This is tactical gear for the spatial expansion of private leisure.
Happy Spamiversary
On May 3, 1978 Gary Thuerk, a marketer at the now-defunct computer firm Digital Equipment Corporation, sent an email to 393 users of Arpanet, the US government-run computer network that eventually became the internet. It was the first spam email ever.
Codependent Toys
Needies are interactive plush dolls inspired by codependent, high-maintenance relationships.
Great American Hypocrites
Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics
Lying for Jesus
Richard Dawkins lets another mouth-breathing meat-head have it.
Bored?
Bored?
Twitter Away Your Life
We start as social creatures, isolate ourselves into small rooms writhing with power strips, then make friends with similarly sequestered people, trying to re-create the very communities we’re avoiding.
Top 10 Biblical Massacres
The top 10 biblical massacres.
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
Pat Robertson
He left his 7-month pregnant wife to traipse around the Canadian woods, hawks diet shakes, thinks Thomas Jefferson is personally responsible for Marxism, has run afoul of the Federal Election Commission, and the IRS, lied about humanitarian aid to Rwanda and Zaire (now Congo) to mine diamonds for his offshore company, signs business contracts with [...]
Moving Towards Nordicization
The US Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990s as a possible interim solution to the US financial crisis.
Monster Factory Store
Get your monsters here! Factory-direct pricing! Step right up!
Gay Scientists Isolate the “Christian Gene”
Homosexual researchers at the Pink Tiger Research Institute , working for years to determine what it is that makes people Christian, have isolated the gene which causes the ailment. They hope to use this finding to cure people of their Christianity.
Moral Development Quiz
How morally advanced are you? Kohlberg’s stages behind the quiz.
Rate My Cop
Think of this website as an excellent tool for bringing some accountability to the “thin blue line” and their “code of silence”.
Fire The Workaholics
37Signals says you should fire the workaholics at your company. I think I might just agree.
BookSnapz
Finally, a content ripper for the literate.
As George Bernard Shaw once said “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
Free State Nauru
Maybe the Free-State freaks could move to Nauru instead. Only 10,000 population and just dying to be bought out…
AutoMotivator
Now you can make your own (de)motivational posters.
Early D&D Exposure Chart
My personal favorite: “Doubting the technical accuracy of this diagram“
Tommy Westphall Imagined It All
Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire [...]
Geraldine Ferraro Redux
April 15, 1988: “If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race”
March 7, 2008: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position”
Dunce In Chief
The outstanding academic legacy of the dunce in chief.
Reading Is Dead?
Reading is dead. No, wait, it’s not. We just read different things, like blogs and Facebook comments and “missing”Apple manuals now. Literacy is purely functional. Nah, we just need better technology. If blog-scanning is “literacy” then counting to ten is “numeracy“.
There’s a blaze of light in every word
“It Doesn’t Matter Which You Heard”: the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”
Hagakure
Read and becomeenlightened, Ghost Dog.
Solved Philosophy
Richard Chappell enumerates some examples of solved philosophy
Shrine of the Mall Ninja
The Mall Ninja is easily distinguished by an abundance of “tactical” gear, fatigues, a thigh holster, combat boots, etc… Median age is usually 19-25, and they tend to boast about their various exploits with certain Special Forces units, all of which they’re too young and idiotic to have joined. They have opinions on everything, regardless [...]
What Is It Good For?
Kreigspeil; Guy Debord’s “dialectic of all conflict” - otherwise known as the unholy meeting of Warhammer 40K and the Situationist International.
Zen & The Art of Weak Scholarship
This is perhaps the greatest book review ever written: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, An Unappreciation.
I’m Your New Bicycle
I’m Your New Bicycle: Single-serving Jon
Gloom: The Game
Gloom: The Game of Inauspicious Incidents and Grave Consequences
The Dumbing Of America
Call Me a Snob, but Really, We’re a Nation of Dunces
The Secret Museum of Mankind
Cannibals. Fakirs. Crime and punishment. Rituals. Slaves, cults and customs. Warriors and weapons. Equestrians and equilibrists. Musicians and mendicants. Dance, dress, undress and body modification. Structures, conveyances, beasts, and more breasts than you can shake a stick at! This is The Secret Museum of Mankind.
Americana
The Journal of American Popular Culture 1900 to Present
Time Wounds All Heels
Here is a helpful conversion chart for dating. Find the things you love now about your mate and see how you’ll likely think about them in a decade.
Strange USA
What strange things lurk in your neighborhood?
Seven Steps To Revolution
The seven steps to revolution. Are we there yet?
Shopping With The Oligarchs
Hey Americans! Did you ever wonder what happened to that money you put into the gas pump? Check out this slide show.
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