Tag: links

“I can sum her up in one word: pleather”

  1. xtreme_pr0k, pbd, and other motorcyclists may be interested in Yamaha’s new CROTCH AIR BAG.
  2. Ben Metcalf dares to ask: Am I allowed to write that I would like to hunt down George W. Bush, the president of the United States, and kill him with my bare hands?
  3. I want a WIG plane!

    wig

    I’d heard of the Soviet one, and I think I posted about it before, but this shit is amazing, especially the newer Soviet one and the Boeing Pelican.

  4. Watch your rear view mirrors, NASCAR drivers: The ENTURBULATOR‘s gonna bump ya into the wall!
  5. Today’s APOD is the best picture of a volcano I’ve ever seen, I think.
  6. Hey all you ex-girlfriends in black Jettas (and other jettazens), take the Jetta Report survey! Or something.
  7. In other auto news: 0-100 mph is a good measure of your acceleration. But if you want to know how good your car really is, how’s your 0-100 and back to 0 again? Once again Ultima wins this one. Power is good; power to weight plus braking is better.

We’re still fighting bravely for our vague goal!

  1. Only the U.S. Government’s GIANT SPACE SLINGSHOT can save us now!
  2. The Pixies as done by Prince, Jimi Hendrix, The Beach Boys, and others.
  3. Simone Weil said that she didn’t want to go to Heaven, because she thought the people in Hell would need more help. Dear Kirk Cameron: You’re no Simone Weil.
  4. In other religious news, the story of Daniel in the lion’s den is meant to prove a point, not to provide an example to emulate literally.
  5. Since I am a terrible physical coward I would probably just slip this card under someone’s wipers rather than present it in person.
  6. The Vespa saved Italy from Communism. Maciej’s piece on the occasion of the Tiananmen anniversary asks: Will Wal-Mart save China from capitalism?
  7. My friend Russell has shot a hilarious promo for a new tv show called It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and it’s here on his page. Warning: earworm. Browsing around his site I found the painfully perfect promos he did for the Sci-Fi channel a few years ago, which haven’t lost their ability to make me chorf.
  8. I have installed a lonesome electric chicken.

motion in the ocean (oo wah)

beachparty

  1. AIIGH! The Paxil is self-replicating and attacking the other Paxil!
  2. YOW! The water down there is so hot, it’s entered a weird different state of matter!
  3. YOICKS! The Luba people of central Africa have a totally awesome memory board technology!
  4. Shut up and make your own Custom Loaf, damnit!

Edit: Maciej got all up in my grill about the phrase “weird different state of matter”. Let the record show that I am aware that super extra hot steam is not strictly speaking a state of matter, even if it is supercritical. However, I do maintain that supercritical water is still totally weird. Thank you. Does anyone have some cashews and/or Paypal?

Why is there even a Finnish GWAR imitation to start with?

  1. Via Bookslut, an accurate and zingful description of “guy lit”, the brother of “chick lit”. Edit: The link I entered earlier doesn’t work because the Chron wants you to pay for that article.
  2. Today’s quote on immigration insanity is from Arizona’s governor: “Show me a 50-foot wall, and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder.” (Molly Ivins)
  3. The ‘Vark points to an adrants article about the “Morgellons disease” phenomenon that suggests it’s a big ol’ hoax. I have my suspicions too, since it’s 1) totally crazy and 2) a sudden big new thing on the internet.
  4. Blunders! Failures! Science Oopsies! DEAD MALLS!
  5. “Thanks” to do_not_lick for alerting me to this miracle diet based on an important book which everyone should read.

something is the opiate of the someone

  1. I ordered this awesome health-affirming air purifier from the yuppie catalog and now I have an awesome health-afffirming stage 2 air quality alert in my house! AWESOME!
  2. Wow, did we pay for this Texas Sheriff’s overtuned Hummer H2 copgasm?
  3. The Southern California mountains are no joke, even in May. When you’re lost and slowly dying of exposure, finding a dead guy’s stuff can help you survive, but it’s also a sign that your problem may not be uncommon.
  4. Michael Chabon writes about Legos.
  5. FAQ: How to Treat the Dutch and Avoid Becoming One

That’s the wrong way to the top if you wanna rock ‘n’ roll.

  1. Kids! Have fun killing your pain and fever when you mix it up with new Do It Yourself Tylenolâ„¢ Flavors! I wonder when the first drunk will mix five of these with vodka and die.
  2. Let’s all simulate really crappy weather with the National Weather Service’s HOT SEAT weather emergency thingy!
  3. Football? Foucault? Football Foucault? FOUCAULT FOOTBALL!
  4. Those good old boys were singin’ Go USA the day the lawns weren’t mowed.
  5. In our country, trapped coal miners don’t get working emergency oxygen packs. In Australia, they get iPods!
  6. SUP I’M A SHEEP is one of many fine pictures from Chris Doane.

Our bozopunk future

  1. We’re so sorry our convicted sex criminal employee fondled your child. Please accept this twenty five dollar gift certificate as a token of our concern.
  2. Let’s sail down this lazy river in a GIANT YORKSHIRE PUDDING BOAT (thanks, ‘vark!)
  3. I want to commute all Batman cool in one of these awesome motorcycle-less sidecars!
  4. I think this is only time I have seen a public safety organization use the music of Social Distortion in an official capacity, as the LAFD uses a citizen-made video for promotion. Includes profanity, guys on fire.
  5. BIG SNAKE SURVIVES FIRE, with or without O.C. punk is not known.
  6. Airbus would like its customers to consider stuffing 853 people in their new superplane by strapping them to backboards standing up. That would be especially cool when the mass panic occurred, I bet.
  7. No subscription list is complete without POTATO STORAGE INTERNATIONAL!
  8. Let’s all go see the Japanese guys who play gospel music in blackface! AUGH! Les, you should join up, you’d only have to do half the makeup!
  9. And for those of you who read this far, a special treat: a brand new, shiny unaccountable national secret police!

O tempura! O morays!

  1. Old school artpunk/noise/guitar band Mission of Burma has a site for their next album, The Obliterati that includes a wiki, a song-by-song revelation of the new record, and links to Matador’s subscription setup. Snazzy!
  2. Surprise! If the drug company funds the story, they get the result they want a lot of the time. Meanwhile the more effective medication is out of patent and not used. Oops.
  3. When a person becomes a millionaire, some things just have to change. The shoes. The house. The car. The spouse. And, of course, the email service. I wonder how much they’ll charge for the list of 10,000 people who paid $400 a month for webmail? Talk about an ultimate sucker list.
  4. Watch Hugo Chavez bitch out Dubbya in broken English (.wmv video). Streaming quicktime mirror on my site as well.
  5. As jwz said, if you are a compulsive knot untier, this game will eat you. You’re welcome!