Too Many Open Tabs Theater: Paranoia, Origami Meat and Siamese Elephants
A passenger is stopped at airport security and forced to change out of his Transformers t-shirt. Because, you know, the cartoon robot in the picture has a gun for an arm.
(How exactly would this work, threatwise? I'm picturing halfway through the flight he sticks his hand under his shirt and makes a pointy-finger.)
While we're at it, European airlines are testing a system that puts cameras in all the seatbacks, and runs the resulting video captures through a top-secret program designed to detect terrorism before it happens by monitoring passengers for suspicious facial expression.
Really.
The ASIFA archive has a gallery of stunning Boris Artzybasheff "Machinalia" illustrations from the 50's. They are somehow charming and creepy as hell all at the same time, not unlike the old (non-Disney) Alice in Wonderland illos, and I love them to bits.
On my planet, industrial machinery really looks like this.
We like doing papercraft. Doesn't everyone? Here, have some disturbingly realisting origami meat you can download and assemble. The site is mostly in Japanese, but if you poke around a bit you can find more papercrafts, including a cooked turkey and some giant insects.
And finally, someone found my all-time favorite Carol Burnett bit on YouTube. No, scratch that, this may be my favorite thing ever in the history of the universe. The absolute best part is watching them try to hold it together while Tim Conway keeps shoveling it on. Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, may I present...*drum roll*...the Siamese Elephant Bit.
(How exactly would this work, threatwise? I'm picturing halfway through the flight he sticks his hand under his shirt and makes a pointy-finger.)
While we're at it, European airlines are testing a system that puts cameras in all the seatbacks, and runs the resulting video captures through a top-secret program designed to detect terrorism before it happens by monitoring passengers for suspicious facial expression.
Really.
The ASIFA archive has a gallery of stunning Boris Artzybasheff "Machinalia" illustrations from the 50's. They are somehow charming and creepy as hell all at the same time, not unlike the old (non-Disney) Alice in Wonderland illos, and I love them to bits.
On my planet, industrial machinery really looks like this.
We like doing papercraft. Doesn't everyone? Here, have some disturbingly realisting origami meat you can download and assemble. The site is mostly in Japanese, but if you poke around a bit you can find more papercrafts, including a cooked turkey and some giant insects.
And finally, someone found my all-time favorite Carol Burnett bit on YouTube. No, scratch that, this may be my favorite thing ever in the history of the universe. The absolute best part is watching them try to hold it together while Tim Conway keeps shoveling it on. Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, may I present...*drum roll*...the Siamese Elephant Bit.
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