Okay, I'm trying to figure this out...where in the heck is this sign from? It *looks* like it's from a Spanish speaking country, but if that's the case, they're either advertising "Strawberry Rabbit" (fresa = strawberry), or someone meant to put "fresco" (fresh). I find the language more perplexing than the image...

Bing Boing, eh? :)

For those of you who are put off by the bottle that is ribbed for your pleasure, or the name, just know you this: Bawls tastes a HELL of a lot better than Red Bull (dyech!), and it comes in sugar free that doesn't taste horrible. These are all big plusses if you're a "sit in front of the computer until 2 am trying to get that +1 sword" kind of person. Not that I am or anything...

Okay, next would someone please make a grown-up sized Big Wheel? I was deprived of both pedal cars and big wheels as a child because I was Baby Huey (a very large child, in other words). I feel I need to make up for lost time...

I would stand up if someone poured water on me, too.

Here's hoping it doesn't grow thumbs when some other common liquid is poured on it. Pepsi, maybe?

Dogs are bastards? You mean, I've been snuggling with a bastard all this time? Damn...had no idea...

Of course people feel relaxed after playing. First off, if you enjoy playing games of this type, you're going to relax because it's something you enjoy. Secondly, it's an outlet - you can channel all of your irritation and frustration of the day into your hunt for orcs or goblins or whatever.

I play violent videogames ALL THE TIME, and not once have I ever walked out of my house and hacked someone up with a sword. I mean, playing Saints Row has not turned me into a gang member. Playing Gears of War has not caused me to walk out the door and shoot aliens. And, darnit, playing Fable has not made me into a magic-weilding hero. But playing any of them certainly makes me happy, helps me relax, and is enjoyable.

Women are not the only creators of life. There are other species who can change their sex and give birth with no insemination from a member of the opposite sex of their species.

Also, Happy April Fool's Day :)

Anyone running NEOPLANET ONLINE today? :)

this pool is seriously not big enough - everyone start defacing money and uploading your scans to Flickr!

I dunno...Laurier looks much more Romulan than Vulcan to me.

Joey: Okay, buddy-boy. Here it is: You hide my clothes, I'm wearing everything you own.

Chandler: Oh my God! That is so not the opposite of taking somebody's underwear!

Joey: Look at me--I'm Chandler! Could I be wearing any more clothes? Maybe if I wasn't going commando!

I don't think infrared would give you the same effect as looking through purple tinted lenses. It would probably do *something*, but looking at things in a certain light would likely have a different effect than looking at the same items through lenses of the same shade.

I can't help but think this is just the same as goth kids getting spit on and beaten up when I was in high school...except it's more organized.

Too bad people don't see that targetted violence against any group is only going to end with more violence. Way of the human world, I guess, which is really unfortunate. There are crappy people everywhere.

HOT DOG! WHOA! I remember these...!

When I was a kid, in 1st and 2nd grade, I think, if we were good all week, on Fridays we got to watch a HOT DOG movie. AND, if we had been EXTRA good, the teacher would treat us to watching it backwards after we finished watching it (which was usually hilarious because almost all HOT DOG movies involved manufacturing and/or people eating things, both of which are very funny in reverse to kids of grade school age).

I agree with Bonegnawer - *being* a pedophile is one thing...choosing to molest a child is another. I don't care what turns a person on, but if it involves non-consensual abuse of another human being it is wrong.

so, no girls on this race, eh?

Do you mean to tell me the one at the Wax Works Wax Museum in Newport Oregon in the DB Cooper display isn't the REAL one? Ugh! I'm so disappointed.

(Sorry, had to make SOME comment...everyone else already stole my "you mean it MAY have been found" come-uppance comment...!)

oh hai, I is surprise prosthetic sphincter LOL

okay, that was in poor taste.

the poor woman!

this is brilliant...I love it. The mediocre drums and keyboard are just too much...ha!

If crows ever evolve thumbs, mankind is FUCKED.

