These are really funny in a low key way. I'll have to look through mine and find the best with tv's playing in them.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Reading Harpers' Index
Minimum number of U.S. cities that have shortened the yellow light on traffic signals to under the legal limt: 6
Average percentage by which a bar-smoking ban in a U.S. county increases the rate of drunk-driving fatalities: 13
Chance that a result on an internet search relating to suicide will be an anti-suicide website: 1 in 8
Chance it will be a site offering pro-suicide advice or suggesting methods: 1 in 5
Radius in feet within which a bee can smell a flower in unpolluted air: 3,281
Radius in air downwind from a city: 650
Hours each day that house cats must engage in social "activities," according to new Swedish regulations: 2
Length, in inches, of a "living coat" made of mouse stem-cells that was exhibited in March at the Museum of Modern Art: 1.5
Months into the exhibition that a feeding malfunction forced the artists to euthanize the work: 1
For sources buy the magazine
Average percentage by which a bar-smoking ban in a U.S. county increases the rate of drunk-driving fatalities: 13
Chance that a result on an internet search relating to suicide will be an anti-suicide website: 1 in 8
Chance it will be a site offering pro-suicide advice or suggesting methods: 1 in 5
Radius in feet within which a bee can smell a flower in unpolluted air: 3,281
Radius in air downwind from a city: 650
Hours each day that house cats must engage in social "activities," according to new Swedish regulations: 2
Length, in inches, of a "living coat" made of mouse stem-cells that was exhibited in March at the Museum of Modern Art: 1.5
Months into the exhibition that a feeding malfunction forced the artists to euthanize the work: 1
For sources buy the magazine
Friday, July 4, 2008
Best Police/Criminal Movies
This is the opposite of Miami Vice, which I also love, instead of visceral action and poetic imagery it's suspenseful and and engulfing in a way few movies are. Plus the scene of the Zodiac dressed all in black coming up on the couple having a picnic in broad daylight is so strange it alone makes it a great movie.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The Experiences of a Very Unimportant Officer
By Captain Alexander Stewart who spent two years fighting with the 3rd Scottish Rifles during World War I before being sent home with a shrapnel injury in 1917. His diary, letters were published by his grandson last year.
June 2, 1916
Return to trenches. The dugouts in this part of the line are infested with rats. They frequently walk over one when asleep. I was much troubled by their licking the brilliantine off my hair; for this reason, I had to give up using grease on my head.
June 30
The finest thing that ever happened in the trenches was the rum ration, and never was it more needed than on the Somme. Yet some blasted, ignorant fool of a general-damned in this world and the next-wanted to stop it and, for a time, did. The man must be worse than the lowest type of criminal, have no knowledge of the conditions in which troops exist, and be entirely out of touch with the men who are unfortunate enough to have him as their commander. He should have been taken up to the line and frozen in the mud. I would have very willingly sat on his head, as he was a danger to the whole army. Curse him. Those who have not spent a night standing or sitting or lying in mud with an east wind blowing and the temperature below freezing may think that I am extravagant in my abuse of the man who denied the soldiers their rum rations. Those who have will know I am too temperate.
June 2, 1916
Return to trenches. The dugouts in this part of the line are infested with rats. They frequently walk over one when asleep. I was much troubled by their licking the brilliantine off my hair; for this reason, I had to give up using grease on my head.
June 30
The finest thing that ever happened in the trenches was the rum ration, and never was it more needed than on the Somme. Yet some blasted, ignorant fool of a general-damned in this world and the next-wanted to stop it and, for a time, did. The man must be worse than the lowest type of criminal, have no knowledge of the conditions in which troops exist, and be entirely out of touch with the men who are unfortunate enough to have him as their commander. He should have been taken up to the line and frozen in the mud. I would have very willingly sat on his head, as he was a danger to the whole army. Curse him. Those who have not spent a night standing or sitting or lying in mud with an east wind blowing and the temperature below freezing may think that I am extravagant in my abuse of the man who denied the soldiers their rum rations. Those who have will know I am too temperate.
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