impudent strumpet

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Sunday, August 31, 2008

Things They Should Invent (if they haven't already): you can text any phone you can see

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I have the idea that this exists already, but I haven't been able to google up confirmation. (Of course, I don't know what it's...
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Recurring elements in my dreams

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Two things have been recurring in my dreams every night for the past couple of weeks. 1. A woman who wants an arranged marriage to two men....
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Things They Should Invent: custom-made porn

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This idea was inspired by this Savage Love column (most obvious content warning ever: it's a Savage Love column about porn - proceed ac...
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Money, keys, comb, wallet, lighter, hankie, pens, cigarettes, contraceptives, vaseline, whips, chains, whistles, dildos and a book

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How Elizabeth and Anthony's relationship could have been made convincing without changing the overall plot

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1. After Anthony rescues Liz from Howard, they get chatting and he hints at the fact that his marriage is having trouble, but waves off Liz...
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Things They Should Study: how does vocal register change when speaking another language?

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When I'm speaking another language, I tend to speak at a lower pitch. In French (my second language and the one I use most often) it dr...

Things They Should Invent: Kernels in movie theatres

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Kernels sells awesome popcorn. Why do they not have locations in movie theatres????
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Possible new academic year resolution

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My new year's anti-resolution is working well, so I'm considering starting another for September, because after 19 years of my life...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Someday?

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Elizabeth says "I'd like to have a baby someday." I know it sounds mad crazy nitpicky, but the use of the word "someday...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Google is scary smart

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I wanted to go to The Weather Network's website, so I typed www.thew into my address bar, trusting the autocomplete to do the rest. The...
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Hairdressing FAIL

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You know how sometimes with updos people have wispy little curls around their faces? I tried to make that happen (just the wispy little cur...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Things They Should Invent: WhatHappensWhenThisExpires.com

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Right now, somewhere in your home, is expired cough syrup. You are completely unaware of this, and won't give it a moment's thought...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

Things Youtube Should Invent (or, rather, reintroduce): shrink poor quality videos down to their original size

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I don't have the technical vocabulary to describe this phenomenon, so please bear with me and feel free to politely put it in more grown...

My predreams are carnivorous

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Last night as I was waiting to fall asleep, I predreamed that I was in my kitchen preparing breaded chicken. The chicken was in a baking pa...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Where my priorities are

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Long story how I came to be thinking about this, but today I realized: I don't care if someone steals my cellphone. I'd just buy a...
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Why they need to stop renaming Toronto theatres

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[the following is an unofficial transcript] Me: Where's Spamalot playing? Poodle: The Canon Me: Is that the one where we saw it last tim...
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Things They Should Invent: quick and easy general fertility test

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There are all kinds of ways to test if you're fertile (i.e. ovulating) today, and there's a lot of medical science that diagnoses sp...
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Things Ticketmaster et al. Should Invent: find best available seats over multiple days

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Sometimes people want to go to a show on a specific day, which is what the current system accomodates. But sometimes you could go on one of...

Did they know alcohol was bad for fetuses in the 1950s?

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Check this out: Major Houlihan thinks she's pregnant, and she has two or three standard drinks in this scene. Her reaching for the bott...
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