Archive for May, 2008
Last Call.
London Revelers Plan Last Cocktail Party Before Tube Booze Ban
By Brian Lysaght
May 30 (Bloomberg) — Revelers are planning a final cocktail party on the London Underground tomorrow evening before an alcohol ban takes effect on June 1.
Mayor Boris Johnson announced the ban on May 7, six days after his election, fulfilling a campaign pledge. [...]
Dude, you’re so fake.
Indie bands have been the rage for years, but don’t tell them that - they’re ‘indie’. The original idea behind indie rock was just as the name applies - independent, not of mainstream, not of record label. How many indie bands do you like? None! You don’t know [...]
Signing Off Mid Conversation
Is signing off mid conversation the same as hanging up on someone?
Yes.
ESPN on your coffee table
In an effort to follow-up on the disaster that was the ESPN MVP phone, ESPN has decided to release the ultimate remote control. What are they calling it? ESPN The Ultimate Remote. Catchy. From the press release:
ESPN The Ultimate Remote manages home theater components, set top boxes
and IP equipment with intuitive “location-free” setup and one-handed
operation, [...]
1 + 1 = 3
Wii. Tons of fun. Easy to pick up and learn. Social.
Beerpong. Ditto.
Wii + Beerpong? Winner.
Featuring two distinct competitive games, Frat Party Games™ – Beer Pong will offer a traditional tournament-style game of Beer Pong for one to four players and Speed Pong, during which two to three players compete at the same time, each trying [...]
But what are the hitters thinking?
Jon Lester just wrapped up the first no hitter of his career, and the 13th at Fenway Park. (Ellsbury’s no-hitter-saving play can be found here.) It’s a pretty fantastic achievement, but the question I found myself asking as I watched the top of the 9th is not what was going through Jon’s head, but what [...]
Yipes
Apparently, Jason Giambi has a trick for getting himself out of hitting slumps, and (surprise!) it’s not more PEDs and HGH!
The slugger-turned-average-hitter admitted (for no good reason) that when he’s having trouble at the plate, he busts out a golden thong. He claims it always works, and has even lent the magical banana hammock to [...]
Jack Donaghy loses half his job
Citing the slump in the housing market and the general economic concerns in the U.S., GE announced today that it plans to sell or spin-off its appliances business. A representative from the company stated, “We correlated our upward revenue stream dynamics and found that there simply were not enough synergies to fully support continued [...]
DB Classics: “Wrong Fat Girl”
All the credit on this goes to Dave.
Here’s a story I like to call “wrong fat girl.”
The phrase, “You all look alike to me” is one of those bigoted utterances that every race or ethnicity says about the other, almost keeping it from being too inappropriate.
- “You all look alike to us!” [...]
MLB ‘08 features in-game boredom!
Okay this is going to far. MLB ‘08: The Show has added detailed animations for player boredom. Seems like a stupid idea, but then you remember that some players are always worth watching:
There you go folks. $600 for a video game system that can photo-realistically show a guy taking a nap in left field. Next year’s [...]