Here’s a Gallery of Demonic Tots and Deeply Disturbing Cuisine. Mid-century marketing at its best. This kid will eat pork and beans straight from a can. After that you can expect him hide under your bed waiting for you to stand up so he can cut your Achille’s tendons, Pet Cemetary style.

Check out how the drip falling from the spoon is portrayed as a glistening jewel to be savored (larger and clearer image). On another one, there’s a great slogan, “Meat… You’re right in liking it.”

Overheard in New York… the name says it all. Example:

Cabbie: Are you going this way? I’m not turning around!
Chick: What the..? I’m not hitchhiking, I’m fucking paying you, and if I tell you to turn around you damn well better turn around!

He drives away.

Chick: Yeah, fuck you too, cunty Mr. Crack Whore.
Hipster guy: Lady, you need therapy.
Chick: Man, you need to stop sucking dick. And a haircut.

–34th & 7th

PostSecret is the blog of an art project where people are asked to share their secrets anonymously on a 4×6 postcard. The collector then scans them and posts them on the blog. Some are funny but most aren’t. Some are deranged, others happy. It’s fascinating to see.

An indie band has a music video about what happened to all the E.T. cartridges for Atari.

From elsewhere,

Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up from their seats and turned their backs to him.
To make matters worse for Gonzales, additional students came into the room, wearing black cowls and carrying a simple banner, written on a sheet.

Can I get a show of hands of who is going to be in Ohio in April? I will for the latter half of the week…

From a BBC article:

The Science Learning Centre in London asked 11,000 pupils for their views on science and scientists.

Around 70% of the 11-15 year olds questioned said they did not picture scientists as “normal young and attractive men and women”.
They found around 80% of pupils thought scientists did “very important work” and 70% thought they worked “creatively and imaginatively”. Only 40% said they agreed that scientists did “boring and repetitive work”.
Over three quarters of the respondents thought scientists were “really brainy people”.

That’s all well and good, but the last quote is by far the best:

Among those who said they would not like to be scientists, reasons included: “Because you would constantly be depressed and tired and not have time for family”, and “because they all wear big glasses and white coats and I am female”.

X-Entertainment has a good yarn on the first issue of Nintendo Power. He even talks a bit about it’s free predecessor, Nintendo Fun Club News, to which I was a crypto-subscriber. Remember, back then video gaming was a pretty geeky pursuit. You had to hide it if you wanted to keep your teeth.