Genius:
This befalleth when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks, Laurence! Understand’st thou? Dost thou attend me? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence? Seest thou what happens, Laurence, when thou firk’st a stranger ‘twixt the buttocks?!
I love the internets.
Countdown to mash-up of swineflu mask pimping meme and zombie meme in 3… 2… 1…
“Cone of Violence.”
(Phrase coined by TJIC today, while describing how a sawzall fell apart while in use and almost took his eye out.)
Bulletflight:
the Bulletflight ballistics calculator, which predicts the trajectory of bullets fired from high-powered sniper rifles by taking into account half a dozen variables including wind speed, distance, outside temperature and altitude. After digesting all the information, Bulletflight tells you where exactly on the sniper scope you should position your target in order to hit it.
Sweet! [...]
Tyler: So, here’s the page with the email form. Not sure if it works, though.
Dan: Well, let’s put in a malformed email address. Like, I dunno, how about just “Douchebag”?
Tyler: OK, just “Douchebag” it is.
Tyler: Hmm. It accepted it. Guess it’s broken.
Brian: Hey! I just got an email!
(That Brian kid is hilarious!)
Typorgrapher.org dishes it out to NTT DoCoMo like NTT DoCoMo’s blocking the way to the tacqueria:
So, it appears our brand specialist has been drinking one too many Châteauneuf-du-Pape and has gone into a drunken overdrive during a meeting with DoCoMo… oh, sorry, I meant docomo:
“The new logo’s color is red, which symbolizes the company’s energy [...]
David Levy:
…the first place to legalize marriage with robots will be Massachusetts, where liberal jurisdiction and high-tech meet.
Heck, I predict we’ll even legalize marriage with gay robots!
(I leave the inevitable riffs on Azimov as an exercise to the reader)
With the loose change found under the couch cushions of a third-tier Hollywood producer, France has launched its most expensive movie – sorry, “film” – ever: Asterix at the Olympic Games. TIME magazine tells us:
A Gallic national treasure, Asterix is revered and adored by the French far more than even Mickey Mouse is by Americans. [...]
English sound artist / composer Janek Schaefer offers downloadable MP3s of two of his performances for sale: the recent The Sporting Guide to The Speed of Sound and the slightly older Recital in the old library. I’m not much for writing music reviews, but this guy got to attend the performance of TSGTTSOS and had [...]
1000 Frames of Hitchcock: 52 movies storyboarded by screencap. Awesome!
(original here)
In Frazetta – Painting with Fire, it is pointed out that Frank Frazetta really transformed the way we imagine heroic fantasy, which had previously been dressed in classical Roman garb. Interesting to see some suggestion of that here.
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A great song by I, Ludicrous – check it out.
(only been listened to 140 times!)
UPDATE: noticed and fixed the typo in the headline… D’Oh!
So, this afternoon I spent some time sitting in a waiting room at Lahey Clinic, reading a book while waiting for my apppointment. It occurred to me that I started reading the book in the same waiting room, three weeks previous. I was a little chagrined that it was taking me so long to get [...]
From Alan Moore, of course – who else?
THIS WARN YOU
Docs after in oldspeak. Untruth, make-ups only. Make-ups make THOUGHTCRIME. Careful. Supervisor rank or not read. This warn you. THOUGHTCRIME in docs after. SEXCRIME in docs after. Careful. If self excited, report. If other excited, report. Everything report. Withhold accurate report is INFOCRIME. This warn you. [...]