Does anyone else smell a Fair Housing lawsuit on the horizon?

those are pretty cool...what patience it must have taken to create them. If it were me doing it, there would probably just be a pile of dots in a corner because I would have likely thrown them across the room.

Are they really "paintings", though? Should we call them "dottings"? :P

I just gotta say that aside from the microwave, there was also the amazing invention - the toaster oven - that pretty much is used for "tabletop broiling" and that sort of thing. And, imo, a toaster oven sure makes tastier food than a microwave does. ;) Of course, you have to wait 4 hours....

These are incredible. I can't imagine how long it must take her to build each set. I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time with assorted dollhouses and stuff I've collected over the years...but, wow, this puts my ideas to SHAME!

@#7 - I think you might be missing the point of the whole thing. "Photchops" does not look better.

@#9:

ROFL...excellent reference.

And yet again, we learn at the knee of Ronnie James Dio. Ah, Dio, what have you for us next?

Also, I thought the best protection against evil eyes was lots of +magic resistance gear...?

@Hunty - okay, I'll give you that ;)

@santa's knee:

not everyone in the "sex worker" industry is a prostitute. That term is all-encompassing and includes dancers, strippers, prostitutes, and can even include people who work at adult book stores (behind the counter, not "freelance", I mean).

So, no, it's not the "PC term" for "whore". It's a way of generalizing a lot of aspects of the industry into one group.

this is beautiful and I want it painted on the side of my barn!

I'm going to stare at it for a loooong time to get that rat king image outta my head.

all I can say is --- BARF!

And I've had rats as pets...but still...even if this is a hoax, it's a disgusting idea and now I'm going to have nightmares. THANKS!

bluh...

@#17 -

I'm sure you've never ever changed any opinion of yours over the course of time, huh?

54 posted by ZippySpincycle , February 6, 2008 5:48 AM
Uhhh...Smurfs?

No effing way...it's those rotten SNORKS.

wow - not only does this look like an incredibly great documentary, but it's not 100% WOW-centric, and I have to say that I'm really happy about that. Some MMORPGs get lost in all the WOW hype.

And to Pork Musket - there *are* other ways to win...but it takes a lot of work to balance a real life and a pixelated one. A lot of times for me, the pixelated life wins, much to the dismay of the housework fairy.

way to waste taxpayer money, Mississippi. Do we really need our elected officials coming up with ideas for bills to knock around "to make a statement"?

And I'd like to give a fellow Oregonian shout out to frankstendal.

I'm only doing it if Dr. Orpheus, Brock Sampson and The Alchemist are there with me.

holy cow!

I work with a woman who had chronic childhood eczema, and she grew up wearing something like this - except she called it a "cotton stocking for my whole body".

As a constantly itchy and allergic person, I want to say YAY for the relief these pajamas might bring, but I can't foresee myself actually wearing them. I think I would feel too ridiculous, and probably not very comfortable.

I am reminded of this ridiculousness:

http://www.designtoscano.com/product/home+accents/lighting/exotic+and+novelty+lighting/mademoiselle+haute+couture+floor+lamp+-+yb5020.do

I wish I had something witty to add here, but I must admit that I am shamelessly just going to say:

ROFLMAO

The line about "how his hands are unapologetically screwed onto the roof" nearly made me pee my pants right here in my cubicle.

omg I shot that guy in Halo last night...!

all right!

I can't wait to be 70! Bye bye depression....in only...another...thirty...five...years...of...this hell...

aw, crap.

darnit, everyone else beat me to the know-it-all punch...I was just coming here to post all about the fact that green eggs are not a big deal...Aracuna and Americuna chickens lay them all the time.

Now, show me a chicken who lays eggs with green YOLKS (as the green eggs of Seussian fame had), and I promise I won't post any snarky comments about it.

For realsies!

I only want one of the condos if it has a back door to Conger Road.

Oh wait...maybe I don't.

Darnit, License Farm, you stole my joke. Oh well, I'm saying it anyway:

If I bring my Italian friend, can he climb ladders and dodge barrels to get at it?

