Links posted in July 2007
July 31, 2007
20mph petrol-driven rollerblades.
I used to be someone else, but I traded him in. The day after Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, director of Blow-Up and The Passenger is dead at 94.
Freebase Crepes... Self explanatory, really.
The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group that originally came together as a an informal support group for problems that were the result of traumatic childhood experiences at petting zoos such as Lincolnsfield's Farmyard Funworld. [more inside]
Observations and research show that Bonobos are more than just "hippie chimps". This long article describes sex and tension, finger biting, and murder among these great apes.
Chirp Chirp It's Summer, it's hot, and I'm at the keyboard with all the windows open, listening to cricket sounds. On similar nights when I lived in Alabama, the night was filled with the din of tree frog calls. And as a kid in Chicago, I heard the Summer cicadas. What music scores the night in your neck of the woods?
July 30, 2007
Wedding Dance Videos Some people waltz at their first wedding. Some two-step. Others perform Thriller, maybe a little Michael Jackson. Or Dirty Dancing. Or breakdance. Or, my favorite, Ok Go. [more inside]
Fox News Special Report: O NOES HAX0RZ!!11! [more inside]
Seven riddles suggest a secret city beneath Tokyo - Why would there be secret tunnels under the streets of Tokyo? [more inside]
Checkmate. Ingmar Bergman dead at 89.
Saint-Denis a town in the Middle Ages.
Photoshop
is a powerful digital image manipulator. But with great power comes great responsibility.
A particularly egregious example.
Not quite the kiss of death. The good news? Paul Stanley is OK, folks. The bad news? Kiss without Paul Stanley Ain't Quite Right.
July 29, 2007
Alice In Wonderland a film by Cecil Hepworth, from 1903
Unless you're a Jew or Jesus Christ or something ...you probably piss off people with this type of bloody slag every day. Not nice words, ranked in order of not niceness.
The story behind the face on the bottle
The Return of Butthead the Pygmy Goat - A pygmy goat missing for almost a month has been returned to his owners. Butthead, three feet tall & full of piss & vinegar, lord of all he surveyed at Lincolnsfield's Farmyard Funworld, was reported stolen at the end of June when his emotionally fraught keepers found him suddenly not there, shockingly subtracted from his little jail. Now he's back, & all is right with the world. Thus the healing can begin.
Intel, improving your efficiency through racism? The men are supposed to be runners at the starting blocks but it still seems like someone would have said, "You know, having 6 black men kneeling in front of a white man might not be the best way to get out message across" before this saw print...
July 28, 2007
U.S. subpoenas Michael Moore. Federal officials may be planning to subpoena filmmaker Michael Moore seeking information about a trip he took to Cuba for his documentary, "Sicko," a source close to the situation said on Friday.
July 27, 2007
The Washlet is the Bathroom Fixture With One Fixation: Your Happiness- Warning, product site contains asses. Happy asses. [more inside]
Ever wonder, what the heck was that bug? Okay, so you turned on the lights in the bathroom this morning and there it was... so you picked up a handy slipper and smashed it but good. Then, you realized that you really would like to know what you just killed. [more inside]
Curious George: Any monkeys know of a rotating chair? [more inside]
July 26, 2007
Four endangered mountain gorillas were found shot dead inside a national park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
(Warning: graphic images of gorilla bodies).
What's wrong with people...
The Psychic Cat Of Death. One moggy you don't want to come and sit on your knee.
Mr Kern is mental. hee hee... (Flash Warning)
An interview with presidential candidate and naked performance artist Frank Moore.
A monkey versus a dog. Who would win in a fight? [Via ectoplasmosis.]
Oh, it's Monty Python. Here be - well, not dragons, tho certainly there must be some dragons - but here be 88 mini-films of Monty Python, clickable by thumbnail.
Can't post on Tracy's blog. When I try to enter the super-secret word, there's no box to do it in, and clicking around just takes me to the MetaChat link relating to Wendell's comment. Is anyone else having the same problem? (Vista, IE, no problem before.)
July 25, 2007
Just in case you wanted to see 207 million dollars in cash. I guess he was some kind of drug dealer. I couldn't stop looking at the picture. (Washington Post, may require registration)
Fat is contagious?
