In "A Special Christmas Message for everyone trying to keep the Holidays Holy"

Jiminy Jillikers!

In "By order of the principal!"

Dude I read this article and nearly cried. I wish we had so few real problems at the school where I teach that we could waste time with bollocks like this!

In "Vase Breaker"

Woo! Cleared all 50 levels. Final score: 13,218. Yay! Level 25 is a *****.

In "Ada Lovelace"

Anyone interested in Ada Lovelace should immediately read Sadie Plant's book Zeroes and Ones. It's tied* for the top spot of Best Book About Computers I've Ever Read. * with Manuel de Landa's War in the Age of Intelligent Machines.

In "Look what you can get for a dollar!"

I'd buy that for a dollar.

In "How much dus a blue whales clit weigh?"

Of course, what's one of the first things I see? (Did they know where I was linking from?) Q: What wuld happen if I analy inserted a monkey A: No info found. It is against the Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, you can face a maximum of 6 month prison

In "Ten last pictures"

Very interesting. Thanks, pc.

In "A suggestion box"

They're genetically modified Mutants, not unlike those featured in Fallout 3.

This talk by Cambridge University professor Ha-Joon Chang really puts to rest the whole mythology of when "Free Trade" has(n't) been used and why it's a good idea to have an uneven playing field sometimes. (He gives the excellent example of his 12-year-old daughter and her friends playing against the Brazilian professional football team. Makes sense that the Brazilians would have to run uphill, yeah?) I'm reading his book now; it's superb.

If I thought my comments weren't going to a trained ferret pushing buttons with its nose, I might make the following observations:

  1. Missile defense? Are you ****ing kidding me? End it, whether it works or not.
  2. Larry Summers as Treasury Secretary? Are you ****ing kidding me? Absolutely not!
  3. Installing Rahm? (Get it?) The guy who championed NAFTA, that unmitigated disaster? Argh!
This is not the change I was hoping for. It hasn't even been a week and already my Hope High has worn off. =P

In "Jeff Koons took his doggie"

Jeff Koons is a pathetic donkey turd. Questions about whether he makes the work, to me, are not the point. The "work" is stupid and meaningless to begin with, no matter who makes it. It shouldn't be at Versailles or Disneyland; it should be at the bottom of the ocean.

In "The 'Altin Mikrofon' Contest"

When I was 12 I began writing a fantasy novel.. The godhead was named Altin.. Just something I made up. Every time I see that word in another context it gives me the chills.

In "Behind the Dude: Steve Buscemi on "The Big Lebowski" "

When this movie hit theatres, my buddy Jeremy and I went bowling, then went to see it for the second or third time. As the opening credits rolled, he leaned over to me and whispered: "We should go bowling again after this." And we did. The figment thing is interesting, but all the elements of the story fit together anyway -- as Buscemi describes in the interview -- so I don't really have a preference one way or another.

In "Sarah Palin is McCain's VP pick."

Note: I know there are many such dorkfaces; I'm just sad about them existing is all.

And make a play for those disaffected Clinton supporters the media can't STFU about. Yeah, but what kind of dorkface would make this kind of leap? "I was supporting a pro-choice left-leaning woman who advocated universal health care, but now I support a right-leaning anti-choice VP candidate who doesn't seem to care much about health care -- because she's a woman! WOO!"

In "Crucified frog Pisses Off Pope"

Bill Hicks on the cross: "No matter what you believe, beliefs are weird, aren't they? Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks. Kinda like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on. Just thinkin' of John, Jackie. Just thinkin' of John."

In "Brazilian Social Photography"

Some excellent photos. Cheers, SMT.

In "Game Theory in The Dark Knight: A Critical Review of the Opening Scene (Spoilers)"

And thanks for the article, Hank. I rarely read the whole thing with pages like this, so I can tell it's good stuff when I do. =)

I can't stand when people dismiss comics as "kids" stuff. Roald Dahl and Dr. Seuss wrote work that was ten times more thoughtful than most of the crap sold to adults. Please read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics.

In "If you are under 40, you probably won't get this."

Fantastic find. Thanks, Ralph!

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