What is it about the combination of food and government antics that send journalists into a pun-frenzy? Never mind the Europeans and their food regulations. Here’s what the news ticker looks like regarding the whole White House “Beer Summit” silliness:
White House “beer summit” aims to quench racial flap
Beer Diplomacy: The Red, Light and Blue Summit
Beer brewers [...]
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Dragon’s Eggs… they’re just like popcorn, only buttered with a magnesium-aluminum alloy… Tasty!
Whistlers… or as D.E.S. would call them, Screaming-Slytherin-Quiddich-Players-From-Hello-Without-the-O
Scrambling Comets… cf. Whistlers
Salute… used for those grande finales, blinding-Titanium-white explosions of earth-shaking, ear-splitting, bowel-moving power
The World’s Biggest Firework [...]
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Here’s a follow-on to last year’s little video tribute to Canada Day:
Living in the U.S. can be a challenge for Canucks. As a literature professor once explained to me, in the American story, a hero’s rite of passage consists of a road trip across the United States and/or losing his/her virginity. The Canadian [...]
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“I’m the kind of guy who will spend half a day working out a way to avoid doing something twice.”
“Yup, I can relate to that. I just did that yesterday.”
Frustrated with his struggle to conform with the world of time sheets and seeking a better way to manage his time, Michael Hunger built himself [...]
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Cleaning my desk yields the following half-baked ideas, scribbled on various scraps of paper:
“A thud is the sound of success in the making.” – M. Lyon
margarita recipe:
2 shots Captain Morgan on ice
1/3 orange juice
1/3 cranberry juice
1/3 pineapple juice
- M. Lowenthal
Use BLOCK letters or script letters on flip charts, to express the character of the words.
e.g. [...]
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If you liked the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods , then you will *love* the Periodic Table of Typefaces.
(Thx SMG)
Unlike the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (which missed Periodic Tables as a kind of popular visualization method, but let’s not get too recursive now…) the Periodic Table of Typefaces provides some research-based rigor behind its choices of “Popular, [...]
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For some reason that morning, I thought to myself: “He’s going to start off by expressing humility.” I wasn’t disappointed.. but then again, after doing some quick web research, it turns out the previous U.S. President’s first inaugural address had a similar expression too. What was nice, though, was that Obama deliberately used the moment to eschew [...]
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pit of pitch black cold
yawning open within me
filling with illness
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