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I'm completely fascinated with the phrase written on his giant chest. It's nonsense, but just close enough to having meaning that it's a tantalizing mystery. Or just fun nonsense. Or something. Whatever it is, I like it, and that's all that counts.

Regardless, you've got to love the giant Lego man in all his giant Lego glory. Just look at his head crushing talon about to destroy that poor Dutch woman.

I really want it to be some sort of Danish (Trojan) Horse. I'm not exactly sure which way the currents run up there, so who knows it that's even possible, but I love the idea.

Here's some Youtube video, if it were really a Danish invasion, this is where they'd jump out. Sadly, they don't

It's got something to do with this guy. What? I don't know as it's in a language I don't understand:

No real than you are

Here's a story on it:

Giant Lego man washed up on Dutch beach

"A man put his foot through a $300,000 painting Wednesday afternoon at the Milwaukee Art Museum and told museum workers later that the image disturbed him."

"The 22-year-old Pewaukee man started kicking "The Triumph of David" by Ottavio Vannini as it hung on the wall in the museum's Early European Gallery, said David Gordon, CEO and director of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

"Painted in 1640, the oil painting depicts the outcome of the biblical tale of David and Goliath, with David carrying the giant Goliath's severed head, Gordon said.

"'He was kicking it, aiming his blows at the head of Goliath, and then he pulled it off the wall and started kicking it,' Gordon said"

Crazy. And I thought the tourists hanging all over the Egyptian artifacts in the British Museum was disturbing. What a sight that must have been.

Sometimes, when you mix two things that are normally completely harmless you get unexpected results. This, for example, is the result of mixing some Tiger Balm mistakenly applied to my temple (in an absent-minded gesture) and the Kiehls facial cleanser I normally use…

Did Ignignokt really shut down Boston yesterday?

See what happens while I'm away?

Engadget has a good picture of one in place.

I'm thinking you'd have to be shit-faced to think that was a bomb. Of course (I'm proud to say) that's not a problem here in Boston We have plenty of drunks to go around. Still, I can't imagine how much whiskey I'd have to work my way through to mistake that glorified lite brite for a city crippling bomb. I would probably call it a night and crawl off to bed long before I got to that point.

There's one for sale on eBay:

eBay: Mooninites (Ignignokt) LED Advertising Bomb (item 130075321405 end time Feb-07-07 17:07:32 PST)

And a ludicrous one at that…

"School officials said the list, discovered in a classroom trash can, mostly named students and faculty members but also included Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and the Energizer Bunny."

The classmates part is obviously an issue, at some level, but the inclusion of the Energizer Bunny on the list and the lack of any concrete plans or weapons makes me think that this threat might not be the most credible.

Girls charged with conspiring to kill classmates, Oprah - CNN.com

The Sun Online - Bizarre: Cruise 'is Christ' of Scientology

"And leader David Miscavige believes that in future, Cruise, 44, will be worshipped like Jesus for his work to raise awareness of the religion."

You can't make this stuff up. Of course, you can, since L. Ron Hubbard did, but the reality of what his creation has become is just too rich for words.

Without the Internet, I would never have seen this photo:

Wherever those dudes are right now? That's the last place on Earth I want to be.

Warren Ellis posted this on his blog. I cant be alone in the misery of possessing this knowledge.

"Police and firefighters yesterday rescued a Long Island man who had been trapped in his bedroom for four days after piling up a 7-foot-high mountain made up of bags of his own feces, jars of urine and other debris.

"An officer responded to Charles Ruoff's dilapidated home in Centerport around 3:30 a.m. after receiving an anonymous 911 call asking police to check up on the 64-year-old veteran who hadn't been seen in days.

"As he explored the house, the cop heard Ruoff calling weakly from a second-floor bedroom where he had walled himself in with a mountain of his own filth. He said he had been trapped since Tuesday."

*yeah, that's a nasty fucking pun. Shoot me.

I was almost sucked in there for a second. I used to visit Attrition regularly back in the day and I was sorely tempted to just browse and read the fuck out of it for the rest of the day.

Anyway, the following (linked from mefi) is one of the many classic email exchanges archived at Attrition. In this installment, a user writes in to ask if the attrition guys can hack into his school's server to change his GPA. Hilarity ensues.

Going Postal

"O.J. Simpson Book, TV Special Canceled by News Corp."

"O.J. Simpson's new book and television special were canceled by News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, who called the project 'ill-considered.'

"The book 'If I Did It,' where Simpson described how he would have murdered his wife and her friend Ronald L. Goldman, was to be released by ReganBooks, a publishing company owned by News Corp., on Nov. 30.

"'I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,' Murdoch said today in an e-mailed statement. "

"ill-considered" is wonderfully understated. Murdoch sure knows how to turn a phrase.

The big question is- what will Orenthal do now? Take it to the tangled up tubes? If it's too sordid for Murdoch it's got to be Internet or bust, right?