Divisible By Pi

Note: This is definitely NSFW. Unless your name is Dave and you’re wearing headphones.

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My summary: Boobs, in most circumstances, are still not a danger to humanity. The earth remains unmoved by extra gratuitous cleavage. Sane people everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief. Jen has a more detailed analysis (with charts and statistics and everything!) up over at Blag Hag.

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I was browsing my Google Analytics account just before, and guess what I noticed? Guess I’d better go sacrifice a goat or something now, hey?

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In case you don’t know which thread I’m talking about, check here. That post, Stop the Australian Vaccination Network, is the most commented on article on the YAS site to the point where for a while comments were disabled. Now that there’s been a bit of an upgrade the comments are open again, and the fun [...]

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It’s not yet been two years since the passage of Proposition 8 in California, the constitutional amendment that stripped marriage rights from homosexual couples. From memory, it went down a little bit like this: Well, sans the happy ending of course. Curse you, character portrayed by John C Reilly!

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…so, in conclusion, playing Guitar Hero with my headphones on, at full blare, I get to rock out and I can’t hear shit. It’s a win-win situation. Except I’m still single. Genuine conversation we had a few seconds ago, with perfect deadpan delivery. You wish you were there.

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I found this clip over at Respectful Insolence — I’d recommend you put any fragile items and valuables out of reach before you watch it lest you start crushing things in frustration. The video shows a public health official conducting a meeting with three anti-vaccination mothers (one of whom is a midwife) who are all [...]

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Seriously — the boobquake experiment has spread beyond the blogosphere and reputable news channels and into our webcomics! Check out the awesomeness:

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If you don’t believe me, check out the pictures and video below the fold of lightning strikes happening at the Eyjafjallajokull volcano. These look like they’ve been photoshopped — they haven’t. The next time someone tells you to respect nature, understand: THIS IS WHAT NATURE CAN DO. Seriously. It can fuck things up.

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…and live sand drawing from the Ukraine is pretty unlikely. Via of all people my dad comes this video of Kseniya Simonova, a Ukrainian artist, drawing a series of pictures in sand live on Ukraine’s Got Talent. The pictures come together in front of the audience to tell a personal story set during Hitler’s invasion [...]

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