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  • By-line

    By-line

    Massive props to Matty Backhouse: his (first?) by-line in the Herald.

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  • HArTE

    HArTE

    In lieu of a post today, enjoy this T-shirt from Project Kickass. You should probably also be watching Between Two Ferns, such as this: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Ben Stiller from Between Two Ferns   And have you been reading the latest Axe...

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  • Drunken Monkeys

    Drunken Monkeys

    No, not Jet Li or Jackie Chan. These guys:

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  • The Psychology of Jon Stewart

    The Psychology of Jon Stewart

    The following is a brief arm-chair analysis of one of the most personable and popular public figures of our time. No, that's not an over-statement.

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  • School’s out for summer…

    School’s out for summer…

    Some 500 to 2,000 British schoolgirls will be genitally mutilated over the summer holidays. Some will be taken abroad, others will be “cut” or circumcised and sewn closed here in the UK by women already living here or who are flown in and brought to...

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  • It’s a Unicorn

    It’s a Unicorn

    What is that? It's a unicorn. Never seen one up close before. Beautiful. Get away, get away. I'm sorry.

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  • Hanson’s MMMBop in the style of Leonard Cohen

    Hanson’s MMMBop in the style of Leonard Cohen

    With a ukelele. The wait is finally over.

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  • Bunch-o-links 20/4

    Bunch-o-links 20/4

    In lieu of something more substantial, here is a series of links to things of interest.

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  • Quadraspazzed on a Lifeglug

    Quadraspazzed on a Lifeglug

    The trailer for Four Lions, debut feature film from Chris Morris.

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  • Fighting to Die

    Fighting to Die

    Dan Shapiro, author of Mom’s Marijuana (excerpt), provides a tense anecdote from the frontline of psychology.

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  • What’s got two wings and a corkscrew penis? This guy!

    What’s got two wings and a corkscrew penis? This guy!

    A fascinating article about sexual-conflict evolution in ducks.

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  • RAW Thoughts

    RAW Thoughts

    Here is a nice Robert Anton Wilson quote.

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  • Don’t stop the Don’t Stop the Sandman

    Don’t stop the Don’t Stop the Sandman

    Metallica and Journey sexed and Rock Sugar is tremendous.

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  • A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

    A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything

    When flipbooks take three weeks to complete and 2100 pages to fill. 17-year-old Jamie Hall has too much time on his hands and has run out of ballpoint pens.

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  • Live Action Role Protesting

    Live Action Role Protesting

    Whatever you're doing right now, is it really more fascinating than Palestinian and Israeli human-rights protesters dressed up like characters from Avatar having tear gas fired at them? I didn't think so.

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  • Buy it now.

    Buy it now.

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  • A Trip to the Zoo

    A Trip to the Zoo

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  • Alvin York in his own words

    Alvin York in his own words

    A personal account by Sgt Alvin York of that time he single-handedly captured 132 armed Germans in World War I.

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  • Silence of the Lambs with Laugh Track

    Silence of the Lambs with Laugh Track

    Does what it says on the label. You can thank Conor Roberts for this. Thank him right in the face.

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  • Not as surprising as you might think.

    Not as surprising as you might think.

    Vin Diesel on a hobby of his youth.

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