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eftychia at 02:32pm on 2003-06-08
eftychia at 02:32pm on 2003-06-08- Calories Don't Count, "We have found that with careful eating, it is possible to eat entire (tasty!) meals without consuming a single calorie!" It's a compilation of "rules" about food, such as, "Pieces of cookies contain no calories. The process of breaking causes all the calories to leak out." And, "A bite off someone else's plate has no calories. (If you eat part of someone else's cake, dessert, etc., all the calories stay in the main body of the food. This is known as the peripheral principle.)" Many of these will be familiar, but there were several I hadn't heard before. (A comment at the top explains that it's a composite of many such lists to be found on the Internet.)
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Timeline of the Internet -- includes such gems as,
"2003: After 43.2 million spams, and over 2.3 billion
pop-up ads worldwide, someone buys an X-10 mini cam."
(from The Lemon. I got the link from
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who got it from kightp.) - NASCAR Sperm, a Flash movie. There's really not much I can say about this ... Definitely giggleworthy.
- I'm not going to improve on ceo's capsule
description of this (linked in case y'all want to follow
the comments there), so I'll just quote it:
So there were these three kids who were 10, 11 and 12 when Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, and it utterly captivated them. Most kids would have been content with playing Indiana Jones in the back yard.
On the page linked to, there's a link to a trailer as well (with the note, "[...] this'll give you a glimpse [but] the music has nothing to do with the actual audio track in the film."
These three did a shot-for-shot remake of the entire movie. Including making all the costumes and coming up with creative ways to do the stunts. Took them six years, and the kid playing Indy got his first kiss filming the appropriate scene. -
Female Merit Badges by Mary Yaeger. (Thanks to
merde for the link.) "My female merit badges illustrate
female "rites of passage" as well as the myriad physical
manipulations women undergo to achieve cultural ideals of beauty,
such as weight watching, whether or not to shave or wear makeup,
etc. I've created tiny replicas of female products, such as a
birth control pill pack and a pregnancy test. The miniature scale
and meticulous, hand-embroidered surfaces convey my impressions of
growing up female in our culture." (This evokes an interesting
combination of reactions for me, being inter/transgendered.)
- The 80s Tarot ties the classical meanings of the cards to 1980s popular culture personalities -- mostly musicians, a few actors, a few fictional characters (Edward Scissorhands is The Moon). Not just the Major Arcana -- the whole deck. Some of these made sense to me (Ferris Beuller as The Fool, Thomas Dolby as The Magician); others just weren't familiar enough to me but would probably work for someone who'd paid more attention during that decade. (And some made sense to me verbally, but I didn't recognize easily enough visually for them to work as an instant visual symbol.) Examples: The Hermit -- Morrissey, sulking, self-righteous and ostentatiously undersexed, illuminated by Light That Never Goes Out, is our Hermit. His isolation is part of the price that he pays for his wisdom and attainment, but it is also his love for the material world and society that makes his struggle necessary to him. He is the ultimate outsider." The Six of Cups: "Full of well-meaning nostalgia, childlike innocence and joyful simplicity, Weird Al Yankovic represents the Six of Cups." Useful descriptions of the meanings of the cards follow the explanations of the images. Note that this isn't much different from the medieval custom of using likenesses of nobles on tarot cards. (And I've got enough ideas of things I want to babble about regarding the tarot that the rest should go in its own entry, later...)
- Exciting news from the world of medicine:
New drugs for a variety of ailments. Such as
"St. Mom's Wort -- Plant extract that treats mom's depression
by rendering preschoolers unconscious for up to six hours."
and "Flipitor -- Increases life expectancy of commuters by
controlling road rage and the urge to flip off other drivers."
(thanks to xpioti)
- Okay, this one's going to seem a rather funny item to be coming from me, of all people, being that it's about shaving and being macho, but it's also terribly funny: "The Shaving Industry Lies", in which the author notes, "That's right guys, you're going to start using women's razors. Why? Because these cheap things are way sharper than the best men's razor. Think about it... these razors aren't made to shave a small area like a face, they're for shaving an entire LEG. Hell, TWO LEGS!" and proceeds to go to town on ways to get around "the whole 'pink' thing". Funnier than I can make it sound without giving away even more spoilers than that. Let's just say that ninjas are involved.
- Looks like Massachussets is the latest hot zone for the same-sex marriage question (Boston Globe, 8 June). A note of patient optimism: "However the SJC rules, same-sex marriage is almost certainly coming to the United States sooner or later. Most developed countries already recognize same-sex partners in some significant way. This month, Belgium will join the Netherlands as the second nation to open the door to full marriage rights. Same-sex marriage is also imminent in Canada and South Africa, where the law already grants lesbian and gay couples rights to just about everything except the M-word. Meanwhile, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, Germany, Hungary, France, New Zealand, Portugal, most of Australia, half the provinces in Spain, and two Argentinian states give gay couples many to most of marriage's legal rights and responsibilities." (My personal opinion: there are two different institutions that have the same name and are nearly always confused: religious (or societal) marriage, and State (or contractual) marriage. Any church should be free to refuse to marry couples based on its beliefs, but the State should not discriminate on the basis of sex. Will my opinion ever become the dominant one in the US? I don't know.) The article also interestingly notes that, "When full marriage rights for same-sex couples arrive here in the United States, it will be just another incremental step in the ongoing transformation of marriage into an egalitarian institution based on love. Or to put it another way, same-sex couples are following, not leading, changes in our marriage law." Which is something I hadn't considered before.
- A site I just noticed and don't think I'd noticed before: Patriotwatch tracks news related to the post-9/11 erosion of our rights in the US.
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Funny, my friend Ahmie and I were just discussing that at our church picnic - she's got a couple in the works, including an all-Lego Tarot and an American Sign Language Tarot - I was thinking of trying to make a Dickens Tarot, myself. Oliver Twist for the Fool (or maybe the young David Copperfield?), the Artful Dodger as the Magician, Bill Sikes beating Nancy as the Devil, Little Nell looking pale and consumptive for Death...
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