Links posted in August 2008
August 31, 2008
Gustav's headed for New Orleans An aggregation of all sorts of news, images and other information about the storm. I hope all N.O. monkeys and their families and loved ones are safely out of the area already, or well on their way. [more inside]
Dog on a Trampoline plus bonus Laughing Monkey with every order. Both YouTube [more inside]
Booms! 'splosions! Bangs!
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Enjoy 50 levels of gamey goodness.
stolen from BlueFilter
August 30, 2008
Seek the Six
"We want information."
"You won't get it."
"By hook or by crook, we will."
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Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes
The magnificant Krak des Chevaliers
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or Qal'at al-Ḥiṣn
Krak des Chevaliers was the headquarters of the Knights Hospitallers during the Crusades. The inner curtain wall is up to 100 feet thick at the base on the south side, with seven guard towers 30 feet in diameter.
These are stones that did the work of men
Recognize the label?
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August 29, 2008
Wing of Bat, and Mouse's Leg. "Deciphering how a paw becomes a wing confirms some of eco-devo's basic hypotheses."
Behind the Dude: Steve Buscemi on "The Big Lebowski"
"I don't know how big this is but there's this new theory that Donny is just a figment of Walter's imagination. Like he's an old army buddy that had died or something. It almost works. There's the "your phone is ringin', Dude" "thanks, Donny?" [exchange]. But that's the only acknowledgement that the Dude makes of Donny. If you watch those scenes, it's like Donny would come in, Walter gets so upset and it's like the Dude never hears it."
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Sarah Palin is McCain's VP pick. She's the current governor of Alaska.
August 28, 2008
Complaint for Injunctive and Other Relief from "The Mutant Chronicles"
Crucified frog Pisses Off Pope but Italian museum refuses to take it down.
Africa is giving nothing to anyone--apart from AIDS. Discuss.
Ever wanted to do a artic polar circumnavigation? This is your year.
Nearly 40 years after releasing his first album, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez gets his due. Idolized in South Africa, and presumed dead, the "Sugarman" has come back from the dead. [more inside]
Naval Museum Too Authentic Roger the Cabin Boy unavailable for comment.
Using Lego to patch up ancient buildings around Rome. It's art, y'see.
I Left My Star Destroyer in San Francisco Amateur video of a Death Star over San Francisco. Shot on his junkie DV camera. [via]
August 27, 2008
9 amazingly unique bridges you may not have seen
Got Firefox 3? Install Ubiquity. Now. It's a 0.1 alpha Firefox 3 extension that gives you an interactive command line for browsing and altering and mashing up web pages and it is very, very good. Watch the video, then test drive for yourself. Oh, yes.
Shorpy.com is a photoblog featuring high-definition images from the first half of the 20th century.
August 26, 2008
Curious, George Washington FDR Jefferson? I got a CD in the mail by a man running for president who calls himself "George Washington FDR Jefferson," and I need your encouragement that looking at it is worth the possible risk to my PC. [more inside]
Co-author of 100 Things To Do Before You Die dies at 47.
Brazilian Social Photography of Tatiana Cardeal.
Cavalcade of Bad Nativity Scenes Ever looked at your church's nativity scene and thought it could use a little sprucing up? Well, these folks did. [more inside]
August 25, 2008
Game Theory in The Dark Knight: A Critical Review of the Opening Scene (Spoilers) [more inside]
Italian priest to organize 'beauty contest' for nuns.
August 24, 2008
If you are under 40, you probably won't get this. god, I wish I didn't get this.
Felis silvestris grampia
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Meet the Scottish Wildcat
Rare, endangered, wild, and incredibly beautiful.
Perhaps we can save them before it's too late.
But is there one cat or two?
The Kellas Cat
More from the Scottish Wildcat Association
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August 23, 2008
It's Biden. Obama selects his VP. Discuss.
The Worst Vice Presidents (US Edition)! While we wait for Obama's announcement of his running mate, Time Magazine offers this slideshow of the worst VPs in American history. [more inside]
August 22, 2008
Who Is Melvyn Kohn?
Maybe your lost masterpiece is here. Hands up!
The Galleries.
Filched from ANIMAL.
PoliticalFilter "is an open community weblog designed exclusively for political posts and commentary. This site is based loosely on MetaFilter (though not officially related to it), and takes the same community approach to weblogging: Anyone, regardless of political affiliation, can sign up for an account at PoliticalFilter and then make blog posts on political subjects or comment on other blog posts." [more inside]
Hinterland Who's Who: The Beaver. The Moose. The Swift Fox. The Burrowing Owl. The Muskox. [more inside]
August 21, 2008
Discovered - The snails that hid from history. "For the past 110 years, a colony of snails has managed to crawl unnoticed from an imported stone balustrade brought from Italy in the 1890s, to claim a piece of British territory up to the terrace of the house just 27m (88ft) away." [Via]
The world's tallest skyscraper is nearly completed. High-res photos taken from above that could possibly take your breath away.
Cambodian Midget Fighting League? Who knew?
