In time for halloween. Learning to fly (as in throwing yourself against the ground and missing)
This might be handy, if you happen to be dressed up as a ghost or flying superhero or bat, etc – the SCQ has a piece…
Read articleThirty Illnesses, Sorted According to Whether or Not You Can Eat the Victims
A piece of geeky brilliance, from McSweeneys, one of my favourite websites: Illnesses Whose Victims May Not Be Safely Eaten 1. Rabies 2. Chickenpox 3. Leukemia…
Read articleSo Long, Development, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Aid: Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Development: Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. Modernization: If we could…
Read articleHan Solo and Chewbacca Weigh in on their New Hybrid Millennium Falcon
HS: Well, so far, it seems like it’s a pretty good thing. Me, I’m not too up on the technology, but Chewie is pretty good at…
Read articleSoviet Board Games Repackaged by the Western Bourgeois
SOVIET GAME: “Fields” (Repackaged in the West as “Monopoly”) OBJECTIVE: To make it through the game without harming any one, while providing for your loved ones.…
Read articleBesides Nuclear Energy, Other Quick Fixes That Didn’t Pan Out So Good
Genetically Modified Foods Liquor Breast Implants Rosie O’Donnell on The View Pesticides 1986’s Flow-bee Haircut before the Junior Prom with Wendy Barnes World War I
Read articleThe Three Emails I Sent Last Night to the South Korean Embassy
7:36 pm EST: Hey, South Korea. Just to let you know, that thud you heard, it wasn’t a nuclear test by North Korea. It was me.…
Read articleSimilarities I Noticed Between George W. Bush and the Burning Bush
Natural disasters figure prominently for both. In their own ways – doing their part to increase carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Neither necessarily follows international…
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A note of encouragement
By Sarah Burch,
Dear self, I see you’ve stalled in your search for both inspiration and the ever-elusive catharsis that continually evades capture by those on the circuitous path to an ‘original intellectual…
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