via MetaFilter by allkindsoftime
Zimbabwe introduces half-a-billion dollar note.
When life imitates that one blahg, it is time to cower and hide boyz and girlz. This is just plain outta control.
Thursday
Oh SHIT, Bernanke must be in Zimbabwe!
After the fall
Expert warns of human 'barbarisation' due to effects of climate change
from Guardian Unlimited Science by James Randerson
I had a vision of the future not unlike this prognostication while riding my bicycle home from work the other day. However, I saw the unwashed masses huddled in anarchic tribes squatting in abandoned strip malls opposite each other. The Wal-Mart raiders regularly abducting the Target clan's women and pillaging their SPAM stores.
I'm sure there is a cyberpunk story in there somewhere when a teched-out, middle-class, cold-and-precise security agent has to venture forth from his master corporation's compound in search of some limited resource or missing heir, and rather than finding the object of their original search instead finds the true meaning of humanity. I haven't got the stomach for it though, it was just a passing vision as I huffed and puffed in the sweltering humid afternoon for goodness sake!
Anyway, this doom-and-gloom headline instantly brought the image of a horde of Conanesque warriors rallying outside of a high-security corporate compound, hooting and hollering at the gates. So, I give you another in the now-lengthening line of crappy photoshop jobs.
Tuesday
Choose wisely
UPDATE: Okay, I said it was PROBABLY SFW before, because I didn't study the area beneath the axe, if you will. Maxo has done that job for me now though, as you can see if you read the comments. So, thanks, maxo, for taking that hit. Apparently it is a completely and totally NSFW image if one views it carefully and studies the bits and the pieces. I ain't goin' back to look at it again though. Good job El Maxo. Good job.
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The only readers I know I have are my friends (though there seem to be a few others, based on feed stats). Because of this fact, I am going to give you all an option. Do you want to see the most frightening thing of all time? It is probably SFW, but not appropriate for anywhere really. I wouldn't choose to look at it at work. So, well, choose wisely young padawan. Should you decide you want to see something that is at once terrifying and quite hilarious, click here.
DARE to be malnutritioned
Afghans swap poppies for wheat as food costs soar
from Guardian Unlimited World Latest by Pia Heikkila in Kabul
Farmers benefit from wheat boom, with fall in heroin prices further fuelling switch to cultivate food crops
Why didn't we think of this before? If we just start starving people, all of the drug traffickers will start growing food crops instead of drugs. How could we have not seen this sooner? Hell, soon, few folks in the U.S. will be able to afford the wheat, much less drugs…that'll put a crimp in the terrorists' style. How do you fight against Western Decadence when they are all too broke to have any decadent tendencies? This edition of doom and gloom brought to you by The Guardian, Google image search, and Photoshop.
Monday
My friend went to a wool festival and all I got was this photo of a badass felted bear
This guy is too much awesomeness not to share—those eyes, that fish, those toes. the good stitch shared this photo and I wanted to put it up here. She and hobbit socks went to a wool festival in Maryland and this was an entry in the felted bear contest. How it could not have been the winner in a fair contest is beyond me, but they didn't say whether it won or not, just that it was a contestant.
Thursday
She'll make you an offer you can't refuse
In case you missed these, I'm pretty sure this is what it looks like when Mother Nature has decided to take your ass out. Via Terra via Metafilter
Wednesday
Saturday
Friday
Y'all might could take you a interweb quiz
The Yankee or Dixie Quiz via Metafilter
I guess I have been in The South for almost the last 23 years straight now (North Carolina for 4 years and then Texas). While I've escaped for 6 months or so at a stretch a few times, for the most part I have resided in the deep south for a good two thirds of my life. How did I expect to be less than 73% Dixie (which was my score)? Actually, I was still holding out hope, but those dreams were dashed. Guess it is time to just give in: AMERICAN BY BIRTH SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD! (well, by chance of parental migration at least).
