- Play any website as music using CodeOrgan. For what it’s worth, here’s what this site supposedly sounds like. [via]
- “Sealed with a righteous kiss and something something death.” Very funny subtitles from Cambodian Twilight and Avatar DVDs. [via]
- Meanwhile, here’s a neat infographic outlining just what you get as a DVD pirate versus as a paying customer. Of course, it seems to be missing one of those full-length anti-piracy ads — also often unskippable — that play at the start of many DVDs.
- Here’s a horrific and “little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.”
Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people. [via]
- And finally, on a slightly happier note: the headline reads: Rapper says politician used Vulcan grip on him in airplane fight.
Your blog sounds OK, I guess, but really shouldn’t quite its day job to take up a career in music.
And that last headline is inaccurate, confusing the Vulcan Death Grip with the Vulcan Nerve Pinch. Everybody knows there’s no such thing as a Vulcan Death Grip!
This is, I should add, not the first time that Vulcans and rap artists have collided.