John's Link

 
 

5/10/12

I had no idea where this crap came from, but this is perfect. Aussies must have a LOT of yeast from all the beer they brew and guzzle. But the sheep wouldn't eat it, so they started feeding it to Aussies.

Aussie Delicacy Vegemite Loses Some of Its Savory Appeal

5/6/12

He only wanted to build a SMALL bomb ...

Swedish Man Arrested For Trying To Build Nuclear Reactor In His Kitchen

5/5/12

Marriage Made in Heaven

I just read that a woman formerly known as Dawn McManus has legally changed her name to Red Wacky League Antlez Broke the Stereo Neon Tide Bring Back Honesty Coalition Feedback Hand of Aces Keep Going Captain Let's Pretend Lost State of Dance Paper Taxis Lunar Road Up Down Strange All and I Neon Sheep Eve Hornby Faye Bradley AJ Wilde Michael Rice Dion Watts Matthew Appleyard John Ashurst Lauren Swales Zoe Angus Jaspreet Singh Emma Matthews Nicola Brown Leanne Pickering Victoria Davies Rachel Burnside Gil Parker Freya Watson Alisha Watts James Pearson Jacob Sotheran Darley Beth Lowery Jasmine Hewitt Chloe Gibson Molly Farquhar Lewis Murphy Abbie Coulson Nick Davies Harvey Parker Kyran Williamson Michael Anderson Bethany Murray Sophie Hamilton Amy Wilkins Emma Simpson Liam Wales Jacob Bartram Alex Hooks Rebecca Miller Caitlin Miller Sean McCloskey Dominic Parker Abbey Sharpe Elena Larkin Rebecca Simpson Nick Dixon Abbie Farrelly Liam Grieves Casey Smith Liam Downing Ben Wignall Elizabeth Hann Danielle Walker Lauren Glen James Johnson Ben Ervine Kate Burton James Hudson Daniel Mayes Matthew Kitching Josh Bennett Evolution Dreams

My first thought was that she really ought to marry Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.

Johann Gambolputty

The wedding ceremony would take some time. Like, "Do you, Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, take this woman,  Red Wacky League Antlez Broke the Stereo Neon Tide Bring Back Honesty Coalition Feedback Hand of Aces Keep Going Captain Let's Pretend Lost State of Dance Paper Taxis Lunar Road Up Down Strange All and I Neon Sheep Eve Hornby Faye Bradley AJ Wilde Michael Rice Dion Watts Matthew Appleyard John Ashurst Lauren Swales Zoe Angus Jaspreet Singh Emma Matthews Nicola Brown Leanne Pickering Victoria Davies Rachel Burnside Gil Parker Freya Watson Alisha Watts James Pearson Jacob Sotheran Darley Beth Lowery Jasmine Hewitt Chloe Gibson Molly Farquhar Lewis Murphy Abbie Coulson Nick Davies Harvey Parker Kyran Williamson Michael Anderson Bethany Murray Sophie Hamilton Amy Wilkins Emma Simpson Liam Wales Jacob Bartram Alex Hooks Rebecca Miller Caitlin Miller Sean McCloskey Dominic Parker Abbey Sharpe Elena Larkin Rebecca Simpson Nick Dixon Abbie Farrelly Liam Grieves Casey Smith Liam Downing Ben Wignall Elizabeth Hann Danielle Walker Lauren Glen James Johnson Ben Ervine Kate Burton James Hudson Daniel Mayes Matthew Kitching Josh Bennett Evolution Dreams, to be your lawful wedded wife?"

"I do."

