Links posted in December 2007
December 31, 2007
Paleo-Future: A look into the future that never was. [Via linkfilter.]
Curious George - New Years Traditions and Resolutions?
Happy New Year Monkeys! I am cooking up a big pot of black eyed peas and collard greens for luck and prosperity in the new year. And for resolutions am pledging to drink less, do a better job of marketing myself, get more consulting jobs and, *gulp*, make more money.
What sort of interesting cultural/personal rituals are you performing (besides getting smashed tonight) and if you don't mind sharing, what are your resolutions?
TV FUNHOUSE
Videos. Some NSFW. Most are offensive. Enjoy!
Big Boobed Einstein
The Ambiguously Gay Duo - Trouble Coming Twice
Ambiguously Gay Duo: Safety Tips
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December 30, 2007
The Eyes Will Eat You! (Sorry, photoshop thread)
Is this the most beautiful bookstore in the world?
The Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen, Maastricht opened its doors in November. Located in the city's old Dominican church - which for years had been used as a bicycle parking garage - the building has been extensively redesigned by Dutch architects Merkx + Girod. From the images you can find on the web you can see that it is a bookshop made in heaven. Many books in English too.
stolen word for word, outta the Blue, directly from MrMerlot
I don't think so. What do you think?
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December 29, 2007
Human waste of Ohio! That's 'Oh, shit' to Korean and back. The site BlahblahFish is a quick and easy way of discovering these flubs and sharing them for our collective amusement. There are some good ones!
Medieval Cookery. In addition to recipes, site includes a few oddities, a fine set of links to online Medieval cookbooks, and a Medieval cookery word of the day. [more inside]
"I ENJOY FART" says Dr. Michael Levitt, the American gastroenterologist who has unraveled much of what is known about human fartulence. Levitt is a gas guru, prodigy of poots, high priest of hole flappage, the seer of stinkburgers. What this man doesn't know about toilet tunes could be written in brown on the bottom of your undies. [more inside]
Traveling with lithium batteries There are several posts in the usual places about new regulations that control traveling with lithium metal and lithium-ion batteries. I think they spring from a poorly sourced AP story. Both the DOT and TSA sites do not seem really change what even the most tech laden traveler will have to plan for unless you check your batteries or carry some very heavy duty Li-ions. These rules are effective January 1, 2008, I will be interested what if anything happens to the traveling monkeys in the group. [more inside]
December 28, 2007
Netscape Navigator no more AOL's killing off the original king of the browsers. Why does that make me feel so old?
Surprise Finds at Egypt Temple "Change Everything"
"Archaeologists are particularly intrigued by the discovery of the embankment wall, which they say is the first evidence that the Nile once ran alongside the temple."
Some outsider Egyptologists have theorised that the Egyptians used the Nile, diverted and dammed, as a means to construct the huge buildings including the Pyramids, structures which still have many unanswered questions about their engineering. Could this be another piece in the puzzle?
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December 27, 2007
Benazir Bhutto Assassinated
- Bhutto killed by rally suicide bomb and more.
Benazir Bhutto at Wikipedia.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. A couple of photo-essays, with sound, from Magnum.
December 26, 2007
The Bloody Olive - YouTube
Japanese Sound effects and what they mean
December 25, 2007
M.O.N.K.E.Y.#. E.I.G.H.T. Massively over-liquored nog keeps everyone yakking. [more inside]
December 24, 2007
The National Film Challenge is a contest in which aspiring filmmakers are given a prop, a line of dialog, a genre, and forty-eight hours to make a short film. The entry deadline passed in October, and the fifteen finalists have been selected. Now you get to watch and vote for your favorite in the "Audience Award" winner. Enjoy! [more inside]
The Naughty Truthiness of Christmas The consumerism of the baby Jesus, and the politics of "The Night Before Christmas". All in one tidy place.
Reindeer Pate - you know you deserve it.
Bad fat man You won't be getting anything from this Santa!
December 23, 2007
The 2ueen of teh Intarwebs
The Royals now have their own YouTube channel, and this year, for the first time, the Queen's Christmas Message will be broadcast online as well as on TV.
CAUTION!!!!!!! Possible YouTube link!
Sandia supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster - Smaller asteroids may pose greater danger than previously believed. Holy fucking shit-bags!
Christmas with the Sproutifarts - FLASH game. LOUD FARTING.
December 22, 2007
Fresh optimism in Turkmenistan A year after the death of Saparmurat Niyazov, "Here we have peace, we have stability and we know what will happen tomorrow." [more inside]
Mitt Romney, chronic exaggerator. ('Tis the season to be euphemistic.)
December 21, 2007
Oh Noes! Sascha Baron Cohen is killing off Borat and Ali G. Do you think it's better to leave 'em wanting more? Or milk it for every drop it's worth until you're an embarrassment like Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean.
