We re-enter the house (she and I) after some outdoor chores. Immediately we can tell that something isn’t quite right. The air is an odd mix of hot and cold pockets and the smell of smoke is heavy and thick. She worries that something awful has happened (or is happening). We turn a corner to […]
Scott McCracken Interweb Extraordinaire (tags: Vermont friend)
The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses via Cracked.com (via B^2): blasphemously hilarious! (tags: history humor religion) Road kill for Christmas? via B.G.: perhaps the awesome-est stuffed animals ever created. (tags: absurdist surreal)
New Terrain Layer in Google Maps via LifeHacker: *H*A*W*T*!!! (also: it was nice to see that my guesses for the locations of the summits of various mountains was pretty darn close) (tags: google geotagging map)
The adolescent settler girl fancies herself in love with a doppelgänger of Dan Doherty. Her family moves west through the valley on horseback (her farmer parents, younger brother, and herself) and they encounter him in one of these frontier towns. He’s the vain cowboy — all too conscious of the receding hairline and a bald […]
WORLD’S ANCIENT MYSTERIES: The World’s 10 Most Famous Uncracked Codes (tags: cryptography history language weird research)
Visual Dictionary Online (tags: dictionary graphics reference visualization)
A few years old. But still hilarious. Happy Turducken Day!
The three of us have parked the car on the outskirts of the park, slung our gear over our shoulders and are hiking in to the park. It’s a strange sight: the parking lot is like the kind you would find at a mall — dark black asphalt, brightly painted white lines to indicate the […]