MalcoveMagnesia — November 29, 2008 @ 3:04 am

Most people may need to be on a lot of mood altering drugs in order to tolerate working at the United Nations.

Rocko — November 29, 2008 @ 4:52 am

Both interesting and fucked up simultaneously.

Rocko — November 29, 2008 @ 4:55 am

On the subject of which, today is the first time I used this site without Firefox, I never knew there were ads on here, let alone ones for “Classical Hebrew Lessons”…. WTF? Now that is a hard target audience to reach.

SonicX — November 29, 2008 @ 6:43 am

“Hey, guys, shouLd we teLL them that acid’s the way forward?”
“NOOOO dude! just pass some boring Laws and they’LL be none the wiser”

Zendu — November 29, 2008 @ 7:17 am

Does anyone have a high res shot of this? It looks almost photoshoped on. Especially in the seats.

Paul_Is_Drunk — November 29, 2008 @ 9:11 am

Geneva is a bitchin’ city.

Too bad my French is tres mal.

dieAntagonista — November 29, 2008 @ 10:22 am

First time I see this thing. Absurd decisions by the UN FTW.

Phyreblade — November 29, 2008 @ 8:29 pm

Well if it’s not a shop it’s pretty cool…

sreksuhn — November 30, 2008 @ 12:27 am

What a waste of 23 million dollars. Fuck you UN eurotrash

yawn — November 5, 2008 @ 5:25 am

Mmm, I saw this before. Very interesting map; pretty cool.

Here’s the “original source” (or at least where I first saw it)

http://strangemaps.wordpress.c.....ilar-gdps/

It has some additional information regarding GDP comparisons and such.

colonel-yum-yum — November 5, 2008 @ 5:40 am

What state is the Ireland one?

dieAntagonista — November 5, 2008 @ 5:57 am

This is very interesting.

“Virginia – Austria (GDP #24 at $309 billion)” Haha wow. What a strange coincidence. Just earlier, I said I wish I could have been in Virginia.

309 billion… phew I had no clue.

dieAntagonista — November 5, 2008 @ 5:58 am

@colonel-yum-yum: Nevada?

flex — November 5, 2008 @ 6:33 am

That is really interesting - good post.

I would have thought Texas’ GDP would have been larger though. Versely, I (naively?) didn’t realise quite how big California’s GDP is.

robustion — November 5, 2008 @ 7:23 am

USA is so big it broke the website…it sticks out too far to the right. Something wrong with the tubes?

Catherine Longfellow — November 5, 2008 @ 10:00 am

I love that Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia are as fiscally able as the US States that despise them. XD

njch412 — November 5, 2008 @ 10:06 am

CA = worlds third largegst economy a few years ago

Paul_Is_Drunk — November 5, 2008 @ 10:44 am

@flex:
Canada is the #9 economy in the world. I was surprised the Texan economy was so strong. California has slipped, though. Before Bush it would have been Germany or China. Maybe even Japan if you include the entire West Coast.

SumoSnipe — November 5, 2008 @ 11:04 am

Well damn. Didn’t know New Mexico made that much…there goes our third world image…

nyokki — November 5, 2008 @ 2:04 pm

At one point, California was the 5th largest economy in the world.

Puulaahi — November 5, 2008 @ 5:43 pm

California could have bought a small country at one point.

simplyfark — November 5, 2008 @ 7:58 pm

Maryland = Hong Kong

Hong Kong isn’t a country.

fishbender — November 5, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

Woohoo! We made Texas!
Canada!! Fuck yeah!!!

NotMe — November 5, 2008 @ 11:36 pm

@fishbender:

You mean Canada! Yee ha!

Dyna-Mole — November 12, 2008 @ 5:30 am

how ironic that Minnesota gets to be Norway

dieAntagonista — November 1, 2008 @ 7:16 pm

Awesome workstation. I’ve never seen a desk like that. The Kitty Kat is pretty also, I like her name.

thelotuseater725 — November 1, 2008 @ 7:26 pm

Thank you Die. The desk is a relic from the early 1990’s.

Zen — October 18, 2008 @ 7:02 pm

this pic is as old as the internet

thelotuseater725 — October 18, 2008 @ 8:10 pm

it’s probably older than the internet. But age doesn’t take away from it’s coolness

traptin85 — October 19, 2008 @ 12:44 am

looks like my older brother like 10 years ago.

