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June 20, 2011
Mad Men explained in 60 seconds
Let's smoke inside! Scotch!
I'm very sad the next season won't be a for a while yet.
Alltop likes smoking scotch inside too.
Seven things that I guarantee won't matter in 70 years
So, you can just stop worrying, okay?
everything on that is trending on Twitter today
whether you look fat in those pants
anything you watched on TMZ
that big meeting with marketing tomorrow
if you wrote a post on your blog today
your broken heart (it will be mended by then).
Alltop will also be irrelevant.
June 19, 2011
June 16, 2011
Superpower your career-limiting blunders with Twitter!
Yeah, as I always say — never writing something electronically that you aren't willing to defend to the entire world.
Alltop always says what it means — funny. Thanks to Rob at Noise to Signal for another good cartoon!
June 15, 2011
The Vowels: A Ken Burns Film
The Vowels: A Film by Ken Burns from Sam Cherington on Vimeo.
Genius parody, via Brain Picker.
Alltop makes love to Ashokan Farewell.
June 14, 2011
Bob was never a joiner
Conemen I, a photo by laurence.winram on Flickr.
He had to admit the outfit was pretty spectacular, and the fringe benefits of membership were pretty good too — not only would it forestall your evisceration via tongs and razor-fingers, but you also got to run the world.
The Fraternity of the Cone had been in charge since the Counter-Reformation, but they'd kept their nifty hats mostly on the down-low, only wearing them on extended "hunts" and during their annual Ribfest. Bob had been tracked by the "recruitment committee" for several days in the Scottish Highlands (at least, Bob surmised it was Scotland — he'd awakened in the thick grass and heather instead of his Boston apartment two days ago.)
They just couldn't seem to take no for an answer, and Bob thought they were serious about the tongs and finger-blades thing, so he had one of two choices: let them feed on his intestines, or vaporize them all with his laser vision. (He was a descendent of Queen Victoria.)
He sighed. So much for his white suit.
Alltop likes a good finger-blade. You can buy prints of laurence.winram's excellent and surreal "conemen" series at his Flickr site.
June 13, 2011
Monday scotch blogging: a proposal
This series of short videos (and extremely annoying ads) at the Esquire website feature the actor Brian Cox demonstrating how to pronounce a large variety of scotch names.
My modest proposal is that we should recreate this useful series and actually consume a dram for each scotch in the list. Perhaps when a scotch's name is mis-pronounced another dram must be consumed of it until it is pronounced properly.
Ambulances will have to be hired, of course, and we should probably have a doctor and still-master on hand in case of emergencies.
Alltop likes to put ice in its scotch, the heathen. Via the Presurfer
June 11, 2011
If I ever record an album, this would be a great cover
FU, a photo by ::big daddy k:: on Flickr.
Genius photograph.
And not to worry, child services has already been alerted.
June 10, 2011
Mobile Internet: we know everything, but we're not any smarter
Love this Pete Homes bit about having Google on your phone. More after the clip. (Spoilers.)
I only disagree with one part of this — usually the drunk know-it-all is wrong, and trying to get them to agree that they're wrong is impossible . . . unless you have Google on your phone.
When Alltop doesn't know something, it just asks other aggregators what the answer is.
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