Links posted in May 2008
May 31, 2008
Caring or cruel? Inside the primate laboratory. "The Guardian, given rare access to an animal research facility, talks to scientists about their experiments on monkeys." [Via]
Worst Album Covers EVAR
- selected by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via FMH).
Theys pretty dang ugly, alright. *spits*
I reckon number 21 gets my vote. How's about yeew?
McClatchy to Scott McLellan - here's what happened.
WWII Vet Vs. Right Wing Blogger Smackdown. A WWII veteran responds to a blogger who contacted him in search of dirt on Barack Obama's great-uncle. The story becomes even funnier when the blogger in question turns out to be a homophobic furry with a cigar fetish. Oh dear. [Via MeFi and MeTa.]
May 30, 2008
Another poopie link (probably NSFW)
Taiwanes restaurant innovation (let's blame China).
[pics and video lifted from www.moderntoilet.com.tw/ but much easier to digest.]
Unofficial Euro 2008 thread. Same rules as before -- spoiler-heavy thread, stay away if you have to save the drinking/misery for later. (For ease of reference, the Guardian's play-by-play ticker should be here.) Anyone willing to make a prediction?
R.I.P. Harvey Korman. What a guy. [more inside]
Shit Planet!!! Profane, vulgar, outrageous, occasionally NSFW, and one of the most entertaining personal blogs I have ever seen. Apparently run by the guy who owns
May 29, 2008
[Your Name Here] for McCain! For a mere $250, get your own personalized John McCain banner! [Caution: "Demeaning or derogatory names or phrases are not acceptable."] Banners available in centrist Optima font only. [more inside]
muto a stop motion animation painted entirely on walls in the street (youtube)
Curious George: Age of Conan Hi there. Are Monkeys interested in playing Age of Conan? [more inside]
May 28, 2008
The wooden mirror. Daniel Rozen designed a wooden mirror from 830 small wooden panels controlled by a computer and connected to a small camera communicating with hundreds of tiny motors. To display dark parts the mirror uses dark brown sides of the panels and for light parts light sides of the panels are used
Curious George: Where Am I? Where are you traveling to? Where are you now on vacation? Or perhaps, where are you planning to be? [more inside]
Male fertility goes up with the consumption of alcohol. On the other hand, products I would have thought benign, like water-based paint might not be so great for the little homunculae... [more inside]
May 27, 2008
The Hole In The Wall (a short comic starring some cats)
Sidney Pollack, dead at 73. One of the greats.
Society of Robots is a website created by this wetware meatsack. It has tutorials on how to build robots. I suggest you begin.
You have ten minutes to find ten tiny animated gnomes in this point-n-click game. (Part 1, Rooftops). See also Part 2, Walk in the Park, Part 3, Early Spring Garden, Part 4,Foggy Flat, Part 5, The Shipyard.
May 26, 2008
The science of keyboard design. Does anyone else find it interesting to try out new keyboards simply because the keys click differently? via BoingBoing Gadgets
The holy grail of cheap and abundant energy - Cold Fusion (fusion of atomic nuclei at room temperature) has apparently been demonstrated again for the first time in decades, this time in a repeatable manner. Nuclear power available without its destructive side-effects? [more inside]
Print 'em and fold 'em: Superheroes galore!
Do Something Pretty. (auf Deutsch)
May 25, 2008
A slaver enslaved not that it learned him.
Carefully calibrated coitus. "The finest theologians soon began devoting a great deal of thought to which coital positions were more pleasurable — and thus more evil — and special handbooks were distributed to Church confessors." As an exercise in projection - the mind boggles.
May 24, 2008
Republican Congressman Charged, Bailed, Busted.
A New York congressman who admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock with a woman who bailed him out of jail on a drunk driving charge this month announced Monday that he will not run for re-election.
Adultery? Check. Out-of-wedlock baby? Check. Drunk driving? Check.
The change you deserve might be your own.
