Paralipsis

Joe Davis has an excellent exercise in exploration and expansion of concepts. You must check out Telescopic Text.

Over at TV-In-Japan, aside from a crappy web layout, they have a clip from youtube that is an example of everything that is right and wrong with Japanese TV and culture. According to the comments, the user kazuhima has several more of the same available on his youtube account.

A delightfully suggestive advertisement by a lubricant company. Hell, it’s more than suggestive, it’s downright dirty.

Found, unfortunately un-attributed, on the internet.

To prove once and for all that math can be fun, we present: Wherein it is related how that paragon of womanly virtue, young Polly Nomial (our heroine) is accosted by that notorious villain Curly Pi, and factored (oh horror!!!)
Once [...]

419eater is a site dedicated to people who turn the tables on Nigerian 419 scammers. The usual bag is to get them to write something dumb on a sign and send in a picture of themselves. One of them, however, inspires them with great riches in exchange for a sample of carved [...]

This video of a LARP group’s stone golem suit is absolutely awesome. If LARPers weren’t a half-step above Furries, one would almost want to go play with them.
This would be an incredible halloween costume though. If I only had the time, I would make one and dress up for the first time in [...]

The congregation of the Church of the Nazarene finally tired of the ‘turn the other cheek’ attitude promoted by Jesus and took matters into their own hands. The whole TTOC method was simply allowing repeated burgularies of their church and so they decided to bring forth their Bats of Blessing and show Ralph Thomas [...]

The Jaguar X Type pictured at right was put up for auction as a salvage vehicle this past month. The posting from the auction tells the tale of a good samaritan whose efforts went quite vigorously punished. You gotta feel for the guy. I can only imagine the scene as he jumped [...]

Here we have a wonderful example of why you don’t run a general purpose OS in an embedded environment. Adam Gaffin was visiting New York and came across the world’s largest windows error message when he was visiting the famous Times Square.

…across the square, I saw it: the world’s largest Windows error message – [...]

This is an awesome story of how Stefan Eriksson’s Ferrari was torn in half by a utility pole while he was “just a passenger” (who happened to have a BAC of 0.09). The tragedy truly is the loss of a beautiful Enzo.

Eriksson said he was a passenger in the Ferrari, which he said [...]