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

- · Post by - » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:27 am

An excerpt from The Emperor of Scent, featuring a choice anecdote about the anosmic perfumier Jean Carles.

Vicus pyramid complex discovered in Peru.

Hitchcock Classics photo spreads.

The horrifying grid of Nezahualcoyotl.

Ollock · Post by **Ollock** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:53 am

Raphael wrote:Do you have what it takes to read this? Blogger liveblogs own vasectomy.

I got the intro to that in my reader. Not going to read the actual operation, though. BTW, they do vasectomies with the patient awake? Thinking about it, it makes some sense -- that bit of the anatomy is probably easy to target with a local anesthetic. But if someone's going to be snipping into my private parts, I wouldn't really want to watch it.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:54 am

ils wrote:The horrifying grid of Nezahualcoyotl.

That's terrifying. Is it the future of Humanity?

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:13 pm

Well, at least now I know what it's like to have a vasectomy.

Ollock · Post by **Ollock** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:40 pm

Yiuel wrote:
ils wrote:The horrifying grid of Nezahualcoyotl.
That's terrifying. Is it the future of Humanity?

Good lord! By my estimation each of those mega-blocks is a kilometer to a side!

- · Post by - » Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:48 am

Yiuel wrote:That's terrifying. Is it the future of Humanity?

It does look like something out of a dystopian sci-fi film, doesn't it?

For added spookiness, there's a link to a GoogleMaps view of a bizarre mega-structure (an airport?) near the city in the comments section.

- · Post by - » Mon Feb 25, 2008 10:34 am

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you quite possibly the longest and surely among the creepiest novels ever written: Henry Darger's The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, as caused by the Child Slave Rebellion. If you think that's something, just check out his art. (Actually, he was an undeniably talented illustrator, but it's all slightly off.)

The top fifty most memorable Dubya quotes.

Ol' Blue-Balls is Back! Apparently this commercial was actually broadcast.

Latest and greatest in toyland: it's Threaten-Me Elmo! Elmo knows your name... and where you sleep.

Just in case this infamous video of brazen looting in Belgrade hasn't already turned up in the Kosovo thread, here it is.

NakedCelt · Post by **NakedCelt** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:51 am

I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space

4-tonne railway bridge stolen

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:40 am

Beware the exploding whale with huge penis

Hold on to your cats and dogs, or your kids might experience this

Never give birth in a shitty hospital

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:38 pm

Hokulani wrote:Beware the exploding whale with huge penis

Are people sure the whale didn't just have a huge orgasm?

By the way, would dead people explode in such a way if they were left outside like that?

- · Post by - » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:04 am

Shm Jay wrote:By the way, would dead people explode in such a way if they were left outside like that?

Perhaps not quite as impressively.

It's too bad that "lesbian pirates" comic isn't drawn better. And spelled better. It's a fun concept.

Abandonments again: Night photography of the abandoned West. Best viewed while listening to Hank Williams Sr. or to Neko Case's "Furnace Room Lullaby" album.

- · Post by - » Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:53 am

The Doomsday Vault (or less sexily, the Svalbard International Seed Vault, but as if anyone's going to call it that) should probably go down as a wonder of the modern world once it's implemented.

Soap · Post by **Soap** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 7:33 am

Hokulani wrote:Never give birth in a shitty hospital

I looked for more info about her story but I cant find anything newer than May 20, 2007. It seems that she finally got a judge to order the hospital to turn over their medical records which presumably show that other patients on her floor had Strep at the time and that she may have been contaminated by a doctor who failed to clean himself properly.

Risla · Post by **Risla** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:13 am

Speaking of shitty births...

I thought it was a turd, really!

- · Post by - » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:08 am

Soap wrote:which presumably show that other patients on her floor had Strep at the time and that she may have been contaminated by a doctor who failed to clean himself properly.

Why presumably so?

Soap · Post by **Soap** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:22 am

ils wrote:
Soap wrote:which presumably show that other patients on her floor had Strep at the time and that she may have been contaminated by a doctor who failed to clean himself properly.
Why presumably so?

Because I really cant see why the hospital would make such a fuss over it if that werent the case. Their excuse was "it's an invasion of the privacy of the other patients," but that doesnt seem genuine to me because I really dont think Mejia or her lawyers would remember or care about what diseases the other patients had if strep wasnt one of them.

- · Post by - » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:03 pm

Soap wrote:
ils wrote:
Soap wrote:which presumably show that other patients on her floor had Strep at the time and that she may have been contaminated by a doctor who failed to clean himself properly.
Why presumably so?
Because I really cant see why the hospital would make such a fuss over it if that werent the case.

Well, I mean, there's other forms of malpractice it could be. Like, maybe she didn't have flesh-eating disease at all and was wheeled off to be multiply amputated as a case of mistaken identity. It would have to be something profoundly bad for them to try to clam up the way they did, but I don't know that we can draw any conclusions beyond that.

- · Post by - » Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:52 pm

I have a lot of stories about things evening out, but I think the one about the Nobel Prize-winning bum is the best.

Fidel on retirement. "Exploding cigars! Can you believe that?"

Soap · Post by **Soap** » Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:14 pm

That guy's hilarious

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:58 am

Sorry for the stupid question, but- am I right to assume that the subtitles there are a joke?

- · Post by - » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:28 am

Raphael wrote:Sorry for the stupid question, but- am I right to assume that the subtitles there are a joke?

It's the same genre of Youtubing that gave us Hitler as a Cowboys fan, let's put it that way.

Beware these scourges of society.

Xephyr · Post by **Xephyr** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:14 am

Shm Jay wrote:
Hokulani wrote:This is why I dont understand Jehovah's Witnesses
They’re as bad as Scientologists, in my opinion.

It seems to be part of a series. I actually saw this episode.

What really gets me is this:

This should allow his growths to be removed without risk of heavy bleeding – satisfying his religious prohibition on blood transfusions that has so far hampered his search for treatment.

At that point, the hospitals are still worrying about the patient's religious prohibition of blood transfutions? Don't they have priorities!? I don't remember any "unless it offends their religion" clause in the Hippocratic Oath. If I were a surgeon with any sort of conscience whatsoever, the conversation would go a bit like this:

<Doctor_Me> We have to remove his growth as soon as possible. It will require a blood transfusion.
<Stupid_Jehovahs_Witness> But our religion prohibits bl--
<Doctor_Me> Fuck off.
* Doctor_Me does the goddamn surgery

Radius Solis · Post by **Radius Solis** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:14 am

So you support performing surgery on the unwilling? Interesting.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:28 am

I would tell them to find another doctor.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:05 am

Same thing here. Want to have it your way, find a doctor (or any professional) that will do it your way.

You can try to be as complying as possible, but when you can't you can't, and society doesn't have to pay for it.