It scares me a little when I find a rant that pinpoints the way that I feel (at least most of the time) about “The World”. I was trolling Warren Ellis’ forums today, and found this gem:
“I find myself pretending I’m more ignorant than I am these days. I know, I’m a weak, […]

“Karima also lost her virginity to an ex-boyfriend. She plans to marry soon and her fiancé expects her to be a virgin. So last month, she commuted in from an eastern suburb of Paris, where she lives with her parents, and had the surgery.”
Maybe this is just semantics, but isn’t it the act of sex […]

Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.
The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s […]

This is a portfolio of people caught in mid-fall from Denis Daezacq, a French photographer.  The shots are very compelling and visually arresting, although you have to feel somewhat sorry for the subjects (one hopes they have training on how to take a fall).
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The horse’s owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank’s heated foyer, police said Tuesday.
The 40-year-old machinist told Bild newspaper he had had “a few beers” with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin, and decided to hit […]

I think this is the biggest clash of cultures that I have ever seen.   AK-47 + lip plate + ipod.

No, it isn’t made from people.  Sheesh.
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Everyone knows that bacon is nature’s candy, but the Brits went one step further and worked out a formula for the perfect bacon sandwich.
“After testing 700 variations, British scientists say the ideal bacon sandwich may be divined by a formula: N = C + {fb(cm) · fb(tc)} + fb(Ts) + fc · ta.”
Amazingly, there is […]

Here’s the whole process

This from Korean War vet and Princeton University Professor Emeritus Walter F. Murphy:
“”I presented my credentials from the Marine Corps to a very polite clerk for American Airlines. One of the two people to whom I talked asked a question and offered a frightening comment: “Have you been in any peace marches? We ban a […]