2006-02-02T13:48:36Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2006, anythink 2006-02-02T13:48:36Z 2006-02-02T07:48:16Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.307 2006-02-02T07:48:16Z

where groundhogs come from Offer up a hearty clapclapclap for the most important of all US holidays. When else during the year do we take a moment and allow a squinty eyed animal to have so much control over...

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where groundhogs come from
Offer up a hearty clapclapclap for the most important of all US holidays.

When else during the year do we take a moment and allow a squinty eyed animal to have so much control over out destiny?

Happy Groundhog's Day, enjoy the next six weeks of winter, keep your open toed shoes in their boxes and wistfully stare at your convertible top. Eventually, you'll be staring at the sun again.


february two : two thousand six ]]> 2006-01-18T21:17:43Z 2006-01-18T08:17:18Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.306 2006-01-18T08:17:18Z

as they say, it only looks tough What is the appropriate response to an overpriced Chevrolet? No, not the Corvette. We know people with Corvettes now, and we don't make nearly as much fun of them as we used...

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as they say, it only looks tough
What is the appropriate response to an overpriced Chevrolet? No, not the Corvette. We know people with Corvettes now, and we don't make nearly as much fun of them as we used to. (either the people or the car.)

FUH2 believes it knows the correct response to a 8,500 pound SUV, and they're not afraid to show it

Take a look at the One Fingered Mosaic and be glad that your overpriced car doesn't warrant the same adoration


january eighteen : two thousand six ]]> 2006-01-17T16:56:27Z 2006-01-17T06:56:00Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.305 2006-01-17T06:56:00Z

g'head, just choose one Lost in the wilderness of non-creativity? Need an assignment to spark your imagination? The first step towards inspiration begins with One Word The idea is simple: Visit the website, read the one word at the...

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g'head, just choose one
Lost in the wilderness of non-creativity? Need an assignment to spark your imagination? The first step towards inspiration begins with One Word

The idea is simple: Visit the website, read the one word at the top of the page, write for sixty seconds about the word. After that, you can share your vision of that one word with the world.

Best of all, it's a procrastination technique that actually helps you become more productive. Give it a try, Jack would be proud


january seventeen : two thousand six ]]> 2006-01-13T17:31:22Z 2006-01-13T10:30:51Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.304 2006-01-13T10:30:51Z

cuteest bug in the world Yeah, yeah. Friday the 13th. You've heard all about all the crappy things that could befall you today. You don't need yet another website to jump on that bandwagon. Especially when there are cute...

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cuteest bug in the world
Yeah, yeah. Friday the 13th. You've heard all about all the crappy things that could befall you today. You don't need yet another website to jump on that bandwagon. Especially when there are cute cuddily-wumpkins to coo about.

Meet the Cute Overlord of Cute Overload. It's a weblog that each and every day shows you the kind of over-the-top adorables that make you want to hug em and squeeze em and call them your own.

Thankfully, due to your being on the other side of this screen from the precious puppies, cute kittens and bouncy bunnies, you can unleash your inner Elmyra without fear of their suffering a Lennyesque fate


january thirteen : two thousand six ]]> 2006-01-12T15:38:23Z 2006-01-12T09:37:56Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.303 2006-01-12T09:37:56Z

you don't, Don'tcha Apple kicked off their week with a new set of toys. From gleeful sales numbers to new software to the introduction of the first Intel based Mac products, Apple earned its years-high stock price. But the...

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you don't, Don'tcha
Apple kicked off their week with a new set of toys. From gleeful sales numbers to new software to the introduction of the first Intel based Mac products, Apple earned its years-high stock price. But the real innovation can only be found inside your iTunes.

Introducing the Vingle.

No, not the punchline to an awful Yiddish joke, the Vingle is Apple's newest product for their music story that combines a video and a single into a $1.99 digital download.

Because once you get into the habit of buying music you can see as well as hear, Apple's stockholders will again offer you a hearty You're Velcome
january twelve : two thousand six ]]> 2006-01-11T19:43:38Z 2006-01-11T08:00:00Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.302 2006-01-11T08:00:00Z

Information flows in mysterious ways. One day, you're looking up a recent ex and the next thing you know, their current flame is breaking the news that their preggo It just makes you wonder how we're all connected. Is...

