Carl Jung’s final book might actually be published after almost a hundred years. Those who’ve read it say it’s a work of genius, or maybe psychosis. (via Metafilter)
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15 Spectacular Sinks & Strange Wash Basin Designs. I want them all! And here’s more.
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Dan Brown’s 20 worst sentences. The author of The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol can entertain completely out of context with his purple prose.
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Cable trains run up and down hills in Europe through the power of gravity. Some are filled with water to make them heavy; one goes downhill on sewage.
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Uh-oh, here comes Kanye West! Who does he have a bone to pick with now?
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What do you do when all else has failed to change your kid’s behavior? As any experienced parent will tell you, chill out and let it go, at least for a while.
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Come On Down!: 4 Great Moments in The Price is Right. And remember to spay and neuter your pets.
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HA! Kanye, you jackass. (I can say that, the Pres. did!)
posted by Steven on 9-18-2009 at 8:17 am
I’m right there with you on those amazing sinks!
posted by Courtney on 9-18-2009 at 9:55 am
The only sink I liked was “Splashing in the Splash Sink”.
Backing off my son’s behavior doesn’t work with him… he’s like a girl who knows if he’s going to sleep with you as soon as you open the door and no matter how nice you are, that’s not going to change a negative vote.
I had a horrible time potty training him because he was going to do it when he was damn well ready and none of my praise, or stickers or charts was going to change that so I totally let it go and he ended up barely being potty trained before he started first grade after spending like 3 years trying to get him to do.
posted by Sarah in CA on 9-18-2009 at 11:31 am
What a relief to know there are so many other people out there who think Dan Brown is a terrible author. I tried to read “Angels and Demons” but had to stop after the first couple of chapters. It was soooo poorly written, that I couldn’t get past the awful writing to follow the story. Of course, Mr. Brown is crying all the way to the bank…
posted by Rachel on 9-18-2009 at 12:34 pm
I loved The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, but Dan Brown IS a terrible writer. I tried to read the former a second time and just couldn’t.
posted by Kate on 9-18-2009 at 1:30 pm
I installed the “Mystic River” sink in my last client’s house, and it’s spectacular. She hosts parties almost every weekend, and she tells me that it’s one of the elements in her home that gets the most compliments.
posted by Arcadia on 9-18-2009 at 2:03 pm
The Mystic River sink is okay,but the rest of those designs look like the designers had to come up with something, anything, before the professor’s deadline. Have any of them ever cleaned a sink, especially after someone has had the flu? The wooden sink would be a nightmare. They stink as bad as Kanye and Dan Brown (read Lincoln or Baigent if you want more Magdalen info)
posted by joyce on 9-18-2009 at 11:56 pm
The two sinks I like are the towel bar sink and the snail shell fossil sink.
posted by Sara in AL on 9-20-2009 at 1:26 pm
How do you get the Kanye app?
posted by Melanie on 9-20-2009 at 5:08 pm
Melanie, I never saw a generator page, so I took the URL and replaced whatever was in there with mental floss. You can replace http://www.mentalfloss.com/ with the URL of another site.
posted by Miss Cellania on 9-20-2009 at 8:03 pm