I need to access a full article on Britannica and I heard you can do it by linking from a blog: folk society Update: It works! An alternative is to bookmark the target article to del.icio.us. Of course, this bears the question as to why Britannica is still based on an archaic paid subscription system, but I’m not complaining. I really need to know about folk societies since I’m doing someone else’s homework (ahem!). Here is the link to Britannica’s official policy regarding linkage.

It may just be my current rage issues, but I thought this was the funniest thing: Two clowns shot dead “Acrobats, harlequins, animal trainers and other circus performers staged protests in different parts of the country following the killings, chanting ‘Justice for the assassins of laughter.'” Mind you, the assasin of laughter’s name is “My Fish.” “A spokeswoman for the Cucuta police said authorities were investigating the cause of the double slayings, but said they had discounted the reason being the men’s jobs.” Heh, suuuure.

The cringiest video I’ve ever started to watch is called… link (This post is designed to stem the flow of hate mail from all you pimp-ass Tenrikyo ballers…)

This is the ultimate realization of one of Cosmic Buddha’s long-standing jokes: 785 Movie I would be really surprised if they got permission to do this… There was a band that played a punk version of some Tenrikyo songs and got kicked out of Tenri high school about 15 years ago. I think T, who sent me the link, stated it best: This video really really kills you and cut in pieces and makes you feel the solar system is just a joke and the whole universe is a big shit house. Amen.

Go create your own! (thx jose)

This is one of the most disturbing articles on the environment I have read in recent months: If the temperature and wind aren’t right and the lagoon operators are spraying, people in hog country can’t hang laundry or sit on their porches or mow their lawns. Epidemiological studies show that those who live near hog lagoons suffer from abnormally high levels of depression, tension, anger, fatigue and confusion. “We are used to farm odors,” says one local farmer. “These are not farm odors.” Sometimes the stink literally knocks people down: They walk out of the house to get something in the yard and become so nauseous they collapse. When they…

Maven asks: Do I know about Mr. Yoshida’s sauce? Just a bit. Just enough to stay away, that is: “Junki proved himself a consummate brawler, slashing and battling with a ferocity notable even by lower Kyoto’s brutal standards. First he ran with a gang, then he ran his own. He picked up both a collection of knife scars and a nickname derived from the American tough-guy films he loved: One-Eyed-Jack Junki. He had lost his right eye in an accident when he was three years old. A Buddhist priest had told him, “Junki-san, God has taken your eye and replaced it with his own. You will have a special insight…

Holy… Somebody please record this for me – I can’t get BT to work on my line. Oh, and happy new year!