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| Friday Oct 18, 2002 | The
gay male community is having a somewhat understated
schism at the moment. Currently, there are aficionados of standard gay fare, oral and anal sex, but there is a growing (and vocal!)
contingent which are into
consensual frotteurism, specifically
rubbing penises together. This is sometimes known as
"swordfighting." The
devotees of this brand of lovemaking refer to themselves, politico-partisan-style, as
cock rub warriors.
to Sex by isosceles |
| If you spent your kidhood sometime in the past 50 years you know the name Wham-O - which was based on the sound made by the company's first sensation: the Wham-O Slingshot. Over the years the names of their creations have become household words: Frisbee...Hula Hoop...Superball...Hacky Sack. And unlike other toys of the past half-century which either disappeared into obscurity or collector's vaults, Wham-O's products continue to be manufactured and updated while still maintaining the charm of the originals. Wham-O's imaginative water toys are perennial favourites. Recall that yellow Slip-n-Slide you belly-flopped on as a kid on the summer lawns of the seventies...and watch today's kids romp through various 21st century versions, which have grown tunnels, waterfalls, asteroid obstacles and tidal waves. Wham-O had been assimilated by the toy monolith, Mattel, in 1994...but a few years later, in a refreshing change of pace from the usual way of such things, they de-Borged themseves to become independent again.
to Toys by monde |
| Tove Jansson,
author of the popular
"moomintroll"
children's books, once
illustrated a
Swedish version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit."
to Art by riotnrrd |
| "I'm Sally, and I'm Johnny! Black people love us!"
to Humor by buttercup |
| "Achewood": surreal daily strip about a group of stuffed bears, and the wormwood-like active ingredient in the production of "achewater," a long- since outmoded and outlawed Southern beverage. Drinkers of achewater experienced hallucinations and euphoria, but the after-effects of the liquor produced a deep and lasting melancholy. to Comics by monkfish |
| Thursday Oct 17, 2002 | Worried about the safety of your children?
Patented SafetyLockTM prevents unwanted removal: activate manually or remotely, citizen!
to Technology by goboro |
| In the deep of summer, 200
sign painters
invade
Mars, PA. to Art by goboro |
| When art is outlawed, only outlaws will create art.
to Art by fatherdan |
| Marc Weidenbaum wants you to read comics in public.
to Comics by crikey |
| Counterscript provides an interesting tool for dealing with those pesky telemarketers if more traditional methods fail. to Communication by fool |
| Wednesday Oct 16, 2002 | The proliferation of portable electronic devices has created a
new demand for
clothing
that can hold, or even
help connect, all this new gear.
But leave it to the Japanese to take this idea to
weird
extremes.
to Fashion by riotnrrd |
| Europe can teach us a
valuable lesson
about racism; namely, that we're not nearly
thorough
enough
to Politics by riotnrrd |
| Bad music scares me.
to Flash by isosceles |
| Tuesday Oct 15, 2002 | In the same
Borgesian
vein as
The Invisible Library, comes the
Rocklopedia
Fakebandica: a list of fake bands from movies and TV shows.
to Music by riotnrrd |
| Although the general public often seems surprised when librarians don't fit their pre-conceived image, the profession has celebrated its own differences for years. Librarians are funny, irreverent, interesting, and often radical people. Though popular culture includes considerable library material, it often ignores those on the fringe.
to Culture by yoyology |
| Friday Oct 11, 2002 | After a googly, bumper, or a yorker, I think I'd fancy a Scrumpy Jack, guv'nor.
to Sports by fatherdan |
| It's a fusebox that pushes things down staircases and removes stubborn stains and other surreal inventions of the Prior-Art-O-Matic. to Art by fool |
| Despite being quintessentially useless, home robots such as the Evolution
ER1, the Probotics
Cye, and Sony's
Aibo are beginning to gain popularity,
and the next iteration of personal robots such as the vacuuming
Roomba and the
Solar Mower may actually prove to be useful.
As robots coopt humanity's upright
mode of transportation they may even become downright ubiquitous.
Consider, however, the increasingly creepy implications of current robotics research - from the emotional
Kismet, to the humanoid
Asimo, robots are becoming both
visually accute and dextrous,
capable of recharging themselves,
feeding themselves as well as
hunting and devouring prey, and finally
reproducing themselves.
