I’m horrible at crossword puzzles. I’m always frustrated and unsure of myself. Luckily for us, my friends in Yahoo! Search with the NY Times have created a puzzle that even I could do. It offers up search hints and has a really slick interface.
It highlights some new search stuff that IMHO kicks Google’s ass.
Take about 10 minutes and complete the puzzle, then register for 1 of 5 trips to Hawaii. I can’t win because I work there. So, if you take it and win, you better make room in your duffel bag for me!
I’ve recently been “elected” to my girls’ school’s School Site Council. To bone up on what all the cool kids are doing, I headed over to Wikipedia’s entry on education.
Ironically, the writing is really bad. The cup runneth over with passive voice, sentence fragments, poor punctuation, bad sentence structure, bad paragraph structure and irrelevant content.
I’ve never claimed to be a stellar grammarian, but these things are pretty obvious when you stumble upon them. These are people who are supposed to know a thing or two about this stuff!
I spent about 20 minutes fixing shit over there, and I could probably spend another hour just fixing the obvious stuff. If you’ve got a few minutes and feel inclined, head on over there and fix a few things.
Man…this clip is going around all over the place. It’s like a virus or something. It was in all three top video spots on Technorati when I looked at it. I bet Google has three servers just to keep up with its traffic.
But c’mon people, let’s cut her a little slack. Think of it– all eyes on you in a clutch situation. I mean, she only had three months to prepare.
I mean, what would you say if you were asked, “Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is?” I feel sorry for the girl; I’ll try helping her out a bit. Here are some answers she could have used:
Because having a stamped passport, a National Geographic subscription and an interest in foreign cultures doesn’t get you laid when you’re 17.
It’s hard to do Jello shots off a globe.
Because the Geography Club got replaced by Teens for Abstinence. They couldn’t meet after that, cause everyone was too busy fucking.
The US Mexicans and the US Africans were hiding all the maps from all the US Americans.
What are these “United States” of which you speak?
The whole world won’t fit into a Halo map.
Because Zinn and Chomsky haven’t signed with Def Jam yet.
Michael Moore’s all fat and gross.
Because the terrorists hate our freedoms.
As far as we know, there is no Educational Industrial Complex. Well, if there is, George Bush sure as Hell doesn’t own any of it.
“Girls Gone Geographic” bombed in focus group testing with males 18-24.
Viacom has yet to pilot Pimp my Rickshaw or MTV Shantez.
If we know about other countries, the terrorists win.
Fox News hasn’t covered that yet.
Because of the dark people.
Because Ira Glass is the guy you give wedgies to after Home Room
Disneyland Uganda is still being imagineered.
A world map won’t fit on the lower back.
Because of South Africa, The Iraq, and the newly-formed Republic of Such As.
It won’t really matter since most of it will be under water soon.
At the end of the day, that was only worth one point in the SATs.
Because I won’t need to know that in the porn industry.
If you pack the entire contents of human civilization– from the earliest civilzations in Mesopotamia to the resignation of Karl Rove a few days ago into one inch, the Big Bang would be 6.37 miles from here.
This is a clip of an interview of Dick Cheney in the early 1990’s. The main question was if they thought it was a mistake for not going all the way into Baghdad. I can’t even speak after watching this. It’s so damn eerie. How could they have been so unprepared. They had the freaking intelligence back then!!
Mamazilla and I were sitting together reclined on the couch with our laptops out, and she stumbled across a catchy tune.
“That’s a pretty good song,” I told her,” Who is that?”
She was myspacing and came across someone’s profile that was playing the song, Flatback by a Glasgow trio called The Fratellis.
I checked them out on Last.fm and sampled a few of their tracks. After I was convinced that it wasn’t just a flash of brilliance, I found them on iTunes.
For your enjoyment, ladies and gents, I present to you The Fratellis.
Okay, I’ll admit to you that My Space isn’t completely useless. Just this once.
I was able to to maneuver through the minefield of online spoilers and finish Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows before it was ruined. Some sites said that Voldemort dies and others said that Harry bites it. According to the prophecy in the Department of Mysteries, I knew that this was impossible. I also accidentally stumbled on the Order of the Phoenix page on Wikipedia (Spoiler Alert), which unfortunately lists the surviving and former members. By the time you figure out what’s on the page, you’ve discovered “so and so” died in battle. Ah well, I didn’t blow it too bad. It took a while, but it was worth it.
It was a good read, but there are a couple of chapters I have to re-read. At one point I felt like I was watching the conversation between The Architect and Neo in The Matrix: Revolutions all over again.
Convinced that I’ve not yet enjoyed every nook and cranny of Beatles goodness, I’m listening to one album a week, moving chronologically from start to finish. I’m just not satisfied that I’ve heard it all completely and in proper order. Two weeks ago, it was Please Please Me; last week it was With the Beatles. Now, A Hard Days Night. The mop-top head-bopping phase. Bring on the LSD!
The goal is when someone asks me what my favorite Beatles album is, I’ll be able to give a much more confident answer. My current answer is Abbey Road, but I wanna see if that holds up under testing.
In any case, it will be a journey– a tour that will likely prove to be magical and mysterious. Won’t you join me? I’ll save you a seat on the bus.
