2009 VW Passat
The 2009 Volkswagen Passat CC looks like the love child of an ‘07 Saab 9-3 and an ‘08 BMW 3-Series. (That’s a good thing.)
The 2009 Volkswagen Passat CC looks like the love child of an ‘07 Saab 9-3 and an ‘08 BMW 3-Series. (That’s a good thing.)
Wikipedia’s article about Opus the Penguin is further evidence for why this type of encyclopedia genre interests me so much:
…on several occasions, his “fanny” has fallen off (often with a clanking sound on the floor), and he has also had instances where his nose droops or is taken completely off as a result of sneezing while using dental floss and so on. Sometimes these are combined; he has had either his nose and rear end fall off, or his nose droop while his rear end has fallen off, and so on. He eventually learned that his navel was in fact the screw that attached his rear end to his body.
Where else would you read that last sentence? The internet == win!
The British company “albam” doesn’t use Chinese manufacturers to make its high quality clothing:
We are an independent company so we can listen to you. We develop and produce our clothes in the UK because we think the extra cost is worth the great quality. If we don’t make a line in the UK it is because we haven’t found a quality high enough to hang our hat on.
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As someone told us “it doesn’t have to be radically different, just a lot better”, well we are sticking by this.
Check out their jeans to get an idea of what their products are all about. Impressive company — a bit like a high-end American Apparel, but without a deviant bastard piece of crap for a CEO.
P.S. I still think American Apparel makes quality clothes.
Jason Kottke’s twitter stream:
Seen in a torch protest sign: “Would we have allowed Nazi Germany to host the Olympics?” Ummm….
Terrifying ignorance! Anybody remember 1936? Anyone? Bueller?
Randall Munroe’s xkcd continues to supply so much insight into love. “Wait a second. Are you asking me to show her a mediocre time?” An instant classic.
About nine months ago, I really got into the musical stylings of Paolo Nutini, a 20 year old Scottish singer/songwriter busting out some alternative hits. I think I first heard the music because a guy in my P-Chem class was playing “New Shoes” (fantastic song). Anyhow, after taking a break from an album for a while, I find it’s really useful to go back to it and see if the music has any staying power. Well… Nutini’s album holds up really well. Take a listen to Jenny Don’t Be Hasty to see what I mean. Go ahead, turn it up and jam, I’ll wait.
Good stuff, no? Be sure to catch his new album this June. Oh, and if you’re a girl you’re probably attracted to Paolo. To the (I’d guesstimate 4) women reading tumbledry: you’re welcome!
My German prof (Professor Paul A. Schons) from freshman year of college has a “German History” mailing list in which, on weekdays during the school year, he sends out historical German facts and current events. He has got to be one of the nicest people I have ever met — sharp witted, too. So, I never unsubscribed to his mailing list… so, four years later, I’m still receiving it. Today, he writes:
Guten Morgen am 9. April! I hope your Wednesday is excellent…even better than you had anticipated!!
I remember why I stayed subscribed for all this time. I think the world needs more people like Prof. Schons.
The Onion - America’s Finest News Source presents: Delicious Snacks Distract Congressmen From Horrors Of War. I love how the bag sounds keep getting more and more ridiculous. Thanks, Nils!
I’m not sure I agree with all the points in Charlton Heston’s speech to Harvard Law School’s class of ‘99 entitled “Winning the Cultural War,” but I do think he makes some good observations:
If you talk about race, it does not make you a racist. If you see distinctions between the genders, it does not make you sexist. If you think critically about a denomination, it does — does not make you anti-religion. If you accept but don’t celebrate homosexuality, it does not make you a homophobe.
Don’t let America’s universities continue to serve as incubators for this rampant epidemic of new McCarthyism. That’s what it is: New McCarthyism. But, what can you do? How can anyone prevail against such pervasive social subjugation?
Well, the answer’s been here all along. I learned it 36 years ago, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C., standing with Dr. Martin Luther King and two hundred thousand people.
You simply disobey. Peaceably, yes. Respectfully, of course. Nonviolently, absolutely. But when told how to think or what to say or how to behave, we don’t. We disobey the social protocol that stifles and stigmatizes personal freedom.
The battle against complacency is, in many ways, more difficult to fight than the archetypical battle against the British was in the 18th century. However, I don’t think complacency is unique to America; I think it is more of a chink in the bedrock, undermining the foundation of all long-standing governments.
kala: and george will teach kitty
alex: kitteh school.
kala: purrfect.
alex: George Home for Lost Kittens
alex: purrfect, lol!
alex: repeat after me, always meow when the mama has food
kala: haha
kala: so true.
alex: Chapter 1: Begging for food
Chapter 2: Getting back in the apartment
Chapter 3: Wake up techniques
Chapter 4: Wake up techniques for sound sleepers
Chapter 5: Advanced begging for food
Chapter 6: Vegetables: food or foe? An examination of alternative cat diets
Chapter 7: Crackers and incisors
Chapter 8: Types of milk
Chapter 9: Perching tips
Chapter 10: Bath evasion
Chapter 11: Gourmet muffins and how to make them
kala: hahahahahahahahaha
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