- Ten Ways to Get a Tee Time at Augusta National – via my son
- What Is Italian Brain Rot? The Surreal TikTok Obsession, Explained
- A cephalopod captured on video in March has been confirmed as a juvenile colossal squid, the first live colossal squid observed in its native habitat.
- I visited the Disney website to find the hours of the EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival and was asked to complete a survey. Here was my answer to their question about Lightning Lane passes: “I have been an AP holder (at Disneyland for 5+ years and at Disney World for 10+ years) and still absolutely cannot understand how Lightning Lane works. It’s incredibly confusing compared to Fast Passes and it’s reprehensible and indefensible that AP holders must pay for Lightning Lane passes.”
- Italy enacted a law in March 2025 making it so only individuals who can prove at least one parent or grandparent was born there will can be considered citizens from birth.
- Wow. The U.S. government is phasing out the penny, whose use has spanned more than two centuries.
- The Sports Bra, a small chain of bars that only show women’s sports on their TVs, announced that it’s opening new locations in Boston, Las Vegas, Indianapolis, and St. Louis.
- Bobby Tables: A guide to preventing SQL injection
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing:
- POTUS resurrected a hallmark policy of his first term, announcing that citizens of twelve countries would be banned from visiting the United States and those from seven others would face restrictions.
- The [current] administration revoked EMTALA guidance for emergency rooms to provide abortions when pregnant patients’ lives are in danger.
- Even the pro-gun lawyer working at the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives opposed the current administration’s move to allow the sale of forced reset triggers.
- While ICE patrols court houses for law-abiding immigrants, friends of the President get a free pass.
- Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled after the head of the disaster agency said he had not been aware the United States has a hurricane season.
- Close your eyes and point in almost any direction, and you’ll find an area of knowledge loss.
Posts tagged “money”
Two things, at minimum, that wealth cannot save you from:
- death
- being a piece of shit
Isn’t that sort of wonderful? And amazing? You really cannot buy everything. You cannot buy being an interesting, sensitive, charitable person.
– Robin Sloan
#FridayFive: Hysteria Calling
View the Friday Five from August 15th, 2014
- Starbucks To Begin Sinister ‘Phase Two’ Of Operation
- Is Schizophrenics Anonymous legitimate or some sort of sick joke?
- “You think I’m stupid. You think I’m immature. You think I’m a malformed, pathetic excuse for a font.”
- This week’s must-have hat is The Infidel.
- In prison Bernie Madoff doesn’t have to hide his lack of conscience.
- The Smithsonian has released a list of the ten most disturbing scientific discoveries. I only think that three of them are very disturbing. (The other seven are just kind of “meh”.)
- If you’re going to brew your own beer, you might as well have a nice label.
- The Button is probably the dumbest iPhone app ever.
- Greg Knauss knows what to do about the Gulf.
- Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam
- News flash for lottery winners: Money can’t buy happiness. (Note: I am already happy, so winning the lottery would not ruin my life. Also, I’m not a moron.)
- Are you as excited about the new iPhone as I am? (It’s not my fault that Steve keeps releasing them so close to my birthday!)
2024-07-08: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
Microsoft Money and a Mac
In which I go on a long and detailed rant about the preposterous lack of adequate personal financial management software for the Mac
Turning Virtual Gold into Real Cash
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer (link via kottke)
We Got to Install Microwave Ovens
Y‘know what song holds up well? Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing. You realize the song is frickin’ 22 years old? We got to move these refrigerators. We got to move these color TVs.
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Today I made a daring attempt to rob Peter to pay Paul. Unfortunately for me, Peter’s alarm system was much more robust than I had expected. Paul is going to be angry with me. Peter is a jerk. [Note: In today’s episode, the part of Peter was played by American Express and the part of