The National Geographic Explorer we’re watching right now (“Lost Treasures of Afghanistan,” I think) is pretty amazing. The focus of the episode is on the possible recovery of a thousand-foot-long sleeping Buddha and the definite recovery of a cache of Bactrian tomb gold bigger than Tutankhamen’s. The smaller stories are what get to me, though. The librarians at the Afghan Film Archive handed over all their printed film to the Taliban to burn, but hid the negatives in a secret room behind a false wall. The curators of the art museum in Kabul knew that the depiction of living beings was forbidden, so they altered oil portraits to still lifes by painting watercolors on top; when the regime fell, they just wiped away the watercolor layers, and the originals were unharmed. Desperate genius.
Category: Discoveries
I think 360 is my new favorite song. If you understand why, you probably also understand why I like Modern Humor Authority so much.
Today is 03/04/05. It’s 3-4-5 Day! Bet that makes you think, huh? I bet you probably already missed 01/02/03. That’s something to regret, right there. Are you aware that this is the only 3-4-5 day you will ever see? You’ll be dead before the next one! You’re such a waste! Why don’t you THINK!
Happy 3-4-5 Day!
Hey, Centre survivors: want to see Beau Weston on CNN.com?
This particular takedown bait is mostly awesome for the fact that you can keep hitting refresh to get a random strip every time.
I will eat my words when I am thirty-eight
But man, they’re just… they’re just trying so hard.
I was going to write a drinking game drinking game, but, as with most of my ideas, somebody else had it first, repeatedly.
