Archive for December, 2006
Slate asks the question on the tip of everyone’s tongue: Who stole Jesus’s foreskin? [Slate]
How to pass the Specialty Coffee Association of America’s judging sensory test. [Home-Barista]
While the Bar Remains Low: Non-Newtonian Fluid Hijinx Video
14 Comments Published by Joel December 19th, 2006 in Movies, Tonic. Share ThisApparently if you get just the right amount of corn starch mixed with water—and mix it in ample amounts in the back of a concrete truck—you get a liquid that behaves normally under low pressure, but like a solid under stronger pressure.
Then you make grown Italian Spanish men run across it shouting and hollering.
We Join the Rest of the Internet to Bring You a Youtube Clip: SNL’s R. Kelly Parody
5 Comments Published by Joel December 19th, 2006 in Movies, Women. Share ThisNot entirely safe for work due to uncensored lyrics. This is totally the spirit of any real Christmas, though.
Why are Samberg’s Youtube clips the best thing SNL does these days?
Ask Dethroner: Good Used Cars?
15 Comments Published by Joel December 19th, 2006 in Ask Dethroner, Cars. Share ThisMike writes:
It’s off topic for the week, but my wife and I are in the market for a new car. I’ve been driving the same Chevy Cavalier for about 9 years, and recently it’s begun to show its age. Since I’m in school and working part time we can’t afford a new car. We’re looking [...]
Ballsy Bald Bastard of the Day
4 Comments Published by Joel December 19th, 2006 in Hair, Tonic. Share ThisA sunburst of highlights radiating from a chitinous, armored pate—probably not this year’s look, nor next, but impressive all the same. Look at my dome, ye hairy, and despair!
Here are a six mostly-obvious fashion tips for men, including an admonishment to not wear suspenders. [About]
Dethroner Planning Commission Opens
1 Comment Published by Joel December 18th, 2006 in Announcements. Share ThisHave a look at the Dethroner Planning Commission, of which each of you are a potential member. It’s a simple wiki, where I’ve listed potential themes as well as a place to make the daily posting template more concrete and robust.
As we flesh out each of the potential themes—each one has their own page on [...]
Cincinnati man killed by 13-foot boa constrictor, which he kept as a pet. [BBC]
Bad Old Days: Indoors, Women are Useful – Even Pleasant
11 Comments Published by Joel December 18th, 2006 in Tonic, Women. Share ThisFull-size scan [Dethroner]
Men’s Health’s “15 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Penis”
4 Comments Published by Joel December 18th, 2006 in Fitness, Sex, Smoking. Share ThisTake, for instance, this distubring factoid about erectile function:
1. Smoking can shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter. Erections are all about good bloodflow, and lighting up calcifies blood vessels, stifling erectile circulation. So even if you don’t care all that much about your lungs or dying young, spare the li’l guy.
That stresses [...]
The not-so-secret world of commercial, large scale pork production. Personally, I think nothing goes with bacon like the acrid tang of antibiotics. [Rolling Stone]


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