Funny
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High-concept low tech
The guide to one-night stands (fairly safe for work). I actually did laugh out loud.
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Pirates are the new ninjas
Check out the Hipster Olympics.
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This hairstyle is called the Fascist
Check out this piece on youth hairstyles Iranian state TV. There’s a bizarre amount of KISS footage. My favorite quote from the comments
Ironically Gene Simmons has had at least 72 virgins and he didn’t even have to martyr himself.
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Funniest description of my musical ability
From the quite talented (both technically and in performance) Keith Lokey last night
“Your voice isn’t very good, but it is appropriate”.
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Double weirdness
- The quest for alternative energy seems to have caused an earthquake. In Switzerland no less. Overall it’s cool though.
- The dirty car art gallery – a guy actually does fine artwork on dirty cars. See to believe.
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Quick links while uploading
An assortment of things I’ve read while I’ve been uploading things today
- The golden age of Chicago prostitution – The Everleigh sisters are respoinsible for the term “get laid”. An interesting read – the more things change…
- Rifle Robots!
- John Allen Paulos has a new book out soon, I think it’s going to a more civil (and knowing Paulos well written and interesting) version of the recent Richard Dawkins screed. My favorite blurb from the Amazon page “A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind”
- How to build your business without quitting your day job
- Firefox tune-ups
- Conan O’Brian hates my homeland – favorites
Brazil
Home to more than 800 species of unregulated breast implants.Burkina Faso
In the traditional tribal language, that’s Burkina for “land of” and Faso for “people who want to get the hell out of Burkina Faso.”Colombia
You’ll come for the enticing beauty of the Caribbean Sea. You’ll stay because you’ve been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a Dodge Dart.East Timor
It takes a lot to admit you live on the bad side of Timor.
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Hysterical
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A funny two
I don’t usually read the contents of my junk mail folder, but the sender name sounded vaguely familiar so I took a look at it and see
I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here (http://thoseeven.cn) are bad.
And check this out, from the Onion – I didn’t realize they had a video news service now. HT: Captain Ed.
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How to make Google Earth creepy yet funny
Check this out, From Slate. It starts a bit slow, but watch the whole thing
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The quotable Dwight Eisenhower
While perusing WikiQuote while waiting for some files to upload I came across these nuggets of wisdom
if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
In his case, there seems to be no final answer to the question, “How stupid can you get?”
The runner up
The United States never lost a soldier or a foot of ground in my administration. We kept the peace. People asked how it happened — by God, it didn’t just happen, I’ll tell you that.
Any my favorite
Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.