Getting old? Starting to forget things? The miracle cure is here! Blueberry juice! Remember your birthday, where you forgot your keys, the names of your grandchildren! Also — it’s delicious!
(photo can be traced back to here — does it go further? Is that the photographer? We do not know.)
The editor of the Independent believes that everything on Flickr is public domain, and can be used in their newspaper without having to pay for or credit their photos. If one actually reads his comments, he seems to be making the claim that if a rights-holder makes something available via the Internet, they automatically give up all rights. Strange, that.
Do you roleplay? Do you want to help people in Haiti? Then break out your roleplaying-game money and help them! If you donate $20 to Doctor’s Without Borders via Drive-Thru RPG, they’ll give you free roleplaying PDFs that would otherwise cost $1,000 — although it may take a few days to actually download them, as the offer is creating a wee bit of a strain on their servers.
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blueberry juice, charity, copyright, doctors without borders, flickr, haiti, independent, math, mathematics, memory, roleplaying, saturday morning breakfast cereal, science, yorkies
Dear Readers Who Are Also Parents,
You should send your child(ren) and their friends to the Natural History Museum for a sleepover. We volunteer to be the adult.
(a Klein Bottle Opener by Bathsheba Grossman)
Some people are more accident prone than others.
Those who love their pork: We salute you.
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basic instructions, bathsheba grossman, children, ham, klein bottles, math, mathematics, museums, natural history museum, parenting, pork, sleepovers
One of the most fascinating things I have read on the Internet in a long time is this interview with an anonymous Facebook employee, where they talk largely about privacy, and a little bit about weirdos on Facebook. It’s worth reading.
(Audrey Deluxe performs Burlesque as Boba Fett. Photo by Shannon Cottrell. More here.)
New York. Subway. No pants. That’s just the way they roll.
Book burning might be out of fashion, but thepublicdomain.org argues here that gradual changes to copyright law over the past fifty years are accomplishing the same thing.
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Audrey Deluxe, Boba Fett, book burning, brown sharpie, burlesque, copyright, facebook, law, math, mathematics, pants, philosophy, privacy, Shannon Cottrell, star wars, striptease, subway
Decisions are being made right now that will decide whether or not you are insane in the year 2013. In May of that year, a new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will be published. That publication determines what is — and what is not — a mental illness. The decisions made by the group defining mental illnesses will determine whether or not people get locked up in mental institutions or put on drugs for the things they think and feel.
Which is good when those people think that everybody is covered in spiders. There is concern that these people seem to be involved. And think that preferring people who are tall (or short, or fat, or thin) is a mental illness.
(by Talie Lines)
So there’s a “vaccine” for cocaine, now. The vaccine stops the drug from entering the brain, making it impossible to get high from cocaine. There is a problem, however: It does not stop cravings, if you happen to be addicted to the drug. As a result, people on the vaccine take ten times as much cocaine, bankrupting themselves in an attempt to overpower the vaccine and get high.
The person who way mayor of New York on September 11, 2001, has claimed that there was never a terrorist attack on the domestic United States while George Bush was president.
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cocaine, drugs, insanity, math, mental illness, snow, spiked math, Talie Lines, terrorism, vaccines