Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog

Generally I tend to disagree with people who like to rape and murder others. But I find myself agreeing with this raping, murdering Satanist, who is appealing his death sentence because the judge called him ‘evil’ for being a Satanist.

And he’s right.

I hate it when the bad guys are right.

(Octopus, by Katharina Fritsch.)

Yesterday we mentioned Unicorns, half of one of our most popular search terms. Today, we move to the other half: Origami. Why? Because there is an origami robot out there. And it folds itself.

Oh, and light sabres? They’re real. Welcome to the future.

I very much love this news story. Not because of the violent robbery committed by people in clown costumes, but due to this quote:

Clown-union leader Carlos Vasquez says he plans to issue IDs to all real clowns and urge police to detain those who do not have them.

Clown-union leader. There is a CLOWN UNION. Which, apparently, wants anybody in a clown costume without a license to be arrested. Halloween would not go down very well.

Besides pushing for the persecution of non-union clowns, I wonder what purpose the Clown Union actually serves. Does it lobby government for pro-clown laws? Organize strikes? Work-to-rule campaigns? Will this murder result in the Great Clown Strike of 2010?

We can only hope so.

(A — the? — MonsterBike. Reportedly worth $10,000. Video on the other side of this link.)

In the book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell presents an argument in favour of intuition. Daniel J Simons presents a rebuttal of Gladwell’s theory, outlines the limits of intuition, and shows why we should not allow our intuition to replace logical thought and analysis.

Newspapers everywhere announced that Quit Facebook Day on May 31st “fell flat”. But what if it didn’t? It would appear that if you have not deleted all your Facebook Applications beforehand, and do something crazy — like use your smart phone, or visit a website that connects with Facebook — you get logged in again, and your profile does not get deleted after all.

One of the great things about living in the United Kingdom is the popularity of cufflinks.

In Canada, cufflinks are a rare thing — you would have to search for a shirt that required them. But here in the UK, cufflinks are standard. Shirts that require them are as common as those that do not.

And men, apparently, love their jewelry.

Of course, not all cufflinks are created equal. The ones below are clearly superior to the average cufflink.

These cufflinks are actual functional lighters, and available for 22.99. Presumably USD:

Tend to find yourself out and about, with bottles to open and no bottle opener? Then these bottle opener cufflinks could be the links for you:

Are you a Trekkie? No? Perhaps a Trekker, then? If so, you may want to drop $40 on these Star Trek cufflinks:

Perhaps you’re a roleplayer and proud. So proud that you want to wear your dice on your sleeve. Here you go. I like how the description mentions that they are blue — it makes me think that they are available in other colours:

Car enthusiast? Don’t let the geeks have all the fun cufflinks — there are some for you, too:

And, of course, there is always Pac Man:

Most of the above cufflinks were found via two blogs: BoingBoing and Cool Material.

Many thanks to authors at both sites for being far more obsessed by cufflinks than I am.