Barzelay.net: Mini Links Archives

February 25, 2008

More Americans Are Leaving Religion

Mini Link: More Americans Are Leaving Religion

Posted by Barzelay at 3:03 PM | Comments (1)

February 21, 2008

Lawrence Lessig Running For Congress!

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Looks like I may have a new favorite Congressperson! He would be an amazing asset for the American people to have in their government. And personally, I think that if he runs, he will be a shoo-in in that district (Silicon Valley, basically).

Posted by Barzelay at 10:46 PM | Comments (3)

Game: Kick A Migrant (Not What You're Expecting

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Thanks, Amanda.

Posted by Barzelay at 1:38 PM | Comments (0)

February 20, 2008

The Onion: CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bay

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Posted by Barzelay at 5:29 PM | Comments (0)

February 18, 2008

Video: "What's this right here?"

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Posted by Barzelay at 4:58 PM | Comments (0)

February 14, 2008

Hillary4U&Me

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Posted by Barzelay at 2:28 AM | Comments (0)

February 7, 2008

LOLCat Bible

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~~All my links are belong to Jacob.~~ Signs point to Jeff.

In particular, check out the 23rd Psalm, Genesis, Chapter 1, and John 3:16, just because they're more familiar.

The funny thing is that this version of the Bible, intentionally obfuscated in a heinous way, is no less comprehensible or less coherent than the normal version.

Posted by Barzelay at 2:45 PM | Comments (4)

February 5, 2008

Awesome Campaign Ad

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From Jacob.

Posted by Barzelay at 10:49 AM | Comments (0)

Creepy Anti-Statutory Rape Ads

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Someone will masturbate while looking at these ads.

Posted by Barzelay at 1:28 AM | Comments (1)

February 2, 2008

Hitler Farted A Lot

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...and it's somewhat gratifying to know.

Posted by Barzelay at 11:34 AM | Comments (0)

January 30, 2008

Cheeseburger In A Can

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Posted by Barzelay at 1:47 PM | Comments (0)

Woman "Didn't Do It" And Ingests Acid To Prove It?

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Why did she put Boric acid in her mouth? To prove a point. She even had a t-shirt made, to further prove her point.

Posted by Barzelay at 12:31 AM | Comments (1)

January 29, 2008

Vintage Olan Mills Photos

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These are amazing. From Gaelen.

Posted by Barzelay at 11:58 AM | Comments (1)

January 28, 2008

"Booze" Rhymes With "Jews"

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From Jacob:

According to J.D. Rolleston, a British medical historian, a medieval Russian cure for drunkenness consisted in “taking a piece of pork, putting it secretly in a Jew’s bed for nine days, and then giving it to the drunkard in a pulverized form, who will turn away from drinking as a Jew would from pork.”

Posted by Barzelay at 9:22 PM | Comments (0)

January 26, 2008

Entirely Wooden Bicycle Built By Teenager

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Posted by Barzelay at 3:15 AM | Comments (0)

Fan Death

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Posted by Barzelay at 2:09 AM | Comments (2)

January 24, 2008

Terry Gilliam Is Cursed

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Yet another of my favorite director's movies derailed because of bizarre circumstances. Thanks a lot, Ledger.

Posted by Barzelay at 2:10 PM | Comments (2)

January 15, 2008

Game Boy Around The World

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Thanks, Phil

Posted by Barzelay at 11:57 PM | Comments (0)

January 13, 2008

Married Couple Finds Out They Were Twins Separated At Birth

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Posted by Barzelay at 8:59 PM | Comments (0)

Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

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Posted by Barzelay at 8:30 PM | Comments (0)

January 5, 2008

How High Heels Affect Women Physically

Mini Link: How High Heels Affect Women Physically

Via Jason at LawGeek.

Posted by Barzelay at 11:42 PM | Comments (2)

December 27, 2007

There Is A Braille Edition Of Playboy!

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Life imitates art? The old jokes about braille playboy turn out to be true. And it's produced with tax dollars, no less!