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Information flows in mysterious ways. One day, you're looking up a recent ex and the next thing you know, their current flame is breaking the news that their preggo

It just makes you wonder how we're all connected. Is the best way to get back at the crackhead who stole your spark plugs really to yell at them through Craigslist? Should your mom deny the things you say to one magazine in another? And what is the right response when proven to be a liar on the senate floor?

Perhaps we're all better off getting our information the old fashioned way, through eavesdropping


january eleven : two thousand six ]]> 2006-01-10T13:48:41Z 2006-01-10T07:48:16Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.301 2006-01-10T07:48:16Z

missed wake up call On August 29, 2003, Johannas Pope died in her Cincinnati Area home. She was 61 years old, knew that the time was coming and prepared for her death by donning a white gown, draping a...

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missed wake up call
On August 29, 2003, Johannas Pope died in her Cincinnati Area home. She was 61 years old, knew that the time was coming and prepared for her death by donning a white gown, draping a towel around her neck and sitting comfortably in front of the television.

Two and a half years later, she was discovered by police.

Strange as it sounds, Ms. Pope wasn't left unattended in her death. She believed that she would come back. For two and a half years, her daughter and granddaughter lived with her body. They told friends that she was ill, kept her remains out of view and tried unsuccessfully to keep the smell to a minimum.

Eventually, the secret was found out. Ms. Pope was unable to return, and now her family can put her to rest.
january ten : two thousand six ]]> 2006-01-09T14:01:03Z 2006-01-09T06:00:33Z tag:www.anythink.com,2006://5.300 2006-01-09T06:00:33Z

the under-construction schedule: daily bubblers monday - friday, newscasts: tuesday and thursday Life seems to exist as a series of binary systems. You are either liberal or conservative. With us or against us. You rock or you suck. On...

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the under-construction schedule:
daily bubblers monday - friday,
newscasts: tuesday and thursday
Life seems to exist as a series of binary systems. You are either liberal or conservative. With us or against us. You rock or you suck.

On the web, though, this mutual exclusive nature shows it self differently. Either your website is under-construction or it's been abandoned.

Well, today, January 9, 2006, Anythink breaks out its Bob the Builder gear and comes back into the land of the living. Cutting once and measuring twice, Anythink will restart this year by sending out all the news you need to know to bother the other folks standing in line for their Short Cappuccino.

So keep an eye on your mailbox, iPod, windshield and lower back. Anythink is ready to publish again.
january nine : two thousand six ]]> 2005-09-20T17:49:27Z 2005-09-20T07:48:54Z tag:www.anythink.com,2005://5.299 2005-09-20T07:48:54Z

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übermensch - simon wiesenthal
1908 - 2005
Standing at the end of the long cold battle against his culture, Simon Wiesenthal decided to find justice.

He had survived five Nazi concentration camps. He'd seen friends and family die at the hands of those either too evil or too loyal to an evil cause to not stop the atrocities. With 89 family members killed, Wiesenthal dedicated his life to tracking down those that purpetrated the Holocaust.

For six decades, he fought against anti-semitism and for the memories of Six Million killed, eventually bringing over 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice.

Simon Wiesenthal died today, leaving the world a better place.
september twenty : two thousand five ]]> 2005-09-19T14:09:17Z 2005-09-19T06:08:47Z tag:www.anythink.com,2005://5.298 2005-09-19T06:08:47Z

arrrrgg Time to shiver your timbers, dust off the eye patch and put on your good peg leg. Today's Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearty, And you don't want to walk the plank. One decade of Talk Like...

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arrrrgg
Time to shiver your timbers, dust off the eye patch and put on your good peg leg.

Today's Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearty, And you don't want to walk the plank.

One decade of Talk Like a Pirate days hasn't quite made the kind of inroads you'd expect for a holiday of this magnitude. That's where you come in. With a little help from you, Talk Like a Pirate Day can gain the status it needs to allow everyone to let their inner pirate out. And wouldn't you love to wear a parrot to work next September 19?


