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A screen grab from a well-done infomercial by Code School. Everyone will enjoy at least the first fifteen seconds.

(h/t: @jeresig)

Just throwing it out there

A correspondent says, after a lengthy exchange launched by mutual outrage and commiseration over the latest dumb-assery out of Tennessee (via), this:

I have some theories, but they haven't anything to do with politics. Modern economic reality, IQ distribution, automation and digitalization - I think average people have the sneaking suspicion they are doomed. And they are. So they are growing to despise those who are smarter, and the concept of being smart, and they are turning to people and institutions that abjure rationalism and critical thinking. Ergo, church, and Sarah Palin.

To which I replied (with an [added] bit that should have been there the first time I typed it):

I am aware of that aspect of your thinking. I don't completely deny agreeing with it, but I think, at least, this is hardly a new thing for humans, and maybe also, that if there is something different this time around, it is that this is the first time where the Luddites could take full advantage of the very technologies that represent their obsolescence to complain about their looming obsolescence.

On a very closely related note, this recent interview of Ken Layne bears a careful read, even if you are not as plugged into (dependent on) the Wonkette as I am.

I think on a really good day, I could listen to you and Ken talk about modern America for almost an hour before happily setting myself on fire.

On the upside, this recent online thing has for the first time in my life made me [realize that I am] NOT the gloomiest person I know. So there's that.

Drinking Irish whiskey right now. Tomorrow I will go fill a prescription for another substance which a trained professional, or at least an accredited one, tells me will make me feel even better about things in general.

Soma!

Till then, penguin.

Want

Well, almost. I took a look at the materials list. You'd think a $30 pizza cutter would include at least a couple dilithium crystals, but no.

Which is not to say I'm waiting for The Next Generation of them, you understand.

(h/t: @alexmwalker)