Archive for January, 2004

The Critic is BACK!

This is awesome! If you’ve never seen the cartoon The Critic, you’re missing something great. Much like The Family Guy (which was cancelled far before its time), The Critic was not appreciated because (1) it was funny and (2) you had to work at it sometimes to get the joke. It’s easily the best thing [...]

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Space Shuttle Challenger Crew Memorialized on Mars

From NASA:
NASA announced plans to name the landing site of the Mars Opportunity rover in honor of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s final crew. The area in the vast flatland called Meridiani Planum, where Opportunity landed this weekend, will be called the Challenger Memorial Station.
The seven-member crew of Space Shuttle Challenger was lost when the orbiter [...]

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Oil to Deep Fry a Frog

Jacques Chicrac wasn’t so much better-than-thou as he was cruder-then-thou in his opposition to the Iraq invasion.
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Oldest Tech Manual!

Stolen from Slashdot:
“How old is the oldest known technical manual? About 613 years, it seems. Written in 1391 by Geoffrey Chauncer for his ten year old son Lewis (Lowys), the manual explains in great detail but very rough spelling and grammar, the intricate workings of the Astrolabe–the predecessor to the sextant. Read Chauncer’s ‘A Treatise [...]

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The Fight Club Effect

Once again, completely stolen from Boing Boing:
Unlike many nonsensical prejudices, it’s roughly possible to trace the root source of all this hostility, identify a locus classicus of Ikeaphobia: in this case, the vastly-overrated Fight Club. Ever since the film hit American screens, some years ago now, it’s been hip among would-be cynics of a certain [...]

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Is it too late to go live on a anarcho-syndicalist commune?

You know, when I read things like this, it makes me just sigh deeply and wonder where all the good people have gone. I think the Python’s had it right; “We don’t have a lord. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the [...]

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Mina

And since we know you’re dying for a picture.

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