Tag: links

Chacon said it was belong and other with his vacational by a better use on the aviation, and adding

  1. Waaah! I can’t be in Feedster’s Top 500 blogs because I use a non-elite service. There go my dreams of joining the blogerati, crushed by this LJ ghetto. (via waxy)
  2. Writers, stop and take this handy test to make sure your character isn’t a Mary Sue. (via the null device)
  3. Today’s asciiartsfarts eye chart broke me. (foul language, no naughty pictures)

I am up too early to have my blood removed.

  1. DefenseTech has the mad science update from DarpaTech 2005, including: “Brain Caps” to help soldiers take in more information under stress; predictive analysis to see when ships are Being Bad; a missile that can shoot anything anything; and tiny tiny little satellites called “space dust”. So glad our Precious Bodily Fluids are being protected by these affable lunatics.
  2. At the other end of the spectrum, marshmallow toasting technology has reached a new high. (via Gizmodo)
  3. Sandra Tsing Loh has a hilarious hatchet job review of Unraveled on Powells.com. (via Bookslut)

A banner with a strange device

  1. Who put the attack reptile in the lake at the park? (via LAobserved)
  2. Listen to the The Wandering Soul, a magnificently creepy ghost sounds tape that U.S. soldiers played from boats at Vietnamese people during the war as a psychological warfare operation, pretending to be a message from their dead friends. (via The Nonist)
  3. 100 Years of Orange County, an online photographic project from the Orange County Register. Some funny, some interesting, some chilling pictures from the last century of my odd little corner of the world. Start at January and move forward; moving backward for some reason jumps over two half-months at a time instead of one, missing half the content. I especially like the pic of Howard Hughes after he crashed in the Costa Mesa sugar beet field.

Don’t just do something: stand there!

  1. No, I do not want the government to put an RFID license plate on my car. NO.
  2. Super cool online museum exhibit of “extreme” textiles: lighter, stronger, faster, and totally bizarre materials.
  3. spacemummy has one of those typical Japanese enlightenment cult stories about children nursing mummified corpses. You know.
  4. Don’t sell clove cigarettes in Utah.
  5. VAT GROWN MEAT UPDATE! VAT GROWN MEAT UPDATE! VAT GROWN MEAT UPDATE!
  6. (Local filter) Is this the end of the Balboa Fun Zone? (OC Register, they’ll want registration, sorry)

phony beatlemania has bitten the dust

  1. Of course every public figure or institution must now have a blog. Yes, even him. No. NO!
  2. They’re getting closer to understanding metabolic syndrome which is good for people like me, who have it.
  3. Momus has a pretty good attack on “fashion Goth”. Then again, you could probably write that pretty good attack on any trendy horseshit, eh?
  4. The candy marketers have a new! exciting! paradigm! and it is: really big M&Ms.
  5. A hearty “fuck you” to the nerds developing these sonic torture devices for controlling crowds.
  6. Polecats hate freedom. NEVAR FORGET the enemy we all face together.
  7. The Oracle corporation and their million-dollar heavyweight corporate database would like to say this to you: TOAD.

semiotics for dummies

  1. The AFLAC Duck is Gilbert Gottfried. Wow! I had no idea. I now like those stupid ads even more.
  2. Can it be true that 1 in 25 dads in the U.K. is raising someone else’s kid? Or is this one of those things where it turns out someone didn’t carry the two and the statistics are bad?
  3. Crazy-ass mammatus clouds, strange color too. (Flickr)
  4. Deep in the depths of Syria, our hero will not pause in his quest until he finds his Grail: the elusive wild hamster of Aleppo.

I am a linkJ, I am what I paste

  1. Why would anyone want to make their own ad for the product they love? Because we live in AMERICA! FUCK YEAH! (AdJab)
  2. wearekim calls my attention to a distressing soap dispenser.
  3. ZAAAAAAP. (Flickr)
  4. They’re still at it with the crazy crypto export controls; it’s been a bipartisan nightmare for over 10 years now. (Schneier)
  5. The always worthwhile Dinosaur Comics today addresses manliness.
  6. Okay, it’s funny enough that the Vatican has a Chief Astronomer, but that he’s the one defending evolution makes it even better. “Who got Galileo’s office?” Edit: Even Rick Santorum doesn’t want “Intelligent Design” in the schools; wow.
  7. We have a war in the Middle East and ironic mullets everywhere, so why not a new retro Camaro? Well, because it’s fucking stupid, that’s why.

I cannot stop the links.

  1. Single white female college student seeks travel companion and lover for Costa Rica trip. Hey, this shouldn’t be a problem? Just as long as he meets stringent personal and political guidelines: “He should be intelligent, ethical, healthy and fit, monogamous, kind, generous, very affectionate and sexual. No married men, smokers, STDs, or religion, and must be pro-choice and pro-gay rights. For long-term compatibility he should be a libertarian and share a lot of my interests and hobbies.” Unfortunately Robert Heinlein is dead, and he probably wouldn’t have shared her admiration for Blink 182.
  2. Let’s go play in the carwash! Before and after pictures demonstrate the problem.
  3. The science folks are finally finding out that the mad old sea captains were right about the giant waves that kill ships.
  4. Here’s a freakin’ hilarious Toyota ad (mpeg video).
  5. Get your vexations on with Satie & Co.!