Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-25-2009

[andrewducker]

• Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.
  (tags: funny culture satire anthropology stupidity)
• Caveman Science Fiction
  SF tropes - as played out by Cavemen.
  (tags: science satire scifi funny)
• The only woman in the French Foreign Legion
  A stunning story.
  (tags: history women wwii)
• Blu-ray.com - Watchmen Ultimate Cut Announced and Detailed
  215 minutes. Includes Tales of the Black Freighter footage woven into the movie.
  
  I may have to import this from the USA...
  (tags: watchmen movies)
• London Review of Books - The Personal Ads
  Short ugly bald bloke (32, Cambridge) seeks Scandinavian Model (F) due to marginal grasp on reality. No timewasters or photos of Volvos. Must not try to feed me broccoli.
  
  Woman, 43, would like to meet a man â“ any man â“ whose evolutionary path isn't that of Homer Simpson. Suspecting that's too difficult, I may go lesbian. Box no. 08/10
  
  Ordinary woman seeks ordinary man for the usual. Box no. 01/01
  
  Like I've said so many times before here, â˜desperate'. Do I have to spell it out? D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E. Jeez, what does it take to catch a 20-year old athletic male in this magazine? F., 67. Box no. 14/08
  (tags: advertising relationships funny)
• Grass Is Always Greener on a Million Little Wikipedias
  I particularly like the Excessively Neutral Point of View Wikipedia.
  (tags: wikipedia funny parody)
• 1 Million Spiders Make Golden Silk for Rare Cloth
  The top picture (the cloth) is gorgeous. The second picture kicked off my arachnophobia. Now I itch all over.
  (tags: science art silk spiders)
• Cheerleaders are people too.
  (tags: feminism)
• Another thought about health care.
  This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility. (and so on)
  (tags: socialism healthcare government)
• Gene for memory and IQ gives students low grades
  Gene increases memory and intelligence - but also makes you stressed and emotional vulnerable.
  (tags: IQ memory psychology genetics)
• High Performance Computing â“ The Next Twenty Years
  Fantastic presentation. Well worth reading if you're interested in where computing is going.
  (tags: computing TheFuture technology)

Comments

[ami-bender.livejournal.com]

The really depressing thing is that if I was single, ect, I would of probably responded to at least two of those LRB add. I'm scared to think what that says about me.....

What is your favourite preserved body part? Mine is the diseased bladder of Italian biologist, Lazzaro Spallanzani (currently on display in the Scarpa Room in the University of Pavia). This, and many more conversation killers available from librarian and failed travel agent F, 32, Northampton. Box no. 04/10

Researchers at the Australian National University recently employed a technique called electromagnetically induced transparency, in which a beam of laser light puts the atoms in a solid sample into a state in which a signal light pulse can be trapped. They succeeded in stopping light for more than one second. Despite this remarkable advance in science and technology, I still can’t get a man. If you can explain why in 2,000 words or less, I’ll share my ideas for nuclear toast extraction with you. And possibly have sex. Woman. 41. Intelligent, austere and mentally-troubled like all good forty-something women should be. Box no. 19/09

[andrewducker]

Yup - there are several I'd be intrigued to meet. Nicely surrealist :->