quote out of context
While many of the Spears generation remained sans pubic hair (but with jobs), the younger generation was, arguably, the first generation in history to have more pubic hair than their predecessors.
from the spam
This recorded a piece of me!
Take that, Scroggins!
Most of us regard Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five as a masterpiece of thought-provoking science fiction, but the School Board of Republic High School in Missouri felt differently. They decided to ban the novel.
And in response, the Vonnegut Memorial Library offered to provide a free copy to any of the 150 students who were originally supposed to read it.
So you think you can play guitar?
The music being played seems apt.
(via sublimeguile)
Of Fox & Facebook
Fox News invited the spokesman for an Atheist group onto one of their programs to discuss a recent lawsuit opposing a cross-shaped memorial at Ground Zero. Almost immediately afterwards, the Fox News Facebook page was flooded with thousands of comments:
Following the appearance of Blair Scott, the Communications Director for the American Atheists, Inc., on Fox News’ America Live show, the network’s Facebook page was overrun with death threats and other violent commentary—more than 8,000 messages advocating rape, murder and crucifixion of any and all atheists, in fact.
(Italics mine) I don’t think it’s any secret that the comments on Facebook posts tend to resemble the graffiti on bathroom stalls, but even I was shocked by the comments. In fairness (and balance, I suppose), Fox News did make a point to delete the post (before it got too out of hand, I guess) and made the following statement:
We make every attempt to keep our Facebook page as safe as possible and we take immediate steps to remove all hateful and dangerous language.
Irony noted.
Ask a law librarian
Do y’all have The Hobbit?
headline of the day
Giant carrot proposes to woman in China
Offer 5 Fish — Asbury
Posted to the Dubuque Freecycle group Tue Aug 9, 2011 7:28 pm (PDT):
Freshwater. Don’t eat much.
1 very large pscosamis 6″
1 white algae eater
1 Dinosaur Bircher
2 unknown middle swimmersMust take all.
Asbury
Andy
MacRumors iPhone 5 Mockups
MacRumors commissioned CiccareseDesign to create 3D renderings of what the iPhone 5 might look like based on leaked specs and Chinese case designs. You might enjoy looking at what the next iPhone might look like, maybe.
cars I’d buy, contemporary, vol. 1.1
Ford Transit SportVan
I can’t believe I forgot this one. It’s only available in the UK, but if souped-up panel vans are your cup of tea, this might be the one for you. I know it’d be the one for me.
how to be a successful fake
Not Burt Reynolds: Never bring your mouth to the banana. Bring the banana to your mouth. Other people’s mistakes often make the best stories. And yes you can drink and Tweet effectively.
From an interview with fake Twitter celebrities. Where have you gone @CWalken?
headline of the day
Woman injects herself with horse blood, wears hooves
Cicero’s PencilHeads
German political magazine Cicero hired Ragna ReuschKlinkenberg to carve delicate likenesses of political leaders in the graphite tips of pencils. They then sent the pencils as calling cards in the hope of securing interviews. You can watch a douchey promotional video, with a few seconds of the pencils being carved, here.
(via +Tim Carmody)
spam name
Captain Michael Scholl.
Little Bastard
Then she asked, “Could you play a hymn for me at my visitation? It would make my mama so proud.”
“Suppertime.”
“I’ll play ‘Suppertime’ at your funeral,” I told her. “I promise. But not to make your mama proud. I’ll play it for the same reason we always played it.”
“You’re something, Mister,” she said, fading in and out of grownup words.
She tugged on my collar.
“If you ain’t the Devil then I reckon the Devil best be afraid of you,” she whispered in my face.
“That’s a fine line right there,” I explained. “But I can handle that little bastard.”
Miss Nell in New Orleans
I’m not sure what I did to this photo to chop it up, but it is just a copy of the original. Anyway, Miss Nell is on the left, before she married and had children. She was in New Orleans with her friend Lois and her other friend Lois. I told her, “You looked right sultry in that picture.” She said, “Lois probably was driving me crazy.”
The London Riots
Word.
Via Alan Phelan, who wrote: 21.40 Matthew Moore, the Telegraph’s assistant news editor, filmed this extraordinary speech by a fearless West Indian woman in Hackney, East London. Contains obscene language.
from the comments
Guns don’t shoot people in the penis people shoot themselves in the penis.
Darcus Howe on the London Riots
It’s true, they’ll never replay this.
Artifice and foam rubber
In fact, so much artifice and foam rubber is often used to create the sexually alluring woman that it’s sometimes difficult to know where the lady ends and the foam rubber begins.
Via dangerous minds by way of Roger Ebert.
cars I’d buy, contemporary, vol. 1
BMW M3
This iteration of the BMW M3 has a high revving V8 that, while it isn’t as throaty as you’ll hear from a Mercedes AMG V8, can be wound up and pushed like a Ferrari. I like the low-slung quality of the front end of the car, and while I would of course prefer it in black, this was the best photo I could find of it’s crouching-tigerness.
The physics of clusterflocking
As an addendum to some other posts on starling murmurations (documented here in full glory in 2-D and in 3-D) for those seeking answers: Some Causes of the Variable Shape of Flocks of Birds (a study done over the ‘sleeping site’ of Termini in Rome, no less).
headline of the day
Police urge holster use after man shoots his own penis
Sack
You heard me, “a sack.”
“Sack” began innocently enough, a subversive way of making a polite conversation vulgar. “Do you need a sack to carry your books home?” I ask. “Come again?” And I repeat, “A sack, to put your books in?” “Oh. Only if you have a small one.” To which I respond, “Of course!” with the most subtle evidence of a smirk.
spam name
Jubril Lord.
