Everybody lies

May I introduce you to the newest addition to my feed reader: Cake Wrecks.

The name is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a blog about the most awful cakes in the world. With hilarious commentary.

If you see most of the pictures it’s unbelievable anybody actually paid money for these things. That said, some of them are technically quite well done, like the one below.

What boggles the mind in those cases is the question how anybody could ever think making them would be a good idea in the first place. Honestly, would you like to carve up a baby suffocated head first inside a hideously blue cake? I think I’d pass.

Now this one, on the other hand:

I am probably the only person that cake reminds of the scene with the disguised hostages in The Dark Knight, right? I would totally eat that one. Or blow it up. Clowns just make me so aggressive. I wonder why that is…

Everytime I look around my already crumbling faith in humanity takes another hit. Take this, for example:

29 percent of internet users have purchased goods from spam emails, according to new research by Internet security company Marshal. The most commonly purchased items include sexual enhancement pills, software, adult material and luxury items such as watches, jewellery and clothing.

Read the whole article here and cry.

Now, isn’t so much stupidity - manifested by so many people - just exasperating? The spam itself (although a fucking nuisance) is not my main problem, rather it’s the despair that overcomes me when I think about humanity’s future. How do people expect to survive as a species when a third of them manifests such boundless idiocy? It just boggles the mind. Honestly, and people are asking me why I am not a fan of the human race.

Then again, a species as stupid as that probably deserves to die out…

(via)

I always love to take tests online. They are usually not much good for anything, but the results are often hilarious and/or flattering. This one’s no exception. It’s on the BBC site and is called, rather unimaginatively: “What Am I Like?” (yeah, I could hardly contain my excitement over it either).

Grace from Sandier Pastures posted it a while ago and I decided to give it a try myself. Imagine my delight when I found out that apparently I am a Mastermind. Huh. Who would’ve thought? LOL

The results are summarized as follows:

• Visionaries who put energy into achieving their goals
• Prefer to work independently and dislike inefficiency
• Think of themselves as logical, thorough, and bright
• Values practicality and common sense above ideas and theories

Hm, that’s more accurate than usual. I hate to admit it, but the whole thing seems to be pretty spot-on. Also, I read the characterizations of the other 15 personality types and none of them sounded quite like me, although predictably there were single aspects in almost any one of them that fit. But the Mastermind summary is the only one that fits to an astonishing degree. Me likey.

I especially liked the following parts:

• They have a rare gift for looking at almost anything and seeing how it can be improved.
• Masterminds value independence and prefer to work on their own.
• Masterminds often have an unusual sense of humour, which arises from their ability to spot surprising links between seemingly unconnected facts.

Yep, that’s me. So that’s why many people just don’t get my kind of humor.

This is not only funny because I really am like that, but this cat looks strikingly like one that lived with me for more than 2 years. Even though I have to say that Fil didn’t play well with anybody. I saved his life and the little bugger didn’t even allow me to touch him. Like, ever. I still got the scars to prove it.

(via ICHC - still one of my favorite sites)

Did I ever mention that I have an insect phobia? Well, maybe phobia is a bit of an exaggeration, but they definitely do make me uncomfortable. Even butterflies - no, strike that, especially butterflies! - give me the creeps with their fluttering and scuttling and everything. *shudder*

Luckily, that doesn’t keep me from admiring the critters in photos. Especially if these photos turn out to be as beautiful as these ones by Martin Amm. Click through to his portfolio on photo.net to see the big versions of the ones I posted here, and also all the others. The man has an incredible talent for finding the hidden beauty of those creatures.

You definitely have to be an artist to make an ordinary fly look like a precious jewel. Nobody would ever get me close enough to some of these critters to take pictures like this one. And yes, spiders are among the most uncomfortableness-inducing animals I know. Topped only by a shark circling around me in open water…

Made me laugh. (via Bay of Fundie)

When I was mentioning other Dark Knight reviews you might have read I was talking about something like this one. Hallalujah, if I could write as well as that I could have written this one myself.

There aren’t enough hours in the day to discuss The Dark Knight’s finer points. … The Dark Knight is filled with so many moments of sheer glee that one watch will not be enough to appreciate it. There are flaws, as there are in any film. … But these tiny blips shouldn’t register on your radar: if you’re unable to enjoy this film then sorry friend, God help you.

It’s not just the best Batman film ever. It’s not just the best ’superhero’ movie ever. It’s more than just a money-spinner, a franchise, a comic-book cash-in. The Dark Knight is a stunning piece of work that deserves every word of praise spoken about it - consummate filmmaking in every respect. It’s the best film of the year so far and the Batman film fans have been waiting their whole lives for. See it, love it, see it again. The excitement for part III begins here, but Holy Hell it’ll have to be good to top this.

Yep, that about covers it. And tellingly, my heroes over at Pajiba were of much the same opinion:

As a director, Nolan takes the story seriously, and that makes all the
difference, transforming his films from good to great. They’re the best
superhero movies ever made because they embrace the character on a gut
level and not as some pop artifact. The Dark Knight is a
harrowing, frightening, uncompromising, flat-out great superhero movie,
wonderful in sad ways, hitting the perfect mix of characterization and
humor, bouncing between phenomenal action set pieces and the brutally
human moments that place the film in a recognizable world even as it
soars into comic book fantasy. Put simply, Nolan just gets it. He’s a
believer, and he’ll make one out of you, too.

If they praise a movie it has to be fucking spectacular. Also, they always find angles and meanings that completely escaped me on first viewing. This review is just one more reason to watch the movie again and watch out for all the little (and sometimes not so little) things that I missed out on the first time around.

Yeah, I know, as if I needed yet another reason beside my growing obsession…

One more quote from the above review:

The Dark Knight is all about what it means to fight a losing battle knowing the outcome in advance, and why. For Bruce Wayne and Christopher Nolan, the answer’s simple: Because you believe in it.

In this respect it resembles The Lord of the Rings in my eyes. And this is the best explanation for why people who don’t give either of those movies a chance, putting them down saying they are “just superhero/fantasy movies”, make me so angry. I pity and scorn you, because you have no idea what you’re missing out on.

Just kidding, I don’t pity you.