July 2008
39 posts
The best Wikipedia page ever. →
No seriously, it’s better than “List of problems MacGyver has solved.”
via scout
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gul panag hasawebsite →
PRing on the Internet and all. Bollywood has come a long long way.
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The fail whale fanclub →
The fan club for the handsome whale and his birdie entourage who show up occasionally on Twitter
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-13) →
Nina Simone
Jamiroquai
Yann Tiersen
Pink Floyd
Kimya Dawson
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Trivia for the day
Led Zeppelin’s Bring it On Home (1969) is a cover. Listen to the original by Sonny Boy Williamson (1963).
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Oh I wish you’d just reblog.
nickdouglas:
Instead of reblogging this week, I added things to a list. Here’s my favorite stuff from this week of Tumblr.
waving bunnies are the best kind →
Bubble-wrap calendars →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-7-6) →
Fiona Apple
Orishas
Yann Tiersen
La Casa Azul
Bob Dylan
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
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Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell’s 1984 →
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He...
URL, R.I.P, 1988 - 2008 →
Ah, URL, we hardly knew ye. As has been widely reported and almost uniformly lamented, the ICANN has decided to “relax” naming rules for website addresses, ditching the nearly universal .com, .org and .net for things like .dot, .awesomenewending, and .fart
Will the iPod get heavier if I put more songs on it?
– The Customer is Not Always Right
The World's Fastest Indian
I saw “The World’s Fastest Indian” today and I realised how much I like the Kiwi accent (In the movie, Anthony Hopkins is Burt Munro from New Zealand ) . I especially like the way they say “seven” (siVan) and how they emphasise the “v” sound.
Wish Indian cable television wasn’t completely hogged by Amrican sitcoms.