Tag: Burst of Weirdness

Oddities and Awesome abound!

:: I heard about this on the radio, and I’m not sure if it’s even real or not, but the idea is a deeply strange one: vodka eyeballing. This is the practice of attempting to get a buzz from vodka more quickly by pouring the stuff into one’s own eyeballs. If a dumber idea comes up, I’ll let you all know.

:: Check out this very cool story about a guy and his search for a computer game he played many years ago. It’s a terrific story, even if, again, I’m not at all sure it’s a true story. Certain details about it seem just a bit too pat, too perfect. But it’s a good tale.

:: You know, if I re-interpret the nonsensical babblings of Sarah Palin as slam poetry, they start to make…well, no, they still don’t make any sense. We are still talking about Sarah Palin here, folks. Sure, she’s awesome at manipulating the media to her advantage and lots of folks love her, but she’s easily the stupidest person in American public life right now. Way to go, President McCain!

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In honor of the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back, here are some goofy videos:

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Oddities and Awesome abound, folks. Oh yes. They abound.

:: The greatest dollhouse ever.

:: Argument FAIL:

A 23-year-old man jumped from a moving vehicle Thursday evening after his wife refused to “shut up,” according to a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office report.

The report by Deputy Blake Neblett says the man, who was traveling with his wife and three children to Clarksville on Guthrie Highway, was arguing with his wife and told her to shut up.

When she refused, the man jumped from the moving vehicle.

Well, OK then.

:: When the President of the United States tells you that you will levitate, well then, you WILL levitate.

That’s from his trip to Buffalo last week.

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:: Hiring happy clowns for childrens’ birthday parties is creepy enough, but this is downright awful. I’d have had nightmares after this, I suppose…horrible flashbacks whenever I saw someone get a pie in the face….

:: What the f*** should I make for dinner? Yes, liberal use of the word ‘f***’ over there.

:: Firefly is back…kinda-sorta. Once again, I wish there was a regular comic book title for Firefly. The perfect medium for more Browncoat adventures!

:: Why I hate 3-D movies, by Roger Ebert. I have to admit that I have next to zero interest in 3-D movies. I was perfectly happy to watch Avatar in 2-D, and 3-D’s higher ticket price will make me less likely to go to movies, which I already don’t do all that often anyway because it’s become terribly expensive to do so.

:: Via Cal I see the next great kitchen gadget. Having a barbecue but can’t decide between hot dogs of hamburgers? Worry no more, for the HAMDOG is here!!!

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:: You know, it’s bad enough that I play too much Super Mario Bros. on the Wii, without throwing this into the mix. Betrayer most foul!!!

:: Whipped Lightning is whipped cream with alcohol added. The possibilities for such a thing…oh my…I love me some whipped cream, and this…wow! Now, if they’d make a version that comes in a tub like Cool Whip, because the canned stuff just doesn’t work all that well for…yeah, never mind.

:: Her Universe: clothing for the female Star Wars fan in your life! Awesome!!!

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:: Theworld’s ugliest statues. Frankly, the Jersey teardrop and the Giant Genghis Khan don’t look that bad to me. In fact, I rather like the Giant Genghis Khan.

:: Violation Report is a site where you can ‘report’ people for various breaches of etiquette. Most of the submissions seem to revolve around subway riders in New York City, and more than a few of them strike me as people bitching about stuff they shouldn’t really be annoyed with in the first place.

:: Giant saw blade 1, Side of house 0:

Ouch! Good thing nobody was in the path of that blade when it went loose from its housing, huh?

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:: Wikipedia has an article on chicken hypnotism. Seriously. Make sure you scroll down to the list of famous people who have publicly discussed their preferred methods of hypnotizing chickens.

:: On the day that Albert Einstein died, a LIFE Magazine photographer took a bunch of pictures from Einstein’s office and at the funeral. The photographs were never published, until now. Einstein’s desk is particularly poignant to me — the desk is covered in papers and there’s still stuff scrawled all over his blackboard, but the uppermost bookshelves are already empty. The scene suggests a guy trying to get some work done before the end, and he didn’t quite make it.

:: For some reason I almost never read The Onion — no real idea why, other than that I’ve never formed the habit of checking it out — but this headline, cited by a Facebook friend this morning, cracked me up. I know it’s almost ten years old, but it’s new to me.

:: Cracked.com is always a source of hilarity for me; I tend to go there once every couple of weeks so I can read a lot of new content in one shot. I particularly enjoyed 6 baffling things every teevee ad assumes to be true, and the 10 greatest fictional sports.

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:: I really wish I could remember who linked this for me first, but I’ve already forgotten, so if you’re out there, feel free to identify yourself. But this is really eye-popping stuff: the view from the seven highest waterfalls in the world. The highest is so high that almost all of its water either evaporates or blows away as mist before it reaches the pool at the bottom. Amazing stuff.

:: Warren Ellis is unhappy with the state of space exploration:

Robot missions do not thrill us because the empathetic engagement is on a level with watching a Roomba do a decent job of hoovering some carpet fluff. It is nowhere near the same as seeing and hearing one of us walking somewhere brand new and telling us about it in the knowledge (however misguided that might eventually prove) that more of us, the rest of us, will follow.

We’re almost resentful of human space flight now, because politicians and greedy technocrats screwed us out of the translunar Martian colony future we all thought was coming. We’re just a little too resigned to another few years of puttering around in low Earth orbit, of quickie space tourism and trying not to fart in the International Space Station for 30 days at a time. Even the Chinese, the current eager lions of crewed missions, admit that their Moon missions may prove to be robotic.

In my life I’ve seen a species go from believing it will live in space to accepting, all too easily, that it will die on the same old dirt its ancestors rot in. Having a nice robot phone is not an acceptable substitute for a future.

Part of me agrees 100 percent. The other part of me only agrees 85 percent.

:: I’ve seen lots of links to a recent announcement that Lucasfilm is actually developing a sit-com based in the Star Wars universe. Let me just say that this notion is greatly taxing my ability to reserve judgement.

:: But I do not need to reserve judgement in any way on bar soap in the shape of Han Solo frozen in carbonite. That is just awesomely cool!

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:: Two creative people get together and create themselves a comic. One of them writes, the other does the art. But when the one doing the “writing” is five years old, what you get is a comic about…believe it or not…a cop armed with an axe whose catchphrase is “I’ll chop your head off!”

So behold: Axe Cop!

The world needs more comics scripted by kindergarteners.

:: I saw this a few weeks ago and didn’t think it was all that funny. The problem was that I watched it with the sound off.

:: Ever wonder what the difference actually is between geeks, dweebs, dorks, and nerds? Well, wonder no more!

More next week! Stay awesome, Interweb!!

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