Via Compiler: In the Bizzaro-world spirit of The Eater of Meaning, the next stage of the internet’s decadent development is the Lolinator, brought to you by the good(?) people at malevolent design. It doesn’t seem to deal with long sidebars very well, so take a look at what it’s done to my side project, IEFBR14.
Category: Fun
More is the new more
Scott Gilbertson explains HugeURL.
Update: It turns out that I’m weak. I could not resist requesting http://www.hugeurl.com/?NTM3ZjA4MTNmZjU3MGNjN2U3ZWY5OTIyNTM4
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eGFVMUl4YkZkWGJrcE9WbXh3V0ZsWWNGZFdSbFp5Vm10YVQxVlVNRGs9 as a synonym for http://www.ahoneyofananklet.com/.
Evolution sucks
Via Laura’s Birding Blog, a bit of humor, courtesy of the Phorusrhacidae.
But you knew that
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You Are Bert |
 Extremely serious and a little eccentric, people find you loveable – even if you don’t love them! You are usually feeling: Logical – you rarely let your emotions rule you You are famous for: Being smart, a total neat freak, and maybe just a little evil How you life your life: With passion, even if your odd passions (like bottle caps and pigeons) are baffling to others |
(Link via Living the Scientific Life.)
Car!
Get your spaldeen and meet me on the stoop: Timothy Williams and Cassi Feldman find a few kids still playing street games.
Last year in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, 58-year-old Delores Hadden Smith organized a street festival at the Gowanus Houses and had adults teach children games with candy-coated names that sounded like the made-up concoctions they were.
There was red devil; box ball; bluebird, bluebird through my window; hot peas and butter; a variation of ring-a-levio called cocolevio; steal the bacon; look who’s here punch-a-nella; knockout; and duck duck goose.
Kaplan, again
Via Robot Wisdom auxiliary, Jerry V. Haines is developing the World’s Least Helpful Phonetic Alphabet. I am reminded of a venerable Mike Nichols and Elaine May routine from the early sixties that my mother and I listened to incessantly on LP. Mike is running very late for a very important appointment, and is trying to get the phone number of George Kaplan, his meeting contact, from Information (what became known as Directory Assistance, because people kept using 411 as the public library). Elaine, the operator on the other end of the line, clearly needs to get out more. She repeats back the name he’s looking for:
That is Kaplan, George Kaplan. That is K as in Knight, A as in Aardvark, P as in Pneumonia, L as in Luscious, A as in Aardvark again, N as in Newelpost?
Some links: 18
I am only going to say this once
(Via Language Log.)
Finally, he makes sense
Via The Morning News, the Nietzsche Family Circus.
Prepare to be boarded
Buy me
This bowl doesn’t want anything from you except $90, and in return it will sit on your table and it will tell people that you are not a failure who spends weekends watching E! True Hollywood Story and drinking wine from a Gatorade bottle.
Future epigraph
From the Chaska (Minnesota) Herald, reprinted in The New Yorker, July 10 & 17, 2006, p. 105:
A man passed out on the banks of Courthouse Lake attracted the attention of local police in the early morning hours on Jan. 14.
According to Anderson, the man appeared to be extremely intoxicated and was using a trout as a pillow.