Links posted in May 2006
May 31, 2006
Don't copy that floppy - or you may be rapped at badly for almost 10 minutes. [more inside]
Starlight
A few paragraphs that define a simple joy.
Yeah, yeah, I got it from MeFi
We're #8! Stuart Brown discovers that the Internet's #8 password is... you know. Taken together, his top 10 passwords are used by 1.8% of Internet users. The top 100 passwords are used by an amazing 6.5% of people. (May not apply precisely outside the UK.) If your password is on that list, change it today!
Talk 2 Action Article via BoingBoing
Curious George: Wedding Filter Help save me from the hell of wedding planing! I'm overseas right now and trying to plan a wedding in California. [more inside]
Aw, hey, whattya know?
Another pancake with Jesus on it!
Anybody want to buy it?
Why bush won. Some silly pictures comparing Bush with that other guy.
Curious George: I've been condemned to browser hell
Firefox I.5.0.3 went nuts on me a few hours ago -- anyway I finally broke what was left of into pieces and trashed them.
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Link Wikipedia and Google Maps Put a pin in a Google Map, and link it to a Wikipedia entry. [more inside]
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May 30, 2006
How vinyl records are made (youtube)
The Mr. Heterosexual 2006 Pageant was the brainchild of Pastor Tom Crouse, who believes that it is "time that heterosexuals were shown some tolerance." [more inside]
Lost and found. 14 yr old kid's wallet found, right where he dropped it in 1971. (No word on a circ-circ-circular impression.) [via obscurestore]
Mathematical Imagery from the American Mathematical Society. [more inside]
The Oozinator
, the new Super Soaker from Hasbro, is seriously wrong.
via
Don't Call Me Crazy on the 4th of July. Why couldn't Robert Lansberry get his mail? (Via Mindhacks, inspired by AskMe.)
May 29, 2006
A lesson on cleaning your hard drive before selling your computer. Amir sells his old laptop, claiming it works fine when it doesn't. The buyer, apparently unable to reclaim his money, finds some rather personal content on the laptop's hard drive including a doctored passport and lots of photos of women's legs.
The fantastic illustrations of Frank R Paul [more inside]
Rob Newman's History of Oil This 45 minute google video (some language NSFW) just blew my mind. via Metafilter.
Welcome to the Spock Casa - getting wired up at the coffee shop, down with kareoke, or just relaxing with James at the pool. (The above are YouTube links) [more inside]
Peruse or perish. With somewhat bemused interest, one has been absorbing opinion, garnished with a variety of perceptions and intelligent observation, the comments generated from the post of ActuallySettle. Thus one has been inspired to embark upon a quest for elucidation upon a subject one might venture to describe, mayhap, as one of miriad perceptions upon what constitutes an and/or descriptor of tribal social mores; mores one might say, which have evolved to become almost an entity separate to the desire of that initial drive toward a social structure. A social structure which evolved to ensure, individually and collectively, a sense of safety within such an agreed unity with one's fellows. To one's somewhat wry amusement, one discovered this site and link within; Aussie words
The fifty best places to drink beer in America
Ceiling Cat is watching you masturbate.
May 27, 2006
American police torturing suspected drug user...listen to the tape! When Tennessee law enforcement officials showed up at the home of Lester Siler, who they suspected of drug use, they asked Lester's wife and son to leave. They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape recorder in the kitchen...
Indonesian quake toll passes 3,000
And surely will go higher.
My thoughts and prayers to all of my friends there...
Bits o' lives o' others:
So yeah, I'm a sucker for decent photography, but I'm no expert. However, some nifty slide shows [flash] are too neat to pull away from, and I'm always interested in pics of geologic stuff like the Giant's Causeway (how else do giants get around?).
But this, my friends, is the best photo series you'll see all day: Pug Still Life Series (created by my pal Dave, who works at my favorite kitsch shop, Archie McPhee).
Festevil!
An international noise festival--make some noise wherever you are at 6:06 pm local time on June 6th!
"send in your noise!! - 06/06/06 only happens once every 100 years! - make the most of it! - think of your noise as both contributing to and vanquishing evil, simultaneously!"
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Hey, Good-lookin', What Ye Got Cookin'?
Rematch - of possibly the most famous wine tasting ever. It's 30 years on (give or take a few days), so who aged better? [more inside]
So tacky and yet so cool.
Monkeys UNTIE!! Help Trac get those anon links off the sidebar. Post till you drop.
