quote out of context
The way I see it, some people are too smart for their own good.
prehistoric pregnant turtle
Paleontologists say a 75-million-year-old turtle fossil uncovered in southern Utah has a clutch of eggs inside, making it the first prehistoric pregnant turtle found in the United States.
Duke Nukem Never
Duke Nukem Forever was a first-person shooter in development for twelve years. Yesterday, the developer pulled the plug.
Guardian newspaper games writer Steve Boxer said it was astonishing 3D Realms had not finished the game after more than a decade of development.
“It would have been nice to see another Duke Nukem game, but given they had more than 12 years it’s just incompetence of the highest order.
“Sadly, Duke Nukem Forever was the most aptly named title in the history of games. Now, it’s just Duke Nukem Never.”
Ornithological Slang
I doubted Word Journal until I googled it.
jizz
noun • [ornithology] the characteristics of a specific type of bird that enables it to be immediately identified by a birder.
As in: “When I first saw the bird’s jizz, I knew it was a swallow.”
When Spock met Barack
I’ve met him twice. The first time was a couple years ago, very early on when he had just announced his candidacy. He was in Los Angeles, speaking at a luncheon we were invited to. There was a very small crowd — minuscule compared to the crowd that he gathered later — at a private home in Los Angeles. And we were standing on the back patio, waiting for him. And he came through the house, saw me and immediately put his hand up in the Vulcan gesture. He said, “They told me you were here.” We had a wonderful brief conversation and I said, “It would be logical if you would become president.”
- Leonard Nimoy on then presidential candidate, Barack Obama
via This Is Probably An Interesting Blog
‘Things’ I’ve been mistaken for
A girl.
A narc.
How The Internet Works
Sketch by Derrick Mosley, a dear friend who steals my Field Notes and pen at the café to doodle.
For Sheila
a photo.
In Memory of Dankness Lost
Camera-phone. LG VX8300.
The nearest approximation of the dankness I could conjure up on short notice.
It’s not news, it’s CNN, 2
How to flirt with text messages:
Dating advice books take a tech-addicted turn with the release of “Flirtexting: How To Text Your Way To His Heart.”
Hard Times
via Buzzfeed
Busts 4 Justice
I’ll let the headline speak for itself: Store admits it boobed in bra dispute
BMW’s Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transportation
dallas world aquarium
NASA is running out of rocket propulsion fuel
Deep space probes beyond Jupiter can’t use solar power because they’re too far from the sun. So they rely on a certain type of plutonium, plutonium-238. It powers these spacecraft with the heat of its natural decay. But plutonium-238 isn’t found in nature; it’s a byproduct of nuclear weaponry.
The United States stopped making it about 20 years ago and NASA has been relying on the Russians. But now the Russian supply is running dry because they stopped making it, too.
from the comments
if you steal a young goat it’s not stealing it’s kidnapping.
i-house
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire-Hathaway owned Clayton Homes is producing a prefab, solar powered, contemporary home for $100 a square foot.
“This innovative ‘green’ home, featuring solar panels and numerous other energy-saving products, is truly a home of the future,” Buffett wrote his shareholders. “Estimated costs for electricity and heating total only about $1 per day when the home is sited in an area like Omaha.”
A lot of people have been waiting for something like this. Here’s a Clayton Home’s tour of the house. A single share of Berkshire-Hathaway stock currently costs $94,990, about the same as the 1,000 sq. ft. model.
Lysistrata
It’s actually happening in real life:
Women’s groups in Kenya hope a seven-day sex strike will end the political impasse between President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. (Kibaki and Odinga formed an uneasy leadership coalition in February 2008, following disputed elections that catalyzed widespread violence across the country. Many fear the current political deadlock will provoke further violence.)
(thanks, Autumn)
Dear Clusterflock
Camera thieves, bike thieves or goat thieves. What’s worse? And which would you most like to be?
quote out of context
She’s sick of puckering up for a kiss and getting poked in the eye.
dear clusterflock
I’m the chairman of the 4th of July.
It’s all fun and games until someone gets their head stuck in a 3,600-year-old Sumerian pot.
Beautiful piece. In excellent condition. One of only two complete pots from a pottery works at Larsa, dated to the reign of Rim-Sim I.
I honestly didn’t think my head would fit into it.
But it did, and now I can’t get it out. In addition to my extensive knowledge of the ancient Near East, I am blessed with a near-inexplicable touch-typing ability, so, if you will, picture me sitting at the computer with a pot on my head that dates from roughly the time when the Hittites invented iron-forged weapons. Or, to put it in more familiar terms, the pot on my head was about 400 years old when Troy was sacked.
How would you rebrand America?
Thanks, Quips.
Dear Clusterflock
Bret or Jemaine?
Petals
Camera-phone. LG VX8300.
