Weirdness

This will blow your mind.
A nice surprise in the comments: Oliver Sacks and I have something in common. That's one of my favorite shirts, too.
This just isn't right. First Ezra Klein subs for Wonkette, and now Glenn Reynolds…why not PZ Myers? Am I too pervy for them? Or was it the lack of wonk?
I am so going to hell for linking to this. If you love Jesus, don't click on that. (via Stupid Evil Bastard)
I have been informed of the existence of this device. Do not be fooled. It transforms an inelegant tube-shaped dense paste of chopped chordate parts into a crude, inaccurate semblance of that pinnacle of molluscan evolution, the cephalopod. What next? Will Steven Spielberg take a mound of hamburger, call it George Clooney, and give it a starring role in his next movie? Shall I put a pot of alphabet soup on the stove and call it lyric poetry? It is blasphemy. When the Great Old Ones come, I know who will be eaten first.
Ah, so that's what this scienceblogs.com thing is all about: we're a Vehicle for Upscale Ads. It feels a bit strange to be viewed as a "vehicle". I see this as more of a virus, with the corporate world as the host vehicle, and I'm exploiting them in order to get fast free network hosting. So that doesn't bother me in the slightest. This simplistic characterization of you readers, though, is a bit disturbing. The research has identified about 20 million Americans, 7 percent of the population, who are labeled in the study as "Leonardos," named after da Vinci for their avid, Renaissance-style…
Nah, I don't believe it. (via feministing)
Jonathon The Impaler (our Minnesota vampire running for governor) is interviewed on the City Pages Blotter. I'm still not voting for him. It's interesting that his source of income is selling cloaks to covens. It's also distressing that he needs that income because his wife got fired from her job after The Impaler gave a press conference, and her employer admitted it was because of her religious preference—she wasn't a good "role model".
Since I was criticizing King Kong, it's appropriate that the deranged photoshoppers at Something Awful decided to do a series on novel giant monsters. I thought grrlscientist might appreciate this one. (via The Nonist)
Isn't that adorable? It's a knitted crocheted Ninja Squid, complete with backstory…that includes pirate squid.
OK, that settles it. I'm in the wrong research field. They found breasts moved in a 3D figure of eight and that uncontrolled movement strained fragile tissues and ligaments. The study suggested as a woman runs a mile, her breasts bounced 135 meters. The report found each breast moved independently of the body by an average of 9cm for every step taken on the treadmill. With the average breast weighing between 200 and 300 grams, this movement puts great stress on the breast's fragile support structure—the outer skin and connective tissues known as Cooper's ligaments. I suspect the analysis was…
An exploding aardvark whispered in my ear that we have a new candidate for governor here in Minnesota: Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey. Honesty is very seldom heard nowadays, especially from a politician. So, I am not going to break from political tradition. My name is Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey, Ph.D., L.D.D.D. I am a Satanic Dark Priest, Sanguinarian Vampyre and a Hecate Witch. My Magikal Path name is: Lord Ares. The first two sentences taken together are a little amusing, but I'm sill not planning to vote for the guy. He's a former Republican (surprise!), but has now founded his own…
This looks like art to me: the Pyrate Puppet Rock Opera Consortium. (via Virge)