The era of profit
While
my wife is enjoying a little "snooze of the just", maybe I'll do that
tabu search now. As usual, the rules are that you have to start from a
site with a lot of links, and you are only allowed to go to sites where
you have never been before. Scan the front page for anything good, and
continue deeper in the site if it looks worth it. Keep going
recursively with these rules if you feel like it. Today's starting site
shall be "Ace of Spades HQ", so let's see what Asia Spade links to.
But before that, "K-Punk" has a post "Ripley vs. Columbo" that asks what would happen if the famous victional villain (that's Tom, not Ellen) and the famous detective had ever met in the same story. It is a very interesting question that just gets better the more you think about it. By the way, for some reason my computer does not use ClearType to show the text at the K-Punk blog. Crud, to think that until quite recently, all text on the computer monitor always looked blocky like that. Shudder.
"Good with Ketchup" is a blog whose posts are jokes. The post "Sexy Sister-in-Law" starts like a letter to the Penthouse Forum, but ends with a twist. Speaking of which, perhaps some humorist could write a whole series of letters to Penthouse Forum, except that there letters would be, you know, funny because they would be realistic. I read somewhere that deadpan humor is in and hip these days, so that might be funny. Or not.
When a two-dimensional picture is taken from a three-dimensional world, we automatically interpret the objects in the two-dimensional picture as objects in the three-dimensional world that we mentally construct based on the picture. But since this projection necessarily loses a lot of information, many different three-dimensional worlds would generate the same two-dimensional picture. For example, the standard shape of a "wireframe cube" can result not only from an actual three-dimensional cube, but from any shape that you get by moving the corners of the cube freely along the lines of projection. And this is only the very beginning of all possible three-dimensional shapes that would project into a two-dimensional "wireframe cube" when viewed from a certain position and angle. Where am I going with this rambling? Well, nowhere really, but at least the product page "Black bars" at "Stupidiotic" shows us one possible practical application of the phenomenon that I described above.
The post "Why bother?" at "Rhymes With Right" shows us a meta-photo that is, as they say, an "exercise in futility".
The page "Metaphors from Student Essays" at "Funny Emails" shows us how the future Mickey Spillanes of America are really driving their points across to the reader in a very literary fashion. Ah, to be back in high school. Mr. Babylon was a high school teacher in the bad part of the town, and finally got sacked. But we can still read about his experiences as a teacher. But hey, perhaps Hollywood will call and have some present-day equivalent of Mark Harmon to play this character. Welcome back, Kotter!
When I saw the news article "Rubber pavements give pedestrians more bounce", I immediately thought that that was an excellent idea. Another news article, "Muslim Gays Seek Lesbians For Wives", reminds us that gay marriage is perfectly legal already, as gays and lesbians can freely marry each other. I also have to wonder what would happen if some Western religious leader or political figure ever said the same things about gays that the Muslim authorities quoted in the article said. (Oh, actually I don't really wonder, because I know, and I also know that you know.)
As gay as they tend to be, I guess that Swedes are not completely worthless as a nation, assuming that the photos on the page "Metro stations in Stockholm" at "Attu Sees All" (not safe for work) have not been doctored to make them look more like video games.
In case I haven't mentioned this yet in my blog, I think that Bill Clinton was one of the greatest U.S. presidents ever. I had a dream a few days ago in which he was giving a speech in some mall, and I shook his hand. Intelligent, charismatic, well-liked abroad, led America to prosper and enjoy massive budget surpluses... come on, what's there not to like? Of course, my view of the man was shaped a lot by BartCop, but throughout the nineties, I was hoping that Finland could some day have a national leader like him. I know that many American conservatives dislike the man almost as passionately as the leftists currently dislike Dubya, but heck, take some comfort in the fact that his little love affair with Monica nicely revealed the hypocrisy of feminists when it comes to sexual harassment and the little "perks" that alpha dogs enjoy in the workplace.
Speaking of which, I am currently rooting that the 2008 U.S. presidential election is between Hillary and some right-wing fundy Christian anti-intellectual blowhard who is even worse than Dubya. This way, no matter which side wins, the next four years will be hilarious. (Or, heh, "hillarious".) Until then, the post "Awesome!!" at "Cynical Nation" tells us about a little drinking game that recently allegedly took place between Hillary and John McCain. Maybe the next president could be chosen by having both contestants first have a few drinks and then try to stick a needle as close to the center of a target, so that whoever hits closer wins. I think they did this in some Jules Verne novel.
While we are on this literary theme, another post, "Adventures in dog-sitting", remound me of the hardboiled "Burke" crime novels by Andrew Vachss, for some reason. For the readers looking for something less bleak but just as manly and exciting, the post "Literary SmackDown!?" at an interesting looking new-to-me blog "Geek Soap Box" offers one plausible alternative. Another post therein, "More Fun with the American Educational System" answers the famous series of ten questions that leftists and gays believe somehow punctures the balloon of heteronormativity. These question have no effect in reality and simple, reasoned answers work best. And my answers wouldn't have been much different. It's amazing how leftists seem to be unable to understand that the difference between group A that is 2% of the population and group B that is 98% of the population is not just quantitative, but qualitative in a very fundamental fashion. If you believe that the numerical majority shouldn't hold the reins to shape the society towards its needs, well, I guess you liked the apartheid-era South Africa.
