Salon has an excellent and unsettling article on Hipster Christianity's rise to adulthood.

Also, Stephen Baldwin's thoughts on his conversion to "Hardcore Christianity."

Radar: So can you name the seven deadly sins?
SB: Dude, I'm totally clueless.

Radar: Lust, greed, sloth, gluttony, wrath, envy, pride.SB: Although wrath in the Bible isn't a sin ( Read more... )

These Japanese surf guitar renditions of various classical composers (Beethoven, Schubert, Puccini, others) are pretty fucking fantastic.

The flick does this to everyone with a sense of fun. Seriously.

Neat little flight sim that uses Google Maps. Link

Pat Robertson soon to conclude that God hates soccer.

I just want to make it known that, courtesy of YouTube, Bob Ross is now readily available online.

LINK

What else are you going to listen to while you work?

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The Russian People. Are. Awesome.

They were allowed to ask Putin anything they wanted. Here are their TOP questions, and his excerpted or paraphrased responses:

1) Does Russia plan to use gigantic, humanoid war robots to defend itself?Yes, we will use the latest technical devices. Already now they are being stationed, for example, in the ( Read more... )

Kettle Salt & Pepper chips and Taste of Thai Peanut Noodles do not mix. You can learn from my mistake.

I dreamt that Liese and I were imprisoned on Cybertron by the Decepticons. The prison had an exercise room, which I stole away to in order to watch Transformers DVDs and plot our escape. I started feeling geeky-guilty and told Liese about the ( Read more... )

Irritatingly written but weirdly compelling article about some cons and their daughters' Girl Scout troop.