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Weezer's new video
is made of Epic Win & full of lulz.
YouTube vid avec musique
Biggest self-portrait in the world
Beautifully made armour for cats and mice to make the eternal species conflict a bit more interesting. Highlights include a cat with a lance and an Edo period samurat. Enjoy.
May 23, 2008
Navel
lint, nail clippings, hair clippings...
[second link is youtube]
50s spanish sci fi novel covers
- flickr.
Seen @ Cynical-C Blog
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The Questioning of John Rykener, A Male Cross-Dressing Prostitute, 1395: Apparently the only legal process document from late medieval England on same-sex intercourse. From the lovely Internet Medieval Sourcebook, a boon to every browser. [more inside]
May 22, 2008
Mobile Museum of Gem Sweaters - the label does not lie, this is GLAMORE.
Tag Galaxy is a pretty damn awesome use of Flickr tags. (via MeFi, requires Flash)
21 Best Mugshots Evar - what it states on the label is what in fact is inside the content of the link.
Roadkill haiku Does what it says on the label.
Like it says on the label - photos of TV Unexpectedly amusing.
Moms may be using 21st centuries methods to correspond with their kids,
but apparently, it hasn't changed them. Much.
A bit late for Mothers Day, but I found this too sweet and funny not to share.
May 21, 2008
The Real Life Lessons Of WoW's Corrupted Blood
One of the game's bosses infected players in his immediate vicinity with a disease called "Corrupted Blood," intended merely as a short-term, short-range annoyance - but afflicted players were able to teleport back to large population centers, effectively starting a quick-spreading epidemic, leaving central hubs littered with bones and covered in blood as players dropped dead left and right. Normal gameplay was massively disrupted.
Players panicked, both in the game and on message boards, wondering whether the outbreak was intentional or an accident. It mirrored real-world epidemics in numerous ways: it originated in a remote, uninhabited region and was carried by travelers to urban centers; hosts were both human and animal, such as with avian flu; it was spread by close spatial contact; and there were asymptomatic individuals - in this case, invulnerable NPCs.
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Cyberium is a truly amazing site that reveals layers and hierarchies of mind boggling, morphing imagery administered by, dare I say it? a genius! [more inside]
Synesthesia . . I has it. Any like experienced Monkeys?
epicurious george: bean salad
I want your recipes for simple bean salads.
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Demented Buick Boffer - the man who shags sedans, rogers runabouts. He fucks cars, people! The Cortina Casanova.
May 20, 2008
Afraid to be thin. Happy monkeys are happily fat. Lower class monkeys are neurotically thin. Until you give them the Great Equalizer: chocolate. [more inside]
Daily Telegraph journo Peter Foster blogs about life in a tiny New Zealand town.
The pro *always* gets the shot, even when the shot is of a javelin through his leg.
The second-best monkey-themed site on the web has returned.
May 19, 2008
Poached eyeballs
Hope me get rid of my summer headaches please, oh kind and cross-eyed Monkeys!
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A picture's worth a thousand words.
Russian dildocopter disrupts meeting.
Damn, that was only four.
A picture's worth a thousand words. Pictures taken by a wedding photographer before, during, and after the massive earthquake in China. Talk about a wedding you'll never forget.
Alternative To Silicon Chip Invented By Student
The new transistor uses a compound material known as gallium nitride (GaN), which has remarkable material properties.
May 18, 2008
Sente. Sente is a novel use for mobile phones; the informal practice of sending money via mobile phone minutes has evolved to allow money (albeit, small amounts) to be transferred from one place to another. Apparently first noted in Uganda, it is mentioned in passing here, as an intriguing example of how powerful networked communications can be, when suitably portable and accessible.
