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March 12, 2004
The Boston Globe is running a periodic caption-the-photo contest. The current photo has Bush touching a cow and pointing at a young woman. You can vote until 2pm today.
Possible entries:
“Sorry, sweetheart, but you’re in the Coalition of the Willing. You cain’t fight the Eeeny Meeny Miney Mo.”
“Sorry, sweetheart, but Bessie’s been outsourced.”
“Dick, the coast is clear. You can come out of the cow now.”
Eh. Do better. Make us laugh.
March 9, 2004
Jeneane has announced PhoneCon, the first annual Telephone Users Conference. Sounds fascinating! No buzy signals allowed!
March 7, 2004
I’m sick as a dog today, but that doesn’t stop me from bringing you a page that causes our college-freshman daughter to shake her head ruefully and say, “So this is what people do with the Intermenet.”
Note, after the bit with the snake, it just repeats. Don’t expect anything else to happen. I tell you this as your friend.
February 26, 2004
Ok, first read the warning label in the orange ellipse to be puzzled, if not outright disturbed. Then notice the little baby doll decorations and be relieved.
February 20, 2004
Denounce.com updates the discovery that if you tilt Pepsi bottles just right, you can see if they’re winners in the iTunes contest.
Am I proud that I find this about Osama and this about razor blades funny? Nah. But I might as well admit that I sort of like this, too:
Iowa Resident Has Opinion Month Too Late
STORM LAKE, IA—Four weeks after the Iowa Democratic caucus, livestock farmer Darryl Welch, 48, expressed an informed opinion about the candidates Monday. “I like what John Edwards says about rebuilding international alliances to fight terror, but I think some of the programs he supports would mean higher taxes,” Welch said Monday. “I wish I’d have said that to all those AP reporters, instead of telling them that I didn’t know who I wanted to vote for yet.” Unfortunately, Welch’s opinions will not be relevant for another three years and 11 months.
February 16, 2004
From eagle-eyed Mike O’Dell comes this image, which he says is “pretty hard to explain.”
No argument here.
February 2, 2004
OnePotMeal announces a new Artificial Social Network for those of us griping about Orkut: Urkel.
January 9, 2004
The Annals of Improbable Research‘s newsletter version — and check out its new blog — is running a limerick contest:
Investigator Steven Slap recommends that we recommend the book “Fundamentals of Microanalytical Entomology: A Practical Guide to Detecting and Identifying Filth in Foods,” by Alan R. Olsen, Thomas H. Sidebottom and Sherry A. Knight.
We commend Investigator Slap for his recommendation, and recommend that, for conversational purposes, everyone refer to the book as “Sidebottom’s classic ‘Fundamentals of Microanalytical Entomology: A Practical Guide to Detecting and Identifying Filth in Foods.'”
Readers who have read the book (which we have not) are invited to submit limericks in tribute to it or to specific portions of it. We will publish the best of these either here in mini-AIR or on the WHAT’S NEW blog (see below).
Here’s my entry:
The book by Sidebottom is lunch-
Time reading for a scary bunch
Who look into their meal
With a bug-eyéd zeal
And savor its every crunch.
You can send your entry to:
FILTH-IN-FOODS PAEANS
c/o [email protected]
December 13, 2003
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