So, apparently there’s an old Nintendo game called Stadium Events that’s kind of a big deal. As in, only 800 were ever released, and the people who want one are willing to pay a fortune for it.
A lady with one of those “re-sell yard sale crap” on eBay businesses listed an original NES with [...]

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Crap, did that thing again where I forget to update this blog for a while, then let it take on some weird significance because I waited so long, and I don’t want to update until I have something meaningful to say. I won’t promise to be more consistent here, but, um – hi! How are [...]

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The finest sentence ever typed in the English language? Quite possibly.
Austin Eavesdropper recounts the saga of John Wayne Chang, president of the Hong Kong Cowboy Association (C.H.A.P.S., for short, somehow) and it’s really not to be missed.
Other competitors for the greatest sentence ever composed, from the same set of correspondence:

“Maybe you can come to [...]

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I ran into this post by Spike Gillespie, who I know a little bit through Austinist, earlier today. In it, she details some of the reasons why Austin Post, a new start-up media site in Austin dedicated to “citizen journalism” (yeah, those are scare quotes) is kinda crappy. The short answer is that it [...]

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Up until today, my favorite obliviously stupid post from a right-wing blogger came in the form of a post by Glenn Beck on his website called, “How to win the argument de jour with logic and facts” that promised to give his followers the rhetorical tools to dismantle anyone foolish enough to suggest that, like, [...]

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The Internet has never been good at observing the whole “tragedy + time = comedy” formula, usually substituting “volumes of snarky jokes” for time in that equation. You’ll have noticed it if you’re on Twitter and seen the countless swine flu gags that went around the past few days.
I’m not really an easily-offended dude, [...]

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Just in case you missed it, awesome blog (and host of an occasional entry from me) mightygodking.com is back online after a case of the BoingBoings overloaded his previous server.

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Still keeping it slow around these parts while the Repatriation Roadtrip is underway (today- Indianapolis to some stretch of I-40 between Memphis and Little Rock), but I figure I ought to make a quick announcement.
Starting Tuesday, on TROUBL.ORG, I’ll be writing Down and Distance, a weekly column on America’s two current favorite contemporary sports- [...]

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