Lagniappe: an unserious blog
spring cleaning
Whenever I see a post like this, it's a sign that we're about to get rid of six shelf-feet of books.
the things i find on the internet when i can't sleep
LOLCat translation of the Bible, e.g., Job 1:7-8:
Ceiling Cat axt Saitin, "Wher wuz u?" Saitin saied "Oh, hai. I'z wuz in ur earth, wawking up and down uponz it." Teh Ceiling Cat sayd "Has u seen mai servnt Job? He can has cheezburger cuz he laiks me."
this site can't possibly be legal
Songerize will search the web for any song and play it. Not 100% perfect (for example, it often plucks bootlegged live versions of poor quality, and a misspelling will often prevent the song from being found), but interesting.
end of an era
You can no longer shake it like a Polaroid picture.
What's the opposite of Erfolgtraurigkeit?
Interesting that Lori Gottlieb has effectively adopted the Tyler Cowen position, a huge shift from where she was ten years ago. (Update: Jonathan Last and Jezebel are not impressed.)
"I opened the door and this Oompa-Loompa is standing there"
"The woman told police she met Goldstein after posting a classified ad selling a baby stroller on a Web site." The alleged victim comments and gets into a spat with other commenters on the Times-Picayune website, and I hope that link remains live for the remainder of the history of the Internet. A shanda; a shanda.
secret sales at target
As much as 75% off, sez a blog.
gigo
An ancient Usenet lightbulb joke about how much irrational hatred I inspired for debunking Internet conspiracy-theorists of the early 1990s has generated a zoominfo page about a "Ted Frank, member, CFR." (See #3 for the fullest punchline.) Hee. (Elsewhere on Zoominfo, I get a roman numeral for some reason.)
placeholder trailer music
Isn't it remarkable how Michael Kamen's remix of "Brazil" is still used in several movie ads every year more than twenty years since he composed the score? It's a shame, because it turns that spectacular Terry Gilliam tracking shot in the Ministry of Information (okay, not really a tracking shot, because there are two or three cuts in there to hide how small the set was) into a cliche because we're so sick of the music.