Arkadiusz Podniesinski’s aerial photograph of cars abandoned in the exclusion zone around Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station (via inspirationals)
Guy builds a fully mechanically functioning 777 airplane from cut up manila folders.
THIS IS INCREDIBLE LOOK AT HIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL
I just sat here mesmerized watching him work his flap actuator system for like five straight minutes, there are six perfect little tiny u-joints made of manila folders
the interior is every bit as detailed and exact as the rest of it but holy fucking shit this engineering is incredible I am having a real hard time comprehending that all of those bits in the landing gear are actually made of manila folders
look at all those tiny joints
look at all those functioning parts
HE BUILT MANILA-FOLDER THRUST REVERSERS YOU GUYS I CAN’T
xXx’s introduction of vin diesel’s character, “xander cage”, has him stealing a senator’s very expensive car and recording a message where he insults him for introducing anti violent video game legislature, before destroying the car itself and if that didn’t sound 2002 enough, before that, there’s a rammstein concert
So I just remembered that at one point, long ago, Shadowrun tried to call its internet-wizards ‘Otaku’, which is pretty hilariously naive in retrospect.
But it also makes me think of how incredible/dumb it would be to have actual hard-bitten otaku mercenaries in the dark cyberpunk future, stealing hyperanime from Japanese corporate servers locked down with murderous IC.
“Listen, chummer, you weren’t there for the waifu wars of 2036, so don’t you even dare tell me Honoka isn’t the best girl!” The servos in his arm whine as he clutches the weathered body pillow tighter.
Somewhere in there, beyond the neon expanse of the Tokyo matrix hub, beyond the towering megaliths of corporate datastructures, beyond walls of shimmering ice and swarms of hunter-killer subroutines, there she was. Hatsune Miku. The rogue AI. They said she owned the World Bank, now.
Who hasn’t put Lawry’s in a spaghetti sauce at least once or twice or three times or four times or five times or six times or seven or eight or nine or ten or eleven or twelve or thirteen or fourteen or fifteen or sixteen or seventeen or eighteen or nineteen or twenty or twenty-one or twenty-two or twenty-three or twenty-four or twenty-five or twenty-six or twenty-seven or twenty-eight or twenty-nine or thirty or thirty-one or thirty-two or thirty-three times? Lawry’s for the indignities, Lawry’s for the banalities, Lawry’s until you forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget, forget
On the occasion of Grantland’s passing, let’s all reflect on that time I started reading Molly Lambert and she wrote a good article about neo-noir and gender roles themed as a riposte to some dudebro I realized halfway through was literally me.
An online petition hopes to give wings to the idea of changing Stephen Harper’s name to “Calgary International Airport.“ While other online petitions debate whether the airport should be renamed after the outgoing prime minister, the latest entry proposes the opposite.Sounds reasonable to me. (via jakke)
Just saw a dude in red/black lumberjack plaid with beard and matching plaid keffiyeh.
the TurboDuo, the hybrid TurboGrafix-16 and CD console had a mascot in the west named Johnny Turbo, who had comics made about him. They all basically had the same plot. Evil suited men claimed their console was the first CD-based console, and Johnny Turbo had to save the day by correcting them.
I appreciate they made him look exactly like the sort of person who would slam through a door, wheeze ‘ACTUALLYTHETURBODUOWASTHEFIRSTCDBASEDCONSOLE’ and fall over.
Facebook just served me this. At first I was like “Time to get off your baby? What?”
And then I was like “ohhhh, Facebook just served me a Spanish-language diaper ad and then awkwardly translated it into that.”
And then I was like “Wait, what?”
i don’t intend to die anytime soon but just in case, here’s my will:
all my money goes to the dude at my funeral who tells the best eulogy, as voted by other funeral attendees. any genre is acceptable but paranormal erotica is highly encouraged.
the runner-up gets my corpse.
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