Links posted in June 2006
June 30, 2006
The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA
It's not surprising that an expert hired by EFF should produce an analysis that supports the group's case against AT&T. But last week's public court filing of a redacted statement by J. Scott Marcus is still worth reading for the obvious expertise of its author, and the cunning insights he draws from the AT&T spy documents.
. . . With that in mind, here's the 27B Stroke 6 guide to detecting if your traffic is being funneled into the (AT&T) secret room on San Francisco's Folsom street.
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Ails and Tails
One has discovered than one is an Ailurophile.
Given their venerable history, is it better to be thus than to be an Ailurophobe?
London Meetup MCVII (or something) I'm going to UK in mid-August, so.... [more inside]
Awesome Periodic Table of the Elements in Flash
and another one that's not quite as awesome but super all the same done with Ajax.
Requires FLASH for the first one, & JavaScript enabled in your browser for the second. SFW. No sound. Duh.
Singh, the man with the hat, Marwari, the horse with the ears
If God didn't create the horse,
He wouldn't have created the Rajputs
The battle horse, animated, proud
A beautiful American and a handsome Singh team up to save the modern Marwari
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June 29, 2006
Smashening and Splashening. Home made high-speed photography.
Curious George: Que est-ce que ringtone? Now that phones can play pretty much any sound as a ringtone, what do you use? [more inside]
Royalty Free Stock Photography - Download 400+ quality royalty free stock photos for free. Note that these images range from 400kb to around 1.5mb, and are 1200 x 900 to 1600 x 1200.
Goregirl's Guide to Women in Music This is a terrific guide to women in rock music. From 'til Tuesday to Zusu's Petals, women have played a huge role in rock history. [more inside]
June 28, 2006
Shhh!! Most Americans don't know Canada is their biggest oil supplier. Then again neither did I.
Evolution of the eye. Short video where scientist explains how the evolutionary process indeed can produce complex things such as in this case, eyes. View it and then decide if you should turn your brain-thing ON or OFF.
CueRIose gEorjeh - (sp?) I find that there are some words that I just *cannot* type correctly no matter how hard I try. [more inside]
Monkey Birthday + Going Away Party
LA Monkeys are at it again! It's time to celebrate sexyrobot's belated birthday and new radioactive kitchen. Special Guest Stars: punk rock bathroom and new art.
But that's not all!
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Curious George and his car tunes. Well, summer cruisin' season is upon us. Time to roll down all the wagon's windows, drape your arm over the door, and staight-arm steer at two o'clock, blasting out tunes all over the nieghbourhood and having the bass reverb dislodge all the plastic in your car. What cruisin' tunes do you prefer, to aid in your non-chalant pissing-off of everyone within earshot? [more inside]
Learn English as you exercise. TV in Japan presents (via YouTube) Zuiikin English. These mesmerizing videos feature a short dramatic sequence followed by phrase repetition while aerobic exercising. [more inside]
Valve publishes statistics from players of Half Life 2: Episode 1, collated using Steam. Warning - contains Half Life 2: Episode 1 spoilers, although you probably guessed that. [more inside]
Trailers of Historically Significant Films
Cur-IRC-ous George IRC hates me. Help! [more inside]
June 27, 2006
Thinkers Thingus
Just like for music but for books.
No upload involved, It will just search and add.
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McDonalds - Global Sanctum?
"Indeed, despite its vaunted reputation as a juggernaut of American culture, McDonald's has come to function as an ecumenical refuge for travelers of all stripes. This is not because McDonald's creates an American sense of place and culture, but because it creates a smoothly standardized absence of place and culture — a neutral environment that allows travelers to take a psychic time-out from the din of their real surroundings."
Still, I had fun visiting India, Russia, Japan, South Africa and some quirky Island.
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RIP Arif Mardin Ace record producer (Aretha, Averge White Band, Chaka Khan ...) rocks no more.
Man, I had forgotten how good Pete Seeger is. One thing I never knew though, was he had his own TV show. Luckily youtube has our back: The Weavers (he was a member) Mississippi John Hurt: part 1, part 2, and himself with Johnny and June Carter Cash. (For a little variety Pete on the Johnny Cash show.) [more inside]
The Thief and The Cobbler: Recobbled Filmmaker Garrett Gilchrist attempts to contruct of a final cut of Richard Williams epic, unfinished, animation project from a variety of sources that look like film, animatic, pencil tests, and video. [more inside]
June 26, 2006
It's nearly November Can't think of what to write about? No problemo: Random Logline Generator is here to help you. [more inside]
The Paul Daniels' eBay Transactions Blog. I'm sure many of us recall magician Paul Daniels' heyday in the 1980s with his lovely assistant Debbie. (He has his own blog, btw.) Someone discovered his eBay username and is blogging everything Paul buys and sells, including complex commentary on the bidding process. Another example of having too much time on your hands.
