My dad retires today. It’s quite a big deal. I identify him so strongly with that dedicated commute to work each day. It’s really exciting – he gets to define a whole new way of being, now. Nice one dad. See you at the function later today!
I dedicate this assortment of dubious internet jammery to my dad. (Sorry, dad.)
Chess on rollercoasters (via the Gator)
Nate Page’s artwork outa carved-up magazines. It’s like the reverse of collage. Amazing.
Another site dedicated to how people are sometimes venal, sometimes cruel, but mostly just dumb: Item not as described
This short account of the spiders-on-drugs research includes some crazy new findings I’d never heard before (via my Cal).
Hunter S Thompson motivational posters (From everyone, but the other moose had ’em first I think)
Wrestle-heads out there: a first column on the latest WWE happenings by regular commenter and good buddy Scott Anderson, at NZPWI
Via Svend: Bauchklang – band consisting entirely of beatboxers. WOW. (Which reminds me – if you didn’t get around to watching the choir doing Toto’s Africa a month ago, you missed the best thing I’ve linked to in ages. Go see.)
The UN Unconventional Culture Commission.
Free online poetry/short fiction journal, just released: Blackmail issue 25, the Rebel issue. Includes work from Helen Rickerby of this parish’s blogroll.
And finally… inglourious wizerds