Then a break so the preacher can get his breath back. Then, "Do you, Red Wacky League Antlez Broke the Stereo Neon Tide Bring Back Honesty Coalition Feedback Hand of Aces Keep Going Captain Let's Pretend Lost State of Dance Paper Taxis Lunar Road Up Down Strange All and I Neon Sheep Eve Hornby Faye Bradley AJ Wilde Michael Rice Dion Watts Matthew Appleyard John Ashurst Lauren Swales Zoe Angus Jaspreet Singh Emma Matthews Nicola Brown Leanne Pickering Victoria Davies Rachel Burnside Gil Parker Freya Watson Alisha Watts James Pearson Jacob Sotheran Darley Beth Lowery Jasmine Hewitt Chloe Gibson Molly Farquhar Lewis Murphy Abbie Coulson Nick Davies Harvey Parker Kyran Williamson Michael Anderson Bethany Murray Sophie Hamilton Amy Wilkins Emma Simpson Liam Wales Jacob Bartram Alex Hooks Rebecca Miller Caitlin Miller Sean McCloskey Dominic Parker Abbey Sharpe Elena Larkin Rebecca Simpson Nick Dixon Abbie Farrelly Liam Grieves Casey Smith Liam Downing Ben Wignall Elizabeth Hann Danielle Walker Lauren Glen James Johnson Ben Ervine Kate Burton James Hudson Daniel Mayes Matthew Kitching Josh Bennett Evolution Dreams, take this man, Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern- schplenden- schlitter- crasscrenbon- fried- digger- dingle- dangle- dongle- dungle- burstein- von- knacker- thrasher- apple- banger- horowitz- ticolensic- grander- knotty- spelltinkle- grandlich- grumblemeyer- spelterwasser- kurstlich- himbleeisen- bahnwagen- gutenabend- bitte- ein- nürnburger- bratwustle- gerspurten- mitz- weimache- luber- hundsfut- gumberaber- shönedanker- kalbsfleisch- mittler- aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, to be your lawful wedded husband?"

"I do."

"I now pronounce you man and wife. Please sign the marriage license. Do you plan to hyphenate your last names?"

4/24/12

Wait! Come back!

At last the true genius of George W. Bush is revealed. How do you solve the problem of millions of brown people spilling across the border? Simple. Just engineer the worst economy since 1930. You think that was all an ACCIDENT? Hell, no, it was part of his cunning plan! I think we all owe him an apology for thinking he was a stupid asswipe. Only problem, who's going to pick the strawberries?

For first time since Depression, more Mexicans leave U.S. than enter

4/21/12

Facefool

What is it about Facebook that makes people dumb? It doesn't bother me too much that the guy made a remark about Palin, per se, because I hate her. But these dudes are assigned to protect people and they have to invade their privacy to do it. They should be able to keep their opinions to themselves, it's a big part of their job. One more fool brought down by an idiotic posting, as if he thought no one could POSSIBLY read it.

More secret service departures as Palin comment brings fresh embarrassment

4/16/12

The science behind willful ignorance...

The Republican Brain

4/12/12

WURD

I've been saying this for many years, though his objections and mine are not the same. There's a little red squiggle under the subject line of this email, telling me I've misspelled a wurd. I DO know how to turn that off, and I haven't seen that annoying little paper clip "helper" in a long time, but still ...

Death to Word

4/7/12

Dear Dr. Ruth

3/31/12

Dear Cecil:

Is there any evidence to support the mantra that cutting taxes stimulates job growth?

Does cutting taxes create jobs?

3/16/12

Would Vietnam war money have been better spent bribing the enemy to stop fighting?

At least we could have gotten something for our money. Hearts and minds, at a fair market price.

Thanks to Spider Robinson

3/7/12

During the Vietnam War, after holding a 2-S college deferment, [Rush Limbaugh] was reclassified as 1-Y -- meaning qualified for military service but available only in time of war or national emergency - for a pilonidal cyst on his butt. --Tim Mak

Read more: 10 little-known Rush Limbaugh facts

Link: WARNING: CONTAINS PICTURES OF RUSH LIMBAUGH'S ASSHOLE

2/23/12

It appears that those faster-than-light neutrinos they thought they detected back in September turns out to be the result of a loose wire in Switzerland. Pretty much as we all expected, right? Still, it would have been nice to shake things up like that.

