Tag: imported

The Huffington Post’s Frank Schaeffer posted an interesting article entitled Why This Fifty-Five Year Old White Lifelong Republican Wants Obama To Win.

Curious to know why the price of a barrel of oil continues to skyrocket? Some more recent events are an obvious part of the picture, but The Big Picture contends that “for the past 3 decades, we’ve had a George Costanza Energy policy [see this episode if you’re not familiar] – every decision we have made as a country has worked to drive energy prices higher.” It’s an interesting list that we can only hope will get some scrutiny by our next administration.

Topless Robot presents its list of The 11 Best Songs from Geek-Movie Soundtracks, including videos for most. Overall, I think it’s a decent list, even including Stan Bush’s The Touch from Transformers: The Movie, a craptacular sentimental favorite for me… 😉

Epicurious.com has a nice Peak-Season Map for produce etc., allowing you to “see what’s fresh in your area, plus find ingredient descriptions, shopping guides, recipes, and tips.”

Now that’s a cool “crop circle”…

Check out these custom Star Wars figures decked out in WWII-inspired gear.

According to Wired.com, five episodes of a Homestar Runner game is coming to the Wii. Cool!

Wikipedia has a great List of commercial games released as freeware.

Lifehacker unearthed a gem in its post Watch Star Wars in Text via Telnet:

…one of the most eye-popping tips in last Sunday’s Top 10 Easter eggs post comments was a pointer to a telnet server that broadcasts Star Wars Episode IV to your command line as animated text. You didn’t read that wrong. Give it a try: from any command line, type

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Awesome.

Ask Calvin’s Dad is pretty much what you’d think:

Calvin’s dad (from Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes) is the coolest comic character I ever came across. Whenever Calvin asks him question he often makes up outlandish answers. Here is a collection of some quotes from the comic strip.