May 17, 2008
Make Your Last Stand- (Flash game) The dead have risen with a hunger for living flesh and it's only a matter of time before you and your companions fall beneath their inexorable onslaught. Your only hope is to make it to the coast before the last ship leaves for safer shores. Fight your way toward freedom, town by town. Spend your days scavenging for supplies, weapons and the occasional survivor willing to cast their lot with yours. Spend your nights defending the barricades from the Undead's endless assault. With careful (and lucky) searching, you'll soon have an arsenal of weapons ranging from compound bows to AK-47s and hand grenades to mow the bastards down and hold out long enough to see another sunrise.
Terry Fox' ride. More from the Good Karma Objects on Tour Dept.: the van from the Marathon of Hope. [more inside]
May 16, 2008
Things You Can't Do Coked Up (via MetaChat)
'Crazy Raspberry' Ants Swarm Over Texas Coast The invading ants, first discovered by (and named for) exterminator Tom Rasberry in 2002, are quickly becoming a serious pest (YouTube) due to their voracious appetite for electronics (also YouTube), sparking fears that they may interfere with Houston's Hobby Airport and the Johnson Space Center. They are pesticide resistant, form multi-queen "supercolonies", and are even out-competing (and eating) Texas' former invasive-species champion, the fire ant.
A transatlatlantic tunnel, hurrah!
Cook finds gecko in chook egg - "Maybe this happens all the time,'' he said. "Maybe geckos regularly crawl inside chickens for a feed." Isn't nature wonderful?
The Smoking Gun - Backstage Pass
Everyone is familiar with the Smoking Gun, CourtTV's more upscale answer to Rotten.com. But have you seen their extensive and amusing archive of tour riders? The three funniest:
Foo Fighters 2008
Iggy Pop (A work of art)
Foo Fighters 2000
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John Lennon's Piano Is On Tour
Will Elder dead at 86. One of cartooning's giants. Weird Fantasy, Two Fisted Tales, Trump, Help!, Mad, Little Annie Fanny... [more inside]
May 15, 2008
Bathsheba Sculpture features sculpture created by 3-D printing in metal. This allows the creation of complex shapes, including mathematically-derived structures.
Tremulous George: Wisdom Teeth On Tuesday, I'm about to undergo an operation to remove all four wisdom teeth, and one possible root canal. Does anyone have any advice? "Don't do it!" doesn't count, thanks. [more inside]
Never Been [flash] A year in the life of a fictional late 19th century Eastern European Village.
Balance the egg
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Het ei van Columbus
Whatever that means
Just another timewaster
May 14, 2008
Shipwrecks and Sea Disasters. A ghostly host of corroding skeletons at Dark Roasted Blend.
Woody Allen Interviews Billy Graham
on a 1960's talk show. YT. Part 1 & Part 2.
This could not happen today, methinks.
Part 1 stolen shamelessly from B^2.
The first group of Britian's "X-Files"
were just released to the public by the British Ministry of Defence. Over the next three or four years, 160 files will be handed over to the National Archives.
Happy hunting!
Would you want the job of VP? 97 senators were asked by "The Hill" staff if they would accept the offer of Vice-President. [more inside]
Neil Young's Spider - singer-songwriter Neil Young has had an honour bestowed upon him that is not received by many musicians – his own spider. Not a pet, a species named after him.
Fourth grade students in California are taught about the role which the missions played in the state's development. Many students create a multiple-medium project, such as writing a paper or building a model. [more inside]
I feel a sense of Impending Doom
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Life is pointless
May 13, 2008
Tech's best and worst workspaces. [more inside]
PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game.
Using a plug-in for Firefox, PMOG converts your daily web surfing into ongoing, real-time, social play.
Plant mines for unsuspecting surfers. Install portals to interesting sites. Create missions for others to complete. Just clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency.
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Curious, George: Cheap HD Recording? What is the absolute cheapest way to record over-the-air HD? [more inside]
When Nixon Met Elvis. Topics discussed: anti-American Beatles, drugs, and hippies. Don't miss the Commemorative WWII Colt 45 that Elvis gave Nixon. Good times!
