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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Gloriously Geeky Equality

by Jamie Frevele | 4:59 pm, February 23rd, 2012


This piece, worn by Eric, an IT director, is an all-encompassing celebration of pride, equality, and tolerance — displayed in the nerdiest maner possible: binary. That portion reads as follows: “All men and women are created equal.” (via Fashionably Geek)

Once upon a time, Allie Brosh wrote her “Clean All the Things” comic. And then, Sam Spratt came along and painted a hyperrealistic version of that comic. And now we want to see hyperrealistic versions of ALL THE THINGS. (via Neatorama)

Being Elmo, the documentary about Kevin Clash and his career puppeteering Elmo, is available on Netflix streaming this very moment. (via Tough Pigs)

Related: The Museum of the Moving Image has extended its run for its Jim Henson exhibit, Jim Henson’s Fantastic World, until March 4! Go! You can see these guys there!

80s Tees is selling this Revolver-inspired Star Wars tee for people who love both Star Wars and the Beatles and want to see them make wonderful Jedi music together. (via Fashionably Geek)

Joshua Tyree has published a comprehensive piece on McSweeney’s on why, exactly, the trash compactor aboard the Death Star will not work:

The Death Star clearly has a garbage-disposal problem. Given its size and massive personnel, the amount of waste it generates — discarded food, broken equipment, excrement, and the like — boggles the imagination. That said, I just cannot fathom how an organization as ruthless and efficiently-run as the Empire would have signed off on such a dangerous, unsanitary, and shoddy garbage-disposal system as the one depicted in the movie.

The more you know …

  • After being denied the chance to testify in the birth control hearing last week — along with anyone who would actually be eligible to take birth control — Sandra Fluke, who had been scheduled to testify, but was rejected as a witness by the Republican-controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was given the chance to speak at an unofficial “hearing” that was run by four Democratic House Representatives including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and saw an audience of dozens of other women who wanted to have their say in the contraception debate. (via Huffington Post)
  • Breaking News: Some women enjoy wrestling! One of them writes about it at Girls Watch Wrestling, where she is currently discussing the state of the Divas Division of the WWE.

    • Rich Burlew draws “silly stick figures” for a living, and he’s very, very grateful that you like them. He graciously thanks all who have supported his Kickstarter campaign funding Order of the Stick, which has crossed the million-dollar threshold. (via Matter Anti-Matter)

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    • John Wao

      It’s unbelievable to me that women weren’t allowed to testify about birth control. SHEESH! WHAT IDIOCY!

    • Frodo Baggins

      Would they be called “The Rebals?”

    • http://www.cryptocatholic.com/ Father

      “After being denied the chance to testify in the birth control hearing last week — along with anyone who would actually be eligible to take birth control…”

      I hate to bring this up here, but I keep seeing this incorrect claim being repeated by those whose writings I love and it’s getting hard to let it go unanswered.

      There were, in fact, two women who testified at the hearing, Dr. Allison Garrett of Oklahoma Christian University and Dr. Laura Champion of Calvin College Health Services.

      Here is a picture:
      http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/yimcatholic/files/2012/02/Doctors_Garrett_Champion_Testify_HHS-Mandate.png

      Here is a video:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj1l8suFE68

      Here are the transcripts of their respective testimonies:
      http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Testimony/2-16-12_Full_HC_Mandate_Garrett.pdf
      http://oversight.house.gov/images/stories/Testimony/2-16-12_Full_HC_Mandate_Champion.pdf

    • http://www.cryptocatholic.com/ Father

      (They were allowed to testify.  See my comment below.)

    • http://www.facebook.com/1shewolf JoAnna Luffman

      Thank you. You’ve saved me a lot of time, Father.

    • Anonymous
    • E S

      Interesting piece on the state of the diva’s division, I remember my boyfriend actually lamented a while back that they used to be so much more competitive and relevant back in the day.

    • http://www.facebook.com/magstraz Maggie Straszewski

      thanks for for posting something about wrestling!

    • http://sixty-seven.tumblr.com/ Charlie Jensen

      That first tattoo is hilariously gender binary. So much for equality when you’re erasing and misgendering and participating in the institutionalized, systematic erasure and misgendering of millions of people who aren’t male or female.

      And tolerance is shitty. Nobody needs ~tolerance~, everyone needs ACCEPTANCE. They are not the same thing.

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/SirWinstoneChurchill Winston Blake

      In your unabridged Oxford Dictionaries, the word “faggotry” denotes the bundling of steel to be hammered or rolled together.

      Mammalian evolution is entirely heterosexual. 

      Monogamy is not required for evolution, monogamy is a tenet of religion.

      To prohibit polyandry and polygyny is an ecclesiastic rule of law.

      To establish an ecclesiastic standard of monogamy for homosexuals is nothing but RELIGIOUS FAGGOTRY.

    • Anonymous

      More cultural marxist BS.  Dysfunction is not equal.

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