"Maple Ridge woman missing since Monday" »
Have you seen this woman?
Police are reaching out to the public to help find a 30-year-old Maple Ridge woman who hasn’t been seen since Monday.
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Before her disappearance, she was wearing blue spandex pants and a white shirt with “who needs boobs” written on the front and “with an ass like this” on the back.
Best thing I learned today: the standard way of representing operatic libretti is using the IPA, and the singers (and their coaches) are trained to read it. The image is a sample from act 1 of La Bohéme — line 1 is the IPA representation, line 2 is the original language, and line 3 is the word-for-word English translation.
Smart.
How we got a word for "putting things off" »
Benjamin Zimmer on the origins of the word “procrastination”.Good Advice From a Grand Theft Auto Dating FAQ »
Another excellent McSweeney’s list.Stuff White People Like: Grammar »
Full of hilariously ironic commenters intentionally misusing “their” and “there”, and so on, predictably.Extraview Interview »
Bill and I got interviewed about Tuneage on Extraview. Some good stuff there, including the women of music I happily admit to getting wood for.[via extraview]
Ratatat's New Single, "Shiller" »
Ratat’s new single, “Shiller”, in mp3 format. (Honestly, 7” vinyl — the only format the single is currently available in — is great, but not even Ratatat are going to get me to buy a record player.) It’s so, so, so good, and well worth the wait.Free Stuff! »
From Tuneage:
Tuneage reached a milestone recently. As you’re probably aware, Tuneage is powered by Tumblr (which we love) and in the middle of last week, we reached 1,000 followers. […]
To celebrate, we’re holding a small giveaway and giving away lots of stuff. Just because we’re nice like that, and because we’d be nowhere without you guys.
Writing Tuneage for the last 4 months has been one hell of an experience. So we’ve put together a giveaway to say thanks to all the people that have been with us during that time.
[via Tuneage]
Episode 3: The Wreck of the Old '97 »
Just posted episode 3 of the Tuneage podcast — a little earlier than usual, because I’ll be busy tomorrow.
One of us was out of town this week, so it might not be as polished as in previous weeks.
This is a lie. I’ve edited the podcast alone since the beginning, and awfulness is purely my fault, and no one else’s. But I had to make some sort of excuse.
“It’s not that bad” reblogs are encouraged.
[via Tuneage Podcast]
Yakko's World »
Remember Animaniacs? One episode had a song at the beginning called Yakko’s World, sung by Yakko Warner. In it, Yakko manages to name most of the countries in the world, and kids fucking loved it. (Here it is on Youtube.)
And then Wikipedia came on the scene, and just tore it to shreds. The article contains missing countries from the song, nations or countries mentioned in the song that are not widely recognised as independent states, geographical irregularities in the map displayed with the song, and so on. Completely nulling any credibility the song had. And then they take Yakko out back and shoot him.