Einstein Was Right All Along: ‘Faster-Than-Light’ Neutrino Was Product of Error

I loved the quote from the director of research at CERN, as reported in TIME magazine:

That did not come as much of a surprise to generations of physicists and students who have come to see Einstein's word as law. And, according to Ars Technica, it did not come as a surprise to Sergio Bertolucci, CERN's head of research. When asked before the glitch was discovered if he believed the neutrinos really did get to the Apennine Mountains so fast, he said he had his doubts, "because nothing in Italy arrives ahead of time."

Well, of course not, the neutrinos would have had to take a break for a cup of cappuccino at a little cafe, maybe sit around and ogle and whistle at a few passing subluminal female Higgs bosons in the way over. "Mama mia! look at the quarks on that babe!" That would have used up a femtosecond or two right there ...

 

2/18/12

At last, someone has uncovered the REAL difference between "cat people" and "dog people."

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

I've never really understood why cat people are so proud of the fact that their cats are largely indifferent to them. They value the cat's independence and "dignity," which I see as cold-hearted and nasty self-interest. They dislike a dog's "slavish" devotion and desire to please, which I perceive as loyalty and, yes, even love. (Yes, I know Rover will get over it pretty fast if I die and someone else starts feeding him. But he'll be just as loyal to the new provider.) To me, the chief difference between cats and goldfish as pets is that one has fur and shits in your house. A cat is something you feed. A dog is a companion.

Come on, cat lovers, wise up! You are being enslaved by the Great Feline Disease. It's burrowing into your brain as you read this. The cat is attacking you with his shit! Kill your cat! You have nothing to lose but your flea collar!

 

2/17/12

Yeah, when it comes to pipsqueak businesses like General Motors and Chrysler, just let 'em fail. But when it comes to REALLY important businesses ...

The Senate’s Barbershop: An Unlikely Bailout Recipient

2/16/12

Goosing ...

They've finally solved it. Why do some songs make us cry? Apparently it's all volume change and appoggiaturas. If you put a little grace note in front of each note of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," and sing the second verse fortissimo, there won't be a dry eye in the house. Like "Memories" from CATS.

Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker

This article also describes a rather unusual occupation: Goosebump counter for researchers at McGill University.

2/15/12

From the ONION ...

New Breeding Program Aimed At Keeping Moderate Republicans From Going Extinct

2/6/12

I guess you heard about the 70 or so people who died at a soccer stadium in Egypt a few days ago. Sounded like a lot to me, but it turns out it's only a medium-sized soccer disaster. Some of these incredible slaughters were caused by faulty stands, poor crowd control, etc. But a lot of them were the result of being pissed off by the fucking GAME!!! Soccer fans, GET A LIFE! It's only a goddam useless meaningless stupid game!

History's Top 15 Worst Soccer Disasters

 

2/2/12

This makes SO much sense; I'm surprised I didn't see it before. Now the only question is: Alien or robot? I'm going with alien. I think, in fact, he's the Emperor Xenu that Tom Cruise has been warning us about all these years. Sorry, Tom, I was a doubter! Mormon, my ass!

The Uncanny Valley: What Robot Theory Tells Us About Mitt Romney

 

1/30/12

Gag me ...

You eat that?

 

1/16/12

Ya gotta love Oprah ...

Oprah Beams, Cries at School's First Class Graduation

 
 

1/7/12

Here’s this guy calling himself “The Huff.” He has chosen his Top Ten Movies of 2011, and decided to share them with us.

The Huff's 10 Best Movies of 2011

I considered the possibility that this is a put-on, some wiseguy deliberately picking the worst garbage of the year, but I don’t think so. (If you know different, please tell me. It would be a great relief.) There is just something genuinely lowbrow about this dude. By actual count, he describes a movie as “really good/great” 25 times. That’s for only ten movies! I thought about counting his uses of the words “in my opinion” and “awesome,” but that would require me to listen to it again, and twice is two times too many.

This is your 21st Century movie-goer, America! This is why we WILL get a SCREAM 5,6,and 7, and possibly 49.