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Is it me, or is the world getting weirder?
August 20, 2008
MONKEY ON TEH LOOSE!!!
In Shibuya station in Tokyo.
Gomichild unavailable for comment. pilfered languorously from el gniob gniob
Missing: turtle with two heads. Found: fish with two mouths.
Meet the Furcifer labordi chameleon. He'll be dead within the year.
August 19, 2008
Movie Poster Fonts:
Can you guess the movie from a single letter from its poster? I only got 7/46. Surely you cinephile and typesetter Monkeys can do better!
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Oktapodi! (YT) Cute animation about an octopus' fight to save his beloved from deep frying. Lots more info here. Made by Frenchy students from GOBELINS, l'école de l'image.
She's not real. The uncanny valley just got scarier. Compare her with this (YT) from just a couple of years ago. [more inside]
BASEL GANGLIONS? What's under doc?
An archive of gay paperback artwork from the 50's and 60's
A Swiss gourmet - who was on a world tour of Michelin three-starred restaurants when he mysteriously disappeared before paying the bill at El Bulli - has just been spotted in Geneva.
La vie des animaux selon les hommes. [Via]
August 18, 2008
Map of Olympic Medals shows a geographic representation of medals won for every Olympic Games since 1896.
Mild air pollution may be worse than smoking! New research presented today at the American Chemical Society meeting in Philadelphia, implicates free radicals that attach to particles from smokestacks, car exhaust pipes and household chimneys for the rise in lung cancer. Apologists rush to claim more proof is needed, but the new findings could open the door for massive litigation. [more inside]
The Empire grants some shore leave. Star Wars invades San Francisco in this fan film. More about this on the Official Star Wars blog.
Outback mayor seeks "ugly duckling" women. With a ratio of men to women at five to one, the mayor of Mount Isa makes a plea for "beauty-disadvantaged women" to move to his fair town.
The Stupidest Fucking Spacecraft Landing Idea Yet:
the "Pit Stop".
This article proposes an unusual way to land objects from orbit and probes returning from deep space. In this concept, the landing capsule, carefully steered by GPS in its plunge to earth, would aim for the opening of a deep vertical shaft set into the ground. The capsule would dive into this hole while still falling at terminal velocity. Yeah. That'll work.
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Researchers Discover New States Of Electrons That Behave Like Light
August 17, 2008
Banana Derby is fun for all the kids. The Banana Derby has always been a popular feature within the Fair Industry. You can't go wrong spicing up your Fair or Festival with the Banana Derby. America's Favorite Monkey Jockeys are always Media and Sponsor Friendly, and the Unique nature of the Banana Derby always provides Publicity! There is not a more cost effective way to give your Patrons a little extra for their paid admission to the grounds.
Animal portraits by Andrew Zuckerman
August 16, 2008
The Batman trailer, starring children
Putin's Blog: "Whoops! I accidentally started a war." See also Christopher Walken: "I warned you, Bigfoot"; John McCain: "Oh yeah, well I've met with important leaders too"; and Bill O'Reilly: "Look, I'm only going to play the Jesse Jackson clip five more times and that's it". All part of the fun at NewsGroper.
Texas School District to Allow Teachers to Carry Guns "When the federal government started making schools gun-free zones, that's when all of these shootings started. Why would you put it out there that a group of people can't defend themselves? That's like saying 'sic 'em' to a dog."
August 15, 2008
Curious George and his Ethnic Porn Collection. Today's announcement that Canada's new porn channel will feature 50% Canadian content, as American porn is 'tiring', leads to the inevitable question -- what makes 'Canadian porn'? What are the hallmarks of your country's porn? What are the traits of some other country's porn? [more inside]
Name That Disease! What do you win? A queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach! [more inside]
Friday Fun: BIGFOOT! Press conference at 12:00 noon PDT today, where "evidence" and "DNA details" of Bigfoot's existence will supposedly be "revealed".
Vintage Postcards - at Flickr [more inside]
Slow Motion Lightening
. Wowsome.
Stolen from this week's B3TA newsletter.
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes - A five part documentary from Jon Ronson. Looking through hundreds of archive boxes that Kubrick left behind.
August 14, 2008
Rise of the rat-brained robots. [Via]
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea... Canada will launch an expedition to find the Erebus and Terror, the ships of doomed Arctic explorer and folk hero Sir John Franklin.
August 13, 2008
Rocky Horror Picture Show remake imminent. at the hands of MTV. Fans are up in velvet-gloved arms; bloggers wax sardonic amid rumours of Marilyn Manson in the Tim Curry role. Surely we monkeys could cast it better than this? Whom do you deem worthy to wear the basque?
Executed Today offers "each day the story of an historical execution that took place on this date, and the story behind it."
3,739 songs ripped from Vinyl to MP3
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"The following is a list titles recorded from my collection of 78 rpm records. All of them are linked to MP3 files and will play what was recorded. No sound enhancement, just what was recorded. Right now, there are 3,739 titles on this page linked to mp3s."