This is a post about happy things. A post about nifty things. A post about the greatest lawn ornament ever invented. This has history, people. This has controversy. We owe it all to this man.
May 26, 2006
Smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot...
A new study finds, to it's and everyone else's surprise, that even heavy use of marijuana does not increase the incidence of lung cancer-- in fact, it may be somewhat preventative.
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Curious George: Stuck Laptop CD drawer! Help! I've borrowed a laptop from work and now the CD / disc draw won't open! [more inside]
Ten years of Calvin and Hobbes strips are available to view. There is also the Searchable database of C&H strips. [more inside]
Desmond Dekker drops dead at 65 Reggae legend Desmond Dekker has died suddenly from a heart attack, his manager has announced. RIP Israelite man
Here be Draculs.
Want a use for that old huntin bow hangin round the place?
This'll be the dream holiday.
Anyone qualify?
Yep, birds.
You know, real birds, not that kind of bird, you filthy monkey!
(more after the jump)
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The net's a cross between an elephant and a white elephant sale: it never forgets, and it's always crap.
Infinite Zoom -- the coolest thing you'll see today. (Flash v10.1 req.)
May 25, 2006
Sinatra and the Boys do Lunch [more inside]
The male obsession with size appears to be universal.
And while we're at it, the lengths some humans will go to find the shed sexual ornaments of elk.
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Ghosts & Goolies.
For a kick in the goolies, who ya gonna call?
This lot? Collingwood should get stuffed.
Or ya could try: This.
Ya never know with a Collingwood. Prolly all that pigeon crap on it's bonce, Coulda caused a pan-universal incident.
Curious George: not geeky enough. Help with JavaScript? [more inside]
bugchasers and givers make strange union "There was a young man in town that I found very attractive and we talked online several times. We ended up having sex and he told me that, you know, he didn't really care. He was actually looking for it," [more inside]
Happy Birthday Koko! [more inside]
Do you know where your towel is? Today is Towel Day, in honor of Douglas Adams.... Be a hoopy frood and bring yours with you everywhere; you never know when you might need it.
Write zombie haiku and win! Yeah, you could win something, I can't remember what. But hey! Zombie haiku! Get practicing! [more inside]
May 24, 2006
A rather complete guide to rolling your own Oxygen Having problems finding Aviator's Breathing Oxygen to refill your bottle? Upset about the rip-off prices some FBOs charge for an O2 fill? Don't put up with it! [more inside]
Is it a disablity?
Wherein our intrepid Albuquerque News Team adds (er... makes up? blurts out?) a new facet to the moving story of blind Mt. Everest climber Erik Weihenmayer.
And then his reaction.
Bill Frist: Gorilla Surgeon! [more inside]
Acne Acne [more inside]
Good Things to Eat
as Suggested by Rufus Estes. Born a slave in Tennessee in 1857, he went on to become a great chef & catered to many of the prominent figures of his day, including Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Ignace Paderewski, President Benjamin Harrison & President Grover Cleveland. In 1911 he published the first cookbook by an African-American chef. And here it is.
seen at robot wisdom
In 1969 the US Senate had a hearing on funding the newly developed Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The proposed endowment was $20 million, but President Nixon wanted it cut in half because of the spending going on in the Vietnam War. This is an video clip of the exchange between Mr. Rogers and Senator Pastore, head of the hearing. (youtube video)
Golden Girls Turn Hobos Into Cold Hard Cash.
Are they the Burke and Hare of the AARP set, or just another example of geezers gone wild?
via
May 23, 2006
At $0.30 a pop, you have to sell a lot of photos to take that dream vacation But if they were just sitting on your hard drive anyway, is it that big of a deal? Are 'micropayment' stock photo sites like this ruining photographers' lives (and their bank accounts) or simply a sign of how the Internet is changing yet another industry?
Scientists pour molten metal down ants' nests.
Pouring red-hot aluminum in the bottom of a 2-meter pit runs the risk of having ones socks catch on fire from the radiant heat.Those wacky scientists. Via
Alchemy Notebook This gallery chronicles the creation of a modern notebook of alchemy, full of beautiful illustrations and mystical writing. [more inside]
Leek Spin It's the Hamster Dance for the 21st Century. Only good.
