signs of the apocalypse

2 times as many babies were named “Monserrat” in the last seven years as
“Diane”
3x as many “Litzy”
10x as many “Genesis”.

Source: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/decades/names2000s.html

out with the old

I’ve decided to phase out my ‘placain’ AIM screenname, which I’ve been
using for more than a decade, in favor of just using my email
address. Please add ‘dmd@3e.org’ to your contact list, and remove
‘placain’.

It’s those subversive types that got us here in the first place.

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Only Amy…

<amy> uhm do you know of any acceptable source that would tell me how
to turn freebase cocaine into cocaine HCL…..I know *how* to do it. I
just want a scientific document to back me up

inflate-a-kitty

Ada inflates

vinyl rules!

DVDs, being digital, can never reproduce the fine nuances of a VHS tape

parafailing

After two days of brutal heat and humidity, my body gave up and collapsed
from sunstroke.

My paragliding training has been postponed to autumn.

steampunk instructions: 1. take something contemporary, 2. make it out
of steam engines and brass and shit, 3. post on boingboing, 4.
masturbate furiously

Sculpey fractals


With a name like that, what did you expect?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s full name was Franz Ferdinand Karl Giuermo Anikò Strezpek Belschwitz Mòric Pinche Bálint Szilveszter Gömpi Maurice Bzoch János Frajkor Ludwig van Haverbeke Josef von Habsburg-Lothringen.