April 22, 2005

ad to make you go "whoa"

i can't claim credit for happening across this diamond mine--this was found and promptly mms'd to me by jotku.

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March 16, 2005

fucking right.

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March 11, 2005

purr.

i never thought of myself as a catfish person before, but .. will you wook at this widdwe baby here.. aww.. with those puffy lips and all.. who's a disgusting, mean little motherfucker? who?

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final cleaning solution

"Naturally the common people don't want to clean their toilets; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship."

now i know it's unfair to read it out of context but this was found in lidl, a german store. for real.

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March 08, 2005

beats working

one of the walls in our office:

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March 03, 2005

takopupitike approves.

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February 03, 2005

one more

this book won Most Inspirational Title in Social Sciences.

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another book of the month

they figured out the word frequencies of best-selling books' titles, and then this guy worked out the formula and he's taking bets that in a year a book with this title couldn't help but end up on every 12-year old girl's shelf (even though it's actually about AIDS)

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this book will change your life

my therapist recommended this book.. finally found it from my local bookstore, in the Self-Help section, under Damage Control

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January 31, 2005

out of the blue

[another one from london]

sometimes the way familiar brands advertise abroad catches you totally off guard

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January 27, 2005

development in the projects

Thu 27/01/2005 17:26

when you sign up for a lecture on product development approaches you expect coffee in paper cups, cheap modernist spaces and verdana. not a crime scene from max payne.

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help wanted: have you seen this picture

the above pic snuck into my phone (or lifeblog software) about one hour after i unpacked the box and started using it*. i don't recall taking it--sure, i jetpacked to pasila at around that time, but i didn't take aerial photos.

has anybody else seen this pic somewher? where does it come from?

how, in general, do these weird foreign objects get lodged in peoples' consumer electronics?

* i'm really liking the phone so far, god bless the little bastard, but getting it to work with my pc was really way, way too much of a hassle. there's a glimpse of the process documented at the ever-entertaining fish.

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January 26, 2005

m/s get the fuck out of here

this brand new, shining 50ft yacht was parked right between the steamboat Irony and the frigate Let Them Eat Cake.

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the KISS principle at work

square my ride

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RTFM

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what's an astrolabe anyway?

another beautiful bizarro-ass item from the islam collection. i fucked around with it a bit. it would tell you stuff like when the world's gonna end and how.

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you scratch my back..

from the islam collection at the british museum. historians believe the device was also used for high-fiving.

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