ROFLMAO...I wish I personally knew Brendon Small so I could ask him to sync this track up to Doctor Rockso!

"Room Service, how can I help you?"

"Uh, yes, I thought I ordered a HIGHBALL..."

"Excuse me, sir?"

I agree with POOPDOG (#4) - there HAS to be more to the story than what's here.

At least, I really, really HOPE there is more to the story.

And on a totally unrelated note, I just have to say: "POOPDOG! THE GANGSTER SPECTRE OF DEFEAT!"

easy explanation: it's the son of the son of the blob.

Grandson of the Blob!

Where is 'V' when you need him, eh?

I can't wait to see Dethklok have clothing made out of this.

omg is that a pile of onions on top? yeeeeeeeuuuuuuuck! Monster stomach cramps is more like it.

Well, for those of us who can't eat onions anyway. The rest of you stinkbreaths can have at it!

Joe Leiberman is a republican in a whiny sheep's clothing.

Penn can talk about anything anytime and I'll watch. I don't care what the topic is. I am always open to his...uuuuhhhh...opinion. Yeah, that's what I meant to say.

omg I NEEEEED one of these...this makes my sledgehammer look like a Barbie accessory.

wow - who knew that Koko was such a perv?

In the words of the great David Cross:

"You know what? *I* hate our freedom!"

This crap has got to end at some point. I seriously do not understand the mentality of the people who make the decisions whether or not someone is a threat.

I live near a MEDIUM SECURITY Federal prison. A couple of years ago, members of a group of people that were trying to join Al Qaeda, who confessed to their terrorist links, were housed at the prison, again, remember - it's only a medium-security facility. And yet we have SUSPECTS lodged in places like Guantanamo Bay?

Riddle me this, Batman - why do we lodge the real, actual terrorists in medium security prisons, and we house suspects in a horrible place off-shore that no one really seems to supervise?

Clearly, Bjork was a threat to national security, there...I hope they give those TSA agents medals...not!

Poor little guy - I can't help but think he may be happier running wild, even if it means a shorter life span, than stuck in an institution.

Reminds me of the story of Oxana Malaya.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/17/ftdog17.xml

Keeper of the Lantern is actually GAZOO!

"Gazoo often appears before Fred and Barney in random, often inopportune moments. He refers to Fred and Barney as 'dum-dums' and constantly causes problems for them."

The MPAA is full of crap. They have no real set of guidelines for how they rate stuff - it's all whim and whimsy. It's crap. Or "crrrrap" if you're Scottish. Either way, smells like dook.

Here's the deal:

I don't think colloidal silver is a "quack" remedy. It was used for a long time before modern anti-biotics were around, and it does have its uses.

However, no one should be taking ANY antibiotic on a daily basis. I mean, come on, would you take penicillin every day for 30 years?

I have a friend who swears by colloidal silver for sinus infections. She uses it whenever she has an infection and ONLY when she has an infection, and she's never turned any shade of blue, no matter how slight.

I feel for this man, but I must wonder why he felt he needed antibiotics every single day. I saw the news report and he said he still takes it, though not as often. /boggle.

I believe that the main reason it works (sunlight + acne medication) is the same reason that Oxy 10 will bleach your towels...it's the bleaching capability of the peroxide.

Same idea behind "Sun-In" hair-lightening spray!

Crap! I was planning on hosting the Annual Note-Takers and Container Abandoners Conference in Chicago this year. Looks like we'll have to find another venue...

"#11 posted by Matt Sanderson , December 19, 2007 10:13 AM

God forbid that someone in government have religious beliefs."

Yeah, the problem is not him merely having religious beliefs. If you're not terrified of someone like him leading our country, you're not paying attention.

I can say, based on what I know of this dude, that it's 100% on purpose. But his camp will probably deny it. Huckabee is, after all, one of the few candidates who openly states that he does not believe in evolution...why not include a cross in his ad? I doubt very seriously that he would want votes from non-Christians at all anyway. And if he keeps up with stuff like this, perhaps he'll get his wish.

