June 2008
37 posts
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than...”
– Aldous Huxley
Xploding Plastix - One Bullet Fits All
WatchInto the great debate over intelligence and instinct — over what makes us human — Susan Savage-Rumbaugh has thrown a monkey wrench. Her work with apes has forced a new way of looking at what traits are truly and distinctly human, and new questions about whether some abilities we attribute to “species” are in fact due to an animal’s social environment. She believes...
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Chimps Help Each Other Cope
Chimpanzees and humans share many similarities, which isn’t surprising considering they’re our closest living relatives. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week has added another to the list: third-party consolation. Researchers in England have discovered that chimps will calm each other down after conflicts and that the kissing and embracing help...
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sensible units. →
Convert boring units to real objects as you type!
300 kilograms = 1.7 female lions.
1000 terabytes = 800 human memory capacities (perhaps).
900 spans = 34 stretched out human small intestines.
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IRC insult bearebones tutorial.
Donut[AFK]: HEY EURAKARTE
Donut[AFK]: INSULT
Eurakarte: RETORT
Donut[AFK]: COUNTER-RETORT
Eurakarte: QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE
Donut[AFK]: SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE FUCK UP
Eurakarte: NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM
Donut[AFK]: RIPOSTE
Donut[AFK]: ADDON RIPOSTE
Eurakarte: COUNTER-RIPOSTE
Donut[AFK]: COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE
Eurakarte: NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON
Miles_Prower: RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES
Eurakarte: WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD
Miles_Prower: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS
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Init-Illimani - El mercado de Testaccio
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“la diferencia entre el vino tinto y el blanco, es que el tinto es de caracter...”
– ~ Pazinha
(the difference between red wine and white, is that the red wines character is sensual, whereas the white wine is erotic.)
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legal-walls.net →
“We always felt like finding walls to paint in foreign countries we visited is kind of pain in the ass. If you don´t know any locals you´re kind of screwed because the information you can get up-front mostly sucks. That´s why we decided to create a web applocation facing that problem. No more vague directions, no more outdated information: www.legal-walls.net.”
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What a Fucked up World (Adaptation)
I’ve seen jesus scream, dead corpses too
I’ve seen em die, for me and not for you
And I think to myself, what a fucked up world
I see men in blue, niggers in fights
running away in the dark scary night
And I think to myself, what a fucked up world
The colors of the rainbow
ripping through the sky
but you don’t get none
cuz you’re black thats why
I see wiggers...
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Happy World Clip, the recipe for eternal... →
HappyWorldClip.com in collaboration with Russian technologies and the rubber industries of Indochina, Happy World Clip has discovered a frontier breaking technology. The way to achieve World Happiness using simple and common materials, that are to the reach of all, and more importantly applicable to people all over the world of any age or culture.
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Jacob do bandolim - Andre do Sapato Novo
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Dog stories.
Dogan: GUYS, STORY TIME
Dogan: So my teacher's friend's friend or something
Dogan: She was dogsitting one day
Dogan: Shows up the first time, finds the dog dead on the floor, right?
Nightryde: how embarrassing
Dogan: SO she's gotta pack the dog corpse up and take it to the vet so they can dispose of it or whatever
Dogan: She can't find anything to fit it in, so she stuffs it in a freaking SUITCASE
Dogan: She didn't have a car so she has to take the train through Chicago
Zeelot: oh mannnn
Dogan: This guy helps her carry the case on and is like
Dogan: "this is pretty heavy, what's in it?"
Dogan: lady replies "just some computer things"
Dogan: the guy SOCKS HER IN THE FACE AND RUNS OFF WITH THE CASE
Nightryde: AHAHAHA HOW would you pawn that sort of thing???
“Windows is unprotected sex. Linux is using a condom, the pill, a vasectomy, and...”
– Unknown.
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keny arkana - la rage
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