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WHAT IS

mysticreferee — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:47:34 -0800

What is the Internet anyway? What is Internet, anyway? What is the Internet? What is the Internet, really? BONUS SHOW PLUG: Well if it's OK with the HAWK!

Don't blink.

notme — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:31:57 -0800

Are you ready for a stare down? (SLYT)

Humans are Beautiful!

muchalucha — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:26:20 -0800

Judy is a Punk by the The Sullivan School Kindergarten Class

Hater gonna hate, assayers gonna assay

Cold Lurkey — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:52:01 -0800

Mutually exclusive exclusive realms. Until now. The hipsterscience hashtag on twitter is trending with abundant hipster science wankery. Two great tastes that taste blucky together for you! You disdainful hipster scientist you. A compilation of exclusivity here. In other news, I did do my qualifying exam with an overhead projector, and can still be caught mouthpippeting with some frequency. Oh dear, by keeping it oldskool, have I become a hipster scientist?

TWO CARS! TWO CARS! TWO CARS!

boo_radley — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:51:41 -0800

Happy Birthday Taylor!

The dark horse of the campaign

Rory Marinich — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:05:25 -0800

"If you want to marry a show, I'll marry you." Jimmy McMillan, of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party, steals the show at an NY gubernatorial debate.

Restoring Awesomeness

loquacious — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 05:24:26 -0800

Not more then a few days ago, the reddit community started a campaign to call Stephen Colbert to hold a rally tentatively called Restoring Truthiness in counterpoint to the recent Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" rally. Today redditors put their money where their keyboards are through direct action and broke the previous records and servers by donating ~~$46,983~~ $92,004 to the school-teacher funding DonorsChoose.org in Operation Truthy Classroom obliterating records set by Hillary Clinton's donation campaign (which has been active since 2008) in less the eight hours. (Previously, and more previously.)

Autism is a World

ExitPursuedByBear — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:46:47 -0800

Being looked upon as feebleminded is something I have been forced to endure my entire life. What an extremely difficult hole to have to climb out of, to fight for your own intelligence.

the original green cookware

peachfuzz — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:04:18 -0800

Do you want a definitive guide to washing your cast iron pan? Or you're curious about your vintage pans, maybe? Maybe your well-meaning partner left your beloved pan soaking in the sink, and you need to get rid of the rust, stat. Or maybe it's a LOT of rust, and you're looking to build an at-home electrolysis tank (warning: top-of-page Borat swimsuit shot). For all your questions on the loves and lives of the fabled cast iron pan, Black Iron Dude has the answer. inspired by this AskMe.

Jennifer stood there, quietly ovulating.

disclaimer — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:16:02 -0800

The results of the 2009 Lyttle Lytton Contest are in. The Contest rewards unintentionally funny lines in writing. Not to be confused with the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Those results aren't in yet.

Drew Caricature

Christ, what an asshole — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:56:11 -0800

Can't get enough Whose Line is it Anyway? 71 Scenes From a Hat, 16 Party Quirks, 52 Props, 5 Film Dubs, 84 Hoedowns, 37 Sound Effects, 45 Questions Only, 11 Hats/Dating Service Videos, 52 World's Worst, 13 News Flashes, 35 Let's Make a Date, 9 Press Conferences, 60 Superheroes, 6 Foreign Film Dubs, 29 Irish Drinking Songs, 4 Animals, 9 If You Know What I Mean, 2 Backwards Scene, 54 Greatest Hits, 58 Song Styles, 2 All in One Voice, 21 Scenes to Rap, 3 90-Second Alphabets, 11 Questionable Impressions, 4 Two-Line Vocabulary, 3 Number of Words, 17 Weird Newscasters and (probably the most telling of how much they had to hold back due to censorship standards) 6 Blooper Reels. Prefer the UK version? Every episode of Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Photos of WWI poison gas and flamethrowers.

damn dirty ape — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:46:26 -0800

Photos of WWI poison gas and flamethrowers. This amazing photo set includes masks for horses, gas attack as seen from above, a pretty corpse, there can only be one, subterranean frogs, and americans with liquid fire.

This is why you're not

parmanparman — Thu, 24 May 2007 11:39:53 -0800

$15 microwave -- this is why I'm hot. Via. $15 microwave -- this is why I'm hot (break it down now)

The bunny's name is Lapis.

Drunken_munky — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 13:19:40 -0800

Touch this bunny to make it happy (slightly NSFW). Ubisoft developer Heather Kelley has an interesting Nintendo DS game concept meant to "improve actual sex in the world". I've always wanted to improve that.

The California Public Utilities Commission says it can regulate DSL

WolfDaddy — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 16:27:56 -0800

The California Public Utilities Commission says it can regulate DSL In what is being hailed as a victory by the California ISP Association, the CPUC has ruled that it will regulate DSL providers similar in manner to the state's power and telephone utilities. While this move could certainly curtail the big boys like PacBell from running roughshod over their smaller competitors, it seems like small, locally-owned ISP's may not have the resources to withstand state scrutiny. Of course, the CPUC could handle this issue as well as they handled the so-called power 'crisis' in the state last year. Is more regulation better than less?