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2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb

Gordo — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:39:01 +0000

Duuude:

The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly “cultivated for psychoactive purposes,” rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany.

The 789 grams of dried cannabis was buried alongside a light-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian man, likely a shaman of the Gushi culture, near Turpan in northwestern China.

The Toronto Star via reddit.

Breaching Orca + Kayak = LOOK OUT!

Gordo — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:14:51 +0000

Rock Band drums vs Real World(tm) drums

Gordo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:09:39 +0000

Kevin Pereira, from G4TV Attack of the Show, plays drums with Coheed and Cambria. Now what I don’t know is if he already knows how to play the drums. Either way, the drums are probably the only instrument from Rock Band that might translate into the real thing.

Friday: comic xkcd

Gordo — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:37:52 +0000

A very dorky (yes, dorky) humor site. Describes itself as:

A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

not necessarily in that order.

http://www.xkcd.com/

Friday: Engrish.com

Gordo — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:21:42 +0000

Some might think that making fun of someone’s poor English skills is mean, childish and unfair.

And they would be right.

So I present to you Engrish.com, a collection of “humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising and product design”.

Friday: Kitty Pidgin

Gordo — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:30:37 +0000

I am a fan of this internet meme, I am sure you have seen pictures such as:

More? Check out http://www.lolcats2.com/.

Even MORE? http://icanhascheezburger.com/tag/lolcat/.

Anyway, Anil Dash has an interesting post to put some of this madness in context.

previously

Friday: And now for something completely different…

Gordo — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:58:05 +0000

http://www.cuteoverload.com

Too cute, must look away *head explodes*

Friday: Back before instant messages…

Gordo — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:06:49 +0000

Back before instant messages there was internet relay chat (IRC). IRC was a way of chatting with people around the world and is still used by the more hard core geeks.

Here are some of the more memorable quotes from IRC, hope this helps you Fridays fly by:

top 100 IRC quotes top 200 IRC quotes

Friday: Fark and The Smoking Gun

Gordo — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:45:02 +0000

It’s Friday, so here are some distractions to keep you busy until 5:00.

First it is the classic news site Fark and by classic I mean irreverent. Fark posts all the funny, odd and WTF news stories with the occasional photoshop contest.

Next is is The Smoking Gun. Want to see Mel Gibson’s mug shot? How about Rush Limbaugh’s, Bill Gates’ or Michael Jackson’s? Yep The Smoking Gun has mug shots and more.

Friday: 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed to Do in the US Army

Gordo — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:15:09 +0000

And now for the Friday entertainment, this one has been around for a while but still brings a smile to my face:

213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed to Do in the US Army

Some examples:

3. Not allowed to threaten anyone with black magic.

4. Not allowed to challenge anyone’s disbelief of black magic by asking for hair.

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77. The MP checkpoint is not an Imperial Stormtrooper roadblock, so I should not tell them “You don’t need to see my identification, these are not the droids you are looking for.”

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145. I should not drink three quarts of blue food coloring before a urine test.

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193. The Masons, and Gray Aliens are not in our chain of command.