Man-in-a-banana na na

From Crookedbrains: Japanese artist Keisuke Yamada transforms regular bananas into 3D sculptures. This 23-year-old electrician takes about half an hour using just a toothpick and spoon to create these amazing banana sculptures.  My guesses: 1) toothless Dick Cheney with an afro 2) Cthulhu, or maybe Davy Jones 3) Bruce Campbell

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It’s as if they’re trying to give Colbert material…

Colbert has been tweeting all sorts of non-factual statements about Kyl today. A sampling: Jon Kyl calls the underside of his Senate seat: “The Booger Graveyard.” #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement Jon Kyl sponsored S.410, which would ban happiness.#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement Jon Kyl has the world’s most extensive catalogue of snuff films.#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement Jon Kyl once ate a […]

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Historical tweets

Scott Johnson at Extralife imagines what might have happened if Twitter had always been around: I love this idea. I also love the fact that they’re all “tweeting” on whatever communication device might have been available at the time. It made me immediately start to imagine tweets that could have […]

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It’s…nice to have a diagnosis?

Some of these people are really annoyed at you Apparently I might have Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome.  According to the Wall Street Journal, Researchers say the concept of “sidewalk rage” is real. One scientist has even developed a Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome Scale to map out how people express their fury. At […]

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A big bowl of super

Oatmeal pretty well sums up my thoughts about football on this Super Bowl Sunday taking place in, of all places, Dallas: In short: Don’t give a damn.  Never have.  Have a very hard time, actually, understanding why people do. But I hope the people currently congregating by the hundreds of […]

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If…

…you don’t already read Hyperbole and a Half, what is wrong with you?  What are you doing here?  Just go.  Find a bit of hilarity there once or twice each month, or a whole lot at once if you decide, as I did, to go back and read all of […]

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In case of fire

Here’s an excerpt from the list of very detailed instructions about what to do in every kind of emergency posted on my door: Attention-drawing red ellipse added by me Most of these instructions make pretty good sense, but the “DO NOT JUMP!” in all-caps is a little boggling.  As mentioned […]

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