anemocracy
n. a government by the wind
Frank Hurley took the photo above during Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911. “The figure is actually leaning on a constant 100 miles per hour wind while picking ice for culinary purposes.”
anonymous asked: yooooo just thought i’d report back that there was a lot of racist shit going on today! here’s your daily racism update: it still exists!
Flat out, no one needs this service.
That is probably a correct enough move.
This prudence of not attempting to give reasons before one is sure of facts, I learnt from one of your sex, who, as Selden tells us, being in company with some gentlemen that were viewing, and considering something which they called a Chinese shoe, and disputing earnestly about the manner of wearing it, and how it could possibly be put on; put in her word, and said modestly, Gentlemen, are you sure it is a shoe?–Should not that be settled first?
– Benjamin Franklin, letter to Mary Stevenson, Sept. 13, 1760
What’s unusual about this paragraph, composed by Lawrence Cowan?
Trade was arrested as a base act after federated reserves regressed faster as extracted free trade was saved as extra reverted waste. Deserted as better fates were created, a few brave castes feared effects as excess stargazers were severed. Statecraft fretted, staggered, braced as steadfast braggarts beat state stewards, stewardesses. Tested as a great craze, trade traversed war; zest was dead as a few eager asses abated better treats, detested street fracases. Facts were effaced as we attested a great faded age.
Physician Eugene Lazowski was practicing medicine in the Polish town of Rozwadów when he discovered that injecting healthy patients with dead bacteria could cause them to test positive for epidemic typhus without experiencing any symptoms.
Working secretly with his friend Stanislaw Matulewicz, Lazowski began injecting thousands of Poles in the surrounding villages, deliberately creating the appearance of an epidemic. Fearful of a contagious illness, the Nazis quarantined the affected villages rather than sending their residents on to concentration camps.
Lazowski’s efforts saved an estimated 8,000 men, women, and children who would otherwise have been sent to prisons, slave labor camps, or death camps. He survived the war and moved to the United States in 1958, where he taught medicine in Illinois.
“He’s why I became a doctor,” one of the spared villagers, Jan Hryniewiezki, told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2000. “He was a patriotic hero because he wasn’t afraid to do what he did during very bad times.”
“The basic duty of a physician is to preserve life,” Lazowski explained, “and this was a way of saving lives.”
No one old enough to have Tetris nostalgia needs to have the crusts cut off their sandwich.
Besides which, this is missing the other S-shape and the tall shape.
Why waste those precious calories moving your hand and mouth around when you could hold this motorized ice cream cone up to your stupid face and smoosh the ice cream into it automatically? After all, if there’s one thing we need in the year 2013, it’s all the calories we can get.
anonymous asked: Yoooo man, yo! Yo! : > D
This is not racist.
anonymous asked: All you really need to do to determine whether this fucking verdict is fucking racist is reverse the races of the plaintiff and defendant. “Uh, I saw this suspicious looking white guy and then I followed him even though the cops told me not to just to, you know, make sure he didn’t steal anything, and then he attacked me and so I shot him." Would a black guy get an innocent verdict off of that defense? No? THEN THIS VERDICT IS FUCKING RACIST.
Not that we needed any clarification that the results of the Zimmerman trail are some racist bullshit, but this kind of works.
In the control room of each of the United Kingdom’s four nuclear submarines is a safe. Inside the safe is another safe, and inside that is a handwritten letter from the prime minister to the submarine’s commander telling him what to do if a nuclear strike has destroyed the British state.
When a new prime minister takes office, his letters are destroyed unopened, so it’s not clear how extensive the instructions are. According to the 2009 BBC Radio 4 report The Human Button, they include these options:
“In that letter,” wrote the Daily Mail in 2008, “Gordon Brown conveys the most awesome decision of his political career … and none of us is ever likely to know what he decided.”
(Thanks, Zach.)
A man’s wife disappears and he’s accused of killing her. At the trial, his lawyer tells the jury, “Ladies and gentlemen, I have amazing news. Not only is my client’s wife actually alive, but she’ll walk through that door in ten seconds.”
An expectant silence settles over the courtroom, but nothing happens.
“Think about that,” the lawyer says. “The fact that you were watching the door, expecting to see the missing woman, proves that you have a reasonable doubt as to whether a murder was actually committed.”
He sits down confidently, and the judge sends the jury off to deliberate. They return in ten minutes and declare the man guilty.
“Guilty?” says the lawyer. “How can that be? You were all watching the door!”
“Most of us were watching the door,” says the foreman. “But one of us was watching the defendant, and he wasn’t watching the door.”
HpeckerFinally
We counted and quantified every reference Jay-Z has made to crack/cocaine, so you don’t have to: natpo.st/1dfiQXQ
anonymous asked: Yo, if you tell someone that reverse racism isn’t a thing and they quote the dictionary at you to point out that under one definition of ‘racism’ it’s not possible to be racist against white people, and on another it is, they’re fucking racist, right?
Dogg, here’s a tip, if you’re arguing with someone and they bring out the dictionary as part of their evidence, you’re talking to someone who is 15 years old.
anonymous asked: Is it ok for people to say all blondes are stupid?
Did you ever notice how that shit is always code for talking about women? It’s almost like sexists think this bullshit hides that fact!
I wish there were an object you could get for cheap that smelled like wood and looked like a stick, for dogs to play with. Until some day when that mystical “real stick from any tree” shows up, we’ll have to use the $15 Petstages Durable Stick.
Customers note that the premise of this thing doesn’t even hold up – it seems that many dogs can easily gnaw the Durable Stick to shreds and eat it.
From Henry Dudeney’s 300 Best Word Puzzles:
Pie chart of on-screen coffee sips for each Twin Peaks character, to go with our supercut of all the pie and coffee in Twin Peaks.
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In 2005 Toronto artist Brian Joseph Davis assembled more than 5,000 film taglines into one long narrative.
This version, read by voice-over artist Scott Taylor, is only an excerpt — the whole thing runs to 22 pages (PDF).
HpeckerSpace Ghost reference!
On learning that weather erodes granite one inch every 100,000 years, sculptor Gutzon Borglum added an extra three inches to each president’s features on Mount Rushmore.
“Three inches would require 300,000 years to bring the work down to the point that I would like to finish it,” he said. “In other words, the work will not be done for another 300,000 years, as it should be.”
(Thanks, Matt.)
Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?
– Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness,” 1935
Good gosh dang and a holy moly, it’s Wednesday again! How many of these things are there going to be? It seems that they’ll never stop.
Here’s a comic for you, as always, and also a fun little bonus video that raises some serious questions about my toes.
Please tell me about your toes, my friends. I want to know all about them.
Tony
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