ALL CHURCHES LIE — TRAPS ARE SET FOR YOU — BEAST COMPUTER
Gotta love batshit-crazy conspiracy theorists.
You,re doing it wrong.
The four steps to comedic mastery.
1. Prospecting for humor
2. Mining the humor
3. Refining the humor
4. Presenting humor
— From an online guide for businesspeople claiming to help you Discover the Secrets of How To Think Like Your Favorite Stand Up Comedian! Nothing like business to treat humor like a harvestable resource. I’m surprised that last step isn’t “Selling the humor at a profit”.
Test footage of a pin popping a water balloon from a new high-speed camera — at 2000 frames-per-second, the fastest in the world.
Select Nuts: An Afternoon in the Castro, from Merlin Mann. (AKA, Wizard Nonwizardd.)
What do you suppose...
“…is the scarcest item in Alaska? Women! Men who run from the States to escape them find that the shortage is a serious problem. They can’t find enough of the ladies to avoid. For the young woman back home, the opportunities in this land, devoid of ruffled curtains and home-baked apple pie, are readily imaginable. The ratio of males to females up thar’ is approximately 25 to 1. Surely any bright, husbandless girl cannot fail to see the desperate situation behind such a statistic and the limitless horizon beyond it.”
— An example paragraph from Shefter’s Guide to Better Compositions, 1960. Saddle up, ladies! Desperate, pie-less men await anything that can drag its penis-free torso up to Seward’s icebox. Your bright future awaits! (Except for the months of endless night. And the chronic alcoholism.)
The website for We Tell Stories, a free online publishing project from Penguin Books. Lovely design, great idea.
"Yale art student Aliza Shvarts' senior art project documents a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminates herself while inducing miscarriages over and over." »
I’ve got a pretty high tolerance for art for art’s sake — I like Chris Ofili’s work and think Andres Seranno’s Piss Christ is genuinely beautiful — but this is pretty disgusting.
UPDATE: It was a hoax.
“Rockin’ Our Sales”, by Bruce ServicePack and the Vista Street Band — an internally distributed promotional video at Microsoft. Cool guys, eh?
The strange, strange story of Kaspar Hauser. »
He stumbles into Nuremburg at 16, with a command of about 10 German words — half of which he only knows by rote. He learns to speak, and tells of being raised in horrific conditions: total darkness, no human contact.
The people who take him in — one after another, a long string of them — each begin to suspect something’s up, though. Hauser doesn’t seem to be telling the whole truth.
Factor in popular theories of abandonment by irresponsible royals, the possibility of a massive hoax, and modern DNA analysis… and you’ve got a great (if confusing) story.