Andy Bartlett on January 30th, 2009

This, my friends. This is how you get people to actually read Jane Austen books. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance—Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! I’m preordering…

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Andy Bartlett on January 30th, 2009

I found this on them there Internets yesterday, and it’s *great* – the 1925 Drexel women’s rifle team. I immediately thought that woman second from the right looked like Murderface; I put this together so you can decide for yourself. Rifle teams are pretty metal, so it just might be… Murderfacemurderfacemurderfacemurderface.

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Andy Bartlett on January 29th, 2009

Empire: Movie News – New Transformers Toys Revealed!. I will only not be furiously upset by this bastardization of Soundwave if he somehow retains his voice from the cartoons…

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Andy Bartlett on January 29th, 2009

I have an office in our house at home. It’s small, does not have a window, and is on the top floor of our house so the ceiling is sloped on one side because of the roof. Space is limited, and right now that limited space is mostly taken up by a far-too-large desk for [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 29th, 2009

A very interesting story on the cultural shift at the White House under President Obama, from the New York Times. NYT: White House unbuttons dress code

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Andy Bartlett on January 29th, 2009

Only the fattest country in the world could be entrusted with the brain power necessary to make something this fantastic. It’s the 25,000-calorie snack stadium, and I’m deeming it the greatest invention by humanity since fire or the Playstation. This. Is. Genius. The Greatest Snack Food Stadium Ever Built | www.holytaco.com.

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Andy Bartlett on January 29th, 2009

So, now it’s 2012? Eventually, these crackpots have to be right I guess. But I doubt it’ll be in three year’s time. http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/27/2012.maya.calendar.theories/index.html

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Andy Bartlett on January 28th, 2009

Melissa did the Internet tryout for Jeopardy! tonight; she had 50 questions to answer and 15 seconds to give each answer. The questions ran the gamut of traditional Jeopardy! stuff, from which celebrity admitted to being shacked up with Samantha Roson (Lindsay Lohan!) to the definition of an erg. Good stuff. Apparently, the next step [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 28th, 2009

I’ve been a big fan of the packaging that Burger King has been using for the last few years; I always take the time to read the goofy stuff they have printed all over their crowns and fry boxes. It’s good stuff, and I appreciate that they put in the effort to make a fry [...]

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Andy Bartlett on January 28th, 2009

This article got served up to me by one of the Web sites I follow with my RSS reader at work; it’s a pretty interesting piece by an author named Steven Johnson called “How to Write a Book.” I find myself increasingly more interested in learning more about this type of writing, and reading about [...]

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