Let’s Roll!
Posted on April 25th, 2010 at 11:51 am by Steve

Candelpin bowling is making a comeback! The Boston Globe Magazine is on the story this Sunday, featuring a local star bowler named Jeff Surette:

he just wants to bowl, just wants to take what he can get from the most difficult form of bowling on the planet, a particularly New England pursuit that is as hard as a Maine winter.

Classic!

Regular readers of the blog (hi Mutt!) will recall that we mentioned the story of another local bowler back in December, when his record-breaking three-string score of 514 was kept out of the record books because the foul line sensor was not turned on.

Mostly for Dan
Posted on April 19th, 2010 at 9:17 pm by Steve

I love xkcd.

Tim Anderson Bubbles Up in the New York Times!
Posted on March 26th, 2010 at 5:17 pm by Steve

Friend of the blog Tim Anderson bubbles up in a New York Times article about Kombucha (a drink many NII bloggers were enjoying back in the mid-90’s thanks to Shwilly B!):

Kombucha’s popularity has also attracted home brewers. Tim Anderson, founder of a 3D printer technology company, moved from Boston to Berkeley, Calif., with his “mother” — passed on to him from a friend who got it, as the story goes, from gypsies in Russia.

Mr. Anderson, an advocate for all things do-it-yourself, made step-by-step kombucha brewing instructions complete with videos for Instructables.com (one of over 200 tutorials he has made on everything from tire sandals to wheelchair shopping carts). Nearly 60,000 people have viewed the kombucha guide to-date, according to the site’s page-view statistics.

“I’m surprised people would pay to get this stuff,” Mr. Anderson said. “The kind you can buy tastes vinegary and dry, whereas the one you can make yourself is so incredibly delicious.”

Mr. Anderson has given kombucha culture to dozens of friends and strangers. Recently he put out a call to get some back after he neglected his brew and let the fermented patty dry out. “You can’t go around saying you killed your mother,” he said. “It freaks people out.”

iTunes Crops Description, Chuckle Ensues
Posted on March 1st, 2010 at 2:08 pm by Steve

That’s how iTunes showed the description for this week’s episode of This American Life. Stupidly funny.

For the record, the full description reads, “The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.”

Twitter Logo == Headless Wheelchair User
Posted on February 11th, 2010 at 10:46 pm by Steve

As the kids say over at The Daily What, cannot be unseen!

(h/t: b&p via The Daily What.)

“Two Snaps Up, And Your Backfield In Motion!”
Posted on February 9th, 2010 at 1:04 pm by Steve

In the aftermath of the Super Bowl, it’s time to revisit this “Men on Football” sketch from 1992’s In Living Color:

“The books has been read, and the library is closed!”

(h/t: Joe. My. God.)

?uestlove Has a Twitter Feed
Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 5:00 pm by Steve

?uestlove has a Twitter photo feed: http://twitpic.com/11d07s.

That is all.

Gaze In The Military
Posted on February 4th, 2010 at 1:07 pm by Steve

“I mean, rather than campaigning for the right to serve in the military, I am going to organize a gang of faggots to extend the right to be ineligible for military service to all of humanity.” So sayeth IOZ, and I heartily concur!

Everything is OK!
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 4:29 pm by dr.hoo

On the Origin of Specious
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 am by Steve

Okay, so maybe referring to The Obama as specious is a bit of a stretch, but, dammit, I wanted that pun! And, really, it was just a setup for this awesome graphic by artist Mike Rosulek:

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