Hasselhofian Recursion. Via Uncle Bear.
(BTW, is it the week for hilarious hunkitude or what?)
Category: Funny
Shank ’em if you got ’em, fellas
Achewood makes me happy again by including the line “Yup. That’s my go-to shank.” …In the midst of an extended discussion of the merits of various “shanking” techniques learned in prison, from various masters of the form.
I clearly need a “go-to shank.”
iProduct.
The power to buy anything — and feel good about it.
Will it be merely an incremental improvement? Will we simply increase the storage capacity of an existing product and increase the price? Or will we remove features and capacity and reduce the price? It doesn’t matter. We’ll still trumpet it as a brand new product, and you’ll buy it. You know you’ll want it. And you know you’ll pay big for it. Steve Jobs could take a dump, put it in an off-white plastic case, add two grey buttons and a small LCD display, and you’d pay $600 for it. Just fucking admit it.
via mph, the second thing that he’s IMed me today that makes me remember why deep down I’m not a real Mac user. Because I don’t have that kind of spare cash. I’ve never bought a Mac computer new. I don’t own an iPod. I’m not one of the real mac people. And yet, I’m pretty happy with my mac, object to it on some grounds though I might. Sure better than freaking Winders. And it’s sure less pain and hassle than Linux… mostly anyway. What can you do.
Update: rebuttal, not as funny as the iProduct one, IMO.
Boing Boing: Desperate Ken Lay paying search-engines to return links to his
Boing Boing: Desperate Ken Lay paying search-engines to return links to his “version” of Enron.
You know all those cool “click for charity” things where you can click to give a buck to hungry people or something?
Now the magic of the internet has given us a link you can click to deliberately cost a robber-baron corporate scumhole five to twelve cents for nothing. (Unless you start reading and believing his web site, in which case it’s not for nothing…)
Apparently I Shall Live Forever
Telegraph | News | Want to live longer? Then drop the fitness regime and put your feet up
It is the news that all sloths have been waiting for. Scientists in Germany have found that too much exercise is bad for you and that doing less could lengthen your life.
In a new book called The Joy of Laziness: How to slow down and live longer, Dr Peter Axt, retired professor of health science at Fulda University near Frankfurt, and his daughter, Dr Michaela Axt-Gadermann, a GP, say that everybody has a limited amount of “life energy” and that the speed with which it is consumed determines their life span.