"A Case of Spring Fever" is a short film, made in 1940, that will appeal to some or all of the people who are obsessed with springs.
Month: December 2005
Y.S. Kim’s romantic research
We can conclude that Koreans practice their romance in the way Russians do. Thus, it will be quite natural for Koreans to share the same romantic world as Russians. I invented this theory and am conducting experiments. So far, my theory has been quite consistent with the experiments which I performed. If you wish to […]
Cheesers dream for cheese
The British Cheese Board dreams that everyone will (a) dream about cheese and then (b) eat, or at at least buy, more cheese. The Cheese Board conducted a study of sorts about cheese and dreams. Then they issued a press release that says: The age old myth that cheese gives you nightmares has finally been […]
Individually-marked ants
Stephen Pratt has pretty much established the state of the art for individually marked ants. (Thanks to Tom Roberts for bringing this to our attention.)
Rambling Into Romantic Candy Antiquity
Rambling Into Romantic Candy Antiquity is an odd book written (and self-published) by Gus Pulakos, the somewhat-noted chocolatier.
Silver loining
A Sky News report on October 18, quoting a Daily Mail report, says: Stinky underwear could soon be consigned to the dustbin of history…. Tiny fragments of silver woven into the North Face briefs help stop bacteria multiplying….
Gold plus chocolate
DeLaf?e is prepared in Switzerland from the finest cocoa beans available. Precious flakes of 24 karat gold leaf are applied by hand to each pralin? in order to create the sublime experience that is the signature of DeLaf?e. So says the company called DeLaf?e International, which is based in Neuch?tel, Switzerland. They take pains to […]
Dutch Ig book
The Dutch Ig Nobel book has just been published. "ISBN 9077721525" is the the nickname given it by numerocentrics. It’s got a special foreward written by two of Holland’s most prominent Ig Nobel Prize winners — Kees Moeliker (homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck; and also a protagonist in the recent adventure of the dominoes-shooting-victim […]
Contrabassophone and such
Investigator Jim Cowdery writes: People who found their lives enriched by Jay Easton’s gallery of big instruments are doubtless yearning for more. They will be relieved to learn of the Contrabass Mania website, which provides links to such enlightening materials as “The Encyclopedia of Really Big Wind Instruments”, “Warning Signs That You Might Be a […]
The Catalan solution to the War on Christmas
The scholarly world of socio-historical theory can seem baffling to people who are not socio-historical theoreticians. Here’s a choice example. Certain American socio-historical theoreticians, who may be associated with the much-discussed Theory of Intelligent Design, have come up with a theory they call "The War on Christmas." One has even written a book. They need […]