February 2010
22 posts
Nando's honours Grill'd vouchers... So be... →
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That’s some brilliant split-second marketing from Nandos! I feel sorry for poor Grill’d though, getting “grilled” by Nandos like that.
Following Grill’d’s decision to pull…
Latvian "Robin Hood" Hacker Leaks Bank... →
eldavojohn writes “Move over Russell Crowe, an anonymous hacker in Latvia is being hailed as a real life modern Robin Hood. The hacker refers to himself as ‘Neo,’ claims allegiance with the Fourth…
Who’s Embedded With Whom? Videos Will Be... →
A very long time ago – 5 years to be precise – a rock band from Chicago called OK Go made a music video on a series of treadmills.
You remember it, don’t you?
Well, Damian Kulash sure…
the Mountain Goats and Kaki King (25)
Natural Elements (22)
Lyricist Lounge (10)
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists (8)
Wu Tang Vs The Beatles (6)
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Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure →
Hugh Pickens writes “The Tampa Tribune reports that Jimmy Wales recently spoke at the TEDx conference in Tampa about the three big failures he had before he started Wikipedia, and what he learned…
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Inside TED →
At the ultra-cool “ideas” conference, there’s no recession, Sarah Silverman is tame and all we need is “mind shift”
Sarah Silverman's Ideal Valentine's Day Is... →
Chocolate. Hearts. Smooching. How was your Valentine’s Day? Good, we hope. Comedian Sarah Silverman describes the perfect Valentine’s Day with her new guy:
“We like the same things,” she says…
"Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In... →
lurking_giant writes “The Seattle Times is reporting that the Men’s 500 meter speed-skating competition was delayed more than an hour Monday evening by the breakdown of the two ice grooming machines…
Burger King Employees Arrested For Putting Pills... →
Two Burger King workers in Jacksonville, Florida have been arrested and charged with “poisoning food with intent to kill or injure a person,” reports WJXT. One customer took the bun off his fish…
NBC's "Boss Button" Guaranteed To... →
We’ve received a lot more complaints about NBC that will be shared with you a little later, but this one is particularly amusing and pretty symbolic of the network’s general ineptitude this Olympic…
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“The bobsled team did not lose as much weight as the men’s downhill skiers....”
– Stev D on last night’s episode of the Winter Olympics on NBC.
Young Jazz Rebels (27)
Jeffrey Lewis (10)
k-os (9)
Little Brother (4)
Kanye West (2)
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Dental Plan.
jshdivision:
postmodernism:
(via jshdivision)
LISA NEEDS BRACES!
DENTAL PLAN.
LISA NEEDS BRACES!
New Russian Botnet Tries To Kill Rivals →
alphadogg writes “An upstart Trojan horse program has decided to take on its much-larger rival by stealing data and then removing the malicious program from infected computers. Security researchers…
Feed the Rich: A New Thrillist and the Boom in... →
Ben Lerer tells us he plans to launch Thrillist London in the next few weeks, the first international edition of his emailed city guide. Remember: there’s no recession for the well-to-do, and…
Wu Tang Vs The Beatles (54)
Little Brother (43)
Wye Oak (28)
Local Natives (25)
The Smith Westerns (20)
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Landing Gear Not Good Place For Discount Airfare,... →
A man was found dead inside the landing gear of Delta airplane landing in Tokyo enroute from New York. Doctors speculated that he froze to death and had a shortage of oxygen when the plane reached…
Company Selling Doctored 'State $2 Bills'... →
An enterprising company called World Reserve Monetary Exchange took out ads in two Arizona newspapers last month, and presumably others throughout the country, offering supposedly rare,…