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Tag Archives: Burst of Weirdness
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
“Weird” probably isn’t the right word for this; it’s actually really cool in that MC Escher-ish way. Go look. Link via He-Who-Eschews-Permalinks. (Steven also notes, in the post above the one I’d link above if he had permalinks, something about … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
Possibly more snark than weirdness, but hey, I’m feeling snarky today. :: The Right Wing has begun its latest project: taking Gandhi down a peg or two. Gandhi. Oy. Oddly, the people who hold Gandhi as “the most overrated man … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
:: Here’s something I never knew. John Jacob Astor IV was a science fiction writer! You can read his work A Journey in Other Worlds online. A taste: Jupiter–the magnificent planet with a diameter of 86,500 miles, having 119 times … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness Jaw-dropping Coolness
I like to think I’m a geek in good standing, but I must bow to this fellow. That is the greatest room in the history of rooms. UPDATE: I should warn those of you with dial-up connections that this post … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
Can there be any doubt? By far the biggest Weird Thing to cross my radar screen this week as Conservapedia. Nothing else even came close, and nothing else to date has so perfectly illustrated for me the tendency of much … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
Here we go: :: Almost two years ago I finally filled a giant hole in my small geek-toy collection when, through the services of eBay, I bought a die-cast Millennium Falcon. Finally I could play out the asteroid-field chase from … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
Hoo-boy…. :: How to draw Dick Cheney. First Step: Draw Dick Cheney. Yah, I know that’s a bit of a leap, I remember my old “how to draw superheroes” books where the first step would be a box, and the … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
This isn’t all that weird, but I figure that with the history involved between all parties, it’s bound to get weird at some point or other, so we’ll just call this a Sunday Burst of Proactive Weirdness: David Lee Roth … Continue reading
Sunday Burst of Weirdness
It’s been a good week for weirdness out there! :: Not actually weird, but really pretty cool: Lynn linked a post on another blog about a minimalist composer named Rhys Chatham who recently contrived a work that is scored for … Continue reading