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told / I gave her my heart, but she wanted my soul... Suze Rotolo, the girl from the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, speaks about being in love with a 20 yr old Bob, so many years ago.
May 12, 2008
Things Younger Than John McCain .
How to Be a Brainiac. Memorizing make you smart! Or should I say "more smart"! Put away the little notepad and exercise your brain. Remember stuff. Start with this poem.
The world's first piece of online conceptual video game art. ...a primitive version of 'Pong', being played by two artificial intelligences, with the entire code governing the mechanics of the game exposed below it, and the variables affecting the mechanics to the right. Furthermore, you can remove lines of code and see the effects in real time. [more inside]
Dead Man Eating
chronicles the final meal requests of prisoners executed in the United States since 2002, as well as some details about the crimes they were convicted of, and their trials. (Although I can't find the statistic posted on the site now, they did a count finding that the most common request was for a cheeseburger, followed by fried chicken, then steak.)
Historically, the final meal was seen as a way of preventing the spirit of the condemned from returning to take vengeance on his/her accusers.
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Bill O’Reilly flipping out on an old live clip from Inside Edition. NSFW language. [more inside]
May 11, 2008
Joshua Hoffine takes pictures of your childhood nightmares. Creepy... From: LiLeLa (en français!)
Infomania: "Chewing up the week's media so we can regurgitate it, half-digested, into your mouth". (via metafilter) Second link has embedded video
Treadmil kitties. Not exactly FPP worthy, but it is the weekend, and it made me laugh out loud. I wish there was an acronym for that...(yootoob video)
Caption this pic. Write a caption for this picture... [more inside]
Chicken sexing! see also some of the comments here. You guys *eyeroll*
foldit is a new computer game scientists have created that lets YOU help them make science!! [more inside]
May 10, 2008
May 09, 2008
"Straight Outta Compton" reverse edit! Every single word absolutely NSFW, but damn funny! At least, I thought so--then again, I'm pretty punchy after a long work week.
Great tits cope well with warming Seems obvious but this is indeed a good news story.
Hazel Court passes away , having previously shared her famous scream of stark terror many times without actually suffering heart failure... [more inside]
Instant Rimshot - incredibly useful.
May 08, 2008
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band tattoos.
So, you want to be a franchisor? You have a proud history. A reputation for extensive community involvement. And all it takes is one boneheaded decision by one franchisee to blow it all up, and create one massive controversy.
The Chaitén volcano in Chile Forces of Nature at their photographic best! (via the blue)
'NASA has scheduled a media teleconference Wednesday, May 14, at 1 p.m. EDT, to announce the discovery of an object in our Galaxy astronomers have been hunting for more than 50 years.' [more inside]
Look Around You: It's those dated educational films from the 70s and 80s that you had to watch at school, only better. All the episodes are on Youtube, listed here. Wikipedia article here. [more inside]
May 07, 2008
"Ask Genghis was first published in January of 2008 as a legal means of paying off the large gambling debts incured by the Khan due to his love of "betting the ponys."" It has potential, especially if we send Genghis requests for relationship advice.
May 06, 2008
Two Lawyers - the Yale Commencement Speech (pdf)
- via
"This was my last chance to teach you some law, Yale style. These were my final two slides: one bad lawyer, one good. What made the bad one bad wasn’t that he knew “less law.” It was that he, unlike the good lawyer, refused to take moral responsibility when he found himself in a position where his individual actions as a lawyer were likely to have a decisive role in shaping our profession’s situation sense, and thus in shaping the law itself."
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Zeppelin imagery [more inside]
Curious Tax Man: Very exciting tax question [more inside]
It's pudding. Shaped like breasts. Only in Japan would you be able to buy milk-flavored pudding in the shape of a jiggly breast, topped with a cherry or vanilla "nipple". Oh, and did I mention the packaging is designed to look like a topless woman?
