Tweet of the Day: @JohnFugelsang
LOVE this! As a musician, I can attest that lyrics structured like this, containing lines that repeat with only slight variations, are actually harder to memorize than lyrics where there’s no...
View ArticleTweet of the Day: @AmazingPics
I’ve lived in Bellingham, Washington long enough to have low expectations concerning the arrival of spring. There are still plenty of rainy days to come, and possibly even some snow, before we get...
View ArticleTweet of the Day: #Poo-PowerRevisited
This reminded me of a post about poo-power that I published way back in August 2010. Very cool! Denver Zoo developed their own on-site poo-power system and tested it out on a rickshaw! bit.ly/GX3hqo—...
View ArticleTweet of the Day: @DougCoupland
I love a number of Douglas Coupland‘s books, and he often tweets interesting stuff. This one introduced me to XKCD.com, for which I’m grateful, and this particular XKCD comic made me chuckle,...
View ArticleWho Will Be Fish & Bicycles’ 1,000th Commenter?
Every time I post something new here at Fish & Bicycles, WordPress congratulates me on my latest achievement and informs me how many posts to-date I’ve published. Well, I’ve been creeping toward...
View ArticleTweet of the Day: @TheOnion
LOL! Study: Dolphins Not So Intelligent On Land onion.com/dfFQvL— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 04, 2012 Filed under: Fish & Bicycles, Tweet of the Day Tagged: comedy, internet, nature social media
View ArticleMcSweeney’s: A Breath Of Fresh Air
My current favorite app on my iPhone comes from McSweeney’s, specifically their McSweeney’s Internet Tendency content, updated nearly daily, consisting of short-to-medium-length humorous submissions...
View ArticleI’ve Been Freshly Pressed
So, I use WordPress.com as my blog host, and on the WordPress.com home page they have a feature that highlights “the best” of the nearly one million blog posts published each day by WordPress.com...
View ArticleTweet of the Day: @badbanana
LOL! Experts are close to classifying internet addiction as a mental illness. They just need to check one more thing. And Facebook. And Twitter.— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) October 05, 2012 Filed under:...
View ArticleVine’s 6-Second Video Loops: The New 140-Character Tweet?
Well, it’s been nearly a couple of weeks since Twitter launched Vine, its new microvideo sharing app, and the buzz has finally led me to check it out. Examples of the buzz…headlines like this: Why Vine...
View ArticleTesting Tumblr
Well, it’s pretty clear by now that this Tumblr thing isn’t going away anytime soon, so I’ve bitten the bullet and I’ve set up a mirror blog there. WordPress.com makes it super easy, with their...
View ArticleMcSweeney’s: A Field Guide To Common Punctuation
It’s been over a year since I last posted something from one of my favorite sources of reading entertainment: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. As I mentioned last time, I regularly, literally, laugh out...
View ArticleQ: Are Blogs Dead? A: HELL NO!!!
So, there’s this article out in The New Republic, by Mark Tracy, titled Eulogy for the Blog. And, I have to tell ya, it REALLY bugs me, and it bugs me on several levels. First, unless it’s a thing to...
View ArticleAdventures In Graph Innuendo
Listen, either I’m the biggest pervert in the world, or many, many minds should be blown by the fact that the following graph actually made it past the editors of Forbes.com and onto the interwebs,...
View ArticleHeadline of the Day: Strange Definition of ‘Fun’
Kicking off this new Recurring Series with a headline from our local daily newspaper, here in Bellingham, Washington: ‘I thought you would think it was fun,’ Bellingham driver told cop after trying to...
View ArticleHas TalkingPointsMemo.com Jumped The Shark, Or Am I Not Reading It Correctly?
When I first discovered Talking Points Memo (TPM), sometime around 2001, it was solely the political blog of Josh Marshall, and it looked like this: One blogger, one very narrow column with blog posts,...
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