October 2009
95 posts
“I can’t start running until I have the right shoes,” you find yourself saying....”
– Getting out the door is the biggest challenge to running and fitness in general.
“The number of foreclosures in Woodbury already has exceeded the 2008 total, and...”
– Woodbury sounds like the Twin Cities’ Eastern ghost-utopia.
“In some situations, directory publishers and local search sites may be using...”
– Telmetrics Responds to Call Tracking Debate « Screenwerk
As I understand this, the deal here is that yellow page companies may show a number other than a local business’ actual phone number in order to track the calls that the yp site generates. This can be good, but it can also cause...
“But my interest remains, as ever, in the quality of the apps, not the quantity....”
– Gruber’s on something or he’s onto something here. I have an iTouch and a HTC Hero so live in two app store worlds. One of my frustrations with the Apple App Store is how poorly apps are sorted. Maybe I’m biased by the time I spend on Amazon, but why is it so hard for me to figure...
“As a result of buying a bicycle and hating my neighborhood, I have found myself...”
– ethecofem shares some thoughts on giving up driving and the impact that’s had on her Minneapolis neighborhood preferences.
@ StuffaboutMinneapolis
stuffaboutminneapolis:
giantevilhead:
What can you tell me about the ‘Jucy Lucy’ (sic) that I didn’t learn from Man Vs Food?
They looked pretty tasty to me…
Fighting words in these parts is the argument over who makes the best Jucy/Juicy Lucy. I didn’t see the Man Vs Food episode, but the bottom line is the cheese in these things is molton freaking hot, and can/will burn your face off. I...
“Scholastic offered to carry the book provided that Myracle edited it to change...”
– Reality based books are such a bitch.
gayrights.change.org via Lisa @ Corporate Babysitter
“The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent...”
– 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. Is also a poor weight-loss strategy.
Hulu Plans to Start Charging Users in 2010 →
robosheep:
myunitedstatesofwhatever:
iamsosorry:
BOO!
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
The question they should be asking, and it’s a legit question, is “Is it better to have small revenue from ads or no revenue from closing our portal and driving our users (back) to piracy?”
I wonder how much of Netflix’s inventory will be available for instant play by then?
“The Cornucopia Institute, a nonprofit farm-policy advocacy group based in...”
– Target Target Target
“According to a report Monday from USA Today, Minneapolis-based Target is...”
– Right on!
“Cargill Meat Solutions, based in Milwaukee, issued the recall because they said...”
– More like Cargill Meat Problems. Amirite?
“Kids can do detailed, technical things, and they can do them well. Have you seen...”
– Jamie Oliver (via marco)
Ha, no doubt. Hockey moms that let kids play contact sports but won’t let them use the stove without an adult present are inadvertently steering their kids toward a lifetime of Easy Mac.
Too Funnily Honest
The cutline from the photo accompanying Chris Riemenschneider’s Strib column today about the Mall of America was changed in the online version. The original reads:
Real American girls rest at the MOA’s American Girl store. With luck and a few made-up stories (such as the one about the doll that bit a girl), our author can steer his daughter away from the place.
Nice.
They Shoot Porn Stars Don't They? Words & photos... →
(via boomd)
Money quote: “Once upon a time, pornographers were kings. Now, content was king. “Everybody talks about ‘content,” Powers bemoans, disgusted. “What the fuck is ‘content’?” he sneers. “That’s what it’s turned into. Content. Even that word is offensive!” he shouts, banging his fist on the desk. “The average shooter, nowadays, he has no interest in making a good movie. He...
FOR EVERY REBLOG BETWEEN NOW AND 4/20/10
doublejack:
jimrock:
The Deal
I will add a .5 gram of medical grade marijauna to a jar for every reblog this gets.
On April 20th 2010, I will roll all of this weed into a single blunt and smoke it with select confidantes.
We will likely have to plaster multiple blunt wraps together, thusly creating a new type of “megablunt” that science doesn’t have a name for yet so you could consider...
WatchA pretty sweet tour of San Francisco on departure from SFO. Via @ekai. No relation to Balloon Boy that I’m aware of.
Twin Cities Man Recalls His Own Ordeal on Runaway... →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
As the country watched a helium balloon believed to be carrying a 6-year-old boy fly out of control over Colorado Thursday, a Twin Cities man recalled a similar incident in Minnesota decades earlier that made international headlines.
To those of you unfamiliar with how the major Twin Cities media outlets work, if there is a story making national headlines, someone in the...
Falcon jumped the shark at six. Set your Tivos for the 2021 season of Where Are They Now to see how this turns out. #balloonboy
Before we get too obsessed with this silver...
chrisocial:
Let’s not forget what else happened in the news today: JP Morgan Chase reported $3.6 BILLION in profits in the 3rd quarter. Goldman Saches reported $3.2 BILLION. Major US Banks and securities firms are planning on paying $140 BILLION in compensation this year. Goldman alone will be paying $20 BILLION in BONUSES ALONE. That’s an average BONUS of $700,000 per employee.
For fuck’s...
nice - Google Images →
merlin:
Nice.
Results vary considerably based on SafeSearch settings.
“If you think by looking me up and down and winking or licking your lips I’m...”
– The Men of Minneapolis are getting nowhere with Jennifer
“Guess what, you got sold out. Healthcare reform is going to pass, with...”
– Eric Spiegelman’s GOP-hosted blog dropping k’nowledge on teabaggers who poured their misguided hearts into preventing health care reform.
