The Linkage for January 4th
Here’s a quick look at what I was reading online from December 17th to January 4th.
Punching a McDonald’s gets you nothing but trouble
Perhaps mistaking her local McDonald’s drive-thru window for one of those Price is Right games where you punch to find prizes, an Ohio woman decided to take matters in to her own hands when her local McD’s ran short of nuggets.
Tags: ohio mcdonalds crime stupid
NBA locker rooms are now your one-stop shop for booze AND guns!
Just weeks after Ron Artest admitted that he regularly drank hard stuff in the locker room at halftime, Washington Wizards’ player Gilbert Arenas admitted that he used his locker to store guns – because he didn’t want them at home.
Tags: basketball nba wizards stupid
Strange but true baseball feats of 2009
Nothing in baseball makes for more spectacular megaweirdness than the old suspended-game trick. Fortunately for us Strange But True addicts, the Astros and Nationals pulled that one on us in 2009.
Tags: baseball history astros nationals
Why I’d rather be punched in the testicles than call customer service
Very funny and, sadly, very true.
Tags: funny
KGB thrives on the laziness of texters
Yep, that fancy knowledge base you’re paying $1 per answer for? It’s just a college student using Google to answer the questions you’re too lazy to Google yourself.
Tags: business technology mobile
Dick Cheney would fit right in with the Irish parliament
F-bombs: totally cool to shout out on the floor of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament). I didn’t think it was possible, but the Irish just got a little bit more awesome.
Tags: ireland funny language
The Inigo Montoya guide to 27 commonly misused words
Learn these to yourself so you can speak and write gooder.
Tags: language funny
Laredo may become country’s largest city without a bookstore
The dusty border town of Laredo is losing its B. Dalton bookstore, like a lot of other cities across the nation. The thing is, the B. Dalton is the only bookstore in Laredo and the Associated Press says that will likely make the city the largest in America without a bookstore.
Tags: texas laredo education business
Marlins’ home run celebrations to get all artsy
New York has it’s home run apple, Colorado has the fountains in center field and Houston has the train which lamely lurches forward on the rare occassion when the “engineer” isn’t asleep at the wheel, but Miami is aiming to take celebrating home runs to a whole new level with pop art.
Tags: baseball mlb marlins ballparks stadiums art
Video: Grandma tweets via fax machine
Another old person rigs a contrived way to “keep up with the kids” instead of just learning how to use a computer (or a cell phone) – film at 11.
Tags: twitter technology society video
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