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• 2011-12-08

  みやぎ先生 (via shredsled88)

  i don’t really know much about skateboarding but i do know that this is fucking awesome.

• 2011-10-22

  It’s wrong

  So VW has a new Beetle design, and a cute ad campaign to go along with it.

  One the ads I’ve seen shows the new Beetle from the side, and has the text “Profile Update” on the ad.

  See, the new shape of the car means that it has a different profile. Hence, profile update. Which could also refer to something seen on a social network. Enough people would get the reference that they’d see the double meaning, even if some of the younger ones among them might only get the facebook bit.

  Another shows the rear of the car, with the text “It’s back” accompanying it.

  Oh no, this is all wrong. I can understand what they were going for. It’s back! Like, it’s been a while but now we have this totally sweet redesign and it’s really great. But it also shows off the back of the car. So, the car’s back? as in the back of the car? That can’t be what you meant, because then you would have used the possessive its. They’re not interchangeable. So instead of having a quirky double meaning, this one just makes it look like the ad agency was trying too hard.¹

  The funny bit is if they’d used almost any other word besides “it” to describe the car, then it would work both ways. Beetle’s back. That could be read either way, because the contraction “beetle is” doesn’t come up so frequently that it needs a special exception case.²

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  1. Or, maybe they’ve thought about this just as much as I have, but have arrived at the conclusion that surely nobody else would do the same. ↩

  2. Which is just as well, because then we’d all be wondering - wait, is that what multiple beetles’ backs look like? ↩

• 2011-09-23

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• 2011-09-17

  

  

  dinosaur reblog

  (via fyeahislanders)

• 2011-09-09

  Ceremonie v Minsku - symbolické vítězství Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (by n3oklan)

  as seen on Puck Daddy

• 2011-07-31

  

  americanmccarver:

  You can try to take my hockey team from me, but I won’t let you do it without a fight.

  Vote Yes.

  (Source: americanmccarver)

• 2011-07-30

  we can’t go back, we can only go forward

  

  in bastion, all that remains of the world after the event known only as the calamity are little floating scraps of earth and rock. as you journy amongst these broken steps, the path you’ve taken is always visible behind you. the ground in front of you doesn’t appear until you’re nearly on top of it. so you’re always sure of where you’ve come from, but one misstep can send you plummeting off the edge of the world into oblivion. should this happen, you reappear at the edge again. you’re free to run off again, making the same mistake over and over, or you can go in an unknown direction, opening up a new path.

  so it’s fitting that one of the big choices the game offers at the end is to go back in time to replay history - knowing full well that there’s nothing to prevent the calamity from happening again. or, you can continue to forge ahead in this new, post-calamity world. the game doesn’t suggest one over the other, but if you’ve been paying attention at all throughout the game, it seems almost criminal to damn history to repeating itself.

• 2011-07-23

  American McCarver: The Accidental Hall of Famer

  americanmccarver:

  hall of fame or not, i will always love chris osgood.

  (Source: americanmccarver)

• 2011-07-13

  Sparrow: Sparrow 1.3 has been submited to the Mac App Store. Our little bird is...

  sparrowmail:

  a better sidebar, no more useless window animations. looks good. i’ll definitely give it another shot once it’s out.

• 2011-07-05

  http://americanmccarver.com/post/7260056120

  americanmccarver:

  I can only hope the residents of Nassau County do the right thing and keep the Islanders here. Yea, it’s the economy, stupid. But it’s also hockey. Which means it’s also our hearts.

  Vote YES August 1.

  (Source: americanmccarver)