Here at the School, we like to keep tabs on notable places of worship that spring up around the web. These people are carrying the faith to new heights: RICE IS LIFE
Excerpts:
– Almost 3,000 million people share the culture, traditions, and untapped potentials of rice.
Three thousand million sure sounds like an awful lot… I think they forgot to carry the decimal when converting from yen or something.
– Even in nations “new to rice”, its cultivation has changed landscapes…
This is probably a reference to the proliferation of lowered Toyota Camrys in nations that know no better (as opposed to those who do know better but lower them anyways).
– Along the Senegal River in West Africa, villagers greet guests with specially prepared rice dishes.
In professional forums, we refer to those dishes as “chrome hubcaps.”
– In short, rice is life.
Amen, brothers.
Author: Justin
Sut ne “Google killer”?
Microsoft’s best cheap shot at Google, utilizing their new (Improved! Economy-sized! 20% more inside, free!) search engine, is unsurprisingly lame:
more evil than satan
How original.
I see msn search is integrating reference answers with Web-page results. Gee, looks vaguely familiar, doesn’t it?
In other news, Hotmail (who graciously decided to disable my account and erase my message archives spanning over five years for no good reason) has upped the usage limit to 250MB (someone must have realized that the previous single digit limit was – how do you say – oh, that’s right, a fucking joke). Oh, well, without the comfort of the Gates mothership, I guess I’ll just stumble along blindly with this “GMail” thingy then… Wait. What’s that? They enabled free POP access you say?
Maybe I’ll be OK after all. Whew.
Todaiji Pond in Autumn
The nicest thing I saw today.
Mad Doraemon
Dave sent this to me today and I found it a nice break from the usual cheery images of the world’s most famous blue cat robot.
Note: I showed it to T and he says it’s been on sites like 2ch and in iMode chain letters for a few years.
The good leaf
Now that the excitement is over, I suggest everyone have a nice bit of something leafy, settle back, and relax a bit. The ultra-right gloating and the ultra-left whining is too much to bear. It’s all about taking a middle path, dudes.
Tunnel Vision
My surfing is limited to one page today:
http://news.yahoo.com/elections
refresh, refresh, refresh
Regular blogging here will resume when people (including myself) start to give a rat’s ass again and can turn on the TV without compulsively flicking to CNN every 30 seconds.
Lazy Travel Writers
Taken from a newsletter found in my inbox today:
Here are (sic) some advice from travelers who have been to Japan in the past:
“Do as Japanese do”
Holy shit, is that the best you can do? Yeah, eat raw sea cows and putrefying fish guts, shit your guts out while squatting over a dank smelly hole in the ground, then jack off to hentai anime with your parents sleeping in the next room, separated only by a sliding rice paper door.
“Do as Japanese do?” No wonder I despise travel writers and guide books so fucking much. That’s the laziest fucking advice I’ve ever heard.
Buddha: 1, Disney: 0
I love the sweet smell of vindication in the morning. Now that we have them on the retreat, let us remember why it came to this, why we hates them so, my precioussssssss: LINK
Until this abomination is corrected and pirate grabassery is returned to its former glory, for us the song remains the same:
YO-HO YO-HO
UNPUSSIFY THE PIRATES FOR ME!
Friday Facial
One good reason I don’t want to go fishing for squid this winter (although half my island’s population will be lining the shores): LINK
Praying Mantis style
Even though it’s way late, my complete and utter devotion to Neal Stephenson’s writing compels me to point out his interview on Slashdot. That’s the most interesting read I’ve had all year; I was watching the progression of the scroll tab on my browser and dreading its end.
Also, check out this article featuring Stross and Doctorow on the PopSci site:
Is Science Fiction About to Go Blind?