Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-10-2009

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• SupersizedMeals.com - The Meat Ship
  gigantic meat "food" thing. just click okay.
  (tags: meat food excess)
   
• Ameristan
  "Novel" about Islamist takeover of the U.S. Timecube ahoy.
  (tags: psychoceramics failure gwot usa terrorism paranoia)
   
• Google: 303,000 People Extremely Terrified of Chinese People
  (tags: google ha)
   
• pepsi_gravitational_field.pdf (application/pdf Object)
  hagiography of sugar water marketers + mad science = pepsi timecube
  (tags: failure advertising design marketing timecube pepsi)
   
• Noodle Soup Oracle
  generates semi random noodle soups
  (tags: food recipes cooking generators soup)
   
• MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield fixed data on autism - Times Online
  THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
  (tags: failure fraud medicine science pseudoscience autism)
   
• THE DIRECTORS BUREAU SPECIAL PROJECTS
  IDEA GENERATOR
  (tags: generators webtoys)
   
• Chindogu or Not?
  Useless Japanese invention, or malarkey? You decide.
  (tags: ha design japan chindogu)
   
• A Horse of a Different Color Divides Denver - WSJ.com
  "It looks like it's possessed," says Denver resident Samantha Horoschak. "I have a huge fear of flying anyway, and to be greeted at the airport by a demon horse -- it's not a soothing experience."
  (tags: failure art sculpture publicart satanism denver)
  
  
  NOTE: I deleted the minor flamewar about vaccination because I did not want it to stay there as bait for future flamewars.

Comments

[jpeace.livejournal.com]

This thing you do is now one of my favorite things on LJ. Proceed.

[florence-craye.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I was going to enjoy a rousing 21-comment conversation about Chindogu!

[klikitak.livejournal.com]

The MMR article is great- I made copies for my cohort and we are discussing in tomorrow's research methods class. Danke!

[eris-devotee.livejournal.com]

BOO. Not so much the deleting, because after the other person deleted it was just me having a conversation with myself...

but that you felt the need to apologize to the other person... ICK. She made up statistics and manufactured an Aunt, and she gets an apology? I know, I know - I'm Miss MeaniePooPooHead and she's probably really sweet, isn't she?

GAG