Friday, February 26, 2010
Check out this strange language I spotted in the fine print for a contest that Esquire magazine is running:
Canadian winners will be required to correctly answer a mathematical testing question as a condition of receiving a prize.
Some googling shows the same line in the legalese for a contest on Redbook’s website, which suggests it’s part [...]
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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Why the internet exists:
FYI, the Spanish one has ~200,000 more views.
So, remember how my dad got a Smart Car?
He has upped the adorable ante again and a. joined a Houston-area auto club and social-networking site for Smart Car owners, and b. taken some tasteful photographs of the tiny car basking in the sun in a roadside field of wild bluebonnets, as does every doting Texan [...]
Monday, February 16, 2009
Please enjoy this image of my dad with his new Smart Car.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
At some point in the distant past, probably as a result of RSVPing for some free SXSW party that I didn’t even attend, I ended up in the address book of Dateline Iceland, a monthly email dispatch from Iceland’s official tourism board. My interest always momentarily piqued when it appeared in my inbox, but my [...]