Argh! I missed this. Hopefully they’ll re-run it. And look who’s on the show:
Tomorrow night at 9, actor Peter Weller will appear at the Colosseum and other monuments of ancient Rome in the History Channel documentary “Rome: Engineering an Empire.” The former RoboCop is one of the experts sharing his knowledge in this superb two-hour [...]
They can kick our ass in chess, manufacture with less mistakes, roam mars, but WE STILL RULE!
Yeah baby!
As a great man once said “You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.”
Am I the only one vaguely disturbed by the fact that North Carolina at some point felt it necessary to enact the specific crime of “malicious castration”?
http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=47432
I’ve got it! Bush’s endorsement of teaching “intelligent” design in schools is really a clever, subtle plan to deeply entrench school vouchers by making the Left want vouchers as well. Or maybe it’s even more subtle — to eliminate the Left altogether by causing its adherents’ brains to explode due to simultaneously wanting [...]
…succor yourself with this.
Fatwa? What fatwa?
Take that, terrorists!
* of course, crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women isn’t too bad, either.
Link via TJIC:
R/S: What other “props” do you use in ritual?
TC: I use an athame, a ritual knife that was crafted by a blacksmith I know. It fits my hand perfectly. It’s sharp because my intention and my will have to be sharp. I also have a blade made out of an old fossil which [...]
This collector of old cameras in Central MA also develops any old film he discovers: how cool is that, I ask you? Damn cool.
(No idea if this is him, it’s just one of the photos. Because I’m a jerk, I’ve cropped and photoshopped these, but his site features the photos exactly as they were developed.)
This [...]
According to Horrorchannel.com, Mike Mignola’s The Amazing Screw-On Head is slated to manifest as an animated feature on the SciFi channel. If they do this right, I’ll watch it, and maybe even forgive them.
I’d have a better image but I’m too lazy to find my copy and scan something.
(via Drawn)
… I take stupid quizes (via tjicistan).
You scored as Classical Liberal. You are a classical liberal. You are sceptical about much of the historicity of the Bible, and the most important thing Jesus has done is to set us a good moral example that we are to follow. Doctrines like the trinity and the incarnation [...]
As much as I enjoy Charlie Stross’ books (and I both enjoy reading them immensely, and reading them early immensely), I keep stubbing my toes on all of the little nuggets of wrongness strewn throughout them. The earlier parts of his new Accelerando feature a number of different remarks about politics and economics that makes [...]
The Chinese get all procrustean on themselves:
Dr. Xia charges $6,000 to $7,000 to add up to six inches of height, depending on the patient’s ideal proportions. The initial operation, in which he severs the thighbone or shinbone through two small incisions in the skin, takes about an hour and a half. He then attaches his [...]
Heh:
It was an epic of breathtaking scope and George Lucas could not forget it. He became a filmmaker; his first major film, American Graffiti, become the touchstone of a generation and gave him the power to make whatever film he wanted.
He wanted to make his epic dream come to life on the screen, in all [...]
If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula…
Even if you don’t watch Enterprise (and if you don’t, I can’t blame you that much), try to catch one of the re-broadcasts of “Into a Mirror, Darkly (Part 1)” and then “Into a Mirror, Darkly (Part 2)” next Saturday (or whenever your TiVo grabs it).
A great shout-out to fans of the One, True Series.
Ah [...]
or, New Socialist Muppets
Another reason to chop CTW off at the knees…
Mossback Culture reports on a lynch mob just down the road a bit:
The politically correct faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard passed a surprise no-confidence vote against Larry Summers last night < ... > Dr. Matory, the motion’s author, is an interesting fellow. He’s a voodoo expert, member of the ethic studies department, adviser [...]
There’s been some gum-flapping lately here and here (there are multiple posts, so I’ll let you find ‘em if you care to - you’ve probably already read more of them than I bothered to) wrt transhumanism and the issues revolving around “human nature”. My take on human nature: who cares? I hate to resort to [...]