Tag: links

Home Depot has great grim meathooks on sale

  1. Women in science who’d like to be taken more seriously may wish to consider changing their gender entirely. Benefits include respect, promotion, encouragement, and being allowed to finish entire sentences!
  2. The U.S. Government wants wireless device owners to get emergency alerts. That’s pretty cool. I get some of those already because I’m a nerd. But they’re going to be opt-in. Right? RIGHT?
  3. Oreos: The pandemic cookie of the occident!!
  4. If you get the shit beaten out of you by the LAPD, they may also decide to charge you with lynching while they’re at it. In Soviet Los Angeles, etc.

desperate but not serious

  1. Thanks to the Aardvark, I now know about the Demon ducks and killer kangaroos.
  2. In some ways the most disturbing thing about this Coach Pissfreak story is that not all of the parents demanded the firing of a school coach who forced kids to pee into a cup as a joke.
  3. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is defending our precious bodily fluids critical infrastructure, including Krispy Kreme stores, petting zoos, and flea markets.
  4. Once again, someone thinks it’s a good idea to drive a Hummer to support our boys overseas. You know, once you get blood in your gas tank it’s so hard to get it out.
  5. Manhattan was Stonehenge today (apod).

watch the front sight and keep the barrel down

  1. Two words that don’t go together are “Myspace” and…
  2. Sen. Ted Stevens said that the internet is a series of tubes. More and more people are showing the world how much they agree!
  3. Oh hey great, they want router makers to put in back doors for tapping. I see no problem here at all.
  4. Today’s rampage at the toll plaza once again suggests that speed doesn’t make people mellow.
  5. Courtesy the aardvark, enjoy the Online Pork Rind Resource.
  6. To engineer is human. Even today, brand new gigantic dams collapse sometimes.

link constipation relieved

  1. Karla McLaren, a leading light of the New Age who published nine books, has become a skeptic. tinymammoth pointed me to this excellent essay in which she describes the cultural gap between those two extremes. Skeptics take note: attacking quackery and exposing flaws in the beliefs of others through mockery may be satisfying, but it’s not the same as education.
  2. Mark-Jason Dominus just pointed me to this amazing set of underwater photos and videos, including the piglet squid in this icon and other treasures of the deep.
  3. There is a whole gol-durned blog about the Dewey Decimal System! What’s more, it’s interesting.
  4. Get out your tinfoil hats: Terrorists have infiltrated the Masons!
  5. Via the Exploding Aardvark, here: have some japanese warning signs!
  6. In Oppressive Technology News, the fine folks at Georgia Tech are working on a seek and interdict anti-camera weapon. Thanks, guys.
  7. Do not stand under or attempt to climb this mountain: two million cubic meters of it are about to fall off.
  8. Vietnam, 1968 (flickr photo). This is poignant. I wonder what became of this guy? Dead? Back from the dead like Trout? Just another boomer Blimp?
  9. The world of Duke Cunningham: Hookers, bribes, and friends named “Dusty” Foggo.
  10. Matt Taibbi is back from Iraq with some stories of life on the front.
  11. Salam alaikam and welcome to MuslimSpace, where instead of Tom your friend is M12345.
  12. Crash victim comes out of it after 20 years, thinks he’s still 20. Yow.
  13. Our very own O.C. Al Qaeda spokesman is finally out of the closet. What is it about us and insane people?

the boy stood on the burning deck eating peanuts by the peck

  1. Drunk bear in car!
  2. Torgo and the Buffalo Beast pointed me to a blog comment thread in which various meathead cops discuss how they’re going to wreak havoc/let people die/fuck everyone as a negotiation technique for their contract. It was all pretty good, but the best was this eggcorn from a postliterate guy who didn’t know he was coining a new phrase: I for one have adopted a lazy-fare attitude. Worthy of Chief Wiggum!
  3. And then there was that one time the ghost ship full of petrified corpses showed up in town.
  4. OC Metroblogs’ Flickr Group has shots of the Hootenany, including this classic punkabilly O.C. couple.
  5. The Wikipedia guy has started a political wiki. I am not sure why.
  6. Georges Duboeuf imitates the Simpsons and gets caught cheating with his wines!

Correction: Pigs are not in spaaaaace.

  1. The Consumer Product Safety Commission would like you to know that the new sport of Tube Kiting, while inviting at first, is probably more danger than you need in your life.
  2. Hey you know what’s worse than right-wing blogging, worse even than right-wing podblogging? I’ll tell you. Right-wing videoblogging.
  3. The ants are counting, counting, counting their steps.
  4. Yay, we have blue whales off the coast!
  5. I am addicted to the furikake variant known as The Eden Shake. Sesame, seaweed, and Shiso. So good.

