The small city of Apeldoorn is home to one of the most successful Dutch insurance companies: Centraal Beheer. The company built a reputation creating tv advertisements that prove in 30 to 60-second the importance of being insured. In each ad, some kind of disaster looms (but is rarely shown) and the historical slogan reminds viewers …
Portrait of Nathaniel Olds. The father of all glassholes is in the Cleveland Museum of Art.
How buildings are appearing faster than roads on Google Maps and plenty more cartography porn:
https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
Keep it classy, Wikipedia. “This picture of a tank shooting a bunny (in the face) represents the core concept of overkill.”
the trolling is all around us
Excuse me people, but isn’t saving for retirement another form of Planned Obsolescence?
We won this war. The best Xmas GIFt.
Congratulazioni a elioelestorietese per la scelta di sciolta graduale. Vive la boirnarde, qui plait à tous les garçons, Qui plait à les lesbiches qui léchent la fiche à tout le monde.
“Security robot that deterred homeless encampments in the Mission gets rebuke from the city”. No further comment needed.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2017/12/08/security-robot-homeless-spca-mission-san-francisco.html
Godwin’s law and reductio ad absurdum applied together in one elegant sentence.