Lifehack My Gift to You: The Internet Self-esteem Powerbar

December 7, 2005

Ok, it’s Christmas time and coming up on my blog’s one year anniversary so I’d gotten you all video iPods–then I watched The Office and saw what evil can come from ignoring the secret Santa $20 spending limit, so I returned them all. I can’t give you kind reader’s expensive electronics but I can give you one kick ass lifehack.

 

This year I’ve gotten you all an online gift certificate for self-esteem. I am giving you (in no particular order) a list of links that are guaranteed to make you feel superior to everyone around you, albeit at the expense of others.

 

I Work With Fools

Where disgruntled workers share their inter-office horror stories. If you don’t feel better after reading the one about the employer who saves money by docking people for being late for meetings, there is no help.

 

The Eggcorn Database

Nothing makes you feel superior better than pointing out other peoples mistakes, especially when they are in writing. The Eggcorn Database gives you a repository of self-image bolstering snippets. It’s like a Powerbar for the ego-impaired.

 

Blogslot

The guy who brought you Lapsing into a Comma, and The Elephants of Style, Bill Walsh, from time to time, derides writers, and other editors for the tiny errors that slip through the cracks.

 

Query Letters I Love

Take pleasure in watching as Hollywood insiders (and some wannabe insiders) immolate aspiring screenwriter’s life’s work, and not a few egos in the process.

 

If you know of any others, leave a comment.

 
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Unusual Search Strings

November 25, 2005

Here are a few of the more unlikely searches that have brought people here:

on Yahoo… “nice breasts”
on Yahoo… “lobster boy” + “florida murder”
on Yahoo… “waitress skinned knees”
on Yahoo… “mandolin teacher richmond virginia”
on Yahoo… “bulging breasts”
on Yahoo… “1001 things to do in your life”
on Yahoo… “sexy polyester pants”
on Yahoo… “motorcycle rally pictures”

on Google… “dorothy hammill photo”
on Google… “taking it from behind” + “art photos”
on Google… “mods holga”
on Google… “gibsonton florida circus”
on Google… “holga wideangle”
on Google… “linda connor pop toning”
on Google… “liberty in chains”
on Google… “dead january 2005″ + “jazz”
on Google… “bonnaroo scanner”
on Google… “damion rice tour”

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Scientology lawyers order website devoted to ridiculing Cruise to stop using domain name scienTOMogy.info.

October 19, 2005


Check out this parody of Tom Cruise before some legal brain figures out a way to scare the owners into closing it down.
ScienTOMogy.info

Ketchup Label Design Contest

October 17, 2005

You don’t have to be Malcom Gladwell to notice that in the mustard world, fads come and fads go, varietals and variants are tried and eventually embraced by consumers.

Ketchup always stays the same.

Here at Finkbuilt Labs, our plan is nothing less than to shake the world out of this condiment orthodoxy by introducing a NEW tomato ketchup. Change can be unsettling, but fear not, FINKZ Tomato Ketchup will do everything your old ketchup did, and more.

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Think before you register your domain!

October 16, 2005
The following domains are real.

Firstly there is Who Represents?, a database for agencies to the rich
and famous: http://www.whorepresents.com

Second is the Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can
exchange advice and views: http://www.expertsexchange.com

Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island:
http://www.penisland.net

Need a therapist? Try: http://www.therapistfinder.com

Finally we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South
Wales: http://www.molestationnursery.com

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Chewbacca Actor To Become American In Texas Ceremony

October 15, 2005

Monday’s Ceremony To Be Held In Arlington

POSTED: 10:00 am CDT October 13, 2005
UPDATED: 10:13 am CDT October 13, 2005

ARLINGTON, Texas — The actor who played Chewbacca in the “Star Wars” movies is becoming an American citizen.

British-born Peter Mayhew says he’ll recite what part of the citizenship oath he can remember, but that “it will be a Chewie growl for the other parts.”

Mayhew says he’s feeling happy about becoming an American. He says “despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on” America’s still one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

He says he’s buying a suit for Monday’s ceremony in Arlington, and that it will be the conventional type — not the brown furry sort.

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1000 Made From Bamboo

October 10, 2005


Some of these items are amazing, but like this headset don’t really fall into the category of things made of bamboo; made with bamboo yes.
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Nothing Like A Good Kick In The Teeth To Keep You Humble

September 8, 2005


Have you ever have one of those days? You wake up on the wrong side of the bed and snap, at the wrong person, for the wrong reason, and in the wrong way. It happens, and this is the result.

Some time ago, I posted a diatribe regarding people who lie to their boss about being sick in order to get a day off from work. I did so after I stumbled across a post on Leslie Russell’s blog that linked to several ‘tips’ about how to lie to your boss. Whenever I reference another blog, I always trackback (blog nerd-speak) to it as a courtesy to the other author. After 5 weeks she he finally noticed and then proceeded to bombard my blog with thoughtful, reasoned comments such as…

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Feckin kids and their feckin words

August 30, 2005

A secondary school is to allow pupils to swear at teachers - as long as they don’t do so more than five times in a lesson. A running tally of how many times the f-word has been used will be kept on the board. If a class goes over the limit, they will be ’spoken’ to at the end of the lesson.

“Within each lesson the teacher will initially tolerate (although not condone) the use of the f-word (or derivatives) five times and these will be tallied on the board so all students can see the running score,”

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Researcher feels certain UFOs exist

August 22, 2005
Davenport said his perspective of UFO sightings took on a whole new dimension when he was 6-years-old on a July night in 1954. Davenport said that’s when he, his mom and brother saw a strange object in the sky while at a drive-in theater on the edge of the St. Louis Airport.

“We didn’t know it at the time, but my father, and people in the tower on the north side of the airport, were looking at the same object with their binoculars,” he said.

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