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A face only a mother could love … maybe

Posted in Miscellany, Weirdness, tagged animals, ugly on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Presenting the world’s ugliest animals.
I don’t agree with all the choices, but many do have faces that could break a mirror.

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80% is better than nothing

Posted in Books, tagged AGW, culture of corruption, global warming, Ian Plimer, Michelle Malkin on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Oh, well. I tried. Really. I made it through eight books and well into a ninth before breaking my pledge to read ten books before buying another. But, last night I couldn’t hold out any longer: I ordered not one, but two books:

Ian Plimer’s Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science. I’m a deep [...]

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A monument to stupidity

Posted in Weirdness, tagged rainbows, stupid people, video on July 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Wow. Just …wow. The narrator of this video has never heard of light refraction, and thinks rainbows in sprinklers are something that happened in the last 20 years due to some sort of contamination. Watch, and be amazed (or appalled):

It’s scary to think that she probably votes, too…
(hat tip: Ace)

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Something for clown-philes (and -phobics) everywhere

Posted in Weirdness, tagged clowns, courts, nightmares, trials on July 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We’ve often suspected our justice system was run by clowns, and now there’s proof:

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Melancholia

Posted in Miscellany, tagged bad mood, blahs, Kierkegaard, melancholy on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

To paraphrase Kierkegaard,
“There is nothing so bleak as the memories of futures that will never be.”

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I don’t care if they’re evil – we must have them!

Posted in News, Weirdness, science fiction, tagged military, robots on July 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Come on, don’t act surprised. Of course someone like me, who grew up loving old science-fiction movies and Japanese anime, would feel his heart go pitter-pat at the thought of US war robots that feed on the dead:
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself [...]

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