February 2008
IRS to Send Reminders About Rebates →
jessehattabaugh: vinh: Let’s do some math: 130,000,000 households x $0.41 first class rate = $53,300,000.00 It’s going to cost the government 53.3 million dollars to let us know we’re getting a tax rebate. Let’s assume these letters are mailed standard at a bulk rate, you’re still looking at over 33 million dollars and this doesn’t include the cost of producing these letters. Find someone who...
“Hello. I have a big box of used cat and kitten hats that I have collected over...”
– craigslist via Make the logo bigger
Brenn →
playing after the tumblr sxsw rock band party. very nice.
Lasagna Cat →
garfield: the movie reviews set to john williams’ score
TUMBLR SXSW Meetup (Reblog to RSVP)
ronen: seagull: Osnap! A tumblr meet-up perhaps? ronen: Heather lives in Austin, TX, so you know she knows where it’s at. I can’t wait for SXSW! Totally! I don’t know if the tumblr dudes are having a party there (so details to follow) but either way, let’s make it happen! Reblog this post to RSVP! (How’s that for a TUMBLR meetup?) any word on this tumblr sxsw meetup or is this the rock band...
America's Most Sinful Cities - Forbes.com →
jaredm:Portland ties San Antonio for #2 Most Lustful City in America. I guess I’m not surprised, considering we have the most strip joints per capita in the country. And dalas’ beard. denver most lustful? wow. and i knew i’d see kansas city on the meal train - blame the zomgbbq.
RIDE:WELL →
ride:well is the bike across america tour to raise funds for blood:water mission’s 1000 wells project. “this, then, is the Blood:Water Mission, committed to clean blood and clean water to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic, to build clean wells in Africa, to support medical facilities caring for the sick, to make a lasting impact in the fight against poverty, injustice and oppression in...
“A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to...”
– george w. bush after touring a genocide memorial, Kigali, Rwanda, Feb. 19, 2008 Bushism of the Day - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine
Sad Trombone →
toldorknown:When one of my coworkers saw the instant rimshot site, he decided to make his own single serving site. Womp womp womp. I need to make a ringtone of this, for certain “special” callers.
Hygiene, Colorado
lonelysandwich: This town’s name stems from a time when it had a sanitarium to work with tuberculosis patients. wikiped back in the day, colorado was the spot to go if you had tuberculosis. the idea was that the dry & thin air could allow a longer life. what is now my alma mater was originally the most luxurious sanitorium in the country. they recently remodeled, but they used to have the...
Tumblr Is Your New Bicycle →
(via amwelles)
Live map of every train's location in Switzerland →
addam:If only America’s great cities could perfect this with their buses and/or trains. we (kc) need buses & trains in the first place.
lamb: “Hallelujah,” Regina Spektor One of the 20...
“Within the last month, a top staff member for Obama’s campaign telephoned...”
– Obama staffer gave warning of NAFTA rhetoric : Top Stories : News : Sympatico / MSN Are you kidding me? (via sds)
Pi as music →
cool, yes. i wish they threw in a harmonic minor scale, too. randomonium:Pick the scale and listen. Wonderful.
“did the know each how they appeared to the others - a death with living eyes?...”
– Lilith by george macdonald
“the part of philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do...”
– Lilith by george macdonald
i don’t usually wear PSA’s to work. today is an exception.
Sprint Posts $29.45 Billion Loss →
yourdp: Is there really such thing as a “good” cell phone provider? And the campus they talk about in Overland Park is insane. They gave it its own zip code to give you an idea. and it looks like a prison
wow upside-down is mom. coincidence? no. happy birthday early, mom!
Settling
katydid: Do you sometimes get to the bottom of the first page of an online article and think to yourself, shit, I have THREE MORE (or one more, or four more, or even eight or eleven more) PAGES OF THIS?? That is what happened to me wen I read this ridiculous article in the Atlantic Monthly (via a bunch of blogs written by feminists of one creed or another and it was going around tumblr a little...
The Medicated Americans: Antidepressant... →
dailymeh: Charlie Barber writes for Scientific American about depression, and the conflation of depression (feeling down, a little sad, not quite yourself) and Depression (major depressive disorder, rendering a person constantly sad yet to apathetic that they often can’t even muster the energy to kill themselves). It is as if from the early 1990s on (nicely coinciding with the mass penetration of...
What I Did Today
mersontheperson: I was born! Anyone wanna try to top that? welcome! gabe will be following you soon.
toldorknown:‘Merson the Person has arrived! Emerson Marie Shankle-Knowlton born 2/27/08 @ 11:40am Central. All 8 lbs 3oz/20” of her! congratulations, rob! better get a tumblr set up for her asap!
ikea hacker →
via clickz
TOP 11 WAYS TO AVOID HAMSTER ATTACKS →
1) Avoid dark alleys that smell like wood chips.
mccain camp realizes policies are the same as... →
not that that was ever in question for the rest of us.
grand opening for the 14th & walnut chipotle…i can’t believe i’m even debating my own attendance.
Forsberg reunites with Avs for rest of season →
ZOMGOODNESS! *giggles with joy*
