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Discussion Boards => High-Context Discourse => Topic started by: Zaratustra on May 06, 2008, 05:43:52 PM
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Scribbls (http://www.scribbls.com/users/zaratustra-104) is kinda fun. Merge two images into a new one.
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Bug Zappers at 30 paces. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080518.wtaser0518/BNStory/Front/home)
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http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/
:sadpanda:
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NO. NOT TAZ.
:MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :MENDOZAAAAA: :ohshi~: :fukit:
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(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/Tasmanian-Devilssml.jpg)
[*snip* -Det]
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They look like adorable, murderous rodents. Up yours, D.F.T.D. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease)
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Upside-down dogs, the most terrifying site on the internet. (http://upsidedowndogs.com/)
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(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa34/disponi/kkPbMV7aXf1r9bpzs5VHtSU6o1_400.jpg) : START... THE REACTOR
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And step up the reactor power input THREE
MORE
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Damnit, I came here to post the upsidedowndogs link. :loser:
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Proposing we put up a vaguely relevant tiled background image, a line of text repeated and overlapped while growing in size to achieve a "zoom effect", and a looping .wav of the line "How'd you get the berries above the frank?" from There's Something About Mary.
It'll be perceived as fresh and original because nobody makes YTMNDs like that anymore.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to put some more hamsters on this site.
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POINTS
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http://www.baconnaise.com/
That is all.
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(for luck) (http://divisibleby0.com/murder/)
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But if you're car's an unstoppable murder machine, how are you supposed to stop it? Furthermore, if you're capable of stopping it, then how can they call it unstoppable?
I get the impression that I'm being intentionally mislead here good sirs and I do not like it one bit. :humpf:
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it's unstoppable at killing, not driving
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But if you're car's an unstoppable murder machine, how are you supposed to stop it? Furthermore, if you're capable of stopping it, then how can they call it unstoppable?
If the car kills you, that's still murder.
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Almost as much joy as the actual game gave me, and painfully appropriate.
Linked through OneManga: The_Legend_of_Zelda_-_Wind_Waker_-_Links_Log_Book/7/08/ (http://www.onemanga.com/The_Legend_of_Zelda_-_Wind_Waker_-_Links_Log_Book/7/08/)
Following is definitely, DEFINITELY NOT FOR WORKS!!!
In the off chance Doom hasn't gotten it already.
Final Fantasy IV - CL-orz2 . Linked through an ezmanga partner. May be totally shady?
Main page (http://hentaifromhell.net/doujins/final-fantasy-iv-cl-orz2-c74),
Gallery (http://hentaifromhell.net/galleries/2008/10/Final-Fantasy-IV-CL.htm),
Download page (Deposit Files) (http://depositfiles.com/en/files/8440067)
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I've been trying to make wikiHow (http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page) my new TV Tropes lately. It's far more practical information, and not so bogged down with irrelevant data as The (Other) Other Wiki. Hasn't fully taken yet, but I have discovered one can spend hours learning how to, for example, wash one's own hair (a piece of missing information that I've actually historically been able to turn to my advantage when dealing with domestically-minded women, oh well).
iGoogle (http://www.google.com/ig) marks the first time in countless years that I've ever bothered to set a homepage, and I couldn't be happier. It's also the first time in my entire life that I've ever actually kept a todo list.
It is stressing me the fuck out.
What's in your internet?
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yo dogg we heard you liked wikiHow so we put wikiHow in your iGoogle so you can learn from yo homepage
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Well, yes, that's how I ended up on wikiHow in the first place.
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I got my iGoogle on, but I mostly just use it to keep track of infrequently updated podcasts, blogs or webcomics, like Erfworld or (sigh) Achewood. Plus I got the weather and a daily quote thing, though the latter is often depressing to look at in the morning and I wonder why I keep it.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- G. K. Chesterton
I also keep stuff like wikipedia, dictionary.com, imdb and youtube in Speed Dial, but I guess that's a given.
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I hated Google Reader when it launched, but now that it's been re-designed I'm okay with it. I started using it once I noticed I was subscribed to more than twenty blogs.
The folders option is invaluable. Previously with feed readers I'd jump from humour to news to articles on a per-post basis, and found the switch between different contexts jarring.
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like fifty webcomics, fffound, some blogs, bbc news, local news and twitter
and wired and slashdot for roughage
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Also it's got the goddamn Konami Code.
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For me, locations on the Internet aren't quite as meaningful as the means used to navigate it. Setting up YubNub (http://yubnub.org/) as my default search engine, combined with the YubNub version of trip (http://trip.glenmurphy.com/), has drastically improved the efficiency of my slacking. Also the mouseless browsing (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/879) extension - the first of its kind I've found tolerable (I bet Opera's had that feature for years, but I don't like Opera).
Haven't yet bothered to consolidate my blogs on Google Reader or any such thing, for various reasons.
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Sometimes wikiHow shows you how to do things that are difficult. And sometimes it attempts to show you how to do the impossible (http://www.wikihow.com/Appreciate-Robot-Chicken).
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:fuckyou:
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Sometimes wikiHow shows you how to do things that are difficult. And sometimes it attempts to show you how to do the impossible (http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Buddha).
(... the link is different)
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That's not... that's the entire point of the whole religion!
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I see your buddha and raise you one better. (http://www.wikihow.com/Become-a-Perfect-Buddha)
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Hum. It only takes 3 steps to become a Perfect Buddha, but 9 steps to Be Patient (http://www.wikihow.com/Be-Patient). Did the most enlightened men in the universe cut corners because they had a short temper?
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I just like that the Perfect Buddha steps are basically:
1. Become a Buddha
2. Get better at it
3. :perfect:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81rcuDWwPo
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http://kotaku.com/5120568/ah-the-delicious-taste-of-tentacle-rape
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Once again, slowtaku proves their name. :slow:
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Are they going to try to put that stuff in supermarkets? At first, I figured that eventually some manager would get the joke and raise legal hell, but then I realized he'd have to then disclose how he knew the meaning in the first place.
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I doubt they would have the balls to try, but I wish they would try it.
Also, another link that needs little more explanation than what is already in the link.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15643_5-scientific-reasons-zombie-apocalypse-could-actually-happen.html
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:vampire: The world is a vampire.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Down_%28unidentified_sound%29
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_pass_accident
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Tanzler
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grinning_Man
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowpeople
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Man
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_experiment
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montauk_Project
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_Base
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_LaLaurie
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly-Hopkinsville_encounter
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_Incident
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chase
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannie_Doss
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murray_Spear
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Kitty_murder
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete-Encased_High_School_Girl_Murder_Case
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_stones
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbly_Creek
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia%2C_Pennsylvania
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bonnet_syndrome
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markovian_parallax_denigrate
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Demikhov
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._White
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_rat
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamster_zona-free_ovum_test
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_immortality
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandre_Oram
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_Man
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atuk
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cure_for_Insomnia
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat%2C_Ukraine
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_flying_saucer
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Tofts
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Goo
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfordsville_monster
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hermitage_%28Ontario%29
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_of_belmez
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parker_Ray
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starchild_skull
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_panic
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Footprints
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Thunderstorm%2C_Widecombe
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_place_artifacts
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ararat_anomaly
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman_%28cryptozoology%29
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey-man_of_New_Delhi
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:vampire: The world is a vampire.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
Only one cure for an Alien Hand!
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/armydk11.jpg)
In all seriousness though that would be a horrifying thing to be afflicted with.
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http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
Only one cure for an Alien Hand!
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/armydk11.jpg)
In all seriousness though that would be a horrifying thing to be afflicted with.
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/Byakuya04_tn.jpg) Meh.
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http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome
Only one cure for an Alien Hand!
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/armydk11.jpg)
In all seriousness though that would be a horrifying thing to be afflicted with.
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/Byakuya04_tn.jpg) Meh.
(http://www.16bit.com/toypics/mgs/lsnake/01.gif)C'mon, it's not so bad. Really, it's not!
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Superuseless Superpowers. (http://superuseless.blogspot.com/)
:dead: Curse you, lucky number 13!
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I just thought this was silly :D
http://i.gizmodo.com/5136970/hacking-road-signs-is-frightningly-easy-and-funny-and-illegal (http://i.gizmodo.com/5136970/hacking-road-signs-is-frightningly-easy-and-funny-and-illegal)
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8 Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA 15212 on Google Street View.
There can be only none.
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Took me a while to find that.
I think the guy on the right is wearing my Halloween costume from Kindergarten. Which means he's going to pass out from the fumes any second now.
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I think I'll be keeping an eye open next time I'm in that area.
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Someone had hacked one of these signs on the way to Otakon. The 4chan admin team, along with everyone else en route to the convention, was greeted with "MODS = FAGS".
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Best complaint letter ever. (http://irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=4310)
8 Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA 15212 on Google Street View.
There can be only none.
There's more. (http://www.streetwithaview.com/scenes.html)
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I was looking around the web to see what domain names are taken and what are not in regards to certain names I was thinking of giving to my game development team/company. One of the ideas led to discovering the following website of a man born in 1955.
Bizarre, just bizarre. (http://www.granfalloon.org)
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There's more. (http://www.streetwithaview.com/scenes.html)
The ideal of galaxy-spanning fights between Samurai & Barbarian being utterly spontaneous was heartening, endearing.
Then you came along.
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There's more. (http://www.streetwithaview.com/scenes.html)
The ideal of galaxy-spanning fights between Samurai & Barbarian being utterly spontaneous was heartening, endearing.
Then you came along.
:justasplanned:
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I'm surprised it took this long for another website to do a Cartoonophilia article. (http://www.cracked.com/blog/mommy-im-confused-10-women-from-80s-cartoons-that-ushered-us-into-manhood/)
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good thing you cant get fat just by looking at these things (http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/)
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Deep Fried Peanut Butter-Covered Brownie Wrapped In Cookie Dough looks and sounds delicious. The rest qualifies as food failures.
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i dunno, that cheesecake on a stick looked edible.
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You know what looked good to me?
Bacon Shell Taco.
I am going to die at 35.
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i dunno, that cheesecake on a stick looked edible.
Oh, I've had that. It tastes exactly like what it is, an uncomfortably frozen cheesecake in some cheap Drumstick shell.
The Tombstone vending machine is real popular and quite a damn lifesaver in airports without a decent or open food court. Real nice if, say, you wind up coming in at like 2 in the morning and have to spend the night in the terminal until you can get some damn transportation.
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They have a King Cake on that blog. That's a Mexican party food. If you get the slice with the Baby Jesus in it, you have to buy the next King Cake.
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"Baconnaise -- Because everything should taste like bacon."
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You guys might not be able to read it very well, because it's some dude's Chaucer Blog and it's in Middle English, but holy crap is this specific entry (http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2006/08/ich-pwne-noobs.html) hilarious. The games at the end in particular.
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"Squires tale of Frostie the Snowman and how he was drawen limbe from limbe by Cambyuskan the grete kinge of Tartarye for to be putte in coolinge drinkes"
HA
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Enter "Kazz" (http://en.genzu.net/sokumen/)
:perfect:
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Sharkey, Parish, and Classic yield humorous results.
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I'M LIKE AMELIA BEDELIA!
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MY NEW NAME IS SEX MASHER
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All of these generators come up lame unless I use my real real name.
The one that determines the worst-case scenario if you put your name up in lightbulbs is a bit better. (http://en.genzu.net/hanabi/)
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MY NEW NAME IS SEX MASHER
Mine's Butter Dog.
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The 'FREDWARD' that saw from side might be a 'MURDERER'.
:>_>:
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Enter "Kazz" (http://en.genzu.net/sokumen/)
Then "Arc".
But with what?
"Arc" again, of course. (http://en.genzu.net/seimei/)
:suave:
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I am
A Burglar
A Dildo
An Autocracy
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Enter "Kazz" (http://en.genzu.net/sokumen/)
Also try "Alex".
...and then type in "Yvonne".
:wat:
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Hell, type in Alex.
EVERYTHING ABOUT KAZZ IS ASS.
(Well except his last name. Kazz is, in fact, Anal Orgasmus.)
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Enter "Kazz" (http://en.genzu.net/sokumen/)
Also try "Alex".
...and then type in "Yvonne".
:wat:
That's the name of our sitcom.
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My first and last name comes out as "Panic Nude". Always a good plan!
EDIT: And when I put both names in at the same time, I get "Break Down".
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Blast Urethra
Dreary Sadist
Neurose Puberty
Divorce Ghastly
Barefoot Clap
Folly Caress
Felony Crime
Pain Estrus
Depravity Stalker
:painful:
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Enter "Kazz" (http://en.genzu.net/sokumen/)
Also try "Alex".
...and then type in "Yvonne".
:wat:
I didn't post what mine was for a reason ;-;
It's just terrible. Almost hilariously terrible.
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Rygmasturbation? (http://en.genzu.net/nuke/)
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Omnivorousndor :/
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Fredcoward. ::(:
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Homicideohl
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Dictatorshiposable Ninja
EDIT: Also
Sex Manslaughter
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MEADOWEXTORTION
also
FUCKIDNAPPING
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TedBelimprisonment
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gethuman (http://gethuman.com/), a database of how to talk to a human at various customer service numbers.
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TedBelimprisonment
What did you change your name to anyway, Ted?
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How will you end the world (http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16)?
Neat google maphack that plots nuclear kill zones.
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Nice Onion article I found while experiencing a quarter-life crisis while drunk off one glass. (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/half_of_26_year_olds_memories)
Rygaron I blame you for this, reminding me that I was actually cool once.
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Three Frames (http://threeframes.net/)
Warning: NSFW
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When three frames go to war, a point is all that you can score.
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I AM HACKING THIS FORUM WITH THE NECROMANCIES.
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Serreptitious Music (http://www.surreptitiousmusic.com/recordings.htm)'s got all sorts of ambient noise, music for studying/relaxing. They used to have an online broadcast for a while, apparently, but looks like it went down in '05 :(
Also give SimplyNoise (http://www.simplynoise.com/) a shot.
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rawr ;) [NSFW-ish] (http://www.regretsy.com/2009/10/05/t-wrecks/)
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http://steakhouseorgaybar.com/
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BONG (http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock)
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BONG (http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock)
BONG BONG BONG BONG! Bonguuu Damashii! Tatakau kokoro kougetsu hodo ni!
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Will you stop gaying the shit out of perfectly good threads.
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BONG (http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock)
I LOLed. But then, I'm one of those folks that thinks Twitter is retarded.
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(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
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BONG (http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock)
I LOLed. But then, I'm one of those folks that thinks everything the kids are into these days is retarded.
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Well they are. :humpf:
[spoiler]JOKE. BECAUSE NO ONE CAN TELL WHEN I'M JOKING.[/spoiler]
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I stand by my assessment of twitter, until the end of days. Fucking retarded. ::(:
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Twitter fails the ultimate test of if something online is worthwhile.
Can I use it to send pictures of my penis to people I have never, and will never meet?
