Euphemism of the Day

The NYT is calling the astroturf group formed by Big Soda "grassroots-style."

Pretty good shirt, though:

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Probably you wouldn't want to wear this if you had a big belly

Happened across this while looking for something else:

Digging @alxtorres 's new graphic designer shirt. twitter.com/rcktorres/stat…

— Rick Torres (@rcktorres) October 15, 2011

(h/t: Meghan Kelly/VentureBeat)

[Added] The title was a nod to Hannibal Lecter fans, of course. Here's a definition I didn't know, though:

Noun

render (plural renders)

1. A substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.

You thought A-R was bad?

Don McArthur saw my previous post over on Google Faceplus, and was reminded of an even more desperate condition he'd come across last month:

Holey Picture and Other Signs of Our Times

Happy Sunday!

Swiped from Photobombing.net, which you shouldn't visit if you've told yourself you're just about to get off the computer.

(Permalinks for individual posts where pix were found: 1, 2, 3.)

So I got to wondering what Rob Zombie was up to these days and ...

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More humor than humor!

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The real dilemma: to +1 this, or not to +1 this

(h/t: MK, via iPad demo | pic. source)

Why is Barack Obama ...

... so disrespectful of what ®ealAmericans believe???1?

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See also, see also.

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[Added] Let there be Blingee! (Especially when you can steal from Mrs. Polly at Rumproast.)

The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes are now in second place

I have a new favorite baseball team.

(previously)

(h/t: some cricket fan)

Knuth is still our homeboy

Love the geek humor:

If there's a competition to uncover security holes in Google's browser, Sergey Glazunov is winning it.

Yesterday Google awarded him $3,133.70 ("eleet") for finding a critical vulnerability that Google patched with a new release of Chrome yesterday.

I hope the check was actually expressed in tenths, not cents, but still, this is the best thing I've heard since the hexadecimal dollar.

(pic. source | whaaaat?)

I'll give that a big ol' "Heh, Indeed"

Seen this T-shirt ad?

The Arch Morals of the Universe

I will have nothing to say about His Son.

Much less the Holy Trinity.

(Swiped from @argylestyle's background, via @MaddowBlog.)

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And now, here it is: Your Moment of Zen

Seen emblazoned on a piece of clothing in Buddhist temple gift shop: "My Parents Went to China and Found Enlightenment and All I Got Was This Lao-tze T-Shirt"

(h/t: listener)

Now That's A T-shirt I Can Believe In

More here.

(h/t: Jon Chait via DougJ)

Been A Long Time Since I Wanted A T-Shirt With Anything Printed On It

However ...

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That's right! It's Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock!

Video explanation:

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(h/t: Jay Garmon | pic. source)

[Update 2011-11-18] New embed, alt. video link.

Idealism Tempered By Reality

Ad for a T-shirt, showing, once again, that the kids are all right:

Okay, Now I Know Two

Thanks to Georg Cantor, I have known א for years.

Just saw an ad which should help another letter of the Hebrew alphabet stick in memory, almost as easy as pi:

Which also suggests an upgrade path for certain LOLcats.

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T-shirt of the Day: 2007-10-17

No, really. I was only looking at the words.

More models here. Of shirts, I mean.