The ways of women are a mystery to me, says The Living Laser. [ via LMG]
I’ve moved a lot of my linkage to here and here, which means I don’t post a lot of the old tidbits and tails to my blog. But some images demand to be shared.
In other completely unrelated news, I [...]
How To Write Screenplays…Badly
A Japanese Spider-Man TV show! [ via Malcolm Sheppard ]
The British Museum’s website lets you play the Royal Game of Ur online! I used to have this as a boardgame when I was a kid; it’s a simple and addictive little race game based on one of the oldest game boards in existence.
[Via Story Games]
ABC News: She’s Her Own Twin describes the medical mystery of two women who don’t match their kids’ DNA:
Lydia Fairchild was a proud mother who faced the most unusual of challenges. She had to fight in court to prove the children born from her body were her own. “I knew that I carried them, and [...]
Israel sent me another web blooper, this time from the Bezeq site. This one is much better than the last one, which was just a typo. This one actually requires someone to have applied stupidity:
When registering a user, the site asks you to choose a secret question to identify yourself (in case you forget your [...]
The Pizza Meter online menu offers a salad containing a “female blogger in Olive oil”:
אתר פיצה מטר מציע סלט המכיל “בלוגרית בשמן זית”.
Via an odd blog called Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, an article about the Blue people of Appalachia (scroll down past the science to the bit called The Blue People Of Troublesome Creek:
Four of the seven Fugate children were born with bright blue skin that lasted their entire lives
Someone linked to photos of blue [...]
Steve Jackson brings to my attention a Reuters story about Russian president Putin facing serious questions from the public about the Russian Giant Robot defense initiative and its Cthulhu contingency plans:
It was not clear what had prompted 8,600 Russians to ask Putin if he planned to employ “giant, humanoid war robots” or why 7,300 people [...]
Nimrod Harel, fantasy writer (I had great fun reviewing his book) and mentalist is soliciting ideas for his TV show in the Ort Science Fiction and Fantasy forum. He’s looking for weird, uncanny and surreal stuff which mundane scriptwriters appear to be ill-equipped to come up with.
Saddam and Osama - Saturday morning cartoons for an Arab world - (via Lying in the Gutters, which points out the Batman vs. The Jews ad in the middle).
Yep, I’m still revisiting teen enthusiasms.
We know we can find bizzare retro rock videos on YouTube; well, speaking of bizzare and retro, apparently it’s filled with Kate Bush videos, clips, rare-rare appearances, all sorts of strange obscure bits from TV specials that I got to see only once in the days that the Third Ear [...]
JustinSpace: Obscene Interiors
Obscene Interiors is a collection of real online male personal ad photos and my critique of the naive interior decorating exposed therein. (No need to shield your timid eyes, the often-nude figures have been laboriously obscured.)
I think my place is much worse. At least I don’t have a big gray cardboard cutout posed [...]
1. E-mail is for geeks and pedophiles.
2. If the BatMovie franchise ever came to it, Reese Witherspoon would make a very Jack Nicholson-compatible Harley Quinn.
Like some insane LARPer thrust into the battlefields of World War II, Fighting Jack Churchill (1906-1996) shot German soldiers with broad-headed arrows, played the bagpipes on commando raids, and captured enemy soldiers with a claymore. Then he got captured and escaped from a German prison camp, walking 150 miles across occupied territory. For an encore [...]