Virtual Flaneurism

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

- John Steinbeck

The amount of fail in this gif is nigh on legendary.

Check out this article about the surprising survival of Japan's wind farms post-tsunami, making the kaput nuclear reactors that are hate-vomiting out radiation look positively archaic in design. An excerpt:

"Even the country's totally bad ass Kamisu offshore wind farm, with its giant 2 MW turbines with blades big as the wings on a jumbo jet, and only 186 miles from the epicenter of the largest quake ever recorded in Japan, survived without a hiccup thanks to its "battle proof design." As a result, the nation's electric companies have asked all of its wind farms to increase power production to maximum, in order to make up for the shortfalls brought about by the failure of certain other aging, non-resilient 20th-century technologies."

I really want to know what "battle proof design" means. I'm imagining some sort of wind-powered Koopa Fortress, and I very much so want that to be accurate.

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I adore the title of this short item:

Kids Are Dumb, Think Cartoons Make Cereal Taste Better

A new study confirms that marketing has a tremendous influence over kids (or they just have a hankering for delicious penguins). University of Pennsylvania researchers gave 80 children, ages 4 though 6, a "new" cereal from one of four boxes. The cereals were called Sugar Bits and Healthy bits, and one box of each type featured characters from Happy Feet while the other had no characters on the package. Kids who had cereal from the boxes with cartoons said it tasted better than the kids who ate from the plain box. Surprisingly, they liked Healthy Bits more than Sugar Bits, but the illustration on the box was still the most important factor. "When there was a character on the box, they liked the cereal a lot, and it didn't matter what the name of the cereal was," says lead author Sarah Vaala. "Once you put a character on the box, that overrides their judgment of the health merits of the food."

Ugh, this song is so immature-me in the Spring of 2007.

Why the hell do these people have a wild serval in their kitchen?

This is so meta.