Nature [as in the scientific journal] endorses Obama. A vote for Obama is a vote for SCIENCE!
Usenet binaries newsgroups are a sort of half forgotten digital hell. #
Whenever I get sick I am reminded that I am in direct competition with many other living things: some large, some very very very small. #
How to impersonate a time traveller, Tip Number 68: Ah 1925, I spent two years there once. #
I considered using the internet for personal use only on weekends, but was worried I'd be too out of date. What an age this is. #
« Here is the food system [of Lesotho, which has no currency]: If you have an excess of vegetables, put a green flag over your roundhouse hut. If you have an excess of meat, put up a red flag. And if you have an excess of beer, put up a yellow or white flag. After awhile, you’ll get an idea of who tends to have an excess of what, and you send them an instant message to see if they want to trade. By IM’ing, I mean you send one or two kids. I couldn’t stomach the pineapple beer they brew. However, their greens are excellent. »
—Joshua Levin at Goodeater.com
« I think, perhaps, that we are a nation as depressed as our economy. Everyone knows that in chronic depression, one of the first things to go is the sex drive. We must not let it destroy us. As Americans, we deserve better porn. If a MILF shall lead us, it will be to the dry desert of celibacy. Trust me. I’ve seen Palin porn. »
Powers Of A Ten Ok, this really cracked me up.
« Don’t we all want our food to be like bursts of fire and panting gladiators? »
Little people are living in our broccoli! This national food chain crisis is worse than we thought.
Currently experiencing mental obstipation. #
Totality Online allows you to search the works of Jack Vance (although it doesn't return a hit for "Chyfe").
How my wife expresses exasperation: "I am trying to organize the tupperwear after this mornings apparent explosion." #
Personal observation #2,987: My self-loathing factor is up 7.8 percent today. #
The word "frank" has far more definitions than it ought to. Seriously, look it up sometime. #
Ugh, twitter spam. #
Fall
Ingrid
« Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity »
— Ode to Sean Hannity, John Cleese
This "Band Saw Safe" is incredibly cool.
Caffeine is a mind altering drug. #
Happy Apple Face
The Apple Pickers
The Sling is definitely in the lineup for Pentathlon 2009
How a plane flies upside down. Apparently everything I thought I aircraft wings was wrong.