Allow me to horrify you.

oh you wouldn't believe me if you didn't read it yourself

wow, since june, huh?

here you go then:

a mechanical shit-making machine:
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/fiers/fiers1-9-01.asp

mesmerizingly, machines destroying anything:
http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/watch-en.htm

monkeys will pay for porn:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-01/cp-mpp012705.php

spiderman bible stories: http://www.portlandmercury.com/columns/spider-mans-greatest-bible-stories/Content?oid=26782

bush to the entire internet: fuck you

Questions Are a Burden to Others, Answers a Prison for Oneself

Now this is some awesome fucking news: The Prisoner Remake. If you've never seen the series -- and really, unless you are a big NPR fan or love 60's scifi/intrigue etc then there'd be no reason to -- the short version is: a nameless spy quits being a spy and gets kidnapped, woken to find himself trapped on an island, ("the Village") interrogated in most bizarre manner about his motives for leaving his job. He's referred to as "Number 6" and the person running the Village is always Number 2. I'm doing a bad job of explaining it, but cf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner. Note that while number 6 is nameless, the obvious implication is that he's "Danger Man". This shit was the LOST of it's day and seeing as how it has an end, for my money, it wins out over LOST.

Here's a fan-made video of Death Cab For Cutie's "We Looked Like Giants" that is made up of video from the series.

When Internet Commenters Invade Reality

Business Meeting
Retirement Party
Funeral

i daresay it would give a merry toot

not photoshopped. I imagine that in this situation, I would shit myself to death.

PKD at the movies

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/entertainment/08/05/31/015213.shtml

whoa. Probably my favorite PKD novel dramatized. Hrm. Consider that all of stuff that's been movie-ized has so far been from short stories (the one exception being "A Scanner Darkly", which Linklater got so fucking spot-on that it's amazingly scary and gorgeous. I mean he even got the paranoia feeling down. It's amazing.)

no wonder kids don't learn

fucking muggles

Banksy - The Cans Festival. - a set on Flickr

Banksy - The Cans Festival. - a set on Flickr

baby we don't love baby we don't love baby we don't love you

also also, modest mouse is coming!

Joseph Palmer: Perscuted For Wearing The Beard - Jon Dyer’s Blog. Now that's a man with commitment to facial hair.

Cupid's getting kinkier every fucking year

"makes you feel pleasure" is surprisingly not in the top 10.

I have long been both a lecherous pervert and fascinated with the brain and mind, so naturally this article on the orgasmic mind was fascinating stuff to me. Scientific American also has a buncha jawsome articles that are semi-related, e.g. Why We Kiss, which when you think about it, has got to be the most amazing caveman discover ever ("...so...if we put our food/noise/biting holes together but don't bite...it feels good?" I've heard it theorized before that it started as a feeding ritual for those unable to feed themselves.)

Life's mysteries explained

You Suck at Photoshop, Supplemental

A while back, I linked you guys to a new series of videos on The Internet called "You Suck at Photoshop", wherein a surly Photoshop expert attempts to educate the populous on how to use the tool while his life crumbles around him. At the time, there were only four episodes.

Now, there are 10. After the last one is a followup by one of the reoccurring characters in the series. If you liked the first four, check out the rest. If not, then you suck at photoshoplife.

Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?

By now, you may know that they are coming out with a new Batman movie. You may have even seen the trailer. Well, someone took scenes from the original movie and spliced them together to match the new trailer. The author of that post thought it was the original trailer, but later links to the actual original trailer in his post. Even still, seeing the old footage beside the new one with the new audio is pretty awesome. Then again, I'm a bit of a Batman fan.

BATMAN > SUPERMAN
4 LYFE

My new diet will make me a millionaire!

I just have to convince people to move to certain parts of Canada.

fuck was i

artist is Jesse Owen Youngs, song is "Fuck Was I"

well, that sucks

So I guess that's a good excuse to not do it.

I wonder if the vaccine for ladies will work on men.

Ben Stein, You're an Evil Liar

Scientific American has an excellent quickie article by the name of Six Things in Expelled That Ben Stein Doesn't Want You to Know... which summarizes the manipulation behind the Expelled movie fiasco. Fuck you, Ben Stein: you are doing your part in making America (and by proxy, the world,) a dumber place. If there were cause to treat ID or creationism as science, why would you need to be a manipulative liar?

Guess who's back, back again. Tell a friend, tell a friend, tell a friend.

Hey Ladies, he's 22 and single: http://www.bmezine.com/news/guest/20080318.html

I cannot stop singing and dancing along to the Wombat's "Let's Dance to Joy Division": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyCi4CMD29w

Everything old is new again, part 9843: V TV series to be remade: http://io9.com/378520/closer-than-ever-to-a-v-movie-and-new-series

Previously on LOST: What?

