5/22/13 Crackdown or Crackup?
Just a little spot illo I did for Reason magazine recently. But you'll have to get the mag to see what it's all about.
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Lies, damned lies, statistics, and politics
Haste makes waste and he who hesitates is lost
Fauxcabulary, or words I made up
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They’re Here, They are, They are, They are
Considering the vast distances travelled by UFOs some questions inevitably arise. Such as: How long does it take to get here; What powers them; How much energy must they consume; What kind of fuel mileage do they get; Do little green men use green energy.
The secret to UFO travel lies in employing a Maxwell Demon running on a zero point circularity which produces more energy than it consumes....
Mysteries of UFOs Revealed They’re Here, They are, They are, They are
A Short Long Good-bye It's the End of the Year as we Know it
The Disunited States of America A Preview of Coming Attractions?
Welcome to the S--burbs Whatever it is
How ESP Works Mind Reading Diagramed and Explained
Lights, Camera, Reaction! The Periodic Table of Hollywood Plot Elements
Money Blather Your Guide to Economic Jargon, Lingo, and Gobbledegook
Winless Wear 2008 Detroit Lions Merchandise
Those Darn Cats Our deal with the devils
Government Machinery at Work How the Wheels of the Bureaucracy Grind
American History 101 2.0 A fake but accurate account
Space Warps and Wefts What fabric is the fabric of space made of?
The Day the Universe Stopped Standing Still How it all began explained for people who don’t take reality seriously
Unnatural Empty Junkfood Words Half-Baked Buzz Phrases and Overcooked Terms
Uranimals Beastly Beasts
Star Dreck Musings of a semi hemi demi trekker
Unreality TV No shows
Dangerous Hot Air The truth about inconvenient global warming
Not-so-Special Winter Olympics Olympic events you’ll never see
Don’t Look Down Everthing you never wanted to know about air travel
Happy New Year 2007 in review
From Reader’s Digest
Venn Again, Maybe Not Another Last Laugh
Quick and Easy Meals For the Cooking Impaired
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The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be
Bizarre Business Cards We Hope We Never See
History’s Least Successful Proto Humans
Police Line-ups Around the World (and Beyond)
Trojan Horse Designs That Didn’t Quite Make it
Suck.com Archives (off site)
Crash Course Cartoon motorcycle accidents versus cartoonist motorcycle accidents
Suck School of Comic Art How to Draw Funny
Suck School of Comic Art - Graduate Course How to Draw Funnier
A Powerplant in Your Garage? Dense Plasma Focus Fusion
Unsurprising Yet remarkable One Step at a Time to One Step Beyond
My First Car How I Almost Ran Myself Over With a Jerry-rigged Jalopy
Billiards Bits for Beginners The Shape of Cheating the Pocket With Throw
Flying Made Simple Understanding How Planes Can Fly Without all the Messy Details
How Planes Can Fly The correct explanation of lift for non-engineers
Bernoulli, Coanda & Lift What is What and What is and isn’t Doing What
Paradox or Not? Fashionable Fitness Foods and Futility
“Pass the Honey, Sugar” The Processed Food Processed Food Haters Love
Works for Me Prosperity is as Energy Does
Changes that Changed Everything The 10 Greatest Inventions of All Time?
Better Than Sliced Bread Uncelebrated Inventions Great and Small
Science Legends Things people know to be true that aren’t
There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Cat Three card monte math which may surprise you
The Wheels That Don’t Turn Why You Can't Turn a Bike by Leaning
Optical Illusions You Often Run Into Don’t worry, they don’t hurt
Quizzes, Games and Such
Unanimated Gif Monte A Little Optical Illusion Fun
Terra Incognita A Trick Tricky Geography Quiz
Find the Secret Message A different kind of word search
Superest Super Bowl League What is the best pre-merger league at winning the big game?
Hollywhat? A Movie Trivia Quiz of the Funny, the Obscure, and the Strange
99 & 44/100 % Pure Amusement A Pop Quiz About Percentages and Probabilities
Internetelepathy I Will Read Your Mind
What Was That Nym Again? Some fun with words