Posted by Barzelay at 10:21 PM | Comments (1)

One Man Dead, Several Mauled By Escaped Tiger At SF Zoo

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If you've gotta die, it might as well be in a badass way like getting your throat slashed by a fucking tiger.

Oh, and I love this quote from some tourist:

"Oh my gosh! I hadn't heard anything about a tiger," said one visitor, Komer Poodari of San Jose. "I guess we'll go to Fisherman's Wharf."

Posted by Barzelay at 2:53 AM | Comments (0)

December 21, 2007

Suing Santa?

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Ben asks his readers to brainstorm possible causes of action we could bring against Santa Claus. For instance, he may be violating the Privacy Act--consider the lyrics, "He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake..." What other causes of action could one bring against Santa?

Posted by Barzelay at 1:53 AM | Comments (0)

December 19, 2007

Men Who Look Like Old Lesbians

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I didn't think the content could live up to the URL, but it does. It really does. I can think, off the top of my head, of at least one guy in my year at my school who looks like an old lesbian.

Posted by Barzelay at 1:20 AM | Comments (2)

December 13, 2007

Woman Gets 5 to 10 for Swinging Baby at Boyfriend

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Posted by Barzelay at 12:41 PM | Comments (0)

December 10, 2007

Thieves Steal 17 Tons Of Ham

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These are my kinda thieves. They made a hole in the wall of a warehouse and managed to make off with 17 tons of Christmas ham and bacon in one night! And the thieves left a note that said, "Thanks. Merry Christmas." See? At least they were polite about it.

But the thing that really blows my mind is that seventeen tons of ham and bacon are only worth $88,000. I never really considered buying in bulk like that, but I suppose it makes sense. Next time I have $88,000, I know what I'm doing. It seems like I shouldn't be able to afford a whole ton of anything, even with all my savings (which is like $4000). I kind of want to buy one ton of something, just so I can say I have a ton of it. And edible would really be best. "Hey guys, want to come to my place? I have two thousand pounds of bacon we can munch on." Who would turn down that invitation?

Posted by Barzelay at 5:07 AM | Comments (5)

December 6, 2007

EatFoo: Is The Entree A Dying Concept?

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Posted by Barzelay at 1:45 PM | Comments (0)

Delicious For Chanukah!

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From Jeff.

Posted by Barzelay at 12:10 AM | Comments (0)

December 4, 2007

Best Lawyer Name Ever

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Too bad this Sullivan & Cromwell attorney isn't in the Litigation group. I'm sure she's very qualified, but if I were on the hiring committee, I'd hire her even if she weren't. You know... as a goof.

Posted by Barzelay at 5:57 AM | Comments (1)

December 2, 2007

Sexist Ads

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Got this from RumorsDaily. (Speaking of which, can I use your name, or no?)

Posted by Barzelay at 11:51 PM | Comments (1)

EatFoo: Government Salt Limits: My Worst Nightmare

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The FDA is considering limits on the amount of salt in packaged foods. Read about it at EatFoo.

Posted by Barzelay at 3:10 AM | Comments (0)

November 30, 2007

The Most Horrifying And Effective PSA I've Ever Seen

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There really are no accidents. Totally safe for work, but horrifying nonetheless.

Posted by Barzelay at 1:40 AM | Comments (3)

November 29, 2007

Best Blog Comment Ever

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Skim this old post on my friend Jacob's blog, then read the last comment, comment number 7. I really want to quote it, but I don't want to ruin it for you.

Posted by Barzelay at 2:19 PM | Comments (2)

Judge Jails 46 People Because Someone's Cell Phone Rang In His Courtroom

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Posted by Barzelay at 2:32 AM | Comments (0)

Pimp My Billy

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Check out the furniture section of these designers' "Projects" page. They've got a "Pimp My Billy" project where they are making some really cool mods to IKEA's ubiquitous (35 million units sold worldwide) but boring shelving units. I love the Billy Wilder.

