i wish i was a geeky boy, because this would make my day — a website with lots of hot chicks posing with network equipment :
unfortunatelly, i’m not a geeky boy. and somehow, i have my doubts about there being an equivalent of this for girls. like, chip’n dale with motherboards. but then again, we may be better off without it.
Stolen from an article here — Maddox was probably being sarcastic when he said that we need to clone Ben Stiler so that there can be more Ben Stiler movies, but I experienced profound agreement with this statement when trying to find a turkey-coma-appropriate movie yesterday and realized that I’d already seen all the Ben Stiler movies my video store has. But Cry Baby was good too and I highly recommend it.
The old are trying to reach out to the youngsters through da SMS lingo. First da bible, now English literature. In order to aid students in studying literary classics, a professor at University College London is spearheading a project to condense plots into short messages written in “accessible” language. For example:
FeudTween 2hses- Montague&Capulet. RomeoMfalls_<3w/_JulietC@mary Secretly Bt R kils J’s Coz &&is banishd. J fakes Death. As Part of Plan2b-w/R Bt_leter Bt It Nvr Reachs Him. Evry1confuzd-bothLuvrs kil Emselves
5Sistrs WntngHsbnds. NwMeninTwn-Bingly&Darcy. Fit&Loadd.BigSis Jane Fals 4B,2ndSisLiz H8s D Coz Hes Proud. Slimy Soljr Wikam Sys DHs Shady Past.Trns Out Hes Actuly ARlyNysGuy &RlyFancysLiz. She Decyds She Lyks Him.Evry1 Gts Maryd.
How dumb do they think the kids are these days?!?!?!
Nothing brings a smile to my face better than a website offering Germans for rent.
rentagerman.de offers a wide range of Germans for your personal and social needs.
You can select the German of your choice for an exclusive lifetime experience:
Imagine to appear with your German at parties, family events, or just hang out with them at the local shopping center.
No matter which occasion you choose, you will surely impress your environment by presenting an original German.
The customer reviews are pretty, well, enthusiastic:
Samantha F., 27 (London): “I had such a lovely evening with the German and my mates: After the pub, we went dancing. My friends were thoroughly impressed by the German moves. I was gobsmacked when the German even cleaned my house the next day, before I was awake! Will definitely rent again.”
But the pictures top it all off.
I don’t want to make any rush decisions, but I like whoever made this website (fingers crossed, fingers crossed, let’s hope i didn’t get suckered into some marketing scheme more genious than anything i could ever come up with.)
When a banner ad appeared advertising “Lot 49 - we welcome our new overlords,” my this-could-be-funny complusion kicked in, and I followed the link.
Lot 49 may be Brainspace’s long lost cousin. The selection of “wonderful things” matches my taste in “wonderful things” almost exactly. The tech and political news are interesting bits and pieces. My only dislike? The ‘about’ section. Could someone explain to me what it is about that style of writing that grates on my nerves?
Some of my fav posts from the past couple days:
- Hunting Season Opens for Mythical Creature (Loch Ness is next…)
- “Jesus Juice” Merlot Coming Soon (wow.)
- Bra’s in the News (he did miss the cheese bra though)
- Physics of Cow Tipping (It’s not that easy!)
- Liberal Church Threatened By IRS (boy are my parents in trouble)
I was working pretty much diligently, NOT reading amusing blogs or directories of wonderful things, and yet, I still found an amusing porn story — this time about a porn flick made in the Yale library. Will it ever stop? I mean, I don’t really want it to stop, but this blog was not intended to be about porn. Was it?
Excerpt:
Porn ‘N Chicken, considered by its members to be a “counterculture group” at Yale University, has produced the first pornographic movie in the school’s 300-year history. The group congregates weekly to watch a video and eat fried chicken, biscuits and beer.
The group’s film, “The Staxxx,” takes place in the dusty corridors of Yale’s library. Cast member Andi Young, a Yale junior, told the Yale Daily News that the film intends to portray “the stuff college students actually do.”
Well, to keep with the recent theme (hint: dear fellow contributors, get off your lazy butts because i can’t keep writing about porn forever…), you might want to know that the term pornography was invented by a German archaeologist:
(from a book by John Clarke called Roman Sex, via a friend who reads this stuff for a living)
“It is hard to believe that it was a German archaeologist, C.O. Mueller, who invented the word pornography in 1850. Writing a scientific handbook on archaeology, Mueller searched for a word to describe the many objects found at Pompeii and elsewhere that he and other archaeologists considered ‘obscene’. Like any good academician, he delved into his Greek dictionary and found a likely word, ‘pornographein’, meaning ‘to write about prostitutes’. Ancient Greek literature had passed down this term to describe men who wrote about famous ‘pornai’ - highly skilled women, who, somewhat like the Japanese geisha, entertained men at drinking parties with music, dance and sex.”
