Sporadic internet nonsense from an unwitting Irishman.
‘That’s odd,’ her voice was saying. ‘I could have sworn…’ The swearing that she could have been doing was having to do with the hearing of a knocking sound previously to the moment which was currently passing. Suddenly, a shadowy figure was looming in the doorway. A surprise attack was taking place. A screaming sound was being emitted by Olivia as she was being murdered.
— Let the passive tense be used, from How To Write Badly Well
The Bleeder, by Burning Witch.
Repost: Electric Wizard live in Dublin with Witchcult Today.
He [was hired to] write a slogan for Guinness if he was given a crate of Guinness a week. The crates were duly delivered and after a couple of months he phoned up the Guinness office and says ‘I’ve got a slogan for you – Guinness makes you drunk’.
— Brendan Behan (via nosmo)
A client doesn’t know that Comic Sans is the favorite target of every amateur typographer’s pot shots, so when they ask for it, they don’t think, ‘heh, this’ll really get that prissy designer’s goat;’ they’re simply trying to communicate an idea; they want Comic Sans because they want to look approachable or fun. That’s the real message they mean to convey, but they’re bogged down in details, and by the queerest bit of bad luck, these particular details turn us into condescending assholes. It’s like PeeWee Herman’s playhouse, and the secret word is ’Papyrus.’
€5–100 commemorative coins in Finland
Finland was one of the first twelve countries in the Eurozone that introduced the euro on 1 January 2002. Since then, the Mint of Finland Ltd. have been minting both normal issues of Finnish euro coins, which are intended for circulation, and commemorative euro coins in gold and silver.
These special coins have a legal tender only in Finland, unlike the normal issues of the Finnish euro coins, which have a legal tender in every country of the Eurozone.
(Thanks, johnl.)
Sims 3 harsh noise dance-off (posted to Pulse Demon)
When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. So create.
— why the lucky stiff
(via guillee)
In 1905, an unknown cameraman filmed a streetcar trip along San Francisco’s Market Street. The following year, the Great Earthquake struck, and he filmed the trip again. This is a five-minute silent film that edits together excerpts of his two films.
In zero gravity, heads did not loll lifelessly. Even mouths did not drop open. Dead bodies continued to assume more or less lifelike postures, whether restrained by webbing or allowed to drift untethered from wall to wall. It was one of the earliest and most chilling lessons of space warfare: in space, the dead were often difficult to tell from the living.
— Redemption Ark (Alastair Reynolds)
Joining in the “post your first two iPhone pages” meme, mid spring cleaning.
Sepultura – Biotech is Godzilla
Mutations cooked in labs, money-mad experiments,
New food and medicine? New germs and accidents!
Like Cubatao, “World’s most polluted town”,
Air melts your face, deformed children all around.Bio-technology ain’t what’s so bad,
Like all technology, it’s in the wrong hands.