Never Gonna Give You Up
I been waiting for my opportunity patiently for a very long time. This is my chance. I'm taking it. "We know the game and we're gonna play it." I had to wait for a nice meta opportunity though, since I missed out on the concept until way late in the game and didn't want to be JUST another lamer doing it lamely. Don't get me wrong, I am a lamer doing it lamely, but at least I'm doing it with style, sort of. Fark found the image, I'm just doing what begs to be done.
Photobombing
My new hobby has been discovered. Metafilter has shown me the way and here lies a nice long blog entry with some greatest hits, from which I ganked the shot below. I'm about to go scope flickr to see what they have.
Wednesday
I can add nothing, so I just stole it
Tight Baggy Jeans Achieve Holy Grail Of Pants [Fashion]via that one girl
from Gawker by Hamilton Nolan
These new jeans may be a turning point in the evolution of pants. It goes like this: first, baggy jeans came into style. People bought big pants and let them sag. Then, baggy pants slowly went out of style, and tight pants came into fashion. But still—people missed their baggy pants. Fast forward to this moment in time: a company called Soulful Commandoe has introduced jeans that are both tight and baggy at once. This breakthrough was apparently achieved through the addition of several vertical inches of fabric in the waist area, as well as the inclusion of some gratuitous suspenders. Truly a development that will go down in fashion history. Click through for some larger pictures of this Pants Pants Revolution
[The Gluttony via Satchel of Gravel]
Seriously, I'm pretty sure ANY of my 3 cats could manage the FED better at this point
Helicopter Ben slashes the Fed Funds rate to 2% on news that the U.S. dollar was finally starting to show signs of life
Fark is only good for headlines really. It is a pain to follow links and even some of the posts in the feed only click through to the ever-annoying "you must be a Fark Plus member to view this," or whatever-the-hell their "premium" blend of the site is. Anyway, I end up marking probably half as read without ever actually reading them. I can't unsubscribe though, because once in a while they provide the absolute best headline ever. This would be one of those instances. I bemoaned the news to That One Girl earlier today, when I first read it on tiny little division's newsdroppings, but they didn't inspire another crappy photoshop, Fark did. So I gotta give some credit where credit is due.
Tuesday
Sadness, Pictures for Sad Children, endings, knitting, and driving
John, who does one of my all time favorite cartoons (comics? whatever it is), Pictures for Sad Children, which I have posted about before, is being forced to return to the "real" world as his commune in Mexico is dissolving. This saddens me more than it probably should. I lived vicariously through him a bit I guess and apparently that vicarious life was quite tenuous. Not that any life we carve for ourselves isn't ultimately somewhat tenuous, "real" jobs involved or not, just that for some reason it is harder to see something like that fall apart, for me, than to see yet another corporation make yet another decision that affects me or mine. I'm almost USED to that by now. But when an assemblage of self-directed artists fall apart there seems to be more of a loss than some cost-cutting measure removing another cog from a machine. That could just be some sentimentality on my part though. Anyway, I just wanted to bring John Campbell's badassness up again. I snuck a custom comic order in under the wire, but he's about to shut them down while he moves back to Chicago from Mexico, looks for gainful employment, and sees how much time his new life will afford him for his wonderful creative endeavors :-( I had to share this custom jobby with all of my knitty friends and it didn't show up on the regular Pictures for Sad Children pages or feed, you have to read or subscribe to his Livejournal to get this and it was too sweet to be missed!
Indexed
Indexed doesn't always do it for me. Sometimes I don't get it. Sometimes they are too complex to get an actual laugh. Sometimes they aren't funny at all, but merely quite perceptive. However, those are all pretty rare instances. Indexed is always very witty and often funny enough to get a laugh out of me. This one isn't actually outright funny, but it is incredibly perceptive and I liked it so much I had to come right out and laud Jessica Hagy's wit and astuteness. The concept of this indexed card really applies to any of the framers' early documents regarding human rights and government and it is more fun to send-up The Declaration for its extra-intensely-passionate language.
Saturday
Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest Iron Man contest
Fantastic Fest and Ain't It Cool News are presenting an advance screening of IRON MAN on April 28. Before the screening we'll be treated to a demonstration of Jet Pack International's amazing technological breakthrough: an ACTUAL jet pack. To get tickets, patrons had to make an Iron Man or Tony Stark costume and send us a photo. These photos are now available on the Alamo Flickr Page. We'll have photos of the Jet Pack demonstration posted up later this week—via Fantastic Fest blog
What they don't tell you is how damned hilariously awesome these homemade Iron man homage costumes are. Check 'em out.