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Can I use it to send pictures of my penis to people I have never, and will never meet?
You can do that here, Ryg. Check your messages.
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Twitter fails the ultimate test of if something online is worthwhile.
Whenever it comes up in any topic, does the topic immediately change to Twitter?
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Can I use it to send pictures of my penis to people I have never, and will never meet?
You can do that here, Ryg. Check your messages.
I was thinking of actually sending you a picture to retort, but I'm not sure if that's something we drama over these days.
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Begun, the Cock Wars have.
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The only way to end these cock wars is to take of our clothes for world peace.
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Hey guys, any new posts in the past few hou...
*slowly back out of thread*
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Ohh, I wanna see~ :want: :gay4:
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Will you stop gaying the shit out of perfectly good threads.
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Yeah, don't bring that gay shit into what has dissolved into a thread about sending pictures of our penises to each other.
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Well they are. :humpf:
[spoiler]JOKE. BECAUSE NO ONE CAN TELL WHEN I'M JOKING.[/spoiler]
The easiest solution is to never take anything you say seriously.
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Well they are. :humpf:
[spoiler]JOKE. BECAUSE NO ONE CAN TELL WHEN I'M JOKING.[/spoiler]
Maybe that's because your jokes are terrible
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also
Hey guys, any new posts in the past few hou...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/grampa_door779.gif)
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From now on I will picture IM as that.
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There are less accurate comparisons, yes.
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So what you're saying is you often find yourself yelling at clouds?
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I often yell at large collections of gases and vapours.
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How is Koipond these days?
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Going by what IM just said, sublime.
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:lol: :rolleyes:
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http://omegle.com/
Talk to strangers!
Stranger: hi
You: hi asl?
Stranger: m
Stranger: 16
You: f 14
Stranger: how are u?
You: WOOOOOOSH
Stranger: :o
You: I'M A FUCKING TOMCAT BITCH!
You: I"LL FIRE MISSLES AT YOU OR SOME SHIT!
Stranger: no
You: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!
Stranger: im naked
Stranger: u have msn?
You: yes
Stranger: can u tell me ur msn?
You: f14jet@airforce.com
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Considering there is no one left on the internet stupid enough to not know about Omegle, I'm forced to assume you just thought that was the most hilarious conversation ever and that we would all love you if you posted it.
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isnt there also a specific thread for omegle that i can ignore instead of having it pop up in here
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I thought it was pretty damn funny. HE WAS AN F 14!
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That has already been linked here.
In fact, there's a thread for omegle conversations! Your post should go there!
WHOOOSH!
Here's the thread Cyan: http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=2588.0 (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=2588.0)
Now, Thad can comfortably move this shit to jail.
... Too bad I can't turn the derp icon red to fix my own post.
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qft
I'm a big fart face and everything I say smells like farts!
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THANKS KAZZ!
I'm a big fart face and everything I say smells like farts!
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that was geo
but it is probably also true, farty mcfartfart
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http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/honpodscast.mp3
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2545/4188075052_c6b3a367e6.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30305501@N06/)
A group of guys made a bunch of Warhammer 40k props. It's pretty cool how seriously they've gone all out in this.
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In the Grimdark future, there is no "semi-automatic" there is "full-auto" and "LET THE FOUL XENOS' GODS FEEL THE PAIN FROM THESE FUCKING BULLETS"
There is also "Stab"
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How to Draw Adventure Time (http://drawn.ca/2010/01/05/how-to-draw-adventure-time/)
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Oh man, I saw those a while back. They are A+.
I am constantly forgetting that Adventure Time is going Full Time and every time I remember it's like Christmas.
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Little Nemo in Slumberland (http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/display.php?id=111)
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I always wanted to read this :3
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Krazy Kat is there, too. It is a good website.
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Man, that reminds me of how they've been promising to reprint Pogo for decades now and consistently fail to do so. The damn books that do exist are worth like $50-$100 each, no joke (I have ONE volume).
Or the flip side: They ARE reprinting the EC Segar Popeye strips - in absolutely lavish and beautiful volumes which are sadly unaffordable right now.
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Tetris is a lot harder in the first person (http://firstpersontetris.com/)
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what
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My account has been suspended.
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Oh come on, it can't possibly be that--
what is this i dont even
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Okay. I see your point. :nyoro~n:
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This is weirdly fascinating:
First-person Tetris (http://firstpersontetris.com/)
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Tetris is a lot harder in the first person (http://firstpersontetris.com/)
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Yea but when Kabbage posted it it worked
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it has never ever gone down for me so yall just have bad nets
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It doesn't help that that's pretty much the touchiest version of Tetris I've ever played.
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I find it disappointing as I was expecting the camera to be on the bloc facing downwards.
Of course then wouldn't be able to see past the top-most layer, so.
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A republished NYT's article about one of Conan O'Brien's early episodes (http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/17opclassic_conan.html)
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I think you meant this?
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/17opclassic_conan.html
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I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about.
:>_>:
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You know, I almost thought that was serious for a minute, until I got to the part where the set was composed entirely of giant Conan busts made of illegally imported African ivory.
Then, I lol'd.
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The Australian Coastal Watch website (http://www.australiancoastalwatch.com.au/index.php/news/bnshark14432tx.article.html).
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Ahahaha, that's epic.
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http://producten.hema.nl/
if that was posted before then whatevs
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Holy shit, that is so tight
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It reminds me of that youtube ad for Warioland: Shake It or whatever.
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Scale of the Universe (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525347)
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THAT IS PRETTY FUCKING NEAT.
Is this the place for this? Three weeks later. (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/haiti_three_weeks_later.html)
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SNAKE N' BACON (http://www.adultswim.com/promos/bkbuns2010/index.html)
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This is the greatest news since Adventure Time.
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Well crumble me in a salad. It's the perfect blend of "is this over yet" and "I can't tear my eyes away"
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Apparently Doom is responsible for that... other thing.
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DO YOUR PART, VOTE FOR SNAKE 'N BACON
the other thing's not entirely horrible though
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The problem with Snake & Bacon is that it's so close to the orginal book that I might as well just read it again.
Which I did.
I still laughed at "punch-in-the-face man".
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That is actually not a problem and I think you don't know how to use English.
And yes Cheyenne Cinnamon isn't that bad but it does not need to be up 20 points over Snake N' Bacon even though it does have Neko Case.
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And MF Doom and 'Lil Wayne. As much as Snake N' Bacon made me chuckle, everything Det said.
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MF Doom
:rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage: :rage:
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ur dum
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FUCK SNAKE&BACON IS LOSING!!! IT'S ONLY GOT 40%!!!
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Many street fighters have become celebrities over the years (Ryu, Guile, Chun- Li,...) but some characters already were celebrities when they first appeared in a game. Look at these pictures and find out who the street fighters are based on. (http://fightingstreet.com/folders/variousinfofolder/ripofffolder/ripoffpage1.html)
Apparently fewer people saw this years and years ago than I thought!
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Symphony of Science (http://www.symphonyofscience.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd36WJ79z4
Yet more auto-tuning and synths, but SCIENCE
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National Geographic's best pictures of the year. (http://copytaste.com/en833c0t)
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LAZER TITS (http://www.lazertits.com/)
For centuries the female bosom has been wrongfully held in the prison of maternal duty and manboy motor-boating. The time has come to blow the cell doors open for breasts! Howl for hooters! Get toasted by tits! Behold the blazing boobs! It's time to get ZAPPED!!!! LAZERTITS looks into the past and changes the future one broad at a time. What will YOU say when your kids ask where you were during the revolution? Don't burn your bra, BLAST IT!!!
How long before this ends up in the fetish thread?
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Lazer tits is okay but it's no explosionsandboobs.com (http://explosionsandboobs.com)
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"SarcMark" (http://02d9656.netsoljsp.com/SarcMark/modules/user/commonfiles/loadhome.do)
*sniggering*
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what the hell did you just do to my browser
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Hm, link's dead now.
Dunno what you're using, but it worked fine on the exact same browser (FF 3.6, most recent update applied) at work as I'm using now at home. :shrug:
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Somali Cruise Lines (http://www.somalicruises.com)
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I love that the image they used for "Real Pirates" is from an article a few years back on Indonesian pirates (I know, because that was an amazing article and I saved all the images).
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(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/tumblr_kze0xkX3a71qbot00o1_400.jpg)
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/2q0vv9y.jpg)
For Niku. (http://godzillahaiku.tumblr.com/)
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someday someone will post something for me that i am not already aware of.
somedaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
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Probably the same day you mail out your PDS packages
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oh snap
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:hellamad:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/7520934/Neill-Camerons-A-to-Z-of-Awesomeness-a-comic-book-alphabet.html
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Hey do you guys watch this eagle cam? We audited this center last year and found out they were setting up their bald eagle camera. Pretty much watched the entire time the babies spent in the nest. One just hatched this Sunday.
http://suttoncenter.org/pages/live_eagle_camera
One just hatched in the past hour or so!
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U.S. Government To Save Billions By Cutting Wasteful Senator Program (http://www.theonion.com/articles/us-government-to-save-billions-by-cutting-wasteful,17171/)
"Now more than ever, we must eliminate needless spending wherever possible," tPresident Obama said at a press conference Wednesday. "When we sat down to go over our annual budget, we asked ourselves, where can we safely trim back? What programs can we do away with without negatively impacting the American people? Which bloated and ineffective institutions can we no longer justify having around?"
"The answer was obvious," Obama added. "The U.S. Senate just needed to go."
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Moreover, the study found that the U.S. government already funds a fully operational legislative body that appears to do the exact same job as the Senate, but which also provides a fair and proportional representation of the nation's citizens and has rules in place to prevent one individual from holding the operations of the entire chamber hostage until he is guaranteed massive federal spending projects for his home state of Alabama.
:perfect:
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:lol:
Also, obligatory joke about the Canadian Senate goes here.
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[07:11] <+Kazz> http://themathewsfamilyfun.blogspot.com/ - a blog where the names of the children have been replaced by single letters
[07:11] <+Kazz> "A and B just had their annual jog-a-thon. This was actually B's first year and he did pretty good. He was such a good sport to let C run with him for a few laps. A did amazing. She ran 15 laps in 15 minutes and even stopped for water a few times. (Big B watched her run and we failed to get any pics.)"
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The 8-Bit Doctor Horrible Game (http://www.doctoroctoroc.com/8-bit-dr-horrible/watch.html)
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http://crappytaxidermy.com/
(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzj9f0b77d1qze1jro1_500.jpg)
:ohshi~:
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Man, some of that shit is just flat out terrifying.
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(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/tumblr_kzgbyvaYLS1qze1jro1_500.jpg)
Shake the Bear's Revenge!
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(http://www.unionleader.com/uploads/media-items/2010/april/408hampfire.jpg)
"Right, Wayne McGowen, who was sleeping in the basement of the house when it caught fire, watches firefighters at the scene along with neighbor Kali Burns, who was dressed as a gorilla (http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Two+fires+hours+apart+destroy+beach+house&articleId=5f1720a3-a7f7-4cce-a169-e1d255131844)"
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http://www.bookdepository.com/live cooooooooool
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The iPhone silliness reminded of something I haven't dug up in a while.
In the beginning was the command line. (http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html) It's Neal Stephenson's love letter to Linux/etc. It's also a rather interesting history of the PC (up to 1999 anyway) and while it's somewhat dated now, it's still an excellent read.
I have yet to get around to reading the man's books, but I have a hearty respect for his writing simply because of this essay.
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Check out the couple of collaborations he's done, too. They temper his "welp I'm done" endings, a bit.
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Snow Crash is good. It does tend to wallow in an excess of exposition though.
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My cousin gave me a copy of Snow Crash for my birthday about 6 years ago. I should read that.
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Flying the SR-71 (http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird)
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Also, speaking of hilarious and horrifying image blogs: Look At This Fucking Hipster (http://www.latfh.com/)
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Flying the SR-71 (http://gizmodo.com/5511236/the-thrill-of-flying-the-sr+71-blackbird)
I grew up around this plane. My father was with the ground support team on the mission discussed in the article. I still think it's the most fascinating design we ever put in the air.
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One of the neatest thing about that article are all the comments, often with their own stories as well.
I loved the bit about getting the engines started by redlining a pair of buick engines adapted to basically crank-start those massive ramjets.
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I like this artist. (http://chicksandcocks.deviantart.com/)
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The 8-Bit Doctor Horrible Game (http://www.doctoroctoroc.com/8-bit-dr-horrible/watch.html)
ACT TWO IS UP
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oh boy i can continue watching something that is exactly like something i love except dumb
call me when someone just releases the whole chiptune soundtrack
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Like the link on the bottom of that page?
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oh boy i can continue watching something that is exactly like something i love except dumb
call me when someone just releases the whole chiptune soundtrack
You mean, like he did? (http://www.doctoroctoroc.com/8-bit-dr-horrible/)
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hooray
thank you for clicking something terrible so i didn't have to :D
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Just putting this here for Makaris. Thanks to Noro for helping me find it again. (http://mu.ranter.net/street-fighter-the-storytelling-game)
Senor Mezcalito for SSF4. (http://mu.ranter.net/2001/04/09/sample-characters-abusive-and-otherwise)
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Senor Mezcalito for SSF4. (http://mu.ranter.net/2001/04/09/sample-characters-abusive-and-otherwise)
Legends say that the fearsome Senor Mezcalito, or "El Agave Diablo" (the Devil Worm), was born the child of an impoverished alcoholic mother who, having very little money left, made the mistake of purchasing some radioactive tequila while she was pregnant. The mutant agave worm, miraculously alive, somehow burrowed its way to her womb where it merged with the fetus.
:jizz:
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oh man that website reminds me of when I was submitting characters for fighting games when I was a kid.
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Turn any URL into a horrible old Geocities page. (http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php)
:glee:
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Survivaball (http://www.survivaball.com/)
At first I thought this was fake. Then I thought "Wait... are they were serious?". Then I saw 'harness power from wild animals'.
Regardless, it's a gas.
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Nominating that we somehow implement this as an alternate skin. (http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=1&music=7&url=sharkey.gamespite.net/forum/)
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The Survivaball is a Yes Man prank.
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If Mario was designed in 2010 (http://www.hiwiller.com/2010/04/29/if-mario-was-designed-in-2010/)
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http://restorejosswhedonandhissmokinghotasskickingchicks.org/
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It's like Google Street View, only for the inside of a submarine. (http://www.nonplused.org/panos/uss_pampanito/html/01.html)
Probably won't do much for the ex-navy crowd, but it's still cool.
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Actually, it IS pretty fascinating, and makes me thankful that I had MY OWN FREAKIN' BED on the carrier.
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/h96000/h96852.jpg)
Not exactly what's currently out there, but it's close.
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BLADEFIGHTING (http://bladefighting.com/)
"Is Your martial art made to build character, improve health, instill discipline, or engage in a fair fight? That is not a martial art, it is a civilized sport and will not help you survive."
