If They Ain’t Got It, You Don’t Need It

Everything you need to know about Maine can be summed up by this picture:

That’s the actual sign in front of Hussey’s General Store in Windsor, Maine, about 45 miles northeast of my home town, and just a few miles west of Augusta. Sums up life in Central Maine pretty damn well, except maybe for [...]

To The Dustbin Of History, All Of You!

The changing of the calendar to a new year routinely brings so many “Best Of” lists and “year-in-review” articles that the people who write them simply bang out the verbiage in June or July and fill in the blanks the last week of December when the stories are due. A variation on the theme [...]

It Puts The Lotion In The Basket

Things have been pretty tough in Iceland since the start of the banking crisis back in the fall. The three largest banks in the country all were nationalized to keep them from going under. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown basically called the entire country a nation of frauds and froze a billion pounds [...]

Your Daily Moment Of Zen

Well, now here’s something you don’t see every day, Clem:

Same Shit, Different Year

Oh sure Times Square sure is amazing when the clock strikes midnight on New Year’s Eve

(via Tony)
But half an hour later, it’s just more garbage for the street crew:

Screwheads, Screwheads, Roly Poly Screwheads

What’s the matter with you? You can’t tell your basic 6-lobe tamper-proof Torx screw from your Robertson square socket screw? A Phillips Sqaure SupaDrive Screw from a Frearson?
I got everything you need to know about screwin’ right here, sweetheart.

Rule 34 Wins Again

If you have somehow been living under a rock for the last fifteen years or so and have never encountered “Rule 34″, this XKCD comic pretty well lays out the whole concept: if you can imagine it, somewhere on the Internet you can find pornography of it.
As a long-time member of a certain website whose [...]

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