Taxonomy of Things, a photo by lunchbreath on Flickr. This is extremely helpful, but the taxonomy is not complete. I believe it should also include the following, which can be slotted in existing branches: thingamabob thingamajig junk junk ‘n stuff … Continue reading →
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mark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Why Everyone Should Read Cat’s Cradle
“Now I will destroy the whole world.” – What Bokonists say when they commit suicide, Cat’s Cradle, Chapter 106 You’d think a story about the end of the world – not just the world of one person, or human civilization, … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: For my art nerd, nerd-nerd friends
You know who you are! Alltop is a comedy nerd.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Local man wins big after rolling up rim
LONDON, Ontario (The Skwib) — It started like any normal day, but after winning in Tim Horton’s “roll up the rim” contest, Neddie Bubbin’s life will never be the same. “I just can’t believe it,” Bubbin told The Skwib, after … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Opinionated inanimate objects
I love these cartoons by Marc Johns — I hope he does many more. That’s not toasting, that’s typing! Fezzes have notoriously high standards. I agree, but the Google Font Api changed all that. You can get all these as … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Vermeer’s Girl With Funky Hat About to Be Sucked Into A Naked Singularity
Few people know the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer had an advanced understanding of modern physics, but only alluded to it in some of his works because he dare not reveal his knowledge. He lived in the mid-17th century, so if … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Not totally worthless: why videos go viral (on YouTube)
Factoids that stuck out for me: more than 48 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute the speaker, Kevin Allocca, is paid to watch this crap cats watching cats watching a cartoon cat: hilarious. Via The High Definite. Alltop … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Humor: an evolutionary explanation
Humans have evolved to have a sense of humor — sorry, most humans have evolved to have a sense of humor because it helps us deal with: the vast indifference of the universe the crushing knowledge of our own mortality … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Why Dr. McCoy was not a whiny bitch
McCoy, Kirk and Spock are all about to die as their bodies are de-atomized over a period of several agonizing seconds. Everyone in the original Star Trek was quite condescending to Bones whenever he got fretful about using the transporter. … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: It’s a snap!
I’m not sure how the makers of this little bit of genius got permission to do it, but this is a real ad. (I’m still a little suspicious because I couldn’t see any mention of it on the college’s website … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The Encounter
Dolores had the sudden intimation that the peyote breakfast milkshake was probably a mistake. Alltop drinks your milkshake. The Encounter, a photo by Modest Janicki (Modest and Jill) on Flickr.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Revenge of the font nerd
Alltop can’t stop looking at everyone’s leading.
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Mash-up apotheosis?
I believe that John Hodgman may have achieved the apotheosis of Internet-type mash-ups. The following YouTube clip is video evidence of Dana Gould, doing his impersonation of Maurice Evans, portraying Dr. Zaius, doing a scene from Hal Holbrook’s “Mark Twain … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: A Valentine’s Day gift to remember
The year is 1952. After discovering the patent for Michael Flannigan’s infamous “Mammary Sympathizer” in a back issue of 19th Century Inventions That Could Have Been Less Offensive, early Emily Chesley enthusiasts Barry Tickson and Orson Flatbread (both citizens of … Continue reading →
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: The technological singularity: possible outcomes
I think I would enjoy the (bad) technological singularity a bit more if it went down like this. It’s almost sweet, a giant robot in a sundress, destroying a suburb with its laser eyes. (Or are they heat beams?)
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Making America better, one bullet at a time
This genius premise is sick, but funny. I really liked Joel Murray on Mad Men.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Pretty much the only way a nuclear explosion is fun
Comic genius, Stephen Colbert, recreates a nuclear explosion using only his voice, hands and face. Alltop loves a good thermonuclear device. Via Laughing Squid.
Continue readingThe Skwib: How Anne of Green Gables Destroyed the World
“Like most of you I was inclined to say the war was caused by fish.” However, after a close examination of the evidence, Cadman Michaels — who held doctorates in theoretical physics and history, but who called himself an Alternate Historian — could say now with some confidence that the
Continue readingThe Skwib: Fotoshop by Adobé
Dead-on send up of the beauty industry and the tyranny of image. Alltop feels like plastic too! Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
Continue readingThe Skwib: Evard Munch: The Revenant of Kristiania
Most art historians will recognize this painting as “Evening on Karl Johan”, painted sometime in 1892, while its creator Edvard Munch was still a young man. Modern commentators have described this painting as an existentialist cri de coeur, a public declaration hoping to wake up the somnolent crowd and face
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