Posted by Barzelay at 1:03 AM | Comments (1)

Amazing Photographs Of The Very Old, And The Prematurely Aged

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Posted by Barzelay at 1:00 AM | Comments (0)

November 28, 2007

Fibonacci Poetry

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Phil linked to this article about Fibonacci poetry, which began with a writer posting the following to his blog:

One
Small,
Precise,
Poetic,
Spiraling mixture:
Math plus poetry yields the Fib.

Posted by Barzelay at 12:43 AM | Comments (0)

November 27, 2007

Onion Video: Fat Kid Successfully Avoids Ridicule By Swimming With Shirt On

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Posted by Barzelay at 12:44 AM | Comments (0)

November 26, 2007

Portal: Fun Flash Puzzle Game

Mini Link: Portal: Fun Flash Puzzle Game

Daniel linked me to this, and I loved playing it. Apparently there's an X-Box version of it or something?

Posted by Barzelay at 3:13 AM | Comments (0)

November 20, 2007

Americans Believe That NASA Gets 24% Of National Budget

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It's actually about 0.58%. But people nevertheless think NASA gets nearly as much as they think the Department Of Defense gets (33%, with the actual portion being about 21%). Says one survey respondent when informed of the actual NASA funding allocation, "No wonder we haven't gone anywhere!"

Posted by Barzelay at 11:48 PM | Comments (4)

"Video Game" vs. "Videogame"

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Posted by Barzelay at 11:46 PM | Comments (0)

Your Astrological Sign Is Probably Wrong

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I doubt that anyone reading this believes that his or her Zodiac sign has anything to do with anything. But, just for further ammo against any unfortunate acquaintances who do believe in things like horoscopes, it turns out that, due to an astronomical phenomenon called precession, the "sign" they've been claiming all their lives is probably not actually their sign.

Capricorn - Jan 20 to Feb 16
Aquarius - Feb 16 to Mar 11
Pisces - Mar 11 to Apr 18
Aries - Apr 18 to May 13
Taurus - May 13 to Jun 21
Gemini - Jun 21 to Jul 20
Cancer - Jul 20 to Aug 10
Leo - Aug 10 to Sep 16
Virgo - Sep 16 to Oct 30
Libra - Oct 30 to Nov 23
Scorpius - Nov 23 to Nov 29
Ophiuchus - Nov 29 to Dec 17
Sagittarius - Dec 17 to Jan 20

Posted by Barzelay at 1:15 AM | Comments (6)

November 19, 2007

Message Left On Jimmy Dean Sausage's Answering Machine

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A longtime customer is angry about Jimmy Dean downsizing their sausage rolls from 16 ounces to 12 ounces and charging the same price.

"Your products are very delicious. I've loved your sausage for thirty-something years, but I can't take and feed a family of five on a little 12 ounce roll of sausage."

Some of the things he says are particularly hilarious.

"And as far as your 16 ounce rolls in maple and sage, I don't eat that. I'm not from the North. I'm a Texas man. Jimmy Dean sausage is for Southern people to eat with their breakfast, with their fried eggs and their T-bone steaks, and I can't see going to a little 12-ounce package to feed 4, 5, 6 people. And I'm not gonna buy two of those little 12 ounce packages just because you'd like to downsize and charge the same price."

And the best part:

I'd sure like a reply..."

Posted by Barzelay at 10:09 PM | Comments (3)

Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake

Mini Link: Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake

This is an interesting bit of obesity research that should also be of interest to any chef. Researchers used soup bowls with hidden mechanisms that refilled the bowls as the subjects ate from them.

Results: Participants who were unknowingly eating from self-refilling bowls ate more soup [14.7 ± 8.4 vs. 8.5 ± 6.1 oz; F(1,52) = 8.99; p < 0.01] than those eating from normal soup bowls. However, despite consuming 73% more, they did not believe they had consumed more, nor did they perceive themselves as more sated than those eating from normal bowls. This was unaffected by BMI.
Discussion: These findings are consistent with the notion that the amount of food on a plate or bowl increases intake because it influences consumption norms and expectations and it lessens one’s reliance on self-monitoring. It seems that people use their eyes to count calories and not their stomachs. The importance of having salient, accurate visual cues can play an important role in the prevention of unintentional overeating.