He's blind as hell, and he's not going to take it anymore!

ROFLMAO omg I nearly spit coffee all over my keyboard. How would I explain THAT to my IT department?

perhaps with the absence of his glasses, he was unable to determine that he was, in fact, driving a car, and not playing GTA.

very cool - and a clever way to deal with someone stealing your image. What a dingus to just leave the images linked.

I love the original site - there's not too much there, but it sure looks cool when you scroll down. Good for someone doing unusual design. It reminds me of those "how to break into design" books that tell you to send a packet full of amazing stuff you've designed with barely any contact information so the company you're courting has to do some work to find you...it makes you seem much more important, and possibly even so famous that you don't really *want* that contact.

Next, please design something that I can slap on all those rackin' frackin' praying and/or urinating Calvin stickers, will you please?

maybe it was the medieval equivalent of a single woman wearing a wedding ring to keep men at bay? Like "Oh, she already has a man...I better keep trolling..."

This appears to be a distant cousin of the WACKY WALL WALKER. Those, too, had a stickiness to their...erm...skin, I suppose is what you would call it. Washing them with dishwashing soap and warm water would remove any fuzzes and other bits of crap that would stick to them, and then air-drying brought the stickiness back. Which meant you could slap that thing on the wall and watch it walk down again and again and again. I wish I still had mine. I loved that thing!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_WallWalker

She's not a very good wiccan if she's threatening people with curses. Central to the wiccan code is "do what thou wilt, but harm none" (very much like "treat others as you wish to be treated", which a lot of Christians seem to forget as well).

All I want to know is: Will Johnny Depp play the White Rabbit, or the Mad Hatter?

"but if the presence of this energy means the lifespan of the universe is shorter than we previously thought, us grocking it or ignoring it doesn't change the outcome.

unless us knowing about it allows bruce willis to save us that is."

Ooooh - I hope it comes down to that. If any meat popsicle has to save us, I hope it's Bruce Willis. I know there's a writer's strike going on, so perhaps we should all pitch in and start coming up with some clever one-liners for him now.

"Take that, dark matter!" How's that?

Bhorst, you are my hero. THANK YOU!

"Imagine what eating a bowl of glitter must taste like. According to Wikipedia, it's made of paper, glass, or plastic. Forcing a unicorn to choke down an entire bowl of painted paper, glass, or plastic seems cruel. Even with the milk added, the best-case scenario is a gluey paper mush."

You never know, though...I mean, my llamas eat blackberry vines, and I would think they would tear their mouths up (like Cap'n Crunch does to humans), but they actually LOVE eating them. Perhaps unicorns have some sort of built in mechanism to allow them to enjoy glitter.

Or, wait, I've got it. Unicorns have gizzards, like chickens, except instead of gravel, they use glitter to grind up their food...

""Eh! I nice well thought out reason but invalid. I have to disagree with the editor."

If you haven't seen the idea, then how can it be plagiarism? I was always under the impression there had to be intent to be called stealing. Though it'd be hard to prove, I suppose."

Very hard to prove - especially since the human brain is a pretty amazing computer. Someone can easily see something and store it away in the recesses of their mind, and never recall actually having seen it. I have a very hard time believing that this might *not* be plagirism, even if it's inadvertant.

Todd Goldman, for example, could argue that he had never seen the works of all the various artists whose original creations his work seems to mimic almost exactly...but I'm willing to bet that he has.

I would hope that the artist of the recent comic would at the very least put into writing that he didn't mean to appear to have maybe possibly used an idea that he saw elsewhere.

Any chance you can provide a link to the Flashlight Museum? I can't seem to find the link from Dan's page...and, well, I'm supposed to be working so I don't have a lot of time to dedicate to searching for it. :)

if anyone knows of a freeware alternative for the "make powerpoint into flash" utility, please post it. I'm a tad leary of purchasing it when they can't spell the name of the software correctly - this is quoted directly from the download/purchase site for it:

'This holiday, gift authorPOINT at the best discount ever.

