September 30th, 2009

Pretty pleased I got to use the phrase “freakish, Cronenbergian metamorphosis” in a comic. Questionable Content: New comics every Monday through Friday  

Retractable sexual organ on forehead…check. Another Species With Forehead Genitals | Deep Sea News  

September 29th, 2009

Other advice was that you should never use netspeak (ur, u, wat, wont, and so on), and that it’s better to be a vegetarian zombie rather than go to grad school for literature. Calamities of Nature - Blog Archive: Everyone Loves an Atheist and Paleoanthropology Discussion  

September 28th, 2009

Putting a four page PDF on a DVD-R is like mailing a marble in a refrigerator box. Twitter / Rob LeFebvre  

September 27th, 2009

If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers. Jedi ejected from Tesco for wearing hood - Telegraph  

September 26th, 2009

These and other pinko motivations would secure a permanent federal handout for Yogi Bear and his picnic-basket-redistributing comrades. Ken Burns and Big Government - TIME  

September 25th, 2009

If I had time to sit around and get licked for half an hour, I’d have cured cancer or knitted a pool cover by now. Stuff My Girlfriend Says - She’s not really a big fan of foreplay  

And if I were a ridiculous researcher, I’d say, ‘A dead salmon perceiving humans can tell their emotional state.’ Scanning Dead Salmon in fMRI Machine Highlights Risk of Red Herrings | Wired Science | Wired.com  

September 24th, 2009

Too bad he couldn’t use his Jedi mind powers with the anti-healthcare reform bigots. Galactic Truth Surfaces as President Obama Finally Reveals Himself as Jedi Master - President obama - Gizmodo  

It has a nice sound to it. It could become a phrase that people could use. “Keep Fucking That Chicken” Double Standard? - Gothamist  

We have always been at war with the one-second glimpse of Janet Jackson’s nipple. The US Government’s bizarre obsession with Janet Jackson’s nipple - Boing Boing  

September 23rd, 2009

I want to hear people of all political stripes address the topic of how we practice democracy when everyone assumes everyone else is acting in bad faith. When Mom & Dad are fighting « Snarkmarket  

Yes, and what better way to unite us as Americans than to rail against the president, voted in by more than half the voters in this country, as a terrorist-loving illegal alien communist fascist out to destroy liberty, kill grandma and eat Sarah Palin’s baby. Dumbass Quote of the Day : Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

September 22nd, 2009

I want banks to compete openly, with simple annual fees, clear interest rates, and services with plainly advertised up-front costs. Overdraft Hell Revisited | Mother Jones  

A guy I know once said: “People who teach can’t do anything else.” So I hit him with a chair. Scholars and Rogues » Why do we teach? No, really. Why?