but "huh?", the sun appears to orbit the earth only because the earth rotates. your comment suggests that it's okay to fail to understand what is happening within one's frame of reference and call it by the right name so long as it all looks the same.

i'm shocked that someone who doesn't know this got on wwtbam, but the france-bashing in this thread is disgusting. i'm sure these are the same people who went batshit crazy when alex dared to post a clever pro-democrat political cartoon.

this is a joke, right?

neatorama maintains its lead in the "gah! i was eating!" contest.

not that this is really so terrible. but still. gah. i was eating.

YAY COCAINE

yikes! i was just reading about that poisoned russian spy in the economist. know what did it? "alpha source in handy container," as offered by the atomic playkit.

i like factually neat things, not things that would be neat if only they were true. this brazilian chick belongs in "weekly world news." it's a commentary on modern american journalism that the question "did you see the cat give birth to the dog or are you just lying to suit a bizarre agenda?" is never even approached.

this will backfire. whenever i watch a movie with a "like" character, i speak like a total moron the next day. this despite the fact that i got a 770 on the verbal section of my sat, back in the olden days.

it's a classic to misspell "awareness" in the middle of calling other people stupid.

Well done!

this guy is in a sad situation, and i hope he gets better. but that article infuriated me.

our culture is stupid when an article about the world's fattest man makes no mention whatsoever about what he eats and the possibility of him eating less as a long term strategy (revolutionary, i know!). instead, the article calls his weight a "mystery" and suggests that surgery to make his stomach stop absorbing all the food he eats is the only possibility.

it would be easy for the reporter to find out if the guy is eating his weight in ho-hos. but the reporter preferred to report the spectacle and throw up his hands in puzzled helplessness with the rest of the developed world.

This is misleading. It should be called "Poorman's Headphones."