:glee:
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BLADEFIGHTING (http://bladefighting.com/)
"Is Your martial art made to build character, improve health, instill discipline, or engage in a fair fight? That is not a martial art, it is a civilized sport and will not help you survive."
:glee:
You'll need those skills when you go to jail for assault with a concealed weapon.
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The best fighting school is the school of elbows and gutters.
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Tone Matrix (http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix)
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The top nine characters you didn't know shared the same voice. (http://www.spike.com/blog/top-nine-characters/95113?page=1&numPerPage=2)
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Sad that their entry for Clancy Brown does not mention motherfucking Lex Luthor. Actually had this discussion at work, where someone pointed out that the preacher from Carnivale was totally Lex Luthor, and we spent time on Wikipedia looking up his filmography and going "HOLY SHIT" as we realized what we had never realized before.
Also they're willing to point out that Dan Castellaneta was Earthworm Jim, but not that he was the Genie on Aladdin.
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Oh my god Google's homepage is brilliant today.
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:perfect:
Game over'd on Strawberry level. I put my Pac-Man: CE skills to shame. :(
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Dan Castellaneta was Earthworm Jim
I can hear it!
Michael Bell (Lex Luthor and Duke) also voiced Raziel in Soul Reaver. He's the voice of Red Alert 2's spy, sniper and allied infantry. He voices Chuckie's dad and Tommy's dad in Rugrats, The Fear in Metal Gear Solid 3, and Sed (the old guy) in Lost Odyssey.
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Ever wonder if an image is 'shopped? (http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/aa5467c/)
Really neat tool.
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If you are unsure how to interpret the results, please do not claim the results of this tool as proof of anything.
Best disclaimer ever.
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Last time I saw that link crop up I'm pretty sure it turned out to be largely useless. Like, any cropping or resizing in the shopping process fucks its ability to see anything.
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http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/20/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits/ (http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/20/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits/)
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/21/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-two/ (http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/21/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-two/)
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/11/03/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-the-last/ (http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/11/03/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-the-last/)
http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/06/23/bad-habits/ (http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/06/23/bad-habits/)
Awesome photoshopped sci-fi book titles.
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It's still weird for me to see people link to MGK stuff. He was a not particularly funny/good poster on the L5R boards forever.
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Dumpster Diving 101 (http://www.wisebread.com/dumpster-diving-101-6-strategies-for-success)
Useful survival tips or horrifying exhortation to abandon what's left of your dignity? You be the judge!
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Hey, don't knock it. My roommate found a functional digital camera still in box when he worked at the dump.
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At one point after losing my job I was regularly dumpster diving. Among other things, we had a really fancy bakery down the street that would throw away 7 dollar loaves of bread after they were on the shelf a couple of days. Needless to say, we ate a lot of fancy bread.
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Hey, don't knock it. My roommate found a functional digital camera still in box when he worked at the dump.
Heh, I was being cheeky trying to post two points of view within the same sentence. Half my furniture was obtained curbside.
EDIT: Well, maybe more like a third to a quarter now.
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When I was jobless a few years ago, I paid my rent by dumpster diving bike shoes and other gear from the Performance warehouse in town and ebaying it all. I also like Panera's dumpster because they throw everything away at the end of the night and they separate garbage garbage from food garbage, so you can just go get a trashbag full of bagels or cakes or baguettes and throw them in the freezer and eat forever.
Dumpster diving is what I be about.
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The same is true for 7/11. Usually between midnight and one in the morning they clear out all the sandwiches, and baked goods, all separated quite nicely for garbage, and most even just put it next to the dumpster and not in it, assuming it will be taken.
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That all said, if you don't need to dumpster dive, you shouldn't for no other reason than not to be an asshole to other people.
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Because you'd be an asshole for taking the stuff they don't want?
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You'd be an asshole for taking the stuff other people need.
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Bingo.
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If It Was My Home (http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/)
Superimposes an image of the surface area of the BP Oil disaster over your home (or wherever you happen to be logged in from) in Google Maps.
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That oil spill is suspiciously New York shaped and sized.
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Alright I cannot for the life of my find that other link dump thread. BRINGING THIS ONE BACK
Great David Foster Wallace speech given in 2005 at the Kenyon University commencement ceremony:
If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it.
This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
Transcript is here (http://web.archive.org/web/20080213082423/http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html), audio I think you have to pay for (http://kottke.org/10/06/david-foster-wallace-commencement-address-audio).
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Wh-!
This got pulled like an hour after I posted this. >:(
I'm posting the full text here consequences be damned:
Transcription of the 2005 Kenyon Commencement Address - May 21, 2005
(If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I'd advise you to go ahead, because I'm sure going to. In fact I'm gonna [mumbles while pulling up his gown and taking out a handkerchief from his pocket].) Greetings ["parents"?] and congratulations to Kenyon's graduating class of 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"
This is a standard requirement of US commencement speeches, the deployment of didactic little parable-ish stories. The story ["thing"] turns out to be one of the better, less bullshitty conventions of the genre, but if you're worried that I plan to present myself here as the wise, older fish explaining what water is to you younger fish, please don't be. I am not the wise old fish. The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude, but the fact is that in the day to day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have a life or death importance, or so I wish to suggest to you on this dry and lovely morning.
Of course the main requirement of speeches like this is that I'm supposed to talk about your liberal arts education's meaning, to try to explain why the degree you are about to receive has actual human value instead of just a material payoff. So let's talk about the single most pervasive cliché in the commencement speech genre, which is that a liberal arts education is not so much about filling you up with knowledge as it is about quote teaching you how to think. If you're like me as a student, you've never liked hearing this, and you tend to feel a bit insulted by the claim that you needed anybody to teach you how to think, since the fact that you even got admitted to a college this good seems like proof that you already know how to think. But I'm going to posit to you that the liberal arts cliché turns out not to be insulting at all, because the really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get in a place like this isn't really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about. If your total freedom of choice regarding what to think about seems too obvious to waste time discussing, I'd ask you to think about fish and water, and to bracket for just a few minutes your skepticism about the value of the totally obvious.
Here's another didactic little story. There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer. And the atheist says: "Look, it's not like I don't have actual reasons for not believing in God. It's not like I haven't ever experimented with the whole God and prayer thing. Just last month I got caught away from the camp in that terrible blizzard, and I was totally lost and I couldn't see a thing, and it was fifty below, and so I tried it: I fell to my knees in the snow and cried out 'Oh, God, if there is a God, I'm lost in this blizzard, and I'm gonna die if you don't help me.'" And now, in the bar, the religious guy looks at the atheist all puzzled. "Well then you must believe now," he says, "After all, here you are, alive." The atheist just rolls his eyes. "No, man, all that was was a couple Eskimos happened to come wandering by and showed me the way back to camp."
It's easy to run this story through kind of a standard liberal arts analysis: the exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people, given those people's two different belief templates and two different ways of constructing meaning from experience. Because we prize tolerance and diversity of belief, nowhere in our liberal arts analysis do we want to claim that one guy's interpretation is true and the other guy's is false or bad. Which is fine, except we also never end up talking about just where these individual templates and beliefs come from. Meaning, where they come from INSIDE the two guys. As if a person's most basic orientation toward the world, and the meaning of his experience were somehow just hard-wired, like height or shoe-size; or automatically absorbed from the culture, like language. As if how we construct meaning were not actually a matter of personal, intentional choice. Plus, there's the whole matter of arrogance. The nonreligious guy is so totally certain in his dismissal of the possibility that the passing Eskimos had anything to do with his prayer for help. True, there are plenty of religious people who seem arrogant and certain of their own interpretations, too. They're probably even more repulsive than atheists, at least to most of us. But religious dogmatists' problem is exactly the same as the story's unbeliever: blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too.
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realist, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness because it's so socially repulsive. But it's pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.
Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue. It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being "well-adjusted", which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.
Given the triumphant academic setting here, an obvious question is how much of this work of adjusting our default setting involves actual knowledge or intellect. This question gets very tricky. Probably the most dangerous thing about an academic education -- least in my own case -- is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract argument inside my head, instead of simply paying attention to what is going on right in front of me, paying attention to what is going on inside me.
As I'm sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert and attentive, instead of getting hypnotized by the constant monologue inside your own head (may be happening right now). Twenty years after my own graduation, I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.
This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth. It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms almost always shoot themselves in: the head. They shoot the terrible master. And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger.
And I submit that this is what the real, no bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. Let's get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what "day in day out" really means. There happen to be whole, large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and petty frustration. The parents and older folks here will know all too well what I'm talking about.
By way of example, let's say it's an average adult day, and you get up in the morning, go to your challenging, white-collar, college-graduate job, and you work hard for eight or ten hours, and at the end of the day you're tired and somewhat stressed and all you want is to go home and have a good supper and maybe unwind for an hour, and then hit the sack early because, of course, you have to get up the next day and do it all again. But then you remember there's no food at home. You haven't had time to shop this week because of your challenging job, and so now after work you have to get in your car and drive to the supermarket. It's the end of the work day and the traffic is apt to be: very bad. So getting to the store takes way longer than it should, and when you finally get there, the supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all the other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping. And the store is hideously lit and infused with soul-killing muzak or corporate pop and it's pretty much the last place you want to be but you can't just get in and quickly out; you have to wander all over the huge, over-lit store's confusing aisles to find the stuff you want and you have to maneuver your junky cart through all these other tired, hurried people with carts (et cetera, et cetera, cutting stuff out because this is a long ceremony) and eventually you get all your supper supplies, except now it turns out there aren't enough check-out lanes open even though it's the end-of-the-day rush. So the checkout line is incredibly long, which is stupid and infuriating. But you can't take your frustration out on the frantic lady working the register, who is overworked at a job whose daily tedium and meaninglessness surpasses the imagination of any of us here at a prestigious college.
But anyway, you finally get to the checkout line's front, and you pay for your food, and you get told to "Have a nice day" in a voice that is the absolute voice of death. Then you have to take your creepy, flimsy, plastic bags of groceries in your cart with the one crazy wheel that pulls maddeningly to the left, all the way out through the crowded, bumpy, littery parking lot, and then you have to drive all the way home through slow, heavy, SUV-intensive, rush-hour traffic, et cetera et cetera.
Everyone here has done this, of course. But it hasn't yet been part of you graduates' actual life routine, day after week after month after year.
But it will be. And many more dreary, annoying, seemingly meaningless routines besides. But that is not the point. The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing is gonna come in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm gonna be pissed and miserable every time I have to shop. Because my natural default setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me. About MY hungriness and MY fatigue and MY desire to just get home, and it's going to seem for all the world like everybody else is just in my way. And who are all these people in my way? And look at how repulsive most of them are, and how stupid and cow-like and dead-eyed and nonhuman they seem in the checkout line, or at how annoying and rude it is that people are talking loudly on cell phones in the middle of the line. And look at how deeply and personally unfair this is.
Or, of course, if I'm in a more socially conscious liberal arts form of my default setting, I can spend time in the end-of-the-day traffic being disgusted about all the huge, stupid, lane-blocking SUV's and Hummers and V-12 pickup trucks, burning their wasteful, selfish, forty-gallon tanks of gas, and I can dwell on the fact that the patriotic or religious bumper-stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles, driven by the ugliest [responding here to loud applause] (this is an example of how NOT to think, though) most disgustingly selfish vehicles, driven by the ugliest, most inconsiderate and aggressive drivers. And I can think about how our children's children will despise us for wasting all the future's fuel, and probably screwing up the climate, and how spoiled and stupid and selfish and disgusting we all are, and how modern consumer society just sucks, and so forth and so on.
You get the idea.
If I choose to think this way in a store and on the freeway, fine. Lots of us do. Except thinking this way tends to be so easy and automatic that it doesn't have to be a choice. It is my natural default setting. It's the automatic way that I experience the boring, frustrating, crowded parts of adult life when I'm operating on the automatic, unconscious belief that I am the center of the world, and that my immediate needs and feelings are what should determine the world's priorities.
The thing is that, of course, there are totally different ways to think about these kinds of situations. In this traffic, all these vehicles stopped and idling in my way, it's not impossible that some of these people in SUV's have been in horrible auto accidents in the past, and now find driving so terrifying that their therapist has all but ordered them to get a huge, heavy SUV so they can feel safe enough to drive. Or that the Hummer that just cut me off is maybe being driven by a father whose little child is hurt or sick in the seat next to him, and he's trying to get this kid to the hospital, and he's in a bigger, more legitimate hurry than I am: it is actually I who am in HIS way.
Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have harder, more tedious and painful lives than I do.
Again, please don't think that I'm giving you moral advice, or that I'm saying you are supposed to think this way, or that anyone expects you to just automatically do it. Because it's hard. It takes will and effort, and if you are like me, some days you won't be able to do it, or you just flat out won't want to.
But most days, if you're aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she's not usually like this. Maybe she's been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it's also not impossible. It just depends what you what to consider. If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it.
This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship -- be it JC or Allah, bet it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles -- is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious. They are default settings.
They're the kind of worship you just gradually slip into, day after day, getting more and more selective about what you see and how you measure value without ever being fully aware that that's what you're doing.
And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. Our own present culture has harnessed these forces in ways that have yielded extraordinary wealth and comfort and personal freedom. The freedom all to be lords of our tiny skull-sized kingdoms, alone at the center of all creation. This kind of freedom has much to recommend it. But of course there are all different kinds of freedom, and the kind that is most precious you will not hear much talk about much in the great outside world of wanting and achieving and [unintelligible -- sounds like "displayal"]. The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day.
That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing.
I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational the way a commencement speech is supposed to sound. What it is, as far as I can see, is the capital-T Truth, with a whole lot of rhetorical niceties stripped away. You are, of course, free to think of it whatever you wish. But please don't just dismiss it as just some finger-wagging Dr. Laura sermon. None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death.
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death.
It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over:
"This is water."
"This is water."
It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. Which means yet another grand cliché turns out to be true: your education really IS the job of a lifetime. And it commences: now.
I wish you way more than luck.
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A teenager is spending 30 days living according to what she reads in Seventeen. (http://www.theseventeenmagazineproject.com/)
We have a "Science" thread but no "Social Studies" thread.
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Looks like someone saw "Supersize Me".
I expect similarly self-destructive results.
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Supersize Me didn't leave him with chronic STDs.
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http://www.newsweek.com/ (http://www.newsweek.com/)
Konami code.
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I don't get it.
And yes, I was stupid enough to go to Newsweek an actually punch in the code on my keyboard. Imagine my surprise when nothing happened [/deadpan]
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Actually there are a lot of sites that use the Konami Code.
What you have to do is press up up down down left right left right B A ENTER (or space, depending on the site)
OH! Here is the list right here (http://konamicodesites.com/)
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Yeah, I think we had a thread on it too but I searched Konami Code and didn't get any threads.
Also Newsweek isn't on that list yet.