Friday
It is hard to know where to begin
They seem to be on a Carnival Cruise. I'm assuming they are all one group of folks who brought their hats along for the very purpose of a photoshoot. It still really gives one pause though. I was cruising the Never Ending Comic Convention group looking for prospective entries for my own group when I saw this in thumbnail form and had to take a closer look. A whole hot tub—FULL of people in Jayne hats—how could I not?
Thursday
Con Costumed Mundanity
The two times we went to the San Diego con, my favorite past time has been peeping costumed peeps doing everyday shit. This is a perfect example, here you have some Animeniacs chillaxin' at the Mickey Dees (I'm assuming they are anime fans, I suppose they could be from some sci-fi/fantasy or comic I don't know too, there are plenty of those around at the cons as well). Del Far's composition is impeccable too, this is just a picture-perfect example of my favorite kind of shot from the con (please pardon the puns and now the alliteration). I've been browsing through the recent NYC Comic Con photos on flickr lately and found so many outstanding shots that I had to start my own flickr group to invite people to submit their photos for. So, I give you Con Costumed Mundanity. It is still a fledgling group, but I'm trying to drum up more submissions and examples, I'll be posting my favorites here too, no doubt, just because I can't help myself :-)
My very favorite so far, a submission from Swifty, can't be blogged (Swifty set his settings as such and I ALWAYS respect those settings in flickr). Go check it out!
Wednesday
Well we're all but stuck with him now
Obama's general election chances questioned from Guardian Unlimited World Latest by Ewen MacAskill, Suzanne Goldenberg
Barack Obama faced questions about his ability to deliver a Democratic victory in November today after his failure to knock out Hillary Clinton in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary
The extremely astute bastards who are throwing this particular mud fail to see that the main point here probably applies in every which way but loose on the Democratic tickets: if Obama isn't going to be able to beat McCain NO ONE WILL at this point. C'mon losers, THINK! If you are going to point out your opponent's faults, make sure they are not also your own faults. IF HE is such a loser that he can't win the general election and YOU haven't been able to beat him YET. Yeah, there you go, now you're starting to see what it's about huh? You ALL are a lame and miserable, benign, ugly, bloated growth on the side of goodness and virtue masquerading as a quality political party. This is the first AND LAST time I have ever voted in a Democratic primary. I always considered myself independent leaning toward Green/Libertarian before. Now? I consider myself screwed. Despite my leanings in almost every presidential election I've ended up voting Democrat. No more! Up yours Democratic party! You can go suck yourself off as you lose YET ANOTHER pivotal election. Why do I keep voting for you losers instead of losers I actually like? WHY? NO MORE! I vow to NEVER vote for a Democrat AGAIN as long as I live! I vow it! Nor shall I vote Republican (never have, never will)! I WILL vote, yes I will. Probably for Yeshua of Nazareth as a write-in candidate or something insane like that. Does it matter? For all the good a vote for a Democrat would do me? No, it decidedly does NOT matter. I do, however, reserve the right to pansy out at the last minute and vote for the Dem in a fit of panic in the voting booth, like always. Fucking Democrats. Fuck you. In some ways you are WORSE than the hated Republicans. Why? Because at least they ADMIT to being the party of greed and everything else I can't stand. Dems PRETEND to be nice and really suck just as hard. Bleh! You know what? Screw it. I'm so pissed at you fucks I'm voting Republican. I mean it too. Gonna convince everyone I know to do it too. I hate those bastards, but I hate you all more.
Tuesday
Father/daughter portrait
Okay, so I'm going through the NYC Comi Con photos and wha? Annakin has fans? Wha? Why? Why? Vader, yes. Anni, Noooooooooooooooooooooooo! I agree with the photog, Ifuriti Oni, that it is a little weird for young Anni to be hanging out with his sexed-up future daughter too.
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