"For When You Care Enough To Hit Send"

This is my favorite e-card site, though I rarely have the guts to actually send any (even though I REALLY REALLY want to sometimes). I appreciate having a job too much.

Head Pigeon: The Spotty Scourge

Yup, Elex is right; the chocolate-wearing girl has a bad case of headpigeon.



Another victim. Sad. Someone ought to set up a fund.

CNC Pumpkin Carving

Computer numerical control (CNC) is a computer "controller" that reads G-code instructions and drives a machine tool, a powered mechanical device typically used to fabricate components by the selective removal of material. CNC does numerically directed interpolation of a cutting tool in the work envelope of a machine. The operating parameters of the CNC can be altered via a software load program.

Says Wikipedia

CNC is kinda getting bigger. Machine shops are getting killed by places who can do it. You can also carve your face into a pumpkin using it.

Social Unrest and Zombie Movies

(Via Boing Boing)

If I Didn't Have You

Lyrics
...
(If I didn't have you)
(Someone else would surely do)

Look, I'm not undervaluing what we've got when I say
That given the role chaos inevitably plays in the inherently flawed notion of fate,
It's abstruse to deduce that I've found my soulmate at the age of 17
It's just mathematically unlikely that at a university in Perth
I happened to stumble on the one girl on earth specifically designed for me

And if I may conjecture a further objection love is nothing to do with destined perfection
The connection is strengthened the affection simply grows over time
Like a flower
Or a mushroom
Or a guinea pig
Or a vine
Or a sponge
Or bigotry

... or a banana (banana)

And love is made more powerful by the ongoing drama of shared experience and synergy
And symbiotic empathy or something like that...

So I trust it would go without saying
That I would feel really very sad if tomorrow you were to fall off something high
Or catch something bad

But I'm just saying
I don't think you're special
I mean... I think your special
But
You fall within a bell curve

I mean, I'm just saying I
(Think that I would)
Probably
(Have somebody else)
...

The Age-Old Question...

Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

Don't Look!

IT'S FORBIDDEN!

Gimme Sugar, Part 2

Chocolate corset : Designer Anita Jakobson displays a creation made from chocolate at the 14th Chocolate fair (Salon du Chocolat) in Paris.

Palin's "Code Switching" Speak

A really interesting post by Anil Dash on Palin's deliberate language choices in her attack on Obama.

And it's obvious to anyone who knows American culture why Palin wouldn't identify as a "basketball mom" or talk about "Joe Forty Ounce". These things are not accidents.

IT's Quiet

...too quiet.