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Interesting article at The Escapist on how games publishing has changed since 1994 (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/publishers-note/7688-Publisher-Note-10-E-for-Everyone-Except-Me) (part 1 (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/publishers-note/7688-Publisher-Note-10-E-for-Everyone-Except-Me), part 2 (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/publishers-note/7688-Publisher-Note-10-E-for-Everyone-Except-Me.2)). It goes into why we no longer get high-budget niche games, and how the Total War series becomes increasingly gamesy and less historically accurate.
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Why is that article using black font on a black background? :wat:
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Because it's not loading properly for you?
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I'm using fully updated Firefox 3.whatever, so I dunno. :shrug:
Doesn't really matter. You can read it by highlighting anyway.
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Kea.nu (http://kea.nu/)
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Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the volunteers of the Sci-Fi Airshow, many rare and unique craft still fly today. (http://www.scifiairshow.com/guided-tour.html)
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CAT TOWN (http://www.spatch.net/cattown/episode-cosby.html)
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By the way, Russian spy? Smoking hot (http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/06/facebook_photos.php?page=1).
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I know!
Glad to see some things never change, even in the age of CYBER X-SPIONAGE
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Between all the Russian spies and people trying to restart the Space Race I feel like the 60s are finally making a real comeback.
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Ow. (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm)
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That Vivaldi selection just serves to cement a sense of certain dread, as if one is witnessing the very end of humanity.
9.7/10
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Omega Virgin Revolt (http://omegavirginrevolt.wordpress.com/)
Male virgins are at the bottom of society. It's time for us to FIGHT BACK.
...
I am an adult male virgin. Men like myself are at the bottom of society. We’re a de facto “untouchable” caste. People, women in particular, think its all right to kick us around. The feminist controlled government takes our money and gives us nothing in return. It’s questionable that we even get any benefits from society. We definitely aren’t getting benefits equal to what we pay in.
This is why I started this blog. It’s a place for virgin men, near-virgin men, and our supporters to figure out how we should FIGHT BACK. We are human beings and we need to remind others of this fact since they have forgotten.
He's just such a nice, hardworking guy, but all girls want are jerks who treat them like shit! It's just no fair.
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The feminist controlled government
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/reaction/laughing_at_you.gif)
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There's no tell or explanation, so I can't decide whether the site is some great, straight-faced parody or one of the saddest things I've ever read.
Either way, :lol:
Worth noting that I found this site from a post on a blog in my RSS feeder that either is using a highly skilled form of Socratic irony or seriously compared the feminist movement to Illuminati conspiracy theorists (http://randazza.wordpress.com/2010/07/05/wanted-my-illuminati-subsidy/)
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He's not mad at women, he's mad at you guys.
Nevermind, he's mad at women.
Still.
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The feminist controlled government takes our money and gives us nothing in return.
Who's taking his money in all this? Is he hiring prostitutes who still won't put out for him?
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Can they do that?
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Under the feminist government they can!
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Watch the films of Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky online, for free (http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html)
Stalker will probably be of the most interest to folks around here.
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Not too sure how many of you watched that superbowl old spice commercial sometime back, but the same actor has gone youtubing (http://www.youtube.com/user/oldspice) by replying to individual comments on facebook and the twitter. Some of them are funny.
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I've been following the reddit one. It has a good ending. (http://oldspicevoicemail.com/)
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Do we have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad web design thread? (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm)
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Do we have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad web design thread? (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm)
Looks like someone threw up on the webpage.
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Do we have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad web design thread? (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm)
Ow. (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm)
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Do we have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad web design thread? (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm)
Ow. (http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm)
Hah. Same thread and everything. You win, Büge!
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Final Fantasy VIII Music - The Winner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnAVmOlyENk#)
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Need fantasy nerd music playing 24/7 for your campaign? Don't worry Radio Rivendell's (http://www.radiorivendell.com/index.php) got you covered. :slow:
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Full text of all issues of Popular Mechanics from 1900-2005 on Google books (http://books.google.com/books/serial/ISSN:00324558?rview=1&rview=1&source=gbs_navlinks_s)
Might be old news, but it's still kind of neat.
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The sarcasm detector exists; and it's
American online! (http://lifehacker.com/5591723/tonecheck-stops-you-from-sending-passive-aggressive-or-plain-aggressive-emails)
For today's autistic executive! Or Forum-goer! :imagination:
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Oh, hey, a sarcasm detector. That's pretty useful!
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Can we figure out a way to integrate this into the forum? (http://lifehacker.com/5591723/tonecheck-stops-you-from-sending-passive-aggressive-or-plain-aggressive-emails)
It's funny now, but it could be hilarious.
http://lifehacker.com/comment/26259542/ (http://lifehacker.com/comment/26259542/)
It doesn't fix anything. I know it. You know it.
What it does do is immediately tell you that you're a jerk, and I approve of that.
Tone: Angry
Tone: Condescending
Tone: Loc
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Custom Messenger bags/backpacks. (http://static.timbuk2.com/index.html) I found it today, played with the custom tool a bit. I may end up getting a custom messenger bag at some point. It'll go nicely with a custom dress shirt (http://www.blank-label.com/). Now if I could just find a place to get custom cargo pants I'd be set.
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Intensive study of North American English dialects by region and inflection. (http://www.aschmann.net/AmEng/#Au_Tennessee)
Hows aboot thet, eh?
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Map of the US, as divided up by Facebook clusters (http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/02/how-to-split-up-the-us.html)
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Wookieeleaks (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23wookieleaks)
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Real or fake, this still the best pest control ad I've ever heard (http://img.houstonpress.com/player/?i=5133473)
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Hyperbole and a half (http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/)
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Patrick Warburton describes Cheeseburgers and gives you recipes. (http://www.cheeseandburger.com/)
Really.
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Most of those are frankly terrifying.
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Terrifying? As in you know you will never taste something as good as them and it scares you your life is meaningless without that experience?
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No no, they appear delicious.
More like "this game's not worth the candle" terrifying.
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... I want a burger now. ::(:
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4 Totally legit uses for sequins (http://thegloss.com/fashion/allie-brosh-presents-4-totally-legitimate-uses-for-sequins/)
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Gorilla + DSi = adorable (http://spicuzzaphotoaday.blogspot.com/2010/08/you-got-donkey-kong-on-this-thing.html)
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best travel search engine I've ever used. (http://matrix2.itasoftware.com) It allows you to check fares over the course of the month - but not directly book.
But that's when you pull up Momondo (http://www.momondo.com/Default.aspx) or igougo (http://www.igougo.com/) and select the specific date.
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I need some of these warning labels (http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/) to slap on magazines and newspapers.
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Necronomicox(NSFW) (http://www.necronomicox.com/)
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Necronomicox(NSFW) (http://www.necronomicox.com/)
Putting the "romance" back in "necromancer".
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i have been waiting SO LONG to use that one
you have no idea
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Finally teg can die happy.
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Medieval copy protection (http://gotmedieval.blogspot.com/2010/08/medieval-copy-protection.html)
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A history of condiments since Ancient Rome (http://hilobrow.com/2010/09/07/de-condimentis-1/)
OKCupid strip-mined for hilarious ethnic generalizations - as self-reported by those ethic groups (http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-real-stuff-white-people-like/)
ALICIA KEYS IS LEGION.
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On that note: ladies and gentlemen, the unwashed masses. (http://youropenbook.org/?q=mosk&gender=any)
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I wha but asdasdas ds asd :rage: :rage: :rage: :racist: :rage: :rage: :fukit: :endit:
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My favorite was the guy who was like "We should give them a choice: leave the country, or genocide. BUT THAT'S JUST MY OPINION LAWLZ"
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It's not so much the product, but the reviews (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IZGIA8)
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Also the user pictures are pretty damn great.
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I wha but asdasdas ds asd :rage: :rage: :rage: :racist: :rage: :rage: :fukit: :endit:
I second this. I'm also amused by the people who are very proper and have a very rational opinion of the matter.. But still call it a "Mosk."
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Well the one dude said 'Mosk' quotes and all, when he was making fun of idiots that say 'mosk'.
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Speed Dating in the Marvel Universe! (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/09/14/speed-dating-in-the-marvel-universe/)
Chris Sims' writing is great as always, but Max Huffman's illustrations really make the thing.
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Volstagg :D
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Some great avatar fodder in there, too.
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http://androidarts.com/legoproject/ (http://androidarts.com/legoproject/)
(http://androidarts.com/legoproject/factions/ip2002.jpg)
:O
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naked chicks reading on boxes is my new fetish
AHEM (http://www.hotchickswithbooks.com/)
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http://web.mac.com/mitchellgage/EroticFalconry/Home.html (http://web.mac.com/mitchellgage/EroticFalconry/Home.html)
Erotic Falconry, yessssss
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This (http://portraitdex.tumblr.com/) has the potential for awesome.
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There's not even one fire type yet!
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Communications Prosthesis (http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/11590/sascha-nordmeyer-communication-prosthesis.html)
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So... how often did the photographer wash that thing?
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The .doc File of J. Alfred Prufrock (http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/3102544.html)
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10 pretty funny hookup stories (http://www.nerve.com/photo-features/10-hilarious-sex-stories-from-people-we-met-in-bars)
The fifth one and the ninth one are probably the best.
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Poor biosphere guy.
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Female Duke Student makes detailed "Fuck List" Powerpoint thesis, .ppt goes viral, hilarity ensues (http://deadspin.com/5652280/the-full-duke-university-fuck-list-thesis-from-a-former-female-student/gallery/)
I have to admit I laughed like hell, though certainly not on account of the dame's vapid and mind-numbingly repetitive prose.
Note that being a Canadian is considered a negative.
*beams with pride*
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Negro Space Program (http://negrospaceprogram.com/)
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A blog whose stated purpose is to get revenge on the author's housemates by fattening them up with high-calorie foods. (http://deliciousvengeance.blogspot.com/)
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http://twitter.com/feral_pigeon (http://twitter.com/feral_pigeon)
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Scientific American's article on what it feels like to be suicidal (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-t-2010-10-20)
I couldn't really tell you if this is accurate, but there's something about this that vaguely rubs me the wrong way. Perhaps it is the presumptuousness of the article, even though the authors are trying to do something that's really quite worthwhile and noble. I don't know.
It's interesting at least.
Interesting note: I own the exact same shoes as the guy in the photo! :oh: :mikey:
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Scientific American's article on what it feels like to be suicidal (http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-t-2010-10-20)
I couldn't really tell you if this is accurate, but there's something about this that vaguely rubs me the wrong way. Perhaps it is the presumptuousness of the article, even though the authors are trying to do something that's really quite worthwhile and noble. I don't know.
No, it's pretty spot-on.
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The Supernatural Being Registration Authority (http://monsterlicenses.com/)
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Apparently neither wizards nor doppelgangers count!
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http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/ (http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/)
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I'm a little pissed at how often he opens sentences with "and," or, "but," though I'm in a glass house on that gripe, aren't I?
EDIT:
Oh, the link is an article about a professional writer who writes FUCKING DOCTORAL THESES for people.
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No surprises, only cynicism and incompetence.
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If you get this, you are a colossal nerd (http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-vii/the-periodic-table-of-japanese-characters.jpg).
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Woah, that goes beyond Nerd status there. That's straight up Weeaboo, no chance of parole. That way lies loneliness forever.
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I got H!
And that was it.
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I am so glad that I could identify less than ten of them.
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I.. most of those are not that obscure, okay?
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I think I got six though I recognized two or three more without knowing what character they were.
Come on, any of you guys who says they've never heard of Sailor Moon, EVA, or Harahui is a liar. Maybe somewhere else, sure, but on THIS board? Really?
Methinks the brontos doth protest too much.
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I could identify less than ten of them.
I feel like I could "do better" if I sat down and went through systematically instead of letting the melange obscure everything... but down that path lies madness.
I am a little sad that they didn't keep the symbol for Ununbium intact.
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Methinks the brontos doth protest too much.
The brontoforums has an encyclopedic knowledge of D&D, 80's cartoons, old video games, World of Warcraft, bands nobody's heard of and who knows whatall else that the average person doesn't give a crispy about, but anime? Oh no way man that's for nerrrrrrrds.
(34.)
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Oh come now, you know why we really object to anime.
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do tell
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Fuck! I was hoping to trick him into telling us. I've got no clue!
My best guess is that it got popular and we're tremendously elitist and/or pretentious.
That, and the backlog of creative product has been mostly drained and our tolerance for repetition in static media has been dramatically reduced.
We get excited for, and are entertained by, perhaps one production every year. This is very different from the rabid enthusiasm I had for Japanese media a decade and a half ago and looking back on that it's a little embarrassing.
EDIT:
Now that I think about it, I think I stole the bold part verbatim from someone else on the old boards.
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Anime is like drugs. If you can enjoy it in a reasonable amount on your own time and have it not effect your life good for you. More often than not though it turns you into a rambling moron that forgets how to discuss anything but that topic, forgets to bathe and is generally not someone you want around.
At least that's why I'm not open about my use of drugs anime.
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I just remember at LEAST half the longtime membership being terrible weeaboos when I first joined pyo-
...
...you know, that place.
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At least I didn't recognise more than fifty.
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(http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbwhtpG29p1qekcz0o1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2&Expires=1290222031&Signature=GF8PCq%2Fi%2F69IiroWEJk011CsLDQ%3D)
http://privilegedenyingdude.tumblr.com/ (http://privilegedenyingdude.tumblr.com/)
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Hm.
I wonder if I've said any of those before.
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Oooh. I'm already in shit. On page 2, I've said "BET is racist" non-ironically. But... I meant it was racist against black people. Maybe that mitigates the shallowness of the comment?
OK, I got to page 9, and today at the bottom is this gem...
http://privilegedenyingdude.tumblr.com/post/1595160362 (http://privilegedenyingdude.tumblr.com/post/1595160362)
Enjoy.
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91 Year old lady dresses up like a superhero to battle depression (http://blastr.com/2010/11/91-year-old-grandmother-c.php?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#12)
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The Gentleman's Emporium (http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/gentlemans.php)
The 'Steampunk' section is a hoot.
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Why didn't you show me this before I officiated that steampunk wedding? jerk.
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You officiated a Steampunk Wedding? What did you wear? Why didn't you share pictures?
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http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/002624.php?__utma=1.174515786.1291260049.1291260049.1291260049.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1291260049&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1291260049.1.1.utmcsr=brontoforum.us (http://www.gentlemansemporium.com/store/002624.php?__utma=1.174515786.1291260049.1291260049.1291260049.1&__utmb=1.1.10.1291260049&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1291260049.1.1.utmcsr=brontoforum.us)|utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/index.php&__utmv=-&__utmk=225024666
It Will Be Mine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw4uj_ZPHvY#)
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!
I just found it today!
:deal:
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Still better value than Valve's hats.
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You officiated a Steampunk Wedding? What did you wear? Why didn't you share pictures?