 
 

1/5/12

The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See

 
 

12/24/11

I knew this guy, though not real well. Amazing command of words. He really was a sweetheart.

Robert Easton dies at 81; Henry Higgins of Hollywood

 
 

12/14/11

Private Enterprise ...

Yikes! If we'd gone with something like this in the '70s (with a space plane instead of the throwaway booster, maybe?) we might have saved 14 lives, and would probably still be flying manned space missions. Hell, we might have a permanent base on the Moon, and have already made the first trip to Mars. It's time for NASA to move over, and just provide seed money to worthwhile projects, in my opinion.

Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle

 
 

12/10/11

Effin Facebook Nazis

I don't have a Facebook page, but if I got one, they'd probably block my hometown of Fuckwad, Texas, too. Bastards.
And Effin is in effin Limerick!
There was a young woman from Effin ...
But what rhymes with effin?

Effin woman launches online fight for Facebook recognition

 
 

12/8//11

Lo que es un libro?

Hell, this qualifies as a "faux pas" in Mexico? Ask most of the Republican presidential candidates which three books changed their lives, and they would reply, "Books?"

Mexico mocks presidential candidate for literature festival faux pas

 
 

12/4/11

Cheap bastards …

Wouldn't it be nice if we could boycott all the films coming from Media Rights Capital?

Science fiction, legal reality

 
 

11/22/11

The Strange Case of the White Savior Movies

 
 

11/12/11

Once again, the ONION nails it.

Sports Media Asks Molestation Victims What This Means For Joe Paterno's Legacy

 
 

11/5/11

Democracy without representation.

If you were wondering why the Occupy Wall Street movement call themselves the 99% ...

The Oligarchy We Live In

 
 

10/23/11

Finally, someone has proved it...

These are the companies that run the world. I went down the list of 50, and I'd heard of only 15 of them. The rest are certainly not secret, but probably well-known only to economists and investors.They seem to exist mainly to own things. Of them all, Mitsubishi is the only one I that I know actually makes stuff. The world is run by traders in paper. Or, these days, instantaneous electronic transfers.

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

 
 

10/16/11

OCCUPY!!!!

It's happening pole to pole!

'Occupy the Tundra': One woman's lonely vigil in bush Alaska

Occupy Antarctica

 
 

10/7/11

Now it's all clear.... I love the photo caption, too.

Alt Text: Shedding Light on Dark Energy’s Mysteries

 
 

10/6/11

Remember Tom Lehrer's song about Werner Von Braun?

In German, or English
I know how to count down
And I'm learning Chinese
Says Werner Von Braun.

This would be so funny, if only I didn't feel like crying. I have no problem with people learning another language, nor with other cultures in space, but it's just too nakedly symbolic of how far we have fallen in technology.

English Language the Latest Casualty of Space Race

 
 

9/30/11

Police respond to Onion's Capitol hostage spoof

Oh, lighten up. I thought the ONION story about congresscreatures--of both parties, by the way--holding schoolchildren hostage was very funny.

Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage

I mean, isn't that damn close to what they're really doing? Since I don't participate in the massive Twitter clusterfuck, I wasn't aware of these postings, but I think they were funny, too. Have we reached the point where we can't joke about ANYTHING?

 
 

9/29/11

Yikes! Here's what it looked like at the top of the Washington Monument during the recent earthquake. The first video is the best. Click on STANDARD and a new window will open. The quake starts about a minute in. There's the park ranger, goofing off, sending a text, cleaning out a bit of ear wax, taking a look at it. (How lucky for her she wasn't picking her nose.) Checks her watch yet again, scratches her head. Another boring day on the job. And then ... hold on!

Washington Monument Earthquake Update

 
 

9/24/11

Clean that santorum off your butt!

Rick Santorum's Anal Sex Problem

Sure enough, I tried googling him, and the second result was this page.

santorum (san-TOR-um) n.

 
 

9/19/11

Elderly Couple Fumbling With Webcam Become Viral Video Sensations

Webcam 101 for Seniors

 
 

9/11/11

Why is it that so-called "futurists" are always, invariably, coming up with new and improved ways for you to love Big Brother? The whole thrust of this article creeps me out, until he gets to the end, which I totally agree with.

