November 25
"Meanwhile, down in Vaginaland, Mr Condom's beginning to feel a bit iffy. He's overheating. For some reason, the shagging seems to be twice as fast this evening, and he grimaces as he gets flung willy-nilly in and out of the pink tunnel. He starts getting friction burns, hanging onto Bobby's stiff penis for dear life, headbutting Georgie's cervix at 180 beats per minute. 'Help me!' he yells in the darkness, feeling himself melting."
This year's worst sex. [NSFW or post-turkey family reading] [more inside]
posted by iamkimiam at 11:40 PM - 0 comments - Post a Comment
Black Friday is almost upon us and in less then a month it'll be Christmastime, and you're still wondering if you'll get your jetpack, hoverboard, or time machine? Well you're in luck, because you can get started with
a new old DeLorean! It's
the return of the DeLorean The
DeLorean DMC-12 was the creation of
John DeLorean:
John DeLorean never cared to fit the mold of a typical Detroit auto executive. He was a young, free-spirited maverick that revolutionized the auto industry as the major force behind America’s first muscle car– the Pontiac GTO.... As the young DeLorean’s star rose, he supposedly walked away from his $650,000 salary at GM and decided to go it on his own.
Although nowadays his car may be considered a
modern marvel unfortunately his motor company was a huge
failure. Delorean
died in March of 2005 (
prev) but not before he started
plans for a new car.
Also, you may need to
ask some questions and keep up on all the
news after you buy your
24k Gold DeLorean.
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posted by P.o.B. at 10:21 PM - 6 comments Feast Images of food—and the preparation of food—invariably have that effect on people. They unite viewers who might otherwise have nothing in common; they plug directly into the primal craving for transitory pleasure, the desire not just to admire and then consume inventively prepared food, but also to serve (and be served by) people who love us.
posted by device55 at 6:44 PM - 2 comments
A software engineer blogs about the
inept and insecure way in which a bank asks customers to file a claim when they're the victim of fraudulent transactions. Dozens of customers chime in with similar experiences, over the course of months. The bank in question contributes nothing to the conversation, and the system remains both
insecure and broken today [that last link is probably blocked by your browser or operating system, but don't worry - the form on the page doesn't work anyway].
posted by subpixel at 6:33 PM - 19 comments Centralia Pennsylvania : Since 1962 Centralia has stood on top of a coal mine fire, the origin of which was likely a trash fire started by firemen in an effort to clean up the local landfill. In 1962 over 1000 people lived there, in 2007 there where nine. Most residents accepted Pennsylvania's buyout and relocation offer initiated in 1985 and funded to the tune of
$42 million dollars by the US Congress. Houses where bulldozed and today fields,
cemeteries and new growth forrest are primarily what is left, a temporary bypass to
Route 61 was made permanent when giant mounds of dirt where used to block either end from entering or leaving Centralia. It is estimated that these fires will burn for over 250 more years, although some speculate that it may spread and burn a lot longer eventually encompassing several more towns (such as
Byrnesville, Pennsylvania already a casualty).
Globally there are
thousands of underground coal fires, some man made, some (
Burning Mountain in Australia going for 5500 years) natural.
posted by edgeways at 2:52 PM - 25 comments
Populist
Etymology: Latin
populus the people
Date: 1892
1 : a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people;
especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
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posted by lysdexic at 1:36 PM - 23 comments
Fotomat 's tiny drive-up huts with the yellow roof were an icon of the 1970s suburban experience, with 4000 of them throughout the U.S. You drove up, gave your film to the girl inside, and got prints a couple of days later. But stores began
closing en masse in the 1980s with the
boom of in-store "prints in an hour". Most Fotomats have been torn down or are crumbling away (
cool slideshow), a few being used for
coffee or
cigarettes. Former alumni are out there and share some memories
stories on Facebook. Fotomat unbelievably is around and has a
website but this September they threw in the towel on their Snapfish-like business model.
posted by crapmatic at 12:53 AM - 33 comments
November 24
Although it's commonplace nowadays to assume that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was the primary source of inspiration for Dave Arneson and Gary Gygax when they created the world's first tabletop roleplaying game, Dungeons & Dragons, a careful examination of the game suggests otherwise... James Maliszewski on
The Books That Founded D&D. Some
disagreement.
posted by Artw at 4:13 PM - 86 comments
"This week we will be confronting a fact that, by definition, haunts the average online dater: no matter how much time you spend polishing your profile, honing your IM banter, and perfecting your message introductions,
it’s your picture that matters most."
(Previously 1 2 3)
posted by gman at 2:24 PM - 122 comments "I began bringing a camera along to work, photographing my surroundings. And as this project progressed and I slowly learned my craft, I became increasingly fascinated with other photographers who had been in a similar situation, those who had found themselves recording their own jobs:
The Insiders [A tiny bit NSFW] ."
posted by chunking express at 9:08 AM - 22 comments November 23
Remember AOL Time Warner, the poster child of dotcom corporate hubris? It's still around, if only for a few more days. On December 9, the current media megacorp will fraction off former computer network behemoth AOL as a web portal firm and online brand. And what will that brand be? It will be a stock photo superimposed with
a white Helvetica "Aol." And, well,
that's it.
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posted by ardgedee at 6:56 PM - 144 comments "We were concerned that the study would raise a lot of controversy and be misused," Pardo said. "We were right." Some practitioners treat autistic children with the anti-inflammatory
intravenous immunoglobulin, citing
a study by Carlos Pardo, et al. showing inflammation in the brains of deceased autistic patients. Pardo:
"modulators of immune reactions (e.g. intravenous immunoglobulins, IVIG) WOULD NOT HAVE a significant effect." Others, following the work of Simon Baron-Cohen on
autism and the male brain,
treat autistic children with testosterone inhibitors, a prospect which Baron-Cohen says "fills me with horror." Another anti-inflammatory treatment, hyperbaric therapy, is supported by
one recent clinical trial, but looks bad in
another. Side effects include
horrible death by fire.
(via the Chicago Tribune)
posted by escabeche at 2:42 PM - 49 comments
The newly launched Atari.com includes the
Atari Arcade, wherein you may play Adventure, Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Lunar Lander and Yars' Revenge in your browser.
posted by jbickers at 2:30 PM - 37 comments What do you do if you're a fan of the
Back to the Future films and you know how to make mods in the PC game
Crysis? Why, you make an awesome
Back to the Future mod, of course!
posted by Effigy2000 at 2:19 PM - 34 comments It's been 35 years this month since
the Arecibo message was sent from the
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, when the 1,679 digit message was sent once, towards
Messier 13. More messages have been sent sky-wards since, in attempts for
communication with extra terrestrial intelligence (
CETI), with the (
ill-fated)
Team Encounter was instrumental in
Cosmic Call 1999 and 2003 (more details:
58 page PDF). The more complex three-section
Teen-Age Message was sent out in 2001, including a musical piece entitled
1st Theremin Concert for Aliens. In 2008
NASA sent the Beatles into space, transmitting "Across the Universe" for the 40th anniversary of the song's recording, the 45th anniversary of the
Deep Space Network (DSN), and the 50th anniversary of NASA (
prev). If you felt left out of the sending of signals,
Talk To Aliens offered a "deep space e-mail service" and a certificate of interstellar broadcast (
prev), but no more. Now
Sent Forever offers a
long-lasting alternative to traditional greeting cards, or simply
the worst tie-in for Apollo 11.
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