I actually haven't gotten any pictures from them because they are also jerks and haven't posted them. Just one phone pic (http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs902.snc4/71576_884532517677_9600795_46305117_2450180_n.jpg).
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Well, you look great, lack of corsetry notwithstanding.
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I had a waist cincher
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It only counts if you had trouble breathing. Bonus points for cracked ribs.
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MAP OF METAL (http://www.mapofmetal.com/#/home)
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CANADIAN WATER (http://www.geekologie.com/2010/12/hero_no_more_did_dr_wily_die_m.php)
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Apparently more people are making the connection between Calvin and Hobbes and Fight Club. (http://m0vie.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/calvin-v-hobbes-an-interpretation-of-fight-club/)
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Exponential! (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=exponential&year_start=1800&year_end=1964&corpus=0&smoothing=3)
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The use of the word "banana" took a sharp decline in the 40s.
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'Cool' became noticeably less cool after the 40's as well.
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"Batman" reached an all-time high long before the character was created somehow.
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That's possibly in reference to this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman).
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Also the term "batman" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_%28military%29).
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http://zombo.com/ (http://zombo.com/)
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http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/ (http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/)
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ARE YOU FOR OR AGAINST?
MAKE YOUR STAND! (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70116511)
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http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/ (http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/)
Oh wow. Best site I've seen all year.
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http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/ (http://www.jamesvandermemes.com/)
all year.
Har har. :smile:
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Fine, don't fucking hire me! You can't handle my shit! (http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/fine-dont-fucking-hire-me-you-cant-handle-my-s)
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Faces of Oprah (http://facesofthelastseasonofoprah.tumblr.com/)
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Man, you got me so excited. Here I was thinking I'd get to see Sarah Brightman's O-face, and it turns out it was just O-face.
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In my defense, spelling is hard.
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Inglip Summoned (http://www.reddit.com/r/Inglip/)
I think Tankclown is probably the best one.
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THE FUCKING WEATHER (http://thefuckingweather.com/)
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Fat, Ugly or Slutty (http://fatuglyorslutty.com/)
The sheer amount of :derp: itude on display there is amusing, in a "I am embarrassed for my gender" kind of way.
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The best part of that site is the most recent post pointing out that apparently they accept from any video game related source but thus far have only found examples from XBL.
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Everything. And I do mean everything! (http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/crs/2202170274.html)
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Everything has been flagged for removal. Is this really how the universe will end?
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:(
I knew I should have copied the text.
So the universe wouldn't end, I mean.
My oversight has DOOMED US ALL.
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...as usual.
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I DO ANYTHING (30307)
Date: 2011-02-07, 3:58PM EST
Reply to: see below
travisdoesanything@gmail.com
My name is Travis Broyles and I will do whatever* you want me to do for less money than whoever you are paying to do it now.
Below is a list of just some of the things I can do. I do want to stress that I DO ANYTHING so email me if your requested service is not listed here.
Things I Will Do For $5:
Stare at you for 5 minutes
Give a hug to the person of your choosing
Call you on the phone and seem genuinely interested for 10 minutes
Draw your face on a balloon
Sing Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" from memory to the best of my ability
6 minutes of copywriting
Things I Will Do For $10:
Write your new theme song
Sing your new theme song on your voicemail
Spin until I throw up or you lose interest
Rename your Pokémon
Host a conference call with you and a person that you've always thought was cool but never really got the chance to hang out with, you know?
12 minutes of copywriting
Things I Will Do For $50:
Break-up with your boyfriend or girlfriend
Help you quit smoking (I'll call you every day for a month and yell "HEY DON'T SMOKE")
Tell the person you like that you think they're cute and what if you had sex together?
Try my best to fly in a public place for an hour
Make you a really great profile picture
1 hour of copywriting
Things I Will Do For $100:
Tell your kids which one is actually your favorite, and what the others could do to improve their standings
Fight someone much smaller or girl than me
Email you a list of 250 things I like about you (need access to any and all social network accounts)
Clean most of your house and apologize for the things I didn't
Deliver 5 fully cooked DiGiorno pizzas right to your door (5 mile radius from my home)
2 hours of copywriting
Things I Will Do For $1,000:
Host an event (will not host anything racially insensitive, e.g. human being auction)
Give a PowerPoint presentation on team building to your business and/or extended family
Rename your children
Build you a cardboard car and make vroom-vroom sounds while you drive it
Star treatment for a month (I'll hide in bushes and take pictures of you)
20 hours of copywriting
Things I Will Do For $100,000:
Yell your name every time I wake up for the rest of my life
Change my political and spiritual leanings
Screen all your phone calls for five years
Recreate the best day of your life (or worst, whatevs)
84 straight days of copywriting *BEST VALUE*
If interested, email me at travisdoesanything@gmail.com.
*Prices and tasks are subject to negotiation. I will not murder or steal or perform a legendary murdersteal. No rapes, and the sex has to be unrelated to the payment, like "Oh, after you're done cutting those trees down, do you want some lemonade?" but the lemonade means sex, mostly.
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=MKL95Q636XQ68&lc=US&item_name=I%20Do%20Anything&item_number=Idoanything¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted (https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=MKL95Q636XQ68&lc=US&item_name=I%20Do%20Anything&item_number=Idoanything¤cy_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHosted)
Location: 30307
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
PostingID: 2202170274
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Ohhhhhh JD saved it.
THAT'S why I haven't winked out of existence yet!
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If Dr. Seuss created Star Wars (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/12/03/dr-seuss-star-wars/)
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http://detroitneedsrobocop.com/ (http://detroitneedsrobocop.com/)
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http://detroitneedsrobocop.com/ (http://detroitneedsrobocop.com/)
Might not happen anyway. (http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0215/Robocop-statue-plan-nixed-by-Detroit-mayor) I say "might", because the assertion that the Mayor didn't nix it himself on twitter sounds a little like backpedaling to me. (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2011/0216/Robocop-statue-in-Detroit-fans-keep-debate-going)
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(http://muldersbigadventure.com/markov/images/potx-670523166.jpg)
Random X-Files strip generator. (http://muldersbigadventure.com/markov/)
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(http://brentai.brontoforum.us/images/potx-913296860.jpg)
(http://brentai.brontoforum.us/images/potx-423530707.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Angryoptimist/potx-201482362.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/Angryoptimist/potx-242064650.jpg)
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these are extremely ungood
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In the 80's, a series of childrens' activity books was made - based on David Lynch's Dune adaptation (http://coilhouse.net/2011/03/franchised-goodies-for-the-children-of-dune/)
:mikey:
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In the 80's, a series of childrens' activity books was made - based on David Lynch's Dune adaptation (http://coilhouse.net/2011/03/franchised-goodies-for-the-children-of-dune/)
:mikey:
As of post, there are four people selling this on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0448233568/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used). Naturally, I looked it up because I couldn't fucking believe it existed.
This is the first and only coloring book, that I am aware of, that really needed to exist.
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Fiddy's Biddies: The women 50 Cent flirts with on twitter (http://fiddysbiddies.tumblr.com/)
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http://chickswithstevebuscemeyes.tumblr.com/ (http://chickswithstevebuscemeyes.tumblr.com/)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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And the inevitable inversion (http://fuckyeahdementia.com/post/4618993588/and-now-for-something-completely-different-steve?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4da78ba1a160228c,0).
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I have a new favorite website. (http://5z8.info/refugee-murder_c1z8nh_animated-gifs-of-train-accidents)
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http://5z8.info/5waystokillwithamelon_r0f6kw_toosexyfortv.mov (http://5z8.info/5waystokillwithamelon_r0f6kw_toosexyfortv.mov)
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Why does that link just loop back here?
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Because I am killing you with a melon as we speak.
....It's a very sexy melon.
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Huh. Encyclopedia Dramatica is gone.
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Somehow that's very appropriate.
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Turns out using racist slurs as prepositions makes you persona non grata with advertisers. WHO KNEW
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Urban explorers travel through abandoned Royal Mail postal railway in London (http://www.silentuk.com/?p=2792). It's like D&D without the monsters.
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Ratkings!
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I'm pretty sure this is the best clock of all time (http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/)
I still don't know if it loops, but I sure gave it a good long while to find out!
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It doesn't loop; it just plays clips randomly and the music changes randomly between three or four different sounds.
I have had that tab open entirely too long.
EDIT: It changes colour every hour too. And I'll bet that certain things only happen at certain times of day.
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I wonder how much video footage it has in total.
I had it open for a good fifteen minutes when I first found it.
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There are about ten different "actions" each one with 2-3 locations / outfits from what I saw.
Also hourly actions never seem to be the same as other actions and noon, if no other time, has its own that never seems to show up on other hours.
I had it open for half the day when I first saw the link.
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Also, my time zone is exactly twelve hours off from Japan, so I can use this as an clock with minimal time calculation.
:deal:
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There is actually a program somewhere on that site that can do local time.
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Speaking of the hourly actions, the one with the puppeteer and puppet is INSANE.
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Tupper's Self-Referential Formula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupper%27s_self-referential_formula)
Okay, I am BAD AT MATHS and could never actually graph this myself, but shit is this ever cool.
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http://www.janecorwin.org/ (http://www.janecorwin.org/)
Check out the site now, before it disappears.
:lol:
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Center for Disease Control talks about zombie plans (http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp)
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Has the Rapture happened yet? (http://hastherapturehappened.heroku.com/)
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nope.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14#ws)
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(http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/portal_earrings_1.jpg)
http://technabob.com/blog/2011/06/07/portal-earrings/ (http://technabob.com/blog/2011/06/07/portal-earrings/)
I WANT THESE
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HAPPY HOT DOG MAN (http://www.happyhotdogman.com/)
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WACKY WAVING FLAILING HOT DOG MAN (http://www.happyhotdogman.com/)
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http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/ (http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/)
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Okay, the whale in the harbour was pretty funny.
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Birds with arms (http://www.iywib.com/birds_with_arms.php)
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The greatest website there ever will be. (http://www.29-95.com/time-suck/comic-strip/marmaduke-explained)
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"You are a computer salesman. I am fucking JAMES BOND." (http://scoopertino.com/exposed-the-imac-disaster-that-almost-was/)
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It's even got the little 007 pistol in the corner.
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Holy fucking shit, I do so hope that's real.
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Okay I looked at that a second time and it looks pretty fake. That makes me sad. :(
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What was the tip off, the tagline at the top that said "All the news that's fit to fabricate" or the additional articles with headlines like:
- Madame Tussauds opens Apple iChamber of Horrors
- Get smart: Apple launches line of executive DNA
- Bill Gates predicts “Apple Rapture”: all Macs to explode in 2012
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:derp:
My bad. I just... *sniff* wanted to believe.
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What was the tip off, the tagline at the top that said "All the news that's fit to fabricate" or the additional articles with headlines like:
- Madame Tussauds opens Apple iChamber of Horrors
- Get smart: Apple launches line of executive DNA
- Bill Gates predicts “Apple Rapture”: all Macs to explode in 2012
Yes.
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Bake Cookies. In your car! (http://bakingbites.com/2007/09/car-baked-chocolate-chip-cookies-step-by-step/)
This link was forwarded after one fellow I know started talking about a Texan friend whose steering wheel had actually melted after he parked his car in the sun.
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that's nothing i can prep, cook, and serve a six course meal out of my hips
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Neat
rube goldberg toy Google proganda (http://www.youtube.com/nexuscontraptions)
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Translation Telephone (http://www.translation-telephone.com)
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SPACE JAM (http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam/movie/jam.htm)
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Where can I find a glossary of 1980s British punk slang?
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Just watch all the episodes of The Young Ones.
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Black Acre Brewing: the only beer site that's better if you are under 21 (http://blackacrebrewing.com/home/)
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Gotta make this our banned splash page.
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yeah, I didn't think Skelepwned could ever be topped, but uh
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Say, that reminds me, do we have Skelepwned as a link anywhere?
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http://dagobah.net/flash/skeletowned.swf (http://dagobah.net/flash/skeletowned.swf)
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Probably one of the better indictments of the music industry I've ever read (http://www.negativland.com/albini.html)
Slightly dated. But while many new players are breaking out of this model, the essay is far from irrelevant.
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http://www.youtube.com/oldspice (http://www.youtube.com/oldspice)
Fabio challenges the Old Old Spice Guy to a duel. Old Spice Guy accepts! Mano A Mano in El Bano, today at noon Eastern!
Personally, I think Fabio is fucked.
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MEANWHILE IN A TWENTY MILE RADIUS OF THIS EVENT
BODICES RIPPING
oh old spice guy
MEN TURNING GAY
oh fabio
IT WAS AMAZING
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Letters to Christopher Walken (http://www.brandonbird.com/walken_letters.html)
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*read the about info*
Hey that's the dorm my sister was in, and while she was there the resident was Brandon Bird.
*look at the URL*
O...oh.
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Animals Being Dicks (http://animalsbeingdicks.com/)
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(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k497/animalsbeingdicks/animalsbeingdicks/abd-31.gif)
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Japanese macaques will completely flip out when presented with flying squirrels, a new study in monkey-antagonism has found. The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys. (http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0730/Monkeys-hate-flying-squirrels-report-monkey-annoyance-experts)
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New Wile E Coyote Trap.
1) Place Monkey Near Bird Feed
2) Wait for Road Runner
3) Pull string, releasing Flying Squirrel next to bird feed at the monkey
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Parkland High School (http://tinyurl.com/3s3c72m)
The reviews are the best part.
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http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/zip/2541625912.html (http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/zip/2541625912.html)
I am Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!
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The Star Trek Book of Opposites (http://www.quirkbooks.com/book/star-trek-book-opposites)
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The best playhouse! (http://www.geekologie.com/2011/09/apocaplyptic-playhouse-mushroom-cloud-fo.php)
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So hey did you guys know that today was Jim Henson's 75th birthday? Google knew. (http://www.google.com/)
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Sears is selling products with Kirby porn on it. (http://www.sears.com/shc/s/search_10153_12605?keyword=King+dedede+drool&vName=)
Admin's Note: Thank you for not straight-up posting porn images here.
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Lottel if we weren't karma twins I would karma you so hard for showing me that.
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D:
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Lottel if we weren't karma twins I would karma you so hard for showing me that.
Now you can have your cake and eat it too.
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http://teenagemutantninjanoses.tumblr.com/ (http://teenagemutantninjanoses.tumblr.com/)
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You guys like Minecraft, right? Well, there's a couple in Alberta that are building a self-sustaining home out of shipping containers. (http://www.glennonseacanhome.ca/) That's kinda the same.
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(http://www.emptykingdom.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Fab-Ciraolo_web14.jpg)
Old School Heroes (http://www.emptykingdom.com/main/featured/fab-ciraolos-old-school-heroes/) by Fab Ciraolo
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Worf brags about a new ceremonial knife for a week, then must prove his innocence after a mysterious stabbing. Riker does 150 pushups.
