Via anthropologist John Hawks, a gem from Rex Stout:

His position in society, his high repute among his fellow men, his nimbus as a master biped.

Nobody writes like that any more, dammit.

Labels: anthropology, literature

justst atenadad a pissup ikna berwery! it wen't wel.

Indeed not.

Welcome to 1978. Those of you who are too young to remember those days may not realize how ordinary and unremarkable these events were, in that long-vanished age. People like this, they were your neighbors or the cop on the beat. We had come so far, but then, somehow, we lost our way.

Labels: aerospace, All our pomp of yesterday, Blind Owl Wilson, Canned Heat, cultural anthropology, if music be the food of love, Michelson-Morley, music, science, thought experiment, video

as i alwys say

It's just neat launching something that really wasn't intended to be launched

Labels: aerospace, career opportunities, ordnance, science, video

lardge rund haybals:

they loook inacent dont they? WONRGN!!

From 1992 to 1998, 74 farm workers in the United States were killed in large round hay bale accidents.

"acidiants". riiiigghght.

Labels: Beautiful Nebraska, cannibalism, Killer Fact, The Wonders of Nature

Virtually all of the entertainment and information you will ever need can now be obtained from shitmydadsays:

I turn the kitchen faucet on and the shower burns you, yes, I get it... No, I'm not gonna stop, I'm just saying yes, I get that concept.

The rest is available from Explosions and Boobs.

Labels: science, the future

Jaguars have been known to eat avocados.

I once met a house cat in Berkeley, CA who had a habit of breaking into a neighbor's hous to eat their avocados. He also showed a keen interest in babies' fontanelles.

A word to the wise, my friends. Forewarned is forearmed.

Labels: brains, cannibalism, Killer Fact, science, Teletubbies, The Wonders of Nature