when someone is channeling a Deep Meme (here O tempora O mores), supporting factlets become Too Good To Check. Confirmation Bias rules.
A nice little mini-post on those ostensibly damning statistics thrown into every article to better illustrate how shitty we all are, as a people. Stuff like, “among high-school seniors surveyed in the late 1990s, 50 percent had not heard of the Cold War.”
I don’t know why, but I feel like the whole world needs to see this picture of David Blaine in Botswana.
New Sigur Rós Album
Just by the song title alone, I could have guessed that “Dauðalogn” would be the breakout hit.
You go to take a photo but the last picture you took was with your phone’s front camera, so you get a moment of your own face, slack and unposed, before you have the chance to close your mouth, tuck your chin back in, and pretend death is not swiftly approaching.
It is only by placing our anuses directly on their eyes as they sleep that they will gain the powers of the ancient immortals. And yet the humans spurn us. Why?Cats
One Magical Night
Splitsider has a nice summary of their favorite moments from SNL’s past season. This sketch was pretty great, even after a few views (in a row [just now (should be working [don’t care go ahead tell my boss])]).
Let’s see, what rhymes with ‘small town’…
Wait, I got it! ‘Small town’!
March 22, 1985 11:04 AM
(also 11:08 AM, 11:15 AM, 12:02 PM, 12:17 PM, 1:45 PM and 1:47 PM)
who wears one of those absurdly huge technical bro watches, every five minutes turn to him and ask:
What depth are we at now?
This is the problem when you’re blind: you can’t assume anything. And the problem is, you get a picture in your mind, and if you get it wrong, you just live inside the mistake.Ryan Knighton, from a great This American Life episode, “Invisible Made Visible.”
Schindler Smokes
I’ve been working through some saved-up eppos of one of my favorite comedy shows, Stop Podcasting Yourself. This minute-thirty, featuring Jon Dore, made me laugh like cuckootown.
I think you should subscribe.
552 playsSaturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is pretty great today.