Star Trek: The Next Generation season 8 (https://twitter.com/#!/TNG_S8).
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Holy fuck, those are great.
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Google Maps' directions from Japan to China
See entry #42 (http://tinyurl.com/cp8wp5l)
EDIT: Sydney to LA is pretty good too (http://tinyurl.com/bsdd76z)
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I know they did something similar for New York to London. I guess they have a different mode of transportation for each ocean.
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How to get from Sydney to LA: crash google chrome.
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So a link to Google maps crashes Google's own browser?
I'm sorry, but :lol:
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11-11-11 (http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/1911/11/11/104881854/article-view)
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11-11-11 (http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/browser/1911/11/11/104881854/article-view)
Poor Mrs. Stadia!
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I am Neil Degrasse Tyson, ask me anything (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/mateq/i_am_neil_degrasse_tyson_ama/)
Course title every university should offer: "How to tell when someone else is full of shit"[/url]
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[–]epicjackson 1379 points 5 hours ago
What do you think it will take for the US to seriously reinvest in the space program?
[–]neiltyson 2462 points 5 hours ago
A foreign threat. That seems to be the only thing around that motivates bickering political parties to act in harmony.
Beginning countdown to giant squid in New York... now.
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We'll manufacture a foreign threat, and then the squid.
:asplanned:
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http://www.freshverse.com (http://www.freshverse.com)
It's got a live stream of Japanese TV. And a chat. So it's kind of like Outer Heaven all day, every day.
Registration required.
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http://twitter.com/# (http://twitter.com/#)!/oldmansearch
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Engineering Archaeology (http://wrttn.in/04af1a)
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...Huh! That's really, really interesting. Where'd you find that?
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A friends sent it to me direct after I mentioned the ancient core system software our company runs on (the same thing I posted about in the Your Job thread).
It's not something I am wholly unfamiliar with, but this is much more detailed than the vague stories I'd heard before.
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This seems like the hardware equivalent of every development job I've ever had, including my current one.
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Cool story about a pilot who had to bail out over a massive storm such that deadly updrafts kept him floating in the sky
http://www.damninteresting.com/rider-on-the-storm/ (http://www.damninteresting.com/rider-on-the-storm/)
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Brodyquest remix contest (http://neilcicierega.tumblr.com/post/14544153106)
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http://all-that-is-interesting.com/post/4956385434/the-first-zombie-proof-house (http://all-that-is-interesting.com/post/4956385434/the-first-zombie-proof-house)
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That's also a pretty pre-artillery human proof house, except that there's no way to seek and destroy sappers.
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Carlos Santana sells a lot of hats. (http://www.carlossantanahats.com/hats/spring-summer/hats.php) Like, look at all of those.
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Yo, Is This Racist? (http://yoisthisracist.com/)
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Yo, Is This Racist? (http://yoisthisracist.com/)
I wouldn’t have know this before starting this site, but just mentioning the existence of BET in front of them is 100% effective in figuring out if someone is racist.
EDIT: Also the running gag about posting on the blog from a pager is pretty funny.
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So, what, if you say you like BET they know you're racist?
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Yes, because you are lying to hide your racism.
Because nobody likes BET. All they show are the bad Friday sequels and Bebe's Kids.
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RACIST SPOTTED, POST REPORTED.
Naw, I think the point is that a genuine racist overdoes it and starts frothing at the mouth, stuff like "WHY DOES THIS CHANNEL EXIST?!?! ISN'T THIS REVERSE RACISM!?!?!" etc.
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Yeah, here's a better one: anyone who seriously uses the term "reverse racism".
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Only good for about twelve reads, but lordy.
http://www.bitdefender.com/site/view/our-story.html (http://www.bitdefender.com/site/view/our-story.html)
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Best lesson on Vegas ever (http://ask.metafilter.com/176712/This-will-not-stay-in-Vegas#2542892)
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The Murderin' Adventures of Young Jesus (http://benito-cereno.tumblr.com/post/19710231016/hello-friends-today-we-have-a-question-from)
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The Murderin' Adventures of Young Jesus (http://benito-cereno.tumblr.com/post/19710231016/hello-friends-today-we-have-a-question-from)
That was a real good thing you did Jesus.
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But was it MORMON Jesus?
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So, there is basically a Lego Set Kickstarter (http://lego.cuusoo.com/)
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Frustro, the impossibe typeface (http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2012/03/16/frustro-the-impossible-typeface/)
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GREATEST PAGE ON THE INTERNET LEGO PICK-A-BRICK (http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pick-A-Brick-11998)
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Warning: You can easily go over $50 of bricks you'll never actually use.
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HEY GUYS WHO WANTS TO GO TO PROM WITH ME? (http://www.826chi.org/prom/)
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Maxim lists tips on dating a gamer for girls (http://www.maxim.com/gaming/8-ways-make-gamer-happy)
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"Virtual Roadhead" is the reason dating advice is always stupid from anyone.
EDIT: Ladies, please refer here for any possible future relationship questions https://twitter.com/#!/H2PYM (https://twitter.com/#!/H2PYM)
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I think that last one is supposed to be some kind of punchline.
Like "Ohhh... you guys aren't serious are ya? Aw, come on... oh... oh wait... Ha! Okay! Man, you almost had me for a second there!"
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For fuck's sakes, raise your hand if you HAVEN'T gotten gamehead from someone.
Who do you think you're kidding?
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A girl I dated would often pick up Cosmo for the fashion and while I often had to wait for her to get ready, I would flip through the sex tips. Literally in every issue I ever picked up of Cosmo, there was one tip that basically said "Next time, without warning, right as he's about to finish, flick his balls." Sometimes it'd say lightly or something. I remember one time they were focusing on using objects from around the room. This particular tip told girls to take an elastic hair tie and wrap it around his dick so he can't finish and then repeatedly flick him in the balls as you give him a rough handjob.
This is why I have a sneaking suspicion Cosmo is actually trying to prevent teen pregnancy with their sex tips. Once you have a girl abuse your genitals, you don't really want to ever get naked near her again.
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When I worked at Randalls, regularly when cleaning out the bathrooms I'd find issues of Cosmo that someone had gone to town in.
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Game soundtracks suck and, even if they don’t suck, they will suck after you’ve heard the same 30 songs over and over again for weeks.
They got a real reliable authority here.
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When I worked at Randalls, regularly when cleaning out the bathrooms I'd find issues of Cosmo that someone had gone to town in.
As in like, :jizz:
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Blue Skidoo, you can too!
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The real question is which bathroom she found them in.
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A girl I dated would often pick up Cosmo for the fashion and while I often had to wait for her to get ready, I would flip through the sex tips. Literally in every issue I ever picked up of Cosmo, there was one tip that basically said "Next time, without warning, right as he's about to finish, flick his balls." Sometimes it'd say lightly or something. I remember one time they were focusing on using objects from around the room. This particular tip told girls to take an elastic hair tie and wrap it around his dick so he can't finish and then repeatedly flick him in the balls as you give him a rough handjob.
This is why I have a sneaking suspicion Cosmo is actually trying to prevent teen pregnancy with their sex tips. Once you have a girl abuse your genitals, you don't really want to ever get naked near her again.
YOU ARE WRONG
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"Next time, without warning, right as he's about to finish, flick his balls."
My family's cat used to have this stuffed animal he'd drag behind the couch and hump, even though he was neutered. Sometimes my brother would flick him in the balls with a pencil.
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If I open this page and mash furiously on the keyboard, nobody can tell I'm not working. (http://www.hackertyper.com/)
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Blocked at work! :lol:
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What're you doing working on a sunday?
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Wait... what're you doing browsing the forums at work???
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Triple overtime to browse forums, huh?
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No overtime - I always work weekends. My shift is 4x10, with only two weekdays, which is the best schedule, unless you can get 3x12, but nobody ever offers that. I don't mind my managers that much, but nothing beats 3 days off a week and working when De Bossman Ain't.
I browse the forums whenever the crushing boredom of staring at deadbeat accounts causes my eyes to glaze over... which is basically constantly. Or while I'm waiting for [widget] to update, like I am right now.
I should've been done a half-hour ago (be done in about 5-10 more minutes), but I'm slow-rolling as usual because this shit is so fucking tedious. That seems stupid at first, but what the fuck am I gonna do when I get home? Browse fucking forums again.
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That seems stupid at first, but what the fuck am I gonna do when I get home?
- Play TF2
- Paint your miniatures
- Talk to Starr
- Talk to the cat
- Put the cat in a box
- Play TF2 with Starr
- Play TF2 with the cat
- Play MTG with Starr
- Put Starr in a box
- Read your comics in a funny voice
- Play Supremacy with Starr
- Play Supremacy with Starr and the cat
- Flick your cat in the balls with a pencil
- Make peach preserves
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It was a rhetorical question. ::(:
There's lots of stuff I could do. But I know what I will do.
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James Joyce or Kool Keith? (http://www.hudsonhongo.com/joyce/index.php)
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There has never been a stupid internet quiz I was better prepared for.
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When I worked at Randalls, regularly when cleaning out the bathrooms I'd find issues of Cosmo that someone had gone to town in.
As in like, :jizz:
Yes. As in, opened the magazine, stared at whatever the fuck was on the pages, then whipped it out and jerked off all over the magazine. Then closed it and left it for people to find.
Always the men's room. Women's room would just have home & garden magazines, teen pop magazines, and in one case, a garden hose.
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...I think I saw that video.
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Somewhat surprised that you were allowed to clean the men's room. Whenever someone of the opposite sex had to go into a bathroom when I worked at Walgreens, they had to be accompanied by someone of the proper so it mostly didn't happen.
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http://www.etsy.com/listing/96827992/nintendo-controller-coffee-table (http://www.etsy.com/listing/96827992/nintendo-controller-coffee-table)
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Crossposting from the computer help thread: Anybody looking to buy or assemble a new computer or buy new computer parts soon may find this huge image (http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af150/The_FalconO6/CurrentLogicalPCBuyingGuide/Guide.png) useful.
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http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/ (http://nothingsgonnastopmenow.com/)
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http://www.antipodemap.com/ (http://www.antipodemap.com/)
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Expected that to be a dual-tech against coordinates I set. Still came away amused, though.
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Mine is in the middle of the ocean. :/
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Not only is mine in the middle of the ocean, it's pretty close to one of the earth's poles of isolation (southeastern Indian Ocean, a thousand miles away from the particularly desolate coast of southwest Australia).
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Go to google translate, paste in this block of text, set the language as from german, and hit the sound button
pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk pv zk bschk pv zk pv bschk zk bschk pv bschk bschk pv kkkkkkkkkk bschk bschk bschk
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Guys guys, problem solved:
http://make-everything-ok.com/ (http://make-everything-ok.com/)
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For those of you who need to explain white privilege to autistic gamers.
http://kotaku.com/5910857/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is (http://kotaku.com/5910857/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is)
I am also keeping this here because I foresee future need for it myself.
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And the VERY FIRST COMMENT is "I'm a white guy, and I have problems, so this invalidates your entire argument somehow!"
:itsmagic:
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Now, once you've selected the "Straight White Male" difficulty setting
This is where you start to lose people.
...oh I see, you buried the apologism at the bottom of the article, after angry people already stormed off the to comments section. Kay. Next time, try getting a real editor.
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That paragraph is the fifth one, you're giving the attention span of people who post in the Kotaku comments section way too much credit.
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I know in the age of Google Maps this isn't as useful for everyday stuff as it might be, but U of Texas has an incredible free online map resource (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/)
It has complete modern navigational charts for the entire world, as well as a whole raft of neat historical maps.
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For those of you who need to explain white privilege to autistic gamers.
http://kotaku.com/5910857/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is (http://kotaku.com/5910857/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is)
I am also keeping this here because I foresee future need for it myself.
It's still my opinion that the true lowest difficulty setting there is, is being born American.
ALL OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL ETC ETC
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No, you go banker so you can buy all the bullets.
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http://tacocopter.com (http://tacocopter.com)
(http://i.imgur.com/TXnbP.png)
WHY CAN'T THIS BE REAL? :loser:
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It was real, briefly. But the FAA shut them down.
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It was real, briefly. But the FAA shut them down.
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/28/business/la-fi-tn-tacocopter-internet-hoax-20120328 (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/28/business/la-fi-tn-tacocopter-internet-hoax-20120328)
nope.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvdf5n-zI14#ws)
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80 minutes of What is Love by Haddaway (http://its-miri-motherfucker.tumblr.com/post/24157647905/welcome-to-the-haddaway-gauntlet-this-is-real)
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80 minutes of What is Love by Haddaway (http://its-miri-motherfucker.tumblr.com/post/24157647905/welcome-to-the-haddaway-gauntlet-this-is-real)
http://dreamwalkers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/love.mp3 (http://dreamwalkers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/love.mp3)
Ha!
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That's actually one of my mother's favourite songs.
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B to the F: (http://btothef.tumblr.com/) A blog doing a per page review of the Back to the Future novelization
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Burmese roundhouse sphincter kick (http://barrie.kijiji.ca/c-ViewAd?AdId=379485106&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Post+To+Facebook)
:manlymansmanrrrarghbaconmuscles:
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http://justaddgelatin.tumblr.com/ (http://justaddgelatin.tumblr.com/)
One woman's attempt to recreate the stomach-churning recipes of the '50s and '60s.
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Oh my god I nearly threw up.
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http://www.pointerpointer.com/ (http://www.pointerpointer.com/)
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http://corporatetwits.tumblr.com/ (http://corporatetwits.tumblr.com/)
About half of these are just one guy trolling about an imaginary raccoon named "Swimp", but there's still a fair amount of gold in here.
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Swimp sure gets around.
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"I was an accidental Nollywood film star." (http://www.vice.com/read/i-was-an-accidental-nollywood-film-star-festival-of-love)
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https://twitter.com/Bill_Nye_tho
There's a lost episode where one of the kids blows his face off with a rocket
he's fine he just doesn't have a face.
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that account got temporarily suspended last night it was the saddest thing.
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http://www.quora.com/Military-Strategy/What-are-the-optimal-siege-tactics-for-taking-Magic-Kingdoms-Cinderella-Castle (http://www.quora.com/Military-Strategy/What-are-the-optimal-siege-tactics-for-taking-Magic-Kingdoms-Cinderella-Castle)
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Rock N' Rule is here (http://www.industrialdesignserved.com/gallery/Hyper-Touch-Guitar/1156705)
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On Dan Spitz's transformation from Anthrax frontman to globally-renowned watchmaker (http://www.hodinkee.com/interview-meet-dan-spitz-anthrax-guitarist-turned-master-watchmaker)
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What are the optimal siege tactics for taking Magic Kingdom's Cinderella Castle? (http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/07/27/what-are-the-optimal-siege-tactics-for-taking-magic-kingdoms-cinderella-castle/)
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On Dan Spitz's transformation from Anthrax frontman to globally-renowned watchmaker (http://www.hodinkee.com/interview-meet-dan-spitz-anthrax-guitarist-turned-master-watchmaker)
The man is an inspiration to us all.
