fnord

Anyone who gets this without googling wins significant respect. Or at least less disrespect.

look on my works, ye mighty, and despair

The Long Now Foundation (http://www.longnow.org/) seems like an interesting project: it’s intention is to promote long-term thinking in the context of the next 10,000 years. To that end it has various projects underway – my favourite is a…

grim future

do chernobyl victims dream of radioactive sheep?

Lachie points out this rather epic list of completely weird gadgets.  I particularly like Seymour, the Goggle-Wearing Radioactive Sheep:

cat-related news roundup

Thanks to Sam, our roving feline news correspondent and long-suffering cat owner/victim:

1. Bush family cat dies (possibly of shame); Bush’s nickname for cat is “Kitty”.
2. Cats commence takeover of worldwide news media with German putsch; weatherman demonstrates excellent comprehension

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animated fish coming out of the street

My friend Sam forwarded me this amazing video of… well, I don’t know what it is.  It appears to be some kind of interactive animated light display which is mapped precisely over the physical surfaces it is projected…

i’ve made a huge mistake

This is just awesome – we may not be all that far off being able to clone an actual wooly mammoth. Occasionally, despite our major effort to annihilate ourselves and the planet, humans do…

in soviet russia

…water boils you! : link. Featuring headline of the week, and quote of the week from “an official at the Military Medical Academy hospital in St Petersburg”:

She parked her car, left it, and immediately found herself

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the thrill of legal proceedings

This is not a great look: link, judgment.  The High Court in Cesan v The Queen; Mas Rivadavia v The Queen [2008] HCA 52 has overturned two criminal convictions on the basis that the trial judge…

clean slate

Well, clearly I got sick of actually writing anything here with any regularity. Apart from anything else, there are 50 trillion blogs out there, all of which are written by people who want people to read theirs rather than wanting…

when mr bigglesworth gets angry…

LE points to this article about the amazing death-predicting cat, a story which has also come to our attention around these parts.  We have a more rational explanation than some supernatural feline power to…

islamofascists want to blow up your cat

…at least that seems to be the case according to “Let’s Get Ready Sydney“, a disturbingly Cold War-esque (and red, really, really red) website about planning for an ‘emergency’ that might cause you to leave your home in…

maximising your personal potentiality

Simon points to this article over at The Age, which walks the fine line between unreadable madness and compelling stream-of-consciousness genius and is probably a fairly hilarious discourse on… well, something:

Well, that wake up call is here.

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coulrophobia junior

In case there was any doubt left that marketing is the applied practice of pure evil, McDonalds have confirmed it with this terrifying baby-clown-monster advertisment:

At last, you can combine your fear of clowns, your distaste for…

best headline ever?

Also takes the prize for weirdest criminal behaviour ever:

link.