of itself. the evidence. note - the fly was removed and thrown away.