August 28, 2003
see also Oooff! / Ugh!
the marvelous UNH project and index of guttural comic book noises, helpfully searchable by cause of noise.
Battle gear is outmatched
Being crushed by a giant python
Being gripped by contagious mutant
gender differences in homophobia
in brief: Basow and Johnson, in analysing thier and others research suggest that homophobia in males is a reaction to a perceived threat against the stability of the self (masculinity being intricately bound up with the continued proving of heterosexuality) where female homophobia is correlated with authoritainism.
"Heterosexual femininity, although based on attracting men as sexual partners, appears more variable than heterosexual masculinity with respect to gender-related traits, heterosexuality is not an aspect of femininity that must be affirmed and proven, but is instead an aspect of femininity that is assumed and compulsory."
August 27, 2003
noisome confabulation
blackbeltjones: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=callipygian
flambingo: thats teh best word ever
flambingo: porn goes upmarket: Get the Top 10 Most Popular Sites for "callipygian"
blackbeltjones: "lithograhical callipygian delights, monthly"
flambingo: or try our newesst publication "zaflig peritoneums", being the strangest way i could find of saying nice tits
blackbeltjones elephantine and resitutional
blackbeltjones: (big and bouncy)
blackbeltjones: oh god
blackbeltjones: what have i started
flambingo: glabrescent rodomonts
blackbeltjones: fucking hell
flambingo: (shaven ravers)
blackbeltjones: translate
blackbeltjones: no way
flambingo: yes way
August 20, 2003
burma blacklist
throw away your 3 mobile: the burma action group have added to thier 'dirty' list of companies investing in the burmese junta (and hence in the rape, torture and suppression of the burmese)
August 13, 2003
conservative psychosis
"A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity". "
from the guardian
full study [pdf]
American Psychological Association
the researchers contend that poltical conservativism as a cognative structure results from: mental rigidity, the avoidence of uncertainty, a psychological need for structure, low self esteem, fear, disgust and a fear of death
much crowing on the left and fuming on the right
August 06, 2003
more on sintering
matt & the lucky dragon
how stereolithography works
freedom of creation separate design and making....buy designs for your handy home sintering device (modelled to fit using the companies augmented reality suites)
3D digitising and reverse engineering
other materials advances:
aerogel the worlds lightest solid
artists work with aerogel
courtesy of mr jones
sintering
3D copying gets cheaper. years ago in leeds i got a proper look at a giant machine for sintering that used a laser to 'draw' onto silicone powder to form a small shape. the people in charge of the vast thing were intrested in making replacement bones etc for surgery as well as rapid design prototyping. i remember holding this tiny bone shape in my hand. it had the texture of a sandrose.
the zcorp (how american is z-corp?) entry level printer comes in at about $30K. every home will have one, and when every home does we'd do well to re-read the fable about copying real objects in primo levi's the sixth day
lemonade and stripey straws
all i clearly remember of the 1976 drought:
sitting on the climbing frame eating vanilla ice cream with neat ribena poured over it (delicious) and listening to my mother and our neighbour talking about how very hot it was.
little white stickers with a plug hole in black and red lettering about not wasting water.
BBC news about people shaving out of cups.
it really was hot and the summer really did go on for ever, it was my first school holiday and perhaps because of that; the heat, the lolling around in the garden eating ice cream, it became the model of exactly what summer should be.
August 05, 2003
phrase finder
phrases, sayings, quotes and cliches
a misheard lyric is a mondegreen
The term mondegreen for misheard lyrics comes from this. It originated from Sylvia Wright's mishearing of the "Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and laid him on the green" from the Scottish folk song, The Bonny Earl Of Morray as "Oh, they have slain the Earl of Morray and Lady Mondegreen".
August 04, 2003
hot news
its august and suddenly the trains are empty and theres no news. apart from the weather.
guardian weather special
BBC hot weather...are you coping?
an excellent excuse for topless ladies and a chance to use the phrase 'brighton belle'
swealtering briton
"soaking up the sun"
August 01, 2003
icehouses
i once worked in a converted ice house. icehouses had something of a boom in regency and victorian brighton.
thank god
a small glimmer of hope for brighton's most wonderful building. embassy court has been in a state of criminal neglect for as long as i can remember. look closely at the photo, underneath the rusted frames and bubbling exterior is one of the finest pieces of 30s building design in the UK.
conran to the rescue?
more on embassy court
decline
property porn
specifications
photos from fans
20th century brighton
a shitting dwarf
its difficult to describe the strength of my hatred for the london assembly building. it crouches like a shitting dwarf on the side of the river. even up close it feels squat and miss-shapen, it is boil like, a lesion on the river bank.
just the ears of the hippo
i was reading about the zimabwian economy this morning as one does and and came across the most marvelous phase. 'tip of the iceberg' is not a great referent in ecquatorial regions.....instead [from another article]:
"Heath's unit, established at the beginning of last year, has so far uncovered theft of government assets, including land, cars and office equipment such as computers and funds of more than $1.5 billion. And that, he says, using an African phrase, is "only the ears of the hippo." "