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He is... the man.
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How we gave colours names (http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-i/)
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http://burymewithmymoney.com/ (http://burymewithmymoney.com/)
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Everything you ever wanted to know about being a birthday party princess (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3502448&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1)
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I really want to read the second page of that, but can't because CLICK HERE TO REGISTER YOUR ACCOUNT. Anyone got a forum account on their they'll spare for like 30 minutes?
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Wha...? Doesn't bug me at all.
Oh wait, that's probably NoScript making things easier again.
EDIT: Just noticed this
And one last question, has anyone ever asked for Gaston to show up? that would be great
No one to my knowledge has asked for Gaston :3
FROWN TOWN.
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Also, if you see nothing else in that thread, you should see this:
(http://i.imgur.com/zRJ3W.jpg)
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Amazing thread. Her illustrations are fantastic, and she has a great outlook on this kind of stuff.
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And one last question, has anyone ever asked for Gaston to show up? that would be great
No one to my knowledge has asked for Gaston :3
Well it would be kind of hard to pull off anyone, wouldn't it? I mean, no one looks like Gaston.
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....
You know, I do eat like... 5 dozen eggs a day.
EDIT:
For those of you who forget I'm like 5' and have somewhat slim bones.
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....
You know, I do eat like... 5 dozen eggs a day.
EDIT:
For those of you who forget I'm
ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF A
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE
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Beauty and the Beast - Gaston [High Quality] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK3x2DOoJIc#)
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Who wants ice cream sandwiches? (http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-other-Half-a-box-of-ice-cream-sandwiches-uneaten-W0QQAdIdZ408997373)
This sharpie ad is pretty good too (http://toronto.kijiji.ca/c-buy-and-sell-other-Sharpie-marker-W0QQAdIdZ408995062)
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Wow. Are you really that bored at work?
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Well, yes, I AM that bored.
But someone sent me these. I didn't go fishing on Kijiji.
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Fair warning: This is only really funny if you play MTG and are familiar with "The world's foremost plagiarism detective".
The Unofficial Michael J. Flores Soundboard (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5965149/floresSB.swf)
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List of lists of lists of lists (http://raikoth.net/lololol.html)
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What a coincidence. It just so happens I'm compiling a list of lists of lists of lists of lists.
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Adam, no!
IMOC WARNING: Some elements might consider it "amusing" to attempt to include this document and others like it in a so-called "list of lists of lists of lists of lists". Such an endeavour would of course be blatantly irresponsible, and very likely cross the "listological event horizon" and result in the destruction of the universe. Please turn away from such a doomed project before it is too late.
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On the subject of "Tumblr comments are horrible": Tweets of tumblr comments (https://twitter.com/TumblrTXT)
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On the subject of "Tumblr comments are horrible": Tweets of tumblr comments (https://twitter.com/TumblrTXT)
Oh... there's a whole series of these things:
http://twitter.com/reddit_txt (http://twitter.com/reddit_txt)
http://twitter.com/goons_txt (http://twitter.com/goons_txt)
http://twitter.com/tropers_txt (http://twitter.com/tropers_txt)
Not quite as funny as the pony thread videos, but just as horrifying!
:oh:
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Like you couldn't set up a brontoforumus_txt if you wanted to.
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Man, I actually want to see that now.
FAKE EDIT: Not, you know, badly enough to actually make one myself.
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Who do you write like? (http://iwl.me/)
Of course I posted some natty material in there (different chunks of the same document) and got a hilarious mish-mash of differing authors:
Rudyard Kipling
Cory Doctorow
Dan Brown
Mary Shelley
Lewis Carroll
James Joyce
Ursula K. Le Guin
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Cory Doctorow
Anne Rice
J. R. R. Tolkien (okay, I get it)
Arthur C. Clarke
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Interestlingly, inputting "Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores Whores" gets you not Frank Miller, but James Joyce.
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Yet, as expected
"whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey"
gets you Hemingway.
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H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace (x2), Cory Doctorow (x2), Stephen King.
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Stephen King and Ursula K. Le Guin apparently.
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Mostly H.P. Lovecraft, some David Foster Wallace, the occasional Cory Doctorow, Arthur Clarke, and Jonathan swift, plus, I'm ashamed to admit, on one occasion, Dan Brown. I notice these are all fiction writers, whereas I mainly plugged in nonfiction writing, so it could just be the case that only Lovecraft used more semicolons than periods.
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"herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp vampires herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp herp derp
Stephanie Meyer
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Is this the same system that came up with Stephanie Meyer for Simo Belmo because it has the word "vampires" in it?
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I dunno, I had a bit with the word 'vampire' in it and it gave me Anne Rice for that section.
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http://tomhaverfoods.com/ (http://tomhaverfoods.com/)
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Yet, as expected
"whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey whiskey"
gets you Hemingway.
Interestingly,
whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores, whiskey and whores,
Got me Cory Doctorow.
:hurr:
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draw some shit (http://new.weavesilk.com/)
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Cracked has an article about the Scary Stories to tell in the Dark series (http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-scariest-thing-ever-written-kids-book/) that you remember from when you were a kid. You know the ones I'm talking, with the ink-wash illustrations, the bizarre cultural monsters and the oh god, don't move. It's right behind you. Just drop the fucking mouse and run. JUST RUN. GET THE FUCK OUT GOO GOOOO AUGUGHHGHG
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(http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/files/2012/10/04_frillbite-initial.jpg)
To Eat a Triceratops, Tear it Apart (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/10/26/to-eat-a-triceratops/)
Paleontologists now think they know how the predatory Tyrannosaur ate the well-protected Triceratops: by ripping its head off.
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To be fair, when's the last time those of us who are omnivores ate anything that didn't have its head posthumously removed?
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it's like opening a snack bag
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Classic issues of Omni Magazine now online for free. (https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine)
From the effusive boilerplate:
Anyone remember Omni magazine. I was a charter subscriber back in the 1978. It was a neat mix of science fiction and science fact. It also—as I remember—had some neat artwork. I don’t remember much more, but according to Wikipedia, “in its early run, OMNI published a number of stories that have become genre classics, such as Orson Scott Card’s “Unaccompanied Sonata”, William Gibson’s “Burning Chrome” and “Johnny Mnemonic”, Harlan Ellison’s novella “Mefisto in Onyx”, and George R. R. Martin’s “Sandkings”. The magazine also published original sf/f by William S. Burroughs, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Carroll, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and other mainstream writers. The magazine excerpted Stephen King’s novel Firestarter, and featured a short story, “The End of the Whole Mess”. OMNI also brought the works of numerous painters to the attention of a large audience, such as H. R. Giger, De Es Schwertberger and Rallé. In the early 1980s, popular fiction stories from OMNI were reprinted in “The Best of OMNI Science Fiction” series and featured art by space artists like Robert McCall.”
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An open letter from the Attorney General of Alabama to the KKK, circa 1976. (http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/11/kiss-my-ass.html)
:perfect:
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https://twitter.com/search?q=%23muuuun&src=hash
I don't know what's going on in this twitter tag, but it's kawaii as fuck.
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http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ (http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/)
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Remember the Star Trek episodes thing?
Now there's Modern Seinfeld (https://twitter.com/SeinfeldToday)
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Pedobear Origins (http://hugelol.org/lol/46153)
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A pickpocket's tale (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/07/130107fa_fact_green)
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Riker Ipsum (http://www.rikeripsum.com/#/ipsum)
Sorry, Data. Mr. Worf, you sound like a man who's asking his friend if he can start dating his sister. Besides, you look good in a dress. A lot of things can change in twelve years, Admiral. Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you. Maybe if we felt any human loss as keenly as we feel one of those close to us, human history would be far less bloody. My oath is between Captain Kargan and myself. Your only concern is with how you obey my orders. Or do you prefer the rank of prisoner to that of lieutenant? I'd like to think that I haven't changed those things, sir. When has justice ever been as simple as a rule book? You're going to be an interesting companion, Mr. Data. Flair is what marks the difference between artistry and mere competence. You enjoyed that. I recommend you don't fire until you're within 40,000 kilometers. Now, how the hell do we defeat an enemy that knows us better than we know ourselves? Your head is not an artifact! Is it my imagination, or have tempers become a little frayed on the ship lately? Our neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns. Did you come here for something in particular or just general Riker-bashing? Not if I weaken first. Fate. It protects fools, little children, and ships named "Enterprise." About four years. I got tired of hearing how young I looked.
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Here is a pretty great takedown of an Esquire review of Texas Chainsaw 3D: (http://shotcontext.blogspot.com/2013/01/stephen-march-for-esquire-texas.html)
Hollywood scares are never scarier than anything reality can produce. That is not now and never has been the point. And to call TCM a product of "a more innocent time" is sort of forgetting the literal torrents of hellfire we were raining over nations in the form of napalm as it debuted.
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Remember the Build a Death Star petition? (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/secure-resources-and-funding-and-begin-construction-death-star-2016/wlfKzFkN) The White House has released an official response. (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking)
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Maisto Fresh Metal Tailwinds 1:97 Scale Die Cast United States Military Aircraft - US Air Force Medium Altitude, Long Endurance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) RQ-1 Predator with Display Stand (Dimension: 6" x 3-1/2" x 1") (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004JFMOGK/?tag=hydfbook0e-20&ascsubtag=US-SAGE-1356439768287-DYULU)
This is the best toy ever. Finally, I can pretend that I'm a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize!
It's like I'm sitting right there in the White House with my very own kill list!
My son is very interested in joining the Imperial forces when he grows up. He says he's not sure if he wants to help police the homeland or if he wants to invade foreign countries. So I thought a new Predator drone toy would be a nice gift for him. These drones are used both domestically and internationally, to spy on people and assassinate them at the Emperor's discretion. He just loves flying his drone around our house, dropping Hellfire missiles on Scruffy, our dog. He kept saying that Scruffy was a terror suspect and needed to be taken out. I asked him if Scruffy should get a trial first, and he quoted Lindsay Graham, Imperial Senator: "Shut up Scruffy, you don't get a trial!" I was so proud. I think I'll buy him some video games that promote martial law for Christmas.
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Duke Togo's Twitter (https://twitter.com/Golgo_13)
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The story of a Russian family which was cut off from the world for 40 years (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/01/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii/)
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Creepy White Guys (http://creepywhiteguys.tumblr.com/)
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The Predicktor (http://www.thepredicktor.com/)
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The Pusseer
The Booracle
The Fortune Titter
The Vagineer
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Raiders of the Lost Ark in black and white (http://evanerichards.com/2012/2828)
Sadly it's not actually the movie, just a ton of stills that have been formatted to black and white. I'd love to see that, though.
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An interesting look at the guest actors from an episode of an old TV show called Naked City (http://shotcontext.blogspot.com/2013/02/great-collaborations-1-hold-for-gloria.html). Favorite quote:
Look at those pictures. That's Hawkeye Pierce and Mallory Archer making fun of the Penguin. This is the magical world we live in, each and every day.
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The most racist Valentine cards ever (http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/15-unbelievably-racist-antique-valentines-day-car)
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No really you guys, today's Google Doodle is the best in forever.
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The Basement (http://cabel.me/2012/12/19/the-basement/)
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Optical calibration targets (http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/optical-calibration-targets.html)
BLDGBLOG post about landmarks in the desert, built in the 50s and 60s, to test the optical resolution of lenses on spy planes.
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Music records as books (http://ceegworld.com/the-record-books/)
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A Letter From the New Yorker (http://nearlyrobots.com/a-letter-from-the-new-yorker/)
For instance, this is the fifth week in a row that you have submitted the poem “Ass Dicks.” Although the aesthetic experience of the poem is quite phenomenal in the sense that the reader does feel as though they are directly in contact with colons and penises, it is not an experience that we would ever knowingly force upon our readers. Furthermore, we refuse to publish any piece of poetry that, however ironically, contains a subtle congratulatory nod to Joseph Stalin for winning the American Civil War. Although we understand the artistry of your deeply convoluted and nonsensical metaphor (which you have assured us has more to do with Stonewall Jackson than Joseph Stalin) the editorial staff at The New Yorker unanimously feels dumber for having read it.
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Just in case it didn't get noticed in Mongrel's series of posting fake things as real, Play4Real (http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=1414) is amazing and hilarious.
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I actually did say it was fake without anyone pointing that out. ::(:
Come on! I fuck up plenty often enough that you don't need to ride one of the times I actually managed to get things right!
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I think he's also talking about the steam sale picture.
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I never claimed that picture was real. :itsmagic: Plus, Tropico really is on sale! :perfect:
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I just wasn't sure if you knew, and I didn't want to crush your dreams.
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Until I can find a .gif of a giant phallus slapping against a computer keyboard to use as my avatar, you'll have to just imagine that whenever you read what I say.
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Until I can find a .gif of a giant phallus slapping against a computer keyboard to use as my avatar, you'll have to just imagine that whenever you read what I say.
Dammit, where's that picture Sharkey had on his homepage forever when you need it?
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Until I can find a .gif of a giant phallus slapping against a computer keyboard to use as my avatar, you'll have to just imagine that whenever you read what I say.
Until I can find that Openverse pic Mongrel was talking about, you'll just have to use this potentially NSFW pic (http://i.imgur.com/yjBjl8A.jpg) as a placeholder.
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Potentially?
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Depending on where you work.
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That must be an interesting workplace.
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On the subject of cultural bubbles and the multiple ways in which different people can interpret events, I had a really excellent op ed piece in The Atlantic forwarded to me on the subject of black views of the Civil War (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/why-do-so-few-blacks-study-the-civil-war/308831/).
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LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) has made 20,000 high-quality images of the work in their collection available for download in the public domain (http://lacma.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/what-do-cats-have-to-do-with-it-welcome-to-our-new-collections-website/)
It's pretty cool. They even added some sophisticated search features, so you can view by classification, what's currently on display in the museum, and other tags.
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Here's something neat for all you folks on Twitter: a service that automatically encodes your tweets into rot13 (http://spoilerific.jmac.org/) so you can chat about spoilers all you want without actually spoiling anybody. It's made by the guy who last year advocated the use of rot13 for spoilers on Twitter (http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2012/04/lets-use-rot13-for-game-spoilers/). Check it out!
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The Conversion Bureau stories are set in a near future where the earth is rapidly being absorbed by an alien universe. With only seven years before the planet is destroyed, humanity has only one means of escape: to be transformed into the native life of the alien cosmos and resettle there. The aliens are sapient equinoids, and the cosmos is the Equestria of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic! (http://jenniverse.com/tcb%20indexpage.html)
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I fucking hate you.
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HOW DID JDR GO EVEN MORE INSANE
LIKE I REMEMBER LOOKING AT HER STUFF LIKE TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO AND GOING "WELP, THAT'S FUCKED"
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Does it take an unhinged mind to create that kind of website, or is creating that kind of website what results in an unhinged mind?
