Proof of semi-intelligent life on Mars
Looks like Mars is inhabited by a bunch of hippy stoners:
I guess we should have let Phish put music on the Mars lander instead of Blur.
Via The Planetary Society. Thanks to Lisa!
1 comment February 5th, 2008
Archive for February 5th, 2008
Parasite Pals - supremely weird kitsch
Feast your eyes on the sheer weirdness that is Parasite Pals Super Fun Site - a website devoted to one slightly unclean girl and her menagerie of loving parasites. Upon finding out that she has been inhabited by a headlouse, a tapeworm, an eyebrow eyelash mite and a bed bug, Holly refuses the doctor’s advice to bathe in pure TCP and instead decides to make friends with her new-found hijackers. As the site says:
“some irritation she finds with them, but much love and fun is to be shared!”
Quite. Aside from the general madness of marketing cutesy plush toys and stickers modelled on human parasites (hey, it’s not a new idea), the biology on display here is pretty appalling. I’m not going to be pedantic and point out that head lice don’t really use pneumatic drills. I am, however, going to point out that tapeworms do not live in your stomach, but in your intestinal tract. I’m also going to point out that bed bugs live in beds, not on humans, but Parasite Pals Super Fun Site is a little bit vague on where exactly Zzeezz the bed bug lives. I guess Holly should be happy she doesn’t have body louse too, what with their capacity to transmit trench fever. With friends like these, Holly will never need any other friends - and never have any either!
6 comments February 5th, 2008