Randomguy — October 19, 2008 @ 5:46 am

Ah the moment when water laughs at gravity before it is reminded that its the bitch.

AlecDalek — October 19, 2008 @ 10:20 am

It’s not timing, it’s multiple exposures with a high speed camera. Doesn’t anyone watch Mythbusters?

Dreth — October 18, 2008 @ 3:51 am

There’s a joke here…

dub_1211 — October 18, 2008 @ 4:19 am

n….ni……………..ni…….

i can’t do it.

fortyseven — October 18, 2008 @ 5:00 am

“joke”?

Brevity Truta — October 18, 2008 @ 5:25 am

They look like cauliflowers to me, and the guy a sleepy garden sprite.

AppleSauce — October 18, 2008 @ 6:13 am

People who annoy you.

purple banana — October 18, 2008 @ 8:01 am

NAGGERS!

kuTTer — October 18, 2008 @ 9:38 am

get back to work!

AlecDalek — October 18, 2008 @ 11:00 am

Gee them blacks seem to just love harvesting cotton.

suicydking — October 18, 2008 @ 12:07 pm

Funny how a bunch of people on the internet looking at a dark skinned man in a cotton field suddenly turn into Beavis & Butthead in sex-ed class.

natedog — October 18, 2008 @ 12:11 pm

N­IGG­E­R

see? it’s not that hard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhNTTI3G-Io

the3g_ipwn — October 18, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

natedog:

I only survived 1:20 of that ignorant bitch.

Dreth — October 18, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

@suicydking: Is there a problem with Beavis & Butt-Head, hm?

Dyna-Mole — October 18, 2008 @ 3:05 pm

@Natedog: that’s one fine woman, love that big mouth

@the3g_ipwn: then u missed her point, cuz uer racist!

Phyreblade — October 18, 2008 @ 6:49 pm

@Brevity Truta: You know, that what is was thinking…

Instead we got all this race related crap… >:{

Smoothie — October 17, 2008 @ 8:03 pm

Goddamn, That is intense! =o

Nimbo — October 17, 2008 @ 8:09 pm

chainsaw on a stick, hawt

SumoSnipe — October 17, 2008 @ 8:12 pm

Where did you find this? want more please.

xaldinlancer — October 17, 2008 @ 8:37 pm

that is probably the most badass image to ever grace the internet…

Mythstae — October 17, 2008 @ 9:04 pm

Huh. At first I wondered why he had a Limber, but then I noticed all the weird roots going up.

pike — October 17, 2008 @ 9:21 pm

lo MCS
that’s Geof Darrow - Shaolin Cowboy
http://www.burlymanentertainme.....aolin.html

Darko — October 17, 2008 @ 9:40 pm

GOD DAMN NASA!

Stolid — October 17, 2008 @ 10:00 pm

Now, if it only had a “”Lay-Zer”" on its forehead…

Smoothie — October 17, 2008 @ 10:12 pm

Is That a Sideways Chainsaw In The Sharks Mouth =o

hufnmouth — October 17, 2008 @ 10:53 pm

@pike :I thought I recognized that linework. Nixon FTW.

Brevity Truta — October 18, 2008 @ 4:01 am

That really is awesome.

purple banana — October 18, 2008 @ 8:19 am

The guy with the spear vaguely resembles Carl with a red sweatshirt on… All that’s missing are the noticeable bald spots.

Svartmetall — October 18, 2008 @ 8:20 am

“The most extreme image i have ever seen”

Naaah. Neither of them are on fire, and there isn’t a single laser to be seen…

Mithik — October 18, 2008 @ 11:50 am

I believe you are mistaken, sir. That is indeed a laser emitting from the mouth of said shark. The only problem with this picture is that the guy is doing it wrong.

Dr.Devine — October 18, 2008 @ 1:51 pm

Its not a lazer or a sideways chainsaw in the sharks mouth. It’s a fucking cutlass. Far superior to just a cutlass.

Puulaahi — October 18, 2008 @ 5:40 pm

Needs lazers.

Phyreblade — October 18, 2008 @ 6:31 pm

This guy is about to Phail. Epically…

Xpi6 — November 30, 2008 @ 3:11 am

@Phyreblade: Not so much, as it turns out!

greytone — October 11, 2008 @ 4:17 am

That song will be stuck in my head for a while now thanks to this.

Oddly enough I’m currently trying to get through the book, but I keep falling asleep.