And I know it ’cause she said so

  1. Oh hey great, we’ve got a new bomb that weighs only 64 pounds and kills better than a 1,000 pound cluster bomb! Meet the CLAW!
  2. I had no idea that Strangers with Candy‘s Jerri Blank had a real-life original. Wow, what a piece of work.
  3. Why goalies hate the new soccer ball.
  4. Snoop Dogg + Xbox 360 = Hip Hop Gaming League.
  5. This is the best news in a while: The L.A./Long Beach ports are cleaning up their diesel emissions. This was the one thing the SCAQMD had no authority to change, and the worst pollution problem in the basin.
  6. Yikes! HABSBURGS!

The back of loaf

  1. Silver Spoon Considered Harmful.
  2. Massive Fandom Wank containing the phrase “fandom unity luncheon” somewhere in it. Jesus H. Christ.
  3. Abstain from sex; win fries.
  4. List of unusual deaths (Wikipedia).
  5. I refuse to believe that smllr is a real service. Only John Waters can do Smell-O-Vision anyway.
  6. Doom awaits kitchen gadget lovers: Sur La Table is having a big sale.
  7. How does this violinist make weird subharmonic noises?

Tap tap tap it’s the newswire

  1. Here’s how to dissuade Iraqis from suicide bomb and IED attacks: we’ve gone and made a television commercial urging them not to. I especially like the description of the group that funded it: I call them an independent, non-governmental group of scholars, non political people,” says Plotkin. “Some may live in Iraq, some may live abroad. For a variety of different reasons—from safety concerns to wanting the focus to remain on the issue itself, they decided to remain anonymous.”
  2. In other War Pigs news, the fighter jets are going to have IP addresses now.
  3. NEOLOGISM ALERT: “Bro Job.”
  4. Here’s a bright idea. If you’re painting lots of things, capture the fumes and use them for power.
  5. Headline of the day! NUDE WORM TEMPTS WORLD CUP FANS
  6. Sure, it’s an oppressive technology that’l be used to disrupt free expression, but I still want a Ghostbusters-style slimer for Christmas.
  7. SMS isn’t just for teen hookups. It’s for desperate cries for help sent to aid organizations, too.
  8. There’s a good summary of the net neutrality problem from Joan Blades via an interview on Feministing.
  9. Congresscritters here are trying variations on the captcha to keep bots and other automation from emailing them, with predictably comic effect.
  10. You may insert your own “Dude, you’re…” punchline to this exploding Dell laptop story and photo.
  11. Wouldn’t it be a larf if we overfished so much that we ran out of fish oil and all got real stupid? Alarmist, I know, but…
  12. Now the Sheriffs Dept is in on the action using tiny drone airplanes to spy on us. Extra points for the name of the company making them: “Octatron”.
  13. Typos can be embarrassing or confusing. At times they can also result in massive litigation!
  14. Louisiana is still trying to find a way to get money from nutria somehow even though no one wants to eat them, make coats out of them, or even really meet one.
  15. You know that guy who volunteers a lot, runs for local office a lot, thinks pretty highly of himself, is always not only a vet but a Special Forces combat vet? Turns out he’s a multiple murderer instead. (Reg. required, use bugmenot etc.)

midget afro chickens?

  1. The brave souls at Losanjealous attended a Steven Seagal show so that you don’t have to. Their report amuses. …I mean a certain type that seems not to have evolved in at least fourteen years. It’s the same white-haired guy in white jeans and an orange shirt from the Macy’s Young Men’s Department and his cougar girlfriend. They haven’t changed at all. She still wears her hair in ringlets and has breast implants that look like fire hydrants. And he still makes angry premeditated spins on the dance floor. And she applauds them like an elementary school teacher. It just hasn’t changed.
  2. A formerly high-ranking law enforcement intelligence officer for the State of California has alleged that his demotion was retaliation for not going along with questionable intelligence-gathering. According to him, there were plans to bug the offices of Muslim clerics and infiltrate college animal rights groups.
  3. With a name like Zachary Nicodemous, what else are you going to do but join a sex slave cult called the “Kaotians”?
  4. Like Tom, the U.S. Government is everyone’s friend. Again..
  5. This collaborative project mapped the city of Barcelona for and by disabled people with mobility issues.
  6. The next Pet Sematary movie will have to include a mad taxidermist whose animatronic experiments have been all too successful.