Jabberwocky

Patent Application: Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:58:00 -0500

Patent Application: Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force:

Submitted without comment, except for a very slow shaking of my head.

Initiative Would Make Divorce Illegal in California Not exactly...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:36:28 -0500

Initiative Would Make Divorce Illegal in California

Not exactly the most mature or productive response to the Prop 8 debacle, but it is very entertaining & funny (and is actually a rational point, even if it’s not going to convince anybody and is being portrayed in a really snarky way). I hope this really makes it onto the ballot.

(via Yoda)

Gladwell for Dummies

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:15:09 -0500

Gladwell for Dummies:

So much ironic meta!

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The Police Blotter Shakespeare

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:50:44 -0500

The Police Blotter Shakespeare:

(via @lynneelizabeth)

Plasma Speakers. They’re apparently real. And awesome.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:01:24 -0500

Plasma Speakers. They’re apparently real. And awesome.

pbh3: First I dress up like a bat, than I scare the living...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:50:37 -0500

pbh3:

First I dress up like a bat, than I scare the living bejeesus out of you.

"You let girlfriends win, Davan! Girlfriends are like Wookiees who’ll show you their boobs!"

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:34 -0500

“You let girlfriends win, Davan! Girlfriends are like Wookiees who’ll show you their boobs!”

- R.K. Milholland

Pomplamoose covering “September”. Adorable. (via...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:50:48 -0500

Pomplamoose covering “September”. Adorable.

(via Dinosaur Comics)

Au Revoir Simone – “Oh! You Pretty Things”

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:14:00 -0500

Au Revoir Simone – “Oh! You Pretty Things”

This is the entirety of the proposed spec for “coffee...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:50:11 -0500

This is the entirety of the proposed spec for “coffee time”, which would replace the current system of timezones, UTC, DST, & all that muck. As a programmer, I find this time system attractive in a number of ways.

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Photo

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:26:16 -0500

Surfing the Amazon Never have I more deeply wished I knew how...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:35:21 -0500

Surfing the Amazon

Never have I more deeply wished I knew how to surf.

(via Coudal)

Wolfman Zevon (This is not the original trailer. Just give it a...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:47:00 -0400

Wolfman Zevon

(This is not the original trailer. Just give it a minute.)

Happiness Hat So perverse, yet so awesome. (via Yoda)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:23:44 -0400

Happiness Hat

So perverse, yet so awesome.

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New York City and Paris ‘Map Cuts’ It’s a bit upsetting...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:58:12 -0400

New York City and Paris ‘Map Cuts’

It’s a bit upsetting how much I want this.

Great. Now I’m going to be disappointed when I see him...

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:28:26 -0400

Great. Now I’m going to be disappointed when I see him next month and he doesn’t play “Fight for Your Right”.

P.S. Can we get this guy to do a Dylan-esque version of “Champagne Supernova”?

(via dstrelau)

Fight Club is...Calvin & Hobbes?

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:56:00 -0400

Fight Club is...Calvin & Hobbes?

Surgeon working to reverse female genital mutilation

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:10:00 -0400

Surgeon working to reverse female genital mutilation:

Of all the things I have read recently, this is by a wide margin the most impressively inspirational. I consider Female Genital Mutilation a crime on par with slavery or rape: it’s a theft of a basic human liberty, which is to say the liberty to enjoy sex and decide the condition of your own body. I’m not a fan of infant male circumcision either, but the female equivalent is far, far worse.

(Although I am aware that some studies have found some women actually don’t mind it or find it crippling, I’m inclined to think that the number of women who consider themselves “victims” makes it a de facto crime. At the very least, it should never ever be a forced procedure.)

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P.S. - This is obviously Serious Stuff and all, but I would be remiss if I did not comment that Clitoraid, a non-profit mentioned in the article, has to have one of the most awesome names possible for an organization. It sounds a bit like an intriguing sports drink, or perhaps an un-televisable benefit concert.

"You know any sport has gone off the rails when you have to remove body parts to do it."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:06:00 -0400

“You know any sport has gone off the rails when you have to remove body parts to do it.”

- Christopher McDougall, on the new trend of ultramarathoners having their toenails permanently removed.

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Animation of XKCD Loves the Discovery Channel The best part is...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:58:00 -0400

Animation of XKCD Loves the Discovery Channel

The best part is the “robe and wizard hat” harmony right at the fade out.

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