For rent: charming 3 bed/1 bath townhouse in Wellington, NZ.  Includes patio, wardrobes, oven, washing machine, and a pervert under the bed.

HT: It's Lovely! I'll Take It!.

Extra-wide contact lenses for that "big-eyed anime look".  Freeeeaky.

Megan McArdle recalls her life of crime, as an underage drinker in Pennsylvania . . . in 1992.  She was caught by state liquor agents, fined, forced to attend alcohol-education classes, and promised never to drink underage again.  According to the Liquor Control Board, that should have been the end of the matter:

Alas, they never told the ( Read more... )

In post-Soviet Russia, procreation harasses you:

A Russian advertising executive who sued her boss for sexual harassment lost her case after a judge ruled that employers were obliged to make passes at female staff to ensure the survival of the human race ( Read more... )

The restaurant critic for The Times UK expresses his displeasure at having his copy edited indiscriminately and with blatant disregard for grammar, diction or style:

Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When ( Read more... )

Try erasing this visual from your mind:

What do you think about when you meditate?

Usually, some form of trying to excavate any kind of negative thing cycling in the mind and turn it toward the positive. For example, when I am annoyed with Dick Cheney, I meditate on how Dick Cheney was my mother in a previous life and nursed me at his breast.
From ( Read more... )

Denuded children's toys reveal often disturbing electro-mechanical skeletons.  Creepiest site I've seen in a while.  HT: Jesse Walker.

Happy capitalist completely loses his shit:

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Follow-up video here, which seems to indicate this originated in Russia (but if you recognize the language, please confirm or correct).  You've got to love the fact that at least two guys are keeping their distance from Comrade Psychonov, while recording the mayhem on their mobile phones.

It appears we libertarians have a new aspect of sexual freedom to defend: mechaphilia.

A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his "romantic" feelings towards vehicles ( Read more... )

Tyler Cowen, currently traveling in Japan, passes on this page of unusual business card designs.  Kevin Mitnick's is pretty awesome, but some of them seem way more gimmicky than useful.

Have you seen the video of Bill O'Reilly completely losing his shit during a taping of Inside Edition (these videos are NSFW)?  It gets even better remixed.  But ( Read more... )