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What you described sounds like a hubcap from a 1976 Oldsmobile.
The Thrill of Bowel Tremors
In fashionable-dining news: Wooden “plates” used by restaurants pose a food poisoning risk to people eating from them, a council has warned as it issued a £50,000 fine to a steakhouse where 14 people fell ill… Birmingham City Council brought the case against Ibrahim’s Grill and Steak House beca...
Re: Mosquitos -- after the Treasury sucks all the blood out of me, the virus and parasite bearing mosquitoes will be disappointed to find just a dry husk left behind.
Friday Ephemera
Why foxes don’t rule the Earth. // The origins of dubstep. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) // Sleep with the bees. // Sci-fi background noise generator. // The names of colours. // Where flight attendants chill. (h/t, drb) // Forbidden images. // Captured motion. // Gad Saad chats with Robert Spencer. S...
Re: $8,200 ping-pong table: My $50 ping-pong table currently has a dead computer, Christmas lights, lawn mower parts, and unfolded laundry on it.
Friday Ephemera
Doctor’s note of note. // Little Mercury, big Sun. // 200 years of U.S. immigration. // Antimatter yield calculator. // Notice of note. // At last, your very own garden igloo. // It’s a good-news-bad-news thing. // KFC edible nail polish. // For dining or ping pong, only $8,200. // Peak Waitrose...
As a middle aged, cis/hetero white male of Northern European origin (can one imagine any more strikes against me?!?), I am completely beyond having this explained to me, so don't bother
See How Their Agonies Catch The Light
I’m an artist first. But I decided long ago that my art would be in the service of fighting oppression. Oh dear. I think you can probably guess where this is going. The creative juggernaut in question is Hari Ziyad, “a black non-binary artist and writer whose work centres on creating through the...
Here's a more vegan friendly alternate scenario:
George happens upon a head of lettuce that fell off the back of a delivery lorry and was subsequently run over by the next car that followed.
Diary of a Hunter-Gatherer
Picture the scene. Last weekend, I camped with my family at a barn-raising party on the western foot of the Quantock hills, in Somerset. On Saturday I crept out of the tent at 5am, when the faintest skein of red cloud netted the sky. Below me, mist filled the valley floor. I slipped through the ...
Fortunes can change on a dime. We forget the most highly capitalized corporation in history teetered - within a few more disappointing quarters - from bankruptcy in the late 90's, until Steve Jobs introduced the iMac, which was Apple Corporation's Battle of Midway moment.
Around then, it was hip, counterculture and cool to own a Mac, David to Microsoft's Goliath. Public school systems single handedly kept the AAPL brand alive by buying truckloads of them at a time and scattering them in classrooms like snowflakes. My daughter's very first computer printout(awwwww!) from kindergarten class in 1990 came from a Mac or Mac II, can't remember. As she grew older and the school's computers upgraded through time, she graduated never touching a machine from another manufacturer - Apple all the way. This was the typical experience of virtually every child her age born in the mid 80's, at least in our geographic area.
Its been years, of course, since Apple depended on the noblesse oblige of public education to keep them afloat, but one wonders if the long-game strategy of putting a generation of Millenials behind Apple keyboards contributed to the corporation's explosion as they in turn became young buyers in the open market. After all, brand loyalty works in beer and cigarettes, why not CPU's? Or, am I reading too much into it?
Not So
New York Times, December 8, 1985: For the most part, the portable computer is a dream machine for the few… On the whole, people don’t want to lug a computer with them to the beach or on a train to while away hours they would rather spend reading the sports or business section of the newspaper....
" “The likelihood is that I’ll find myself in a day job,” complained Sydney’s Luke Devine."
It is sad to witness the man who could have bequeathed to the world the next Cezanne will instead be folding tee-shirts for 9 dollars an hour. Societies' loss.
Attack of the Art World Death Star
Tim Blair brings terrifying news from the world of Australian taxpayer-funded art: Readers may recall the brutal warning handed down last month by journalist and tax-funded art enthusiast Ben Eltham. “The arts are a powerful latent force in Australia’s political landscape,” Eltham wrote followi...
It would be inhumane to airily dismiss self-flagellating leftists like DeBoer and say, "let them eat cake"...
...because their gluten-free, Certified Organic, Fair-Trade cakes taste like roof shingles. I know because I've had one, or at least a bite of one.
Elsewhere (149)
Kevin Williamson on lifestyle leftism and class disdain: Progressivism, especially in its well-heeled coastal expressions, is not a philosophy — it’s a lifestyle. Specifically, it is a brand of conspicuous consumption, which in a land of plenty such as ours as often as not takes the form of con...
I take umbrage at your sarcastic observation of the two young ladies who beat themselves with pillows as roadside theatre.
I beat myself with pillows every time the Chicago Bears lose yet another game to the Green Bay Packers, with three major differences:
1)I do it in the privacy of my living room
2)I don't expect private funding for doing it
3)I use couch throw cushions instead of pillows
... but I am splitting hairs here.
I also might add the performance could have been shortened from 90 minutes to 90 seconds if they used a pillowcase full of golf balls instead.
The Year Reheated
In which we reflect on the woes of the Guardianista class, on the great thinkers of academia, and on the mind-shattering wonders of contemporary art. In January we marvelled at the modesty of the novelist Brigid Delaney, who told Guardian readers that her lifestyle and living arrangements should...
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