We must never forget that they attacked us because they hate our way of life.

Maybe I’ve just not been paying attention, but in this age of micro-blogging, I’m surprised that Paul Klee’s 1922 The Twittering Machine hasn’t gotten more play.

Embiggen.

No, that’s not a green grocer chanting… that’s friend of the blog MK, in an earlier incarnation as high school TV production teacher. This photo’s for him:

(For the record, that’s a billboard takeover in the UK by mob ster.)

Yeah, I saw it on The Daily What. Didn’t you?

File this one under “E” for “EPIC WIN”! Cameron Booth created this idealized map of the United States Interstate Highway System, after the style of H. C. Beck’s original London Underground maps.

“Expresso, Excetera!”

Best. Caption. Ever.

OK, so we all love The Onion‘s news coverage, right? But check out this screen shot of the bottom of an Onion page that I snapped today. The story with the photo is an Onion news story teaser; the story on the right is direct from CNN’s web site. WTF?!

While we’re on the subject of The Onion, did you see this article from June?

Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles

PALO ALTO, CA—A new report published this week by researchers at Stanford University suggests that Americans spend the vast majority of each day staring at, interacting with, and deriving satisfaction from glowing rectangles.

[…]

According to the report, staring blankly at luminescent rectangles is an increasingly central part of modern life. At work, special information rectangles help men and women silently complete any number of business-related tasks, while entertainment rectangles—larger and louder and often placed inside the home—allow Americans to enter a relaxing trance-like state after a long day of rectangle-gazing.

P.S. We’re doing it right now!

Brown Sharpie, via the Daily What.

You’re still not reading The Daily What?!

‘Nuff said.

(Source: UPI)