Color of the year: No. 18-3943.
Curious George: running down the clock. Right. So it's the last work day before Christmas (assuming you're not in a Vietnamese sweatshop or something), and MoFi's closed on the weekend, so here's your opportunity to shoutout to all your fellow simians, and wish them a happy holidays! (Oh, and a token Christmas link, to boot.) [more inside]
A wee bit o'holiday merriment. Some of the images are a bit hard on the eyes, but otherwise, this is my humble way of wishing everyone jolly holidays, regardless of what it is you're celebrating. Happy Solstice, one and all! [more inside]
December 20, 2007
Robert Kraft
has never been on an airplane. He avoids elevators at all costs, lest he get stuck in one. He refuses to leave Miami's South Beach - save for a doctor's appointment or an occasional Marlins game.
And he hasn't missed his daily run since Jan. 1, 1975.
Robert Kraft is a Streak Runner.
The Great Unanswered.
What questions did Slate's explainer decide not to handle this year? And how many can be answered right here on Mofi?
The follow-up to last year.
December 19, 2007
Home-built Three Dimensional Fabricator - one of those things you can print objects with, if you will. The medium of choice? Sugar.
30 Years of LucasFilm Christmas Cards - Seasonal kitsch.
December 18, 2007
3 guys, 3 bikes, 3 miles, 1 insane descent.
They are Bent...and so is the mountain.
Bent Mountain, Va., is the cabbage capital of the Blue Ridge. It's a 6-mile climb up the gorgeous Blue Ridge Parkway from the city of Roanoke. But there's a faster and much steeper way back to town that's favored by certain crazy roadies, including one who could use a mansiere. (video)
Seasons greetings! Mommy, what is that lady doing to Santa?
Peter Jackson & New Line WILL make The Hobbit
Curious George: threesomes. What are the top three serious things and the top three idiotic things you wouldn't have never, ever knowed about if it weren't for those gosh darn intertubes? What has all of this time wasting actually yielded? Make 'em linkys if you like. Or not. [more inside]
Maxim's Ten Best Sidekicks Honoring the Second Banana [more inside]
galaxy strikes neighboring galaxy with a blast from its hole [more inside]
The making of Saturday Night Fever. In 1976, producer Robert Stigwood placed a million-dollar bet on a young TV star, signing John Travolta to a three-movie deal. First up, a low-budget production based on a New York magazine article about disco-crazy Italian-American kids in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: Saturday Night Fever. From Travolta's famous "Stayin' Alive" strut to the mid-filming death of his girlfriend, to three harrowing nights on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, SAM KASHNER has the story of a culture-bending hit, whose music–by a revitalized 60s band called the Bee Gees–became the best-selling soundtrack of its time.
December 17, 2007
Death Penalty Repealed In New Jersey [more inside]
Caruso, Melba to release new recordings, overcoming obstacle of being dead. Time capsules buried in the basement of the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris, and containing recordings of the two giants, are about to be opened up and made available to the public.
New species of Hideously Ugly Giant Rat
found in 'lost world' jungle.
"The giant rat is about five times the size of a typical city rat," said Kristofer Helgen, a scientist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. "With no fear of humans, it apparently came into the camp several times during the trip."
Also they found some other less awesome animals, too.
Who Speaks For Earth? The Active v Passive debate in the SETI community. And do we really want to attract the attention of advanced alien civilizations? [more inside]
The California Golden Overtones. UC-Berkeley all-female a capella group. (YouTube links, or pages with embedded YouTube vids, follow.) Take It to the Limit. In the Still of the Night. Big Yellow Taxi. I Can See Clearly Now.
December 16, 2007
Irishman hits on 'cure' for psoriasis - the cure consists of ten pints of Guinness and a dunk in the Liffey.
Gamer Jargon Becomes Word Of The Year A word widely used among online gamers has topped an online poll for Word of the Year run by US publishing group Merriam Webster.
The Whale Hunt
- more than three thousand photos taken at five minute intervals over a period of nine days, documenting a northern Alaskan community's annual Bowhead harvest. Interesting interface.
Via DIMMN, by way of Haddock.
learning to love you more is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. [more inside]
December 15, 2007
John Zorn's Masada. John Zorn is a musician and "genius" who's long been part of New York's "downtown music" scene, which is associated with venues like the Knitting Factory. Among his focuses in recent years is Masada, a jazz project whose CDs are released by Zorn's label Tzadik as part of its Radical Jewish Culture series. YouTube links: Gevurah. Karaim. Paran.
A slice of something from 1998.
It first showed up here, but it didn't get truly considered. Here is the new fUSION Anomaly. It's all about code and butterflies, Tech Nique, Synaptic Ether, and Entities, and shit.
Here's where the web is 1975.
