Diciembre 2011
“He limped slowly over to his own wooden sword and stooped awkwardly to pick it...”
– Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia (via pandorea)
VerMVI_7522.AVI (by CRASHSpace)
Kids at crashspace always seem to have a blast. But, it makes me nervous when they’re playing with something I made.
“Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects...”
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“…Trying to make an updated and adultified version of the comic where...”
– This Is How We Roll
Just quoting this because it comes up a lot for me too, and I have to check my impulse to light everyone who reacts positively to the idea on fire. It’s not their fault, they don’t know any better.
Calvin & Hobbes is a complete artistic work. Watterson did the...
RT @ales_kot: “The Internet is my generation’s revenge for not being allowed to go to the Moon.” — Jack Boyce
notcuddles:
plentifulimageryoftheworld:
Classic novels reinvented with ‘genderswitching’: You don’t need to add zombies or modern gadgets to transform great fiction, just swap the he’s and she’s
lakidaa:
authentic-toast:
Kate Harrad:
I’ve been genderswitching out-of-copyright stories all year, and marvelling at the results. Here, for example, is Shirley Holmes:
“I had seen little of...
RT @cstross: The Tough Guide to Fantasy Cities (clearly a Diana Wynne Jones tribute): http://t.co/Hf4blOE4
RT @justinpickard: Really, this is huge. RT @wired: Amazon built a speedy supercomputer that doesn’t exist: http://t.co/3ljHkyjF
“In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support...”
– http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=378&isc=smtwsup
In changing its position it remains steadfast. Yeah buddy, that sentence is not working out at all. GoDaddy has retreated from its previous support of SOPA now that a bunch of major websites like Wikimedia have...
True! But in this case the goggles mostly just make you hallucinate. @mpinner @crashspaceLA
notcuddles:
outlawpoet:
notcuddles:
outlawpoet:
yeeeeesssss
Why do I get the feeling that this movie is going to piss me the fuck off?
I’m immediately suspicious of any movie that puts words like that in the mouth of a villain - however sympathetic or anti-heroic she might sometimes be presented as.
I don’t believe for a second that we’re gonna get a movie that ends with the message...
notcuddles:
outlawpoet:
yeeeeesssss
Why do I get the feeling that this movie is going to piss me the fuck off?
I’m immediately suspicious of any movie that puts words like that in the mouth of a villain - however sympathetic or anti-heroic she might sometimes be presented as.
I don’t believe for a second that we’re gonna get a movie that ends with the message “And then Bruce Wayne learned...
STORY: James Franco Unable To Understand Why Ryan...
girl-detective:
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—Hollywood star and ridiculously accomplished renaissance man, James Franco, expressed confusion this Wednesday as to why his famous peer, actor Ryan Gosling, was the subject of an increasingly absurd internet meme that relies on images of Gosling paired with academically inclined pick-up lines.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” said the befuddled 32-year-old...
“Dress suitably in short skirts & strong boots, leave your jewels in the...”
– Countess Markievcizv, 19th century Irish revolutionary, dispensing eternally relevant fashion advice. (via bornofanatombomb)
Angeleno-to-English Dictionary: Popular Phrases...
stevewoolf:
spiegelman:
“I’ll be there in 5.” — It will take me 10 minutes to get there, then another 5 to 10 to find parking, plus I’m not leaving for 5 minutes.
“I’m in traffic.” — I haven’t left yet.
“I’m around the corner.” — I’m in traffic.
“It’ll take me 20 minutes to get there.” — (irregular) It’ll take me 20 minutes to get there.
“The event starts at 8pm.” — The event starts at...
“The strength of a freed market is that, unlike contemporary capitalism, it is...”
– David S. D’Amato, General Idea of the Revolution in the Twenty-First Century
the entire article is fantastic.
All people who sincerely wish to see the scope of human freedom expand — who take the libertarian undertaking to be something real and capable of thoroughgoing societal transformation —...
3 etiquetas
Brain-Eating Amoeba Fatalities Linked to Neti Pots →
tedr:
An Amoeba that wouldn’t hurt you if swallowed is believed to be making it’s way from inner nasal cavity and into brain where it kills the host.
Granted this is happening Louisiana tap water … but still … you might want to sanitze your neti water …
Remember folks, don’t expose your orifices to situations they didn’t evolve for. And watch the mucus membranes, they absorb weird...
Nine Lives Left | Futility Closet →
I don’t know what to make of this — on Sept. 7, 1950, the London Times reported that a 10-month-old kitten had climbed the Matterhorn.
The story, “from our correspondent,” claims that the black-and-white kitten lived in the Hotel Belvedere at 10,820 feet, where he would watch departing alpinists as they left for the summit. One morning, apparently, he decided to follow them. “After a long...
RT @ludumdare: ~30 Minutes until Ludum Dare 22! If you’re not in IRC yet, now is the time. #ludumdare on http://t.co/BVrGSb1c - #LD48
Farewell, Hitch →
my favorite Hitchens obit so far.