Happy fun cloud will kill you now

But why don't the futurists see it? Look at the video of the Evos concept car

Ford Evos Concept - Technology

These people are trying to eliminate randomness from our lives. If your car/home/cloud/refrigerator/blackberry learn so much about you, they will eliminate the possibility of the happy accident, the flash of vision, even the /expectation /of something new. You will trundle down your cyber-traintrack, a happy droid, no longer even remembering what it was like to have an adventure.

Luckily, it will never happen. Take the word of someone who has been listening to the prognostications of "futurists" for over 50 years. Something else will happen, something never envisioned by the futurists, and some of it will be good and some bad, but at least it will be different.

 
 

9/8/11

You can't trust anything...

The Secret Ingredient in Your Orange Juice

 
 

8/26/11

Yikes! I had no idea NYC was this vulnerable. It could make Katrina seem small.

What Happens When a Super Storm Strikes New York?

 
 

8/16/11

Visa Exposed As Massive Credit Card Scam

 
 

8/5/11

Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition

 
 

7/28/11

Those damn sneaky Reds! That whole destruction of the Berlin Wall, collapse of the Soviet Union business was just a big fake!

USSR Wins Space Race As U.S. Shuts Down Shuttle Program

 
 

7/26/11

"What Were They Thinking?" Department:

17 All-Time Worst Bathroom Fails

 
 

7/22/11

This proves we shouldn't have buried him at sea over a radioactive waste dump ...

UPDATE: Giant Bin Laden Destroys New York, Washington

 
 

7/19/11

This is the WORST used rating I have ever seen for any movie at the IMDb. Anybody want to join me to go out and see it tomorrow?

The Undefeated

 
 

7/16/11

I love it! A beverage that self-destructs after half an hour!

Butterbeer: How the Harry Potter Beverage Was Made Real

 
 

7/1/11

The 1984 crowd is at it again. They're trying to re-write the Wiki entry on John Quincy Adams as one of those "founding fathers" who "fought tirelessly against slavery," since Michelle Bachmann says he was. Hell of a founding father, considering he was 9 in 1776.

Michelle Bachmann Supporters Alter Wikipedia To Make John Quincy Adams A Founding Father

WAR IS PEACE. Ten years in Afghanistan, and it’ll be peaceful any day now.

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. Well, the founding fathers didn’t think they were contradictory.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Boy, is it ever.

 
 

6/30/11

TMI

'Brady Bunch' mom Florence Henderson admits ex-mayor John Lindsay gave her crabs in one-night-stand

 
 

6/29/11

Get a f**king life

Child abuse? Violent language? RACISM? Oh, please ...

"Go the F*** to Sleep" not funny

 
 

6/28/11

I wonder if this dude can get me a pass?

Final launch of Atlantis shuttle is a tough ticket

 
 

6/23/11

Here's a great example of a wonderful, logical idea that really ought to be put in practice. But the key word here is "logical." With something like this, logic has nothing to do with it. If this product ever came to market I expect they would sell about two ounces in the US. And frankly, I don't know who the buyers of those three ounces would be. The logical thing would be to sell it for dog and cat food ... but I feel pretty sure the vast majority of people wouldn't even buy it for that.

Japan Scientist Creates Meat Out of Feces

Oh, and I love the pointer he uses at the whiteboard, with the fingernail polish on it! Jeez, do you think he's making meat out of something else in a back room somewhere? Something that would maybe leave a severed hand lying around?

 
 

6/18/11

This is the 40th anniversary of Nixon's declaration of War on Drugs. TIME magazine just ran an article showing how well it's going.

How the War on Drugs Harms American Health

For the next few days we will be running quotes from that article.

If you are still in favor of the War on Drugs, I'd like to hear from you. I'd like for you to answer two questions that no one has ever answered for me before, and one question just out of my own curiosity.