Posted by Barzelay at 6:03 PM | Comments (2)

November 18, 2007

Smell Yo Dick

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This is the best song I've heard all month. A lady suspects that the gentleman courting her is being unfaithful. What is a lady to do in such a situation, when the gentleman has been out late and then arrives home? She could inquire about his whereabouts, or perhaps discreetly read his personal letters, but sometimes such methods do not uncover the careful philanderer. So the lady must sometimes resort to a more reliable tactic:

Why you comin' home
Five in the morn?
Something's goin' on
Can I smell yo dick?
Don't play me like a fool
Cause that ain't cool
What you need to do is
Let me smell yo dick.

Posted by Barzelay at 11:11 PM | Comments (0)

Video: Light Graffiti - Star Wars v. Star Wars

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Posted by Barzelay at 11:02 AM | Comments (0)

November 17, 2007

American Gladiators Is Back

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And Hulk Hogan is hosting. This is my six-year-old self's dream come true. Thanks for informing me, Tim.

Posted by Barzelay at 1:06 AM | Comments (0)

Lap Dancing For Science

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Awesome scientific study, as reported by Phil.

To see whether estrus was really "lost" during human evolution (as researchers often claim), we examined ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by professional lap dancers working in gentlemen's clubs. Eighteen dancers recorded their menstrual periods, work shifts, and tip earnings for 60 days on a study web site.
This is a nice way at getting around subjective measures of "attractiveness" in studies like this-- the amount of money made by a stripper probably corresponds pretty well to how physically attractive the males in the audience find her. And as seen in the graph on the right, there's a noticeable peak in earnings among normally-cycling women at around 10 days (ovulation).

Posted by Barzelay at 12:55 AM | Comments (0)

November 14, 2007

Indian Man Marries a Dog as Atonement

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He killed two dogs when he was 18, and he feels his life has been cursed ever since. On the advice of an astrologer, he is marrying this female dog to atone.

Posted by Barzelay at 12:41 AM | Comments (0)

November 13, 2007

The Hamlet of Blow Jobs

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Posted by Barzelay at 11:13 PM | Comments (0)

November 9, 2007

Death By Harry Potter

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This columnist doesn't know anything about Harry Potter, and worries that it will make him culturally irrelevant in a few years. But the whole thing feels so familiar due to my own fears of irrelevance. It's why I saturate myself with so much media. I don't want to be irrelevant to anyone, now or later.

Posted by Barzelay at 4:52 AM | Comments (0)

November 8, 2007

Recall Announced On Toy That Delivers Date-Rape Drug When Ingested

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In other news, despite lackluster sales on the product all season, U.S. retailers mysteriously sold out of "Aqua Dots" on Thursday.

Posted by Barzelay at 2:14 PM | Comments (0)

IsItChristmas.com

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Posted by Barzelay at 2:10 AM | Comments (0)

November 7, 2007

Jimmy Carter: Cold-Blooded Killer

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Posted by Barzelay at 5:33 PM | Comments (0)

November 5, 2007

Tragic but Familiar

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This little girl reminds me of Ursula from Disney's Little Mermaid.

Posted by Barzelay at 7:14 PM | Comments (0)

October 30, 2007

Lightsaber and other stuff is traveling to space with the astronauts

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Posted by Barzelay at 1:30 AM | Comments (0)

October 29, 2007

Viva Caligula

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This is like Grand Theft Auto for while you're bored in class. It's a Flash game in which you play Caligula, the deranged Roman emperor. You realize that Rome is corrupt, and the only way to fix it is by purging its populace. Basically, you walk around finding weapons and slaughtering all of the citizens. Extremely violent, but fun.

