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The top 100 Best Novels of all time. Here's its top ten: 1. ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand 2. THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand 3. BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard 4. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien 5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee 6. 1984 by George Orwell 7. ANTHEM by Ayn Rand 8. WE THE LI...

Where are they, where are the other Melvillians? Even if there were only one, where is he? I like to think there are at least a few more out there in spirit, they just don't know it yet. :wink: (EDIT: Hey, thanks for the alternate link, Alioth! Nice work.) Some fascinating obscure Sovietica: the po...

Tarasoriku wrote:

ils wrote:Truly glorious classic comedy by "Hyacinthe Phippe" and Edward Gorey: ladies, gentlemen, rabbits and Melvillians, I give you The Recently Deflowered Girl.

Broken link or has it been removed?

Shit, looks like it's been removed. Well, it was really really funny.

Truly glorious classic comedy by "Hyacinthe Phippe" and Edward Gorey: ladies, gentlemen, rabbits and Melvillians, I give you The Recently Deflowered Girl.

Obama is already turning up in comics. No pressure, Barack. No pressure.

Good music, though :) Yes, indeedy! Oliver Twist's thin gruel wasn't so thin after all! That little con artist didn't need "more"! What does the latest fake memoir scandal say about contemporary culture? (Or, hey, I've got a question: apparently this one fooled Oprah, too. How does "Oprah's Book Cl...

So you also watched Zoolander? There are people who haven't? Some fun with Google StreetView . (Porsche testing out secret new car models, apparently.) I want to play this game . A mug shot of Igor Stravinsky . He was booked for rearranging the Star-Spangled Banner. (Wow, Hendrix would've loved pub...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Derelicte! Just in time for Christmas!

You might think the question of what watches Obama wears isn't that important in the greater scheme of things. And you'd probably be right. But still... he does wear watches.

The Gauss pistol.

Soviet arcade machines.

A recipe for canned haggis.

FinalZero wrote:

While it has nothing to do with the story, saying "little Hitler" reminded me of this

Which reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYxae1jE2iA

I died a little inside watching that.

The importance of exotic underwear in Syria. I had no idea.

Meet Matt Furey, purveyor of perhaps one of the funniest martial arts products ever conceived. "While talking to my friend, Jon, about the war our country appears headed into with Iraq, we jokingly brought up how great it would be if U.S. President George W. Bush had a no-holds-barred fight with Ira...

"The fact of the matter is, I'm pretty drunk right now..." Awesome. I'm sold.

A collection of Criterion DVD box covers. (Also check out horror film posters at the same site.)

Inflatable breasts lost at sea.

Luden's cough drop commercial featuring sound work by Frank Zappa.

I don't mind undertaking a longer discussion of the Golden Rule, but if you don't mind I'd like to start a new thread for it to avoid cluttering this one.

The Golden Rule in various world religions. Ha! Even when they set out to look for it, they still can't find it in all religions. The Sikh, Unitarian and "Native Spiritual" statements seem more like affirmations of general goodwill rather than expressions of the "golden rule" per se. (Actually the ...

It Ends Today . First episode of what looks to be an intriguing web drama. Jack Handey explain the symbols on his flag. Mostly. "What does the T. rex stepping on the Martian mean? Perhaps scholars can figure it out." Here's some weird Victoriana for you: the Bathing Machine . Meet the First Cousin ...

American readers may not be aware that this year and for all time henceforth, Thanksgiving has been renamed Bruce Lee Day. You can celebrate by watching Bruce Lee reinvent popular pastimes , observing as he slaughters a turkey (with bonus LOLcat action!), learning from his methods of cross-cultural ...

Sex is a potentially wonderful thing that has all sorts of potential to be rendered squalid, awful and/or dangerous by abuse. I think the reason that apparently sex-positive cult movements often turn out to be abusive is that they're often hyper-hierarchical and abusive in other ways, and this winds...

Lovecraft and Linux collide in The Call of Cthubuntu.

Geology and the Obama vote. Fascinating.

Is there a classic mondegreen video in our future? Soon, eh Gandalf? Very soon.

Or should they all be neanderthals in the corners of the world? The former is an appealing challenge... but I also like the austerity of a human-dominated world. I tend to prefer the human-dominated worlds myself, at least in single-world settings, in so small part because conspecies have a tendenc...

The defining characteristic of slavery is that the worker does not own themselves; they are themselves owned and can be traded as a commodity. Technically, this is true of indenture -- though definitely not of serfdom -- and indeed even African slavery in the New World's Anglosphere started out form...

The apesploitation era has arrived, whether you wanted it to or not. (I recommending reading the above link while listening to the "Carter Takes a Train" cover Salmoneus linked above.)

langover94 wrote:This is one of the funniest things that I have seen in a while.

Have to admit I usually find that "hey, here's someone who wouldn't normally rap, rapping!" humour falls flat for me. But her capping off the moose was pretty funny.

The Blitzkrieg Bop and Get Carter covers are excellent. Impressive that it's the same guy playing all the instruments on those early postings.

Ketumak wrote:This new sound needs a name - any suggestions? UkeTube??

Post-Progressive UkeCore.

Pictures of old guys with young girls Very creepy and sad There seem to be a lot of different factors at play, with poverty present across the board but some cases being driven by considerations of tradition, others by out-and-out desperation. The stories of people in Afghanistan marrying off their...