Perfect holiday gift - $299 $49 only


or Try auothorPOINT'

Oooh - I can't wait to purchase AUOTHORPOINT! It'll go great with my SORNY speakers and my POWOOWORPOINT program.

It's awesome how all these organisms cohabitate in compost and do their jobs.

And now I have one more reason to buy more garden gloves. Yeeeeuccccch!

Don't users have to sign up for this service to be added to their FaceBook page? I can see where MoveOn would have a valid point if FaceBook forced users to have Beacon enabled without giving them a choice, but from what I can see on the Beacon info page, it's a module you have to ADD to your page. If that's the case, shouldn't MoveOn maybe focus on educating its members to not do something stupid like violating their own privacy by signing up for it?

Sorry, but it's not FaceBook's problem if it's something you have to physically activate or sign up for...the problem belongs to the users who decide to share that information with their 'friends' online. Seems to me like the United States is continually moving further and further away from personal responsibility...and that's just sad.

Unless I'm totally missing something here...?

#7 posted by Binaryloop , November 12, 2007 10:59 AM
I love these made up 'syndromes' that people come up with. There has to be some pharma think tank sitting around asking themselves: "So, what *other* human oddities can we make up names and sell cures for?"

_________________________

Dude, don't be an ass. It's a very REAL condition that affects the lives of many people. Seriously, knock it off.

posted by morley , November 9, 2007 3:40 PM
maybe it's just a unisex bathroom and the urinals are half-way up the wall.

ROFLMAO.

Personally, I don't want men PEAKING *or* PEEKING into the stall when I'm in there, TYVM.

I wish I could read what the Korean text says...I can only imagine:

Women - you may use this restroom, however, we have supplied men with mechanisms with which to watch you do so. Namely, we have installed ladders on the outsides of each of the stalls.

w00t! Finally I have an easy way to off that bunched up old biddy Maude Flanders.

woohoo! finally a reason to eat more cheetos.

I'm not so sure how I feel about installing a 'pooh' faucet in my house. I greatly prefer to get water out of a faucet...

It *is* a beautiful place to hike. And the huge, round, flat rocks at the bottom of the falls soak up the sun and make a nice place to rest...until you have to hike back up, that is. ;)

All I have to say is AAAAAAAH! I've been waiting for this series to come out on DVD for like a million years, and of course it has to become available when I'm broke.

I wonder what I can sell...I must own this!!!

Honestly, shouldn't Best Buy 'take it up with the manufacturer'?

I'm beginning to think that the word 'Best' ought to be replaced with the word 'Crappiest'. It used to be that BB was a good alternative to a lot of the other 'big box' stores. But I'm beginning to think that once a place gets to the point where they're really raking in the dough, they begin to forget about what got them there in the first place - customer service. There are a million places a consumer can buy a hard drive. People choose places like Best Buy because they've heard good things from their friends, or they believe that a large retailer is less likely to 'screw them over' than the shifty computer dude with the hole in the wall down the street.

I think next time I need a hard drive, I'll just pound some rocks together to make one myself. Seems like I'll likely get a better result that way. Sheesh!

WHAT?

Okay, there has to be more to this story.

I'm beginning to really dislike Best Buy...grrr.

Wait...I know...let's give everyone a Wii. ;) It sure gets me off the couch, and I'm a big fat gamer adult.

This really should have been about hedgehogs so I could have made a Ron Jeremy joke.

ROFL Yamara...omg that's hilarious.

Seriously, though, High Fructose Corn Syrup *is* a major contributor to childhood obesity, diabetes, and has been connected with cirrhosis of the liver in tests.

This needs to be tackled from several angles, but it's going to be tough to make changes in America that are needed. Just some of them, as I see it, are:

1) Corn production for sweeteners needs to be less advantageous for farmers. Maybe we could switch to using overabundant corn for bio-deisel instead.

