Random things:

Apathy Jack writes:

First:

This may be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen.

Second:

An article from New Scientist suggesting that when young people become Goths they are less likely to self-harm than their more colourful peers.

Third:

Part of the poem Ice Cream Cone, by Liza Jessie Peterson:

I retreated back to headquarters, breathless from surviving yet another day of battling the slings and arrows of outrageous motherfuckers in the street.

Fourth:

Preliminary design for a car-less city.

(This comes from the wonderful new site grinding.be, where a few future-minded people have gathered to look at what life is becoming.)

Fifth:

Your music video for the day: Gone Daddy Gone, by Gnarls Barkley, a crazed wee romp recasting the band as bugs – especially notable for the creepily trippy last thirty seconds or so...

Sixth:

Someone has counted how many lies the Bush administration told in the lead up to the war in Iraq. As it turns out, there were quite a few...




Seventh:

Dara O’Braian on the young:

Next time an eighteen-year-old comes bouncing up to you going: “Look at me! I’m fit, I’m gorgeous, I’ve got a body like a mattress! You could bounce coins off me I’m so fit.” You just go: “Yeah, I’m not so fit. But I’ve been working for a while – I’ve got cash. Here’s a tenner – dance for me, you prick.”

Eighth:

This is actually how I get in the holidays. It’s probably for the best they’ll be over soon...