and Twitter.
Also, in case there was any doubt, some of our favorite college towns across the US are Missoula, Montana (Go Grizzlies!), Ann Arbor, Michigan, Gainesville, Florida
Alright, I’m not a fan of pets doing cutie things, but I laughed out loud several times while watching this cat try to slide into tube-shaped cartons. The way his back legs feather out on the floor like a baseball player sliding into home plate as he tries to squeeze into two cartons at once…makes me wanna have a pet again.
This hive of honeybees lifts a laptop covered with honey into the air and flys around (hovers actually).
Yes, the Critical Theory department at Occidental College is offering course 180. STUPIDITY.
The course description claims stupidity to be “those operations and technologies that we conduct in order to render ourselves uncomprehending…the double of intelligence rather than its opposite.” Stupidity has been redefined and “dumbed down,” the department says, and can be “felt in political life ranging from the presidency to Beevis and Butthead.”
Interestingly, “Beavis” has been misspelled in the Stupidity course description. Was this intentional, maybe just to see who’s paying attention? Or is the show really too stupid to be thoroughly analyized by the department? Wait, that wouldn’t count as stupidity either since they’re looking at it from a philosophical perspective.
A Russian professor says the United States of America will disintegrate within the next year due to a fiscal meltdown. For ex KGB and Russian national security advisor, Igor Panarin, this claim is nothing new as he first made it in 1998 when the US economy was doing well. But now, due to the world economic crisis and the possibility of Japan transferring their monetary reserves from US dollars into another currency, his prediction has garnered new attention (surprisingly enough, even from the Wall Street Journal).
Panarin says that the US is in such great debt, that it will, by 2010, no longer be able to remain sovereign. His map indicates which parts of the US will be absorbed into which countries. Thank goodness the Midwest becomes Canadian! Now we won’t have to drive over the border to get our prescriptions filled!
You read it right: amaze all of your friends by answering a banana! And if you’re feeling really geeky, throw in the banana phone holster for an extra eight dollars. I’m not sure I’m proud admitting that I might buy this rare banana/holster combo…
Mannahatta, as the indigenous called it, meant “land of many hills.” And The Mannahatta Project tells the story. Take a look at some great computer generated images and years of research into the ecology of Manhattan prior to the arrival of Henry Hudson in 1609. Very awesome!
Wow, this is kinda questionable. MS photoshops a black man out of their ad slated for Poland. Curiously enough, the asian man wasn’t cut and, of course, the white woman was left alone. What does this say about Poland?
A side note: whoever they hired to edit the image must be a beginner because 1.) the light on the pasted-in white guy is in total contrast to how the light falls on the other two and 2.) they did a horrible clone stamp on the wall behind him and 3.) THEY FORGOT HIS HAND!
Via Engadget
“Relax with a cup of tea in the bosom of the leading politicians.” Donkey Products in Hamburg has come up with another fancy, letting you enjoy a tea with your favorite strippers, presidents or royals. Five tea bags per set from the makers of hand-gun soap!
Via DirectDaily
They’re calling him “MacGyver Chef.” Gizmodo’s Dan Nosowitz is attempting to cook ordinary meals in not-so-ordinary appliances – ie all meals are prepared without an oven/range. Poached chicken and couscous in a coffee maker? MacGyver Chef did it, but unfortunately his dishwasher steamed salmon with cilantro sauce didn’t come out so well. How about a vegetarian option, MacGyver Chef?
Via Gizmodo
This would be hillarious if the people being interviewed weren’t serious. They are so serious, in fact, that its absolutely terrifying. Please, after handling the health care issue, work on education reform because no American should be this blatantly ignorant.
On a positive note, my mom just told me about Remote Area Medical, a group of doctors providing free health care in destitute regions of the world. Their newest challenge: American inner-cities & low-to-no income families!
