I have decided to become one of those eccentric writers and start handing in all my manuscripts to my editor hand-written in one of these: I really hope those are the Infinity Stones, and that’s the Time Stone in the center because that’s the one I’d use all the time to extend deadlines. (That item…
Category: intertubes flotsam.
worst product idea of the decade.
The hilarious Amazon product review page of the month: the Wheelmate Laptop Steering Wheel Desk. (Yes, it’s a desk you can put on your car’s steering wheel.) The comments are gold, but pay particular attention to the customer images.
a left argument for gun rights.
I’ve had an essay in the works for weeks now. It’s mostly for my liberal and left-leaning friends and lays out in great detail why opposition to civilian gun ownership is fundamentally un-progressive, historically and philosophically speaking. And out comes The Polemicist with an article that precisely lays out the argument for gun ownership from…
god’s gift to women, that one.
One Joshua Becker, a student at USF in Tampa, apparently thinks it’s fun to sexually harass strange women over the Internets. Only the target of his dubious attention didn’t take his shit lying down (no pun intended) and posted screen shots of the entire exchange online. She also pledged to send the evidence to both…
analog data: the longevity thereof.
One of my regular reads from the old Fatherland has an interesting article today about a letter that took 71 years to deliver. (link is in German) In WWII, German troops occupied the Channel island of Jersey for five years. Some of the local yoots decided to steal a bag of German military mail as…
africa for norway.
I love this so much, I can hardly put it into words. The perfect send-up of self-congratulatory, condescending Bono-type soy latte activism:
lovecraft OS.
Here’s a clever and disturbing Tumblr page with Windows 95 Tips & Tricks. (God, do those Windows 95 dialog boxes ever give me a flashback to my mid-90s tech support days.)
it was pretty much inevitable.
The Internet has picked up the “binders full of women” thing and is running with it via product reviews for Avery binders at Amazon.
“jackass” auf deutsch.
This video of a German dude doing a hop into a frozen pool—with fairly predictable results regarding personal injury—kicked over my giggle box this morning. If only there was a German word for glee or joy at the misfortune of others… At least he’s a good enough sport to laugh at his own idiocy. Rock…
the little essay that keeps getting borrowed.
I really dislike people who write guest columns that use someone else’s material, especially when that material came out of my head, not theirs. One Mr. James W. King wrote a guest column for the Albany Herald. I use the loosest possible definition of the word “wrote”, because for his column, Mr. King limited his…