143m of US flag–related injuries and fatalities have been reported over a 230-year period.
Tag: funny
Farmville Politics
a fellow committee member suggested he be removed from his seat as he “needs more time for his virtual farm.” A vote was taken, and he was axed. He argued that he was only level 40, and a fellow councilman was level 46, so why not fire that guy?
Teabonics
These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature “creative” spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as “Teabonics.”
Summer Catalog
best Parks and Recreation episode ever. groan-inducing
Barack Headroom
I have extracted and concatenated all of the verbal tics, clichés, and temporizing locutions so you can digest the essence of Obama’s rhetoric without enduring all of the prevarications and preposterous populist pap which they served to cement.
map of sf
Flesh Eating Robot
We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission
2011-09-03: Imagine an outdoor light powered by converting the moths and mosquitoes it attracts into energy. Or a roaming robot sweeping your floors, drawing energy from the crumbs and insects it finds.
Jack of All Trades
you can never go wrong with bruce campbell
Watershed Down
The 2009 Venice Biennale opened this week with an unexpected and quite beautiful piece of performance art. Artist Mike Bouchet had built a one-to-one scale replica of a typical American suburban home that he planned to install on floating pontoons in the Venice Arsenale basin. He called the project Watershed. 1 of the pontoons capsized, and the entire house sank to the bottom of the canal—an unintentional yet utterly perfect coda to the house’s own built-in commentary. Now, a fake generic American suburban home will add its ruins to the underwater archaeology of Venice.
LaTeX fail
ah, art directors. no one would put \cos x on their fingernails.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 