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Splitsider - Inside Jokes 25 Things You Should Know About Word Choice - StumbleUpon 1. A Series Of Word Choices Here’s why this matters: because both writing and storytelling comprise, at the most basic level, a series of word choices. Words are the building blocks of what we do. They are the atoms of our elements. 2. Words are like LEGO bricks: the more we add, the more we define the reality of our playset. 3. You know that game — “Oh, you’re cold, colder, colder — oh! 4. Think of it like a different game, perhaps: you’re trying to say as much as possible with as few words as you can muster. 5. Finding the perfect word is as likely as finding a downy-soft unicorn with a pearlescent horn riding a skateboard made from the bones of your many enemies. 6. For every right word, you have an infinity of wrong ones. 7. You might use a word that either oversteps or fails to meet the idea you hope to present. 8. Remember how I said earlier that words are like LEGO, blah blah blah help define reality yadda yadda poop noise? 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Am. 15. No, really. 16. 17. 18.

Neatorama 10 Lamest Frontmen Of All Time - NME Blogs - NME.COM - The worlds fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and more Charisma, charisma, charisma. That’s what being a good front person is about. The people on this list - topped by Liam Gallagher - have it in spades. But not on this list. 10Paul Heaton, The Beautiful South Dear Paul, we get your "unassuming, guy next door schtick," really we do. 9Roy Stride, Scouting For Girls You've no idea who this person is, do you? 8Travie McCoy, Gym Class Heroes Travie’s main crime is that he’s so damn anonymous. 7Patrick Stump, Fall Out Boy We loved the Fall Out Boy dynamic. 6Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits The original gangsta of AFOMFT (Anonymous Frontmen Often Mistaken For Teachers). 5Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit The ‘top half’ of this list delights in singers whose all out terribleness centers on multiple levels of annoyingness. 4Chris Martin, Coldplay 3Johnny Borrell, Razorlight You got the feeling J-Bo was distinctly lacking any sense of the LOLs, as he rode about on his motorbike sporting tight white jeans with Kirstin Dunst on his arm. 2Bono, U2 1Chad Kroeger, Nickelback

[Geeks are Sexy] Technology News - We make technology sexy! Ned Hardy The Zed Word - Zombie Blog The Top 50 Pictures of the Day for 2011 - StumbleUpon Every day at 5pm the Sifter posts the Picture of the Day. Below you will find a collection of the Sifter’s Top 50 from 2011. It’s hard to imagine the year is almost over, time seems to fly faster each successive year so it’s fun to take a moment and look back at the year that was. Click any of the pictures below to be taken to the individual post to learn more about the photographer and picture taken. Enjoy and stay sifty my friends! Cat-Shaming Install Theme © All Themes Tumblr Spotlight Cat-Shaming I has a shame. Ask Submit Adoptable Archive Random RSS 235,048 notes Posted on Thursday, 10 April 2014. Reblog Permalink 309,779 notes Posted on Thursday, 10 April 2014. Reblog Permalink Is this how cat burglars get in? dailycatgif: Posted on Wednesday, 9 April with 516 notes. 63 notes Posted on Wednesday, 9 April 2014. Reblog Permalink pleatedjeans: 30 Big Cats Caught Being Adorable Posted on Tuesday, 8 April with 60,080 notes. 313,793 notes Posted on Tuesday, 8 April 2014. Reblog Permalink 85 notes Posted on Monday, 7 April 2014. Reblog Permalink 467,233 notes Posted on Monday, 7 April 2014. Reblog Permalink 139 notes Posted on Sunday, 6 April 2014. Reblog Permalink Kitty pong in the middle dailycatgif: Posted on Sunday, 6 April with 488 notes. 99 notes Posted on Saturday, 5 April 2014. Reblog Permalink 10,341 notes Posted on Saturday, 5 April 2014. Reblog Permalink 175 notes Posted on Friday, 4 April 2014. Reblog Permalink Posted on Friday, 4 April 2014. Reblog Permalink

How I Met Your Mother Music | The How I Met Your Mother site | be awesome instead Welcome to the most complete How I Met Your Mother Music list there is! Thanks for visiting, I take the accuracy of the music list very seriously. A few notes… Songs will be updated shortly after the episode. Click link to jump to Season: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Season 7 | Season 8 Series Theme: Hey Beautiful by the Solids Cool Tools Gar's Tips & Tools - Issue #154 Gar’s Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales is published by Cool Tools Lab. To receive the newsletter a week early, sign up here. I was thrilled to discover this shout-out from Kevin Kelly in a recent Recomendo. Maker tips: I continue to be impressed by Gar’s Tips & Tools, a newsletter that we co-publish with Gareth Branwyn. I got a big bump in subscribers after this. For years, I saw other people, like my pal Kent Barnes, recommending alignment dots for mindlessly mating a jack to a plug without having to align the exact location or figure out the plug orientation. One of the most-requested projects I get asked about are DIY rolly cabinets for storing portable parts organizer cases, popular among makers. Several weeks ago, I got a message from a subscriber saying that they couldn’t believe I hadn’t written about Tim Hunkin’s latest series, The Secret Life of Components. In this thorough video and written guide, Erin St. Reader Chuck writes:

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