Interestingly – half of all english language wikipedia editors have no religion. No wonder the Christian Right wanted to start their own (see Conservapedia) More interestingly, wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (not to be confused with Jeremy Wales), thought that statistic was worth including in a ten year summary of the site.
And look. An infographic:
Via TechCrunch.
… lets their daughter, no, encourages their daughter, to sing and dance like this on national television.
Only in America.
Etiquette is a murky thing. Throw some nudity or heavy weights into the mix and we’re talking perilous social waters.
I went to a gym once. Well, more than once. Twice. Well more than twice. There were three periods in my life when I was a member of a gym. I didn’t like it very much. But who does? I might rejoin one soon. I harbour a secret desire to be able to wink with my pecs.
Anyway. Seeing people at the gym who you know can present some awkward social situations. Especially if you’re naked. I’ve never understood people’s desire to get naked at the gym. It’s a subculture I just don’t get. Go home sweaty and shower when you get there. Seriously.
Anyway. Here’s a flowchart. From Slate.
Now I wish I hadn’t spent all of Chemistry at high school picking lines from random songs for my classmates to identify.
Oh well. The dinosaur cloners will need public relations people. I guess that’ll be my in.
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Comics, via the Friendly Atheist.
I am truly surprised that there aren’t more Benny Hinn mashups out there. I’ve posted a couple before.
This is every bit as terrible as you think it will be.
Actually. It’s more terrible.
Apparently the guys responsible for launching nuclear missiles dress down a little bit when they’re sitting at the command console. Which, I think we’d all agree, is a good thing. I’d hate for an itchy shirt to cause somebody to bump that red button. From Wired.
Though tedious, missile duty is not without perks. The uniform regulations are relaxed, though not by design. Once the blast door thuds shut and a crew is free from the prying eyes of the public or enlisted personnel topside, out come the pajamas and hooded sweatshirts.
In a favorite missileer uniform patch (right), the Grim Reaper sits at an ICBM console, dressed in bunny slippers. In the real world, death wears a campus T-shirt, JCrew bottoms and the ubiquitous Snuggie. The silly blanket-robe hybrid is suited to the missile force, keeping an officer toasty while allowing him to interact with the weapons console unobstructed.
Missileers learn that on alert, comfort is as important as humor. One enterprising fellow liked to string a hammock between the two command chairs and stretch out for his long shifts at the console.
There’s something a little kafkaesque about the whole picture isn’t there? The guys who can blow up the world are wearing these:
I bet one of these guys is Mark Driscoll. If you get to 2:30 – I reckon he’s the one on the right.
“We stand for a message. And the message is that we are against violence and we are against the crimes you are going to do”
Red Dragon carries a wooden sword. That could be Driscoll too.
This video is very, very, cool.
These infographics are a dime a dozen. But this is yet another reason that if you’re trying to sell a product, or an idea, you need to figure out how to use Facebook well to engage your potential customers/audience.
From both the US and UK. This is a nice little visualisation using one of my most favourite games in the world to put some financial figures into perspective.
I love YouTube videos that show how stuff is made.
Got this one via Kottke.org.
Fantastic.
Via Kottke.org
There’s an Internet Law that describes why you people don’t comment…
It’s called the 1% Rule. It has its own wikipedia article. And getting a wikipedia article is more difficult than you might think. So it must be true.
But here:
That explains it.
January 13, 2011