Flooded Lizard Kingdom

You don't have to watch the accompanying video to appreciate All the good music on Slacktivist:

Ives' routine involves lecturing about the inherent sinfulness of certain kinds of rhythm. In short, he believes "godly" music should be a march in 4/4 time. Anything else is the Devil's work.

I lost valuable productive hours of 1998 and 1999 because of Brunching Shuttlecocks. Lore Sjöberg now has a column in Wired. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Gory Realities of Nearsightedness was eerily familiar, and luckily not all that gory:

I'm lucky to be living in a time of eyeball technology. Without artificial assistance, my vision is such that I could not tell a flower stand from a bowl of miso soup at 15 paces.

Austria’s Five-Star Prison is both words and pictures. Don't miss the photo captions.

Why is the rate of burglaries in Austria a whopping 40% higher than in the U.S.? I’ll tell you why: because Austrian minimum security prisons are fucking awesome! If you’re in Austria, and have a working brain, you should be trying to get into one right now!

When You're A Jet by Barbara Card Atkinson took my breath away. It's short and precious and you should read it.

I love Coffee Break's Over on Our Kind of Parenting so much that I'm having a hard time what to put for the teaser without spoiling it. OK, how about this:

I say this for one reason only: the term "hos" is one highly offensive thing, but how many white guys do you know actually even know the word "nappy"...until now? Hugh Grant thinks it means diaper. So does Paul McCartney. Of course they do, they're English.

It's Over, but for the misconceptions, and notes on raunch culture generally on Kalidharma X Shaktidharma saved me the trouble of writing a post on censorship versus social disapproval - and bonus, it's way better than what I would have written:

Content directors and cultural creatives put stuff out there. If we don't want it: they can't sell it: it dies. And that is perfectly fair, fine, right, and just what freedom of speech means. All the ideas and styles get their test and run, and some of them make it. Not all of them make it in all contexts.Speech is contextual. You can't say just anything just anywhere. And grown-ups know that.

What creative types and programming directors also know, that most people don't, is there are Many More Ideas in the Hopper. Always. And we won't run out. So, most people also won't run out of entertainment. Relax. We're not going to make you make your own entertainment. We know that's really hard to do.

Beyond Earth Day on a garden of nna mmoy is both funny and deadly serious:

Some of the candidates will promise you the moon. They will blow fairy dust up your ass and try to convince you that they can lower taxes, improve the resource-based economy and prevent global warming without making any significant changes to how we get around, build our houses, or the price of bread or t-shirts. This is a complete and utter fabrication. They are lying to you.

Have a good weekend, people.