I noticed that yesterday was a binary day in mm/dd/yy format: 01/01/10.

This seems relevant.

@Varjak: Well, shoot, if you expect me to go reading and stuff, how am I supposed to leap to conclusions?

In that case, I'll amend my earlier statement to:

I don't get it.

@people: I didn't say it's not art. Of course it's art. It's also needlessly confrontational and ultimately self-defeating. It can be those things and be art at the same time. (And you're not going to get a "case closed" with a short definition of art from an encyclopedia.)

@Kevin Harman: Thank you for chiming in here. But I don't think the fact that you immediately paid to have the window replaced turns this into effective art. I'm a lawyer, but I'm also a filmmaker, and in my view such confrontational tactics almost never create effective communication. It's like trying to teach someone calculus by screaming in their face.

I wonder: if I smashed a window out of the artist's home, would he ask me in for a drink and shake my hand?

Slight correction. The article says, "So, if you got a strike and then you get four pins and then six pins (a spare) and on your next frame you get one gutter ball and then one pin, you would get 20 points (10+4+6) for the strike, 11 points (4+6+1) for the spare and then 1 point for the open frame, for a total of 32 points for all three frames."

In the frame after the spare, only the first ball counts. A gutterball thrown as the first ball after a spare means the spare was worth 10 points, not 11.

"How about instead of advising poor congregants to break the law, you remind them that people are more important than things?"

Yeah, that'll fill their bellies.

It's a roulette wheel devised by someone who doesn't understand probability. "Come on, lucky number 3!"

Ah, that makes sense.

Isn't a menorah supposed to have only eight candles/lights? The Hello Kitty menorah seems to have one extra, doesn't it?

(I apologize if this is a stupid question.)

Reminds me of "Black and WTF?":

http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/

They get some really amazing finds at times.

Foreigner1: People reenact Korea and Vietnam? I had no idea. I live in the US South, and the only reenactors I'd ever heard of are American Revolution and the US Civil War-- both distant enough in time to be romanticized.

It still seems weird to me. Especially the Kosovo part.

It strikes me as a little perverse and/or morbid to "reenact" battles that are still in living memory. Why not reenact Vietnam battles? Heck, why not Iraq?

Kisai Denshoku Black! Thanks for running the contest!

Interesting how many of the items contain the adjective "fresh."

I like the smell of gasoline (petrol, whatever) too. Also the smell of wet pavement when it's just started raining after a dry spell, and the smell of gunpowder.