1. What is wrong with getting high?

2. What is wrong with addiction?

And #3. What are you smoking? It must be some REALLY good shit.

 
 

6/10/11

I love this. How are Republicans going to reconcile Ayn Rand's atheism with their worship of her hard capitalist philosophy? Some Republican/Christians are beginning to speak out about it. If Ayn Rand was a "genius," as so many right wingers say, then shouldn't you have to accept her views on religion, too? But if you do ... How I love to see my enemies fighting it out with each other! Read it and weep, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul.

Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Problem

 
 

5/29/11

At last, the truth is out!

Annie Jacobsen's 'Area 51' Digs Into A Cold War Plan

 
 

5/27/11

Another successful self-publisher

How I got a blank book to the top of the Amazon charts

His YouTube video

What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex (Blank Book) from Shed Simove

And his newest brainstorm, which I'd actually like to buy

Flying Fuck from Shed Simove Ideas Man co uk

 
 

5/19/11

Finally! Texas is passing a law that makes some SENSE! It's probably just a momentary lapse into sanity, but still ...

Texas House passes bill banning TSA 'groping'

 
 

5/18/11

And yet we find money for military programs even the generals don't want...

The disgraceful interrogation of L.A. school librarians

 
 

5/17/11

The Trump Version: "This decision [not to run for president] does not come easily or without regret; especially when my potential candidacy continues to be validated by ranking at the top of the Republican contenders in polls across the country. I maintain the strong conviction that if I were to run, I would be able to win the primary and ultimately, the general election. I have spent the past several months unofficially campaigning and recognize that running for public office cannot be done half heartedly. Ultimately, however, business is my greatest passion and I am not ready to leave the private sector."

The Real Version: Trump Collapses In Republican Primary Poll

Lying is deep in his genes.

 
 

5/16/11

Why I like Boeing

New jumbo jet performs ultimate aborted takeoff

 
 

5/12/11

Trump called his birther idiocy a great victory, forcing Obama to release the "long form" birth certificate. Another victory like this and it will soon be "Donald who?"

Trump's Poll Numbers Plunge

 
 

5/4/11

Aspire? Too late, you already act like celebrities. And you love it.

“With the proliferation of A-list parties and the infusion of corporate and lobbyist cash, Washington journalists give Americans the impression we have shed our professional detachment and are aspiring to be like the celebrities and power players we cover.” Dana Milbank

How the journalist prom got out of control

 
 

5/1/11

There's an old saying: "Even after you've got all your shit together, what you've got is still shit." No more! This stuff is supposed to be a diagnostic tool, but science will always march on. I see no reason why stools couldn't be colored for other reasons. With this you could turn your morning dump from a chore into an artistic adventure! An explosion of color (and sound, with a serving of beans), a regular Disneyland experience! Promote creativity in your children! Give some to your dog and let him decorate the back yard! Feed it to birds and watch them turn that boring old pine into a Christmas wonderland! Just be sure not to leave any lying around next to a plate of fudge and divinity.

Rainbow Poo Coming to a Toilet Bowl Near You

 
 

4/23/11

I keep hearing how bad it is, but this really illustrates just how much they are pissing down on the rest of us. And what might happen as a result. Just look at all that red and pink. They're sucking our blood, and swelling up like mosquitoes in a feeding frenzy. The only satisfaction I can see is that when we're sucked dry, they will be fucked, too. Cold comfort.

Top 5% in U.S. Own Nearly 2/3 of Everything

 
 

4/15/11

If these church-goers had the strength of their convictions, they'd pay the bar owner and praise God. And be damn careful what they prayed for in the future:

Texas beer joint sues church...

 
 

4/13/11

The Dopey Donald. If anyone still had any doubts that Donald Trump is an idiot, here's more proof.

Donald Trump Says President Obama's grandmother caught on tape saying she witnessed his birth in Kenya

 
 

4/12/11

Here's a cool company. They manufacture shredders. BIG shredders. So what do they do on their website? They shred things. Got something you want to shred? Tree stump? Mattress and box spring? A piano? A BMW? A Volkswagen? An office shredder? They've got your back.