New York Times link. Registration required.
Satan's Taxicab San Francisco Taxi Medallion Number 666 has been causing problems for its owner. However his request to have his medallion number changed has been denied. [more inside]
In defense of dangerous ideas by Steven Pinker.
Curious George has a fool for a client? I got another speeding ticket today, with a "no insurance card" bonus. Anyone ever fight a ticket themselves? How'd you do it? [more inside]
July 24, 2007
Famous poems rewritten as limericks ... which they're having a ball with over on the blue. Have at it! [more inside]
A British view of computers (youtube). A British film about computers from 1969.
Space Winos - Alcohol in Star Trek [more inside]
Rice - it's not just for sushi.
Much speculation (see here for instance) that these are photoshopped. But apparently not.
"The motorcycle has always been a phallus substitute"
July 23, 2007
Haruo Suekichi, maker of Steampunk Watches
July 22, 2007
Mmmm .. STRING! Just loved Chapter Five, but Chapter Two and Chapter Three are pretty hot too.
The laugh out loud cats were a comic strip produced by Aloysious Koford from 1912 to 1913. It detailed the adventures of Meowlin Q. Kitteh and his sidekick pip, as they fled invisible cops, made stew (but ended up having eated it,) and discovered their own flavr.
July 21, 2007
"They're jealous -- it gives a great shower,"
100 Open Source Downloads and 100 Open Source Tools, Resources, and Template Sources.
Curious George: Sucking it up Hi, I am boring. My vacuum cleaner motor blew up and I can't abide a dirty floor, so I'm planning to buy a replacement tomorrow (#2 had a look at the motor but it's a cheapie designed to die after 5-7 years). We looked online at possible replacements but it's surprisingly difficult, because I am good at making things difficult. [more inside]
Norman Mailer vs. Rip Torn. In 1970, Norman Mailer directed and starred in a controversial film called Maidstone, which blurred the lines between fiction and reality -- especially the day after the shoot ended, when Rip Torn attacked Mailer with a hammer. (You can view the attack, and the fight that resulted -- which may or may not have been staged -- in the first link.)
July 20, 2007
It's official. Bush is a dictator.
US coup D'etat a reality. The White House has made the Constitutional Crisis official: the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges against an official invoking executive privilege -- even if it's blatantly illegal.
stolen directly from the Blue. Spiderwire's post
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The final days: the Mayan end of time. “A lot of people ask me if the world is going to end in 2012,” he said, “and I’ve come up with the best way to address that. The short answer is yes. The long answer is no.”
July 19, 2007
Amorous George: Monkeyfilter Original Bodice-Ripper OK, I’m really intrigued by the idea of writing a collaborative, round-robin bodice-ripper (romance novel) version of Hamlet as discussed in this thread. If nobody else is, I’ll ask Tracicle to eek this thread and we’ll never speak of it again. Or, you can just tease me mercilessly about it for the rest of my life. [more inside]
Dead whale found with its tongue swollen to the size of a small car
- with pic.
Not something you see every day.
July 18, 2007
Where's an egg? The enigmatic new game from homestar runner and Videlectrix
And you think your bed is uncomfortable?
This five-part video series from Balls Deep explores the sewers of Bogotá and the street "kids" who reside within them in order to evade death squads and social cleansing.
Via
[Flash, risqué clothing ad between clips, vbs.tv main site possibly NSFW due to snippets of nudity, YMMV, so on...]
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Dog fighting. "For too many top athletes and entertainers, this savage sport is outlaw cool."
July 17, 2007
Get these motherfucking neocons off this motherfucking boat!
Harry Potter and the Curse of Industry and Trade Minister Eli Yishai of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party [more inside]
Elephants never forget land mines.
New Yorker Monkeys Caption Contest You could actually enter, but it would probably be more fun to enter your caption in this thread.
Cruzin Cooler combines two basic necessities of life....
1. Compose cliche. 2. Post to blog. 3. Profit!
Joe Pesci with His Head On Fire.