2) Physical Education in schools needs to be FUN and needs to accommodate a range of physical abilities. Kids who are not naturally athletic hate PE and don't get much out of it. If, on a national level, the focus shifted from getting kids to play games within a rigid ruleset that rewards kids with more natural athleticism to just getting kids moving and having fun, you'd see more kids participating in physical activities.

3) Americans need to realize that we all come in different shapes and sizes. It feels hopeless to a fat teenager. S/he will probably never lose enough weight to look like a model or TV star, so why even try? We put so much value on physical beauty in this country...it's going to take a LONG time for that value to be applied to physical HEALTH instead.

And, of course, there are a million other factors. But seriously...we need national changes in diet, movement, and attitude before even a dent can be made in this issue.

omg I cannot stop looking at this. You guys really need to post something cute and cuddly (and I'm not talking about a squirrel with spider legs) to counteract this. Thanks for the nightmares!

Wow...Mary Queen of Scots was the original Goth Chick. Who knew?

My inner map nerd is freaking out.

Great - yet another way that thin and beautiful people are holding back us average looking fatties. That's it; I'm making me a sash that says "Miss Sys Admin 2007" and see if it'll get me through security...someplace...

This really belongs in the National Lampoon's Big Book of True Facts. Freaking BRILLIANT. Well, you know, not the pregnant woman featured...clearly she's not brilliant. I just mean the juxtaposition of the...oh, forget it, I can't be philosophical this morning without more coffee. What I mean to say is - it's funny.

http://www.truefacts.com/

I LOVED LOGO! In 6th grade, my school got its very first Apple IIe computers. We had a choice when we had our "computer time" - we could play with LOGO or we could play Lemonade Stand....*yawn*!

I was terrible at Lemonade Stand...even as a kid I didn't have it in me to be a capitalist, I guess, so I would spend my hour making that little triangular turtle do all sorts of things. That got me started in computers. That Christmas, my grandmother got me an Aquarius home computer (the poor kid's version of a Commodore), and I started programming in BASIC. I still miss doing it and every once in a while I'll find a BASIC emulator online and write myself some little programs.

Ah, good times...good times...

omg just thinking about this is making me drool. I can't even begin to imagine the various tasty liquids I could infuse into stuff...nummers.

So THAT'S what happens when I randomly drop my keys or toss a pen across the room while talking. Finally I have an excuse beyond being a clumsy numbskull!

"#17 posted by Cpt. Tim , October 8, 2007 2:26 PM:
you mean like simply cutting the face out entirely?

face it, this was a freebie, if it happens again it will be because a criminal didn't see this story at ALL, not because he didn't know about their de-swirling techniques."

Oh no, I totally agree with you. If he actually thought that being swirled would protect him from getting caught, he's an idiot. Well, clearly he's an idiot to begin with.

I think that the cops are just hoping that other pedophiles will be just as stupid, and they're worried that by pointing out how dumb this is, they'll do something "smarter" to obscure their identities. But honestly, if they're this stupid to begin with, how genius could any of their new ideas be?

Though it's not a huge secret how to untwirl a photo like this...there are valid reasons for not shouting from the moutaintops how they did it. Here's a snippet from the news story about this:

"Tipping criminals off to the techniques that police have at their disposal could also prompt them to better hide their identities."

Ah those great Bdritish philosophers...

I'm a pencil addict and my personal favorite is the Mirado Black Warrior, which you can pick up at any old office supply store. They're wonderful pencils. The lead is consistently soft but not *too* soft, and they have a satisfying heft and shape. Seriously...I don't care how marvelous anyone tells me another pencil is, I'll stick with my Mirado Black Warriors!!!

http://www.pencilrevolution.com/2006/05/review-of-papermate-mirado-black-warrior/

Your link, she is broken!

Current link is: http://http://haha.nu/index.php

I think you've got a couple too many http thingies in there. :)

I think that photo depicts two of my ex-boyfriends...

omg premature burination...ROFL.

Is it horrible of me to find the whole thing funny...?