Link-o-Rama 2/27/09

Chocolate Whiskey & Beer Cupcakes via Smitten Kitchen

Bacon, Cream Cheese & Horseradish Dip via Serious Eats

Oscars Meme

This is a list of all the films that have been nominated for Best Picture Academy Awards since 1980. Bold the ones you've seen.


1980 Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess

1981 Chariots of Fire, Reds, Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982 Gandhi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict

1983 Terms of Endearment, The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies

1984 Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story

1985 Out of Africa, The Color Purple, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness

1986 Platoon, Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View

1987 The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck

1988 Rain Man, The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl

1989 Driving Miss Daisy, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot

1990 Dances with Wolves, Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III

1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides

1992 Unforgiven, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman

1993 Schindler's List, The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day

1994 Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption

1995 Braveheart, Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino (The Postman), Sense and Sensibility

1996 The English Patient, Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Secrets and Lies, Shine

1997 Titanic, As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty, Good Will Hunting, L.A. Confidential

1998 Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line

1999 American Beauty, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense

2000 Gladiator, Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic

2001 A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge

2002 Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River, Seabiscuit

2004 Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways

2005 Crash, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich

2006 The Departed, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen

2007 No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood

2008 Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon, Milk, The Reader

Best Quote Ever!

Goes to Amy Roloff of Little People, Big World:

Getting my kids out the door on time is a lot like herding cats.

Thoughts on Oscar...

Here are my thoughts as the 81st Oscars aired live ~

GO HUGH GO!!!! 7:37pm

Hugh is the MAN!!! ♥ Him! 7:45pm

Oscar dance break!! 7:50pm

Steve Martin is a SILVER FOX! 7:59pm

yay WALL-E!! 8:06pm
- I had to rent Hello Dolly! after seeing it 9:04pm

growling at McAfee -- taking over my computer with its updates!! 8:54pm

Beyonce --- aghhhhhhhh -- anyone but her!!! 8:55pm
-It was cute to see the couple from Mamma Mia though...as always Hugh is the brightest star though! 9:03pm

liking the past winner montages! 9:03pm

proud Heath won. 9:09pm

laughing - dude just did a party trick with his newly won Oscar! 9:17pm

wondering what Will Smith is wearing on his lapel - a Scientology pin? It looks like a cross.. 9:27pm

Slum Dog Millionaire is racking up the awards! 9:36pm

Revenge of the Vacuum Cleaner

This is the funniest darn thing I've read in quite some time.

I was just bemoaning the fact that I needed someone else around to help me do something...but this post takes the cake. Eventually she had to call 911 to help her.

Tic Tac Micha

Color Changing Effect

*Watch Closely*

Star Trek and Spin Me Round Mash-Up

I found this to be *Awesome*

Oscar Winners: SPOILED!

Every best picture winner in Oscar history spoiled in one take in under 5 minutes by the Fine Brothers.

Talking Deer

A bit from the Man Show...too funny

Kingsford the Pig

He's cute and all but I still like bacon.

It reminds me of the conversation in Pulp Fiction about how dog's have personality...

Bacon is too tasty...yum-yum...but I still find the video cute.

Shrek the Musical

Shrek farts and burps his way to the top on The View @ Yahoo! Video

Phil Keoghan TAR Diary

Phil takes such nice pictures...

The Amazing Race's Cheese Challenge

I totally agree with Best Week Ever that The Amazing Race should have a cheese challenge every week.

It was totally hysterical -- I only hope that none of the teams were seriously injured the numerous times they fell and ate grass during the challenge.

The McNuggetini

Ummm...no I don't think so - I shan't be trying this culinary delight!

For more pictures and the recipe at The Recording

Friendship for Thought...

Think about this for a minute

If I happened to show up on your door step crying, would you care?

If I called you and asked you to pick me up because something happened, would you come?

If I had one day left, to live my life; would you be part of that last day?

If I needed a shoulder to cry on, would you give me yours?

Do you know what the relationship is between your two eyes?

They blink together, they move together, they cry together, they see things together and they sleep together, BUT THEY NEVER SEE EACH OTHER ... that is what friendship is.

Your aspiration is your motivation, your motivation is your belief, your belief is your peace, your peace is your target, your target is heaven, and life is like hell without it .

It's 'world best friend's week'.

Who is your best friend?

Save the Earth... it's the only planet with steak and chocolate!!!!

Tom Jones' Still Has It!

Tom Jones - If He Should Ever Leave You

Dormouse Sleeping on a Rose

clipped from arbroath.blogspot.com At the Secret World Wildlife Rescue Centre in Somerset.

How to get rid of a pimple fast

via UniqueDaily

LoL: Love in a Box

Taiwan Lantern Festival

This is so beautiful!

(Valentine) Tip from The Sneeze

A long time ago when my wife was my girlfriend and we were LIVING IN SIN, a tradition was born. I'd like to now share it with you all.

I came home from work one day and found her in front of the computer. I said "Hello," and she barely grunted back. I don't even think she looked up.

