The excellent Big Picture blog from The Boston Globe recently published a set of photos of that lunatic leader, Kim Jong-il touring North Korea.
North Korea is so screwed up that it’s really interesting. Thank heavens I don’t live there.
Anyway, this blog has taken some of those photos and added hilarious captions to them. Kim is a pretty hilarious character to begin with (what he is doing to his people is no laughing matter).
This is a great vid from 2oceansvibe. Really funny stuff. You may want to cover your eyes – but make sure that you watch to the end.
George W Bush may or not be a complete idiot. Surely you can’t actually get through Yale and become president if you really are a moron?
But he definitely has said some idiotic things over his 8 years as president. The BBC has this awesome collection of ‘Bushisms’. Very funny.
Here are some of my favorites.
Recently in London an evangelical Christian group ran a campaign of bus adverts for their website which claims that: all non-Christians will burn in hell for eternity.
Don’t be shocked. This is of course what should be believed by those who take the bible literally. (If you don’t then what makes you think you can pick and choose which parts you like!)
In response a British writer (Ariane Sherine) launched a campaign to run a positive ‘atheist’ bus campaign. The public pledged over £140,000 in support and now that campaign is a serious reality.
Buses all over Britain now display this message:
Nice. I like it. Catchy, friendly. Good stuff.
There has been quite a lot of debate about the use of the word “probably”. They went with “probably” because
You can learn more on the campaign website FAQ or on the Wikipedia article
XKCD is a superb webcomic (although pretty geeky) that I follow religiously. I recently came across this one which I found funny.
I thought it was pretty random so I Googled the incident and it turns out that Jimmy Carter was indeed ‘attacked’ by a swimming swamp rabbit in 1979! Read about it in the Wikipedia article: Jimmy Carter Rabbit Incident. There are also links to more detail.
Jimmy Carter stares at the crazed swamp rabbit that he had just fought off. Carter was out fishing alone when the swamp rabbit swam towards him and tried desperately to enter the boat. Mr President was forced to fend it off with an oar. Not sure that I believe this – but it does seem to be legit…
Placebos work remarkably well – a lot of the time people aren’t really sick. I’m reading Captain Corelli’s Mandolin at the moment (seems pretty good) and one of the characters is a doctor on a Greek island occupied during WW2. He notes that in hard times (occupation) suddenly the islanders have far fewer medical complaints. They have something else to concentrate on!
So I find it pretty cool that this company is selling Placebo tablets in a very official looking container. The product is called Obelcap (You see they did there? Placebo backwards. Sneaky) and is described as “Delicious pharmaceutical grade natural cherry chewable tablets” Useful.
This must have been pretty freaky. It seems that the pachyderm is in a rather ‘friendly’ mood if you know what I mean – still scary though…
Click for a larger view of the image – the guys expression is pretty cool and you can see what he is looking at
NewScientist has an awesome headline on one of it’s stories today: “Great tits enjoying the warmer weather”. I think that one might get quite a lot of traffic…
Anyway, the article is actually about how a species of birds in the UK known as great tits have responded to global warming by laying their eggs earlier. They need to time their laying pretty precisely and over the last 30 years their laying has shifted 2 weeks earlier in the spring.
So here is that picture of some young great tits:
I like this photo. At first I didn’t realise what was going on, but it shows the tracks of a rabbit moving across some snow when BAM an owl nails it. You can see the wings of the attacking bird imprinted in the snow – and no more rabbit tracks…
I don’t want to further confuse people about the concepts of evolution, but this is kinda funny…
