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Unknown Knowns and Other Ramblings

Unknown Knowns and Other Ramblings

http://unknownknowns.blogspot.com

Your source for worthless headlines and general nonsense.

Recent Posts

  • Plumbers have cracks, scrapers have...

    Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 00:27

    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!

    Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 01:30

    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

    Posted on Tuesday July 21st, 2009 at 02:04

    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

    Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 02:58 in headlines, english nazi

    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

    Posted on Tuesday June 30th, 2009 at 00:35 in audio, slaunchcast

    People stare at me only for good reasons -- like my magnetic attractiveness. Music by Podington Bear (song: "Sunspots")....

  • Slaunchcast: You're KILZing me

    Posted on Saturday May 30th, 2009 at 01:33 in audio, slaunchcast

    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...

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