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August 12, 2008
I Don't Even Know. No, I serious this times! Be the one true answer for teh winnings!
Michael Phelps' victory dance is innate, scientists say. "Such a display of human pride and exuberance closely resembles the dominance displays of chimps and monkeys, which also feature outstretched arms and exaggerated postures, researchers say."
Curious George the ebay n00b. Right. I've never done the ebay thing -- never made a purchase, have no account. There are a couple items I need to pick up which I have never come across on my travels, but regularly appear on ebay. How do I go about this? What tips can you pass along, so that this n00b doesn't get totally burned?
August 11, 2008
Are you a slacker perv sicko with a skeleton in your cupboard?
Yeah, me too. Apparently we all are, so don't worry about it. Typically Twisted from Psychology Today.
via
August 10, 2008
Now it's Isaac Hayes Found dead in his home this morning. Ugh! What a great singer/songwriter he was. And his contributions to South Park will always be legendary.
Cyrus Khamak's Macro Photography
snarfled from everlasting blort
August 09, 2008
Bernie Mac dead at 50. Damn.
You’re Bored, but Your Brain Is Tuned In. [Via]
August 08, 2008
eight-eight-oh-eight ∞-∞-∞ [more inside]
The Sh** Box. Well, it does what it says on the box. The ultimate in portable toilets. Almost definitely NSFW. Great corporate mascot, though.
BabyPictureFilter Who's got the cutest baby pics? Of yourself? Of your kids? Of some other relative? That you found randomly? POST 'EM!!!! [more inside]
Popcorn Cats
- possibly nsfw but I have no idea
Via Blort
August 07, 2008
Cake wrecks: professional cake decorating gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Timeline of Internet Memes: Your favorites? Did they miss any?
Molecules with attitude. Really big virus gets infected by much smaller virus.
Curious George softly weeps. The beeb asks men: what makes you cry? On the list, vasectomies and Johnny's video for "Hurt". Monkeys of the male persuasion, what makes you blame the ol' hay fever?
The 5 Greatest Things Ever Accomplished While High.
August 06, 2008
Terra autonomica and the plug-and-play brain.
The temple of tame tigers. [Via]
125,000 GORILLAS. Primate news for primates. Good news for the day.
Paris Hilton is your newest celebrity President. In response to McCain's comparison of Obama to Paris Hilton, Paris is running for President.
August 05, 2008
Curious George: See rocket run! Run, rocket, run! I've given myself seven weeks to train for a 5K. [more inside]
Circuit City Worries- Here's the rundown: Hilarious Mad Magazine satirizes Circuit City as "Sucker City" (get it?! SUCKER City), officials at Circuit City get their proverbial unmentionables in a proverbial wad and order the magazine pulled from their shelves and destroyed, then gets embarrassed and reinstates the magazine and apologizes to Mad. [more inside]
Curious Complimentary George. What are some of your favourite MoFi comments? What did you think was funny and/or clever at the time, but you might not have said so? [more inside]
GOMI Style: A DIY Lifestyle and Design Series for the Post Consumer. [Via GRINDING]
August 04, 2008
This, or keeping $600 in my wallet? Such a hard decision! I am such a sucker for technically-engineered natural minerals!
19th-century ghost scrolls. [Via]
The Dark Knight- Joker Interrogation Scene - YouTube
The Mary Rose, or la Maria Rosa? The crew of the famous ship might not have been English, but Spanish. Feel free to indulge in some 16th century conspiracy theories. Tin-foil morion not included.
Solzhenitsyn dead at 89. [more inside]
August 03, 2008
Christmas in July August Hell
Rockabye Christmas is a holiday tribute record consisting of twelve Christmas favorites presented via the sound of screaming infants (a.k.a. the Jingle Babies).
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Do you remember the story about Dinosaur soft tissue being found miraculously preserved in fossil material? Well, new research suggests that the material is just Biofilm - slime deposited relatively recently by bacteria.
Beaker!!! I miss the Muppet Show.
August 02, 2008
Summer of the Bagworm: In which one man wages a scorched-earth campaign to defend three measly trees.
Chick in pen and ink - one hour per day, one drawing. Chicken! bit ominous that the last portrait is a Christmas chicken...
Effects of Alzheimer's Disease slowed by new medication One underlying cause of Alzheimer's is believed to be excess tau protein in neurons, which slows or halts communication in the brain. This medication, used for urinary tract infections, targets the protein tangles. (It also turns your pee blue.) Currently in testing, it will hopefully be on the market in 2012/13 for those of us that might need it by then. [more inside]
August 01, 2008
Strangers + Centenarian + Books = Good Warm Feeling. This is a nice little story about a 100-year old woman, her love of books and how a bunch of strangers turned into friends.
FreakFridayFilter: On the Busses. News for a slow work-day: a beheading on a bus by a cannibal with a possible taste for carny flesh. Enjoy!
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books - So many wonderful things.
Once you look, you can't look away. [more inside]
A silly site, full of fun stuff. Worthy of you, GramMa! This photo changed my life.
