Archive for April, 2006
The best April Fools Day joke is the one where we have to set our clocks forward tonight. Ha!
Madness!
Google Romance
“Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search™, get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we’ll send you both on a Contextual Date™, which we’ll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that […]
Today is the birthday of LexisNexis (1973).
How is Lexis/Nexis different from all other websites?
No matter what font you select, everything comes out in fine print!
Madness!
Simpsons Movie Teaser Trailer from Ice Age 2
Closed Published by Jake Allen April 2nd, 2006 in UncategorizedI had wanted to see this since I heard that there was a teaser in front of Ice Age 2, which opened this weekend. There will, BTW, be a Simpsons movie. This teaser/trailer is supposed to be one of two that were on different cuts of Ice Age 2. It also was […]
I’m organizing my photos from my trip to Morocco in 2004 into “Best of” style albums. There’s about 60 now instead of about 1600.
Best Pics of Morocco part 1
Best Pics of Morocco part 2
Best Pics of Morocco part 3
Best Pics of Morocco part 4
Madness.
Hillsdale College Blogging Community
2 Comments Published by Jake Allen April 3rd, 2006 in UncategorizedI’ve updated the Hillsdale College Blogging Community. Just three more names.
Madness!!!
While it’s only an anomaly on our calendar, tonight at 1:23 AM the numbers in our timekeeping will read 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (1:23, April 5th, 2006).(Corrected.)
Madness!
Women vote in Kuwait elections for the first time
Closed Published by Jake Allen April 4th, 2006 in UncategorizedDemocracy grows. Even if it is merely municipal elections, and even if very few Kuwaiti families are eligible to begin with for men, freedom is spreading.
Cheers!
The world’s largest retailer will sell the gay cowboy movie, despite present and future outrage by Red Staters in general and fundamentalist Christians in particular.
It makes sense, since they will sell more of it than anyone else. And the producers outsourced the director from Taiwan (ouch!).
Madness!
Hilarious do-it-yourself Lasik Eye Surgery Kit.
MADNESS!
Today, April 6th, is the birthday of Mormonism (1830), WWWI (USA, 1917), and Hostess Twinkies (1930). There are over 12 million Mormons worldwie, there were 116,516 American casualties in WWI, and five hundred million Twinkies are produced in Chicago each year.
April 6th is a big day for Americans.
Madness!!
Transitional fossil of animal who walked out of water discovered. Creationists everywhere now identify TWO missing links on either side of new discovery. While the fossil may yield valuable clues on the development of land animals, it will mostly just annoy Intelligent Design proponents.
MADNESS!
[spoilers for season six of The Sopranos]
If you’ve been watching the Sopranos this season, you’d know that Tony has been shot, and that they have played up the resurrection theme and Tony’s struggle with his own mortality. In the most recent episode, Tony is visited by evangelical Christians, who identify themselves as such. One […]