December 2011
33 posts
“The only useful airport security measures since 9/11,” he says, “were locking...”
– Bruce Schneier, Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
Ostrovsky on Azerbaijan →
“There is no bar exam, in other words, no test to pass. Instead, the comic is...”
– Standup Comity - The Morning News
Into a Bar →
nostrich:
Fritinancy with a meme from alt.usage.english: “bar jokes that hinge on fine points of grammar, punctuation, and linguistics.” Some of my faves:
A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, planning to drink.
The bar was walked into by the passive voice.
A spoonerism balks into a war.
A snowclone walks into the mother of all bars.
A superlative goes into a bar none.
Watch(via Prostitutes of God | The VICE Guide to Travel | VICE)
Fascinating and sad. Confused how the narrator concludes that capitalism is responsible. Haven’t these crazy religious traditions always masked a commercial (and evidently, painfully necessary) interest? Isn’t the caste system, far predating capitalism, complicit?
Tragic.
Hashtag this something like… vile classism,...
WatchTwine : Listen to your world, talk to the Internet (by Supermechanical)
Love it.
Watch(via Martha Stewart Pepper Sprays A Turkey)
Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge →
“Switzerland may be famous for its neutrality; however, it’s anything but...”
– Rick Steves’ Europe: Switzerland: Your Barn Door’s Open
