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When I see extremely obese people eating MacDonald’s, I get the same feeling as when I see someone smoking out of a hole in their neck.

Remember Audiogalaxy? That was pretty much the glory days of p2p, eh? I don’t know why I was thinking of them today, but I came across this very interesting article written by one of the original programmers back in 2002 (when the RIAA took them down).

Microsoft just sent us these delicious (we think?we haven’t eaten them yet) chocolates in the shape of their ergonomic keyboard and mice sets.

- Via Gizmodo.

I thought last week’s episode of The Office, when Michael and Dwight bring gift baskets to their old customers in an attempt to regain accounts, was REALLY funny.

I rode in an 18-wheeler today — I honestly can’t remember if I’ve done that before. The driver was bitter, foul-mouthed, and looked like she could beat me up; it was pretty exciting.

“We chose Winesburg due to its convenient location, relative lack of competing retail superstores, and the darkly powerful inner lives of its residents,” said Thomas Coughlin, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores Division, which oversees more than 2,500 locations nationwide.
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“Target scouted the Winesburg area last year but decided against locating there,” Wall Street Journal retail analyst Julia Faber said. “Their control-group data showed that the town’s residents were filled with a rarely articulated yet palpable anguish that meshed poorly with the exuberant image of the Target Corporation. The bankrupt Montgomery Ward, which closed its Winesburg location late last year, seemed more in tune with Winesburg residents’ somber, conflicted psychological state. Wal-Mart, with its proven track record of leaving economic devastation in its wake, should be a good fit.”
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“If you can bring us a lower price from another store, Wal-Mart will match it,” Willard told a customer. “We won’t be undersold. Yet something tells me there has to be something out there beyond Winesburg. Something besides all this decay and loneliness and broken dreams.”

- Via The Onion.

NOTHING is funnier than obscure humour with the right audience.

ba ba ba bath from caitandryan on Vimeo.

It’s like an old constipated man: at some point, he just had to get all that shit out.

- Travis, talking about the last Vonnegut book.

The city has decided that the Boy Scouts chapter here must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts.

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City officials say they cannot legally rent taxpayer-owned property for a nominal sum to a private organization that discriminates. The city owns the land and the Beaux Arts building constructed by the Scouts in 1928.

- Via msnbc.com

Matthew,
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Checking out schematic.com from soxiam on Vimeo.