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
Read MoreIt’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 […]
Read MoreHistorical 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 […]
Read MoreIt’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 […]
Read MoreA 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 […]
Read MoreIn 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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