Art
Clock for geeks. So cool.
Books
12 Books in 2009 – a project by MCM. The first book is The Pig and the Box, which educates us (meaning children from about 6 years old) about the dangers of DRM. You can read it for free, or buy it. I especially love the ending.
How to Stop Accumulating Books. Most important lesson:
Remember, the point of culling your book collection is to make yourself happier. If you’re making yourself miserable getting rid of books, accept that sticking with your book hoarding ways is the better choice for you.
V.C. Andrews, bookbitching style:
p14: Wait, it’s four years later. How did that happen? It’s Daddy’s thirty-sixth birthday and the presents are piled high. I predict a tragedy in the very near future.
Comics
The first few pages of the Neil Gaiman/Andy Kubert Batman Comic are online.
Movies
… and Narnia is back: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is picked up by Fox.
Puss in Boots gets a Spin-Off.
Politics
I don’t get it: Tom Brady has to take shit for dating Gisele Bündchen. Why? Isn’t it like the ultimate guy dream to date a supermodel?
Chickipedia – only half as offensive as it sounds!
This story about gay Mayor Sam Adams sleeping with an 18 year old intern is bad news. But the intern’s name kind of makes up for it: Beau Breedlove. No kidding.
When They Were Curvy: Did actresses get even thinner in the past ten years? And if so, what does it mean?
Related to that: The Thorwaldsen Museum in Copenhagen sells “amended” sculptures.
Judges took bribe to send kids to prison. That is so sick.
Religion
In Singapore, a woman is offended by these booklets. And rightfully so. That is definitely vile.
Science
What goes on in your brain when you read fiction.
Posting poems in toilets helps reduce the paper use.
Completely Different Things
Audio Voyeurism [Auditeurism?]
100 most beautiful words in the English language.
Psychotic Letters From Men – an extension of Why Women Hate Men.
That Chick tract (the booklet) link pissed me off. When I was a kid, I’d pick up these tracts from church and even had a sort of collection. Took me a long long time to realize how truly evil these bastards were!
Oh, they’re definitely evil. I stumbled upon this story and I kept on reading because I couldn’t believe my fucking eyes. I’m glad that I never got anything like this as a kid. [I was probably seen as a lost cause anyway.]
“I don’t get it: Tom Brady has to take shit for dating Gisele Bündchen. Why? Isn’t it like the ultimate guy dream to date a supermodel?”
Don’t get it either. I get that you’re also trying to sound “facetious”, but it pretty much is! At least, as long as it’s a real relationship.
Also, Chickipedia’s really just an all-girl, expanded domain(as in not just movies) imdb with higher resolution pics. The description is slightly chauvinistic, but I don’t think you’d find it that bad if you actually visited. Well, except for the similar search thing, which I’m more confused by than angry about…what’s the point, anyway?
I completely understand that a guy wants to date a supermodel. I’ll let you in on a secret: girls, too! :) As long as it’s a real relationship, as you put it. ;)
I wasn’t being sarcastic when I said that Chickipedia’s only half as offensive as it sounds. I don’t have a problem with the concept itself (although I don quite see the point, either), just some details – like calling it _Chicki_pedia.
@kalafudra Psst, I used to be an altar boy. :|
@presti:
We all have our pasts. Nothing to be ashamed of anymore. ;)