Archive for August 2008

The 31 Best DS Games Fea­ture on Game​Pro​.com

A really nice guide for when I buy the damn thing.

I love trip­tics, and this here is spiffy. Sean Tubridy’s Starry Skies

Five things that should be issued to every Amer­i­can on his or her 14^th birthday

1. con­doms (and instruc­tion on how and when to use/​not use them)

2. The Ele­ments of Style by Strunk and White

3. phone num­ber of a super-​​cool, non-​​panicky adult (who will get you out of the jams your par­ents must never learn of)

4. Surfer Rosa by Pixies

5. iPod on which to lis­ten to Surfer Rosa at painfully loud volume

~ Mer­lin Mann’s hilar­i­ous 5ives.

Retro Space

Sport­ing 1080p 24″ screen and a 2Ghz Core 2 Duo 2Gb com­puter inside, it pretty much full­fils any “Big” fan­tasies I had.

Phelps’ Mir­a­cle Finish

he won by what seems like a mol­e­cule. and amaz­ing pho­tog­ra­phy, by the way.

Michael Phelps Facts

it was bound to happen.

bored of your fiber ones? check out sim­ply break­fast. yum!

the­selby — pho­tos in your space

peo­ple from all walks of life where they belong. inter­est­ing stuff.

Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Break­fast of Cham­pi­ons” by start­ing off his day by eat­ing three fried-​​egg sand­wiches loaded with cheese, let­tuce, toma­toes, fried onions and may­on­naise. He fol­lows that up with two cups of cof­fee, a five-​​egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with pow­dered sugar and three chocolate-​​chip pancakes.

~ New York Post

this has been around for a while, but it hasn’t stopped being funny yet.