Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

Io · Post by Io » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:36 am

Cat predicts death.

Kinda qreepi

Wycoval · Post by **Wycoval** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:57 pm

Chihuahua saves baby from rattlesnake bite.

- · Post by - » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:28 am

A BBC special on the little-known attempted fascist coup in America during the Great Depression, supported by figures like JP Morgan and Prescott Bush. (Insert "family tradition" joke here. Interesting factoids about the coup plotters; they relied on "liberty" and "support the troops" language, sought to turn the President into a puppet, and allegedly revealed themselves publicly as the "American Liberty League.")

"Back in my day, we had to climb a rope across a raging river to get to school..."

Electron Band Structure in Germanium, My Ass.

The term "flame war" gets a whole new meaning.

chris_notts · Post by **chris_notts** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:49 am

A Liberal Democrat Councillor in Devon strips for money on the side

TomHChappell · Post by **TomHChappell** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:00 pm

simon.clarkstone · Post by **simon.clarkstone** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:01 pm

chris_notts wrote:A Liberal Democrat Councillor in Devon strips for money on the side

They shouldn't have objected. They are supposed to be liberal.

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:42 pm

http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm

Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.

Newsmap does not pretend to replace the googlenews aggregator. Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it.

Quite interesting.

Alioth · Post by **Alioth** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 6:26 pm

Acute Wiiitis reported in New England Journal of Medicine.

Surgery by light of cell phones.

- · Post by - » Sun Aug 05, 2007 5:19 am

Good news from Iraq! The American embassy in Baghdad was built with abducted slave labour; tres retro! Returning vets, meanwhile, describe the war as a depraved enterprise consisting mostly of abuse, criminality, pointless raids and flailing against an invisible enemy. And the real reason for the invasion continues to push forward. Heckuva job, Bushie! (None of this, of course, should distract the brave heirs of Orwell from further contemplation of their navels.)

There's a fabulous archive of recordings of famous (and some not-so-famous) poets up at PENNsound. I can't recommend the Ezra Pound archive enough -- especially the material recorded pre-1960 -- both because the man's poetry was genuinely fascinating and his stentorian delivery was so unintentionally hilarious.

Home renovators uncover a mummified infant in the walls of a house.

Monkey-baiting and WikiPedia, two great tastes that taste great together.

And in a lighter vein, Kevin Smith takes a heckler to school.

- · Post by - » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:42 pm

Bonobos demonstrate cognitive abilities that stun scientists. Very cool.

More paleofutures in Tales of Future Past.

Of linguistic and conlanging interest: Silbo, the Whistling Language of La Gomera.

This one's for Shm Jay.

prickly pear · Post by **prickly pear** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:30 pm

Alioth wrote:Surgery by light of cell phones.

I've navigated a mile into drainage systems by cellphone light. Walked all the way through (~3 miles) w/ a regular flashlight.

Dudicon · Post by **Dudicon** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 1:23 pm

prickly pear wrote:
Alioth wrote:Surgery by light of cell phones.
I've navigated a mile into drainage systems by cellphone light. Walked all the way through (~3 miles) w/ a regular flashlight.

While it's true that cellphones are increasingly finding use as lighting devices (as well as, interestingly, replacing the lighter-sway at concerts), I really have to wonder how a hospital is completely lacking in any kind of emergency lighting. Even a flashlight or two! Sheesh.

bi · Post by bi » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:48 pm

And coming back to the Iraq war: war pundit and idiot savant (?) Michael Ignatieff enlists the help of Thomas Jefferson, bus drivers, and da Vinci to help Us win the war.

- · Post by - » Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:30 pm

Kind of amused that Silbo is getting a collective yawn. It's a language composed of whistles, people, are you conlangers or are you mice?

Link for today: if you've ever wanted your child to look like a creepy porcelain zombie, here's your chance.

bi: That's the best evisceration of Ignatieff I've seen yet, and there are lots of contenders. Love it.

- · Post by - » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:36 am

Danny Choo, dance trooper.

Tarasoriku · Post by **Tarasoriku** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:58 am

ils wrote:Kind of amused that Silbo is getting a collective yawn. It's a language composed of whistles, people, are you conlangers or are you mice?

I want to hear the classrooms where supposedly 3000 students are learning it.

bi · Post by bi » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:38 am

Someone's proposing the idea of Christian porn. I've to admit I don't know enough about the finer points of Christian theology to tell whether this idea is legitimate or not.

Tarasoriku · Post by **Tarasoriku** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:44 pm

bi wrote:Someone's proposing the idea of Christian porn. I've to admit I don't know enough about the finer points of Christian theology to tell whether this idea is legitimate or not.

Funniest thing I've ever seen, a highlight:

No profanity. Although exclamations of pleasure are acceptable, as are the natural sounds and vocalizations of lovemaking, Christian porn should contain no profanity or swearing. The participants should address each other lovingly and respectfully at all times. Of course, it goes without saying that the actors will not take the Lord’s name in vain, nor that of his Son.

See also their article on the scriptural precedent for fisting.

PrinceKai · Post by **PrinceKai** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:50 pm

Personally I like how it is permissable to have a male-female-female threesome, but not a male-male-female threesome, because the bible only explicitly condemns male homosexuality, but female homosexuality is open to interpretation.

brandrinn · Post by **brandrinn** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:22 pm

My favorite section from "Oral Sex and God's Will:"

The Necessity of Swallowing - The Sin of Spilling Seed

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:34 pm

Are you sure these aren’t the same kind of people as those ones who said this board was unChristian? If you look at the section on erectile disfunction, the quotes are certainly taken out of context.

tron cat · Post by **tron cat** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:29 pm

Before attempting fisting, a Christian husband and wife should pray together and ask for divine guidance. The husband should ask that God guide his hand and work through him, and for the skill and patience to fist his wife correctly and maximize her pleasure. The wife should pray for openness and readiness to receive God’s love and grace in the form of her husband’s hand.

Kinky.

Morrígan · Post by **Morrígan** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:59 am

brandrinn wrote:My favorite section from "Oral Sex and God's Will:"
The Necessity of Swallowing - The Sin of Spilling Seed

[rant]That's one of those biblical points which always makes me angry, since the thing in Genesis 38 is usually taken to mean that, as the website says, Onan was struck down for spilling his seed. But it is my understanding that he was instructed by his father to impregnate his dead brother's wife. So when that stupid site says: "this would have kept him from impregnating her, as well as completely prevented the spilling of seed that was an offense in God’s eyes." It is just plain wrong, yes? Was not the offending act his disobedience to his father?

Also, another funny thing is that they actually say that masturbation is OK because of the specific points mentioned above. In which case they are absolutely right. So, apparently God thinks masturbation is ok, but pulling out is an abhorrence in the eyes of the Lord.

Its just like those people who quote from Tanak to justify various things (like gay-hating), but walk around eating unclean food, and having shaved faces, and just generally not obeying the Law. So, Christians don't need to obey Torah, but they can use it to justify their beliefs?

Apparently some can.
[/rant]

Sorry, rant over. I'm going to bed.

Soap · Post by **Soap** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:24 am

Christian porn

- · Post by - » Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:22 am

"The Fist of Might" is never going to stop being funny. Never.

Also, can you spot the giant-sized loophole, boys and girls?

No extramarital sex, unless it is to illustrate the downfalls of adultery.

Well, alright then. A hundred film series on Hell's terrible, erotic punishments for adulterers coming right up...