Watch it shred

 
 

4/7/11

I was surprised to see how GOOD some of these were. Of course, they missed a few things, like airplanes and the 21st century Republican Party, but who could have predicted that?

Looking back at the future

 
 

3/27/11

Everybody has said it was Kissinger who talked Nixon into resigning, but this story disproves that. It's clear now that Nixon read this column by Art Buchwald and thought,

"Oh, shit! Dr. Seuss is against me! I haven't got a chance!"

 
 

3/25/11

Click on FULL SIZE to read it

How much radiation do you absorb doing everyday tasks? This helpful chart explains

 
 

3/23/11

That good ol' Soviet space program

Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'

 
 

3/20/11

Mark your calendar and get your affairs in order. We finally have a DATE for the Rapture. Religion is probably the only field where you can be totally wrong (about the world ending in 1994) and not only retain your idiot followers but actually get MORE of them.

Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011

 
 

3/17/11

Survivors

Two Dogs Defy the Wave

 
 

3/16/11

Several of these videos are things I hadn't seen before, but the one that impressed me the most was the first one. It's a little over 6 minutes, and it shows how fast the world can change in that time. Notice how, when it starts, you see cars floating by in the distance. A car turns the corner. Then water begins to gush into the street where this guy is standing. I kept wanting to shout at him "Go up those steps behind you, fool!" Then ... those are /boats/, upside down. The first floors of the shops are submerged. I have never seen anything so relentless, it just keeps coming and coming and coming. Then the buildings start to go. How puny are the works of man, how easily it is all swept away. At the end of six minutes it hasn't abated one bit. Tsunamis are usually described as a "wall of water." You think of a wave crashing on the beach. This isn't like that at all. If I had been standing there I'm sure I would have thought the water would never stop rising ...

Watch raw footage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami

 
 

3/15/11

You want to know just how bad it is? These photos will show you. (Drag your cursor over them to see the AFTER shots.) Some of these towns have been SCOURED off the map. They were taken at different seasons, which accounts for some of the color differences. But look at how many buildings are just GONE. I'm afraid the final toll will be a LOT higher than the 10,000 they keep talking about.

Japan Earthquake: Before and After

 
 

3/12/11

This is so neat. I'm going to watch this NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC show.

The House from UP! Now Exists in Real Life – and It Flies!

 
 

3/8/11

This guy has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA how science works, yet he calls himself reasonable.

A Reasonable Argument for God's Existence

 
 

2/24/11

Akrotiri and Dhekelia? Never heard of 'em. Learn something new every day:

The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained

 
 

2/21/11

I don't think I had realized just how big the sucker has grown. Around the middle the astronaut is talking about where stuff is stored. I think the key word here is STUFF!!! Boxes everywhere! It looks like somebody's attic.

ISS Tour - Welcome To The International Space Station!

 
 

2/18/11

Go, Girl!

The Girl Who Wanted Revenge

 
 

2/12/11

My favorite is the gun shop story. I'm surprised they retrieved enough of his perforated corpse to bury. You sort of figure he might have just vaporized.

But the runner-up seems to me not to qualify. He's alive and still able to pass his genes along and raise a lot of dumb, single-footed children.

2010 Darwin Awards

 
 

2/9/11

Liar liar, big fat liar!

The Church Of Scientology, Fact-Checked

 
 

2/7/11

You hear about people being stranded in snow in the wilderness and being in danger of dying, or even on remote stretches of the Interstate highways. But Lake Shore Drive?

A fearful, frigid night on iconic Chicago road

 
 

2/5/11

Scroll down to the picture of the bullfrog. Imagine how many (probably starving) people had to die before anyone figured out how to eat these things safely.

21 Dangerous & Deadly Dishes

 
 

2/3/11

Friends, I'm tired of waiting around. I'm jumping the queue. From now on I wish to be known as John A'Varley.

Tyranny of the Alphabet

 

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