Links posted in December 2009
December 31, 2009
December 30, 2009
Gingerbread Houses to Dunk into Your Tea
December 29, 2009
http://you-talking-to-me.com Maybe you shouldn't click this link. [more inside]
December 28, 2009
Puss-in-Boots gets fat in next Shrek movie. 2010 is shaping up to be the year of the fat cat. (pun intended)
December 26, 2009
Get with the game, monkeys
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Don't make me play this by myself, kids.
This is why cats hate Christmas... and why they hate their owners.
December 24, 2009
A Special Christmas Message for everyone trying to keep the Holidays Holy
yes, I know I'm going to Hell for this, or at least get permanent placement on Santa's Naughty List
Monkey's Christmas Message Merry Monkeymas to All!
English sewer grates excite police action at the mere thought that they might actually be photographed. What is it about these orifices that excite such fear and awe? Canadian examples are so beautiful that some have been enshrined in a museum. Japanese manhole covers are graced with colorful reliefs and traditional motifs. [more inside]
Pee and Sympathy, a NYC nurse's true Christmas story. These true hospital stories are both funny and touching. Be sure to have a hanky nearby.
Pee and Sympathy, a NYC nurse's true Christmas story. These true hospital stories are both funny and touching. Be sure to have a hanky nearby.
December 23, 2009
Nerdstock 2009: Christmas for rationalists Verily, the geeks will inherit the Earth. [more inside]
A site dedicated to overweight cats. Check out the cat...in overalls!
December 22, 2009
AVclub's The Year In Band Names
Editorializing: among the dozens of 'year end list' rituals, this is one of my favorites.
Previously: 2008 2007 2006
December 20, 2009
Stereotypes of readers by author [via flashboy]
Hitman Monkey , or how a LOLcat photo leads to a hit comic.
December 19, 2009
Attention Australians: There's no need to send 'Care Packagee' of Tim Tams to friends and relatives in 'the States'.
Pepperidge Farms (makers of the popular Milano cookies) is now importing them to the US (through March, promising return in October, Chocolate Creme & Caramel in many stores, Classic Dark exclusive to Target). Natalie Imbruglia shows Graham Norton how to do the Tim Tam Slam. And if you want to hide your Tim Tams away, P.Farms provides a Holiday Disguise (pdf).
Taekwondo monkeys attack trainer.
Know Your Meme: Om Nom Nom Nom. [Via]
December 18, 2009
"Their circular life" shows five scenes from Northern Italy (with background sounds) which are animated for a 24 hour period by turning a dial. [more inside]
Auschwitz sign "Arbeit macht frei" stolen
The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang". [more inside]
December 17, 2009
A collection of interesting bike designs.
December 15, 2009
I propose a game.
Several years ago, I belonged to an online community which sported a thread of numbers. We started from 1. Most of the first several numbers were simply designated as prime, but when things got into double digits, we found assignations for the numbers.
For instance: 23 could just be designated as prime. The next post could have to do with the 24th parallel, or the 24th element, or the 24th Nobel Peace Prize winner, or what 24 cups of flour could be used for (and is divisible by 2,3,6, and 12). 25 (divisible by 5) might talk about what happened in the year 25 C.E., or that there are 25 menus here, or that a 25 cent stamp in Canada looked like this.
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Health insurers are paying facebook gamers virtual currency to oppose the US healthcare reform bill. Users of Facebook apps by Zynga (which include Farmville, CafeWorld, Mafia Wars, etc.) earn virtual currency to use in games by following links to various "special offers". Get Healthcare Reform Right offers virtual cash in return for completing a form which is sent to government representatives. Now, in response, Healthcare For America Now has countered with ads of its own.
December 14, 2009
The CBS blacklist during McCarthy's Red Scare
40 Beautiful Examples of Black and White Photography [more inside]
The Lone Ranger in a Volvo SLYT about the Lone Ranger, in a Volvo...really [more inside]
December 09, 2009
A new species is emerging in Canada and New England: the coywolf
It's Official... Your Pet Can Catch H1N1 Flu... (even if it's NOT a pot-bellied pig). Well, one cat in Iowa and two ferrets in Oregon and Nebraska, but still zero cases of transmission from pet to human. Common sense advice from the Iowa Department of Public Health here, but is this what will finally start the Swine Flu Panic!!! that we know we're capable of? [more inside]
December 08, 2009
Dark matter discovered? The particle community is bustling with rumours of a possible discovery of dark matter in CDMS.
All Google Searches Are Now Automatically 'Personalized' even if you're not logged into a Google account (coookeees!). You can opt OUT (not a 'one-click' process, though). [more inside]
December 07, 2009
Weird Book Room Your Christmas shopping quandaries sorted. [more inside]
December 06, 2009
"Refreshing, Existential and Disturbing" That's what Search Engine Watch calls Ask.com's Top 10 Questions of 2009. Considering the site dropped the Question-based format in favor of plain search years ago, they're also way behind the curve. But it's not the worst Top 10 list you'll see before the end of the year (and you'll be seeing a lot more). [more inside]
December 05, 2009
Overseas and Overwhelmed 25 Stories of Culture Shock
December 03, 2009
Shrink-It YAPG (Yet another physics game) involving shrinking (or expanding) objects to drop another object into a target. [more inside]
December 01, 2009
Barnes and Noble unveil Nook, an eBook reader that also saves and plays mp3s, among other file formats. [more inside]
