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Personalities and Prosperity
via Bacon's Rebellion by Jim Bacon on June 01, 2008
In one of the coolest parts of his new book, "Who's Your City?", creative-class guru Richard Florida argues that regions, like people, can have personalities. He identifies five standard personality types -- openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion (sociability), agreeableness and neuroticism -- and, based upon 600,000 survey responses from individuals around the country, plots...
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Idolator Sits Literature At Cambridge, Finds A Scholarly Purpose For AZLyrics.Com [Essay Questions]
via Idolator by Kate Richardson on May 28, 2008
England is all atwitter over the news that students were asked to compare Sir Walter Raleigh's poem "As You Came from the Holy Land" to the lyrics of "Love is a Losing Game" by Amy Winehouse in a final exam at Cambridge University last week. Reaction so far ranges from snootydisdain to prolix vitriol. But has anyone yet mustered the blogging gusto to actually attempt this controversial lit...
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This is the sound of my soul
via fourfour by Rich Juzwiak on May 27, 2008
Lloyd and Lil Wayne's "Girls All Around the World" is Maura Johnston's candidate for the Summer Jam of '08. It's mine, too. It goes where no other track has dared to in this time of retro-obsession: back to the past, to "Ashley's Roachclip," specifically. "Girls All Around the World" samples one of the most unmistakable break beats that has looped its way throughout the past...
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An Important Rant on Gaffes
via The Bureau of Mockery by Agent Sparks on May 27, 2008
Certain conservative bloggers have started to notice that Barack HUSSEIN! Obama no longer has any idea what in the hell he's talking about. The other day, while in the charming hamlet of Sunrise, FL he greeted a crowd of Democrats whose crappy primary votes don't count for anything by repeatedly telling them how excited he was to be in Sunshine when the name of the stupid town is...
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Fake, Funny Poncho Ad Causes Outrage, Laughter [Controversy]
via Consumerist by Meg Marco on May 12, 2008
One person's joke is someone else's insult it seems. Reader Nate sent in a photo of a fake poncho ad that ran in the LOLCats themed issue of the Boston-area free magazine Weekly Dig. He thinks the ad is hilarious, but we found at least one complaint from a Weekly Dig reader who thought the fake ad was "misogynist" and that the "potential hilarity was ruined by bad taste and poor...
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Track Your Domino's Pizza Order from a Terminal [Friday Fun]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on May 08, 2008
Now you can truly see why our commenters dubbed Python the programming language that "can do anything." One intrepid (and hungry) hacker, possibly named Nick Jensen, put together a small script that tracks Domino's Pizza orders from phone call to door bell ring. Download and launch the script (with instructions at the link), plug in your phone number, and you don't have to get up until...
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HOW! Come see me where I am performing!
via boomtacular by (author unknown) on May 08, 2008
Shared by Taber God bless Cher.I dress up in some costumes and sing and stuff HOW. Chazzy helped mommy (that's ME!) hot glue feathers and junk on this one! Be careful not to scorch mommy's titties again with that hot glue honey! This is a combo of a garter belt and assless chaps that chazzy helped mommy make out of electrical tape. It snags mommy's no-nee but its all worth it as...
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Gay & Lesbian Aging
via The New Gay by Ben on May 04, 2008
"Gays and lesbians have had to experience the stigma of homosexuality usually before they experience the stigma of being old. For those individuals who have positively dealt with the homosexual stigma, it appears to make the stigma of growing old less difficult."Most gay men I know are terrified of getting old. I have my own concerns also, like anyone. Mainstream gay culture equates youth with...
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Peeping Tom Sears Manager Sued For $2.7 Milllion [Disgusting]
via Consumerist by Jay Slatkin on April 23, 2008
It seems the floors aren't the only thing that's dirty inside Sears. According to Style Weekly, former Sears assistant manager, Robert E. Lee of Virginia, is being sued for $2.7 million for allegedly spying on a young girl and her mother through the ceiling tiles of a dressing room, while hiding inside of a "peeping hutch." The alleged crime occurred in March, 2006 when Lee was discovered...
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America's 10 Most Miserable Cities [Sadness]
via Consumerist by Meg Marco on February 11, 2008
Did you know there was an index to measure misery? Misery is defined as a state of great unhappiness and emotional distress. The economic indicator most often used to measure misery is the Misery Index. The index, created by economist Arthur Okun, adds the unemployment rate to the inflation rate. It has been in the narrow 7-to-9 range for most of the past decade, but was over 20 during the late...
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