Beatle Moments pt. I
and and II. A nifty blogbit on various bites of the Beatles. Trivia for some, scholarship for others.
via some bluish thread
Diebold shouldn't design anything security related
Diebold has essentialy stopped caring,
"If it so happens that someone not supposed to use the machine—or an election official who wants to put his or her thumb on the scale of democracy—takes advantage of this fast track to fraud, that's not Diebold's problem," about public opinion, they have us locked in, thanks to our great leaders.
The Butterfly Ball. And from the department of I-had-no-idea comes this blast from the past (Youtube video). [more inside]
May 22, 2006
This 3150 m (1.95 mile) long tunnel in Russia is the longest in-city tunnel of Europe. There is a river running over it and water leaks at some points. When the temperature reaches -38 degrees like it did during this footage, the road freezes and the result is the attached video taken during a single day with the tunnel camera. [more inside]
Hourly Weather Hourly Point Weather forecast is a site I use almost everyday. I can't stand running in cold weather, so I try to plan my afternoon runs for the warmest part of the day. This site lets you factor in wind-chill and cloud cover, which makes a big difference when you're out in the elements. gmap-pedometer.com is another useful site that will let you map a route for distance and elevation. [more inside]
TVfolk.net hosts videos from a variety of Finnish traditional (and not so traditional) folk groups, as well as from many other Northern European countries - over 400 videos in all. And if you like what you hear, several of the artists are sold (at least in the US) through North Side, Nordic roots music, where there are mp3s and more information on the performers. (via metafilter) [more inside]
How do females chose mates? {[While big-antlered red deer are busy fighting each other to show a female who has the best rack, the doe sneaks off to mate with less well-endowed stags. Female red-winged blackbirds are not easily impressed, either. Having the most macho plumage has no detectable effect on how many offspring a male sireS" [more inside]
Global news, as it happens, via a nifty flash-based map of the world. May be an addictive way to get your news.
May 21, 2006
Nathanael Ritz has created many amusing music videos featuring himself. [Google video--six links.]
10 Things Your iPod Won't Tell You [more inside]
May 19, 2006
Write a 100-word essay and get two free steaks! Write a 100 word essay on why you love to barbecue. If you're in Ontario, you get two sirloin steaks. Free! If you're not, you get...uh, a 100 word essay on why you love to barbecue. Heck forget the steaks, just make something up and post it. Monkeys love barbecue? Or no?
Darth Vader lets Palpatine know about the Death Star [youtube]
Pat Robertson predicts distaster Well, actually [G|g]od(ess) has, and delivered it through his chosen messenger. But what do scientists think the most likely natural disasters are for the US? Are tsumanis really coming to wash away those unchurched liberals in the Pacific Northwester?
Underwater sub-tectonic UFO bases under construction.
They came from within!!
Via FMH.
Gorilla Gardening
. . . err Guerilla Gardening even. HowTo (Daisy Duke is involved, lads), build a community, fix a bench (flash), or even learn a damned thing if you dare!
Ooh! ooh! ooh! *dig* *plant* *slap chest*
What happens if you drink 24 cans of Coors Light a day for 8 years and don't throw away the cans?
Eurovision 2006 - Preview the videos (direct link, with snarky British commentary), marvel at the "the incredible car-crash television". [more inside]
80s videos Hours of fun. God, I'm old.
Human, Chimp Ancestors May Have Mated
Early human ancestors and chimpanzee ancestors may have mated and produced offspring, according to a new DNA study.
via Mackerel
Bali very high. One is compelled to recommend this superb location as a place where one's admiration for the finer of human qualities may be revived. Where respect for the courage, perseverence and capacity for love and compassion in others may be restored, and where creative energy and sheer exuberance are happily infectious. A truly extraordinary and beautiful place run by an Australian ex-patriot couple as much endowed with warmth and sensitivity as the people they have chosen to live among.
AERIAL PHOTOS AND PICK-CHURS!
If you guys haven't found it yet, those yahoos in Seattle have made a pretty impressive competitor to Google Earth: swing over Vegas, or drop in on Ground Zero; or better yet, go see a man about a brain at Wizard Island. The aerials and "bird's eye" views are nifty.
WARNING: this site is a resource hog. Be ye warned!
Try New "Carbon Dioxide"! (Link to page with QT and WMV streams.) Yes, these are advocacy ads for carbon dioxide. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has produced two 60-second television spots focusing on the alleged global warming crisis... [more inside]
May 18, 2006
Headline of the Year Don't drink anything before clicking this link. via.
