no further comment

cool thing of the day

"She’s a chemistry nerd, so everything had to be exactly correct. Astute chem majors will notice the color-coded icing for solids, liquids, and gases, as well as the empty cupcake liner for as-yet-undiscovered element ununseptium. […]"

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a91nc/periodic_table_of_cupcakes_pic/

an oldie but a goodie, who didn't feel this way when they got one?

droopy gordon is droopy

because there's now a large picture of superman on this blog

PARENTING

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=49b_1259354881

creepy mccreeperson

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5AP17R20091126

A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, an online newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 55-year-old man from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam opened up his wife's grave in 2004, molded clay around the remains to give the figure of a woman, put clothes on her and then placed her in his bed, Vietnamnet.vn said.

The man, Le Van, told the website that after his wife died in 2003 he slept on top of her grave, but about 20 months later he worried about rain, wind and cold, so he decided to dig a tunnel into the grave "to sleep with her."

meanwhile, in the land of NOT fucking shit up

Starting in January 2010, the aftermath of Dark Reign will begin in Siege, which details Norman Osborn's invasion of Asgard and the reunion of the Avengers.

okay, i'm sold.

frank miller, king of subtlety

Holy Terror, Batman!

"For the first time in my life, I know how it feels to face an existential menace. They want us to die. All of a sudden I realize what my parents were talking about all those years. Patriotism, I now believe, isn't some sentimental, old conceit. It's self-preservation. I believe patriotism is central to a nation's survival. Ben Franklin said it: If we don't all hang together, we all hang separately. Just like you have to fight to protect your friends and family, and you count on them to watch your own back. So you've got to do what you can to help your country survive."

can't wait until this shitbird kicks it. the unspeakable irony of a man who once paraded a nationalistic Superman around as the acme of all that was deplorable in a superhero now groveling before the standard of patriotism? stinks worse than rotting blood.

look at you, you one-hit wonder. you got old.

and then there's the matter of his squicky attitude towards gender roles - he's worse than tarantino when it comes to making his freudian issues tangible and clammy:



ahem.

there will never be a superhero this badass ever again

best catchphrase ever

In Infinite Crisis #7, Bane is shown fighting alongside the villains during the Battle of Metropolis. During the battle, he breaks the back of the hero Judomaster, killing him. No reason was given for his actions in #7, though in Infinite Crisis's collected edition, one of the many changes made to the original series was Bane saying "I finally know who I am. I am Bane. I break people." while breaking Judomaster's back.

TELL ME THIS IS NOT THE BEST LOOKING CAT YOU'VE EVER SEEN YES THAT IS A MALLOT NEXT TO HIM WHY DO YOU ASK

nietzsche v. plato

FIGHT

"Nietzsche is one of the few philosophers since Plato whom large numbers of intelligent people read for pleasure."

-Walter Kaufmann

"Plato is boring."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

FLAWLESS VICTORY

old but this is one of my favorite things

he meowed for 30 mins sitting next this empty box and rubbing himself against it

so i did this:



he sniffed at it.

and this is his current location.



I believe that was a lol, i was just playin

yippy skippy

http://www.esquire.com/the-side/augmented-reality

edit: and oh yes, living up to my promise of 100 percent more titties

i saw her first

suck it

suck it long

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20320711_4,00.html

and suck it hard

nice badge

Happy Thanksgiving

"This heat – it is like nothing else. You sweat so much you can't pee, not for days or weeks. It's like all the liquid comes out through your skin and you stink. You become dizzy and sick but you aren't allowed to stop, except for an hour in the afternoon. You know if you drop anything or slip, you could die. If you take time off sick, your wages are docked, and you are trapped here even longer."

-Sahinal Monir

"This is the best place in the world to be young! The government pays for your education up to PhD level. You get given a free house when you get married. You get free healthcare, and if it's not good enough here, they pay for you to go abroad. You don't even have to pay for your phone calls. Almost everyone has a maid, a nanny, and a driver. And we never pay any taxes. Don't you wish you were Emirati?"

-Ahmed al-Atar

These Indians throw themselves in front of cars, because then their family has to be given blood money – you know, compensation.

- Jules Taylor

The Dark Side of Dubai

what I wouldn't give to have been born synaesthetic

There are people out there who can literally see time, as a multicolored ribbon winding about them in mid-air.

