headline of the day
Calif. man accused of trying to break in to prison
pregnancy tourism for a master race
In the film, the lady tells us how she isn’t the first, and “definitely not the last” to travel this far to have an Aryan child, one who, she imagined, would grow up grateful for the gift of racially superior intelligence. She speaks of an organised system behind such pregnancy tourism, but refuses to elaborate. “It’s not wrong, what I’m doing,” she says, “I’m paying for what I want.”
The movie is called Achtung Baby: In Search of Purity, and is about German women travelling to Indian villages to get knocked up by men they believe are the last of the pure Aryans.
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Drop me in the water
Was at a wedding this weekend. At dinner someone asked who I was there with, when I said no one, they said “You are so brave!” I made my face a cascade of nothingness and said with a bit of confusion I said “Why?” Later on a bottle of champagne was my dancing partner.
Earlier in the evening someone told me that it was better for children to grow up in an orphanage, rather than let them be adopted by gay parents who would teach them about the “alternative” lifestyle.
You’ve Been Eminent Domain’d
I guess this is what you get when you put an extension on a house this close to the ever-widening DC beltway, but man… I still feel bad for these folks.
“Now do you believe me?”
Denise lost her vision when she was three. Her last visual memory was of lights on a Christmas tree. No idea why, but her eyes were surgically removed and replaced with glass eyes.
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Flint Hill Special – Sleepy Man Banjo Blues
Brothers Jonny Mizzone age 8 on banjo, Robbie Mizzone age 12 on fiddle, and Tommy Mizzone age 13 on guitar:
optical illusion of the day
so, I am guessing he heard it coming his way?
I fear for future generations
Dear clusterflock
Today is more than just your routine Tuesday. Michael Smith is now 30 years old today! I heard from a reliable source that he really was torn up over missing clusterflockstock this year. Happy birthday, Mr. Smith. We missed you there too.
What I’m Listening to: Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi – Rome
Naturally, Rome can’t possibly exceed the sum of its parts, with its successful composer and arranger in Luppi, its groundbreaking producer and composer in Danger Mouse, countless combined years of orchestra experience, a painstaking recording process with vintage equipment, and the juxtaposition of White’s fatalistic moan with Jones’ coolly detached croon. It almost has to sound better on paper than in practice, but it’s terrific in practice, too, as it alternates appropriately cinematic instrumentals with a handful of nifty showcases for its headliners.
I’d buy that app.
Fuck it I’ve heard enough, I’m going to make some killer android app that listens to every word you hear and uses Google’s voice recognition shit and some semantic networks and logistic regression crap and fucking starts chirping at you whenever it detects someone is hitting on you, make it look like an incoming call from captain obvious or something. It make take a while to accumulate enough training data to detect every subtle hint but it should pick this one up pretty easily. #
One of the 5,661 comments on From Male Redditors: What are some hints females gave you, but you didn’t get them until after you had your chance?
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The Red Button
headline of the day
Archaeologists discover saber-toothed vegetarian
Thom Yorke Does Surprise DJ Set in L.A.
Via Pitchfork
headline of the day
Hospital names Dr. Frankenstein chief medical officer
tweet of the day
Toilet Seat Assistance in Row Number One — Thank You!
I’ve been sitting on this too long, because, frankly, something like this comes along only once in a lifetime. So, if you’ve already seen it, you can’t unsee it anyway. And if you haven’t, I’m sorry.
(thanks, Aaron)
The comic book nerds duckrabbit.
If you know who made this, please link it in the comments. Image by Olly Moss (thanks, SC!)
headline of the day, III
If You Work From Home, You Don’t Need Pants! Happy ‘Working Naked Day’!
Text Message Kills Would-Be Suicide Bomber
Wired posted this story from Russia, reporting that a would-be suicide bomber’s explosive vest was accidentally detonated while she was still in her safe house. The culprit? Apparently, the explosion was triggered when her mobile carrier sent her an unexpected text message:
The message reportedly wished her a Happy New Years, according to the report, which sourced the info from security forces in Russia. Cell phones are often used as makeshift detonators by terrorist and insurgent groups.
Dear Clusterflock…
How’s your weather?
I’m coming off of 14 hours of manning the phones during snow removal. We don’t have nothing like points east in the last week or so. Still I’ve been up since 3:45 this morning. Phones ringing and answering with calls coming in as I talked. I’d like to think it’s under control. Phones are quiet now, but who can say? We might have another 2.5″ by 6:00 in the morning. I imagine the phones will start again about 2:00 am. I’m off to bed now, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Amazing how things that happened this morning seem like two days ago.
Oooo! And windchills here tomorrow are expected to be -25. It will be a bitter day for our workers. But we’ll be in final clean-up. I don’t know what to expect.
headline of the day, II
Man Charged With Rigging Bomb In Sex Toy
The criminal complaint says police found a sex toy inside the package that had been modified with gun powder and buck shot, which were connected to a trigger inside the battery port.
Authorities say Lester planned on giving the sex toy to one of three women he had previously been involved with where the relationship ended poorly. Materials were found suggesting he intended to make two other similar devices.
Lester told friends that “he would pull the trigger and it would blow them up.”
