"If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?"
— Stanislaw Lec
(Source: http)
"Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.’"
— Robert Anton Wilson
(Source: Boing Boing)
[Flash 10 is required to watch video]
I’ll always remember that ordinary day my life changed forever, the day I met Verbal Ace, the Beat-Boxer from Outer Space.
"Yes, I’m willing to continue to have Muslim children slaughtered by covert drones and cluster bombs, and America’s minorities imprisoned by the hundreds of thousands for no good reason, and the CIA able to run rampant with no checks or transparency, and privacy eroded further by the unchecked Surveillance State, and American citizens targeted by the President for assassination with no due process, and whistleblowers threatened with life imprisonment for “espionage,” and the Fed able to dole out trillions to bankers in secret, and a substantially higher risk of war with Iran (fought by the U.S. or by Israel with U.S. support) in exchange for less severe cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other entitlement programs, the preservation of the Education and Energy Departments, more stringent environmental regulations, broader health care coverage, defense of reproductive rights for women, stronger enforcement of civil rights for America’s minorities, a President with no associations with racist views in a newsletter, and a more progressive Supreme Court."
“What Are You Doing New Years Eve?” by Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Watch with the snowflakes turned on!
Ain’t no party like a Pyongyang party, ‘cause a Pyongyang party is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY.
(Source: Boing Boing)
A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas
(Source: The A.V. Club)
Superheroines give themselves breast exams
(Source: Boing Boing)
Irish Financial Wisdom
or
Wankin’ Fuckin’ Bankers
Norman Mailer’s Crazy-Ass Lego Utopia:
“It was very much opposed to Le Corbusier. I kept thinking of Mont-Saint-Michel,” he explains. “Each Lego brick represents an apartment. There’d be something like twelve thousand apartments. The philosophers would live at the top. The call girls would live in the white bricks, and the corporate executives would live in the black.” The cloud-level towers, apparently, would be linked by looping wires. “Once it was cabled up, those who were adventurous could slide down. It would be great fun to start the day off. Put Starbucks out of business.”
(the grayish block in the lower-left is the UN building, for scale)
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