The Woodwork

One of my favorite short stories.

Mike Murphy was once the chief political strategist of John McCain’s campaign. He recently posted some zingers about Palin’s wardrobe malfunction. Here is one:
Q: What’s the difference between a Pit Bull and a Hockey Mom?
A: You can feed a pit-bull for 483 years with 150 grand.
(List of “Wasilla Main Street” shops.)

Last week, McCain pulled out of Michigan, the state parties’ reactions there is highly amusing…
The Republican party there is apparently petitioning for Sarah Palin to visit Michigan in an attempt to prevent McCain from giving up on them.
The Democratic party there decided to “help” their brothers out by petitioning to bring actress Tina Fey to [...]

While reading the comments on Balloon Juice:
“…and it takes 35 minutes to get from Erect to Climax, in NC.”
Really?

Google Maps didn’t have it but you can find Erect in Wikipedia

I got a mysterious package and opened it. No, it wasn’t a unabomb, but some megalulz instead:

I Can Haz Cheezburger?:A LOLcat Colleckshun will be released October 7, but I got a copy in the mail today.

The book is from lulzftw, and is a best-of collection of lolcats—slightly disappointed that there are no lolgeeks.
Mai [...]

Well, Yahoo! Open Hackday has come and gone, and I’m still avoiding telling my Dave Filo story, so I suppose it won’t hurt to mention a fun pre-hackday hack I saw last August.
When the hackday registration page went up, it looked like this:

Notice the sample fields in grey? The one for the URL reads http://jrandomhacker.com/coolproject. [...]

I occasionally like to delve into works of graphical fiction:

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Believe it or not, this almost happened.
…

After a discussion of Steven Colbert’s seven deadly words, a conversation overheard:
Husband: “Take any African word and it basically sounds like a euphemism for ‘breasts.’”
Wife: “Like what?”
“Uhh, Bazoombas,” he extemporizes with a smile.
“But what if they’re small?” she observes.
“Bazimbas.”

Got an e-mail today from a friend:
Terry, this might be of interest to your wife?
F—
My reply:
F—,
I got married? Oh shit! Vegas…
Take care,
terry

IM from a friend:
See ya.
Oh, by the way in OS X shell:
say -v Good oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ouchie
for PHP anthem.
ROFL