Posted by Barzelay at 4:39 PM | Comments (0)

15 Most Significant Photographs in History

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Posted by Barzelay at 4:38 PM | Comments (0)

October 25, 2007

Death By Monkey

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Posted by Barzelay at 12:07 AM | Comments (0)

October 9, 2007

Woman Smashes Up Comcast Office, Saying "Have I Got Your Attention Now?"

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She was fed up with the terrible customer service, and figured, "What the hell, I'm 75..."

Posted by Barzelay at 3:45 PM | Comments (0)

September 24, 2007

Veggie Art

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Posted by Barzelay at 7:42 PM | Comments (0)

If Everything Were Sold Like iPods

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Posted by Barzelay at 7:16 PM | Comments (0)

September 18, 2007

Revelations About The Common Stapler

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Posted by Barzelay at 11:27 PM | Comments (0)

September 17, 2007

Government Decides Which Religious Texts Are Valid For Prisoners

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This may literally be the most fucked up thing I've heard about actions of the United States government yet.

Posted by Barzelay at 7:25 PM | Comments (0)

August 7, 2007

Woman Didn't Realize She Had A Pencil Lodged In Her Skull

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Posted by Barzelay at 2:13 PM | Comments (0)

August 6, 2007

Video: If FDR Had Run WWII Like GWB

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"I got tired of right-wingers saying, 'If the media had been as hard on FDR as they are on Bush, we’d have lost World War II.' So I started wondering... What if FDR had run his war like GWB?"

Posted by Barzelay at 5:41 PM | Comments (0)

July 27, 2007

British Forces Blamed For Badgers In Basra

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UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.

Posted by Barzelay at 3:01 PM | Comments (0)

Man Drives 1300 Miles to Burn Down Trailer of Online Nemesis

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"Before this happened, the rule was: Nobody messes with the haunted house guy," Anderson said.

Posted by Barzelay at 2:58 PM | Comments (0)

July 23, 2007

Hypothetical Questions They Should Ask At The Presidential Debates

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Posted by Barzelay at 7:34 PM | Comments (0)

July 5, 2007

Commute These Sentences, Mr. President

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Cato Institute points to sentences the President actually should commute, usually involving mandatory minimums. Instead of Scooter, who everyone knows is ridiculously guilty (though no more so than everyone else in the White House--send them all to prison).

Posted by Barzelay at 12:49 PM | Comments (0)

May 11, 2007

Christianity as conceived by Michael Bay

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You can't do God's work without a kickass website.
Christianity is rated PG-13. It's allowed to say "Fuck" once.
In the grand tradition of the Religious Thriller genre that brought you Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter.
This summer's most anticipated second-coming. Well, other than the Fantastic Four sequel.
More bang-for-your-tithe.
You've gotta see the body count when JESUS GETS ANGRY!

Posted by Barzelay at 2:10 AM | Comments (1)

May 3, 2007

Bee die-off a sign of impending Christian apocalypse

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In case you haven't heard, world honey bee populations are suddenly and inexplicably plummeting, fast. As the thinking goes, olives and grapes don't need bees because they are self-pollinating plants. Hence, the pending bee extinction will cause a famine that spares olives and grapes--just as supposedly described in Revelations.

Posted by Barzelay at 4:12 AM | Comments (0)

May 2, 2007

Family of faggot fans

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My first reaction to this was, "Oh God, these kids are going to have a really tough time in school." But then, after taking a closer look, I realized that these kids never had any chance of avoiding a tough time in school with that last name.

Posted by Barzelay at 9:22 PM | Comments (0)

April 30, 2007

America's War On Tourists

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Posted by Barzelay at 4:35 PM | Comments (0)

April 26, 2007

Crime Ring Selling Shorn Lambs As Poodles

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Posted by Barzelay at 5:23 PM | Comments (0)

Man Cuts Off Own Penis In A London Restaurant

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In what may or may not be a coincidence, the restaurant is named "Zizzi" and "Zizi" is French slang for "penis."

Posted by Barzelay at 12:36 AM | Comments (0)

April 23, 2007

Amazon Recommends Emergency Hammer To Go With Glass-Front Wine Cellar

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Via DCFoodies via DCBlogs.com.

