The Real Reason That I'm Scared of Flying

This article exposes an egregious, underlying problem in America.

Starcraft Lessons from an Authentic Korean

At $35/hr for advanced training, this guys sounds pretty serious...

"I'm 100% full blooded Korean, meaning I have been gifted with unparallel talent to master any video game, particularly, Starcraft: Brood War.

...

My lessons are offered to only non-Koreans or American born Koreans because they lack the blessing from the Gaming God, Norazi. Sun Tzu once said, "Defiler becomes useless at the presences of a vessel." You will be come the vessel against the defilers that treats you like a non-korean, laughing at your pitiful Starcraft skills...however, you will demolish them with the new profound skills."

The best part? - "Korean girls will be intrigued that you're such a good Starcraft player."

I'm a few days behind so...

I'm certain I was the last to hear about this -
Evidently Iran is trying to hold off protests by airing a marathon showing of The Lord of the Rings trilogy on state television's Channel Two.

Sounds like a trap to me...

No More Cash in Japan?

Evidently some members of the Japanese government are considering getting rid of cash in order to achieve negative nominal interest rates.

"In theory, many Japanese could easily make the leap into a cashless world. The country has six main competing cashless payment systems, many of them embedded into mobile phones. Including Oyster-type cards issued by public transport companies, industry sources estimate that there are about 120 million cashless payment chips sitting in Japan’s wallets and handbags, waiting to be swiped."

0.01% of Wikipedia as a printed book

Yeah, this would be hilarious to put on a shelf. It's 1ft 7in. high.

PETA is completely ridiculous...

Apparently PETA isn't happy with President Obama and his fly-swatting ways.

Are these people serious?

Everything is only a few hundred clicks away!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Extreme Sheephearding

This is probably the coolest thing I've seen in a long time.

Graffiti from AD 79

Interestingly enough, Archaeologists have found plenty of well-preserved graffiti at Pompeii. This page lists the location and the approximate British translation of each of the inscriptions throughout the site. (Just like its modern day counterpart, ancient graffiti was primarily written by the dregs of society. Before you click the link, consider yourself warned.)


Here are a few of my tamer favorites for those I scared off -

VI.16.15 (atrium of the House of Pinarius); 6842: If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girl friend

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1816: Epaphra, you are bald!

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1820: Chie, I hope your hemorrhoids rub together so much that they hurt worse than when they every have before!

VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1826: Phileros is a eunuch!

VIII.7.6 (Inn of the Muledrivers; left of the door); 4957: We have wet the bed, host. I confess we have done wrong. If you want to know why, there was no chamber pot

Herculaneum (on the exterior wall of a house); 10619: Apollinaris, the doctor of the emperor Titus, defecated well here

Strangest Thing I've Read Today...

From a 1972 Ensign article on the history of Provo -
"Provo played host as the fifty-sixth annual general conference of the Church was convened in the tabernacle there (April 4 to 7, 1886), and again for the fifty-seventh annual conference (April 6 to 8, 1887). Young boys among the worshipers climbed to the rough-finished portions of the building and hung over the rafters, enjoying a view of the speakers and listening to their counsel until their young innards hurt."

Conan + Mario

You may or may not have seen this already, but Conan O'Brien's new back drop reminds a lot of people of Mario... Check it.

My children will never watch this

... and neither should yours.



Fruit salad? What the...

JB in DC

This is an interesting article from the Washington Post details what happens when world renowned violinist Joshua Bell dressed down to play in a DC metro station.  

For people with absolutely no lives

This is a real class offered at Berkley that I hope will never make its way to BYU.

The weirdest thing that can ever happen to a caterpillar

Make sure you watch the whole thing - the last half is a mind trip, man...



P.S. I want one of those cameras!

Kim Jong Il's E-Library

I have enjoyed perusing the marvels of the DPRK's official web presence. Available is the E-library of the "Great Leader" himself. My favorite is the paper "ON THE INTENSIFICATION OF IDEOLOGICAL PROPAGANDA FOR A REVOLUTIONARY ADVANCE IN THE BUILDING OF THE ECONOMY AND STRENGTHENING OF OUR DEFENCE."

It's under the first Kim Jong Il folder.

KFA E-Library

Eastertime fun

The true nature of marshmallow creatures.

italy's great leader

Silvio Berlusconi makes third quake gaffe when he admires black priest's tan - Telegraph: "Silvio Berlusconi makes third quake gaffe when he admires black priest's tan"

HOLY INSANITY

This is the most insane person on the internet... wow...

How to Eat a Reese's According to LDS Church Leaders

10. Paul H. Dunn

I remember back in WWII that I ate a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Back then, they were big enough to live on for a week. Being the only soldier to have survived the battle in my brigade, I really didn’t know If I could eat it or not, but I remember my fallen buddy’s words as he died in my arms: “Paul, if you just take one bite at a time you can tackle anything.” So I took that giant cup and, breaking it with the bat Babe Ruth gave me after I struck him out with two outs in the bottom of the ninth in the seventh game of the World Series, proceeded to wolf down the tiny morsels.

9. David B. Haight

Imagine 70 years ago on a rough road between Idaho and Logan. There were only Circle K’s, no 7-11’s. You had to bring your Peanut Butter Cups with you. Ruby and I split one for the first time in 1937.

8. Dallin H. Oaks

The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup challenges us to consume. From the beginning there have been three steps in eating a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. First, remove the wrapper. This is best done quickly, by turning the cup over, grasping the outer fold and pulling away from the bottom. Second…

7. Joseph B. Wirthlin

When I was young I would sprint to the corner store, buy a Reese’s and run my hand through my hair before taking it down in one bite. These days I don’t sprint, and I have no hair, but the peanut butter cup remains.

6. Richard G. Scott

If you have not eaten a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, I plead with you. Eat one now. Enjoy the chocolate, the peanut butter. Do not delay. If you have thought, “That’s not for me,” I plead with you to reconsider. Of all foods I treasure, this one was the first.

5. M. Russell Ballard

The time has come when members of the church need to reach out to our friends and share a cup, a peanut butter cup. It is not enough to raise a chocolate bar, it must now have peanut butter.

4. Boyd K. Packer

In all my years, I have always eaten my Reese’sPeanut Butter Cups the same way—the established way we have been instructed to eat them. There is a far greater evil in this world, though—those who believe they can eat their cups in a way unconventional to the time-honored manner. We must be true and faithful and eat our Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the customary and recognized approach as it has heretofore been established.

3. Neal A. Maxwell

I intentionally initiate the delicious design of the deglutition of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup by nibbling a negligible nit of the culinary creamy cavalcade. It is exclusively through small entities that the great things are fabricated.

2. Thomas S. Monson

I remember I ate my first Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup when I was a tender lad of eight. My mother came up to me, and with a loving twinkle in her eye, asked, ‘Tommy, are you eating a Reese’s?’

And I would invariably smile up to her, ‘Yes, yes, I am.’

‘But Tommy, did you know that Sister Jensen next door hasn’t eaten a Reese’s Cup in years?’ My young mind thought upon the plight of my neighbor. Tears were shed. Hearts were gladdened. A cup was shared.

1. J. Golden Kimball

Hell, Heber, I’ll eat a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup any damned way I want!