Monthly Archives: March 2011

This is for Becky. You’ll need to switch the two labels for it to apply. Originally found here.

via Sanne van den Brink over on the I Love Charts facebook page. Originally found here.

Shared by thejoker101 I feel like I re-blog from Kottke too much, but hey everyone is doin’ it… Anyways, these are some really interesting photos. Color photographs of Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition by Frank Hurley. Early in 1915, their ship ‘Endurance’ became inexorably trapped in the Antarctic ice. Hurley managed to salvage the photographic …

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Shared by thejoker101 This is for Becky. 🙂 Originally found here.

Shared by thejoker101 I’m a huge Jeopardy! fan, as well as a huge Ken Jennings fan. Reading this makes Ken Jennings even more likeable, if that’s even possible. "I can't go anywhere in public where there might be old people, like Hallmark stores or cemeteries."   Originally found here.

Shared by thejoker101 This cartoon helps in understanding why I’m against US action in Libya. If we’re doing this for the humanitarian reasons we say we are, shouldn’t we be doing the same thing in all these other places? Oh, but that wouldn’t work because these other places don’t have oil, had dictators that were …

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Shared by thejoker101 NERD ALERT. If you’re a nerd, and you haven’t seen this yet, it’s pretty cool. surprisingly entertaining, window colors were retained from Windows 2.0 to Windows 2000   Originally found here.

Shared by thejoker101 Fiscal responsibility! President Barack Obama works on his statement concerning the situation in Libya with, from left, Chief of Staff Bill Daley, National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communication Ben Rhodes, in Brasilia, Brazil, March 19, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) According to …

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Shared by thejoker101 I always like to read interesting tidbits about the inner workings of my favorite game show. Ed wants to know: I have a question I’d like to ask, if I may. When Alex tells you the category for Final Jeopardy when you make your wager but before the question, are you also …

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Amazing perspective. ★ Originally found here.