Jun06
Internet Soup!
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Yes, yes, y’all. It’s soup time. By which I mean, it’s Friday afternoon, and I’ve more or less run out of coherent things to say and am reduced to starting units of thought with phrases like “Yes, yes, y’all”. For which I apologize from the bottom of my heart.
But back to the task at hand. I’d like to offer you my personal guarantee that all of the links below have been given the official PETA Files Seal of Approval. This means that every video, article, or other webpage contained therein has at some point or other been deemed by me or someone I know to be at least mildly interesting, amusing, or otherwise edifying. Or, translated into plain English, “Click at your own risk.” Here goes:
- Henri is a haunted cat.
- “You’re probably having a lot of new feelings, and … urges. And that’s … normal.”
- There was some debate in the office about whether this one was brilliant or heavyhanded. I imagine it’s a bit of both.
- If real life were more like Facebook, there would be a good deal more poking. Which would work out quite well for us in Sweden.
- One more reason to love Deadspin. The apropros-of-nothing Lettuce Lady shots during NHL commentary.
- Superfans of Sir Paul can feel free to sign this petition someone sent me.
- Not to be a downer all of a sudden, but this was seriously the most depressing thing I’ve read all week.
- Gold star to those smooth-talking scholars over at peta2 for sponsoring a sorority formal. I guess my invite got lost in the intra-office mail?
- Thanks to Copyranter for emblazoning this image on my mind. As he points out, some people just do our job for us.
- Famous PETA anti-fur ads, um, reenvisioned.
- And finally, I’ve had this BBC article in my Inbox for almost a full year now, and I may even have linked to it before, but for some reason I’m completely in love with the scientist’s quote about the origins of the domestic cat. There’s just something so beautifully absurd about it (for best results, try reading in a British accent).
"The Felidae family is well known as a successful predator - very deadly, very ferocious, very threatening to all species including humankind," said co-author Stephen O'Brien, of the US National Cancer Institute. "But this little guy actually chose not to be that," he said. "He actually chose to be a little bit friendly and also was a very good mouser."
Thank you, Stephen O’Brien. And with that, this week’s edition of Internet Soup comes to an end. For those of you who are still casting about for utterly inane things to do on the Web, perhaps you’d like to join my ill-fated and ill-thought-out campaign to save the subjunctive. Any takers?
-Jack
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Comments
Yay Alpha Phi! That's my sorority!
Posted by: Aja | June 6, 2008 12:54 PM
What the heck!
The polar bear article is certainly distressing. I hate the image of the police, crouched and smiling over the body like trophy hunters. Good lord. The bear swims for his/her life and they just wait by for the kill. There are certainly alternatives! People seem lazy and uninterested in carrying out humane initiatives.I also heard that some politicain from Alaska wants to sue the American government because the new (inadequate) protection of polar bears has thwarted their plans to drill the arctic dry of oil. The drilling in one of the greatest threats to arctic wildlife in the first place.
Posted by: Annalena | June 6, 2008 12:54 PM
I like your subjunctive website, Jack. Very humorous, but with a porpoise (sic).
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | June 6, 2008 01:59 PM
I would have loved to have blown those fuckers heads off that shot the Polar Bear.
But I am a peaceful person.
Peace, for all animals!
Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | June 6, 2008 04:48 PM
OMG!
The police should freaking be arrested because last time I checked...Hmm. Aren't Polar Bears on the Endangered list. God if I was deciding how many years those police were going to jail, I would make them swim two hundred miles then shoot them. See how they feel.
Posted by: Shelby F | June 7, 2008 11:46 PM
Jack, your subjunctive stuff-very funny!!!!(Notice I have to use several exclamation points to lazily express the energetic mood)
Your Peta seal of approval picture-very cute - make all the young girls' hearts melt!
Posted by: lynda downie | June 9, 2008 12:56 AM
Good one, Judith! Right on!
If you only knew how many times you've cracked me up laughing on here!
Posted by: lynda downie | June 9, 2008 01:01 AM
ill-thought out??
Count me in!
;)
Posted by: Tamara | June 9, 2008 02:06 AM
Aw, Henri c'est belle.
Regarding the polar bear, get used to it. Development is happening at an unprecedented rate, along with logging of forests.
Environmental protection is not just about "saving species for ourselves". It's about saving individuals like this polar bear from suffering.
Our overpopulated and overdeveloped world has humans running into wildlife at every corner. And we selfish humans will win every time. With guns.
Save habitat, save animals. Period. May the Goddess take in that polar bear.
Posted by: Maya, CVT | June 9, 2008 03:40 PM
Dearest Lynda,
It keeps me sane!
Peace, for all animals!
Posted by: Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals | June 9, 2008 05:23 PM