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Unknown Knowns and Other Ramblings
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Your source for worthless headlines and general nonsense.
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Plumbers have cracks, scrapers have...
Caution: this post contains naturally-occurring obscenity. At 99 cents per, I guess you can't expect much proof-reading; they must have just hired some bum off the street....
Oh snap, shots!
Over the last couple months, I took a few pictures with my cell phone camera that I've wanted to share with the world. Rather than flood my Twitter account with multiple postings, I thought I'd just dump them here. Dumped with love, of course.Is that...
A little too much truth in government
When you're told in college that you should avoid acronyms in journalism, believe it.Otherwise, you might end up working for, oh, let's say the Green River Star and, hypothetically, write a headline disastrous enough to bring Leno out of retirement.L...
Hard of hearings
Copy editors and judges typically understand the importance of getting a sentence right the first time. Otherwise, their hard work loses its appeal.Consider the headline at left, which appeared on Yahoo! News Thursday. In the frenzied rush to bring p...
Slaunchcast: I'm so fly
People stare at me only for good reasons -- like my magnetic attractiveness. Music by Podington Bear (song: "Sunspots")....
Slaunchcast: You're KILZing me
If you name your paint product "KILZ," you really can't afford to make potentially creepy ads. Elsewise, would-be comedians will try to wipe the walls with you. Music by Kevin McCleod (song: "Sunshine") and Podington Bear (song: "Multicolor Stresstab...
