Meat
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Message for Panasonic (by marinade)
“ Evolution by natural selection is NOT FUCKING INTELLIGENT, it’s NOT GUIDED. That said, I’m betting it could beat you in a quiz.
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Uncle Billy’s Quote of the Day
Dec 01
“ Applicant has met a problem long existing in the art. A view of any soda fountain on a hot day, with the glasses showing innumerable limp and broken straws drooping over the edges thereof, will immediately show that this problem has long existed. Where we have the conditions where certainly the straw is old, where corrugated tubing is old, and where no inventor, during those years, has seen fit or has been able to solve this problem, whereas applicant did, that situation alone is prima facie evidence of invention.
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The article also contains ‘ur-straw’, which is my new favourite word.
Nov 30
“ Pointless and terribly wasteful. I’m sure it will sell millions and I’ll have to buy one for my girlfriend.
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I love this as a concept and want one, despite knowing that it’s something I’d not use after a day and thinking that having more Things is bad. Brain. Conflicted.
I like physical things where there’s a use to them being physical but this seems to be the reason I have an iPhone attached to my pocket by an invisible chain.
Which reminds me - must write/obtain iPhone/web page thingy to do stuff like this so I can leave a tablet/iPhone by my bed. ie. Must copy a bunch of the BERG noticeable ideas, as they are rather good.
Nov 29
Nov 28
“ The research was commissioned to highlight the fact that the current practice of asking customers to tick a box to say that they are 18 years and over is outdated and not robust enough to deter teens from buying adult goods.
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The Self-Descriptive Shirt, loosely based on comic #688, has on it a set of charts and graphs precisely describing itself. On the front is a white pie chart showing what fraction of the shirt’s area is white, and on the back are a series of black and white charts and figures describing in more detail the size and location of black and white areas of the shirt.
Since the graphs are describing their own content, it had to be designed to avoid any contradictions, and since a change to any one graph alters all the others, it took a lot of careful measurement and fine-tuning to precisely calibrate the size of each chart element, and the design was adjusted for each size of shirt to ensure accuracy.
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ORDERED.
Nov 27
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Nov 22
“ There is no skilled labor involved anywhere along the McRib’s Dickensian journey from hog to tray, and certainly no regional variety, except for the binary sort—Yes, the McRib is available/No, it is not—that McDonald’s uses to promote the product. And while it hasn’t replaced barbecue, it does make a mockery of it.
Nov 21
Nov 20
“ Pilcrow” is the Middle English word for “Paragraph.” You will never be able to use that fun fact in real life.
