all neatly structured in an inverted pentagram. look out for "triple umlaut" subcategory, and see respected bands comedically dismissed under death --> pleas for help --> adolescent poetry
from http://comicvsaudience.blogspot.com/ via bb.
ps, am loosely reminded of this onion article. and, fukkit, this one too. for any more you can do your own search for "metal" on theonion.com. i won't even mention the "metal council convenes to discuss metal hand sign abuse" article, cos we all know that one.
the original (japanese, natch) website that these are from is down cos this got posted on bb, but i found a few around on the internets. here they are just for you just for you!
YES YES YES!
and, finally, the one that confirms all your suspicions:
and totally unrelated, but just because it made me piss myself laughing:
thanks to http://ffffound.com/home/autodidactic/found/, original "in japan" link is the full photo set
and the original bb article...
Illogically I'm actually working harder now I'm a student (not to mention spending vastly less time stationed before a blinking terminal.)
So, the onion, eh? They've got their fingers on (in?) the pulse, certainly.
From "Lego does the physicists"
And, marginally more intellectually, LOLUSA
Bored? Why not play Bastard Tetris. Don't worry, it won't take you that long.
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/this_short_story_about_a_school?utm_source=onion_rss_daily
Hands up who thinks I post too much from the Onion?
Ever wondered what we're doing on this planet? Where humans came from? What will happen to us?
Never fear - or, perhaps, do fear - HP Lovecraft supplies the answers, in cartoon form!
the onion's "our dumb world" google maps overlays are pretty funny. this week they do israel, and it's pretty good. no mentions of recent west bank antics i'm afraid:
http://www.theonion.com/content/atlas
if you get there late (ie they've changed the featured country) then zoom out on the map, go find israel, then zoom back. you know where it is, right?
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/12/capers.html
My fave:
In September, a robber disguised as a gardener pepper-sprayed an armored car driver using a pesticide sprayer and ran off with a bag stuffed with $400,000 in cash. When police arrived seconds later, they found the sidewalk crowded with dozens of men decked out in the same attire as the perp: blue shirt, Day-Glo vest, safety mask and glasses. While the cops hacked through a forest of suspects, the real perp fled to a nearby creek and escaped in a waiting inner tube.
Turns out the unwitting decoys had been lured to the crime scene by a Craigslist ad that promised construction work to those showing up in a "yellow vest, safety goggles, a respirator mask … and, if possible, a blue shirt." A month later, following a lead from a homeless man who witnessed the preparation for the Brinks job, police arrested 28-year-old Anthony Curcio fresh from a Las Vegas vacation. Curcio is now charged with "Interference with commerce by threats or violence," because "Pulling the most awesome robbery ever" isn't listed in the U.S. code.
if you're not careful you might miss the best bit - "escaped in a waiting inner tube" - genius!
Pic from the BBC article. I'm slightly worried it confirms a prejudice that atheists have a purely hedonistic outlook, but there you go.
So, if you haven't read one of the "new atheist" books yet, you should. My favourite was Dan Dennett's cos he's one of my favourite philosophers, but I've been warming to Sam Harris having seen him in a few debates. If you prefer watching videos to reading books (tsk tsk)* here are a couple of atheism debates I've enjoyed recently:
Sam Harris vs one Rabbi Wolpe on atheism - a good one, quality debate on both sides.
Dan Dennet vs Dinesh D'Souza - less good, but I'm just a big Danny D fan. check out his awesome beard! and Dinesh gets quite shouty...
Sam Harris essay in defence of elitism
I'm not putting any RD vids up, his voice is just too squeaky.
* OK so i've only read the one book. i'm full of it.
Thanks Paul for slipping this one in in the comments. Props also to Rohan, who posted a link to one of these on facebook. Great minds!
and just loads, loads more on yowtchowbe. brilliant. I think there's a lesson to be drawn here...
A beautiful picture from the National Geographic International Photo competition but what really cracked me up was the caption:
"In Japan, ancestral spirits come back to their families in mid-August every year. People provide rest for the ancestors' spirits for three days and then send them back by putting them on lanterns to drift down river. Ms. Setsuko Sugino took this picture of a small girl praying for ancestral spirits, amid lanterns waiting to be set adrift into the foggy river in Shikoku, Japan."
stick with it. there's a couple of genius cuts in there.
lots more fun at http://www.viralvideochart.com/
also, this clip help me found out that speech from that luna-c track is from a 70s film called network. here's that speech in full. looks like a pretty good film...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_EZ
and just in case it gets edited before you get to read it, here is the overview section at 07/12/08
DJ EZ (pronounced E-Zed) is a DJ from Tottenham, North London specialising in UK garage music. He is referred to as "London's Number One" within the UK garage scene.
His influences have come from up and coming young guns like Bonafide and Matty A. Both lyrical G's from LA & B-Town respectively. Ez learnt to mix through watching Matty A who would mix 3 decks with one hand and a blindfold whilst Bonafide is known for his wild antics with up to 23 decks at a time, mixing in up to 22 tunes at one time. The whole DJ / Mc scene was created by Matty A and Bone man in early 1986, when Matty A was born in LA. He soon joined forces with Bonafide to create the "look at us and you will be 6 feet deep crew" ever since, many wack Dj's / Mc's have been reported missing.
This is incredible. typical quote:
"Kubrick’s film presented a future of company men moving with assurance and clear intention toward a godlike minimalist object. Lucas, on the other hand, gave us a slapdash world of knuckleheads pursued by industrial-scale minimalists. Visually, Kubrick’s film is as seamless and smooth as the modernist authority it mirrored. Like the mid-century modernists, 2001 associated abstraction with the progressive ideals of the United Nations as embodied by its New York headquarters. Lucas, on the other hand, was a nonbeliever. Even the initially smooth and unitary form of the Death Star was shown, as the rebel fighters skimmed its surface, to be deeply fissured with an ever-diminishing body of structural fragments. These crenulated details suggested a depth and complexity to modern life that modernism’s pure geometries often obscured."
found on boing boing, which if you didn't know already, is the best blog on the internet (TM)
Update 2/12
I take it back. I actually nicked this from Ken MacLeod's blog. For people other than Ben, Ken MacLeod is a science fiction author, who entertainingly sprinkles a lot of communist and anarcho-capitalist philosophy in his books. read 'em! the stone canal is excellent, as is the execution channel (a new one. more of a techno-thriller than scifi)
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