December 14, 2007
Curious George: Washington, DC Meetup on Tuesday the 18th of December? [more inside]
Gordo the Barosaurus, standing tall once more. A little photo essay about how a giant Barosaurus was prepared for exhibition in the new digs of the ROM, after being rediscovered in the basement. Only the second one to go on display.
move over dogs in shawls, here's bears in hats
Por for girls, by girls. SO degrading for men. (SFW)
Woman catches fire during hemorrhoid operation
The prehistoric version of middleclasstool's workshop has been found.
Before the end of the last ice age, a hunter-gatherer left a bag of tools near the wall of a roundhouse residence, where archaeologists have now found the collection 14,000 years later.(Note: ancient overalls were not found.)
Hitler's English Love Child He knocked up Nazi nob Unity Mitford, who then spawned. Maybe
The Lives They Left Behind - a haunting examination of suitcases and trunks found in the attic of an abandoned psychiatric center. [more inside]
Kucinich booted from Iowa debate. The Des Moines Register informed the campaign that Kucinich is not invited because the newspaper determined “that a person working out of his home did not meet our criteria for a campaign office and full-time paid staff in Iowa.” Once again, credit to the H Dogg.
December 13, 2007
Videogaiden The BBC's computer games show, now on the internet. From the people who brought us Consolevania, which is probably the best video games show ever made [more inside]
Cooties PSA. I thought this was amusing, having been obsessed with not catching boy cooties in the 4th grade. But I'd never heard the cooties innoculation chant until today! We just used invisible cootie spray. What were your playground cootie or other rhymes and chants, and where did you live at that time? (I was in Dayton, Ohio.)
'Embuggerance': British humorist Terry Pratchett, 59, diagnosed with "rare form of early onset Alzheimer's." [more inside]
Binocular Soccer. A new Olympic sport? Should be! Another product of Takeshi Kitano's comic genius.
That should be errata. Northern Exposed regrets the error. One million murders in Detroit. 40-45 pounds of shrimp. Dewey beats Truman. And more!
A tough-guy's Christmas Story (part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5). [more inside]
Who ate all the pies?
Um...me!
Dog nearly ruins fat blert's chances.
Buy less crap this year. Please! Nothing here that won't be familiar to most MoFians but it doesn't hurt to have a timely seasonal reminder that our profligate lifestyle's days are necessarily numbered. (Flash Animation) [more inside]
Ike Turner 1931-2007.
The man who wrote the first rock and roll song has died at his home in San Diego.
December 12, 2007
The comic genius of Tina Fey. A nice little well-linked essay on Tina Fey, and why 30 Rock is the best show on TV right now (despite our earlier predictions)
JELLY ROLL It must be .. (?) .. coz Jelly don't wobble like that!
December 11, 2007
How to pose. Not much else to say really. I'll let you monkeys do the clever commentary on this one.
On U.S. presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. From a link posted by the ever-vigilant thread updater H Dawg in the Giuliani thread.
"...sometimes the cabin gets airborne and comes down with a thump..." Justin Jones and James Castrission are about midway through a trans-Tasman kayak journey, hoping to be the first to kayak from Australia to New Zealand. They left Forster, north of Sydney, on November 13 in a heavily modified kayak with cabin large enough to sleep the paddlers top-and-tail, and with plenty of computer hardware for nav tracking and communication. However, their tall, square cabin is causing them to move backwards at about 1km/hour in head winds. Whatever: we here in NZ are just hoping they stay alive. [more inside]
This may be the most awesomest music video evar. [more inside]
December 10, 2007
Donald Trump Leaves $10,000 Tip Donald Trump tipped a waiter $10,000. Derober has a copy of the receipt from The Buffalo Club in Santa Monica, CA where the Trump left a hefty tip on a $82 bill.
Listening to film. "If the first rule of film criticism is to watch the movie, the second is to listen to it." Special bonuses: one list of the top soundtracks ever, plus another, and then some more.
Doris Lessing's Nobel acceptance speech. Doris Lessing, aged 88, has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls her childhood in Africa and laments that children in Zimbabwe are starving for knowledge, while those in more privileged countries shun reading for the "inanities" of the internet. [more inside]
"E` la mamma."
No matter how old or how important you are in Italy, you'd better answer the phone.
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World's Most Unusual Christmas Trees
NSFW™ Fark wants to trademark the phrase "Not safe for work." Discuss.
December 09, 2007
The Nuttybuddy Watch the video. Really.
Coco the parrot is up before the beak.
The Gomboc is a convex three-dimensional homogeneous object with gently peaked, organic curves. It looks like a piece of modern art. But if you tip it over, something unusual happens: it rights itself. It doesn't have a hidden counterweight inside that helps it perform this trick, oh no no no: it is the world's first self-righting artificial object.