Half-jokingly I responded, "Okay, we're gonna try this again." I walked out the front door and came back in a few moments later...

"STEVIE'S HOME, STEVIE'S HOME!!! YAY!!!" was the new over-the-top cheer I was greeted with. It was accompanied by a hug and kisses. And I loved it.

What began as a joke quickly became an ongoing practice that continues to this day in our house: The person who is home first must make a small fuss when the other person gets there.

Does it sound silly? Yes. Do I promise that it will set the tone for a nicer evening just about every time you do it? Yes.

The world is full of douchebags, guys. Take 3 seconds out of your precious day to make a fuss over each other. Do it like you mean it. Do it as a goof. Just do it a lot.

I'm promise you'll be glad you did.

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Friday the 13th - Jason Voorhees' Body Count

via Popped Culture

Sad Man’s Kama Sutra

My cat employs the dosey-doe or Stephen King's "Misery" the majority of the time he deems me worthy enough to sleep with.

via Neatorama

Forget flowers: Say it with stickies!

Somebody in Antigua, Guatemala found an eye-catching way to profess his love. Each of the sticky notes covering this wall is inscribed with the message "Te amo, Cristina."

This photo won honorable mention in the National Geographic International Photo Contest 2008, in the Places category.

Photo by Lori McConnell

via Neatorama

Heart Shaped Paperclips

clipped from howaboutorange.blogspot.com A piece-of-cake Valentine project: bend regular paper clips into little heart shapes. These are jumbo clips I got in a multi-color pack at Target for about $1.50, I think. I fished out the pink ones for this. You could use them to leave love notes around. Or mark pages you like in magazines. Or hold tiny treat bags of candy shut. Or send a subtle message to the boss you have a crush on. Endless possibilities, really.

via LifeHacker

Dirty Words?

Library Science jargon that sounds dirty...
via McSweeney's by Aaron J. Enright

Access point
Authority control
Broad classification
Closed stacks
Coextensive subject entry
Collocation
Colon classification
Cutter number
Date stamp
Depth indexing
Descriptor
Dewey
EAD header
Exhaustivity
Full entry
Fuzzy set
Information package
Location device
Main entry
MARC record
Open stacks
Scope note
Subject entry
Subject heading
Surrogate Record
Syndetic structure
Technical service
Title entry
Tracing
Union catalog
User file
Vertical file
Warwick framework
Weeding
Work mark

LOST + Ace of Cakes = Awesome

LOST celebrated their 100th Episode with an AWESOME cake made by Ace of Cakes.

In other important news Hurley, Jorge Garcia has a blog --> Dispatches from the Island!

How cool is that?

clipped from dispatchesfromtheisland.blogspot.com

Monster Letters

How cool are these?


The artist Joey Ellis initially created them to help his son learn his letters. I just think they are adorable and they make me think about the old Sesame Street coloring pages where each letter was paired with a different character. The old pages seem to have disappeared, but here is what I did find.

If you visit Joey's blog or Flickr page you can see more of his art or even follow him on Twitter.

I also love his personal icon with the mouseketeer hat!


So cute!

Found via Boing-Boing

Magnetic duct-tape

It couldn't be any easier or more versatile: Just stick a few centimetres of the 19mm (3⁄4") wide patented magnetic tape to the back of your photos, posters, calendars, etc. and a matching piece on the wall, the sloped ceiling, the fridge door, office cupboard, memo board, etc. The tape strips will stick to each other magnetically. And can be just as easily taken off again. Unlike conventional removable adhesive tape, you can use this tape again and again. Ideal, for example, if you need to reposition plans and maps several times.

via Boing-Boing

Those !@#$%^&* Sopranos

Image via Wikipedia

Every swear word on the Sopranos said in chronological order.

Found via Boing Boing

I only made it through the first two minutes...but the best one I saw/heard was a kid walking to school.

The whole video package is 27 minutes long!

Fear of Friday the 13th

Paraskavedekatriaphobia

Word I learned today

clipped from www.merriam-webster.com bogart Main Entry: bo·gart Pronunciation: \ˈbō-ˌgärt\ Function: transitive verb Etymology: probably from Humphrey Bogart †1957 American film actor Date: 1966 1 : bully 2 2 : to use or consume without sharing

Heard this on NPR!

Unauthorized Trader Joe's Commercial

Heart Shaped Pizzas

Seriously Papa John's?

Nothing says "I Love You" like a heart shaped pizza!

Gah....

Dancing StormTrooper

Tokyo StormTrooper aka Danny Choo



Danny is currently a guest columnist at Boing~Boing!
He also has his own website as well as a YouTube Channel with dance videos recruiting for the empire.

Breakfast that SMILES at you...

clipped from www.boingboing.net

via Boing-Boing

25 Famous Librarians Who Changed History

Article by Laura Milligan

Times Square Valentine's Heart

Times Square Valentine's Heart, large 8 foot tall modern art heart decorates Duffy Square, which is the northern triangle of Times Square in New York City.