Critics describe this YouTube video as the apex of human civilization. If Pauline Kael was alive, surely she would say, 'Joe Pesci's head is on fire'. There is no further point to striving for anything, this is as far as we can possibly go as a species.
YouTube, SFW(?), 1:39
July 16, 2007
What in the crap is this? Could some one tell me whet the crap this is and if I should be shutting my window at night? [more inside]
Iran arrests 14 squirrels for spying.
The Shiva Lingam at Amarnath, the huge ice phallus of the God Shiva worshipped by thousands of pilgrims every year, has melted totally.Over enthusiatic hugging? Or global warming? In the past there have been accusations of tampering ...
Primal (Wilhelm) Scream
youtube
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No @#&!, Sherlock: This Week in the Very Obvious.
July 14, 2007
The Los Angeles Times Homicide Blog "Jill Leovy strives to chronicle every homicide that occurs in L.A. County. Updated daily; comprehensive lists of victims are posted weekly." [more inside]
Akhenaten's Mummy finally found? - Akhenaten is one of the most mysterious figures in ancient history. A Pharaoh of Egypt circa 1350 BCE, likely father of Tutankhamen, he founded an early form of monotheism, abandoning or smothering the pantheon of traditional gods for worship of one god, Aten, so that he was known later as 'that heretic'. His end, & the location of his remains, have been a mystery... perhaps until now. [more inside]
Otaheite Apple – also called Malay Apple, got me interested in Jamaican fruit. It started here: In need of coc. The Purdue Horticulure Department tells you about it in Purdue horticulturish terms. . .it's also called Tahitian quince. [more inside]
July 13, 2007
Sushi! ...baby firefly squid (hotaru ika) in a sauce of Japanese mustard (karashi) with rape-blossom buds (nanohana). Then chopped raw toro topped with caviar. Then seared bonito (katsuo tataki) with crispy seaweed (ogo), woodland ginger and bamboo (myoga take), wasabi greens, and those little purple shiso flowers. Then steamed asari clams from Chiba in their broth. Then icefish (shirauo)—tiny, almost translucent fish with buggy little black eyeballs which can be had for only a few weeks in early spring—served in sizzling white-sesame oil with Kalamata-olive paste and sprigs of newly budded prickly-ash leaves (kinome). Then a hot pot of cherry trout (sakura masu), whose season also lasts only a few weeks in spring. And then, after the kaiseki overture, the sushi feast begins....
July 12, 2007
Man robs bank disguised as tree.
Anonymous George: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Naltrexone
I have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, and Ankylosing Spondylitis (in remission at the moment). My GP has suggested I try the medication, Naltrexone.
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Simplistic, noseless and mouthless, these bunnies called Tuzki have been hot on Chinese internet, particularly with QQ and MSN users, since the beginning of 2007. You may like them, or you may not.
Elephants run away from circus, head for suburbs. [more inside]
Perl Scripting with Windows Vista Speech Recognition
Them computers' all kinds of amazin'. Watch this YouT00b link of a guy writing perl code using the speech recognition of Windows Vista.
The end of keyboards??
Baby Jamz.
Hip-Hop nursery rhymes. Ideal for chillin' to in yo crib.
See what I did there?
30 free HTML email templates.
83 Top Webmaster Resources.
Best Apache .htaccess tips, tricks, hacks, and examples.
Webmaster tippery & programmery.
Scientology sleaze. Go ahead, be as glib as you want.
July 11, 2007
"Excessive Ovation Syndrome" Does EVERY performance deserve a standing ovation? This music critic does not seem to think so, and neither do I. I'm tired of being wrenched from my seat two or three times at the end of what might very well have been a totally adequate performance to offer my applause. The writer says he thinks it's just a way of justifying the outrageous ticket prices -- for that much money, it had better be SO-worthy.
Favorite Accoustic bar/cafe? Hey Monkeys! So it's mid-july already, which means it's time for musicians such as myself to start booking October and later. Which, as it turns out, is when I plan to begin my 2nd annual winter music tour. [more inside]
Curious George: I'm Loosing My Mind! Is it just me or is "loose" quickly replacing "lose" as the preferred spelling of the verb meaning "to be deprived of, or to cease to have or retain (something)"? [more inside]
Parallel Universes, Alien Religions and Carl Jung: An Interview With RealityCarnival's Clifford Pickover.
