Laid off at work. Saw it coming, though. Just as well; my health hasn't been as stable as I thought it'd be, and it's not worth it to me or them to keep missing so much work (never mind that they barely have any work for my former department to do anymore). Oh well, onwards and upwards. Or sideways.

Two worthwhile links:

1. Pictures of an abandoned ( Read more... )

There's something to be said for a U.S. holiday meant to acknowledge the sacrifices of soldiers that is usually spent getting bargains at department stores. Oh wait, that's what we do with every holiday, isn't it ( Read more... )

For you geeky SoCal people, this weekend is the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's open house. It's worth going to if you like stuff like that. I've been a couple times. Kinda wanted to go this year, but couldn't remember if it was at the beginning or the end of May. Hoping for the latter, because now... ain't exactly the time. Ow. What a fun month April ( Read more... )

"Stop making movies about my books,"
says Dr. Seuss to all the Hollywood crooks.
Though the world may be rather icky,
This link is not, so make with the clicky.

Last week we were still having our "winter" as we like to call it here, then out of fucking nowhere, it's David Hasselhoff! the mercury jumped 15 degrees and the humidity plummeted to a lip-cracking, eye-parching, sinus-squeezing 30%, and oh GOD I feel like ass today. Bleah. Supposed to cool off again throughout the week, but, ugh. I need to jump ( Read more... )

A Really Big Show
Rather fascinating look at some of the biggest sporting events using wide-focus photography, causing things to look like surreal miniature dioramas.

Wonderfully, viciously snarky e-cards

The Large Hadron Collider just looks fucking awesome.

Illegal hamsters in Vietnam!

and, a real food fight:

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A collection of pop culture versions of da Vinci's "The Last Supper", with commentary on who's in the Jesus Christ pose and who's supposed to be Judy, er, I mean Judas. ("Can you lend me a fiver, Judy, I'm a bit short?")

My favorites are these two, because, you know, yum. Click 'em to get larger sizes.

House, M.D.

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I love stuff like this. Check out his site at Daily Monster. (via various places)

See also here. (NSFW but very nifty)

Now I must stalk the wild coffee. bleh.

Science is ON THE JOB.

Top 10 Ways to Destroy the Earth
I sorta like #6, #4 and certainly #3: "You will need: a big heavy rock, something with a bit of a swing to it... perhaps Mars."

See also (from the same author) How To Destroy the Earth:Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe ( Read more... )

Good shit on the Onion's AV Club today: An interview with John Cleese, and a list of the nerdiest pop-culture obsessions. I'm guilty of a few of them, yep, but... "game-show tape trading"??? WTF? Continuing the geekfest, their 18 particularly ridiculous prog-rock album covers article starts off with a revelation: so THAT'S where TankCat came from! ( Read more... )