Explanation of the fucked engine.
I had been looking for a copy of this for quite a time now. It’s pretty damn awesome. Around 120 pages of completely unknown text. Found in 1912 by Wilfred M. Voynich (hence the name), it has a solid chance of being made sometimes around the early 1400s. Authorship has been attribute to Roger Bacon, John Dee, Edward Kelly, and even Wilfred himself. If it’s real, cool. If it’s a hoax it sure is pretty…
The entirety of world history, yes, including Napoleon and the black plague, has led up to this moment, in the grocery store, where you’re choosing what kind of cereal to buy.
But when central elements of the Mass – such as the chanting of the Gospel – were overlaid with asinine journalist interviewing journalist moments, we really did have a parable of the idiocy of the postmodern media, and maybe an answer to Saint Luke’s question too.
Consider a parallel situation: A speaker in a public place makes statements that many listeners find offensive, although others in the audience want to hear the speaker. The offended listeners boo, jeer, and shout throughout the speaker’s comments, to the point where it’s very hard for anyone to hear what the speaker is saying. Many people think that this sort of behavior — which may be protected by principles of free expression, just as the speaker’s right to speak is — is somehow troubling. The label is “heckler’s veto,” and many people don’t think that we ought to allow a heckler’s veto. (As a matter of technical free speech law, the term “heckler’s veto” refers to the government’s response to heckling: The government can’t take the existence of heckling as a reason for it — the government — stopping the speaker from speaking. As far as I know, there’s relatively little well-reasoned law saying that the government may punish the hecklers in the context I’ve described, although there’s some not-so-well-reasoned law to that effect.)
Eddie Izzard — Cake or Death? (via Qazaq)
“You! Cake or death?”
“Uhhh Death. … Oh wait, I mean cake!”
“You said death first! Ahhh!!”