Off to the zoo!!
Monkeys like looking at the stars
shamelessly stolen outta the Blue
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Jack Handey's nature documentary. Show monkey in a tree. Narrator says, “The monkey, proud and smart, in his native habitat. But one thing he does not have . . .” Show a giraffe. “. . . is a long neck, like the giraffe. Which is why nature has allowed them to combine forces.” Show monkey on giraffe’s neck. (Note: Monkey may have to be tied on.)
July 10, 2007
Desktop Tower Defense!
OMG! Little... things... are invading your desktop! How can you defend yourself? The answer is towers!
Flash Tuesday.
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Williams syndrome. The low I.Q., however, ignores two traits that define Williams more distinctly than do its deficits: an exuberant gregariousness and near-normal language skills. Williams people talk a lot, and they talk with pretty much anyone. They appear to truly lack social fear. Indeed, functional brain scans have shown that the brain’s main fear processor, the amygdala, which in most of us shows heightened activity when we see angry or worried faces, shows no reaction when a person with Williams views such faces. It’s as if they see all faces as friendly. (From the NYT Magazine.) (Be sure to check out the embedded video.)
Curious birthday George Tracicle's birthday is July 27. [more inside]
July 09, 2007
Biggest Bottom Evar
I just gotta have more bass!</walken>
YouTube video.via.
Yes, you can has a cheeseburger
Exhibition of William Heath Robinson cartoons. Rube Goldberg has been covered here, and has inspired many people to create their own versions for fun and profit. Games have been inspired by him, and games have been used to create virtual Rube Goldberg machines. [more inside]
Wireless Taser - coming soon to a protest near you.
More Sex Is Safer Sex : The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics. By Steven E. Landsburg. [more inside]
The Retro Encabulator
or the Turbo Encabulator
Order one today.
For all your various Encabulator needs.
HBO Voyeur - what sordid secrets lurk behind closed doors? (Some bits may be NSFW if you have a huge fresnel lens on your monitor.) Via Ample Sanity.
July 08, 2007
Curious George: Sooo, is there anyway I could play a song thru YouTube and record it somehow on my hard drive? I'm trying to learn the words and hold the key. I'm not trying to rip anybody off, but this piece is right for my (bad) voice. I can't carry a tune, but I haz a buckit!
“Founding + Fathers + Roleplay + Harness” yes I know GareP has been posted before, but it was years and years ago, and not very much on the internet ABOUT the internet makes me laugh out loud anymore (except those proposals of life-in-prison for file sharing) but this did
The 7 Wonders of the modern World have been chosen A private intitiative by the New7Wonders Foundation has encouraged the public to vote on the successors to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes. Next up, the New7Wonders of Nature! [more inside]
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. ...a 100-minute shot-for-shot amateur-video remake of the 1981 Spielberg-Lucas adventure flick, created over a span of seven years by a group of kids in small-town Reagan-era Mississippi...Filled with ingenious contraptions and overweening jerry-rigs, The Adaptation remakes Raiders on less than 1/2,000th of Paramount's original $20 million budget, conjuring exotic locales out of cardboard sets in parents' basements, casting tweens in Boy Scout uniforms as Nazi bad guys, and rolling a gigantic hand-crafted boulder through the family garage to create the film's signature scene. See footage here.
MY HERO This "Chap" is just "maaahrrvellous", in the best possible taste of course. Any links featured will lead you to the best laugh for the day.
The Artwork of Luke Brown. [Via Technoccult.]
July 07, 2007
The candy blog can, cause she mixes it with love and makes the world taste good. A blog. About candy. That is all. May cause hunger and/or sugar cravings.
Bankrupt MickeyD's! An evil, evil game.
Striking perspective shift illusion (possibly NSFW, and apparently hosted by a sex toy site). Via MindHacks, which has more background on the effect. [more inside]
The Cramps: Live at Napa State Mental Hospital.
