Remember the 1908 explosion above Tunguska, the one that inexplicably flattened like 800 square miles of trees? Well, okay, you don’t remember it—but you’ve heard of it, right? It’s fairly mysterious, though the general consensus seems to be that it was caused by some form of meteorite or other exploding in the air. Of course […]
Tunguska, your secrets are mine
Posted by Ben on September 14, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/tunguska-your-secrets-are-mine/
That’s my boy
Nancy Cartwright is not a comedienne. Neither, strictly speaking, is she an actress, although she once went through a phase of wanting to be Holly Hunter. She is what is known as a “voice artist”, a distinction made evident at auditions, when, instead of doing a scene from A Street Car Named Desire, say, she […]
Posted by Ben on September 14, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/thats-my-boy/
Innocent underground picnics
Police in Paris have discovered a fully equipped cinema-cum-restaurant in a large and previously uncharted cavern underneath the capital’s chic 16th arrondissement. … After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero… officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access. Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV […]
Posted by Ben on September 12, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/innocent-underground-picnics/
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (****)
(2003) Quentin Tarantino – w/ Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine (kind of), Michael Madsen, Julie Dreyfus, Chiaki Kuriyama, Sonny Chiba, etc., etc., etc. Synopsis: Uma Thurman is The Bride, a would-be escapist from a life of stealthy assassinations, who, (amidst her would-be wedding) is beat up and gunned down […]
Posted by Ben on September 12, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/kill-bill-vol-1/
Animal Vegetable Video
What’s not to love? (via MeFi)
Posted by Ben on September 10, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/animal-vegetable-video/
Field Guide to Anyplace, USA
The Smithsonian Institution brings you North American Mammals, which is all well and good; a searchable database of mammals in North America, what’s not to like? What makes this wicked cool, however, is that the site lets you make your own customized field guide. You can click on a map, or input your latitude/longitude, and […]
Posted by Ben on September 10, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/field-guide-to-anyplace-usa/
Bye Aliens, Hello World (Aliens, Stains, Books, Chicken Livers, & Atrocious Bad Luck)
Bye E.T.! Any chances of aliens finding Earth may soon disappear. Which isn’t to say that there ever was a chance, really, but if there was, it’s soon to be gone, mostly thanks to the decrease in signal leakage from the technology around us. Television broadcast antennas—which put out a fairly significant amount of radio-waves—are […]
Posted by Ben on September 8, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/bye-aliens/
I’m so proud
Hogzilla, as it turns out, isn’t the only giant feral pig in town. (Well, country.) (Lancaster New Era: “Our very own Hogzilla,” by Ad Crable [August 11, 2004])
Posted by Ben on September 6, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/im-so-proud/
Just what I Always Wanted
You’ve doubtless heard of them, and you may have even seen one… But now, thanks to 3M Canada, you can make your own duct-tape wallet! Thanks, Canada! (You’ll need duct tape [surprise!], a utility knife, a ruler, and background music.)
Posted by Ben on September 4, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/duct-tape-the-saga-continues/
Enhance your anatomy
It’s not really the punch lines themselves (which are just e-mail spam subject lines) as much as it is how they’re presented that makes Spamusement so funny.
Posted by Ben on September 4, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/enhance-your-anatomy/