December 08, 2007
Water conservation meets couples therapy. Save the planet while you work out all your crap on a potty built for two.
Alchemical and Hermetic Emblems [more inside]
C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes of Interrogations -- and CIA chief faces credibility test as a result. More, on the CIA's "legacy of mistrust." At least the Democrats aren't letting this one slide (at least so far). U.S. NewsFilter.
Here, kitty, kitty, kitty
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Cat butt
Cat butt
Cat butt
Cat butt
Cat butt
Cat butt
You're going to need this.
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December 07, 2007
Set Sail for the Sun. (YouTubish.) R.I.P. Karlheinz Stockhausen.
A new Giant Spitting Cobra has been found in case you needed a new pet for Christmas. Basically, it's your run-of-the-mill brown nine-footer with venom for fifteen. [more inside]
MOFICDX VII!
It's been a while. The most recent MOFICDX (that I can find) was VI. Shotsy's old CDX board is defunct.
Can we raise this tradition from the dead?
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Professor sums up human history in 100 words
Field guides to the many injuries of Evel Knievel
December 06, 2007
JewsRock.org. All this chitter chatter chitter chatter chitter chatter 'bout schmatte schmatte schmatte.
If someone tells you that you run like a girl, thank them: One of Markwardt's teammates, unaware of what had happened, encouraged her to get up. She tried, using her right leg. But as soon as she shifted weight to the left, the loudest crack yet came. And her leg gave out again. [more inside]
More from the Pets As Children Dept.: dog strollers.
Pitbull Armour - Horse-armour ... Squirrel-armour?
Top 60 Japanese Buzzwords of 2007. Are you a Tetsuko? Or maybe a Umu Kikai? In any case, you don't want to be a Himono Onna.
Top 10 Craziest Star Wars Tattoos. [more inside]
Thirteen, and Ella-esque. You may not like child prodigies, you may not like scat singing, you may not appreciate the greatness that was Ella Fitzgerald --- but here is a kid that will blow the roof off the joint. YouTube video. Turn up your speakers, whet your ears, and leave room for your jaw to drop.
December 05, 2007
Cypriot cave filled with dwarf hippos' remains. [more inside]
Shocking!
Unbelievable!The latest scandal! KINDERGATE!
Bruce Schneier Blazes Through Your Questions. Tech security John-the-Baptist Bruce Schneier efficiently plows through a long list of reader questions related to online security and the future of Guarding Your Shit. [more inside]
Sabadabada!
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Bellybongo
Get a soul full!
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Cat Survives 19 Days with Peanut Butter Jar on Head "In a bizarre example of a cat’s nine lives, a fortunate feline survived nineteen days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head. While no exact details are known as to how the jar found its way there in the first place (cats like peanut butter?), we’re pretty sure Jiffy will be off the menu from now on." [more inside]
December 04, 2007
Human hair + mushrooms + tanker oil = beautiful roadside landscaping. Buh? (Via.)
Not Enough Parking for Private Jets Going to UN Climate Conference As climate alarmists from all over the world head to Bali to talk about the sacrifices regular folks have to make to save the planet from global warming, it seems certain media will ignore all the private jets clogging the tiny airport. [more inside]
Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet The BBC’s infrastructure is shockingly outdated, having changed only by fractions over the past decade. Over-priced Sun Enterprise servers running Solaris and Apache provide the front-end layer. This is round-robin load balanced, there’s no management of session state, no load-based connection pool. The front-end servers proxy to the application layer, which is a handful of Solaris machines running Perl 5.6 - a language that was superseded with the release of Perl 5.8 over five and a half years ago. [more inside]
Happy Birthday, Finland. The declaration of Finnish Independence 90 years ago led to a year of turmoil, but now the Finns are marking the occasion with engraved doves' bottoms
Reissued German educational charts
that were illustrated in the 1950s and 60s.
via The Presurfer
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Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings. The toddler in question is Freddie Linsky, who has fooled the art world into buying and asking to exhibit his paintings. [more inside]
Hand in Hand. A short dance by two dancers who are each missing a limb.
December 03, 2007
The sound of one cat purring. The audio version of Cute Overload.
Terminus - a short film about a man being followed by a strange... thing. (youtube)
A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
December 02, 2007
The Daily Coyote. "Charlie came into my life when he was just ten days old, orphaned after both his parents were killed. He lives with me and a tomcat in a one-room log cabin in Wyoming." [Via MeFi.]
The Comprehensive Bunny Name List
- NOTE: Use of this list to obtain names for kitties, puppies, gerbils, hamsters, or other fuzzy pets is an abuse of this service and will not be tolerated.
Tip o'the cock to Blort
December 01, 2007
Canadians killing the planet with their beer fridges.
Interactive graph of the most influential directors & companies in the US.
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Mapping the ruling class
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