Planes or Volcano? #ashtag
I was curious about this actually, good to see someone else has done the work so I don’t have to!
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I ordered this shirt last week.
Slightly frivolous, I admit.
“I like the notion of this blunt technological camouflage, where it looks as if you’re doing one thing while you’re doing the exact opposite. Here’s another idea. Modern 3D cinema technology works by ensuring your left eye sees one image while your right sees another. But they could, presumably, issue one pair of specs comprising two left-eye lenses (for children to wear), and another with two right-eye lenses (for adults). This would make it possible for parents to take their offspring to the cinema and watch two entirely different films at the same time. So while the kiddywinks are being placated by an animated CGI doodle about rabbits entering the Winter Olympics or something, their parents will be bearing witness to some apocalyptically degrading pornography. The tricky thing would be making the soundtracks match. Those cartoon rabbits would have to spend a lot of time slapping their bellies and moaning.” — Charlie Brooker | Why I’m an ebook convert | Comment is free | The Guardian
Apparently my Tumblr blog is now 3 years old. I imagine the first two years were probably more interesting (the 2nd year was almost certainly the highlight) but it’s (sort of) still going, so thanks for all the cards and presents.
Oh, no cards and presents? Well then, your penalty for not sending anything is reading this disgustingly and totally undeservedly self-congratulatory post.
I hope you’ve learnt your lesson.
Yesterday I made spaghetti with tomato/parmesan sauce for lunch, and I added a simple salad to the mix.
But wait - what are chopsticks, of all things, doing in my bowl? Prepare to have your mind blown.
You see, whatever you think of chopsticks’ utility as carriers of dumplings, stir fry, rice, noodles, or sushi (I find them decent only at handling the first one), allow me to suggest that they are in fact the perfect utensil for eating salad. And as far as I’ve traveled and dined, I have not seen anyone capitalize on this.
Think about it - salad usually consists of mostly flat, folded-in leaves arranged in a heap. The top of that heap is somewhat forkable, though it’s hard to apply pressure without lifting up either no leaves or all of them. Poking flat objects just isn’t optimal.
Enter the chopsticks, with their power to compress leaves and use the friction of the resulting random shape to their advantage. No more awkward pulling of forked-through leaves. No more chasing the last few bits of lettuce around the bowl. Point and pinch, and enjoy.
This seems like a pretty good idea!
Help get “The Peter Serafinowicz Show” DVD to No.1!
All you have to do is go in to your local HMV and put our DVD in the No. 1 spot on their chart shelf.
You don’t even have to buy it!
A cunning new approach to self-promotion!
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“Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest.” —
BBC News - Why do people often vote against their own interests?
This rings true for me, and the UK is in danger of following the bad example set by the US.
I want so much to believe this is real. So I will.
:)
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I often hear this in response to arguments that the financial cost of flying should be more aligned to the environmental cost. It doesn’t really make any sense.
It’s a shame that poor people wouldn’t be able to fly to Spain for their holidays, but it’s also a shame that I can’t add an indulgence in lobsters and champagne to my daily routine. The sad fact of the matter is that we are all, to varying degrees, limited in what we can do by financial constraints.
Expensive things are generally expensive for a reason!
“I tell people that if it’s in the news, don’t worry about it. The very definition of ‘news’ is ‘something that hardly ever happens.’ It’s when something isn’t in the news, when it’s so common that it’s no longer news — car crashes, domestic violence — that you should start worrying.” — Bruce Schneier (via charliepark) (via marco)
