The Illiterate

Visualizing the Metaverse

Isn’t {{popup internet_graph.jpg internet_graph 250×250}}this gorgeous?! Here’s the project’s site. They need a massively big server donated, if you’ve got one to spare.

Link from Voiceboxing.

Shirt Origami

This was odd, but also way cool, because it actually works. Do not attempt with pants! Clothes folding professionals on controlled laundry pile! Your results may vary!

Link from the ever amazing little.yellow.different.

World’s oldest penis found

No, we’re not kidding. I especially love the last paragraph, about the previous record holder being a 400 million year old daddy longlegs from Scotland. It’s like a Monty Python routine.

John Cleese: “And how exactly did you discover the ancient penis?”

Terry Jones: “Ah, well, you just look under the kilt, you know.”

Now, wait a minute…

Did anyone else notice, that in the midst of all their ethics violations and other troubles, Boeing just received a $1.1 billion tax refund from the IRS? I’m not suggesting there’s a connection, but I sure hope somebody’s looking into it. Now that Boeing is deserting Seattle, you’d think it would be open season on them in the papers. There must be years of dirt laying around.

Wiped out again

It took us a couple of days to notice, but Blogshares is no more. Apparently their server crashed and it wasn’t worth the hassle or the cost of setting it all up again. Thanks to all those who invested in us. We will be happy to pay you .0001 on the dollar to reimburse you for your support.

Fire! Fire! Fire!

Following a fire alarm two weeks ago (someone left their stove on), and posting a warning last week about people throwing their cigarette butts on the roof of the building next door, our landlord posted this story on the bulletin board today. Does this mean our traditional living room bonfire is off for this year?

The Illiterate gets results!

Yes, friends, in the grand tradition of Instapundit, Andrew Sullivan, and all those other blogs who claim their pages have some sort of influence in the real world, we are proud to announce that Salon Beauje, home of of the infamous “Frequent Waxer Club”, has closed up shop. After having their perfidy exposed in our pages, they had no choice but to hightail it out of town, leaving nothing behind but a ladder, some stereo equipment, a pile of fashion magazines, and a wheeled metal and plastic cart full of hair color tubes.

The Illiterate, protecting the populace from the slavery of style since 2002.

Identity

Last night, checking out at Larry’s Market, uptown.

Clerk 1, looking in an abandoned but full cart Was she coming back?
Clerk 2 Supposed to get some real i.d.
Clerk 3 Thought she had a passport….
C 1 Her husband’s, not hers…
C 2 Like, where was she from? That doesn’t work.
C 1 And a wedding photo.
C 3 Oh, good try.
all laughing

Identity

Last night, checking out at Larry’s Market, uptown.

Clerk 1, looking in an abandoned but full cart: Was she coming back?
Clerk 2: Supposed to get some real i.d.
Clerk 3: Thought she had a passport….
C 1: Her husband’s, not hers…
C 2: Like, where was she from? That doesn’t work.
C 1: And a wedding photo.
C 3: Oh, good try.
all laughing

Association

From LunaNi