“He had found the route after discovering a forgotten map in public archives which revealed the secret access from the monastery attic. | The map was a key exhibit in the trial. The attic, reached by a daring climb up exterior walls, led to a steep, narrow stairway and then the secret chamber. A hidden…
“The 3-year-old website offers dozens of love letter templates covering various aspects of relationships, including love at first sight, Internet courtship, apologies, long-distance, drifting apart, breakups and even secret romances. | Subscribers to the site, who pay an annual rate of $40, can download a letter, add their own personal touches and send it to…
“‘Have you ever noticed how much Hillary Clinton looks like [Star Trek’s] Nurse Chapel?!!!’ Beagle, our ironically-named gopher, was dispatched to find photo evidence. When it came back there was sure, incontrovertable proof of the rightness of this designation.” —BILL AND….. HILLARY!Astrea) Rosemary Frezza writes: “I saw a picture of Nurse Chapel from the animated…
“The decision to make the cafeterias into ‘no pay zones’ spread through the 40-acre complex like wildfire. Soon, the hungry patrons came running. ‘It was chaos, wild, something out of a war scene,’ said one Aramark executive who was present. ‘They took everything, even the silverware,’ she said. Another witness from U.N. security said the…
“Thanks to the forthcoming changes to the law on marriage, you will soon be able to ‘tie the knot’ wherever you wish……….YOU decide, we will provide a church for you !!” —Inflatable ChurchInflatableChurch.com) Words fail me. Similar:MoonBot is back. This time he fights a new adversary. #Blender3D physics practice.I submitted midterm grades at about 11…
“I bet Hector would be more fun if we dipped him in gasoline. But, most toys are…….” Chad —Hector the Hectopus (Catch.com) My (completely pointless and out-of-date) Rainbow Hector Weblog has been metablogged by Catch.com. I don’t know why, and the Catch.com folks don’t seem to know either. Life goes on, and Hector keeps smiling.…
Play the part of the famous lovers with this customized version of the classic Shakespearean drama. Relive the thrill of classic lines with you in them. “Oh Brad, Brad. Wherefore art thou Brad?”“But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Helen is the sun.” What’s more, if you choose the…
“The arctic rodents called Lemmings are well known for their periodic mass suicides by collectively swimming into the sea and drowning, or at least the Norway lemmings do. This is probably caused by environmental pressures usually from over population…” —Mass SuicideHolology) Actually, the cause of this behavior is more likely to be Disney employees hurling…
“Never, ever pick a fight with a surrealist. Not unless you are packing a kipper yourself, and are prepared to use it. That much I now know. But at lunchtime on Monday, when I tried to slip through the surrealist blockade of the André Breton auction at the Hôtel Drouot, I assumed a black polo…
“It is bound to go down as one of the great moments in PR history. | With US tanks rolling into Baghdad and the sound of artillery fire reverberating around the city, Iraq’s ever jovial information minister popped up yesterday to declare that the ‘infidels’ were facing ‘slaughter’…. Standing on the roof of Baghdad’s Palestine…
“THE world’s biggest rubber band ball has been dropped from an aeroplane a mile up… Experts thought the ball would bounce hundreds of feet into the air.|Instead, it created a massive crater…” —This is Very DumbicWales) Similar:Pagers, Pay Phones, and Dialup: How We Communicated on 9/11For much of the day, those aboard Air Fo…CultureHow PatrioticAmusing“Link…
?For many Americans, French‘smustard IS Americana. It‘sall about baseball, hot dogs, family and fun,? says Elliot Penner, president of French‘smustard. Via Dave Barry. —In Case You Were Boycotting French’s Mustard…Press Release) It’s amazing that people have time for stupid stuff like this, when there are far more important things to worry about. Similar:FBI admits flaws…
“Losing your clean credit history is one thing; losing your freedom is another. And victims of America‘sfastest-growing crime are discovering they often have much more to worry about than the hundreds of hours of paperwork necessary to clean up the financial mess associated with ID theft. Sometimes, they have to worry about ending up in…
“On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a mixed bag of eccentrics live in houseboats. Belonging to neither land nor sea, they belong to one another. There is Maurice, a homosexual prostitute; Richard, a buttoned-up ex-navy man; but most of all there’s Nenna, the struggling mother of two wild little girls. How each of their…
What kind of a sicko uses keywords such as “teddybear hamster cages teddybear invitations miniature teddybear kits teddybear” in order to draw traffic to a website featuring haiku about masturbation and child rape? The sickos at www.harmlove.com, that’s who. Teddybear Keywords = Sick StuffHarmlove) While I can’t say I care much for the content of…
Worth a thousand words:Bob Gillis —Starting Fire With an Ice Lens (Primitive Ways) Similar:Geometry and color maps for wooden desk tray. #Blender3D #practiceThe blue image is a “normal map,” which …AestheticsSmall Business Social Media 101: How To Get StartedUseful skills for anyone hoping to turn …BusinessPope Leo XIV names AI one of the reasons for his…
The lone link on this page disappears when you try to click it. Actually, your browser automatically loads another page that is completely blank. That link is labeled “FAQ”. I’m sure the most frequently asked question on this page is “What the…!?” –DGJ —From the “I Don’t Get It” DepartmentPurple) Similar:Cooper Hewitt: the typeface by…
“Forty German authors are hoping to set a new world record by conceiving, writing and printing a book in 12 hours, the event’s organizers said on Tuesday.” —Germans to Create Book in 12 HoursCNN) I believe the German word for the activity is zuschnellbuchermachen. Thanks for the link, Mike. Similar:Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk…
Jesica Santillam, 17, suffers from a heart deformity…|After a three-year wait, she received a transplant on February 7 with organs flown from Boston to the Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina….The organs were sent with paperwork correctly listing the donor’s blood type, says Sean Fitzpatrick of the New England Organ Bank.|But somehow, no one…
“By the time school opened, I was thrilled to start molding the brains of my children. My optimism and naiveté evaporated within hours…. Raynard had told [his mother] that I had violently shoved him in the chest out the door of my classroom, injuring his head and back. His mother had dialed 911 and summoned…