Indeed, with
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles rapidly becoming
Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles and
beyond, there may be
no place for humans at all in the
impending robotic holocaust.
to Robotics by joshua |
| Congratulations, achiever! Not only is your biography included in Who's Who in America, but you are now eligible to acquire lovely commemorative merchandise!
to Society by tregoweth |
| Thursday Oct 10, 2002 | "I hate sports, love strawberry sorbet, and own a pair of tight zebra-print
pants.
Does that make me gay?" to Sex by riotnrrd |
| The kind of fringe Christianity displayed at The Cutting Edge can be pretty scary. Paranoid diatribes against Clintons, Freemasons, Catholics, and pretty much the rest of organized Christianity abound. Even more disturbing, though, are the accompanying images by artist Gerry Warner. His work is fascinating in its complexity and imagery even when employed on less inflammatory subject matter. to Religion by yoyology |
| Hey kids, want to learn something really fresh and dope about food safety? Meet Thermy and Bac, your friendly USDA food safety mascots! They're really to the max! to Health by roo |
| Wednesday Oct 9, 2002 | "Driven by a dream I had at the age of twenty-three during my junior year at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, I began to draw pigs with wings. I drew pigs with wings over and over until, during my senior year, I realized it might be possible to actually create a real winged pig by employing tattoos."
to Art by joshua |
| Tuesday Oct 8, 2002 | The phrase "race riot" may bring up images of
Watts,
Los Angeles,
Cincinnati, or a host of
other places, but most people would not think of
Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 1921, Tulsa's prosperous Greenwood neighborhood was called
"The Black Wall Street". In June of that year, black residents rose up to
resist an imminent lynching, and white Tulsans responded by
burning
Greenwood to the
ground. Though many in Tulsa would like to forget, the
repercussions are
still being felt. to History by yoyology |
| Note to would-be plagiarists: If your source claims that "Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza" means "The Big Ass Spanish Boat", you should probably not report it as fact in your student newspaper, as the results could be embarrassing. to Linguistics by sylvar |
| Are your children smarter than average? Perhaps you want to read them Fairy Tales for the Erudite, featuring great renditions of such classics as The Minikin Incarnadine Cowl-Titivated Gamine (a.k.a. "Little Red Riding Hood"), or The Basilic Paludal Denizen (a.k.a. "The Frog Prince"), or perhaps simply The Elves and the Shoemaker. to Books by isosceles |
| Monday Oct 7, 2002 | In 1040 a Chinese alchemist named Pi Sheng invented the earliest printing press. In 1436 Johann Gutenberg rediscovered the idea, hoping to get rich by automating the creation of indulgences, expensive documents of divine forgiveness the Roman Catholic Church sold to wealthy sinners from about 1050 to 1562. Gutenberg's subsequent get-rich-quick scheme, a mass-produced Bible, revolutionized the world by democratizing the written word. Today the supremacy of the written word has been dethroned by movies and television. Enter the home computer, which is on the cusp of making film-making available even to people without wealth or political connections. For a glimpse of the coming revolution, check out opening credits from Rustboy, Rocketmen vs. Robots, Pica Towers and the fan-trailer for Star Wars Episode III: Rise of the Empire. Go, humanity! to Media by cricket |
| Argyria is a medical condition wherein ingestion of quasi-medical silver compounds causes the skin to turn blue-grey. This discoloration corresponds to silver deposits in the skin. As silver is a generally nontoxic substance, argyria is physically harmless, although the permanent disfigurement can have profound psychological effects. There are more than a few famous cases of argyria. to Health by isosceles |
| Celebriducks
answers the question that's been on everyone's mind: what sort of horrifying
hellbeast would result if our favorite celebrities' genes were spliced with
those of a duck?
Feast your eyes on such disturbing duck-creatures as
Shakespeare,
Queen
Elizabeth,
Dracula,
and
James
Brown.
And cringe at the thought of what the upcoming
Dr. Frank N.
Furter celebriduck will look like.
to Toys by fatherdan |
| For those who want their welding mask to say
"Take care. I could snap at any minute."
to Fashion by fatherdan |
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