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A useful placemat

Lumpmoose — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:21:25 +0000

courtesy of a pub in Wall Drug, SD:

Tagged: placemat, pub

This Week in Baffling…

Lumpmoose — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:59:00 +0000

The only video on Ron Livingston’s YouTube channel:

Tagged: keyboard cat

They Should Have Sent a Poet

Lumpmoose — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:53:14 +0000

Best YouTube comment ever:

521scotty125: this is how jesus should re-enter the world

Deconversion

Lumpmoose — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:47:32 +0000

This is a fascinating and very well-produced YouTube series on one computer scientist’s “deconversion” from Evangelical Christianity to Atheism: Why I am no longer a Christian

Chapter Two starts the good stuff. Here’s the latest summary in the continuing series for an idea of what it’s like:

But it’s best to watch it from the beginning of Chapter Two for the full effect. Watch Chapter One if you first want evidence that he was a true Born-Again Christian.

Tagged: atheism, Christianity, Deconversion

Do It for the Herd

Lumpmoose — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:44:14 +0000

You know how you sometimes get a sticker for voting? This is what I got for getting an H1N1 vaccine a couple weeks ago:

This has to be a prank from some snarky graphic design student. It perfectly fits into the conspiracy milieu:

Encouraging herd mentality (literally!)
Scary needles on the side
Hypnotic pattern in the background
U of MN livestock branding
Vaguely propagandist art style (part-Soviet, part-wartime US?)

See what I mean:

The sticker perfectly fits into the paranoia. It’d only be more perfect it had a sheep’s head saying BAA instead of MOO.

Tagged: conspiracy, H1N1, vaccine

Jedward

Lumpmoose — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 07:16:05 +0000

I’m not quite sure what to think of this:

Perhaps they’re the best argument for Auto-Tune yet. Be sure to watch at 1:45.

Tagged: Jedward, Vanilla Ice

Skottie Young at work

Lumpmoose — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:14:12 +0000

A time-lapse video of my favorite comic artist at work:

Tagged: Skottie Young

Beatbox/DJ

Lumpmoose — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:06:19 +0000

This is a pretty amazing performance. It’s almost hard to believe the audio matches the video.

Tagged: beatbox, dj, saxophone

Shall I Compare Thee to a Somers’ Day?

Lumpmoose — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:37 +0000

Headline stolen from Slog. Kristen Wiig reads poetry by Suzanne Somers. Literally laugh-out-loud funny.

Tagged: Kristin Wiig, poetry, Suzanne Somers

’Tis a light man that drinks a light beer

Lumpmoose — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:24:08 +0000

As a news/politics junkie and a fan of the Bard, this is right up my alley:
A tale told by an idiot

(via Sullivan)

Tagged: Gatesgate, Shakespeare