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I have no eye for art so if I think it looks bad it definitely should be in the MOBA.

The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world’s only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.

(via Incoming Signals)

This will come in handy the next time you go to a Linda Ronstadt concert. (So if she was pro Bush would she have been kicked out?)

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is:

An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although best known for “The Last Days of Pompeii” (1834), which has been made into a movie three times, originating the expression “the pen is mightier than the sword,” and phrases like “the great unwashed” and “the almighty dollar,” Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words that the “Peanuts” beagle Snoopy plagiarized for years, “It was a dark and stormy night.”

And the winner of the 2004 contest is:

She resolved to end the love affair with Ramon tonight . . . summarily, like Martha Stewart ripping the sand vein out of a shrimp’s tail . . . though the term “love affair” now struck her as a ridiculous euphemism . . . not unlike “sand vein,” which is after all an intestine, not a vein . . . and that tarry substance inside certainly isn’t sand . . . and that brought her back to Ramon.

Here is the headline from Reuters: Man Sought for Photographing Texas City Refineries

When will the news media just add a new section for this kind of stuff. I picture it as

U.S. News
World News
Business
SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR
Sports
Etc.

Well if it is developed by the Department of Defense it must work!

“MindDazzle Kids” is based on tested and proven psychic training exercises originally developed by The Stanford Research Institute and the U.S. Department of Defense, and backed by 35 years of experience in actual practice.

(Thanks Jabberwocky)

I don’t care how many anime tapes you’ve watched, how many Japanese girlfriends you’ve had, or books you’ve read, You don’t know Japanese. Not only that, majoring in the godforsaken language is NOT fun or even remotely sensible. Iraqi war prisoners are often forced to major in Japanese. The term “Holocaust” comes from the Latin roots “Holi” and “Causm”, meaning “to major in Japanese”. You get the idea.

And so, sick of seeing so many lambs run eagerly to the slaughter, I have created This Guide to REAL TIPS for Studying Japanese. Or, as is actually the case, NOT studying it.

A bulletin board for theological discussions. (I am sure a lot of arguments are being settled there once and for all)

Court TV’s crime library has a ton of info on famous and notorious murders and murderers.