Jorge Posada wears White-Out
I just noticed Yankees catcher Jorge Posada paints his nails to make his signals easier for the pitcher to see, which of course was already known on the web.
Update: The Texas Rangers are going to the World Series.
Oh. My. God.
Yo Gabba Gabba! – The Homo Secret Within Your Children’s Minds.
Headline of the Day
Woman Drove Mummified Body in Passenger Seat, Police Say
This is what happens when you fight a stranger in the Alps
What happens when The Big Lebowski is censored for television.
dear clusterflock
Favorite pizza.
more water than the Sahara
We found out last year the moon has water, but an analysis of the data shows there is even more than we thought.
Turns out the moon not only has water, but it’s wetter than some places on earth, such as the Sahara desert. Roughly 5 percent of water ice – that’s combined water vapor and ice – was found buried in the crater. This water ice could provide a valuable resource for human space travel, generating drinking water, but also possibly hydrogen and oxygen for breathing and rocket fuel. The amount, Schultz said, adds up to about 12 to 14 gallons per ton of material. This is important, because transporting water to the moon costs about $100,000 per gallon of water.
Ode to My Subconscious III
“the act of creating”
I don’t know about you, but I must always be in an act of creation.
headline of the day, II
11-year-old leads police on two vehicular pursuits in two days
It’s not news, it’s CNN, 3
Man saved by God, and by dog who says grace.
Built to Spill – The Weather
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What It Feels Like To Want To Kill Yourself
A morbid but illuminating read:
According to Baumeister, there are six primary steps in the escape theory, culminating in a probable suicide when all criteria are met. I do hope that having knowledge about the what-it-feels-like phenomenology of ‘being’ suicidal helps people to recognize their own possible symptoms of suicidal ideation and—if indeed this is what’s happening—enables them to somehow derail themselves before it’s too late. Note that it is not at all apparent that those at risk of suicide are always aware that they are in fact suicidal, at least in the earliest cognitive manifestations of suicidal ideation. And if such thinking proceeds unimpeded, then keeping a suicidal person from completing the act may be as futile as encouraging someone at the very peak of sexual excitement to please kindly refrain from having an orgasm, which is itself sometimes referred to as la petite mort (“the little death”).
Little Brother
This NYT article makes Orwell’s 1984 sound cheery:
As the Internet proves every day, it isn’t some stern and monolithic Big Brother that we have to reckon with as we go about our daily lives, it’s a vast cohort of prankish Little Brothers equipped with devices that Orwell, writing 60 years ago, never dreamed of and who are loyal to no organized authority. The invasion of privacy — of others’ privacy but also our own, as we turn our lenses on ourselves in the quest for attention by any means — has been democratized.
headline of the day
Crocodile blamed for Congo air crash
quote out of context
To be in the company of Chris Calhoun is to encounter breasts, and encounter the damn things anytime, anywhere—including over a plate of spaghetti in a bustling Manhattan restaurant.
flip flop — the role reversal of television and the movies
Once upon a time, over a generation ago, the television set was commonly called the “boob tube” and looked down on by elites as purveyors of mind-numbing entertainment. Movie theaters, on the other hand, were considered a venue for, if not art, more sophisticated dramas and comedies. Not any more. The multiplexes are now primarily a venue for comic-book inspired action and fantasy movies, whereas television, especially the pay and cable channels, is increasingly becoming a venue for character-driven adult programs, such as The Wire, Mad Men, and Boardwalk Empire. This role reversal, rather than a momentary fluke, proceeds directly from the new economic realities of the entertainment business.
(via marginal revolution)
from the moderated comments
All you have to do to get Rid of The Muslims’ are; Bury a “Pig or Hog” on the property and have News Coverage of the burial…
Look at what France did to remove the Sorry Low Down Islam Musliams’ from France… Just bury some pigs on the proposed property…
Gone for Good.
EFJ Eyjafjallajoekull — an Icelandic perfume
“When Eyjafjoell started erupting I suddenly got the idea to bring the power of Icelandic nature into people’s homes,” Icelandic designer Sigrun Lilja Gudjonsdottir, head of company Gydja Collection, explained Tuesday.
That is when “the idea of using water from the glacier as an ingredient for a perfume came about,” she told AFP.
The citrus-smelling perfume, which will be produced in Grasse in southern France and will be sold in square bottles with a lava rock attached, has been named EFJ Eyjafjallajoekull.
Walter de’Silva talks about the Leica M9
This video is very much whatever this word is, but his accent is beautiful, and the objects are lovely.
from the comments
I just remembered going to Angel Island with my mom and family friends. My mom never brought a camera anywhere so, she had all the kids line up, San Francisco across the bay at our back. She held up her hands and “clicked” an imaginary camera button, “mental picture,” she said. The damn thing worked.
from the comments
Daryl, I know I’ve told you about my father’s disciplinary method from his one-room schoolhouse days in Tennessee. Now and then, he would wrestle the big farm boys at recess. He always won, even against the ones twice his size. Don’t you wish you could do that? My father said he never had a minute’s trouble with any of his students in any way, assignments, etc. They knew what would happen otherwise…
from the moderated comments
Man, all you haters are pissing me off. If this music doesnt make sense to you, or seems “dumb”, well thats because this music wasnt made for you in the first place, dildos. If this has pissed you off, good! The ICP, the juggalo world, and myself included would’nt want it any other way. Theres only us and no one else, we don’t even consider you fakes alive. And as far as the Miracles video goes, if you didn’t get what they were trying to say, just crawl back under a rock and keep your dead-ass there, because obviously you’re missing the whole point to life, and thats all they were trying to say. Can you make it rain? Did you build the pyramids? Have you seen the oceans of the world? What is it in your life that makes all this seem trivial? Its clear what the message was, or maybe we’re just on a higher level than your typical MTV bubble-gum bitch music that you seem to cant get enough of. You laugh at us Juggalos because we’re so different, but WE all laugh at YOU because you’re all the same. WOOT WOOT!!! MCL bitches.
from the spam
Your senses before the general election and body smashed repeatedly with a hammer make to somebody who had just lost his whole family in a boat explosion.
Exene Cervenka and John Doe | See How We Are | 2004
I just got the fit on me to post this tonight.
“We only sing about it once in every twenty years.”
this is a metaphor for something
