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I’m ripping this off from Cory@BoingBoing who ripped it off from Jason Kottke because it’s just so fricken hilarious:

If you go to Google Maps and get driving directions from New York, NY to Dublin, Ireland it will instruct you to “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi”

Just don’t forget the inflatable armbands.

The USPS is issuing Star Wars stamps both to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the franchise and take the sting out of the forty-one cent stamp.

Here’s the full spread:

All of these stamps are going to appear on a single sheet, and the post office is giving the public the option to vote for which single stamp gets its own sheet.

Darth Vader is currently in the lead.

But Yoda has my vote.

Here’s a pretty boy with a Pac Man tattoo.

This is how I’m feeling lately…

Lyrics and music courtesy of The Unmatchable Casey Stratton BUY SOME GREAT EFFING MUSIC HERE!

Hollow

it’s so quiet
walking along the edge
it won’t be long now
til i forget who i am

i am so afraid
to move forward
all these mistakes i’ve made
surround me

so i run away
i cannot face
what i’m throwing away
it’s just as well
you could always tell
when i was hollow

i never asked for this
happy just to breathe
but now what i’ve done here
means nothing to me

i look inside and
i feel so small
i am never good enough
to become what you already are

so i run away
i cannot face
what i’m throwing away
it’s just as well
you could always tell
when i was hollow

so once again
i have let you win
the game of giving me a voice
the pill has been swallowed
but i am still hollow

i look back upon my life
and see what’s been denied
and i try to face it
but i can’t ever seem to erase it

so i run away
i cannot face
what i’m throwing away
it’s just as well
you could always tell
when i was hollow

so once again
i have let you win
the game of giving me a voice
the pill has been swallowed
but i am still hollow

© 1998 Sleeping Pill Music (ASCAP)/Universal Music Group

I made this handy graphic as a visual aid when reading Wikipedia.

Most of the snow here’s gone so it’s too late for this but…

back when I was their age we had to BUILD our own snow forts out of actual snow.

Target sells them online for eighty bucks.

Josh pointed me towards Fox “We Report, We Decide” News’s Terror Survival Handbook or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Be More Afraid.

Read carefully. Read carefully! it might save your life one day…

At least they prudently recommend carrying a towel.

1. Isn’t it true—as a rule—that if you demand an apology for someone that all you’ll get is an empty reply? I suppose it’s hard to convince someone who thinks he’s done nothing wrong that he needs to apologize. Does forgiving that person without them first apologizing make one a better person? I suppose maybe so.
2. Am I the only person in the world who knows that if a traffic light is not functioning it turns into a four-way stop?
3. Why does it have to warm up for the snow to melt during the week, then get crappy again just in time for the weekend?
4. I think it’s officially impossible to find a book without knowing the title or author (or publisher, for that matter). I know what it’s about but I don’t know what it’s called… Maybe the professor who assigned it as required reading can help me out.