Posted by Barzelay at 2:18 AM | Comments (0)

April 21, 2007

Teen attacks classmate with medieval weapon

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Posted by Barzelay at 2:30 PM | Comments (0)

April 19, 2007

Hot Doll, the Love Doll for Dogs

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Click on Products.

Posted by Barzelay at 7:20 PM | Comments (0)

April 17, 2007

Fuck Jurisprudence: A Scholarly Work

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Posted by Barzelay at 4:58 PM | Comments (0)

The Illusionators

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Posted by Barzelay at 4:13 PM | Comments (0)

April 16, 2007

We Are All Photographers Now

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The Swiss museum Musée de l'Elysée, is soliciting photographic submissions from people all over the world for an exhibit which began on February 2 and will run until May 20. Every week, 100 photos are selected at random to be printed in archival quality and exhibited in the museum. Anyone who is interested can submit a photo online. I submitted the one on the left here.

Posted by Barzelay at 12:30 PM | Comments (0)

April 14, 2007

Video: "The Devil Is A Liar"

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This is a pretty awesome song, aside from the lyrics... which are much, much more than just "pretty" awesome.

Posted by Barzelay at 12:32 PM | Comments (0)

March 5, 2007

Law Students Are Converted To Pure Energy

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Posted by Barzelay at 10:42 PM | Comments (0)

February 10, 2007

The Americans Who Voted For George W. Bush Wish To Return Their Television (Satire - McSweeney's)

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Posted by Barzelay at 2:02 PM | Comments (0)

January 31, 2007

Fancy New Varietal Grape Soda

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I really want to try this stuff. It's grape soda made from fancy Northern California wine grapes. So far it comes in Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. All my life, I've always loved a grape soda every now and then. This is the logical conclusion I was bound to reach in that aspect of my foodie pursuits.

Posted by Barzelay at 3:08 PM | Comments (0)

January 30, 2007

GO BEARS!!!

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The Colts' Head Coach is stumping for an anti-gay rights organization that is the leading proponent of an Indiana amendment banning gay marriage. Whereas the Bears are very gay-friendly.

Posted by Barzelay at 6:10 PM | Comments (0)

January 29, 2007

The Iceland Phallological Museum

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Posted by Barzelay at 4:59 AM | Comments (0)

Wired's "42 Big Unanswered Questions," with John Hodgman

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Posted by Barzelay at 4:30 AM | Comments (0)

"In My Language," A Short Film By An Autistic Person

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An autistic person made a short film about the differences between what she considers to be her natural language and the language that most of the world uses, and the ways in which those differences are used to alienate her, deny her fellowship and, effectively, strip her of personhood. In the first parts of the video, she communicates in her language, and then after that she explains a bit about what she was doing and "translates" for us. It's very, very interesting.

"In the end I want you to know that this has not been intended as a voyeuristic freak show where you get to look at the bizarre workings of the autistic mind. It is meant as a strong statement on the existence and value of many different kinds of thinking and interaction in a world where how close you can appear to a specific one of them determines whether you are seen as a real person, or an adult, or an intelligent person. And in a world where those determine whether you have any rights, there are people being tortured, people dying, because they are considered non-persons. Because their kind of thought is so unusual as to not be considered thought at all. Only when the many shapes of personhood are recognized will justice and human rights be possible."

Posted by Barzelay at 4:10 AM | Comments (0)

January 24, 2007

Artist Draws Photorealistic Testicles

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This is amazing. Thanks, Chris.

Posted by Barzelay at 10:49 PM | Comments (0)

January 23, 2007

Clive Owen to play Philip Marlowe!

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I love The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye, and wouldn't mind seeing the whole series of novels filmed. And they're supposedly gonna do it in period, which is the only way it can be done. I think Clive Owen is the perfect Philip Marlowe, even better than Bogart. Only question I have is about the accent. Is Clive gonna play a British private eye, or an American?

