My seatmate last night BWI-SFO was a friendly Aussie connecting to SYD. Unfortunately due to weather in the mideast/Atlantic, though not directly affecting BWI, there was a cascading effect on air traffic and we were held on the ground for ~15 minutes, jeopardizing his already uncomfortably tight for SFO connection of 48 minutes. I helped him ( Read more... )

Pat Robertson warns people to flee from the evil of Dungeons and Dragons

The crowd sings the anthem at the Bruins game the day after the marathon. This should happen more (obviously, I mean the singing the anthem part, not the tragedy part) -- one of the things I love about attending games in YVR is the crowd doing the anthem.

NZ parliament ( Read more... )

via Perry Friedman on Facebook, man builds chair that tweets his farts:

According to my coworker, Twitter is supposed to happen in that space between Flickr posts and Facebook updates, in the space when life actually happens. Well, in the space of time "when life actually happens," life actually happens. It is neither pretty nor ugly. It is just ( Read more... )

ncbi_rofl: Farts: an underappreciated threat to astronauts

Several factors affect gas formation: 1) amount and kind of fermentable substrate; 2) abundance, types, and location of microflora; and 3) psychic and somatic conditions that affect the gut. We evaluated the first factor by studying men fed different diets and have also recorded influences of ( Read more... )

So, if you haven't already heard the news from last week or so, it can be summed up in four words: Nancy Grace nipple slip. Allegedly. At the end of her DWTS routine she may or may not have exposed boob (it's hard for me to tell with the costume, either that, or insert gay joke here -- anyway you can search for the video if you want ( Read more... )

As heard on a recent WWDTM, U.S. Marines in Afghanistan have been ordered not to fart audibly, because it offends the Afghans.

Quoting the Military Times blog:

I know there are many things in the Afghan culture that don't seem normal to Americans and it's hard to spend seven months working in someone else's back yard. Still, the Marines I saw ( Read more... )

via boingboing, an artist's attempt to explain Japan's nuclear crisis to young children.

This video was created based on the simple analysis of the current state of the Fukushima Nuclear power plant by media artist Kazuhiko Hachiya (http://togetter.com/li/111871Read more... )

"The government of Malawi plan to punish persistent offenders 'who foul the air' in a bid to 'mould responsible and disciplined citizens.'"

Bad business name puns:

Nothing Bundt Cakes
O'Aces Bar (eye-bleeding layout, even for Myspace) in SW Las Vegas. There's another one outside of St. Louis but they don't seem to be affiliated ( Read more... )

Catching up on 5 days' worth of LJ.

Does a bear shit in the Toyota he broke into for a PBJ sandwich someone stupidly left in there? "Somehow the door closed behind him. He panicked and started thrashing around, hit the shifter and put the car, took it out of park. It rolled back, down over the hill, and down into here, and stopped. The four way ( Read more... )