Tag: links

Beyond Good and Emo

  1. In Origins of Superheroes news: Climber guy freezes lower legs off, learns how to make prosthetics, designs new artificial knee, rebuilds his legs better than before, is now 8 feet tall..
  2. In Science Proves What We All Knew news, USC researchers find that pathological liars have extra brain material to help them keep track of all that bullshit.
  3. If you haven’t seen it, the video for Coil’s 1986 version of “Tainted Love” is amazing. Thanks to transbuddha for reposting it.
  4. Elegant, sophisticated, rebellious, and eternally fashionable: Black toilet paper.
  5. The Who has been a tragic joke for years, and now the inevitable biopic approaches. Click to find out just how bad it will be!
  6. Tom Coates finally had the first contact in 28 years with his father, and made an eloquently emotional blog post about it. Because this is the Internet, the next thing that happened was that ad agency stooges trolled his blog for a product promo. And then he tracked them down.
  7. Our governator won’t permit gay marriage. Could this be because he’s a RETIRED MANWHORE? Maybe he and Jeff Gannon can get together to “pump us up”.

You can’t fight in here, this is the war room!

  1. An incredibly bitter and sadly accurate obituary of M. Scott Peck, the spiritual psychology self-help writer. His first book was reasonably useful but the rest of his career was a waste, and apparently he was the Peter Sellers of popular moral philosophy. Via Robot Wisdom
  2. The LA Times has a good piece on food safety at Chinese places. Chinese friends of mine tell me that if the grade is better than C it’s probably not authentic. Then again, my cultural tolerance doesn’t extend to salmonella or living insects in my rice.
  3. Pets in Uniform! Pets in Uniform! PETS IN UNIFORM? Via memepool.
  4. Robot finds 600 barrels of pirate loot. I assume the robot has one leg and an eye patch.

Anna-Lise de Texte

  1. Those Starbucks Doubleshot iced coffee things taste like the milk at the bottom of a bowl of Cheerios.
  2. Here is a gallery of vintage children’s books. miss_education and others with coulrophobia urged to skip it.
  3. Three word phrases that go together: Grim Meathook Future and One-Rupee Suicide.
  4. To lighten the mood a bit from that, here: WFMU presents way too many variations on “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha”.
  5. The Army finds that anthrax is a lot cheaper if you buy it in bulk.
  6. The user Agnieskza on Flickr posts a lot of good photos. Quite a few of them are of her looking cute, but the others are pretty sweet too. Example below:

Yomama mano a mano: the Fiercer People

  1. Defense Tech Blog reports on fascinating, frightening, and probably illegal military planning for operations on U.S. soil without civilian control. Remember that name: Operation Granite Shadow. Original story from William Arkin’s Early Warning blog at the WashPo.
  2. Freakin’ idiot soldiers thing they see ghosts. Even lamer newscasters do a story on it. Come play with us, Sergeant. FOREVER.
  3. “If your definition of propaganda is framing communications to do something that’s going to save lives, that’s fine,” says Mark Broughton, SCL’s public affairs director. “That’s not a word I would use for that.” Slate has a story about psy war gone commercial, brought to you by the fine folks at Strategic Communication Laboratories.
  4. Ladies and gentlemen! I present to you the so-far-unmauled FERCOS BROTHERS! Not those other guys at all!
  5. Cat and Girl is especially good today, making fun of people like me.

Emo, Superemo, and Id.

  1. As we run out of alphabetical names for storms, Sean Burke tracks our inevitable watery philological doom.
  2. An interesting study of gender differences in psychology concludes that said differences are less than you might think. Extra points for the research being done by a Dr. Hyde… …who is female!
  3. Yes, this may well be the greatest punchline in the world, at least for the next fifteen minutes. Cackle.
  4. Avoid Australian octopus sushi.
  5. This Cthulhu movie is going to be totally gay.
  6. Tiny, beautiful, Bugatti-like retro sports car. Want.
  7. From Adjab: the vodka bong/bong vodka project for the Dutch and the beer for children for the Japanese. Ooookay.
  8. Disney Princess Jewelry for the kids! With deadly poisonous child-stunting brain-eating lead! YAAAY!

bruised orange (chain of sorrow)

  1. Chicken restaurant puts on calendar of cows in armor.
  2. FTC finally gets around to investigating gasoline profiteering. Mm-hmm.
  3. It’s only a very small nuclear power plant radioactive water leak. Everything is fine.
  4. Visiting Motor Trend online? If you’re not a subscriber you have to watch not an ad banner, not an “interstitial”, not a “premercial” even, but an ULTRAMERCIAL!
  5. Post a pic of a dead Iraqi, get free porn! Wow, it’s like we decided to do the Vietnam war over using Apocalypse Now as a model!
  6. My mother remembers her father grabbing her and her brother from the movie theatre and dragging them home because of the great Anaheim flood of 1938. (She grew up in Santa Ana and was born in ’29). Yeah, we have floods here in the O.C. too.

Cameron Diaz Will Have Her Revenge On Fullerton

  1. For the SF cheese crew and other fromageurs: An analysis of Cheese as Metaphor in Buffy.
  2. Here’s the latest update on 200 foot long pink bunnies.
  3. What the hell is Jeb Bush drinking? Don’t mix Maker’s Mark and old Karate Kid movies, Jeb.
  4. Worst… SUV… EVER scores a 0 in safety tests.
  5. Tumbled leather hipster jacket! Tumbled leather hipster jacket! Tumbled leather hipster jacket!
  6. It was International Die Like A Pirate Day during the hurricane, it seems. (large panoramic image)