May 2008
13 posts
“either this is going to change the world as we know it, or it will be the greatest rick roll of all time”
—Digg - Alien Video To Be Revealed To Media Tomorrow, Man Claims
“I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop.”
— Robert Rauschenberg
“I have wished for a tiny supply of platypus venom with which to disable my enemies ever since I read this: Spicer (1876) cites a case where “The pain was intense and almost paralysing. But for the administration of small doses of brandy, he would have fainted on the spot: as it was, it was half and hour before he could stand without support: by that time the arm was swollen to the shoulder, and quite useless, and the pain in the hand very severe”. Pain that requires a nerve block to stop. Respect. Unlike their neighbors the koalas, platypuses are hard.”
—“There is nothing quite as enigmatic as a platypus” | MetaFilter
“They make you feel like a pig or a cow or a communist here.”
—Some guy in a lineup outside a farm supply store at 8am
