Creepy Vintage Cards: St Paddy's Edition

Leave the generic leprechaun imagery in the dust with these fun and festive Irish ditties. Nothing says "let's get slaughtered on a Tuesday" quite like fops in unflattering pantaloons.

Kangaroofugee

It's Stuck

Blackhole Sun..

Plastic surgery and makeup is ostensibly meant to enhance your appearance, yes?
And sure, in come cases new problems arise, decisions are made, and results may vary.

So how do you know when to leave well enough alone?
Well, you may consider it around the time you start resembling a CG experiment from a Soundgarden video. Just a thought.

Video first.



Reference second.

She's a Brick..Mouth!

A SKELETON exhumed from a grave in Venice is being claimed as the first known example of the "vampires" widely referred to in contemporary documents.

Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence in Italy found the skeleton of a woman with a small brick in her mouth (see right) while excavating mass graves of plague victims from the Middle Ages on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island in Venice (see second image here).

At the time the woman died, many people believed that the plague was spread by "vampires" which, rather than drinking people's blood, spread disease by chewing on their shrouds after dying. Grave-diggers put bricks in the mouths of suspected vampires to stop them doing this, Borrini says.

The belief in vampires probably arose because blood is sometimes expelled from the mouths of the dead, causing the shroud to sink inwards and tear. Borrini, who presented his findings at a meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in Denver, Colorado, last week, claims this might be the first such vampire to have been forensically examined. The skeleton was removed from a mass grave of victims of the Venetian plague of 1576.

However, Peer Moore-Jansen of Wichita State University in Kansas says he has found similar skeletons in Poland and that while Borrini's finding is exciting, "claiming it as the first vampire is a little ridiculous".

Borrini says his study details the earliest grave to show archaeological "exorcism evidence against vampires".

Via New Scientist

Men in Tights and Stamps of Frights

Two things that made me smile at 4:11 this afternoon.



via Causing Habits

I Have An UnG-dly Cr-sh On Merlin Mann

Whenever my brain feels like it's degenerating into a seething puddle of old Silly Putty, I turn to his blogs or his Twitter posts. They're insightful and dead random, which quickly ticks off my personal qualifications of EPIC MANLINESS
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He even has a mini blog dedicated to publishing micro lists, of which the following is but an example.


Read it? Killer, right?

I also have an UnPro Biodly (new portmanteau: Against Pro Biotics + Godly = super sinful) crush on Dave Eggers, whose McSweeneys site also publishes lists.

Maybe I just like men who make lists.
Do you make lists? You may make the cut. I am a woman of easy leisure.