Aieee!!!!

Does ANYBODY have any source or context for this bleeding-at-the-eyes-loli-harpy-maid?

(Note: this request is primarily to facilitate avoidance)

Sewer Related Issues....

Brickmuppet Blog has finally gone into the crapper.

First, Via the Belmont Club comes this report that Sino-Japanese relations are being threatened by exploding toilets...

In a move destined to sour business relations across the East China Sea, Toto is now blaming substandard Chinese parts for the debacle. Although beloved by Japanese themselves, the controls of the Washlet — a formidable armrest bristling with a baffling array of multicoloured buttons, lights and dials — have long been the bane of unsuspecting foreigners. The problem most usually arises from a confusion between which of the flush and bidet controls is correct.

The machine’s various functions require it to remain connected to the electricity mains around the clock. In certain models, a stretch of poorly insulated wiring can become scratched, short-circuit and play havoc with the heater that warms the bidet water to a precise temperature. This can cause the Washlet’s plastic seat first to melt, then ignite.

Inspired to terror by uncompromising evening newspaper headlines such as “Toto to fix buttock-scorching bidets”, nearly 50,000 Washlet owners yesterday jammed the company’s information lines. Although no injuries have yet been reported in connection with Toto’s combustible conveniences, many “near-miss” victims have come forward to describe horrified disbelief as their lavatories unexpectedly set themselves ablaze.


Given that most of us in the USA don't use pimped out privy's , one might assume that we can rest safe in the knowledge that spectacular sewer related mayhem will pass us by....

One would be WRONG!
....as this unfortunate motorist discovered...



Exploding Sewers.....a sign of...something.

Well they ARE tropical fish.......

....but damn!

Goldfish living in symbiosis with and in a deep fryer....


I should go on about how this has implications for life in extreme environments, perhaps on other worlds....but mostly I'm just going to sit here with my jaw hanging open.

There's a sci-fi short story in this I'm sure.

Kolchack, Chicken Eating Cows and Serbian Vampires....

...all tied together nicely in this Reason post.

Waaugh!!

Via E-mail I received this link.....

Yes...a Hello Kitty Airline!

Some quick Googling revealed that Rojacks is in fact correct, EVA air is a Taiwanese airline affiliated with Evergreen lines. In fact their new Hello Kitty look just won them a "Best Livery" award.

I don't even want to think of how uncomfortable an Eva version of Hello Kitty makes me.

When I get on an airplane the last thing I want is a Gainax ending....

Remote Controlled Pigeons

That's right.

Remote...

Controlled ...

Pigeons...


No I'm not making this up.

The report did not specify what practical uses the scientists saw for the remote-controlled pigeons.


Discuss...

Oh...

I found this mecha tan in amongst the images that led to this sillieness, and for the longest time could not for the life of me figure out what she was supposed to be...

Duh...
She's a barrage balloon... :)


UPDATE: She's wearing a sling, or a thong ...or something....that is my story and I'm sticking to it.

James Joyce of Spammers

Wow...

On Crazy Astronaut Lady....

Rand Simberg has one of the best takes on the deranged and dangerous damsel of diapers.

And that's about all I intend to post on that.

Varmint Hunting With Thermobarics....

Via Airborne Combat Engineer comes what is possibly the most cathartic invention in the history of mankind.




Website here.

Rabbit VS Snake

Wow!

On Poultry Farming....

A young boys screams kill 443 chickens.

This is one reason it is important to imbue young men with a stoic nature.

Unfathomably Wierd

Meryl Yourish links to the Haviel Havalim blog carnival which contains this bit of trancendental wierdness.

Seems that the heirs to the late Iraqi prime minister ( No not Saddam, an even later...er, earlier one) are likely Israeli's if they are around at all.

The Effect of Various Mind Altering Substances Upon Arachnids

Drugs are bad M'kay...



Every child in America needs to watch this film!

Hat Tip: Mysterious Informant in Austin

UPDATE: Meryl has this one beat by a mile. :)

Tyrannosaurus....JERKY?!

Via Jerry Pournelle:

Paleontologists recently cracked open a T-Rex leg bone while trying to remove it from the rock...upon close examination it was found to contain SOFT TISSUE!

Good grief!

Now after 68 million years of background radiation alone, the DNA is pretty much gone, I'd think, but this is a huge discovery! :)

Note: Image is a precise representation of what Tyrannosaurus did not look like.

Turtles and Squirrels and Bears OH MY!

Drudge reports on two wierd animal attacks the Gangsta' Squirrel 'terrorizing' a Florida community and the tragic case of the oceanographer pulled under by a sea turtle. Top Secret Animal Attack Files has the skinny on the most recent Bear attack in the US (from about 30 days ago).

What does it all mean?

Likely nothing.

Far Beyond the Pale Of Ordinary Maids....

...is President Arroyo's crack squad of Supermaids.

Via Stephen Den Beste who points out that this sounds like high concept anime....hell the anime writes itself...

It could also have potential as a Sam Raimi vehicle.

Cold Case Pardons

Governor Kaine has pardoned the Pungo Witch, who terrorized the Pungonians of the early 1700s, er...spooked them.....er...made them uncomfortable with her saucy wit,.....

OK, OK, so she was railroaded, tried as a witch by dunking her (she lived thereby proving her guilt) and was jailed and lost her farm. ...which would I suspect have ended up in the same hands had she, ummm, drowned.

Roughly 14 years later, Colonial Governor Spotswood (who amongst his other accomplishments organized the killing of Blackbeard) helped her to land back and she lived nearly 40 more years after the witch trial, dying at age 80.

Now we can all be proud that Governor Kaine has taken the gutsy and no doubt controversial position that that dunking people to prove their witchieness is not something that he supports. The Governor did not seem to offer any opinion on witchery as a lifestyle choice, so we'll have to wait for more nuanced clarification of this most pressing of state issues.

More on the Pungo Witch, here.

Proof that Pungo is a real place (I used to frequent it) is here.

Hat tip Colleen Doran.

Note: I am beginning to suspect that the representation at left might not be an entirely accurate,
given that she is holding a pumpkin and not a strawberry.

WAAAUGH!!!!

This is the stuff of nightmares....


Kinda gives you vertigo....


The above is the result of unprotected browsing atChizumatic.

Great.....The Slime Moulds have MECHS!!!

...No really!

Hat Tip: Anne Althouse



UPDATE: Added the obvious picture of what a slime-mould in a mech might look like.
Also made correction after I realized to my horror that this post has been at the top of my blog representing said blog for 4 days with the word "mould" prominently misspelled in the title.