November 2008
59 posts
$20 kit produces trillions of universes →
Trailer for Valkyrie →
Spoiler alert: Hitler lives.
October 2008
65 posts
Living With Mental Patients
With a few rare, sad, tragic exceptions, the people in my family tend to live a long time with relatively few health defects, only to spend most of their lives in utter misery, punctuated at the end with a large, delirious question mark. So, while I should have little fear of diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia or heart disease, the nature of the preceding sentence is such that I do anyway. ...
Ivory anatomical manikin →
God Hates Signs protest waged against Westboro... →
David Tennant quits as Doctor Who →
“I need some sleep
time to put the old horse down
I’m in too deep
and...”
– eels, “I Need Some Sleep”
Japanese Prime Minister complains that he no... →
WatchJAM THE VOTE!
“Though love has its place in the sun,
It’s only man’s fear that...”
– Ween, “The Argus”
Apple gives $100,000 to fight California gay... →
Oldest toy in Britain →
Self Fulfilling Prophecy →
Why the Republicans Must Lose →
Brew Better Coffee in Your Hotel and at Home... →
“Don’t fake it baby, lay the real thing on me
The church of man, love, is...”
– David Bowie, “Moonage Daydream”
Insanely intricate pumpkin carvings →
This scares the shit out of me →
Stifling free speech is not unique to either party. This is nothing but censorship.
What Not To Be For Halloween →
“…though it’s difficult for some choice citizens to believe, not...”
– David Harsanyi, The Denver Post
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
– Oscar Wilde
Brett Ratner to direct new Conan movie? →
WatchThis is so weird - a promotional trailer for a book. It has actors acting out scenes and events from Neal Stephenson’s amazing new book, Anathem. This trailer? Not so amazing.
It makes the book seem lame. The book is not lame.
WatchDarrell Hammond’s Jesse Jackson impression is probably my favorite, ever.
“I spanked cold red mud where the hornets stung deep
And I tossed in the ditch...”
– Tom Waits, “Trouble’s Braids”
Brain's reaction to hand transplant →
GlassBooth Matches You with the Right Candidate... →
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“Turn the lights out
Fax machine anthems
Now get your damn hands up”
– Beck, “Hell Yes”
“Then it was I
The lone futurist leading
Scores of resistors armed with...”
– Rasputina, “The Infidel in Me”
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“We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of...”
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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Sorry I Missed Your Party: Baby Hipster →
“I think one of those signs that you’re getting over the cool hill is when you start noticing you’re older than anyone in a band worth listening to.”
So true.
“The sound of God is the screech of tires, lights and magnets, bolts and wires”
– The New Pornographers, “The Electric Version”