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It's like the origins of Skynet, you know, Skynet sent a Terminator back in time and it was built from that Terminator, so where did it come from originally?
So was JDR crazy before she went crazy, or did her going crazy cause her to be crazy? Maybe if we went back in time and killed MLP, it would prevent --
Whoops. Turned out it just delayed the crazy a bit.
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My mother knew the crazy was coming, but everyone else just thought she was crazy.
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Undeniable Proof That The Walking Dead and Toy Story Have The Exact Same Plot (http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/undeniable-proof-that-the-walking-dead-and-toy-story-have-th)
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Does anyone else notice the difference between the 'Stop & Frisk' example and all the other pictures? (http://www.governor.ny.gov/2013/new-york-rising)
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Wow, that's...they're not even pretending anymore, are they?
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Paul Miller returns after a year without the internet (http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back-online-after-a-year-without-the-internet)
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I nearly lost it at "In early 2012 I was 26 years old and burnt out. I wanted a break from modern life." Ha ha ha, white people!
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Yeah, I think Mongrel meant to post that in this thread (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=6650.0)
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Did you guys at least skim the article before starting your knee-jerk snarking? Dude talks about how even after cutting the cable he still had tons of problems being a lazy piece of shit and failing to socialize with people to the point where his parents would send his sister to go see if he was still alive.
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I didn't have a judgement one way or another on that one. It seems like there were positives and negatives to the experience. The story mostly reinforces the rather bland but "sensible" view that the internet is a useful tool and that use of that tool is good but abuse is not.
The outcome isn't earthshattering by any means, but I felt like the story of his personal discovery of that made for a nice read.
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And even with that it's still an article that caters to white, thirty-something people in the middle class.
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Welp, it might be useful to some. If he has something to say, the fact that he's a white middle-class guy is completely, hilariously irrelevant.
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And the fact that he's in his thirties is... wait, what?
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Isn't he still only in his twenties?
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And even with that it's still an article that caters to white, thirty-something people in the middle class.
HEY FUCK YOU
anyway I think it's important that null results get reported. "man goes for a year without internet, learns nothing" is a good link for me to post next time some idiot on facebook complains we have too much technology.
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Okay, the point of my comment is, it takes a certain white, 20 to 30-something, middle-class mindset to get paid for a taking a year off the internet to only come to the conclusion that the internet is not the source of your problems. The guy is basically airing his quarter-life crisis, which is also something nearly unique to middle-class whites. It's not that he doesn't have problems, it's that it's easy to forget that "Too much internet" is still only applicable to a portion of the world.
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I concur completely.
So what?
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It's hilarious when 26-year-olds write sentences about feeling too pressured by the internet.
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Crazy fucking white people.
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This completely SFW site has been saddled with a rather unfortunate URL: http://www.hollandshitfestival.nl/ (http://www.hollandshitfestival.nl/)
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It joins the website of Pen Island: http://penisland.net/ (http://penisland.net/)
Or the Mole Station Nursery: Molestationnursery.com
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As curator of the Molestation Nursery of Penisland, I take exception to your slanderous implications.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/thugnotes (http://www.youtube.com/user/thugnotes)
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What's the most intellectual joke you know? (http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1h1cyg/whats_the_most_intellectual_joke_you_know/)
Reddit does something that manages to be both funny and unobjectionable somehow. There are some really good ones in there.
First Law of Thermodynamics: You can't win.
Second Law of Thermodynamics: You can't break even.
Third Law of Thermodynamics: You can't stop playing.
This thread is going to make me incredibly popular at parties I imagine myself getting invited to.
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There were three kingdoms, each bordering on the same lake. For centuries, these kingdoms had fought over an island in the middle of that lake. One day, they decided to have it out, once and for all.
The first kingdom was quite rich, and sent an army of 25 knights, each with three squires. The night before the battle, the knights jousted and cavorted as their squires polished armor, cooked food, and sharpened weapons.
The second kingdom was not so wealthy, and sent only 10 knights, each with 2 squires. The night before the battle, the knights cavorted and sharpened their weapons as the squires polished armor and prepared dinner.
The third kingdom was very poor, and only sent one elderly knght with his sole squire. The night before the battle, the knight sharpened his weapon, while the squire, using a looped rope, slung a pot high over the fire to cook while he prepared the knight's armor.
The next day, the battle began. All the knights of the first two kingdoms had cavorted a bit too much (one should never cavort while sharpening weapons and jousting) and could not fight. The squire of the third kingdom could not rouse the elderly knight in time for combat. So, in the absence of the knights, the squires fought. The battle raged well into the late hours, but when the dust finally settled, a solitary figure limped from the carnage. The lone squire from the third kingdom dragged himself away, beaten, bloodied, but victorious.
And it just goes to prove, the squire of the high pot and noose is equal to the sum of the squires of the other two sides.
oh my god
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http://cavemancircus.com/2013/07/08/dude-has-the-ultimate-sleeper-of-a-car/ (http://cavemancircus.com/2013/07/08/dude-has-the-ultimate-sleeper-of-a-car/)
I love this sort of thing.
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http://youmightremembermefrom.tumblr.com/ (http://youmightremembermefrom.tumblr.com/)
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I know the internet is littered with endless stupid "lists!" pages, but several of these are truly crazy: 40 odd maps of the world (http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/)
Highlights include "Nations England has never invaded", "All the countries in Europe with their transliterated Chinese names" and "Highest paid public employees in the US, by job & state", among others.
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Courtesy of Slate, I've got two more fun maps this morning.
A map of all the landmasses which were genuinely discovered by European explorers (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/08/map_of_discoveries_of_european_explorers.html)
A map of every living person in the US (by residence address) (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2013/08/segregation_in_america_every_neighborhood_in_the_u_s_mapped_along_racial.html?wpisrc=most_viral). Yes it zooms in small enough that you can potentially find yourself.
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/alt.language.artificial/ZL4e3fD7eW0/_7p8bKwLJWkJ
The following item shows what English would look like if it were purged of its non-Germanic words, and used German-style compounds instead of borrowings to express new concepts.
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Am I not supposed to think that sounds much nicer? I'm not sure.
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I think it's mostly "This is what English would sound like if it was German". Which, if anything, gives non-German speakers a bit of insight into how German sounds.
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I have heard of the concept of favoring Germanic roots while writing English. What I'd really like to see is a less technical passage written in two ways: one with all Germanic roots and one with all Romance roots, side by side, for comparison.
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A Nested List Of Everything In The Universe: A text exploration "game".
http://orteil.dashnet.org/nested (http://orteil.dashnet.org/nested)
<G4I> Fuck.
<QED2> universe -> galactic supercluster -> galaxy -> arm -> dyson sphere -> dyson surface -> dyson segment -> citadion -> living center -> home dome -> room -> Alice Wanderzine -> clothing -> yellow nanosuit -> nanoplasm -> nanobot -> thoughts -> "that's nano your business"
<dbuel> Holy crap
<nemryn> Isn't this the same guy as Cookie Clicker?
<YeNguyen> Seems like it!
<YeNguyen> What a genius.
<QED2> i also found the lasagnaverse
<dbuel> There's like wizards and stuff in here
<dbuel> I found a cursed minotaur in an abandoned fortress
<zigomo> http://i.imgur.com/j8GEBNj.png (http://i.imgur.com/j8GEBNj.png)
<dbuel> I found an asteroid belt with space monsters living in it
<Monty> I found a black hole that had another universe inside it, and then I found some aliens inside that universe.
<dbuel> OMG
<Fry Guy> Every black hole has a universe inside of it.
<dbuel> Apparently you can keep going into black holes and finding universes inside them with more black holes and on and on
<dbuel> I went into the first black hole, and then the first one in that, and then the first one in that, and then in the first galactic center of that one, there's life in space
<dbuel> Odraglirs and Mamozirs
<dbuel> I guess there are universes in electrons, too
<QED2> yes, that's where I found the lasangaverse: inside an electron.
<QED2> guess which one!
<dbuel> oh god I don't know!
<Skeletor> I spent some time searching for something with an abnormal number of body parts
<Skeletor> I finally found a crab with too many eyes
<QED2> http://i.imgur.com/NDD4p9D.png (http://i.imgur.com/NDD4p9D.png)
<greeperpeeper> it's...beautiful
<Basilisk> - museum
<Basilisk> + A picture of an ugly teacup stabbing an elegant businessman. The businessman is laughing.
<Basilisk> You can find them in cities
<Earan> How very dwarf fortress
<The Stu> i found the lasagnaverse in a peasant's pants
<The Stu> found nanobots living in a dyson sphere in the sharkverse
<The Stu> http://imgur.com/R4Z2WWN.jpg (http://imgur.com/R4Z2WWN.jpg)
<BossHoggAtog> I found a hole in some Swiss cheese, and I bought the Swiss in Geneva, does that count?
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http://ikeaordeath.com/ (http://ikeaordeath.com/)
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YES! 60%
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I was ranked black metal band Kvlt for my knowledge of Ikea products.
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I'm not the biggest fan of Reddit's AMAs since they're too often just bland promos for celebs anymore, but this AMA for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1oad13/gillian_anderson_here_ive_brought_david_duchovny/) is amazing and fantastic. Their rapport is great, and their replies to one another just keep getting better.
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Crossposted from the Jizzporium:
I have no idea where to put this link: Open-source anti-plagiarism utility, featuring a browser plugin (http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/is-it-journalism-or-just-a-repackaged-press-release-heres-a-tool-to-help-you-find-out/275206/)
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http://picascii.com/ (http://picascii.com/)
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Can't see yours, Kabbage. Actually when I try to quote your post, it blanks that Firefox tab :lol:
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I don't know about you guys, but it looks prettyyy awesome on my screen:
(http://mothra.brontoforum.us/img/misc/aaahhhafkd.jpg)
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http://www.ghostsingles.com/ (http://www.ghostsingles.com/)
The contact page is the best part.
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hay niku (https://twitter.com/spookysquid/status/393076157957951488/photo/1)
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I LITERALLY JUST SPENT LIKE $300 ON CLOTHES THIS MONTH
HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME NOW
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The fuckall I know about programming could be inscribed on the end of a chip contact, but I still found this history quite interesting: http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/ (http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2013/10/22/citation-needed/)
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There's a shitload of things in programming where it frankly could go either way and huge battlefronts have been built in defense of either position. For example, the group that writes
int function() {
// crap
}
and the group that writes
int function()
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// crap
}
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I'd like to think this dude would calm down if somebody patiently explained to him that an "array index" isn't actually an index at all, but a memory offset, and has been since way the fuck before BCPL and always will be for any language that calls itself system-level, but I suspect he'd just froth and rage against every programmer in the world for another 3 pages.
(Now does this work for Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, etc.? NOPE, but it's nice to not have to keep track of what standard THIS language happens to use - which is why most languages allow the sort of ambiguity that Zara just posted.)
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http://www.shapeways.com/model/265217/brick-ring.html?li=shop-results&materialId=23 (http://www.shapeways.com/model/265217/brick-ring.html?li=shop-results&materialId=23)
(http://images1.sw-cdn.net/model/picture/674x501_265217_129788_1338413387.jpg)
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https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf)
I'm not really sure what you'd call this: Op-Ed; history; cautionary tale; hot mess; long, rambling, semi-coherent, but incredibly entertaining industry story from a wizened IT veteran.
Whatever it is, it's terribly entertaining.
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I'll Tell You Why There's No Neuroscience Blogosphere: (http://iddbsa.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/ill-tell-you-why-theres-no-neuroscience-blogosphere/)
You’ll have to trust me that I say this from a place of love, but there is no neuroscience blogosphere because what you think about the brain is stupid.
There is no neuroscience blogosphere because you are so embarrassingly eager, and wide-eyed, and curious, and credulous… nothing you say about the brain makes any sense and it makes us neuroscientists very uncomfortable to listen to you talk about it.
It’s not your fault. “You” are a layperson, a scholar, well-read, clever, astute… you may even have earned an undergraduate degree in neuroscience. But for reasons largely out of your control, the things you have to say about the brain are invariably, appallingly, even curiously, incorrect.
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Now, before you indict me as a snob, (and perhaps as a simple expansion on Calhoun’s reason #4 (http://neuroecology.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/why-is-there-no-neuroscience-blogosphere/)), I have a second reason not to engage with you in public conversations about brains. I’m 100% sure that I am not exempt from the criticisms I have just leveled against you. The greenhorn’s grin may have faded from my face ages ago, but after 13 years of learning and unlearning and relearning I have no confidence in anything that I “know” about the brain. Or at least how it works. I’d be happy to gather up a bunch of Ramon y Cajal’s sketches with you, and just sit quietly with our hands in our laps and admire them. Don’t speak. No that’s one man, Santiago Ramón y Cajal. And I said don’t speak. Now you’ve ruined it.
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for Friday http://the-toast.net/2013/11/15/empowered-female-heroine/ (http://the-toast.net/2013/11/15/empowered-female-heroine/)
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Is that Friday's Boswell?
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"According to this scroll, all the prophecies are going to explode,” she explained.
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That was a good link, Zara. But I'm leaving now. I have to go win a karate. You knew what this was.
But seriously I sometimes wear my hair in a ponytail and make snarky remarks about boys and also completely misrepresent feminism to the point where it has now become a dirty word in mainstream culture
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My all time favorite was a comment on imgur I saw under some post of text from a crazy person
"I'm neutral about feminism"
Then a bunch of comments under that agreeing
you're
neutral?
about feminism?
So you're neutral towards the idea that women shouldn't be considered lesser than men?
Not for it? Just neutral?
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I DON'T MEAN THAT KIND OF FEMINISM I MEAN THE KIND OF FEMINISM WHERE PEOPLE ARE ASSHOLES
I AM NEUTRAL ABOUT PEOPLE BEING ASSHOLES
well congratulations on your strong political viewpoints
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I'm neutral towards D&D's alignment system
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(http://media.tumblr.com/c2793f5a4dff4f1141dfaa54289e9d8e/tumblr_inline_msrw1gXLzN1qz4rgp.gif)
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So you're neutral towards the idea that women shouldn't be considered lesser than men?
I'm not actively doing anything about it, so, yes?
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http://www.upworthygenerator.com/ (http://www.upworthygenerator.com/)
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next step, generate the actual video
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http://www.etsy.com/listing/169081997/taxidermy-mouse-chess-set-wooden-board (http://www.etsy.com/listing/169081997/taxidermy-mouse-chess-set-wooden-board)
Uhhhh... well now.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_extended_by_diplomatic_irregularity)
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http://namemydaughter.com/ (http://namemydaughter.com/)
So, if he doesn't go with Amelia, can we just shoot the guy? I means, seems like grounds to me.
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Somehow I think the end result of that will be divorce.
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First name Moon. Middle name Moon.
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There was a Bill Murray AMA yesterday. (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1vhjag/bill_murray_here_ok_ill_talk_ill_talk/)