Resizable Textarea extension for Firefox [more inside]
How world maps would look if weighted for population. Or death rates. Or tourism.
Fascinating, at least to me.
Will undoubtedly provide a springboard for socioeconomic discussion and the like. Go.
Monkey fiction Because thursday is the new Friday, and everyone has 15 minutes to blow off around 3. Those of you for whom 3 pm and/or thursday has already passed, read it faster. Or backwards. or whatever. [more inside]
Italians Unleash Smog-Eating Cement
An Italian company is releasing a revolutionary 'smog-eating' cement product capable of reducing urban pollution by over 40%.
. . . The cement works fast. Nitrogen dioxide clouds left by cars travelling along the Segrate street vanished, on average, five seconds after the vehicle passed by.
GoodNewsFilter.
Cancer go bye bye? I for one look forward to being able to take up smoking again.
Who's your daddy?
Could be this fella!
via
10 Things I Hate About Commandments! - (a YouTube video - NSFW) - a trailer for the new comedy from the people who gave you Must Love Jaws!
Hitting the high notes
A musical mystery today surrounded Britain's highest mountain after a piano was discovered near its summit.
Last Minute LA Meetup - featuring Art by sexyrobot! Our very own sexyrobot will have his artwork featured in a one night show at retropia gallery this Friday! [more inside]
Pump your own gas? Not in NJ One of my favorite memories of living in NJ was the inabililty to pump my own gas. [more inside]
May 17, 2006
25 yr old virgin admits to having had sex. Same sort of thing as before -- guy supposedly extracted pledge from a platonic friend to relieve him of his unwanted virginity if his site got so many hits. Media took an interest (well, if you call the Toronto Sun "media"), the lie was caught, and people are screwed in ways they'd never imagined.
If you don't see this tacky film, the terrorists have already won. [more inside]
Scientists Have Discovered Why Some People Can't Resist Food Hint: TV Turnoff Week is involved. Fortunately, Austrailians will finally be taking responsibility for the global affluence pandemic. [more inside]
Anonymous, George: I been screwed! Back in November I sent via Paypal $250.00 to a designer (who I have worked with in the past) to build a new website. Four months went by without anything happening at all. [more inside]
Hand over your purse...why, you're beautiful!
Da Bomb. But Ian McKellan likes it. [more inside]
Got a uterus? Drop that cigarette and step awaaay from the margarita, nice and slowly, now.
Greg Palast Looks Ahead at the 2008 Elections
From the Democray Now interview with Amy Goodman last night,,
And '08, so what's happening is there is no fix of the system.
In other words, just like black folk get bad schools and bad hospitals, they get the bad voting machines, which are going to kill those votes. But they're not satisfied with just letting the ballots be thrown away. They're going to move it along.
And one of the things I discovered is the Republican Party has something called "caging lists," which came to our -- you know, just like you had Friday, the way the Yes Men capture material by using false websites, so through a false website we were able to capture Republican Party internal missives, through georgebush.org.
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Why couldn't they just have arrested me? Links to page with embedded YouTube video. [more inside]
May 16, 2006
Where to eat tonight? I think I'll go down to the Pink Taco. [more inside]
Bears Eat Monkey in Front of Zoo Visitors
- Now that's what I call a show!
Warning: link contains a picture of a bear swatting a full grown barbary ape like a piñata.
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The new MacBook is out. Discuss. [more inside]
Johnny Lechner discusses his decision to forego graduation from UW-Whitewater once more, and fit in a thirteenth year of undergrad. Apparently, Johnny hasn't worked his way through the entire course calendar yet.
Give it up Hitler!
You lost already!!
I know, Newsfilter, but amusing all the same...
For those who enjoy a challenge of definitons Simply a verbal intelligence test - more challenging than most it seems although that may only be my perspective. [more inside]
Odie the Pug says "I love you"
Dangling over sheer cliffs on rope ladders, traditional Nepalese honey hunters harvest the sweet goo produced by Himalayan cliff bees. [more inside]
May 15, 2006
Bio Mapping is a project being conducted by London artist Christian Nold which tracks how individuals' emotions change as they move from place to place while going about their day's business. Read more about it here.
“I have a Lamborghini and I've got a big wall.” Richard Moriarty has a 1974 Lamborghini installed on his wall and we can see how it's done (see here).
