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This is my linklog - links, links, and more links. As I traverse the internet, many interesting things cross my path, but few of them are in need of my writing about them. The vast majority of them can stand on their own, and so they end up here, in my collection of pointers and signposts to the things that caught my eye or fired my imagination during my travels.

Architecture of Ascent

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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