Watch this movie!
There are unicorns in it.
- posted by CC @ 11:37 PM 0 comments

 
more blogspot bullshit
Fucking sucks. I posted about 10 articles yesterday, all of which were lost in the ether. Fucking blogspot fuck fucks.
- posted by frank crist @ 3:31 PM 1 comments

 
New Horizons
Check it! NASA, our beloved space-geek, money-sucking conglomerate, will be sending a craft into space in 4 days which will hopefully arrive at Pluto in 9 years. Yeah, nine years. And that's only because it is going to use the gravity around Jupiter to whip it and shave five years off the normal travel time.

I don't know why. I love sending things into space. It's kinda like setting things on fire and watching them burn. Wait. That was a bad analogy. But it freaks me out that when my kids are in college, they'll be watching the footage New Horizons takes when it arrives at Pluto on the TVs in their dorm rooms.

And you know what? I'm totally livid that I lost out on the chance to get my name on a CD that is being launched into space with New Horizons. Because I would fucking love it if some Plutians popped that CD into their computer and read my name and said, Viki sounds like fun, lets go fucking visit her! I bet the Plutians have a spaceship that is way faster, and they can get here in, say, three years, or maybe even just 9 days, and they'll show up at my door and say, "Hey, Viki, we read your name on this CD on that shit-assed, out-of-date spacecraft NASA sent into space way back when, and we are here to party with you!" As long as they bring some Plutian vodka, I'll be cool with it.

WTF am I talking about?

New Horizons Web Site
- posted by VikiBabbles @ 9:47 PM 3 comments

 
What kinda-mint?
Help save the environment by playing some stupid game.
- posted by CC @ 8:57 PM 0 comments

 
Pirate Stuff
Claims to be an article on pirate ships, but is more a general primer for general piracy (the "yarrrr" type, not the "nero" type).
- posted by frank crist @ 3:47 PM 2 comments

 
Granta: 'How to write about Africa' by Binyavanga Wainaina
Too funny, too right:

Always use the word 'Africa' or 'Darkness' or 'Safari' in your title. Subtitles may include the words 'Zanzibar', 'Masai', 'Zulu', 'Zambezi', 'Congo', 'Nile', 'Big', 'Sky', 'Shadow', 'Drum', 'Sun' or 'Bygone'. Also useful are words such as 'Guerrillas', 'Timeless', 'Primordial' and 'Tribal'. Note that 'People' means Africans who are not black, while 'The People' means black Africans.

- posted by frank crist @ 1:44 PM 0 comments

 
Flag Game - Guess The Nation
Addictive Flags of the World game.
- posted by frank crist @ 8:15 PM 1 comments

 
HickokSports.com - History - NCAA Fencing Champions
...Or maybe you want to know about the fencing champions since it became an NCAA sport in 1940-something.
- posted by frank crist @ 6:02 PM 0 comments

 
Glossary of fencing terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A glossary of fencing terms. Just in case you might need to know what a "second-intention" is some day.
- posted by frank crist @ 6:00 PM 0 comments

 
We're so lame
Yeah, we're lame. Nobody has posted since December 10th. I take full responsibility for my part in this matter, as I wasn't posting much before then either.

I don't even have anything fun to post to make up for it.

Happy New Year to everybody! May 2006 bring you whatever the hell it might be you're hoping for. And, I resolve to post more often. So there.
- posted by VikiBabbles @ 4:56 PM 0 comments