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{ Monthly Archives } May 2008

The Indignity of Ice Cream Licking

Leon Kass, head of President’s Council on Bioethics until 2005, feels public ice cream licking is disgusting and undignified. Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone–a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those [...]

Giant Mouse!

Gough Island in the South Atlantic is being overrun with giant carnivorous mice, evolved from regular house mice. Related posts No related posts.

Books: Rapture Ready!

It Shouldn’t work. A liberal Jewish journalist/humorist dives in to the alternative universe of Christian pop culture and returns with a book that is simultaneously smart, informative, jaw-dropping, funny, and fair. That doesn’t seem possible, does it? Well, Daniel Radosh has proved that it is with Rapture Ready. Clearly writing for the coastal, lefty crowd [...]

On the Hudson

Agitpop, Live. Some more from apparent reunion in 2007 here. Related posts No related posts.

Illicit Liquor (“Moonshine”)

This simple government statistic graph seems strange. Why the remarkable drop in illegal distilling? Well, in a general sense, because it’s become legal, of course. Imagine that, you legalize something pleasant, and the criminal activity drops…. Related posts No related posts.

Two Options

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D’Ump

div#main{overflow:visible;} Fake ad from “Tim and Eric Awesome Show Good Job”, which is pretty funny (not so into the music videos, but all episodes are free online if you wanna chime in with a more developed critique than my terse and uninformative summary). I like the MIDI organizer a lot too. via Kelly Related posts [...]

IT support from SuperGrover

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Brick Collecting

Seems folks will collect anything. Even bricks. This site specializes in tracking the bricks and brickmakers of the Hudson Valley. During the last Ice Age in the Hudson Valley area, blankets of ice weighing millions of tons crushed the rocks of many mountains into a spectacular deposit of flour-textured, rich blue clay. This came to [...]

Italian Political Poster

Creepy poster in Venice: Roughly: They haven’t been able to pass immigration laws; time to live on a reservation! Related posts No related posts.

God’s paws swap dogs

Falindromes are fake palindromes. Like the kind I usually end up with when I try to write a palindrome. Related posts No related posts.

Another nerdy image quiz

Correctly identify, if you dare, this creature. Related posts No related posts.