Gene Scott loves Australia (I miss Gene) *youtube link - nsfw*
May 14, 2006
Wyphanwae's gripes. Wifey's been gripin, as usual, on this Mum's day stuff. She reckons the "Damned Whores and God's Police" attitude's still goin strong (& it better not start up in our house, or else) Pointed me in the direction of this Bulletin story. Wifey's got a brain like a whip & a mouth to match & I reckon I'm bloody lucky but if I buy her flowers or chocs, she cuts me off for the rest of the month. Reckons she wants power tools cozza bein more 'meaningful'. Eh? Wot?
CHEESE! How to get your man to fall at your feet.
The President of the United States of America Addresses the nation. (Video - Quicktime) And in WMV format. Transcript inside ► [more inside]
May 13, 2006
Grolar Bear!
But why did they have to shoot it?
Unexpected images: a water-damaged camera produces images of wonder and colour. [more inside]
Minimalist Techno Kittens. This is so cool. Make your own minimalist techno with whacked out kittens. Requires Flash and sound. [more inside]
May 12, 2006
Bush Was Right! (embedded video) Yeah, baby! Killer rock music with a neocon flair! Democracy is on the way / Hittin' like a tidal wave / All over the Middle East / Dictators walk with shakin' knees [more inside]
The effect of porn on male fertility.
One of the things I love about modern academia is imagining how some people pitch their proposals. Imagine, if you will, explaining that you plan on proving, with SCIENCE, whether watching FFM or MMF porn leads to more rampant fertility.
(SFW)
KANPAI~~ Tokyo/Kanagawa Meetup! A special Monkey is dropping by the Land of the Rising Sun at the end of this month - and I was being thinking it might be fun to get together for a session of sake and frivolity. [more inside]
Dance Dance Evolution: A survey of popular dance from the 1950s to the present. WMV.
An art gallery in LA hosts a collection of art inspired by old video games. Other works in the collection include No One Wants To Play Sega With Harrison Ford and Donkey Kong's Last Supper. The WaPo's tech blogger blogs about it here. [more inside]
Gas Groaners. Gas up and get down.
New family of primates found? A rare and reclusive African monkey discovered last year is believed to belong to an entirely new family of primates - the first such find for 83 years.
Nice kitty! Beavers, Wolves, and Bison . . . OH MY. . . and oh, by the way, there really is life on mars.
Thermodynamics, Psychology, Chemistry Of Love (Warning- Bad webpage design ahead!)
May 11, 2006
East Bay Bowl-Up I'm having a get-together for my birthday, to do some bowling... anyone wanna come? Sunday, May 28, 2PM. Cost is $16 per person for lanes and pizza, shoes are not included. If you don't want to bowl, I will be having people over to my house after, around 430. [more inside]
King Tut's Schlong, Long Thought Gone, There All Along! Turns out, just not so long.
The Daily Kitten
You are powerless to resist.
via MeFi
Curious George the Armchair Traveller We learn a lot about other people's cultures through the movies, and no doubt, we're all way off. So tell us, what are the movies that best portray your country and the people who live there? [more inside]
"The challenge is first catching the dragonfly." Princeton scientists are using tiny tracking devices to follow the migration of Green Darner dragonflies.
Hyperinflation or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Iranian Oil Bourse. [more inside]
May 10, 2006
America's (Autistic) Army.
Because the United States Armed Services believes everyone deserves everyone, even the disabled, deserves their chance to serve.
(Except those goddamned fags.)
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Stubbies. A thorough explanation of New Zealand stubbies (3.5mb mpeg ad). [more inside]
"Superman knows he’s got what we want":
So, we all know that comic books routinely objectify the female physique in order to appeal to the adolescent male demographic, yawn, old news, moving along and all that...
BUT, I've never seen the argument so eloquently presented as in this Livejournaler's alternate universe comic book covers.
Stubbies. A thorough collection of Canadian stubbies. [more inside]
May 09, 2006
RoboCup! By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team. To work towards this goal robot competitions are held.
FedEx Arrivals During Thunderstorms
Tim Patch is a Succesful Artist
Tips for becoming a succesful artist:
* Choose a medium that you have a passion for.
* Do what 99% of people won't do.
* Create your own style.
(NSF the Buttocks Avoidant)
Art School Confidential. It's out (kinda), and the reviews are so-so. But -- screwem, I'll see it anyway. (As previously sorta discussed on Koko's earlier exhaustive thread on all things Clowes.)
