Category: Curiosities and silly stuff

The best Pythagoras Switch contraptions may be more elegant, but for sheer Goldbergian bloody-mindedness, nothing tops this.

(Via Dale Price.)

I discovered last fall that the U.S. Postal Service can send a package into the future. Apparently, they can send objects into the past as well. Here’s the status report on my most recent amazon.com order. Just what exactly did happen on the afternoon of December 31, 1969?

(Click on the question mark if the graphic isn’t visible.)

Posting will eventually resume with comments on Rocket Girls, Animal Yokocho and Pythagoras Switch. Until then, here’s a truly motivational poster.

(Via the LLama Butchers.)

… and Sailor Lisa. Although The Simpsons is the only occidental show I’ve watched more than once during the past twenty years, I missed this:

Lucky Star isn’t a complete loss. It did make the following inverse AMV ((i.e., it pairs anime music with non-anime footage.)) possible:

(Via Drastic My Anime Blog.)

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