Interesting, non?
I read a mention of an interview with a Christian porn star somewhere. It piqued my curiosity and I googled. I highly recommend reading the whole interview, regardless of whether it’s real or not.
Douglas: Speaking of autobiographies, can you tell me your testimony-how you came to Christ.
CP: That’s a really great story. We were filming a love scene in a church, and I overheard the pastor telling the director all about Jesus. The director blew him off, but I wanted to hear more. So after the love scene was over, I found the pastor and asked to hear more. He told me how Jesus died for my sins and that accepting him would let me have a personal, one on one, relationship with God.
Douglas: Did the minister tell you, after you accepted Christ, that you needed to stop living your current life and start living for Christ?
CP: He’s the one who encouraged me to be a Christian porn star.
Douglas: What kind of minister was this?
CP: Methodist.
After reading the interview I decided to do some more research on Christian porn. I just couldn’t resist, I was hoping to seen an example (haven’t found one yet, any recommendations?). What I found instead was a proposal for establishment of Christian porn according to the Bible. Interesting indeed: (more…)
Okay, in honor of Gohar, who refuses to read our blog, I am starting a separate category for boobs. I just couldn’t help it and had to share this story from BoingBoing:
A Dutch designer has come up with an ingenious way to help goofy, bra-shopping men accurately report on their significant others’ boob-size — by giving them a wall of variously-sized boobs to squeeze until they find a pair that seems about right:
“When trying to buy a sexy bra for their wife or girlfriend, usually they point to other women in the shop or, when asked about size, they say a ‘handful’.”
The wall consists of rows of silicon breasts in all sizes. By look and touch, male shoppers can work out the right size, she says.
I love that you can have a picture of boobs on the home page of a well respected newspaper website in Slovakia. Granted, it’s a Helmut Newton print that just sold for 264,000 euros… But still, what’s wrong with boobs? Why couldn’t CNN report on this story? Just look at them…
Pointer: Don’t circulate sensitive documents in a format that allows you to track changes.
You know those times when you’re drinking some wine after a long day at work and ahead of another one, drinking and chatting, and then a random phrase like anal leakage comes up? You do, right?
Couple minutes later you can’t quite remember how that happened but now you are (bravely) determined to image-google it? There, the number one result (a cute poop cartoon) leads you to a somewhat funny story about a do-it-yourself experiment on leakage effects of Olestra. Funny enonugh to appreciate when you’re tired and drunk. But you were really looking for was a diamond in the rough kind of an image, that Google failed to provide. So you AltaVista it. And it pretty much almost didn’t fail:
I hope you didn’t expect this post to be funny or make sense. It was about anal leakage for god’s sake. But yes, wouldn’t eat those Frito Lay chips that claim to be fat free.
Have you ever wondered what blargh means? According to Dictionary.com it is: “An exclamation indicating that one has absorbed or is emitting a quantum of unhappiness.” A quantum packet of unhappiness!!! It is also the opposite of ping. Usage example: “Often, CMK can be pretty blargh.”
Now, there’s a keeper.
This is not a review (but I’m pretty sure I liked the movie a lot). This is about how they fooled me. While watching the movie, I kept thinking, hmm, the Ukraine is so beautiful. Wow, it looks just like Slovakia. I absolutely have to go visit! I even made preliminary dream travel plans to check out Uzhorod, and Kiev, and Odessa and some obscure places in addition to that. Well, no wonder I felt such emotional connection to the film’s landscape — IT WAS FILMED AROUND PRAGUE (yes, prague is not in Slovakia, but I claim it as part of my “motherland” anyways).
First I was mad. But here’s their reasoning:
Although the filmmakers had initially scouted the Ukraine, they decided to film in and around Prague. Says Schreiber, “The Ukraine was beautiful and a wonderful place to shoot, but there just weren’t the back up resources. I was lucky enough to have shot a film in Prague as an actor and had become great friends with Matthew Stillman who runs Stillking, one of Prague’s best production companies. I sent him the script and he was convinced we could shoot it there. He invited us to Prague and when I saw the locations I realized they were not only a perfect match for the Ukrainian countryside, but they were also really beautiful.”
Also, another thing that became illuminated while looking into this issue: the reason why I liked the cinematography of the movie a lot is because it was done by Matthew Libatique of Requiem for a Dream (as well as Phone Booth and Pi and I’m sure many other things).