What's a Dell good for? (embedded Google video)
From sand and lake water. Some impressive structures spring from the simplest ingredients.
M.O.N.K.E.Y. No. SE7EN
: Man-made opiates normally keep everyone yawning.
For those of you new to the game: make a sentence using words that begin with corresponding letters of the last word of the previous sentence. For those of you who are familiar, this should load a little faster, for a while, anyway.
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Thumbs up. Up from the under.
In Spain the Socialist Party has introduced a bill to include simians in the world of people.
If the bill passes, one assumes that upon adulthood said simians will, be granted the vote, a drivers license and they will be permitted to drink alcohol??
Next thing you know,,one of them could be a world leader.
"You have really wierd dreams when you pass out" according to Atlanta Journal Constitution staffer after his flight with The Blue Angels in a F/A-18.
Starlords. Star Wars / Lord of the Rings Disco Mashup! Via BB.
Aw, crap. This really bums me out.
May 08, 2006
The website SourceWatch contains editable write-ups on over 200 industry-funded organizations and a helluva lot more. Here's its list of lists.
What would you do? Heart attack material.
Secret UFO Study Released! ...revealing that there are no UFOs. Well, actually there are but not aliens. And if you see one it's because your mind has been messed with...
Leonard Cohen in the flesh. Leonard will be appearing at Indigo, Bay & Bloor, T.O., May 13th, 3:45. He'll be there to support his new book and his girlfriend's CD. [more inside]
Monkey Fluids Has this been brought to the monkeys' attention before? If not, it made me laugh and appears to be "up" our collective "alleys" (as it were).
Hop to it
A word game. Here's another: Etymologic
Stolen from the inexhaustable Paperback Writer.
Mr. Yuck for the Eloi. How do we communicate with the future (pdf, 350 pages)?
Remote control gone mad. Thank you, but I prefer not to allow people to remotely control my brain.
Mmmmm, watermelon! For those of us in North America, we're rapidly approaching that time of year when sweet green-shelled cannonballs are in season. It's been immortalized in music as the epitome of smooth and cool. [more inside]
May 07, 2006
Envelope and Letterfolding For those of us who do not rely solely on email.
Here are some cool pictures of the laser facility the US Government has built to develop lasers to shoot down enemy satellites. (With cool laser pictures).
An English Fox inexplicably enjoys a trampoline.
(YouTube Flash vid). & Freddy the American Fox on Flickr.
Both seen @ robot wisdom
May 06, 2006
Five thousand days: press photography in a changing world. (Click the chapter titles for a rundown.) While we're on the topic, some cartoons about feeding the five thousand, a Jules Verne-style ebook called Five Thousand Miles Underground, and how to spend $5,000. [more inside]
Congratulations! MonkeyFilter users pass the 5000 mark! I think an interlude of appreciation for MonkeyBashi and Number Two would be appropriate at this juncture. Thank you for creating and maintaining the site I frequent and care about the most on the WWW. [more inside]
It's free comic book day again [more inside]
The Evolution of Dance (YouTube video) Judson Laipply's finale on his "Inspirational Comedy" speaking engagements, called by some "the funniest 6 minutes you'll ever see." It may not be the funniest I've seen, but it is fun. A (very) little more about Laipply can be found here.
Another step in the Google Empire: make your Google website now! They've made it way dang easy. Too easy, maybe? [more inside]
McStarbucks In which McDonald's totally loses touch with reality and decides all 30,000 of their worldwide locations should be remodeled in pastely earth tones, and all vestiges to the past (think roof, bright colors, burger-joint-style booths) tossed asunder. 'Cause really what McDonald's has always about is the comfy couches and plasma TVs. [more inside]
May 05, 2006
The Pillsbury Doughboy is being held for ransom!
Oh nos! I'm not sure what all the fuss is about, apparently he died last month.
The ransom pictures alone make it worth the while
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Lego for it! On the level, with a flash.
May 04, 2006
Lapdogs: The White House Press Corpse
When the Freedom of the Press is willfully abandoned, representative democracy is fubar'd.
As Colbert hands them their ass on a plate, the gross negligence of the White House reporters begins to loom ever larger.
[more inside]
LA Meetup?
Cabingirl and perhaps other monkeys will be in town next week for the nerd convention, er, I mean E3. Let's give her (and any assorted others) a proper MoFiLA welcome!