Posted by Barzelay at 3:15 AM | Comments (0)

Hillary In '08: What Do You Think (Satire - The Onion)

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Hilarious. My favorite is:

"The last thing America needs is a radical liberal who supports the war and the death penalty while opposing flag-burning and gay marriage."

Posted by Barzelay at 2:06 AM | Comments (0)

January 21, 2007

Reminding Liberals Why Hillary Clinton Is A Horrible Candidate

Mini Link: Reminding Liberals Why Hillary Clinton Is A Horrible Candidate

I really, really dislike Hillary Clinton, and I can't understand why there are still some of my liberal friends who don't. She isn't Bill. And yeah, she's female, but she completely lacks integrity and would turn on feminine causes in a second if she thought it would get her elected. Bob Harris reminds us of some of the ways in which she has betrayed her supporters and generally been a poor player:

In the wake of 9-11, it wasn't just George W. Bush telling the world "every nation has to be either with us or against us." It was Hillary, as you can hear for yourself.
In October 2002, during the debate about giving Bush authorization to invade Iraq, it wasn't just Dick Cheney telling the world in that Saddam Hussein had links to Al-Qaeda. It was Hillary, from the floor of Congress.

And in February 2005, it wasn't just John McCain claiming that democracy was taking root in Iraq, and that the insurgency was in its last throes. It was Hillary, standing right at John McCain's side.

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January 20, 2007

Nerd Art

Mini Link: Nerd Art

Ever wanted to see an artist's rendition of the Konami code? Your Gmail login screen in watercolor? Android Star Trek characters on canvas? This is your place.

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Sundance Film Festival Makes All Of Its Shorts Available As Free Downloads

Mini Link: Sundance Film Festival Makes All Of Its Shorts Available As Free Downloads

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January 19, 2007

New Archie Graphic Novel Explores Rich Inner Life Of Jughead (Satire - The Onion)

Mini Link: New Archie Graphic Novel Explores Rich Inner Life Of Jughead (Satire - The Onion)

"Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. released a new Archie Comics graphic novel Tuesday, Heavy Is The Head That Wears The Crown, an examination of the complex inner workings of longtime Archie compatriot Forsythe 'Jughead' Jones."

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New Millenium Red Scare

Mini Link: New Millenium Red Scare

China shot down a satellite using a medium-range ballistic missile. It was one of its own satellites, and it was just for testing purposes, but it's been twenty years or so since we did that. Cue dramatic armaggedon music?

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January 17, 2007

John Updike,Television Writer (Satire - McSweeney's)

Mini Link: John Updike,Television Writer (Satire - McSweeney's)

"He makes love to her against a tree; his loins, too, seem armored with bark."
...
"He eventually stops in rural Pennsylvania, where he hires a prostitute. The hooker's indifferent tenderness reminds him of his mother."

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The iPhone: A User's Guide (Satire - McSweeney's)

Mini Link: The iPhone: A User's Guide (Satire - McSweeney's)

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Prickie: Online Store for Unique, Hip, Artistic Buttons

Mini Link: Prickie: Online Store for Unique, Hip, Artistic Buttons

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January 16, 2007

Worst Choice Of Phrase Ever

Mini Link: Worst Choice Of Phrase Ever

A Dad is writing in because he wants to take his little girl to an ice cream parlor, but doesn't know any good local ones. He says the following utterly amazing thing:

"I love the idea of my daughter getting a chocolate sauce facial..."

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January 15, 2007

Scott Adams (Dilbert's Creator) Answers Reader Questions

Mini Link: Scott Adams (Dilbert's Creator) Answers Reader Questions

The rest of the post is pretty boring, but his answer to this question pretty well matches my own brand of cynical optimism:

You're supposedly cynical and positive. Explain how those two traits don't conflict.
A. I expect that other people have ulterior motives, yet I always assume I’ll come out okay despite those other people.

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France Proposed A Merger With England In The 50's!

Mini Link: France Proposed A Merger With England In The 50's!

The French Prime Minister Guy Mollet even suggested that France would accept the sovereignty of England's monarchy. How ridiculously weird!

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