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Things I did not know this morning
January 22, 2008 – 6:24 pm
It was a long time ago, sure - but still.
The Garage Kubricks are here
January 15, 2008 – 10:13 pm
Spielbergs of the world, keep an eye on your lunches.
Only six?
January 14, 2008 – 9:18 pm
Six Reasons Why Star Trek Should Stay Dead.
Still, it’s a good list.
Your honor, that amphibian was for personal use
December 6, 2007 – 1:31 am
More on the proverbial street and its uses for things:
Law enforcement authorities have discovered that people are willing to go to great lengths to get high
And they discovered this when? Recently, or decades ago, a few minutes after deciding to police what people put in their bodies?
including a troubling new method that features a frightened [...]
Fry & Laurie
October 28, 2007 – 6:42 pm
(updated to a crappier version - youtube must be playing copyright whack-a-mole)
Monkeys vs. Robots Politicians
October 26, 2007 – 1:34 am
Why can’t things like this:
The deputy mayor of New Delhi, India, fell off his balcony and died Sunday after being attacked by monkeys, his family members say. The city has around 10,000 monkeys, some of which have taken to roaming through government buildings as they steal food and rip apart documents.
happen to OUR politicians?
It’s all science and shit. You wouldn’t understand.
September 26, 2007 – 8:45 am
American inventors.
I’ll force you to obediance you rebellious slut
September 12, 2007 – 12:10 am
While googling for magnifying glass graphics, I stumbled across this (I edited the image above a bit so when I shrunk it to fit the subjects weren’t as small as they’d otherwise have been). I find it hilarious that someone at the Yale Library decided to use such an un-PC image as an example in [...]
Sweet Google goodness
September 4, 2007 – 3:30 am
Is the Google Maps feature that allows you to embed a custom iframe in your website new, or is this just another thing I’m the last to know about? Either way, it’s extremely cool.
Being Gay Now A Crime: Official Entrapped By Fascist Pigs, Man
August 28, 2007 – 11:10 am
Oh, sorry - he was a republican, so the headline is actually GOP Senator Larry Craig Arrested For “Lewd Conduct” In Men’s Room:
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) was arrested in June at a Minnesota airport by a plainclothes police officer investigating lewd conduct complaints in a men’s public restroom, according to an arrest report obtained by [...]
Pop!
August 23, 2007 – 12:36 pm
Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.:
It’s frothy out there in web round 2, assuming we’re in round 2, and all those bubbles really add to the effect. Each day, I see more than one new speech bubble logo. Am I the only one who thinks this has passed the point of group think, and entered the [...]
Knock knock / Who is it? / Uhhh… Candygram!
August 21, 2007 – 4:21 pm
This is cool:
The basic process for developing fingers and toes in land animals may have existed for more than 500 million years in shark genes, according to a new study.
Of course, it makes the uplift easier, and, in this case, much more frightening.