And it’s not even mine.
The Online Photographer: The Worst Photograph Ever Made, which I found via Kottke.org.
I might need to get me one of these…
Three semi-random and amusing links
I gotta get to work cleaning up my basement/office/man-cave space, but before I do, here are three links I came across while browsing through my blog reader feed:
- “Who Obama should have named Secretary of Labor,” from skippy the bush kangaroo. It’s that dude from Dirty Jobs.
- Head Swaps, a disturbing series of funny pictures sent from my friend Chris.
- AIG Exec UFO Catcher. Not remotely safe for work! But pretty funny.
Okay, time to get busy….
Hire a digital compositionalist… if you must…
I’ve seen versions of this video in many other places– just do a search for “Hitler downfall meme” on YouTube to see what I mean— though this one is kind of field specific:
I found this via John Walters, though I’m told it’s going to be in the next issue of Kairos. And just to be clear, this does not even remotely resemble the search process we have had here at EMU so far.
Caganers: figurines of defecating world leaders in Catalan nativity scenes
Oh, the things you stumble across on the Internets:
“Caganers: figurines of defecating world leaders in Catalan nativity scenes” is a photo essay of sorts on the Telegraph web site. And I swear I am not making this up:
The ‘caganer’ (literally ‘defecator’) is a feature of Catalan nativity scenes. The figure is usually tucked away in a corner of the model, far away from the manger itself, for children to find. The caganer represents fertility and equality.
Apparently, the caganer used to be depicted as a peasant, but they have come to be more commonly represented as politicians and famous people. So click on the above link to see a figurine of your favorite pooping world leader.
Prop 8: The Musical
Pretty much speaks for itself– quite the “who’s who” cast in this little ditty:
See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die
Christmas cards I want to send
Via boing-boing, “The Wondermark Goodsery Holiday Cards.” They are a little on the pricey side, but this one is kind of hard for me to resist (click on the image to see a readable version):
Snoop Dogg on Martha Stewart
Of course they made mashed potatoes. What else would they do?
Via boing-boing. Actually, Martha’s recipe looks pretty good to me.
Fire: The next sharp stick?
I don’t mean to be on a John Hodgman kick as of late (though I am thinking I need to go and buy a book of his soon), but while looking for something else, I came across this old Hodgman piece at McSweeney’s, “Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?” For English 505 next year, I think I’m going to include all or some of Foucault’s lecture “The Discourse on Language” because this is where he talks about how before Mendel’s breakthroughs in plant genetics, to speak of traits being passed down from plant to plant was crazy; after Mendel, it was crazy to do any different. Or something to that effect.
In any event, Hodgman’s “Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?” could be an interesting and amusing counter-balance to that more complex work that oddly says about the same thing.
Want to do something instead of grading papers?
What, you too? Wow, small world!
Take a 17 minute break and watch this brilliant John Hodgman video. And then contemplate going to a book store to buy one of his books.