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'no, no, no. we're eating children back here' Garden Gnomes are evil. They sit, waiting and watching as you sun yourself in your back yard, looking for just the right moment to break out of their casing and devour...

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'no, no, no. we're eating children back here'
Garden Gnomes are evil.

They sit, waiting and watching as you sun yourself in your back yard, looking for just the right moment to break out of their casing and devour your soul. They may look kind and grandfatherly, but look at those eyes. Their filled with bloodthirsty glee

So be here warned! Garden Gnomes will attack you in your sleep, scurry over your bed and destroy your credit.

But if you're into that, you can rent this troll castle for the weekend


september thirteen : two thousand five ]]> 2005-09-12T20:06:03Z 2005-09-12T06:04:23Z tag:www.anythink.com,2005://5.286 2005-09-12T06:04:23Z

shark eyes Today marks the begining of John Roberts Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings. The 50 year old, blandly handsome, so-not-gay, jurist has been a staunch supporter of the conservative ideology since his days back in the Reagan Administration. But...

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shark eyes
Today marks the begining of John Roberts Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings. The 50 year old, blandly handsome, so-not-gay, jurist has been a staunch supporter of the conservative ideology since his days back in the Reagan Administration.

But that of course isn't the interesting bit of speculation that surrounds the fair-haired litigatir. No, the really interesting thing here isn't about his history with the conservative movement, nor is it about the curious international route his adoptive children made to his house, nor the annoying rumor about his (and his wife's) sexuality.

Instead, it's the story that months before he was announced as the replacement for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, he was thoroughly vetted and interviewed for the position of Chief Justice to replace the then ailing, now dead, William Rehnquist. So he was just kinda sitting there, on the bench for the bench, awaiting the death of his hopeful predecessor.

Like some kind of litigious vampire
september twelve : two thousand five ]]> 2005-09-08T15:34:56Z 2005-09-08T09:34:37Z tag:www.anythink.com,2005://5.275 2005-09-08T09:34:37Z

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shh, it's sleeping
(image © corbis)
Legend speaks of the mythical couch called 'Inertia'. It held such sway over the human body that it would suck all the energy out of any soul who dared cross it's path. It was thusly named for the reason that a body at rest tended to stay at rest when in its warm corduroy embrace.

While Inertia may have passed into the sands of time, you can still find yourself an energy sucking piece of comfort. Designers are working day and night to capture that special magic that forces you to do as little as possible.

So get off that office chair and slide into your couch. It loves you and misses you.


september eight : two thousand five ]]> 2005-09-07T15:47:50Z 2005-09-07T08:47:16Z tag:www.anythink.com,2005://5.264 2005-09-07T08:47:16Z

a legend in a rugby shirt All the talk about the folks in New Orleans fighting back the dirty waters of the city while begging for help from the authorities brings to mind the fate of other castaways. In...

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a legend in a rugby shirt
All the talk about the folks in New Orleans fighting back the dirty waters of the city while begging for help from the authorities brings to mind the fate of other castaways.

In particular, the most celebrated of all island dwellers: the passengers and crew of the S. S. Minnow. And sadly, today the news breaks that Gilligan, the first mate and namesake of their island, has died.

Bob Denver died of complications from heart surgery September 2nd, in North Carolina. Gilligan will make children giggle as long as there's television


september seven : two thousand five ]]> 2005-09-06T14:04:33Z 2005-09-06T07:04:18Z tag:www.anythink.com,2005://5.253 2005-09-06T07:04:18Z

they call it 'lake george' September 2005 marks a low point in America's third century. Devastating destruction in New Orleans, disgusting dereliction of duty of government authorities in protecting the citizens of that formerly great city, chaos of our...

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they call it 'lake george'
September 2005 marks a low point in America's third century.

Devastating destruction in New Orleans, disgusting dereliction of duty of government authorities in protecting the citizens of that formerly great city, chaos of our instigation in Iraq and an emperor who appears to love his new clothes.

You may still be able to get a drink in the French Quarter, but when people can't stop dying even at community fireworks displays, you've got to wonder just when things are going to start getting better.

Until then, at least you've got Anythink

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