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Look what The Internet hath brought us today...
31 Dec 2004

Fun with Electron Microscopes

Is there any other kind?

21 Dec 2004

The Authentic History Center has some fascinating stuff including:
Treasure Chest's This Godless Communism

Eclipse Enterprises' Trading Card Series The Iran-Contra Scandal

Marvel Comic's Spider Man: Black Issue (December 2001) and others.
It's not all comics related, in case my jejeune selection gives you that impression.


Looking for something else, I found this - it's not even slightly new:
The John Paul Sartre Cookbook

...Still working on the omelet. There have been stumbling blocks. I keep creating omelets one after another, like soldiers marching into the sea, but each one seems empty, hollow, like stone. I want to create an omelet that expresses the meaninglessness of existence, and instead they taste like cheese. I look at them on the plate, but they do not look back. Tried eating them with the lights off. It did not help. Malraux suggested paprika...
Another work in the fine tradition of Woody Allen's If The Impressionists Had Been Dentists.

15 Dec 2004

Some Pre-holiday Cheer

Ten Appalling Christmas Specials That Never Happened
Ayn Rand's A Selfish Christmas (1951) Prior to broadcast, Mutual Broadcast System executives raised objections to the radio play, noting that 56 minutes of the hour-long broadcast went to a philosophical manifesto by the elf and of the four remaining minutes, three went to a love scene between Santa and the cold, practical Mrs. Claus that was rendered into radio through the use of grunts and the shattering of several dozen whiskey tumblers. In later letters, Rand sneeringly described these executives as "anti-life."
(Originally on Scalzi's blog, National Lampoon bought it for their website.)

And One That Did
The Star Wars Holiday Special The basis of the Holiday Special is a two hour long drama set on the Wookie homeworld on which Chewbacca's wife Malla, son Lumpy and father Itchy await the return of Chewie in time for Light Day- a sort of Wookie Christmas... There is good entertainment, and then there is bad entertainment. Then there is the so-bad-that-it's-good zone, but the Star Wars Holiday Special occupies a hitherto undiscovered region on the spectrum. It is so bad that it saps one's will to live. It is a malignant hydra with the faces of those we know and love and a body of pure evil.
Well, everyone's entitled to respect for their deeply held beliefs.
Mr. Gordon Prentice (Pendle) (Lab): I am still perplexed because there is no definition of religion. On the 2001 census form, 5,015 people in Sheffield gave Jedi knight as their religion. I hate "Star Wars", so should I be worried?

Mr. Blunkett {Home Secretary}: If someone incited people because of their love of "Star Wars", or against people with a love of "Star Wars", they would be caught under existing law, but not in terms of religion. That is the whole point—

9 Dec 2004

Scary Baby Jesus Head

That Landover spin-off (well-wishers?) Objective: Christian Ministries produced the above creepy parodic* item. Mouseover to hear the strangled cry: "Why??!"

* I just realised, gullible schmuck that I am.


Nobody Here

More interactive web fun. Just press the curly icon for a random page.

7 Dec 2004

Dog Island
Over 2,500 dogs are already enjoying a better life at Dog Island. Separated from the anxieties of urban life, dogs on Dog Island are healthy dogs who live a natural, healthy and happy life, free from the stress and hardship associated with daily live among humans.

They live with almost limitless space, and tens of thousands of rabbits, rodents, fish and other natural prey. Surrounded by thousands of other dogs, this is the only place for them to be truly social and create healthy families.

Dogs at Dog Island have another chance.
My response oscillates between "Awwww..." and "Man, that's creepy!"

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