Addendum

As an addendum to the previous post about cheese rolling, here is a Cracked.com article on insane sports.

Annual cheese-rolling in England

I learned about a curious custom through one of my housemates: in Gloucester, hordes of people will charge down a steep hill in pursuit of a wheel of cheese, as part of an annual tradition dating back hundreds of years.

I like cheese, but not THAT much.

Walmart's partnership with I Can Haz Cheezburger?

If only this were true...

It's just some water being poured on your face...

Conservative talk show host changes his tune after just six seconds on the subject of waterboarding.

Junk Shop Photos

I found this neat website with old photos from strangers. Some are thoughtful. Some are interesting. Some are funny. And some are downright disturbing (see May 22's the Battle of the Bulge):

http://www.junkshopphotos.com/

You have to be rich to be poor

Apparently, poor folks don't have it so easy. Lots of things that we take for granted are a lot more difficult for people who don't have that much money--making it harder for them to pull themselves out of poverty than you would expect. Very interesting article.

We do not tolerate failure

It has been pointed out to a few folks that the MMORPG City of Heroes is giving away a fortnight worth of play for free. We are thinking about starting up a group this Sunday. Naturally, we will use our powers for evil.

Two things.

First, won't you play with us? All you need to know about character creation you can get from these wiki pages: your powers, which are class (or 'archetype') -specific. In the previous link, they are grouped by the primary and secondary of each archtype. Note that it also includes hero archetypes and prestige class-type deals. In addition, there are the pool powers which everybody can choose from when they reach a higher level.

Second, and potentially more importantly, won't you help us develop a theme? This is important.

We could be The Monsters of Alternative Rock: Conman Meloy, Michael Stab, James Russel Murder, Death Cab for Cutie, Magma White, ...
Or we could be The Confirmed Bachelors (of Arts and Sciences): Political Science as a Mastermind with mercenaries, Chemistry as a Corruptor with radiation and kinetics, Biology as Dominator with plant control, film/theater as mindless Brutes...

This is where certain members of our collective, long shunned for their terrible, terrible propensity for puns, can really shine and save the day. If the Venture Brothers have taught us anything, it is that a villain is only as good as hir pun-laden name.

EDIT for adding links, including the following to the official CoV manual.

Sharks have problems too

From your friends at Animals Have Problems Too

How Topical

Antimatter

There's a light article about it on Wired. 

Sorta neat.

Sharks? Sharks!

I hereby declare this week shark week for the blog. Post shark related things!

I assume a few of you have already seen this, but it is still jawsome!

Destroy the world!!

This is what I do at work:

http://www.sharenator.com/Pandemic_2/

We are all megalomaniacs here. Now you can really destroy the world with Swine Flu.

Mustaches of the 19th Century

For your daily mustache fix:

mustaches of the 19th century

This is what you learn about when you work in an archive.

Attn: People who use Google Chat

I seem to have accidentally deleted my contact list... somehow... so I need you, yes you, to contact me so I can put this back together again. That is all.