“do a barrel roll”
Go to Google.com and search for ”do a barrel roll”
headline of the day
Women Who Raped 17 Men Wanted More Than Just Sex
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Jasha Lottin says she can’t understand why people are so interested in why she bought a horse, killed it, gutted it, then posed naked for photos inside the carcass and posted them on the Internet.
“No idea why people care,” she tells Seattle Weekly.
(Photos might be considered NSFW)
dear clusterflock
2031.
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This was such an attractive option that a prostitute who had venereal disease could actually earn more money than an uninfected one.
Each map attunes the eye to the invisible, the overlooked, and the seemingly insignificant.
Since my heart is as black and cold as the oceanic abyss, I usually take this opportunity to disillusion yet another poor soul of their childhood fantasy of Mystical Dolphin Love.
The Georgia seniors meeting at Waffle House who were recently apprehended by the FBI for allegedly plotting to kill millions of Americans to save the Constitution also seem to have had a literary influence.
My friends are always surprised with the casualness with which I can mention threats of gang-rape.
from the spam
This can indicate that a watch has spent some or all of its life in the tropics and was not serviced as regularly as it need to have been.
FYI
I took a walk last week
from the moderated comments
omg love this pic its ma fave luv ya xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
bonus: father of all poo
Full Disclosure
I’m not cut out for the Back-to-Basics life.
The last few years seem to have been on repeat: By late winter my body is craving an unprocessed, detoxed existence in the sun filled with hard work, and less digitized shenanigans mediated by an ongoing and evermore invasive variety of screens. So nose in a seed pack, fingers in the soil I get to work preparing and planting while dreaming about making cheese from scratch and creating handmade paper. Horrifically, I actually begin to think that one of those back-to-the-land communes could be kind of cool–communes got a bad rap, but they could be something special. Ugh. What is wrong with me?
Further disclosure at maldita lengua.
tweet of the day
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(via)
Sedmikrásky
A 1966 Czech film, ”depicting the wanton,” that I clearly need to watch. (via gurl dont be dumb)
Last Words
Among the last words my mother spoke to me: “I wish money had never been invented.”
headline of the day
Financial crisis forces Berlusconi to delay release of latest love song CD
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These spit-polished masterpieces of magical thinking are the tech-elite version of LOLcat videos.
Scientists now know that the brain runs largely on autopilot; it acts first and asks questions later, often explaining behavior after the fact. So if much of behavior is automatic, then how responsible are people for their actions?
“Dear Dennis,” the seven-sentence letter begins. “The man who might have written on this card once controlled Europe — three short years ago when you were born. Today he is dead, his memory despised, his country in ruins.”
“Spines are no longer present on the human penis, intercourse is longer, and females are sexually receptive for an extended period of time rather than just around ovulation,” he added.
Moby Dick in Pictures
I’m partaking by reading Matt Kish’s Moby Dick in Pictures along with the classic novel. Have any of you read Moby Dick already?
“The results suggest that the common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans may have had the capability to perceive speech-like sounds before the evolution of speech, and that early humans were taking advantage of this latent ability when speech did eventually emerge”
Well-educated Panzee understands more than 130 English language words and even recognizes words in sine-wave form, a type of synthetic speech that reduces language to three whistle-like tones. This shows that she isn’t just responding to a particular person’s voice or emotions, but instead she is processing and perceiving speech as humans do.
A chimp that understands language! Next you’ll be telling me we “descended” from apes.
God’s Eye View
While we’re talking supercuts, here’s another that cropped up in my feed today. Just terrific.
from the comments
One day
Xiao Ming another class ….
a sudden “rush”
(fart)
a cry;sitting next to a small U.S.
scolded and said:
Xiao-MingAh ~ if you could not make a noise;
from the spam
Exactly what underwear business is better for expecting a baby ladies ?
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Telephones — The Ur-Supercut
Christian Marclay’s Telephones (1995) showed famous actors answering ringing telephones in a string of surreal, disjointed conversations throughout Hollywood history. Edited together, the cadence and rhythm of nonstop clips feels very reminiscent of modern supercuts. Apple tried to license Marclay’s film for the launch of the iPhone in 2007, but he refused. Instead, they made their own, borrowing the idea wholesale. (Marclay decided not to sue.)
Andy Baio, in his new column for Wired’s Epicenter blog, discusses supercuts, those videos that mash-up dozens or hundres of short clips of a type. His article traces the evolution of the form from proto examples like Telephones to their use as tools of political critique. More examples at his supercuts site and more analysis at his Wired article.
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And, by pure coincidence, all these scenarios just happen to suggest that America needs a well-funded Army to protect it against chaos.
“Theoretically, one could eat enough really hot chiles to kill you,” he says.
Whether during airplane crashes, the planning of stupid offensive wars, personal romantic disasters, family disputes, whatever, we shall see time and again that self-deception brings with it the expected costs of being alienated from reality, although, alas, there is a tendency for other people to suffer disproportionately the costs of our self-deception, while the benefits, such as they are, go to ourselves.
“This is not a thermostat with a bunch of communications features,” Fadell said during a recent interview in the company’s unmarked offices in Palo Alto. “It is a computer and communications platforms with a little bit of thermostat.”
The advanced prosthetic can now be controlled through thought.
Miranda July, It Chooses You
Each day this week, the Book Bench will feature an excerpt from “It Chooses You,” by Miranda July. The book, to be published on November 15th, recounts July’s adventures with a series of strangers she met through the classified ads in the PennySaver. The encounters helped her finish the script for her film “The Future” — and one of the strangers played a key role in it.
Lucy tweeted this miraculous find, and I’ve enjoyed very much what I’ve seen so far. Here are the links to each excerpt:
Michael. Large Black Leather Jacket. Hollywood.
Andrew. Bullfrog Tadpoles, $2.50 Each. Paramount.
Pam. Photo Albums, $10 Each. Lakewood.
Joe. Fifty Christmas-Card Fronts, $1. Los Angeles.
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Sheila, I see a Freecycle version of this in your future.
