Monday, September 28, 2009
I don't like reposting...
One of the hacks at the Washington Post thinks YOU YOUNG PEOPLE are helping the nazis:
via the agitator
sorry, no pic
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
This is what Koreans think about Americans...
On my vacation trip around Korea, we took a ferry ride from Busan to Jeju island. The ferry had a big board with a map on it and major places had a picture of a person from that country. Most of them were cultural and decent, for example a Japanese person in a kimono, or something like that. This is what they had for US.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
That periodical contained neither guns nor ammo
Read it and more at Strange Horizons (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2009/20090713/dinosaurs-f.shtml)They got on the local news.
INTERVIEWER: Nice racing.
DINOSAUR RACER 1: Thanks.
INTERVIEWER: Where you boys from?
DINOSAUR RACER 1: Atlantis.
INTERVIEWER: I thought your people came from Mars.
DINOSAUR RACER 2: The Atlantis basin, yes, on Mars.
INTERVIEWER: What brings you to Tampa?
DINOSAUR RACER 1: We came to do high-speed stunts in double gravity.
INTERVIEWER: So how do you like Earth?
DINOSAUR RACER 1: Well, it's not as awesome as Mars—
DINOSAUR RACER 2: My friend means to say that Earth is very awesome, but sometimes we get homesick.
INTERVIEWER: How intelligent are dinosaurs?
DINOSAUR RACER 2: We're probably not going to win any prizes, but if you think about it, neither are you.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
We had one of these at the northwest corner of Regent & Randall. They took it down a long time ago. I shit you not, the US Postal Service installed a bunch of mailboxes painted like R2D2 all over the country. You used to be able to get more information at http://uspsjedimaster.com. But no longer. Nobody can get into that site, not anymore. Who writes a website address on a mail-carrying robot anyway? The R2D2 mailbox is now in the realm of conspiracy theorists. And those with a keen long-term memory for the unusual. I found this picture on someone's flikr page here. Oh how I wish I had dropped a fat package in R2D2's analog input port when I had the chance.
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer
I remember very clearly my sixth grade science teacher reading to us an article in Discover Magazine that excitedly discussed a new species of rodent discovered in the Arctic (pictured). It could heat the bizarre bulb on it's head to 300 degrees Fahrenheit, allowing it to burrow into thick layers of ice. They would create a soupy quicksand of ice and water, into which prey would fall, only to be consumed by dozens of these hungry creatures waiting hungrily below. It speculated that a famous explorer who mysteriously disappeared in 1837 had fallen victim to these unusual creatures.
Well, this blew us all away. After some further research, however, our science teacher realized that the entire thing was a hoax. She in fact stumbled on an article about it in a different magazine, which detailed how zoo curators and biologists wrote into Discover Magazine to try to obtain a specimen. In fact, Discover Magazine received more mail about this article than anything else in its history. They never published a story to let everyone know that it had been a hoax. And that explorer who may have been eaten by Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers? He never existed.
My teacher, naturally, did not want to admit that she had been fooled. But she couldn't let all her students go around thinking there was such thing as a hotheaded naked ice borer that could heat its head to 300 degrees Fahrenheit.
I don't think I've ever seen someone so angry as when she stood in front of our class and admitted that it was a hoax. Miss Bares, if you're out there reading this, that was some funny ass shit.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Thursday, September 3, 2009
How to creatively rick roll someone
Most painful rick roll of all time:
Most original and well-executed rick roll I have ever seen:
I actually kind of enjoyed that last one.