It’s not happening here but it is happening now …
(tags: powerful photos intriguing)
Scientology’s movin’ into Chicago, oh dear.
(tags: religion dumbfuck)
Best Practical: todo.pl (or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the command line)
If I ever go over to Hiveminder, good thing to get prepped and install.
(tags: cool reference geekery)
The World’s Weirdest/Stupidest Conspiracy Theories
Consumerist: Blue Cross Blue Shield Calls Miscarriage “Elective Abortion,” Denies Claim
Holy SHIT. What the FUCK, BlueCross?!
(tags: amazing holy_shit horrifying corporatism)
Man, Apple is getting really obnoxious. The latest iTunes has a built-in advertisement in its contextual menu, “Make Ringtone.” Click on any song, and you’ll see it.
I saw it last night and thought, “Ah, cool, let’s see how it makes a ringtone out of this track — let’s see what the UI is, [...]
Lee Greenwood (”God Bless the U.S.A.”) cancels appearance at concert honoring firefighters because $2k check from Knights of Columbus isn’t a cashier’s check.
(tags: dumbfuck)
Is America where you think it is? Is Greenland as big as Africa? Check out the different ways of looking at the world: cartographic projections.
(tags: interesting images)
Workstation Intallation Tool
Enter your [...]
For severe comic geeks, Grant Morrison’s initial concept of hypertime, as related by Warren Ellis:
It’s one of those things that’s difficult to capture on paper if you’re not the originator, I suspect. Firstly, it wasn’t set up to explain continuity glitches. That’s not its point, as described to me. It’s…
It’s Grant trying to describe a [...]
I am a big fan of Donnie Darko, a complicated, entwisted mindfuck of a movie by director Richard Kelly. He has a new one coming out November 9th, called Southland Tales (trailer). As far as I can tell, it’s a “what if we were much more nutso on the Homeland Security front” plot [...]
A rejected Mefi post to educate you:
Once upon a time, there was a very bad Sean Connery movie (directed by “the Good Will Hunting guy“). In it, Sean Connery looks at an inner-city African-American teen and says, “Punch the keys, for God’s sake! Yes … yesssss … you’re the man now, dog!” [...]
Popular Mechanics reveals that your chances are 20% better of surviving a plane crash if you’re in the back of the plane.
(tags: reference useful interesting)
“Drinks giant Coca-Cola has invented a bottle that chills on the inside when the top is twisted off.”
(tags: cool)
Pub customers happily line up for drug testing - Boing Boing
“The public were [...]
Harvard bookstore: Our prices are “property” - Boing Boing
“The Coop, Harvard’s Barnes-and-Noble-run bookstore, has begun to throw out students who ‘take a lot of notes’ about book pricing, stating that their prices are ‘intellectual property.’”
(tags: whaddafuck dumbfuck copyleft)
Donatella Versace doesn’t want to know that “smoking kills.”
“Seated at a wrought-iron table, she thumbed open a pack [...]
Cool Tool: U-Haul Box Exchange
(tags: reference)
Washington Post: Face 2 Face Art Project
Wonderfully silly project meant to defuse some of the Israeli-Palestinian tension.
(tags: funny photos cute)
15 Awesome Uses For Aluminum Foil
(tags: reference)
Iggy Pop’s Tour Rider
This is freaking hilarious. The guy who wrote it is very (purposefully) funny.
(tags: funny music)
New iPods reengineered to block synching with Linux
“At the very start of the database, a couple of what appear to be SHA1 hashes have been inserted which appear to lock the iTunes database to one particular iPod [...]
The Last Psychiatrist: The Scariest Thing I Have Ever Seen
(tags: insightful powerful movies)
Confidential documents illustrating Chicago’s mass transit system vulnerabilities to terrorist attack were leaked on the internet via a P2P File sharing network, according to Larry Yellen, a WFLD investigative reporter.
(tags: oh_shit terrorism)
“Alfred Hitchcock had no belly button; it was eliminated during surgery.”
(tags: weird [...]
Life-saving anti-virus lid for soda cans — Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing
“Joel has turned up an award-winning design for an ‘Antivirus lid’ for soda cans: it’s a plastic, locking, non-removable lid that fits over old coke cans and turns them into safe disposal receptacles for used biohazard sharps.”
(tags: interesting cool)
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