January 06, 2009
Google has a new year's present for Mac users. Picasa for the Mac is finally available (in beta, like all Google products). Now I can finally wave goodbye to iPhoto. (I am doing a happy dance right now.) [more inside]
Best fiction of 2008. I haven't read a single one of these. Have you? What else would you recommend from last year's new books?
How would you feel about a half-human half-chimp hybrid?
January 05, 2009
The Uninvited
- how to seriously disconcert the new guy in the building.
If you need help with your costume let me know, I have made mine by wrapping a black t-shirt around my face with a hooded jacket and cut finger holes in black socks for the gloves. I do not have any black pants so will spray paint my legs on the night.
Child elopers' Africa plan foiled Bless.
Singapore in 1938. The Singapore Grand Prix then and nowish.
Curious, George: Paypal Customer Service? Asking for a friend-filter. Buddy bought a refurb Xbox Elite for his kids on Ebay. Worked for a few days, then red circle of death. Tech looked at it and determined that he'd been sold a modded POS with a non-Elite motherboard, and either it failed or MS detected and bricked it. [more inside]
How the city hurts your brain ...And what you can do about it.
January 04, 2009
'I expected an ambulance, but a donkey cart carried the injured.' Ewa Jasiewicz is one of the only international journalists on the ground in Gaza. Here is her account of a week spent trying to document the attacks.
January 03, 2009
Hunter S. Thompson Motivational Posters. [Via]
January 02, 2009
The Secrets of Walrus Nookie Exactly how walruses reproduce is a big unknown to scientists, but at Six Flags they're eagerly trying to understand. They've even created an artificial vagina in an effort to arouse the mysterious 2,100 pound Jocko.
Burglar scared off by man dressed as Thor
Vintage photography in slide form. Well, online copies of slides. Kitschy, some with great back stories, all very retro-American.
Monkeys categorize objects in the same way as humans.
January 01, 2009
Churchyard Entertainment. An extract from Meredith Monk's "Book of Days" (SLYT).
December 31, 2008
Monkeydamus: Predictions for 2009 Curious Prophetic George - Any Predictions for 2009? [more inside]
Sir Terry: Terry Pratchett, the compassionate satirist, gets his K. [more inside]
One World, Many Minds: Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom.
December 30, 2008
Hobo Stripper. "I live in a van. Yeah, down by the river. And I dance nekkid for money. Weird, I know, but it's my path, and it's full of beauty and bliss. I hope my writings will inspire you to look inward to your own bliss. If you want to live in a van or be a stripper, then wow, I've got some tips for you." [Via Susie Bright (nsfw) at Boing Boing]
December 29, 2008
Fuck You, Penguin. A blog where I tell cute animals what's what.
Rembrandt Q&A . A photographer chats with Rembrandt about lighting a scene.
December 28, 2008
Liposuction Doctor Used Fat from Patients to Power His Car
Curious George: Help my bored puppy get smart
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My new 10 months old Border Collie is going bananas with boredom because I can't go play on my bunged up foot. Help me figure out what sort of tricks I can teach her while stuck in a chair or a walker.
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Difficult to say while drunk. tinyurl used because actual URL is 143 characters long
Business as usual at General Motors? They are selling a 49% stake in YULON motors, a Taiwanese company that manufactures the top import into Japan, and winner of a long list of awards for manufacturing, pollution abating, goodness and graceness. All of this give away has been announced a day before the first $4 billion loan rolls into their vaults from Bush and Company (I mean the United States). [more inside]
December 27, 2008
Badass Asteroid Destroys Earth in High Definition
December 26, 2008
2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in Tennessee Dike Burst.
Twenty million gallons a day. That's how much has been leaking from the Rondout-West Branch Tunnel originating in the Catskill Mountains and supplying much of New York City's water. Teams of divers live in a pressurized tank far below ground for a month at a time, working on repairing things, and breathing a helium-rich air mixture that makes them squeaky voiced. [more inside]
