You were always crazy, Red Dog tells you.
But didn’t it have to originate some time?
Red Dog says maybe not.
Was it maybe like we didn’t always think alike?
Red Dog doesn’t know what that means.
Like, maybe before we thought we were crazy but had a different word for it?
Red Dog thinks possibly.
Always sometimes never
Posted by Ben on December 21, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/always-sometimes-never/
Why isn’t there more bacon in my bacon?
Naturally you’ve got your bacon candy bars, but did you also know: bacon cookies?
I mean, you’d assumed they were out there, naturally. But had you actually seen them?
(via MeFi and BoingBoing)
Posted by Ben on December 17, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/why-isnt-there-more-bacon-in-my-bacon/
Happy Holidays
(by way of Seed Magazine via Bookslut)
Posted by Ben on December 16, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/happy-holidays/
Drop a spoon, save your life
Yes, it can happen to you. Well, maybe not you, but someone else:
Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton’s life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded.
…
Fire officials said that because Horton was bending down when the explosion occurred, the kitchen sink and counter top helped keep debris from hitting her.
(via BoGlo/AP: “Spoon drop saves woman’s life” [Aug 21, 2007])
Posted by Ben on December 16, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/drop-a-spoon-save-your-life/
Very clearly, guys need to step up to the sink.
This quote from a “spokesman for the soap industry group” — a little suspicious, admittedly.
But seriously, Americans’ hands are getting dirtier.
(Reuters: “Americans getting lax about clean hands?” [18 Sept 2007])
Posted by Ben on December 16, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/very-clearly-guys-need-to-step-up-to-the-sink/
Movies to watch out for
Not necessarily in order.
- Thundercats!
- The Equalizer, 2009, with a screenplay being co-written by Michael Connelly
- Get Smart, 2008, with Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart
- Two movies based on Chuck Palahniuk books: Survivor (planned but with no timetable for the near future), and Choke (premiering this coming year).
(Incidentally, I’m not sure if the Thundercats is a movie to watch out for in order to avoid or to see.)
Posted by Ben on December 5, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/movies-to-watch-out-for/
What’s so great about milk?
Hooded seal pups need super fatty milk. Elephants like green bottles. That’s what I’ve learned from the Kenneth E. Behring Family Hall of Mammals. Though maybe I picked up on some of the wrong details…
(What the baby elephants actually like is the low-protein formula in the green bottle.)
(via LII)
Posted by Ben on November 29, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/whats-so-great-about-milk/
Secret recipe
The claim was that it just showed up one day, the idea by its lonesome, and nobody the lesser for it. I could’ve told you it was a lie; did, but you didn’t listen. An idea like that someone doesn’t just “misplace.” It’s only moved by force. By violence.
Posted by Ben on November 24, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/secret-recipe/
In real life there has been just one fatal space depressurisation accident
This occurred on the Russian Soyuz-11 mission in 1971, when a seal leaked upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere; upon landing all three flight crew were found dead from asphyxiation.
Death and dying, over at NewScientist. Their self-proclaimed “Death Special.”
(via BoingBoing)
Posted by Ben on November 10, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/in-real-life-there-has-been-just-one-fatal-space-depressurisation-accident/
Superfund365
A graphics-rich daily exploration of superfund sites across the country.
(via Tawny Grammar)
Posted by Ben on November 10, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/superfund365/