November 2009
101 posts
WatchLo hecho está hecho, Shakira.
Shakira is one of Colombia’s national heroes. Putting aside taste in music, there are a few things no one can deny: this is an intelligent, talented, hard-working woman with an unusual voice and an unequaled gift for dance in this world of pop.
In this video, partly choreographed* by the Icelandic Modern Dance Company, Shakira and her partner Daniel Cloud do...
Wife Allergic to Husband's Sperm: The Telegraph. →
So unfunny.
— From London.
Need an easy way to stalk Stephen Fry?
Stephen Fry was on Top Gear the other day and told Jeremy Clarkson that he is a huge fan of Grindr, the gay cruising iPhone app. It’s just like Latitude, but for guys who want to have sex with each other.
Anyway, Fry wanted to show everyone how it works, unfortunately there were no other Grindr users in the audience.
So. If you want an autograph, you know what to do. Get Grindr on your...
BBC NEWS: London Mayor Boris Johnson Saves Woman... →
Our mayor saved a 37-year-old woman who was being attacked by three 12-year-old girls with a metal bar. He was riding his bike through Camden Town when he heard her call for help.
He got off his bike, grabbed the metal bar and went after them for 10 minutes calling them “oiks” until he lost them at a crossroad.
Then he returned to the place of the attack and walked the victim - who...
If You Insist on Being the Other Woman, Do It... →
Great. Thanks for the insight, CNN.
Here’s mine: don’t be her. Ever. Trust me.
— From London.
Revenge of the Night Owls
And speaking of vindication…
Remember when you, the night owl, were living with an early bird who really DID NOT SEE ANY GOOD REASON WHY YOU WOULD HIT THE SNOOZE BUTTON FIVE THOUSAND TIMES BEFORE EVEN CONSIDERING GETTING THE HELL OUTTA THIS BED, SERIOUSLY, WATCH: YOU WAKE UP, YOU GET UP, IT’S NOT. THAT. HARD. NO, I DON’T BELIEVE IN BODY CLOCK, I DO, HOWEVER, BELIEVE IN LAZY, AND...
Grumpy Means Cleverer, Australian Researcher Says →
Friend Paul feels vindicated. Remember how swearing lessens physical pain? Well, as it turns out, now the BBC is reporting that you think more clearly when you’re in a foul mood:
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and...
The Way His Mind Works
Me: It was so much fun, my feet were dangling from that thing and I had no shoes on...
Him: Aw! How sweet!
Me: What?
Him: I said aw! So sweet!
Me: Really?
Him: Yeah! Don't you get how sweet it is? Don't you think like that? Your sweet little toes hanging from a tiny little plane thing? I think it's precious! It's so sweet! Don't you think that?
Me: I...
Him: What if you had a baby? Wouldn't you think it would be sweet if its sweet little tiny toes were hanging in the air? Don't you think that's adorable? Because if you don't, I have to wonder whether you're fit to have children.
Me: ...
Him: ...
Me: ...
Him: It must so hard being a parent when you have Asperger syndrome.
U.S. congress is like France: prickly,...
Don’t anyone ever tell me the U.S. and France have nothing in common.
- Via hematophobia, from London.
October 2009
53 posts
Illinois teacher suspended after suggesting a read... →
*sigh*
It never ends.
— Via The Questionable Authority, on a Seed Magazine story, from Bogotá.
Outrospection: Empathy as an Extreme Sport →
Roman Krznaric starts a new blog on empathy as a new, “avant-garde” way of traveling:
You can take a lead from the English writer George Orwell, who turned empathising into an extreme sport. In the late 1920s, after five years as a colonial police officer in Burma, Orwell decided to live as a tramp on the streets of East London, a period of his life described in his book Down and Out...
