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august 2008 by bkerr
NITE OWL COMICS: THE SILK SPECTRE IN A FEATURE OF HER OWN!
comics
watchmen
via:liana
august 2008 by bkerr
It's Lovely! I'll Take It!
july 2008 by bkerr
"A COLLECTION OF POORLY CHOSEN PHOTOS FROM REAL ESTATE LISTINGS. WITH LOVE."
real-estate
and-other-failures
via:liana
july 2008 by bkerr
The Onion | Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others
july 2008 by bkerr
"Americans have finally recognized the need for everyone else to do exactly that."
onion
public
transportation
ha-ha
only-serious
via:liana
july 2008 by bkerr
Sandwich Project
january 2008 by bkerr
"What is the best sandwich? Is it something simple, or do you prefer something more involved? The sandwich project’s aim is to collect the world’s favourite fillings between two pieces of bread."
sandwich
lunch
inventory
awesome
via:liana
january 2008 by bkerr
Arbor Market Watch
august 2007 by bkerr
"DEDICATED TO EXPOSING THE DIRTY UNDERSIDE OF THE ANN ARBOR FARMERS MARKET, AND GIVING IT A GOOD SPANKING"
annarbor
farmersmarket
anonymous
microcorrespondent
axe-grinding
seamy
rumors
secrets
lies
via:liana
august 2007 by bkerr
Ask Metafilter | A very puzzling event. Opinions solicited.
august 2007 by bkerr
"When I was about three years old, my parents accidentally killed my pet goldfish and decided to 'protect' me by lying about what happened ... it only took me a few years to figure out that my fish didn't spontaneously turn into rocks as they claimed. "
metafilter
anecdote-of-no-small-amusement
fish
mortality
pescapocalypse
sea
change
death
lies
spontaneous
transformation
via:liana
august 2007 by bkerr
CNN | Man pummels 'vampire' peacock
july 2007 by bkerr
"A restaurant worker says the man grabbed the bird by the neck, hurled it to the ground and started stomping it. She says when he was asked what he was doing, he responded, 'I'm killing a vampire!'"
vampire
peacock
versus
burger
patron
wtf-mate
via:liana
july 2007 by bkerr
Blog About Town | Harperizing the 'New Yorker' Cartoon Caption Contest
june 2007 by bkerr
"Now that The New Yorker's weekly Cartoon Caption Contest has hit the century mark (100 weekly contests, that is), it lends itself to some statistical analysis -- and I'm just the man to screw that up!"
newyorker
magazine
peer-production
back-page
backlash
unfunny
cartoon
failures
via:liana
june 2007 by bkerr
Shigureden
june 2007 by bkerr
"Traditional Japanese culture reconstructed using advanced modern technology."
kyoto
japan
museum
poetry
card
battle
hundred-poems
hundred-poets
round-one
fight
via:liana
june 2007 by bkerr
Final episode comments, culled from alt.tv.twin-peaks
may 2007 by bkerr
alt.tv.twin-peaks was one of the most active newsgroups following the series finale/implosion -- here's a really nice summary of threads relevant to
twinpeaks
usenet
macro
digest
explication
timeline
cliffhanger
noodling
how's-annie
wow-bob-wow
party-like-it's-199x
via:liana
may 2007 by bkerr
Los Angeles Times | Hackwork hacked: The "Kelly" cartoons bring back a golden age of parody
april 2007 by bkerr
"People who take politics really seriously are creepy ... [this] is the genius of Sutton's genre- and ideology-bending creation. Party politics is as vapid and content-free a genre as our culture has ever invented; but parody contains multitudes."
political
cartoon
parody
or-not
genre
evolution
via:liana
april 2007 by bkerr
Poor Mojo's Squid
march 2007 by bkerr
"Visions of the Giant Squid: To Eat a Cat (also, with instructions for knitting a squid hat for your infant)." Every infant needs a squid hat to go with his or her copy of "Baby, Make Me a Drink."
squid
infant
headwear
via:liana
march 2007 by bkerr
Slate Magazine | Who wants to save an ugly animal?, by Michael Levitin
march 2007 by bkerr
"The aye-aye may be one of the most repellant animals in the world. It also happens to be on the verge of extinction ... a slide-show essay about an effort to save the endangered species that got hit with the ugly stick."
anti
aesthetic
animals
extinction
via:liana
march 2007 by bkerr
Playing in Bubbles on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
february 2007 by bkerr
"You get inside what amounts to a giant transparent beach ball, then they pump it up full of air, zipper it shut, and put a big sticker-like seal over the zipper. Then you try to run around on the water like a hamster in a ball and fall over repeatedly."
carnival
games
china
via:liana
february 2007 by bkerr
The Pompous Ass Words Home Page
january 2007 by bkerr
"Hello and welcome! This is the Pompous Ass Words site, a place dedicated to identifying words that shouldn't be used on the grounds that doing so makes you sound like a pompous ass."
vocabulary
wordie
pompous-ass
via:liana
january 2007 by bkerr
Ask MetaFilter | spring back, fall forward?
december 2006 by bkerr
"If I say to you, 'The 5 o'clock meeting has been pushed forward 1 hour,' what do you understand the new meeting time to be?"
language
fun
via:liana
december 2006 by bkerr
Never Mind Mars and Venus: Who Is 'the Decider'? - New York Times
april 2006 by bkerr
"Doesn't everyone, no matter their politics or opinion of the phrase, secretly believe that in interpersonal dealings, they wear the 'decider' badge?"
politics
language
awesome
via:liana
april 2006 by bkerr
YouTube - K Project Work In Progress Video #1
april 2006 by bkerr
Sega's "K Project" was a demo of the fields we know as "REZ."
games
REZ
music
video
via:liana
april 2006 by bkerr
The Onion | Goddamn Findings Fail To Support Researcher's Hypothesis
april 2006 by bkerr
That's funny, this never seems to stop anyone in my field of study!
edu
batshit
via:liana
april 2006 by bkerr
Google Video | A Homage to Castlevania
march 2006 by bkerr
"Mankind ill needs a savior such as you."
games
parody
video
via:liana
march 2006 by bkerr
eBay: OOAK Doll Repaint Laura Palmer Twin Peaks Barbie
march 2006 by bkerr
It's a Barbie. Dead. Wrapped in plastic...
twinpeaks
toys
$
via:liana
march 2006 by bkerr
goombakoopa.jpg
february 2006 by bkerr
What these critters _really_ look like...
games
images
funny
via:liana
february 2006 by bkerr
Castlevania: SotN has the Worst Voice Acting Ever
december 2005 by bkerr
(Turn up the volume when looking at this page.)
games
funny
via:liana
december 2005 by bkerr
Urban Dead Territory Map
october 2005 by bkerr
People are contesting the accuracy of the map, I just like the way it looks.
urban
zombies
games
maps
via:liana
october 2005 by bkerr
Urban Dead - Some Statistics
september 2005 by bkerr
I'm a level 12 zombie! whoa
games
games/zombie
numeracy
past
via:liana
september 2005 by bkerr
Invisible City Productions | Zombie Rancher
august 2005 by bkerr
"A post-zombie apocalypse game of entrepeneurisim for two or four players."
games/zombie
via:liana
awesome
first-we-take-manhattan
then-we-take-berlin
august 2005 by bkerr
A Word with the Wordsmiths
may 2005 by bkerr
Interview with the translators of the new Fire Emblem game, transcribed from Nintendo Power.
games
via:liana
translation
may 2005 by bkerr
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