Cool-but-not-Funny stuff on the Internet

[RGMike]

if only Charles Schultz had lived to see this day:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/11/sports/s093446S53.DTL

[mshray]

according to Peter on the news this morning another Beagle won at Westminster in the category Best Opposite Sex (whatever the hell that means), but the newsworthy bit was the owner:  Patty (yes that one) Hearst.

[RGMike]

according to Peter on the news this morning another Beagle won at Westminster in the category Best Opposite Sex (whatever the hell that means), but the newsworthy bit was the owner:  Patty (yes that one) Hearst.

Patty Hearst
heard the burst
of Snoopy's Thompson gun
and bought it

[RGMike]

great songs about sunshine and rainbows:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/submit?blogid=29&entry_id=24268

[RGMike]

I drink your Shamrock Shake!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?&entry_id=24772

[ggould]

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20080321p2a00m0na016000c.html

[RGMike]

neither funny nor cool, actually, but the former Schwabbies will be interested. And the rest of us will just be afraid. Things is gettin' scary:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/BUNPVPMK8.DTL&tsp=1

[Gazoo]

neither funny nor cool, actually, but the former Schwabbies will be interested. And the rest of us will just be afraid. Things is gettin' scary:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/BUNPVPMK8.DTL&tsp=1

There is a separate not-cool-and-not-funny thread.  But on the point: I am fortunately in very conservative investments these days and have shed all my debts except my student loan.  The economy's got a ways yet to fall; we're only seeing symptoms of the illness now.  Years of greed are coming home to roost (does saying so make me another Rev. Wright?).

[RGMike]

neither funny nor cool, actually, but the former Schwabbies will be interested. And the rest of us will just be afraid. Things is gettin' scary:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/25/BUNPVPMK8.DTL&tsp=1

There is a separate not-cool-and-not-funny thread.  But on the point: I am fortunately in very conservative investments these days and have shed all my debts except my student loan.  The economy's got a ways yet to fall; we're only seeing symptoms of the illness now.  Years of greed are coming home to roost (does saying so make me another Rev. Wright?).

Preach it, Brotha Gaz!  "God DAMN Rich Republican America!"

[mshray]

Yikes!  High Reward = High Risk, and there's your proof.

If you want to take your mind off of it, check out this game, which came recommended today on a Merc blog.

http://vying.org/games/cephalopod

[Gazoo]

Muxtape: a simple way to create and share mp3 mixtapes

[RGMike]

ah, so THIS is what Ian Fleming had in mind when he wrote Octopussy...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/17/BAGF1060FF.DTL

[mshray]

ah, so THIS is what Ian Fleming had in mind when he wrote Octopussy...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/17/BAGF1060FF.DTL

That's wild. I wish I were adventurous enough to do that sort of thing.  Getting a research grant to spend 2 1/2 years snorkelling in Sulawesi sounds pretty fun to me.

[mshray]

All 120 Crayon Colors!  (very cool page with fun trivia also)

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/04/22/all-120-crayon-names-color-codes-and-fun-facts/

[Gazoo]

Another social-networking site, this one aimed at music fanatics 35 and over (that is, nearly all of us).

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003793179

http://www.getback.com/

I haven't tried it out myself yet, but let me know if any of you do; I may jump in.  But I recently added myself to Myspace and Facebook, so I'm not sure if I want yet another mode of being one poor correspondent.  (This is why I don't instant-message anymore.)