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Archive for September, 2008

9/26/2008

And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?

Filed under: — The Fool @ 11:36 pm

Via Post, via metaquotes…

You know how sometimes people take Shakespeare and reimagine it in alternate settings?

Somebody(s) bizarro’d that up, rewriting a classic of, uh, Tarentino…in Elizabethen English.

Thus: A Slurry Tale

Though I recommend first, the metaquoted exerpts

Ben Bernanke

Filed under: — Rhadamanthos @ 10:41 am

Hilarious political satire that makes no sense:

Three Panel Soul: On Sober Analysis
XKCD: The Federal Reserve Skateboard

9/24/2008

Warm and geeky

Filed under: — The Hermit @ 9:42 pm

Genome Quilts by Beverly St. Clair

9/21/2008

BeaverPC

Filed under: — Rhadamanthos @ 4:51 pm

Do you guys remember the “installing linux on a dead badger” article?

Here’s one on a casemod to turn a dead beaver into a PC.

9/17/2008

Comic book references + political humor = Our Bag?

Filed under: — The Fool @ 10:56 pm

McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More

Dick to the dawk to the PHD

Filed under: — Rhadamanthos @ 1:04 pm

He’s smarter than you, he’s got a science degree

Yes, that’s right, it’s a rap about Richard Dawkins. Why? Because it’s the internet.

9/10/2008

More Cowbell

Filed under: — Rhadamanthos @ 8:57 am

Via the high-altitude balloon of the cape-and-goggles wearing Cory Doctorow, comes a website that has on it only a little flash app…that does something awesome.

MoreCowbell.dj will take any MP3 you care to hand it, and add rhythmic cowbell and Christopher Walken samples. As Cory Doctorow says, “thus vastly improving it.”

9/4/2008

Almost Orwellian.

Filed under: — Queen of Swords @ 8:31 pm

So, apparently, free press is illegal in St. Paul. There are different opinions about the situation, as always, but I think the video evidence looks pretty damning.

Hat tip, ironically enough, from the Free Press.

9/3/2008

Just in case anyone who reads this site ever does have a date.

Filed under: — Queen of Swords @ 10:53 pm

Words pretty much fail me.

IN A WORLD

Filed under: — Rhadamanthos @ 9:13 am

where Don LaFontaine is DEAD, movie trailers will be a lot less interesting.

Or at least, less easy to parody.

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