As the first song fades, the lead singer, Lux Interior, addresses the crowd: "We're The Cramps, and we're from New York City and we drove 3,000 miles to play for you people."
"Fuck you!" a patient yells back.
Video here.
July 06, 2007
Viruses Got You Down?
A flamethrower and a couple of machine guns should do the trick.
Flash Friday.
The REAL Springfield. The Simpsons Movie needs a town to host the premiere, and what better town than Springfield? But WHICH ONE? (Flash) [more inside]
Soprano Beverly Sills Passes Away at 78
American soprano Beverly Sills brought opera down to earth for Americans of the TV generation, worked for children's charities, and, a native New Yorker, directed the New York City opera and chaired the Metropolitan Opera and Linclon Center. She made her singing debut in a laundry soap commercial at the age of 8. She was the devoted mother of two disabled children and the spiritual mother of a whole generation of American singers.
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New Species of Electric Ray (fish) named after Vacuum Cleaner
& other news of an electric kind concerning Robot Cops in extended.
South African scientists have discovered a new genus and species of an attractively patterned electric ray and named it Electrolux.
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I built my first windmill when I was 15.
stolen from letitrain right outta the Blue
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Twitter. Does anyone do this? Is this the most ridiculous social network ever? [more inside]
July 05, 2007
Surrealist, critic, bohemian bon viveur and jazzman George Melly is no more.
July 04, 2007
Daniel Greenberg taught a group of students of different ages six years' worth of arithmetic in 20 one-hour sessions. It's an example of the learning style at Sudbury Valley School, MA, and Mountain Laurel Sudbury School, CT. The schools are democratic: staff and students vote on everything from curriculum to clothing to hiring and firing. There are no exams and no grades.
Mr. Randolph's big break came after he sent a tape of "Yakety Sax" to Chet Atkins, then the head of RCA Records in Nashville. Atkins liked what he heard and hired Mr. Randolph to do session work for such artists as Perry Como and Homer & Jethro.
Top 10 Canadian political scandals. Searching for Charlie the Tuna to post in this thread reminded me of the 1985 Tunagate scandal, one of the reasons why I still won't eat Starkist tuna. It ranks as one of the top 10 Canadian political scandals on the CBC list above, but is also included on wikipedia's more complete list. The Munisinger Affair is one of the more fun ones. [more inside]
Mean Kid Will Ferrell's little daughter is mean. Mean, I tell you. (Embedded videos)
Suicide Food Is Not Funny.
What is Suicide Food? Suicide Food is any depiction of animals that act as though they wish to be consumed. Suicide Food actively participates in or celebrates its own demise. Suicide Food identifies with the oppressor. Suicide Food is a bellwether of our decadent society. Suicide Food says, “Hey! Come on! Eating meat is without any ethical ramifications!" Suicide Food is not funny.
A Different Type of Periodical Table
Just in time for the Fourth of July and summertime grilling--Table of Condiments That Periodically Go Bad!
As a note, we did not write the above table. We stole it from some weird day planner we saw somewhere back in 1997. We're not trying to get credit that's not ours. It was more of a tribute. Really.
It appeared in a mock calendar diary for 1997 and was produced by Potlatch (the paper company) under the title "365 Ben Days." The concept and design was by Dana Arnett, Ken Fox, Fletcher Martin and John Naresky of VSA Partners, Chicago.
The BBC's Alan Johnston freed,
after 16 weeks in captivity in Gaza.
Iglesia Maradoniana. Tired of Catholic Guilt? Finding the C of E old and busted? Judaism conflicting with your love of bacon? Then join the Church of Maradona -- hey, people have worshippped worse than the second-greatest player EVA (or third -- I'm perfectly willing to substitute Cruijff instead even if he did play for Ajax...).
July 03, 2007
Chim-chim reportedly bites somebody, catches a beating on set of Speed Racer. PETA on alert, Shaft called in to set things right.
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July 02, 2007
ToM is Dead, Welcome to Ectomo.com.
What happened before the Big Bang?
Lancet study of Near Death Experiences - A prospective study of NDEs published in Lancet is worth reading. Link goes to blog post, here's the PDF link to the study. [more inside]