Hey, remember Silence of the Lambs? Great Movie, huh? Remember when Clarice tries to bribe Hannibal Lecter by promising him a reassignment to Plum Island, home to Animal Disease Studies? Hey, guess what's in the news!? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080411/ap_on_go_ot/animal_disease_1

I have been listening to JWZ's mixtapes pretty exclusively for the last week or so. They are made of 100% pure awesome. http://www.dnalounge.com/webcast/mixtapes/ They are in fact, how I found that "let's dance to joy division" song. In the admittedly unlikely case that you were wondering who JWZ is, if you're using Mozilla/Firefox, he's responsible for that. http://www.jwz.org/

I may have, once or twice, mentioned how awesome I think Phillip K. Dick's short stories are. Have I mentioned that he was fucking crazy? http://www.philipkdickfans.com/weirdo.htm

I love old world maps, especially old world maps of the old world. Wait, that came out wrong. Anyway, here's a cool site all about strange maps: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

Awesome? AWESOME: http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2008/04/a-not-so-complete-history-of-literary-tattoos.html

call this number for a data-date

Robot Love

Aliens downed Tunguska meteorite to save Earth - Pravda.Ru

Aliens downed Tunguska meteorite to save Earth - Pravda.Ru

well of course, how could we miss that before?

Award for World's Most Stubborn Woman?

I feel pretty confident in saying that this woman has some issues.

stop or i'll poke your eye out

from the women are vile and pernicious files: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080226/full/news.2008.625.html

and from the it's only funny until someone gets hurt files: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/02/26/qc-sadomacho-stbruno.html

it's not your fault you can't find the fucking thing. ok, it really is:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7254523.stm

well, at least there's proof that we just think differently now. Not that thousands of years of empirical evidence isn't Just As Good As Proof. http://www.physorg.com/news122122203.html

Architecture: Stairs Bookcase Actually Makes Me Want to Move to London

The world's most awesome staircase.

No, really.

ripoff or art?

Common Ties, a post-postsecret site. or something. instead of postcards, it's stories and pictures tied together. mostly sad, so far.

Need a new place in which to lose your loose change?

Look no further!

Canned Fast Food

I'm not even joking.

The Real Message in "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"

The Real Message in 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'

You Suck at Photoshop

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4

This guy is actively making more of these (the last one was posted on Friday). My favorite parts are the hidden easter eggs that he never points out but throws in each video.

new and last email thing, I guess.

So the email thing I send out got two bounce-backs from AOL users (you know who you are). So I have decided to skip the emails and just put this shit up on a blog. Enjoy -- or don't, whatever. If you would like to see the other "mails" that I sent out (which they no longer are, I guess) and don't want to go through your email, click on the "email newsletter thing" tag on the right hand side and that'll take you to the other posts that I have labeled as such.

If you would still rather be emailed, let me know and I'll set something automagic up for you or something enter your email address in the lower-right hand box for that sorta thing. It's run by feedburner and I do not keep (or know) your email address, so I won't be able to use it for anything.


The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World: http://www.cracked.com/article_14979_6-most-terrifying-foods-in-world.html
Seriously, it's horrifying.

BEERTASTROPHE
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2151717824&size=l

MightyMon found this and I will forever be thankful: http://www.japanesebugfights.com/

deep fried things that ought not to be deep fried: http://www.mirkocredito.com/FRITTURE2007/index.htm

porn on blu-ray signals the coffin nails for HD-DVD: http://www.t3.com/news/blu-ray-porn?=35064 -- this is actually more prevalent than most people realize; the porn industry informally choosing VHS over BETAMAX is what signaled the death-knell for Beta, really. And it was the invention of online porn that led to the "common man" deeper into the interwebaolnetnet. Porn and tech advances go hand in hand, no matter how old the tech is.

I will give a special surprise gift to anyone who actually prints this out and sends me a picture of them wearing it: http://www.brandonbird.com/halloween_treat.html

Today's cockle-warming story is not so much about heart-warming but actually about boob-cooling: http://loudounextra.washingtonpost.com/news/2008/jan/10/how-frozen-peas-started-movement/

I usually get my way by being the most patient motherfucker in the world, and if that doesn't work then I am more of a prick, but I suppose this could be a useful way of dealing with annoying customer service: http://consumerist.com/341815/how-to-mind-control-customer-service-reps?source=rss

Lord of the Rings, if Tolkien had been diabetic: http://missedmanners.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/battle-of-pelennor-fields/

A game popular for centuries. http://www.exsorbeo.com/