Herr Bear, we bury ya in Bavaria. "Bruno" -- the first wild brown bear to be sighted in Germany in over 170 years -- was shot dead over the weekend. [more inside]
Comic-Covers.Com - over 11,000 high-quality comic book cover scans. I know about the whole self-linking thing, but I rarely post here, so what the hey. There really are over 11,000 comic book cover scans on the site, all free and without watermarks. I've just added an RSS feed if you want to be notified on updates. Thanks for the support.
Boys are more likely to grow up gay if they have older brothers - because of biology, rather than upbringing. [more inside]
THE BOOK OF WERE-WOLVES
by SABINE BARING-GOULD
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Gabbly
- Just add 'gabbly.com/' in front of any URL & you can have a little chat client spawn in the window. It allows you to chat around any webpage. Its free to use!
/wonders how long this will last
June 25, 2006
Geneology? LAME! If you really want to see whence you came, you can participate in the Genographic Project, which uses a sample of your DNA to delineate the travels of those who begot you. [more inside]
The New Shadow: Tolkien's quickly abandoned sequel to Lord of the Rings. [more inside]
Just in case you plan on kidnapping someone. Seriously, who has time to do all that cutting and pasting?
Boonville California is a small town in the Coast Range Mountains between the Sonoma Valley wine country and the Mendocinoo Coast. It's a scenic area and largely agricultural, but it's most widely know for Boontling, a folk language created there in the 1800s. With a vocabulary, of over a 1000 words, it was remarkable to hear. But, sadly, it's on the brink of pikin' to the dusties.
The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
You may have heard about Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon before. In fact, you probably learned about it for the first time very recently. If not, then you just might hear about it again very soon.
But, there is Littlewood's law, which states that we each can expect a miracle to happen to us at the rate of about once a month. It appears our grip on reality is slim.
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DIY 1000 watt wind turbine "We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home." [more inside]
June 24, 2006
Run monkeys, run! Another light-hearted tutorial from the guy behind the LED Artcrime Tutorial. This one helps you avoid unnecessary pain when starting to run.
A trip to North Korea Photos by Russian web designer Artemii Lebedev.
This is Haywards Heath "The average sized town between London and Brighton on the A272". So much to see and do, fine cuisine, great shopping and friendly pubs. Sadly love connections can no longer be made.
President Bush sings U2's Sunday Bloody Sunday. Max Headroom style! Along the lines of dickcream's (NSFW) quirky spliced video shorts... surprisingly better than one might expect. the mp3 is old but the video is new iirc. It is not a rebel song. [more inside]
June 23, 2006
Celestia is an OpenGL based 3D space simulation for Windows, Mac and UNIX. I just like it because it appeals to the nerdy astronomer in me. Free yourself from the earthly perspective! [more inside]
Italy convicts blogger for defamation
Better watch what you say, Monkeys...
"It looks like the blogger is being punished for his bad language and not because he posted false information, which is unacceptable," Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said in a statement Friday.
RIP Harriet the Tortoise. 175 years young, she was around for Darwin, the World Wars, and The Crocodile Hunter. She passed away today quietly in her sleep.
Oldest Known Living Animal Isn't: Harriet the Tortoise has died at age 175 (+/-). [more inside]
James K Polk - One Tough Mother!@#$%&!
James K Polk did not mess around. If you live in the western US like me, you can thank your American-ness to James K Polk.
He even inspired a song [YouTube] by They Might Be Giants, not to mention many quirky high school history projects.
With Manifest Destiny and all that, this must have been a completely different sort of country. Seems a lot crazier than what we have going on now...
Physics Limericks Warning: perceived humour may be knowledge dependent. [more inside]
Roses and many pictures of Roses [more inside]
On's imaginative planet Miyazaki is one Japanese genius, On is another, working on a somewhat smaller scale than the former, writing small highly entertaining Flash games. Is it only me that sense a certain spiritual similarity between the art of On and Miyazaki?
