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December 06, 2003

Foreign Policy officials in the dark
A new breakthrough for women: the whizzy. Put simply, it allows women to urinate standing up.
Monkeyfilter!
hi my name is sam, i draw pictures, from your titles.
These clocks are fusion powered. Sundials are one of the earliest instruments humankind used to measure time. Yet our fascination with them hasn't diminished much. There's even a society entirely devoted to them. more inside
Godchecker: Your Guide to the Gods
Get your god on! Gods aplenty, from Acolmiztli to Zaramamma.
Sunspots and Stradiveri
The End. [Flash, Long Load, sorry!] more inside
WPA via FDR's ND.
Dare you enter the Museum of Food Anomalies? No? Try then the Circus of Disemboweled Plush Toys!
MetaFilter has been nominated for Best Group Blog in Wizbang's 2003 Weblog Awards.

December 05, 2003

The Medicare bill is a Washington-style mafia bustout Josh Marshall of "The Hill" writes about how the Medicare bill is bad business and a power grab for the Bush administration. He makes this analogy. Say you more inside
Faking cancer for fun and/or profit. I was reading the Kaycee Nicole thread yesterday and thinking about what sort of person would fake cancer for the hell of it, when I found the above article, then this one and then this one in close succession. What the hell, people?
A Vast Repository of Toonological Knowledge.
Comic Sans MS. Some people love it, some people hate it, still others are making a concerted effort to ban it (with pretty stickers and everything!). Read what the creator, Vincent Connare, says about his abomination, discover why he created it, check out some alternatives, or see just how Comic Sans MS is slowly but surely destroying our society.
Mayo Mayo Mayo "I gave her everything she asked for -- mayonnaise, no mustard, onions, everything I could possibly do for this lady. Mayo, mayo, mayo, and it's still not good enough,"
70 years ago, today, Prohibition ended and Americans were once again allowed to indulge in booze. It was a massive failure of what came to be known as the noble experiment. Meanwhile, in England, the medical journal The Lancet is recommending a total ban on smoking in Britain. Another doomed noble experiment? Are there just some bad habits in this life humans refuse to live without?
First person account of a NSA recruitment interview (via Slashdot)
Photoshop exists because of Star Wars - An interesting article about the promotion and development of Photoshop. more inside
Defective Yeti's annual list of fun party games - I've never heard of any of them and they sound great.
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