But before that, "K-Punk" has a post "Ripley vs. Columbo" that asks what would happen if the famous victional villain (that's Tom, not Ellen) and the famous detective had ever met in the same story. It is a very interesting question that just gets better the more you think about it. By the way, for some reason my computer does not use ClearType to show the text at the K-Punk blog. Crud, to think that until quite recently, all text on the computer monitor always looked blocky like that. Shudder.
"Good with Ketchup" is a blog whose posts are jokes. The post "Sexy Sister-in-Law" starts like a letter to the Penthouse Forum, but ends with a twist. Speaking of which, perhaps some humorist could write a whole series of letters to Penthouse Forum, except that there letters would be, you know, funny because they would be realistic. I read somewhere that deadpan humor is in and hip these days, so that might be funny. Or not.
When a two-dimensional picture is taken from a three-dimensional world, we automatically interpret the objects in the two-dimensional picture as objects in the three-dimensional world that we mentally construct based on the picture. But since this projection necessarily loses a lot of information, many different three-dimensional worlds would generate the same two-dimensional picture. For example, the standard shape of a "wireframe cube" can result not only from an actual three-dimensional cube, but from any shape that you get by moving the corners of the cube freely along the lines of projection. And this is only the very beginning of all possible three-dimensional shapes that would project into a two-dimensional "wireframe cube" when viewed from a certain position and angle. Where am I going with this rambling? Well, nowhere really, but at least the product page "Black bars" at "Stupidiotic" shows us one possible practical application of the phenomenon that I described above.
The post "Why bother?" at "Rhymes With Right" shows us a meta-photo that is, as they say, an "exercise in futility".
The page "Metaphors from Student Essays" at "Funny Emails" shows us how the future Mickey Spillanes of America are really driving their points across to the reader in a very literary fashion. Ah, to be back in high school. Mr. Babylon was a high school teacher in the bad part of the town, and finally got sacked. But we can still read about his experiences as a teacher. But hey, perhaps Hollywood will call and have some present-day equivalent of Mark Harmon to play this character. Welcome back, Kotter!
When I saw the news article "Rubber pavements give pedestrians more bounce", I immediately thought that that was an excellent idea. Another news article, "Muslim Gays Seek Lesbians For Wives", reminds us that gay marriage is perfectly legal already, as gays and lesbians can freely marry each other. I also have to wonder what would happen if some Western religious leader or political figure ever said the same things about gays that the Muslim authorities quoted in the article said. (Oh, actually I don't really wonder, because I know, and I also know that you know.)
As gay as they tend to be, I guess that Swedes are not completely worthless as a nation, assuming that the photos on the page "Metro stations in Stockholm" at "Attu Sees All" (not safe for work) have not been doctored to make them look more like video games.
In case I haven't mentioned this yet in my blog, I think that Bill Clinton was one of the greatest U.S. presidents ever. I had a dream a few days ago in which he was giving a speech in some mall, and I shook his hand. Intelligent, charismatic, well-liked abroad, led America to prosper and enjoy massive budget surpluses... come on, what's there not to like? Of course, my view of the man was shaped a lot by BartCop, but throughout the nineties, I was hoping that Finland could some day have a national leader like him. I know that many American conservatives dislike the man almost as passionately as the leftists currently dislike Dubya, but heck, take some comfort in the fact that his little love affair with Monica nicely revealed the hypocrisy of feminists when it comes to sexual harassment and the little "perks" that alpha dogs enjoy in the workplace.
Speaking of which, I am currently rooting that the 2008 U.S. presidential election is between Hillary and some right-wing fundy Christian anti-intellectual blowhard who is even worse than Dubya. This way, no matter which side wins, the next four years will be hilarious. (Or, heh, "hillarious".) Until then, the post "Awesome!!" at "Cynical Nation" tells us about a little drinking game that recently allegedly took place between Hillary and John McCain. Maybe the next president could be chosen by having both contestants first have a few drinks and then try to stick a needle as close to the center of a target, so that whoever hits closer wins. I think they did this in some Jules Verne novel.
While we are on this literary theme, another post, "Adventures in dog-sitting", remound me of the hardboiled "Burke" crime novels by Andrew Vachss, for some reason. For the readers looking for something less bleak but just as manly and exciting, the post "Literary SmackDown!?" at an interesting looking new-to-me blog "Geek Soap Box" offers one plausible alternative. Another post therein, "More Fun with the American Educational System" answers the famous series of ten questions that leftists and gays believe somehow punctures the balloon of heteronormativity. These question have no effect in reality and simple, reasoned answers work best. And my answers wouldn't have been much different. It's amazing how leftists seem to be unable to understand that the difference between group A that is 2% of the population and group B that is 98% of the population is not just quantitative, but qualitative in a very fundamental fashion. If you believe that the numerical majority shouldn't hold the reins to shape the society towards its needs, well, I guess you liked the apartheid-era South Africa.
Interesting links. Keep up the good work.
Posted by Lexcen | 4:14 PM