A model for self-denial built in mid 18th century Pennsylvania, the upper stories of the Ephrata Cloister were so rife with mold that my sinusitis has flared up again, but it was worth seeing how The White Brotherhood and The Sisters of the Wilderness subsisted under austere conditions that would blanch a modern hedonist. [more inside]
Brother, can you spare me a dime nickel?
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How about a nickel for your thoughts?
Betcha a nickel you haven't seen these.
This link's only worth five cents
This makes five
May 05, 2008
The Great Pavement of Westminster Abbey, one of the Abbey's two Cosmati pavements, is to be restored to public gaze after being under carpet (except for one day a year) since the nineteenth century. [more inside]
Phallic bomb shelters of Nazi Germany. First appearing in 1936, they were quickly dubbed "cigarette stubbs" or "sugar beet heads". Officially they were called Winkeltürme (Winkel Towers)- after their architect Leo Winkel of Duisburg. Winkel patented his design in 1934, and in the following years Germany built 98 Winkeltürme of five different types.
When I Was 17, It Was a Very Good Toon
Webcomickers draw themselves, as they are today, and when they were 17... contributing so far: Meredith Gran of Octopus Pie, Paul Southworth of Ugly Hill, Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content, Rene Engstrom of Anders Loves Maria and Jeff Zugale of some webcomic I'd never heard of before*.
If you have a favorite webcomic, go bug the artist to draw "Me At 17/Me Today".
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The Personal Journal of Doogie Howser [more inside]
May 04, 2008
Incredibly cool house ...that cost less than $1,000 to build, will last 500+ years, and even before you click, I'm telling you this: [more inside]
May 03, 2008
Happy Thirtieth, Spam!
30 years ago today, someone at DEC (the now defunct Digital Equipment Corp.) sent out an unsolicited email to everyone on the Arpanet, advertising their new machine, and everyone's least favorite in box clogger was born.
Any particular favorites you've gotten (recently or not) that you'd like to share?
May 02, 2008
A Scottish ensemble [more inside]
Why Things Cost $19.95.* Think you're immune to that kind of pricing manipulation? Maybe not. [more inside]
A professor at Dartmouth attempted to sue the university and several freshman students ostensibly because her students didn't respect her, but also because, she claims, her coworkers and supervisor harassed her. She also seems to be claiming discrimination, but comments on various blogs from students who attended her classes (including students who were not graded by her - scroll down to comments) say that she was just a very bad lecturer. She has been very busy though: as of two days ago she was suing, the next day she publicly announced that she would no longer sue but would seek national press coverage. Also? She's going to write a book. [more inside]
Anatomical Theatre: Depictions of the Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World. A photographic exhibition by Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy.
Gazing too deeply into the abyss
- caution: may induce queasiness or damage to furniture from white-knuckled gripping.
Stolen from Ample Sanity.
May 01, 2008
*Dreamlikeliness* happens when a personal interiorscape gets interpreted for everyone's delectation - or so I would say. [more inside]
Memristors Coming soon: PCs that start up instantly, laptops that retain sessions after the battery dies, or mobile phones that can last for weeks without needing a charge? [more inside]
Dr. George Merriwether's Tempest Prognosticator- After having arranged this mouse trap contrivance, into each bottle was poured rain water, to the height of an inch and a half; and a leech placed in every bottle, which was to be its future residence; and when influenced by the electromagnetic state of the atmosphere a number of leeches ascended into the tubes; in doing which they dislodged the whalebone and caused the bell to ring. [more inside]
The link claims to be about nightmare playgrounds, but it's really about those awful sculptures you sometimes see in said playgrounds. (Via Neil Gaiman's blog, as usual.) [more inside]
For the day that's in it. The Russian Anthems museum presents The Internationale in 40+ languages, including Esperanto, Irish, Tagalog, Tuvan, and Zulu. [more inside]
50 Best Cult Books - as chosen by The Telegraph. How many have you started? How many have you finished?
