Air Art

Sculptures powered by air from the subways by Joshua Allen Harris. Check out more on Youtube.

Garfield minus Garfield

I was never a big fan of the Garfield comic strip but I know a lot of people like it. I can say I do like the strip without Garfield. Go here to check it out.

Jessica vs George

Human snake

Geoff's car stolen

Over the weekend Geoff's car was stolen and used in the burglary of a clothing store on South Street. In an a police car chase the driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into a stone wall in front of Girard College. See more pictures here. What is amazing is that none of the thieves were injured in the crash. The police caught the driver at the scene of the crash but his cronies got away. Geoff's response about the car was "it is only a thing".

El Caminito del Rey

El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain. Go here to see this amazing, albeit scary, walk.

The word of the day: Reactance

The teenage girl who wins the boy by playing hard to get. The parents whose disapproval of their daughter's boyfriend only drives her into his arms. The child who will wear anything except what her mother suggests. These are all examples of reactance: the inclination to do precisely the opposite of what someone wants you to.

You might think this is just contrariness by another name, but reactance is actually a recognized psychological state, first described in 1966 by Jack Brehm, now professor emeritus of social psychology at the University of Kansas. The theory is that when someone perceives a threat to their freedom of action, they become motivated to re-establish that freedom.

I always wondered if they had a name for that.

This Bud Light Commercial Stinks

The Cat with the Pearl Earing

This website has a contest where people submit counterfeit (that is photoshopped) famous artwork.

Houston we have carpet

We now have carpet in the living room but no TV stand, so we are still living in the TV/office. Still have , molding, fireplace mantle and the entrance way. Body count is still zero.

Dept: Schadenfreude*

* A malicious satisfaction obtained from the misfortunes of others

So ya wanna start a Band

But you need a name - so try the Band Name Generator and you can have names like:

• Beige Smutz And The Ninth Drug
• Smutz Dogma
• Perfect Smutz
• Smutz Phantom
• Smutz Crotch
• Smutz Tumor
• Smutz Diary
• Recycled Of The Social Smutz
  
• Smutz Ugly
• Smutz Of The Defective

The Robots are coming

The end of human existance may be nearer than you think. Amazing.