Oct

Japanese Push the Safety Envelope

Posted by Catfish as Tech, humor, survival

Actual statistics indicate that street crime in Japan is on the decline, nevertheless sensational media has made the issue of personal safety a hot topic in Japan. In answer to the heightened concern for safety, Japanese inventors have created a genre of safety products that may seem totally off the wall to some, but are gaining popularity in Japan. Tsukioka, a 29-year-old fashion designer, for instance, has designed a skirt that pulls out to cover the wearer in a vending machine disguise. A version for children disguises the wearer as a fire hydrant! If you aren’t already aware, the streets of Japan are literally lined with vending machines that sell everything from space age snacks to used school girl panties (I kid you not), so disguising oneself as a vending machine seems logical, albeit in the hide-under-a-cardboard-box logic of cartoon world. Check out the link for an interesting discussion on the interplay between fashion and personal safety in Japan.

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Oct

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Posted by Catfish as art, humor, neat web thingy, spirituality

What is this all about you might ask? I stumbled upon the following site on uncyclopedia.otg, all of the text consisting of the letter A, over and over again, much like the hilarious attempts of businesses in the yellow pages to be listed first by including a cha cha lines of the letter A in front of their business name…

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Now that you feel like you’ve wasted precious life points staring at the oddity, go back, waste a few more while you check out the links. If you roll over the links, you will see that the links will take you to Oscar Wilde’s page,a link to the iPod yocto page (which is apparently Apple’s 1337th iPod version released this year alone and which COINCIDENTLY relates to the news story just posted here earlier about Nano Radio), a page about sandwitches (evil bad creature that can disguise itself as a sandwich…you’ve been warned) and the holy of holies, Bat Fuck Insane. Here you’ll find where MAD Magazine might have gone if it were truly and indeedlydo Bat Fuck Insane. MAD Magazine after the brown acid.

The page begins with a notice to all who arrive on the steps of BFI:

“This article is complete, irredeemable bread knife. The submitter is Bat Fuck Insane, and worships at the underarm hair.f you attempt to deport this, you will most explosively become Bat Fuck Insane yourself.Or the submitter will bamboozle your octopus.”

Looking at this page, I am afraid of it. I can just feel the voodoo that was used to make such a page, and I for one and not going to “deport” one iota of its schizolicious goodness. And when I say schizolicious, I’m talkin’ lobe licken’…

I’ll be eating a bowl full of depokote 500mg tablets with rice milk until I come down from reading the whole thing. that's me dressed up as depakote Warning, this sit has a bit of the Necronomicon effect: it might just possibly plant the seed of insanity in your brain just by the act of you reading it, until you too become and are irrevocably Bat Fuck Insane.

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Oct

Colbert for President

Posted by Catfish as USAUSAUSA, humor, politics

After weeks of hinting, Stephen Colbert has declared his intentions to run for President in the coming election. Most will chuckle at this seeming stunt, but I’d like to suggest we don’t write Colbert off simply because he is a comedian. Some might say we’ve had the ultimate slapstick president for past two terms as it is. On his show, Colbert plays the part of an ultra-conservative right winger, but most of his fans are left wingin’, pot smoking, internet luvin’, peace nickin’ liberals, so it’s not clear yet under which party he will run. Perhaps something along these lines: The Progressive Opposition Populist People’s Party. :P

Heck, I voted for Nader before…

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