Monday, December 15, 2008

Chinese 'classical poem' was brothel ad

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/chinese-classical-poem-was-brothel-ad-1058031.html

Irish Bank Robbery

An armed hooded robber bursts into the Bank of Ireland and forces the tellers to load a sack full of cash.


On his way out the door with the loot one brave Irish customer grabs the hood and pulls it off revealing the robber's face.


The robber shoots the guy in the head without hesitation! He then looks around the bank to see if anyone else has seen him.


One of the tellers is looking straight at him and the robber walks over and calmly shoots him in the head also.


Everyone by now is very scared and looking down at the floor.


'Did anyone else see my face?' calls the robber.


There is a few moments silence, then one elderly Irish gent, looking down, tentatively raises his hand and says,


'I think me wife may have caught a glimpse.'

Season Pass


Explosm 12/15/08

http://www.explosm.net/comics/1494/

Calvin 12/15/08

http://www.gocomics.com/features/32/feature_items/399248

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

XKCD 512

http://xkcd.com/512/

The Worst Is Yet To Come: Anonymous Banker Weighs In On The Coming Credit Card Debacle

http://executivesuite.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/the-worst-is-yet-to-come-anonymous-banker-weighs-in-on-the-coming-credit-card-debacle/?em

Win Ben Stein's mind

http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/expelled_no_intelligence_allow.html

Ok, I just decided I like Roger Ebert.  This is a really long article, so here are some choice quotes:

...This film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions (Soviet marching troops representing opponents of ID), pussy-foots around religion (not a single identified believer among the ID people), segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, and makes a completely baseless association between freedom of speech and freedom to teach religion in a university class that is not about religion.

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...He takes a field trip to visit one "result" of Darwinism: Nazi concentration camps. "As a Jew," he says, "I wanted to see for myself." We see footage of gaunt, skeletal prisoners. Pathetic children. A mound of naked Jewish corpses. "It's difficult to describe how it felt to walk through such a haunting place," he says. Oh, go ahead, Ben Stein. Describe. It filled you with hatred for Charles Darwin and his followers, who represent the overwhelming majority of educated people in every nation on earth. It is not difficult for me to describe how you made me feel by exploiting the deaths of millions of Jews in support of your argument for a peripheral Christian belief. It fills me with contempt.

Face the Music

http://www.veryshortlist.com/web/daily.cfm/review/847/Web_video/electric-stimulus-to-face/?vp