Heh

A different kind of company name

4/01/2010 12:01:00 AM

Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central Daylight Time) April 1st, Google has officially changed our name to Topeka.

Deep thought

Given what we've learned about economic reality over the last six months, maybe it no longer makes sense to assume during contract negotiations that it is management rather than labor which is most concerned with the long term health of a firm.

Яolcats

Яolcats is "English Translations of Eastern Bloc Lolcats." A taste:



via the most daring fireball

PRT

Item: I didn't fully realize this existed until right now, so I'm a-posting it.

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Item: Here's how you fucking do the song.

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Item: Full disclosure. I own and have listened to the Green Day album from which their cover of My Generation is taken.

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Item: These kids today, I tell you what.

For my part, I first heard the song in the form of a Green Day cover on their seminal album Kerplunk. It struck me, in eighth grade, as an incredibly awesome anthem of generational angst and change. It was only later that I learned the irony—it was appropriated from an earlier generation. |Yglesias|

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Item: Gotta add the real PRT.

LOLSea-kittens

Apologies to everyone, but after reading DR's post, I just had to:

Caption 'em if you got 'em.

Son of LOLberman

From maray, the outcome:

LOLberman

Make your own and send them to me, and I'll post them later in "Son of LOLberman."

You can't irrigate the desert with the tears of Amy Winehouse

Because of the salt. Obviously.

Anyway, I never do this, but Dave3544 tagged me with a meme and since I'm not going to get around to that for awhile, I thought I'd throw up a random ten. Here you go:

1. I Wanna Be Free – Loretta Lynn
   
2. I Don’t Want Anything – Lezli Valentine
   
3. Epistrophy – Thelonious Monk
   
4. Kool Keith’s A#! – Princess Superstar
   
5. This Woman – Desmond Dekker
   
6. Nowhere To Stand – k.d. lang
   
7. Doin’ Time – Sublime
   
8. Sitting on Top of the World – Mississippi Sheiks
   
9. A-Tisket A-Tasket – Chick Webb & His Orchestra featuring Ella Fitzgerald
   
10. Breaking The Law – Judas Priest

Bonus Track: Just Over in the Gloryland – Anonymous 4