(via Dark Bilious Vapors) American Cities That Best Fit You: 70% San Francisco 65% New York City 60% Chicago 60% Philadelphia 55% Los Angeles Which American Cities Best Fit You?
Month: April 2005
Yet Another Reason to Dislike Santorum
No Free Weather for You: Feds’ weather information could go dark: Do you want a seven-day weather forecast for your ZIP code? Or hour-by-hour predictions of the temperature, wind speed, humidity and chance of rain? Or weather data beamed to your cellphone? But under a bill pending in the U.S. Senate, it might all disappear. … Continue reading “Yet Another Reason to Dislike Santorum”
My Linguistic Profile
(via Dark Bilious Vapors) Your Linguistic Profile: 60% General American English 25% Yankee 15% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
It was too good to last
I’ve had want amounted to free DSL for the past six months. That’s right, my previous DSL provider hasn’t charged me since August 2004. Around the beginning of April 2005, the service started to seriously degrade, so I started looking for alternatives. On April 4, I decided to switch our service to a national DSL … Continue reading “It was too good to last”
Another Living Will
(via Straight Goods) Like many of you, I have been compelled by recent events to prepare a more detailed advance directive dealing with end-of-life issues. Here’s what mine says: In the event I lapse into a persistent vegetative state, I want medical authorities to resort to extraordinary means to prolong my hellish semi-existence. Fifteen years … Continue reading “Another Living Will”
How did I miss this one?
(from the this is probably only funny if you’ve lived in Saint Louis dept.) Here’s an April 1 post found on stlbloggers.com: SOLD We apologize for the inconvenience but the StlBloggers.com domain and website have been sold to Becky’s Carpet and Tile. Starting tomorrow the forums will be removed and replaced with ads for our … Continue reading “How did I miss this one?”
Yet Another Guestbook Version 2.1
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Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time
(from the haven’t we seen this before? dept.) In honor of April 1: Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time
Water on Mars
Astronomy Picture of the Day: 2005 April 1