A film for the spring-obsessed
Friday, December 30th, 2005"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.
Archive for December, 2005
Y.S. Kim’s romantic research
Thursday, December 29th, 2005We 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 disprove my theory, do some experiments and tell me why your results are not consistent with my theory. In the meantime, you are invited to appreciate the images of Russian ladies in this file.
So says Y.S. Kim, the noted romantic of a physics professor at the University of Maryland.
Cheesers dream for cheese
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005The 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 laid to rest this week following the release of a new study carried out by the British Cheese Board…
Individually-marked ants
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005Stephen 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
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Rambling Into Romantic Candy Antiquity is an odd book written (and self-published) by Gus Pulakos, the somewhat-noted chocolatier.
Silver loining
Monday, December 26th, 2005A 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….
