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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!
"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
"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
"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
"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.
"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
"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
"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
"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
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
"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
"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
"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!
"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
"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?
"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
the-inbetween.com | E3 Crabtacular
A collection of screenshots of those games presented at E3 having giant, alien, hellish, or otherwise "crabtacular" crustaceans.
games  animals  fun  via:liana 
may 2006 by bkerr
Urban Dead Centered Map
I haven't played "Urban Dead" in months, but I'm amazed at the sophistication of tools and maps people keep making for it.
games  zombies  cities  maps  via:liana 
may 2006 by bkerr
Never Mind Mars and Venus: Who Is 'the Decider'? - New York Times
"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
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
That's funny, this never seems to stop anyone in my field of study!
edu  batshit  via:liana 
april 2006 by bkerr
MegaTokyo #838
I need a snooze hitting stick.
sleep  violence  via:liana 
march 2006 by bkerr
Google Video | A Homage to Castlevania
"Mankind ill needs a savior such as you."
games  parody  video  via:liana 
march 2006 by bkerr
goombakoopa.jpg
What these critters _really_ look like...
games  images  funny  via:liana 
february 2006 by bkerr
Castlevania: SotN has the Worst Voice Acting Ever
(Turn up the volume when looking at this page.)
games  funny  via:liana 
december 2005 by bkerr
Urban Dead Territory Map
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
Invisible City Productions | Zombie Rancher
"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
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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