Humour Category Archives

pretty is not important

29 October 2014 | Art, Humour | No Comments

по-моему, абсолютно волшебная книжка о современном искусстве:

“Are you an artist?” says Jane.

“I couldn’t become an artist because I had you,” says Mummy.

Peter and Jane feel guilty.

  

внезапно, подчеркиваю, внезапно…

5 August 2014 | Humour, Politics | 2 Comments

…история про турникеты.

  

галопом по красотам

28 July 2014 | Humour, Linguistics | 1 Comment

или, например, исключительная Шивон и ее 17 оттенков английского. hilaaarious, as they put it (but still, don’t mistake, it’s just a joke).

  

will be made into troops

8 February 2014 | Cinematograph, Humour | No Comments

оказывается, есть такой фильм, “V”:

When aliens come to Earth to ask for our help, a few suspicious humans discover their horrific true intentions and prepare to resist.

кажется, Пинчон написал свою книгу ровно о том же.

  

then you win

23 January 2014 | Comix, Humour, Politics | No Comments

смотрите, все о революциях, натуральный иллюстрированный (ага) путеводитель.

как бы там ни было, однако, но всем сердцем я желаю Киевским баррикадам выстоять. и спасибо им, да.

  

изнанка

9 January 2014 | Art, Humour | 1 Comment

а вот Зак Коэн, например, что рисует чудесные шаржи, — и даже соединяет их потом в анимации.

смотрю — и сердце радуется, как говорится.

  

the irish don’t drink to get drunk

3 December 2013 | Humour, Television | No Comments

если вы ищете очередной ситком чтобы проснуться утром, если шутки про интернов (of all possible sorts) вам изрядно надоели, и если ирландский акцент тешит вас и прельщяет, — что ж, look no further, сериал “London Irish” чудесен сверх всякой меры:

CONOR: Name me one… just one Irish person with a Blue Peter badge.
NIAMH: How do people get Blue Peter badges anyway?
PACKY: They collected bottles, I think. That’ll be why then.
BRONAGH: Any bottles we had were filled with petrol and thrown at something.

моя девочка.

  

everybody should have some fake ID

25 November 2013 | Crime, Culturology, Humour, Lifeform | 2 Comments

а вот отличная статья Брюса Стерлинга о Россе Ульбрихте, Ужасном Пирате Россе:

Dread Pirate Roberts is the Napster of meth, he’s the Facebook of ‘shrooms. He’s also a man of almost 30, who, despite his degree in science, has apparently never been employed by anyone. Dread Pirate Roberts, through a cruel twist of history, is a Depression Millennial. Nemo 2.0 here, this pseudonymous, legendary, subaquatic figure, is scraping along in conditions of grave hardscrabble obscurity, very much like some period Jules Verne Parisian bohemian. Basically, he’s a failure-to-launch. He can’t get his foot on the ever-narrowing ladder of America’s stricken capitalism.

Dread Pirate Roberts, he of the dashing cloak and cutlass, is also a gray-man survivor. He is covert, invisible, zero-history. Quiet as a mouse in his out-of-state den in San Francisco, he roars like a lion to a gathering network army of deeply impressed potheads. He’s “Josh,” a clean-skin with no distinguishing marks. He’s a no-hoper from an oppressed and neglected generation, quietly waiting for his fake ID from Canada. While he waits to change his name, fantastic heaps of Bitcoin funny money sift into his cypherpunk wallet. He’s a thriving multimillionaire, but never in possession of actual dough.

Dread Pirate Roberts is one of the new ones, folks. I mean those strange guys who are colossal on the Internet, while simultaneously crammed and repressed into tiny physical niches.

плюс, еще немного интриги:

Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht, the recently arrested operator of the Internet black market known as the Silk Road, and [Satoshi Nakamoto] the secretive inventor of bitcoin, the anonymous online currency, used to make Silk Road purchases.

есть над чем задуматься[1].

 


  1. необходимость легализации, впрочем, сомнений у меня не вызывает.  ↩

  

so hot

21 October 2013 | Comix, Culturology, Humour | No Comments

или вот еще один чудесный комикс. если уж это не антропология, то я не знаю что она тогда.

  

что есть свет

17 October 2013 | History, Humour, Literature | 2 Comments

Александр Поуп, чудесный:

Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night:
God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.

ага.

а вы говорите “Барочный цикл” и Король бродяг…