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April 20, 2006

Curious George: wearing in my boots is wearing my feet out! I love my 14-hole white Docs. But I've been trying to break them in for a year now and I still get blisters. more inside
To cell or not to cell ! All one requires is a cell phone which has numbers of a size one might see without the aid of ocular assistance, and that one may switch on to make and recieve 'phone calls. Add that it should be of a size which will not slide into miniscule areas of furniture thus requiring that one delve into the depths of same with surgical tongs in a vain attempt to extract the accursed device. Do others have a similar frustration?
Etymologic - try a quick multiple-choice guess-the-etymology game. Betcha don't know the origin of "Amazon".

April 19, 2006

Advertising only works on other people! A fantastic slideshow explaining semiotics, and the insidious(?) use of semiology in advertising. more inside
Quiet! Kang is Talking! Civil war re-enactors? No. Marvel Secret Wars Re-Enactors? YES. via youtube more inside
About Fucking Time more inside
William Shatner on Vegetarianism circa 1982. Direct link to .mpg (300Mb). via growabrain
For when quiddy's corpse just isn't good enough. Blokes doing it with dolls. (SFW, honest). ...over half work in IT or engineering. Arf!
Some handy tips on how not to argue online. Your mission: find at least one comment on MoFi that fits each category. Your time: less than thirty seconds. Your reward: everyone else's dirty looks.

April 18, 2006

Monkey Love for Sale
Archaeologists dig for pyramid in Bosnia.
Kill Your Television 2006 "Teacher! Mother! . . Secret lover!" (Homer Simpson) Yes Monkeyfans, TV Turnoff week approaches again (April 24 - 30), time for all you beer-swilling tube jockeys to switch off the idiot box for one of your 52 weeks. Research abounds, our 2004 and 2005 discussions have been lively and once again the stage is set: What is television's impact on culture? Are you affected by watching television? Lace up the gloves, strap on your cup and jump in to the Chomskyist McLuhanesque vortex that promises to be MoFi TV Smackdown 2006!
Curious George Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930, some 76 years ago, which means his works are now in the public domain, right? Well, yes and no. more inside
Curious George: My computer puts out some pretty annoying static on the audio line. more inside
The rewards of being goth. While goths may be more likely to engage in self-harming behavior, they may also be more likely to grow up to be successful professionals. [via Mind Hacks]
This may be the single greatest Fark thread ever. it may also be slightly NSFW more inside
It's not the worst bad thing he's done, but perhaps the funniest Dubya subpoenaed by the RIAA for pirating music. The video where he shoots himself in the iFoot.

April 17, 2006

The Hole in the Wal ...So what's going to be the trigger* sending the American Economy down the toilet? Peak Oil? The Housing Bubble? China calling in its debts? We've discussed all these before so now it's time to consider: Wal-Mart Cutting Inventories by $6.5 Billion. Yep. We doomed. *or should I say flush-handle? more inside
Deism Defined .. On arrival at Hate, flowed on to Deism. One is lost for comment but is sure there are those who will apply the appropriate.
Ice Falls For the second time in a week, a huge chunk of opaque white ice has fallen from the sky in California. Freak airliner accident proponents over here, Secret military testing proponents over here - and Global Warning proponents on this side. Ok, go.
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