"There's a moose in your fence. You've got mooses."

Baby moose tests humans to see if they are properly respectful, then considers carefully whether their response was sufficient that it should continue to not spit poison in their eyes and eat them.

EDIT: Added link to above text, for people who can't see YouTube embeds on LJ.

The Only Fantasy World Map You Will Ever Need.

by eotbeholder on DeviantArt

via Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon.

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Twitter is blocked in Turkey. On the streets of Istanbul, the action against censorship is graffiti DNS addresses.



Because they're blocking it, apparently, by making requests for twitter.com go to addresses other than Twitter, by hijacking DNS. On the other hand, if you use those DNS addresses (which are Google Public DNS, for the record), when you ask THEM where Twitter is you get to Twitter.

Gee, Ya Think?

Paper #1: NASA faked the moon landing–Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science (pdf), a detailed study showing that kookery is cross-contaminatory: denial of global warming correlates strongly with antivaxxery, moon landing denial, racism, belief in reptoids, 9/11 twooferism, libertarianism, Birferism, Randroid free-market quackery, Niven-fandom, AIDS-denial, FOX News viewership, goldbuggery, etc.

This produced a predictable reaction: millions of words from idiots online, screaming that this was a giant false-flag operation by Big Climate and that it was all a huge conspiracy organised by the secret Jewish Communist Reptoids On The Moon cabal.

That predictable reaction was carefully measured, producing:
Paper #2: Recursive Fury: Conspiracist Ideation in the Blogosphere in Response to Research on Conspiracist Ideation (pdf), a study comparing their predicted reactions from wingnuts to the actual reactions of wingnuts.

University of Western Australia: mining bad thinking for comedy gold.

Happydog is happy.

His whole family is made of meat!