-The Crawl

god help me i read /. comments sometimes

The government cannot enforce its copyright on "works for hire" where the government is the employer but it can enforce copyrights it acquires. Contractors also often retain copyright is works produced while performing a contract (the government usually acquires a nonexclusive license). The mere fact that a work was paid for by tax money does not put it in the public domain.

-John Hasler

IP law is fucking broken.

a magical moment

you could not pay me enough money to do this

well?

love those fascist overtones

gorgeous, also wut

made out of 100 percent holy crappium, pretty sure this is the boomstick

THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK

WANT

A Serious Man(s)

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090415215833AANkVR6

all-star superman

sucks dog ass.

that will be all.

"Jesus never hugged NOBODY LIKE THAT!”

christian rappers on the dangers of full-frontal hugging.

i think my brain just fell out of my ear.

a question for the ages

palin booksigning crowd interviews

NO WORDS

starting today this blog is going to have 100% more titties

Catullus 16 - Wikipedia

"I’m gonna fuck you guys up the ass and shove my cock down your throats,
yes, you, Aurelius—you fucking cocksucker—and you too, Furius, you faggot!
Just because my verses are tender doesn’t mean
that I’ve gone all soft. Sure, a poet should focus
on writing poetry and not on sex; but does that
mean they can’t write about sex? If a poem is
in good taste, well-written and erotic,
it can give massive boners to hairy old men,
not just to horny teenagers. You think I’m a sissy
just because I write about thousands of kisses?
I’m gonna fuck you guys up the ass and shove my cock down your throats!"

fap o'clock

seems about right

team this

ozzies

In Melbourne today, an angry kangaroo attacked a man while he walked his dog, cutting the owner's abdomen with its hind legs and pinning the dog underwater. The man ended the attack by jabbing the kangaroo in the throat with his elbow.

I like to think that once the creature was down, he continued his walk.

beautiful

your morning cup o' japan

your morning cup o' SCIENCE

Mitra’s team wanted to find out what would happen if an isolated bird raised his own colony. As expected, birds raised in soundproof boxes grew up to sing cacophonous songs.

But then scientists let the isolated birds give voice lessons to a new round of hatchlings. They found that the young males imitated the songs — but they tweaked them slightly, bringing the structure closer to that of songs sung in the wild. When these birds grew up and became tutors, their pupils’ song continue to conform, with tweaks.

After three to four generations, the teachers were producing strapping young finches that belted out normal-sounding songs.

- Wired


Awesome. I keep thinking about Pi and the development of sign language. This is a good reminder to go back and read Deacon's The Symbolic Species.

your morning cup o' heebie jeebies

An engineering student thought to be in a coma for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it has emerged.

I'd say that hacky pundits are going to use stories like this to further the DON'T PULL THE PLUG issue, skipping right over the fact that in every instance the GCS was apparently "wrongly assessed" or "graded incorrectly", but thankfully it happened in Europe which for the most part doesn't really exist.

Additionally, am I the only one that thinks this would be a great model for the future of the incarceration system? Can you imagine how it'd cut down on the cost? Instead of filthy, noisy cell blocks you'd just have row upon row of silent beds, warehouses full of them. No more paying prison guards, no more kitchens, no more worries about escapes, none of those practical concerns. Of course we'd have to sacrifice a few sundries like "we don't torture" and early release/parole but hey, if it was good enough for Superman it should be good enough for us, right?

your morning cup o' fury

Her followers will not know that she is the perfect patsy for our system, designed as it is to channel popular anger in any direction but a useful one, and to keep the public tied up endlessly in pointless media melees over meaningless nonsense (melees of the sort that develop organically around Palin everywhere she goes). Like George W. Bush, even Palin herself doesn’t know this, another reason she’s such a perfect political tool.

trying to pick one good quote from a taibbi post is hard because the man writes truth like he's packing vietnamese kids onto a helicopter. he also has the incredibly rare quality of being a non-soporific journalist (as much as anyone with this clear a position on the issues can be said to be a journalist).

READ ME, SEYMOUR

i'm not sayin'

i tried typing out "introduction to objectivist epistemology" but accidentally wrote "introduction to objectivist epidemiology"

oh my god

on my reading list

My periods nearly killed my marriage: A woman reveals how PMS made her so volatile it put a strain on her relationship

hmm

this is an incomplete list. expect future revisions

Things that are weird to think of as discrete eras

* Computers as a geek hobby

Fun Assignment

Compile a list of all the instances in which the opinions or behaviors of artists of whatever sort problematized your enjoyment of their work.

to the other person on this blog, whaddya say

Our mission at the Fart Hacker Institute is a simple one: We want to make clean, renewable energy from your butt.

