Two Clowns Shot Dead At Circus

Safety of US Peanut Butter in Question

The Rat War is Upon Us

Los Angeles - Harrison Ford has threatened to quit the new Indiana Jones movie, unless he gets to use a real whip ( Read more... )

I have stolen this, added emphasis and all, from mj_12, who is quoting an article found here.

"Master Sgt. Robert Ellis, a senior medical adviser responsible for Hussein's care in Baghdad, praised the stoicism displayed by Hussein. “Saddam,” he said, “was gangsta.”

Sometimes I wonder if my life's purpose is to serve as a cautionary example to others.

In case you didn't know, the correct order is:

1) Move Christmas tree where you want it to go.
2) Fill water basin at base of tree.

Oh, well. At least I managed to use manly power tools without injuring myself.

I need to do these more often so the feeds don't get so backed up...

Soft cyborgs and quiet AI

This essay on the relationship between artificial intelligence and human cognition was reposted recently on kuro5hin. It's amazingly lucid and insightful, and if you only read one of the articles I link to in this post, make it this one.

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I have to thank bottlroktt for linking to Eugene Mirman's stuff on YouTube. Eugene went to Hampshire at the same time I did, and he ran this great absurdist humor collective thing. He was hysterical.

Anyway, I suppose after graduation he moved to New York and is apparently now busy being a successful comedian. Who knew?

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Stolen from BoingBoing


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I have shamelessly stolen this from aziraphale:

Tales of the Plush CthulhuHere is the question it raises for me: At what point, exactly, did Cthulhu references in the context of parody or comedy begin to outnumber ones in actual horror? When did Cthulhu become primarily a geek comedy reference point and only secondarily a sanity-blasting horror from beyond ( Read more... )

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