Brain-Sick

How Does the Tiny Waterbear Survive in Outer Space?

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:39:54 +0100

How Does the Tiny Waterbear Survive in Outer Space?

come and get your mouse on a stick!

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 09:07:00 +0100

come and get your mouse on a stick!

on TV

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:04:04 +0100

My theory on TV. No country in the world has developed more than 2 channels’ worth of good TV. Even accounting for variation in tastes you will not fill more than 5. Therefore, having 500 channels ensures that at least 99% will be terrible.

just liked the cover of this journal. The article’s also...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:53:11 +0000

just liked the cover of this journal. The article’s also interesting. (via Academic publishing: Of goats and headaches | The Economist)

Drag the link below on to your bookmarks bar. Then click it to turn irritating commenters on the...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:49:00 +0000

Drag the link below on to your bookmarks bar. Then click it to turn irritating commenters on the Guardian website into cute piggies (you may need to adjust the code to your tastes).

[oink]

Yeti crab farms bacteria on its claws, then eats them

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:47:50 +0000

Yeti crab farms bacteria on its claws, then eats them

Vomiting vegetarian finds dead bird in Tesco’s salad

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:25:19 +0000

Vomiting vegetarian finds dead bird in Tesco’s salad

Disgusted diner finds tooth in Tesco yoghurt

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 19:21:57 +0000

Disgusted diner finds tooth in Tesco yoghurt

"“Time to be one with explosion.” Said Sarah Ferguson as she exploded. As Sarah Ferguson..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:07:12 +0000

“

“Time to be one with explosion.” Said Sarah Ferguson as she exploded. As Sarah Ferguson exploded Garfield jumped out of window for escaping.

“You are now explosion but you will always be woman to me.” Said Garfield with remembrance.

”

- Garfield: Prince of Tragedy: Royal Rescue Part 2

"Garfield came on table of food with wedding guests sitting around on celebration. “No..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:49:00 +0000

“

Garfield came on table of food with wedding guests sitting around on celebration.

“No lasagna? What is the blasphemy!” Garfield roared in anger as he threw table on wedding guests.

“Lasagna is food of warriors and kings. Do not be forgetting this you worms.” Garfield roared as he walked on.

Garfield soon came upon wedding ceremony with Prince William and Kate Middleton at alter being wed. Everyone heard Garfields manly footsteps like thunder in the sea. Prince William Turned around saw his fears become realities.

“GARFIELD?” Yelled out Prince William in tones of squealing horror.

“How rude have you not heard royal tradition? It is the rules that I am first to have woman before marriage.” Garfield stated with cold fact.

”

- Garfield: Royal Rescue

Drunk elk found in tree (BBC)

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:59:33 +0100

Drunk elk found in tree (BBC)

Killer plant ‘eats’ blue tit at Somerset nursery

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:21:59 +0100

Killer plant ‘eats’ blue tit at Somerset nursery

"Imagine if we used our computers only for work. The industrial revolution would have never happened..."

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:03:12 +0100

“Imagine if we used our computers only for work. The industrial revolution would have never happened if, when you pulled the factory lever one way you made a Model T, and if you moved it the other way, you saw hot girl-on-girl action.”

- Joel Stein - Slate

Photo

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:17:03 +0100

Beer to be sold in dead animals - Telegraph

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:15:23 +0100

Beer to be sold in dead animals - Telegraph

Dinosaur Jr. - Show Me The Way (Cover)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:08:59 +0000

Dinosaur Jr. - Show Me The Way (Cover)

american politics - I think I’ve worked it out. Do conservatives really get as het up as they...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:48:00 +0000

american politics - I think I’ve worked it out. Do conservatives really get as het up as they claim to be about these bizarre issues like women breastfeeding in public or a few foetuses? Well undeniably some do. But the right there has gotten very good at building things up as symbolic issues. They set up a symbolic link with the lurking unspecified ogre of liberalism/socialism, in a way which mirrors the strategic importance of the issue. And the strategic importance of such issues is that they provide a bulwark against moves to the left that liberals might try to make in the future, should they gain power. If liberals spend all their time fighting outrageous acts or proposals then they lose momentum before getting to the things they would really like to do, like (some very mild forms of) redistributive taxation. Push deep into your enemy’s territory, then by the time they’ve rallied their armies back to the front they’ve already lost half of their country.

So you find someone (preacher, talk show host, ambitious local politician) who really believes that the sight of a nipple is abhorrent, use them to whip up public fury, giving dignity to people’s unspoken fears - by allowing them to appear in apparently legitimate public debate - and the dignity feeds through into a strengthened sense of conservative Christian identity. And that identity in turn means people are increasingly ready to read something that threatens-them-but-they-can’t-articulate-why, as a real threat to their way of life. The more outrageous the issue, the better - shock and awe as a tactic in the political battle, like Israel’s use of outrageous military action to push the range of negotiable outcomes progressively in its favour.

The left on the whole is bad at this. The Obama campaign did something similar to win the election, building a narrative that successfully linked the discredited Bush and Cheney, the financial crisis, and troubles in Afghanistan and Iraq together, to make financial and healthcare reform more palatable - a narrative that seems to have fallen apart now that the ogrous old regime has been binned. In the UK, Labour did manage to assign some issues to the dustbin which it labelled as backwards, corrupt, uncaring conservatism. At the same time it dragged others out of the sewer and adopted them proudly as its own. And even fox-hunting looks likely to make a comeback

When the drugs were given together, ethanol blocked...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:48:00 +0000

When the drugs were given together, ethanol blocked caffeine’s ability to make the mice more anxious. Conversely, caffeine did not reverse ethanol’s negative effect on learning. As a result, alcohol calmed the caffeine jitters, leaving an animal more relaxed but less able to avoid threats — a combination that the authors speculated could make people more likely to believe they are not drunk or not impaired enough to have problems functioning. …

Caffeine doesn’t reverse the negative cognitive impact of alcohol, study shows - Science Daily

‘Some Are Lakes’ / Land of Talk

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:01:52 +0000

‘Some Are Lakes’ / Land of Talk

We thought it would be clever to make a cat column out of plush...

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:21:01 +0000

We thought it would be clever to make a cat column out of plush cat toys. Unfortunately, our kitties would have nothing to do with it. In fact, they hated it!

The Cats’ House