GET ME OFF 4CHAN

head asplode

what make?

going to hell

uh

dear internet

i did not know the correct meaning of "toss your salad" until today

i am 23.

iawtp muchly

what the fuckery

"Located in San Jose, California. A homemade chicken plucking machine built from Herrick Kimball's book "Anyone Can Build A Whizbang Chicken Plucker"

alright it is legit creepy at USE THE LOOFAH

spacenigger's bedhead

that's it i quit

"On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have an opinion either way."

from: http://www.gallup.com/poll/114544/Darwin-Birthday-Believe-Evolution.aspx

Over a third of adults in the country said they don’t really think about evolution?

“Hey, what are your thoughts on the basic way the world as you know it came to be, these thoughts presumably contributing to your religious beliefs and the meanings of life and humanity?”

“Meh.”

what.

i have been doing my best to ignore this shit but they are making it god damned hard.

things i learn from daytime TV

Jack Black was in the Cable Guy?

story of my life, man

remember: you can't fool drool

Some Critic on Dollhouse wait I mean Some Know-Nothing on Dollhouse

"Joss Whedon needs to think more about his fans and less about his wallet. If he did, he would do his work for a cable network which can sustain a show that attracts this sized audience. He did not serve you well. Shame on him."

gladwell is such a fucking piece of donkey ass shit

also? not a candidate for people's sexiest man alive

this stemmed from a serious consideration of the brown note

Best of What's New 2009: Playing the Lung Flute from PopSci.com on Vimeo.

opulent and brilliant

things i don't understand but look pretty volume number yuppie

snowmen made out of twine. i don't know. this reminds me of people who build birdhouses out of fucking nuts they found in their yard

edit: VERB TENSE MEANS NOTHING TO ME

throwbacks

I HATE SQUIRRELS AND/OR MY NEIGHBORS

just what exactly is she hoping to gain from this

Just perfect for a teenage boy

it was great i heard your turdspatter

THAT IS WHAT YOU GET FOR BELITTLING CIV 4

hi

one of the writers of this blog held me hostage as i was taking a dump tonight

he waited outside the door and played death metal until i finished

i just want everyone to know

this blog isn't being updated because someone is playing CIV 4


everybody point and laugh

I gave the other blogger of this account the clap.

It's the clap.

watch a hobbit get freaked out

Storm

Why does everyone let this cripple play with the big boys.

Aside from being able to control the weather she's entirely useless in a fight, except for whatever tactical advantage flight confers - I dunno, maybe she can carry Logan around and then drop him on someone?

Not that she doesn't have some real powers - once they warm up. The problem is, that takes a good 5 seconds of eye-misting and ham-handed dialogue, during which time she's been eviscerated or eaten or energy-blasted or otherwise punched to death and brought back to life in the reboot like twice. She's really not cut out for CQB. Maybe they could have her stay back in the mansion and make sure there's good weather for whatever mutant-stomping event they've got to go break up.

Anyway, I understand that she's black and a woman and that's great, but I'd really rather they just turned Jean Gray - the IMPORTANT female protagonist, not the consolation prize - all darksauce and got rid of Storm altogether. Or at least keep her locked up and tranced out in the broom closet so they don't need to invest in a sprinkler system for Charles' estate.

Summary: Fuck bitches, get money.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8330633.stm

Someone old once told me that the research that used to take him a month to do with a card catalog can now be done in 3 minutes. Personally, I think he was underestimating Google.

One day I'll be old and tell someone that the research that used to take me a month to do on Google can now be done in 3 minutes. Personally, I hope I'll be underestimating whatever fantastical new technology has sprung up by then.

This is delightful to me because I can not wait to see What Comes Next, but also incredibly depressing because my viewing window on Human History is almost assuredly (c'mon Kurzweil & de Grey) so itsy-bitsy.

The conventional wisdom on mortality is that the refusal to accept it is a sign of pathology. Maybe it was true in the past; maybe it's still true in the present. I don't care. It's never sat well with me. And it won't be true in the future.

brb takin' mah fish oil