- I understand that I have a serious peeve about entitlement, but there's one way that it affects me on a nearly-daily basis: The doors on the subway train are wide enough for two people to exit at the same time. (Usually.) If the people on the platform that are waiting to get on - when they bother to wait, which is a different peeve - but they ( Read more... )

lorem ipsum kitteh!

http://placekitten.com/

(hat tip to coraline)

A new peer-reviewed study suggests that other neurological issues, such as repeated concussion, can sometimes masquerade as ALS. In other words, it's possible that Lou Gehrig may not have had Lou Gehrig's Disease.http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08

A Christian goes to Chicago Pride and blogs about the experience. Moving and worth a read. Hat tip to moominmolly for the link.

holy crap, Bill Watterson did an interview.

Congressional Republicans vote against their own proposal in the most recent sign that their party platform really is "disagree with Obama and prevent anything from happening, ever".

things what are awesome: "the eight irresistible principles of fun"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB43N0v7Eh4&feature=player_embedded

my parents sent this to me months ago but i just got around to watching it: the winner of Ukraine's Got Talent 2009, doing a sand art performance piece. absolutely stunning how she works one image into another, building images with positive and negative space. well worth a ten-minute watch, with audio ( Read more... )

moderately NSFW, but really really funny: an ad for the Vancouver International Film Festival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAJ1vs6KzBs

whoever wrote this caption wins all the internets evar:

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/pgStory?contentId=10176472#sport=FOX%20SOCCER&photo=10175816

i love reading the NCSF Media Update, not the least of which because they regularly pick one article that's written by "the other side", i.e., doesn't have a positive viewpoint on kinky activities ( Read more... )