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Dr. Horrible: An oral history

Posted by Deana in Blog, Culture, Events, Film, Fun, Humor, Music, Plain foolishness, Science fiction, That which is awesome on July 26th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Perhaps Karen understands?

Posted by Deana in Art, Crafts, Plain foolishness on May 2nd, 2008 | 3 Comments »

My Liberal Identity:
You are a Social Justice Crusader, also known as a rights activist. You believe in equality, fairness, and preventing neo-Confederate conservative troglodytes from rolling back fifty years of civil rights gains.
 
Take the quiz at www.FightConservatives.com

Posted by Deana in Community & Activism, Fun, Government, Plain foolishness, Politics on February 5th, 2008 | 3 Comments »

I just read the most awesome thing over at the Geekdad blog: tomorrow is Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day! Of course it totally should have been on my birthday, but I’m willing to share it with Deb. ;)
Expect to see me walking in crazy moon clothes around shouting, “You’re not thinking four-dimensionally!”
More than [...]

Posted by Chris in Fun, Holiday! Celebrate!, Plain foolishness on December 7th, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been looking for a few choice keywords to describe what we talk about here at Global Spin. You know, “science, culture, politics, writing, foolishness” kind of thing. One of the places I checked was Compete, which offered the oddest suggestion yet: “important punctuation.”
So, yeah. I just had to Google it. There on page 2 [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Plain foolishness on August 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »

If you dare, take a look at my new divestment banking clubs idea. This is what happens when I have to figure out where to store all that new camping equipment.

Posted by Chris in Community & Activism, Plain foolishness, Writing on August 7th, 2007 | No Comments »

March 10th, 2008 is the first NationalInternational Day of Awesomeness. I’ll let the awesome official site speak for itself:
What is The International Day of Awesomeness?
The International Day of Awesomeness is a celebration of awesomeness. People are awesome every day, frequently don’t realize it, and their feats of awesomeness are rarely recognized. We aim to fix [...]

Posted by Chris in Fun, Holiday! Celebrate!, Plain foolishness on August 7th, 2007 | No Comments »

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Posted by Chris in Fun, Plain foolishness on July 2nd, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I can’t embed the video - maybe Chris can - but here’s a link to the Fox17 newscast about the whole Jeopardy! thing.

Posted by Deana in Fun, News/Media, Plain foolishness, Television, Would you like to play a game?, You have got to be kidding on June 21st, 2007 | No Comments »

Now, here’s something you don’t see everyday: Flushed Bra Causes Sewer Collapse. This was just so rich I had to quote the article here:

The bra was recovered from the sewer by engineers

A bra and a pair of knickers have been blamed for a flood and road collapse in County Durham.
Northumbrian [...]

Posted by Deb in Crime, Humor, Kitchen Sink, Oddly Enough, Plain foolishness, You have got to be kidding on June 19th, 2007 | No Comments »