Indistinguishable from Jesse

Mom: Why do people look at porn?

Me: That's hard to explain. Why do people play video games, or watch sunsets?

Mom: I don't know why people like video games, but sunsets are beautiful and natural.

Me: Naked women are beautiful and natural.

My mom is always asking me to stop mentioning porn on my blog, saying it might drive away potential girlfriends. But on Christmas, she almost encouraged me to hang one of Diana Kos's nude paintings in my apartment. I'm so confused that I don't even know whether to mark that link as NSFW.

Aza Raskin's Algorithm Ink is really neat. Hand Spirals and Kishkush balabush create beautiful pictures with just a little bit of code, while Underground and Morse Code Forever look like real things. Algorithm Ink can even be tricked into performing pure animation, as shown by my example Gears.

Amazing snow sculptures and ice architecture at a festival in Harbin, China (via Mom).

• Amazing sidewalk-chalk drawings, 2, 3 (via schmack)
• Once upon a time, there was a SPC Schwarz stationed with the Army in the Balkans. SPC Schwarz was either very clever or very bored; but probably both, since he managed to attempt or be warned about 213 things he wasn't allowed to do. (via schmack)
• Vote for the next US president (via jcurious)
• Caitlin Silberman: Matholicism
• David Shrigley's signs and other interventions (via caitlin)
• mpt: customer service
• The great aluminum foil prank
• KoL forum: Traffic tickets are inherently sexist
• KoL: Top 45 Signs Your Workplace Productivity Could Improve (3 items are mine)
• KoL: Top 82 Rules Of Military Combat (6 items are mine)