I love the power of the internet. United Airlines broke this guy’s $3,500.00 guitar (while he was on a flight to Nebraska) and refused to compensate him. He promised to write three songs about it, make videos for each, and release them on the internet. Here’s the first. Apparently United is in talks with him (after 150,000 views and a story on CNN) about a settlement. Dumbasses.
This is a funny response – kinda NSFW
via Alyssa Milano’s twitter page, who looks freaking amazing.
Review of Star Wars by someone who hasn’t seen the movies all the way through.
Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.
Review of Lost by someone who has only seen the commercials.
Today’s Diesel Sweeties is pertinent to you:
And everybody read more Diesel Sweeties. It’s got robots, so you know it’s good.
I have the best culinary ideas of them all:
This one is almost as good as my idea for the cowpiggen: It’s like a traditional holidays turducken, but it’s a chicken inside a pig inside a cow. Or my ever popular Space McDonalds idea. You guys ain’t got nothin’ on me.
tofu
Also called bean curd, tofu is a custardlike
substance of variable firmness that is made
from curdled soy milk. This Chinese invention,
dating back to time immemorial give or take a
couple of centuries, is much venerated and
expertly utilized in Chinese and Japanese cuisines,
among others. However, many Westerners are
unaware of this impressive pedigree; otherwise,
they would not put it into casseroles containing
tortilla chips and marinara sauce.
Bean curd is extremely perishable, with a highly
delicate molecular structure that begins to
deteriorate the moment it is out of earshot of
East Asian languages. Proof of this is found in
the fact that much American-made tofu is nearly
tasteless, much like the Americans who eat
it because they believe it will make them
better people.
Nutritionally speaking, tofu is a nearly ideal
food, brimming with protein, low in calories, and
cholesterol-free. Furthermore, it is extremely
versatile, and while the Chinese and Japanese
have developed its use to an exquisitely
sophisticated level, Americans should feel free
to experiment with it in any way they choose
without referring to longstanding Asian traditions,
as long as they keep in mind that the dishes
they create will taste revolting.
From The Devil’s Food Dictionary, probably my favorite food-related site on the internet (aside from this one, of course [oh, and I'm not counting sites whisky-related because of, well, booze]). The original The Devil’s Dictionary was written around the turn of the last century by Ambrose Bierce who wrote stories that inspired H.P. Lovecraft before going crazy and disappearing in Mexico. Bierce’s dictionary can be viewed online too.
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
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