In 1911, the city of Pullman, WA, wanted more residents. So the Chamber of Commerce, the Railroads, and Sunset Magazine put together a nifty little pamphlet to encourage people to move. Of especial note, the question and answer section: “What is the moral tone of Pullman? Exceptionally pure. There are no saloons and little vice […]
An image of W, made of smaller images of an appropriate anatomical feature (hint: not “bush”).
This seems like exactly the sort of thing my co-blogger enjoys: Social Hygiene Posters. A memepool favorite is the one telling (some of) us not to worry.
My inner child is 16. Sorry about the pop-up at Quizilla.
I got to thinking about things (in part due to this article about how bad we are at predicting how we’ll feel about future events), and it eventually led me to the Cognitive Clearing House, via the Theorists Online page. One of these days, I’ll have to read Hofstadter’s Fluid Concepts &c.
Here’s a few highlights from Entertainment Weekly’s Fall Movie Preview, stuff that I wouldn’t mind going to see (hint hint): Lost in Translation: Bill Murray stars, Sofia Coppola directs Party Monster: Seth Green (yay) and Macaulay Culkin (huh) play club kids in a based-on-a-true story murder tale Prey for Rock and Roll: Gina Gershon and […]
More stuff you didn’t really want to know. One gets the idea from this Globe and Mail story that those in power are trying earnestly to re-create the cold war (that was WW3; we’re now in WW4). There’s nothing like an imminent threat to keep people quiet, and to keep military budgets plump; but real […]
Infrasound makes people feel funny. With experimentation, I should be able to identify the amplitude and frequency that will cause people to give me all their money, and I can finally start my cult.
The Phrontistery‘s Compendium of Lost Words is a handy place to find all that stuff that’s in the OED, but that you don’t want to have to plow through everything to get to. The rest of the site may be interesting, too. And, yes, phrontistery.com is taken (of course). Owned by yahoo, it appears. I […]
This sure looks like it actually happened: an exchange of views between (the very evil) Focus on the Family’s "expert on homosexuality and youth issues" and Will & Grace‘s executive story editor regarding a W&G episode about ex-gay ministries. (I mean that FotF is evil; the ex-gay "expert" is probably just a self-deluding closet case)