Annie Rauwerda
Sep 5, 2023 BY
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I like most things with trademarked exclamation points (Oklahoma! Chips Ahoy!) and Jeopardy! is no exception. I watch it every day, even the awkward banter that people like to fast-forward through. Jeopardy! gives you immediate motivation to brush up on topics you’ve previously neglected. I studied science and don’t know enough history, but I’ve learned about the Bolshevik Revolution and Alfred the Great and the Qing Dynasty because I can never shake this thought: what if it’s tonight’s Final Jeopardy!? There’s an unofficial web app that lets you play archived games with your friends!
Sep 5, 2023
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Did you know there’s one NYC dog named Lunch, none named Dinner, and 27 named Snack? There are seven dogs named Breakfast, but only one is a hot pink bitch.
Sep 5, 2023
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Reaction gifs from GIPHY may be stale but you know what’s not? The best comic ever. Every day I thank God that Michael Yingling made this indexable archive. Search for a word, like “microwave” or “raccoon” or whatever, and find a C+H for every moment under the sun. If you want to search for other comics, use the site Oh No Robot.
Sep 5, 2023
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As it has been written in the great texts, I am passionate about treating something trivial with methodical care and thought, to the point where it is no longer clear whether there’s a joke at all. So is Darius Kazemi, who wrote a blog called “Fork Free” ten years ago.
Sep 5, 2023
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Some documentaries are so good that they make you want to use all 246 synonyms for “wow” (according to this extensive Wiktionary list). This is one of them. In an hour and thirty-seven minutes (perfect runtime), a 1997 documentary about a bizarre Texas endurance feat will make you laugh, cry, take a shot, and have many epiphanies!
Sep 5, 2023
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And I mean browsing. Just paging through, skipping the methods section, joyreading. Pigeons can be art critics! Researchers can figure out your identity by examining which phone apps you use, and when! The historic emergence of writing correlates with inequality!
Sep 5, 2023
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Kill every “poster” impulse and put info online for no recognition, no reward, no glory. Hunt for kooky stories in news archives and put them on Wikipedia! Replace dead sources with archived links, expand two-sentence stubs about obscure rivers in the middle of nowhere, fix typos!
Sep 5, 2023