“First, I would like to dispute the idea that Eolienne windmills aren’t profitable. Once one adds all the subsidies and financial support the industry receives from the French government and the European Community, it is losing very little money.”
— French economist redefines "profitable", in service to his mastersSuperstitions...
Whatever they say about black cats crossing your path on Friday the 13th, I can assure you that black catgirls are good luck. Well, catgirls of any shade, really. NSFW after the jump.
Note: Google keeps autocorrecting “catgirl” to “cat girl”, which shows a disturbing lack of awareness of what people really want to search for.
Dear Hello!Project Costume Designers,
You fired the person who did this, didn’t you? It’s missing almost every element of your house style.
Naked Venus
Whenever a “wacky Japan” story appears, people will pop up who swear that it’s not really like that over there, and that you could live there for months without seeing anything weird, creepy, fetishistic, or batshit insane.
Old-school potpourri
It doesn’t say whether it’s an English or an Aromatic, but I’ve often thought that a good pipe tobacco would make a better potpourri than the usual overpowering seasonal mixes. People seem to like the room note of Captain Black; wonder if I could get away with a little dish of it in the living room when the family comes out for Christmas.
Or maybe I should sprinkle some on my kō incense burner.
Western food is destroying Japan
No, really:
Building a modern Ghostbuster...
University of Maryland announces portable particle accelerators. No word yet on crossing the streams.
A better world...
You know the one thing that’s really, truly gotten better about system administration? Now, when you’re sitting in the computer room poking at a sick server and checking the status of hours-long processes with lsof, strace, and tcpdump, you can watch Doctor Who on your phone.
