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funny ha-ha, not funny like fish gone bad

Better than the real thing: Playmate bloopers.

Somewhere between "ha-ha" and "bad fish": A Cotton Candy Autopsy (via boingboing)

Warren Ellis rips into GM crops; I laughed repeatedly. Short little machinegun barks and snorting noises -- trés uncool. For the record, I'm against GM crops, the same as I'm against any kind of monoculture. Reliance on them sets us up for incredible problems. A single disease might take out one type of crop; if that is the only type of crop being grown, it all goes away. Lately larger agribusinesses have filled fields with their GM crops, then sued neighboring farms when the GM crop shows up in the neighbor's farm. This seems like me suing my neighbor when I've broken their window with a stray baseball. But the descriptive "granola-crunching hippie who probably lives on rectum-paralysing medication to stop them constantly fountaining a stream of seed-riddled diarrhoea" had me going.

Side note: Covers to Japanese magazines. Missing the high-gloss, superslick paper, but cool none the less. (via JeanSnow)
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