Zasz — October 11, 2008 @ 4:32 am

Metal

boxzor — October 11, 2008 @ 4:42 am

Have you heard about the bird? Everbody knows that the bird is the word!

Netforce — October 11, 2008 @ 4:54 am

Oh would you look at that, it’s mastodon.

vincent.ex2 — October 11, 2008 @ 7:09 am

i need a harpoon

Dreth — October 11, 2008 @ 1:36 pm

FAWKZYA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVIS3BpeqTo

Phyreblade — October 11, 2008 @ 7:20 pm

I can think of a couple of times i would like to have done this… *sigh*

Howie Feltersnatch — October 11, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

Without question, the finest cartoon I have ever seen. I’ve been there. Well, I didn’t stab the guy’s eyes out. But I thought about it.

Gunface01 — October 8, 2008 @ 9:10 pm

Middle picture:
“lol ^_^”

Marrock — October 8, 2008 @ 9:12 pm

I want to be at a safe distance but still able to see the car the first time it gets hit hard enough to rupture the fuel tank.

It’ll be a pretty cool light show.

Recondomoe — October 8, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

Wow, thanks to Wall Street suits, I can afford the production reservation.

tiki god — October 8, 2008 @ 9:52 pm

this is a go nowhere technology for vehicles. the real money is at the 100% electric ones that you just hooked up to some kind of energy source, either the city grid or some generator, possibly gas, diesel or hydrogen.

last thing I want to do is drive around in a hydrogen tank.

reboot — October 8, 2008 @ 10:05 pm

@Marrock: No it wouldn’t. Hydrogen gas isn’t particularly explosion. Significantly less so that gasoline fumes. A fuel cell doesn’t even combust in the traditional sense, its a catalytic reaction that occurs at room temperature.

reboot — October 8, 2008 @ 10:09 pm

I’ll add that the problem with hydrogen gas as a fuel isn’t that its explosive, its that it has a low energy density and that it leaks.

Marrock — October 8, 2008 @ 11:26 pm

@reboot: Who said anything about an explosion?

As I recall, the Hindenburg also made a really nice nightlight and that was full of hydrogen.

Hydrogen is a dead end as a fuel primarily because there’s no real distribution network like there is for other fuels that can be adapted for alternatives, like biodiesel.

Another factor is the amount of energy it takes to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen in amounts that would make it a viable fuel.

Electrics are a possibility but then you still run into the costs of generating the electricity you’d need to fuel it.

Personally, I’ll stick with my bike, my fuel might cost a bit more per gallon, or pound, but I get much better mileage.

squada — October 8, 2008 @ 11:31 pm

anyone noticed the car is HORRIBLE!!!! I just wouldn’t buy it, who cares what it runs with… or the obscene price…

Puulaahi — October 9, 2008 @ 12:26 am

I’ll buy a 100% electric once they drive faster than 30 MPH and have a decent battery shelf life before charging again. The current electric cars cannot drive cross country or on the freeway or even non residential areas.

elzarcothepale — October 9, 2008 @ 12:32 am

it’s like, I want to have sex with it, but I know it won’t respect me. . .

wookie_x — October 9, 2008 @ 12:53 am

Hydrogen powered cars are a horrible, but not for the reasons I’ve read here so far. The problem isn’t exactly storage (though that can be problematic). The problem is the amount of energy required to actually PRODUCE the liquid hydrogen. You have to use energy to separate the hydrogen gas from whatever compound it’s locked in. Then you have to use more energy to either cool or compress they hydrogen until it’s a liquid for transport or use. You then have to spend even more energy to keep it cold or you’ll have loss at the storage site. All of this leads to a very low energy efficiency. If these problems can be overcome, great! Use it. Until then, my money is on biofuels like biodiesel, or on biodiesel/electric hybrids.

Stosh — October 9, 2008 @ 1:10 am

It looks like it was designed in 1995

General X — October 9, 2008 @ 4:00 am

Why does this “zero emissions” car have four tail pipes?

borandi — October 9, 2008 @ 12:05 pm

@wookie_x: And guess what, we have the ultimate energy source for all of that. You’ve at least seen the sun, right? That makes the energy required for hydrogen creation and manipulation no longer a problem. It’s all to do with the storage at the minute.

