As you may have noticed, Reprint has moved to its permanent home, http://reprint.areavoices.com, and I can now access Oh Look! A Shiny Thing! again. Hooray!
I’ve redesigned some of the graphic elements and I hope you like the new look of it. Many sparkles died to make this page possible.
Here are a few oddball and esoteric blogs and a few short movies you may enjoy:
(Quite a few of these came from BoingBoing, which covers a very wide spectrum of topics itself.)
1. From Reuters comes this top 10 list that may be better termed a bottom 10 list: It’s a list of the 10 biggest movie flops of the past decade. And the biggest flop isn’t Battlefield Earth, surprisingly. I’m happy to report I haven’t seen any of these movies, and I don’t intend to, either.
2. A satirical article about African leaders meeting to discuss the reform of U2, which was pretty giggleworthy.
3. A man made a magnetic Starbucks coffeecup and stuck it to the top of his car, then tweeted about people’s reactions. It’s like a mini-sociology experiment.
4. Sometimes the sidewalks don’t go where you’d like them to. And sometimes people make their own darn streets where they think the streets should be. Here are the results: Urban pathways.
5. The Huffington Post did a neat slideshow of the world’s most expensive foods, starting with white truffles, which look kind of disgusting, honestly. They also detailed why the foods are so pricy.
6. This story from Hi-Fructose Magazine is kind of like Where’s Waldo: The Ghost Man paints himself and then sits in front of objects, camouflaging himself perfectly. Can you spot him?
7. Here’s a blog called "Smile Like You’re Dead Inside," which is devoted entirely to pictures of people smiling like they’re dead inside. Some people interpret that to mean zombies, and others interpret it to mean that horrible glazed smile some retail folks get near the end of the holiday shopping season when they are exhausted and on the point of tears and/or violently smashing merchandise against the wall.
8. This is an early example of a LOLCat. Very, very early.
9. And here we have for your perusal a gallery of hyper-magnified snowflakes, each more beautiful in its crystalline structure than the last, no matter how you count them.
10. And here are some very peculiar Beach Boys songs, including a cover of "The Times They Are a’Changin’." And "A Day in the Life of a Tree," which is about… a day in the life of a tree. Really.
When I worked at a tea room, we made a lot of sandwiches, mostly of the little tiny bite-sized tea sandwich variety, but also some nice big ones. Because it was a tea room, they were usually beautifully garnished with dill, basil, thyme, rosemary or even edible flowers, arranged beautifully on the plate.
The sandwiches themselves, though, were fairly normal, and usually consisted of bread, some sort of delicious filling (such as orange-cashew chicken or tuna thyme) and some dark greens. They were delicious and we did get creative; the peanut butter, spiced nut and cinnamon bread sandwiches, I remember, were pretty tasty.
We never got crazy.
We never made sandwiches that looked like computer mice. We never made sandwiches with donuts instead of bread. We never made sandwiches shaped like Pac-man and decorated plates with raisins for him to "eat" as he blipped around the plate. We never had a heart attack just looking at the Quadruple Down, doubtless named after the quadruple bypass that would be required if one were to ever eat one of these.
We never, in short, made insanewiches.
If you like sandwiches or food, or have ever eaten, you should check out Insanewiches, a blog dedicated to finding the most insane sandwiches in the world.
Another collection of Google Alerts, finely pruned to remove the boring stuff:
Chrysler elimination proposal:
http://internetrush.blogspot.com/2009/05/chrysler-minnesota-car-dealerships.html
http://isanti-chisagocountystar.com/read/detail/44252.html
Minnesota Chamber president refers to Swift:
http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/event/article/id/24038/
MPR links Reprint:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2009/05/five_at_8_may_21_2009.shtml
Blog post about Brett Favre written by guy who grew up in Worthington:
http://chainlink-chainoflakesncd.blogspot.com/2009/05/brett-favre.html
Wind Energy Services opening new office:
http://www.nawindpower.com/naw/e107_plugins/content/content_lt.php?content.3980
A biodiesel editorial we didn’t write, but did run in our paper, linked:
http://www.biodieselinvesting.com/biodiesel-archives/2009/05/20/minnesota-begins-5-biodiesel-blend-requirement/
The weather in Worthington:
http://www.skyseastone.net/jvstin/unjvst/007943.html
Immigration seminar refers to ICE raids in Worthington:
http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=2&a=400093
We have added two blogs to our Daily Globe blogging network: Lagniappe and Tales from the Chief.
Lagniappe is written by Beth Rickers, our features editor. The title comes from a Cajun word Beth’s mother, Dorthy Rickers, used to use, which means "A little something extra." The blog already includes recipes for gingersnaps and veggie-cheese soup, so make sure you go all the way down to the page to catch up with it!
Tales from the Chief is written by Ryan McGaughey, our managing editor. Ryan’s going to write a bit about the news industry, national and regional news and the behind-the scenes stuff at the Daily Globe, as well as his family. He’s already got a couple posts written, one about the recent plane crash in the same region he once lived and one introduction, so be sure to catch both!
In the tradition of silly blog lists, I’ve been thinking of a few things that really aren’t that romantic, when you think about them.
And our final Daily Globe blog for now is Dirty Laundry, a blog about crime and parenting in southwest Minnesota.
It’s written by our wonderful crime reporter, Justine Wettschreck. There’s already a few things up there, so go have a look and bookmark it if you like it!
She’ll be writing about some of the court cases she covers as well as random stuff about her zany family. (Her family is awesome, by the way.)
I found this list of Top 10 Worst Types of Blog Post a while back, bookmarked it and then forgot about it.
I have to say, I’m guilty of at least a few of these. But I don’t do #8, or #7. Hopefully not #5 either. Definitely not #3. And hey, I like #1. I think they’re fun!
I do promote Daily Globe type activities here, but I’ve never promoted anything I didn’t think was actually really cool. And I do disclose that it’s Globey.
Speaking of which, the Women’s Expo (a Globe event) is coming up again, and I expect to be liveblogging it again. It’ll go smoother this year, since I won’t be writing the story on it and since we’ve got more experience in liveblogging now. And I’ll probably stay a bit longer and do more posts, so you folks at home get a better idea of what the Expo is like.
I had a really great (and overcaffeinated) time at the Expo last year, watching Sue Doeden cook and seeing all the booths, and then working at the Globe’s booth too. You get to see so many people and then, they do your nails or give you a backrub or a cookie. What’s not to like?
Save the date: March 28, for the Expo. Bring your mom or daughter or random female friend! Or even a male friend. Tell him there’ll be bevies of beautiful babes there.
And the Bridal Fair (another Globe event) is coming up soon, made all the cooler by the addition of prom gear to the show.
The Bridal Fair will be Feb. 7 at the American Reformed Church.
I’ll try to get you a little more information on the Bridal Fair as it becomes available, but that show is absolutely full of gorgeous food for events and beautiful and striking gowns for weddings. It also offers formal event paraphernalia, like information from limo drivers, caterers, and the people who rent chocolate fountains and that sort of thing.
… uh… blogs together. Kind of.
My dad, with the help of my mother’s mad comp skillz, has started his own blog! Only time will tell if he sticks with it, but I have high hopes.
Note that this blog is totally and completely unaffiliated with the Daily Globe.
My dad is an ELCA Lutheran minister in Jackson and he has decided to blog in order to extend the church’s ministry online.
So, without further ado, here it is! I’m so proud!
