Monthly Archives: May 2007

Terms I didn’t need to hear

May 31, 2007 – 9:20 am

From a Merlin Mann vodcast: “This world of email bukkake, where you’re constantly being showered with new stuff.” If you don’t know what that funny-looking word means, DON’T google it at work.

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Hang Drum

May 30, 2007 – 6:23 am

Very mystical sounding, which beautifully reflects its Far East folk origins in… Switzerland. Well it sounds good anyway. (HT: Neatorama)

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Best. Game. Evah.

May 29, 2007 – 7:12 am

Desktop Tower Defense. Tips for use: 1. Try it for a while. 2. Then take a look at the layouts other people do. 3. Go “Oh, right!” 4. Play some more Oh, and don’t start this until you get home, or lunchtime at the very least.

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McDoughboys

May 25, 2007 – 1:48 pm

The brain-trust at McDonald’s apparently don’t understand the purpose of a dictionary. I’d tell them to go look it up, but the resulting recursive loop might destroy the universe. Fast-food giant McDonald’s has launched a petition to get the dictionary definition of a McJob changed. The Oxford English Dictionary currently describes a McJob as “an [...]

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Seven Bagger

May 24, 2007 – 10:12 am

Eighteen-year-old Samantha Larson reached the peak of Mount Everest on May 16th and became the youngest person to have ever climbed all the world’s “seven summits” What the hell have I been doing for the last 36 years?

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