Loughborough have developed a Hydrogen powered bike, with a range of 100 miles - mainly limited by the storage. Google ‘Hydrogen Bike Loughborough’, or see the video on the BBC (if it lets you).

thecowsays — October 9, 2008 @ 2:12 pm

apparently when they say “zero emissions”, emissions must be supergeek code for steering wheel, because I cant seem to find and type of directional control mechanism in this picture…

Marrock — October 9, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

@General X: The term “zero emission” is a misnomer, a hydrogen fueled engine still gives off water vapor as an exhaust gas, while hardly harmful you still need a way to get rid of it.

@thecowsays: By the time something like this is a viable form of transport, cars will either be thought controlled or driven by some form of central traffic computer.

They’ll also have it rain beer every saturday night, marijuana will be legal, along with prostitution, And the economy will be so strong by then there will be no real need for money, everything will be free.

Hey, as long as we’re visiting fantasy land might as well go for the hat trick, no?

Jaypeezy — September 25, 2008 @ 12:12 am

Once their done with their research, they should try and send it into orbit.

RSIxidor — September 25, 2008 @ 2:01 am

Is this what they talk about on that oil commercial?

Elepski — September 25, 2008 @ 7:33 am

I wonder if it produces it own gravity too… thats hella cool

vanvelding — September 25, 2008 @ 9:16 am

It’s so lifelike. Am I in space, looking at the actual world?

Seriously, though; pretty cool.

RSIxidor — September 25, 2008 @ 1:23 pm

@Elepski:

I’m either going to sound like a dick or a moron:

Doesn’t everything generate its own gravity? Its an object of mass right?

Phyreblade — September 25, 2008 @ 2:28 pm

@Elepski
According to the (many) theories of gravitational forces, this should produce it’s own gravity. However its gravitational field would, in theory, also be too small to significantly affect anything around it, especially being within another gravitational field as strong as the Earths…

Ando — September 24, 2008 @ 4:33 am

Last time I saw teeth like that i was feeding them sugarlumps with flat palms.

Paul_Is_Drunk — September 24, 2008 @ 6:53 am

She is not attractive. Maybe butherface, but not attractive. Time will not be kind.

Kaos_Shredder — September 24, 2008 @ 6:57 am

Oddly enough, this girl looks rather like my ex of three years…except she had a slightly more attractive smile…

kuTTer — September 24, 2008 @ 7:45 am

def nom

wonkobox — September 24, 2008 @ 9:00 am

she cant wait to be a stupid whore. well, that is to say she cant wait to be a legal stupid whore. i predict sextapes and giant breast implants and playboy spreads in her future. oddly absent from her future: any legitimacy as an actress.

wonkobox — September 24, 2008 @ 9:01 am

and get that girl a gay stylist STAT. that outfit is HIDEOUS.

LukeV1-5 — September 24, 2008 @ 10:16 am

Nearly legal in my country.

Then I have a month until it becomes illegal again

Puulaahi — September 24, 2008 @ 11:52 am

Too young for me, plus her voice is worse than nails on a chalkboard. I’ll take Blake Lively or Haylie Duff instead.

storminator — September 24, 2008 @ 3:55 pm

an over rated media blitz

General X — September 26, 2008 @ 4:30 am

I am so sick of these underage chicks looking nomable while underage and looking like vampire victims, or train wrecks the second they turn 18.

sylvanish — September 26, 2008 @ 4:46 am

She’s a classic example of how the media controls and manipulates the thoughts of the commoner.

Making a generic being into something it isn’t through photoshop and makeup.

I use creatures like her as part of a template for villains in my d&d campaign. The players get a recognizable face to associate their enemy with, the visual adds a lot of take-away oomph to what would (in her specific case) just be a another bland wizardess. Yup, my first post here is intentionally chockful of geekiness as a declaration of persona-intent. Expect more in the future. Also subtle female sexism.

sylvanish — September 26, 2008 @ 4:55 am

To follow up, especially in relation to General X’s comment: Holywood has industrialized the desecration of innocence to point of it being forgettable and hardly noticed anymore. Many people (guys and girls alike) are raped by that most american of factories; to be puked out as yet another human-shaped “icon on paper” to be used to sell a thing.

I pity her. …To have the dire misfortune of being born moderately attractive to a ……”celebrity” is fate like unto being born a slightly bigger circus freak than your parents were.

Yes, I speak too much, especially for a she

sylvanish — September 26, 2008 @ 5:00 am

I don’t know what it is, maybe the bacardi, but this post and it’s comments have fired up my reply to the point of rapid sporadic actuality. And THAT is a something. Wonkobox says it well. And storminator sums it up like a man who should be paid $50 a month from reader’s digest.