Brian Urlacher Retires as a Green Bay Packer: “I just wanted to go out a winner”

>”I know this may rub some people in the Bears organization the wrong way. And some Bears fans, too, probably,” said Urlacher. “But it’s my right to end my career the way I want to end it, and doing it as a member of the Green Bay Packers — unquestionably the best franchise in the NFC North throughout my career and, really, all of NFC North history — brings me great joy. Not being a member of the Bears on this day is the highlight of my career.”

Yes, yes I know this is fake and that Urlacher did indeed retire on the Bears roster, but I couldn’t not post this. The title alone made it link worthy.

24 May, 2013

The One-Person Product

Marco Arment, Tumblr’s co-founder, gives us his thoughts on the Yahoo! acquisition and why he believes the platform won’t be doomed.

“Tumblr is David, and David is Tumblr.”

20 May, 2013    2 notes

Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!

We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going.

Well, okay then.

20 May, 2013    1 note

Welcome to Google Island

It hit the shore at first light, approaching from a perfect angle that allowed the sun to just peek out over the back of the island. I hopped over the side, and watched as the boat slowly put itself into reverse, turned, and headed back out to sea.

“Hello.”

The soft, froggy voice startled me. I turned around to face an approaching figure. It was Larry Page, naked, save for a pair of eyeglasses.

Have you ever imagined what a Google run country be like? Wired’s Mat Honan puts it into words, and, well, it’s as scary as you pictured it.

18 May, 2013

Sean’s tips to love, #1

Say you’ve been seeing someone for a while, but you aren’t sure if you love the person. Ask them over one night and eat a mango together. If you’re still attracted to the person afterwards, I’m happy to say that you’re in love.

A human eating a mango is the equivalent to a fox ripping through a zebra’s flesh.

16 May, 2013    2 notes

Amazon Coins: A Terrible Idea For Consumers

These kinds of monetary systems are designed to get customers to lock in a bunch of cash they can’t later get back out (no refunds or exchanges in this program, of course), and they’re baited with “discounts” to get people to dump large amounts of cash into the ether. If you buy hundreds of dollars of coins at once, Amazon will give you a discount on them, up to 10%. But at the end of the day, you’re still giving Amazon hundreds of dollars that you might not spend for months or that you have to worry about managing separate from, you know, your bank accounts.

Garrett Murray’s rants are always the best. Especially when he’s right.

13 May, 2013
There’s no better way to wrap-up a Mother’s Day dinner than with some tea.

There’s no better way to wrap-up a Mother’s Day dinner than with some tea.

12 May, 2013    7 notes

Player’s Family Sues N.H.L. for Wrongful Death

The family of the Derek Boogaard filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the National Hockey League.

It contends that the N.H.L. is responsible for the physical trauma and brain damage that Boogaard sustained during six seasons as one of the league’s top enforcers, and for the addiction to prescription painkillers that marked his final two years.

I can’t imagine how hard going through the death of a family member must be, but this is a ridiculous suit by his family against the NHL. Derek Boogaard knew exactly his role on his team, and he could’ve retired and left the sport at anytime during his career. Instead he stayed and continued to fight.

12 May, 2013    2 notes

Heat!

Say what you will about spicy food, but I hated it as a kid. Anything that had a remotely spicy taste to it wouldn’t get eaten by me. Including anything that had regular old black pepper on it. It was that bad.

And now, it has all changed. The culprit: Sriracha sauce 1.

I couldn’t tell you when the first time I tried Sriracha was, but all I can say is that it was bound to happen. I mean, it’s on every table in pretty much every asian restaurant. I’m only human and curiousness is a disease. So I tried it, then I tried it again, so on and so forth until I bought a bottle for myself at home, and that was that. That was a few years ago. Today, I add heat to most of what I eat. I don’t only have Sriracha now either. Cholula Hot Sauce is another new favourite that the wife’s mother introduced me to.

My goal is to one day try a few of the world’s spiciest peppers on the list, and (hopefully) not react like these two in the video. But who am I kidding, we all know I will…


  1. The rooster brand Sriracha sauce. By the way, this Oatmeal comic is spot on: theoatmeal.com/comics/sriracha 

11 May, 2013

Un premier parc montréalais offre un accès wi-fi gratuit

Les usagers du parc Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier, situé dans l’arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal, auront désormais accès à une connexion internet sans fil gratuite. Il s’agit d’une première à Montréal.

WELCOME TO THE FUTURE!

08 May, 2013