you must admit the (intentional?) irony in placing this article right after the Seagate millionth hard-drive article

that ice cream ad reminded of this one I snapped in Australia

http://www.flickr.com/photos/octalkhan/2112761622/

it's the internet equivalent of a Rorschach Test

HEROIN: IT'S JUST A FLOWER

a book for kids

sounds like Ron Burgundy...

Ron Burgundy: I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.

Veronica Corningstone: I will have you know that I have more talent and more intelligence in my little finger than you do in your entire body, sir.

Ron Burgundy: You are a smelly pirate hooker.

tragic, bt th vl f hr wrks jst wnt p

uh, I think they are being dragged on leashes...not quite as adorable as free will

I wonder how "happy" the neighbors are about that front yard...

A. (The moderator speaks solo: "In order for the Boingers to be unduly influenced by who advertises on their site, they'd first have to reliably remember who those advertisers are. Trust me: this is not an issue.")

Hahahahah!

dad used to punish him with a tattoo gun between beatings

a little lower...lower...

TEH BOXERZ AND BLAK SOX IZ HAWT

The Power of Dreams!

THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!

I think I saw this guy in Odaiba one time...photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/octalkhan/265195437/

Jack L. Chalker postulated a very similar hypotheses back in 1977 in his Well World books.

Edited from WP:
"The Well World is a computer roughly the size of Earth with a crust of normal rock, water and air over the surface making it resemble a normal planet. The computer is responsible for "simulating" an entire new universe superimposed over the old Markovian one. The Well World was constructed by an ancient alien species known as the Markovians who predated the existence of the current Universe. They were the first and only intelligent species to arise in the original universe and developed immense levels of technology that allowed them to manipulate reality on a basic level. They constructed layers of machinery miles beneath the surfaces of their colony worlds that responded to telepathic commands...but eventually the Markovians developed a sense of ennui and incompleteness that they were unable to fully understand, let alone develop a solution for. The Well World was eventually constructed as a means of trying to overcome whatever flaw in themselves was stopping them. The surface is divided up into 1560 large hexagonal regions (780 per hemisphere) each with an independent and often dramatically different climate, native to a new species of intelligent life that the Markovians designed, and a maximum tech level enforced by the Well computer (called the Well of Souls); devices above the allowed tech level simply fail to function in low-tech hexes."

yeah that's exactly what I tried to tell the cops last time too, but it didn't work out so much...

man, look at his pupils they are huge, even with the flash going off in his face!...I think Beelzebub there is on large quantities of LSD, X, or both :)

"Finn Family Moomintroll" by Tove Jannsen, is a series of childrens books I read as a child in the 70s, although I think they are much older than that. Wonderful stuff, dark and fun and very different from most childrens books. Highly recommended.

That was the most erotic description of a breakfast I think I've read.

isnt that Gibby?

Sounds a little like the author is riffing on Niven's Smoke Ring from the Integral Trees, one of *my* favorite worlds and stories. Here's a great scan of the book's wonderful cover art by Michael Whelan:

http://www.angelswithcellphones.com/IntegralTrees.jpg

wow...much as I enjoyed Portal (and I finished it in abotu 2hrs as well), it felt like a concept test more than a fully fleshed out game. Predictable and the last level was relatively easy IMHO. While the voice and audio design was awesome, I couldn't walk away without feeling like it just wasn't "done" somehow. Awesome conceptually though, playing HL2:Ep2 now to get to the Aperture/Combine tie-in I keep hearing about.

I've had love in miso soup...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/octalkhan/267151675/

JUST TAKE IT AND LEAVE ME ALONE!

lol

sure Xeni, just seemd ironic when you first posted it as "...who shall remain anonymous." Anyway anonymity and privacy are both kind of a myth these days.

kind of funny he's trying to remain anonymous with such a distinctive tattoo.

this is actually a lot more effective if you play Rammstein's "Keine Lust" in the background

I swear to god, for a couple of seconds I though the headline read:

"68-year-old man jailed for paying toll with kittens"

and I thought, oh yeah, well some people, you just never know, etc etc....

ironically it's actually from 1998

Octal Khan here, glad you liked it. I've actually got three amazing portfolio's of high-quality lithographs of Mead's, done for General Motors in the 60's and 70's which is chock-full of this kind of stuff. Ill try and scan and upload some of them. He was actually quite accurate in some cases.

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