Disco Rats and the Owl Of Justice. From the “Best of CNN news graphics” collection.
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Category: Things On The Net
Separated at Birth? Part III
Internet icon Thompson The Cat from Bluejake and Hedora, the monster from Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster
Also see the Hedora plush toy
Superstitious remedies
“Superstitious remedies are ineffectual and detrimental” a 1933 poster from The Ohara Institute’s collection of Industrial Safety, Public Health, and Cleanliness posters of the Industrial Welfare Association.
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Separated at birth?
Separated at birth…
The giant underground chambers of the Tokyo water system:
The “shoot the towers” level of the Star Wars arcade game:
Cell tower camouflage
Boing Boing links to some photo galleries of radio and wireless phone transmission towers, but the most interesting gallery is this collection of camouflaged cell phone towers that look like trees, bell towers, flagpoles, or anything that isn’t an antenna collection.
The best is the “fake cell pine diseased tree” which could easily be called the “Charlie Brown cell phone tower.” Need to find a cell tower? Search online.
A Bug In The System
“A Second View of the Mite Approaching the Gear Chain”
One of the many photographs from the “Bugs On Devices” category in Sandia Labs’ MEMS image gallery.
[via CoolGov]
Crime Comics and Bad Mags
Crime and Horror Comics, Bad Magazines, and the eventual fate of Ed Wood Jr.
Pac-Mondrian
Lots of folks are linking to Pac-Mondrian, but it’s worth the saturation linking.
Dogs and cats living together… Mass hysteria!
Senator John Cornyn (R – TX) is afraid that gay marriage will lead to a slippery slope Sodom & Gomorrah of marrage absurdity
“It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. . . . Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.”
So why stop there?.
John then listed the stuff he plans to marry. Not long afterwards, Victoria at Unspeakable Vitrine picked up the meme and came up with her own list.
Now that the bedrock of Western Civilization has been irrevocably shattered here in Portland, I realize that it’s time for me also to be lawfully wed to a selection of animals, objects and concepts. Here’s my list. I encourage you to post your own. Remember, an elected official has made it clear that if you can marry someone with the same bathroom parts, you can marry ANYTHING. Have fun, and happy marriage!
Therefore, I intend to marry:
The box turtle, because The Man is putting them down.
The 1964 New York World’s Fair
Iapetus, a moon of Saturn
“Southforkscu“, a Romanian replica of the set of the TV show Dallas built by the King of Romanian cheddar, Ilie Alexandru.
This album cover from the band Quatermass
Traffic statistics as Sim City
While I’m not convinced that Visitorville is anything more than just a cool looking tech demo, it really is cool. View your web site traffic as a Sim City!