More like this
So many people are asking where I got my "Knowledge is Power, Power Corrupts, Study Hard, Be Evil" t-shirt, as modeled here, and I wish I could help you, but I don't know where you could order your own. I can tell you exactly where I got it: in Detroit, at Moonbase ConFusion, from one of the many…
It seems like only yesterday we got to 10,000 comments and now John Mashey has posted the 50,000th comment, with more content than most blog posts. And here's his acceptance speech:
Thanks to all. I always hoped my efforts would be rewarded, although I never expected this!
CafePress is HQ'd about…
Eugene Volokh, a respected first amendment scholar, has a follow up post on the subject of the ruling I discussed yesterday and how it doesn't seem to square with some of Judge Reinhardt's earlier statements on free speech in schools. In the Harper ruling last week, Reinhardt argued that there is…
T-shirts are on sale!
We are currently promoting a: I AM A SCIENTIST CAMPAIGN
We want to see the faces of future and current scientists and engineers! Send us a picture of you wearing your Festival T-shirt and we will publish it on the Festival's Website! By sending us your photo you give us…
Frontloading ?
I find it oddly appealing. I may need to get one.
Didn't you ever raise sea monkeys when you were a kid? The coupons were in the back of all the good comics!
Whatever it maybe, it's certainly a great image!
Man, these shirt design websites seem to be really taking off. I need to get my submissions finished. :(
What the heck? It's messed up but I have to say, it's a good kind of messed up.
Simple :
a AQUATIC cephalopodian ape.
And they tell us there is no such thing as an aquatic ape... Ha!
It's just flowing dreadlocks.
It's our really distant ancestor! Apes briefly went back to the ocean, don't you know!
Didn't Kirk Cameron TELL us that the banana was the atheist's nightmare?
Now we know why. REPENT! REPENT! The hour of the Chimpalopod is at hand!
There is no such thing as a sea banana. The octomonkeys ate sea cucumbers.
You're all wrong. It's the last common ancestor of Cthulhu and tentacle porn.
Nice find! Think I am in for one!
This monkey clearly developed from an 8-sided tube (yes, it is a spider monkey). It is everted compared with, say, a monkeysquid, which is a nice way of saying it's not coming at you ass-first. Probably that's a good thing. The tentacles clearly developed from prototentacles which were not initially used for flight.
In other news, I saw a fella at the Apple Festival yesterday wearing a t-shirt that said: Protons Have Mass? (I Didn't Even Know They Were Catholic!)
Neon sea dreams of an octachimp... I think Don Van Vliet got there first. For certain values of 'there'.
The semiotics bear investigation. The banana - primal sustenance, symbiote, or encapsulation of that first realisation of consciousness -- that the hidden is the master of the seen? The chimeric chimp, that altered octopus: unseemly monster or mutation to necessity? It is neither: it is us. We are apes at sea, cephalopods dragged down by waterlogged fur, wallowing in the ocean of our mutual intelligence, where our evolutionary adaptions, half-modern, half-ancient, work against us as well as for us. And the bubbles, watching us act out our desires with an elementary disdain, what can they be but water molecules, big fat hungry oxygen with its pilot-fish hydrogens, protons snug and safe - as Melville says:
"They have nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth
In white triple tiers of glittering gates,
And there find a haven when peril's abroad,
An asylum in jaws of the Fates"
These ancient sons of creation, what fear they from us? And with that realisation, what can we have but awe and gratitude that they are granted eternity but we are granted its cage?
It's all perfectly clear. And quite a nice T, too.
R
Okay, that would have been better than the scarlet A !!!
It's a goopymart (http://www.goopymart.com) shirt!
Goopy is the best!