From around the Internet, I bring you “Things I found interesting this week.” Enjoy.
Ken Madore He’s created some amazing images based on basic human fears. They don’t seem so bad, presented with such asthetic.
How moving from a 6,000-square-foot custom home to a 370-square-foot recreational vehicle helped quell one family’s ‘House Lust.’
Our mistake is in not embracing the fact that the material is the manifestation of the divine, and that we therefore treat the material as something to be wasted and thrown away.
Top 10 Bad Things That Are Good For You
We’re definitely not in the business of advocating drug use. But check out this interesting science: In heavy drinkers, small doses of LSD have been thought to help bypass the rock-bottom stage of alcoholism and prevent relapses. These studiesesome decades oldewere done in closely monitored, clinical settings; many patients haven’t had a drink in the many years since. It’s an interesting finding that needs a lot more investigation, and not a remedy that should ever be tried at home. Meantimeeand this may come as no surpriseea recent study of 36 volunteers who took an LSD-like drug in a lab setting had them reporting mystical experiences and behavior changes that lasted for weeks.
Sarah Silverman is…um…
Jimmy Kimmel’s response to Sarah’s Video
Katie Alender’s Practical Rules For Writers
Advisement #4: Get some reading glasses, preferably with a light tint (I like pink).
This profession is brutal on your eyeballs. Staring at a computer all day is the ocular equivalent of jogging barefoot on concrete. Eventually, something’s going to give out. Delay this by investing in a nice pair of reading glasses (and not the ones in the drugstore endcap). Your friendly neighborhood optometrist should have good quality ones with non-distorting lenses for about $20. A light tint (which most optometrists can do for you on the spot for like $10) will ease the burden even more.
Stars Wars according to a 3-year-old Totally worth watching, made my week.
Flu Spreads Across U.S. I didn’t get sick, but everyone I know did. It’s a nasty bug this year.
Thanks to a particularly virulent strain of the flu, this year’s flu season has been one of the worst doctors can remember. Packed emergency rooms, empty classrooms, and bustling college infirmaries are all signs that the vaccine just isn’t working as well as it has in past years.
How To: Draw an Impossible Triangle Step by step instructions for this MC Escher-like triangle.
Meet Jon ArbuckleI’ve seen it on no less than a dozen other websites, but it is intriguing and I, well, I am so hip.
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
Scrumptious Scenery Beautiful and appetizing.
Radical Honesty I found myself laughing and gasping at points in the story. The writer seems like kind of a dunce, it’s long but worth the read. If you’re too busy or lazy to read the full article here’s my pick from the piece (I’ve censored the bad words for my grandmother):
I still tell plenty of lies every day, but by the end of the week I’ve slashed the total by at least 40 percent. Still, the giddiness is wearing off. A life of radical honesty is filled with a hundred confrontations every day. Small, but they’re relentless.
“Yes, I’ll come to your office, but I resent you for making me travel.”
“My boss said I should invite you to this meeting, although it wouldn’t have occurred to me to do so.”
“I have nothing else to say to you. I have run out of conversation.”
My wife tells me a story about switching operating systems on her computer. In the middle, I have to go help our son with something, then forget to come back.
“Do you want to hear the end of the story or not?” she asks.
“Well…is there a payoff?”
“[Bleep] you.”
It would have been a lot easier to have kept my mouth closed and listened to her. It reminds me of an issue I raised with Blanton: Why make waves? “Ninety percent of the time I love my wife,” I told him. “And 10 percent of the time I hate her. Why should I hurt her feelings that 10 percent of the time? Why not just wait until that phase passes and I return to the true feeling, which is that I love her?”
Blanton’s response: “Because you’re a manipulative, lying son of a [Bleep].”
Okay, he’s right. It’s manipulative and patronizing to shut up and listen. But it’s exhausting not to.