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The Drowsy Chaperone. Don McKellar, writer, actor, director, and guy who must never sleep, talks about the Drowsy Chaperone, a musical that went from being a one-off bit of stag party entertainment, to Fringe Festival fare, to a show on the Great Broadway itself. [more inside]
Curious, George: What are the economics of a Hollywood film? Steven Soderburgh spoke at a panel on Monday called "Downloading at a screen near you", in which he said that "negative cost" is up 85% and advertising up 110%. To lower the cost of making a movie, he recommends capping actor salaries, releasing movies in multiple media at the same time, and no "pre-screen" advertising. I'm intrigued, but confused. [more inside]
Pump it til the goo shoots out! With link to video.
May 03, 2006
Quotable George: Quoth the Monkey, "Even More"
Frolicky Wednesday: Name the movie the previous quote is from, then leave your own cryptic self-justifying epitaphic genius droppings.
No Googling!
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"Electronic Roadsigns and Me" If you're bored on a quiet piece of US highway, there's always something to do.
Kev, you beaut! Have a squizz at the lyrics, the bloke's a bloody cracker. Here's a bit from me all time fave, [more inside]
Earthquake!
Tsunami warning for various areas, including New Zealand.
Yes, it's newsfilter, but ratha germane.
Texas Man Saves Pal During Raid By Chimp
Never piss of an angry monkey:
"His friend's hand was a mangled mess; most of it was gone. The station wagon had stalled after the driver desperately tried to ram through a gate. Now, the chimpanzee that had attacked them on an isolated mountain road in West Africa was coming at them again.
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Ask a Ninja. You got questions? Ninja got answers! Plus -- Ninja pickup lines!
Thought Experiments Suppose you could save five lives by taking one - what would be the correct thing to do? Would you kill the violinist? Would you stuff a stick of dynamite up Fat Jack's ass? Fun and games in Hypothetical Land.
May 02, 2006
What they don't want you to know.
Try making your own conspiracy.
This ones mine.
"In order to understand Fish are hidden rulers you need to realize that everything is controlled by a Piscis made up of blue wales with help from Druids. The conspiracy first started during parting of the Nile in Bringabeeralong. They have been responsible for many events throughout history, including Romans conquering Britain. Today, members of the conspiracy are everywhere. They can be identified by nose picking. They want to hurl cow pats at the Fish Brothers and imprison resisters in the core of the earth using a molecule transporter. In order to prepare for this, we all must use a fishing line. Since the media is controlled by The Fish League we should get our information from the two in the bush."
"Music fans are not the enemy"
, says artists' coalition.
A coalition of top Canadian musicians and the group that oversees Canada's recording industry sent out opposing messages Monday about the development of new copyright laws.
Animal Diversity Web is an online database of various biological topics at the University of Michigan.
Animal Diversity Web has:
* Thousands of species accounts about individual animal species. These may include text, pictures of living animals, photographs and movies of specimens, and/or recordings of sounds. Students write the text of these accounts and we cannot guarantee their accuracy.
* Descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families. Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups. Professional biologists prepare this part.
Quite educational, but that's beside the point. The point is spinnin' frickin' skulls [QTVR] people!
May 01, 2006
Whodunit?
These people seem pretty clear on the masterminds behind 9-1-1.
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Eugenio Recuenco, Spanish fashion photographer. More photographers here.
Meet Shannon Gerard. Highlight of Grimsby's 27th annual Wayzgoose. Cross Adrian Tomine with Jane Siberry, and you're pretty much there.
Good Defecation Dynamics. from the NHS. Via
You Must Obey The Law - Not Bush.
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials, and safeguards against political interference in federally funded research.
And more! Now how much would you pay?!
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"Fashioncore" Oh this can't be good... "Hardcore" music fans wear women's jeans as fashion statement. [more inside]
The Red Flag: the song, the man, the monument For years the anthem of the British Labour Party, it survived an attempt to replace it in 1925. [more inside]
Vikings Are the New Zombie: Vikings v. Vikings; Vikings v. Indians; Vikings v. Misunderstood Monsters; Vikings v. Digital Monsters; Vikings v. Aliens; Vikings v. Their Wives [via] [more inside]
Losing me car keys. Can't find me bloody car keys. Booted the puttputt for a scout around on the subj' (instead of wreckin the joint) and came across this. Was pissed off, now bloody depressed. Havn't found me car keys either. A bit of a trawl to get through but worth a squizz.