June 22, 2006
Miyazaki Vs. Miyazaki Studio Ghibli is well on its way to completing its latest film, Tales From Earthsea, based on the fantasy series by Ursula Le Guin. The trailer is up, and it looks beautiful, but the film is already generating controversy. [more inside]
July 1st Kickball Invitational. There's a International Kickball tourney going on in New York on Canada Day / Moving Day / next weekend. Seems they're still debating the rules. Man, I wish I lived in Brooklyn... [more inside]
DMC is the World DJ championship. Not like "DJs" or "DJs" but turntablists. Champions: 2004-2005, 2003, team champions 2003, 2002, team champions 2002, 2001, 1998-2000 . [warning: wikipedia and youtube] [more inside]
Walter Benjamin on drugs. "Hashish, Benjamin believed, gave its user...a sort of X-ray vision providing access to the inner workings of time and space, culture and history. In a 1933 entry, he writes, 'There is no more valid legitimation of crock'--Benjamin's code word for hashish--'than the consciousness of having suddenly penetrated, with its help, that most hidden, generally most inaccessible world of surfaces.'" Benjamin's On Hashish is online here. [more inside]
Artists interpreting preschoolers interpreting Disney Preschoolers from The Hollywood Schoolhouse were asked to draw their favourite scenes from the Winnie the Pooh storybook. These drawings were then handed off to some up-and-coming artists, who were asked to render the child's drawing in their own style and vision. The child's artwork will be sold alongside the artist's work. (Via Neil Gaiman's blog.)
What?? What???? I don't watch the Grammyses because they're incredibly stupid, but that may change seeing as I missed LINKIN' PARK, JAY-Z, and PAUL McCARTNEY SHARING THE STAGE SIMULTANEOUSLY. I had never seen this. WHAT IS GOING ON??
June 21, 2006
Don't you know you're gonna mock the monkey?
Weird Al is a personal favorite of mine, and his version of "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt [W: auto-loading audio] was not approved for release by Blunt's label, so Al's letting you have it for free on his site [mp3].
This reminds me of when Coolio [W: auto-loading audio] got his panties in a wad over how Al treated his very profound "Gangsta's Paradise" with a parody of the Amish lifestyle (which is friggin' genius, if you ask me).
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Curious George - The Great Dictator?
Pugnacious Pundit Bill O'Reilly would fix things in Iraq by reinstating acting like Saddam.
Quote: "That's me. President O'Reilly, curfew in Ramadi, 7 o'clock at night. You're on the street, you're dead. I shoot you right between the eyes. OK?
That's how I'd run that country -- just like Saddam ran it. Saddam didn't have explosions. He didn't have bombers, did he? Because if you got out of line, you're dead."
What would you do if given free reign? (In Iraq or Monkistan?)
Daniel McGowan is one of 14 people apprehended between December and March 2006 as part of Operation Backfire. [more inside]
Hockey is the greatest sport of all,
according to Canada's National Post columnist Andrew Coyne. Better than the top quality football/soccer? Rugby? Aussie Rules? In an era when Celebrity Poker occupies a prime spot on weekend TV programming, and even RPS getting better exposure in the US, is this belief true, misguided, or just wrong?
(warnings - it is a National Post article / lots of flash / slow loading / poor layout)
Sums Solve Space-Station Scrape [more inside]
The Fate of Greenland's Vikings Archaeological excavations of the settlement founded by Erik the Red in the 14th century. Not a happy ending. (Via anastasiav.) [more inside]
Connie Chung blows up. WTF?! A bit of mid-week wackiness to make you feel well adjusted. [YouTube] [more inside]
Curious George: Do any other daily comics do this?...Watch their faces. [more inside]
June 20, 2006
Big, Bad Bessie with the M-I-L-K
Which spells, as you know, WRONG.
Quicktime direct link here.
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*Which* Ten Commandments? - As the myth relates, Moses smashed the tables of stone, and God said he'd make a new set of tables containing "the words that were on the first" Exodus 34:1. However, the second Ten Commandments in no way resemble the first set. [more inside]
Bear eats porridge. No news on cross-dressing wolf.
Fliiiiip, Floooop
Frank Luntz, author of the "The Environment: A Cleaner Safer, Healthier America" memo that has formed Bush Policy changes his mind. Woopsie.
Memo in PDF here :http://www.luntzspeak.com/graphics/LuntzResearch.Memo.pdf
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Evangelical evolution. "The mellowing of evangelical Christianity may well be the big American religious story of this decade."
For that special goth in your life: strange doll
(the shadow boxes look like something out of Se7en)
June 19, 2006
You know who else your cat looks like? Hitler!
Curious George What do I do? Curious George What the heck do I do for a living? [more inside]
RFX Jr. To Take Another Swat At The Empire
Maybe you read the Rolling Stone article that generated 2.5 times as many emails than any other RS story.
Now that rascally attorney is taking it a step further.
Go RFK! Go!
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Curious Musical Monkey Filter Famous Scrawls? [more inside]
SavetheInternet.com is trying to "preserve Network Neutrality, the First Amendment for the Internet that ensures that the Internet remains open to innovation and progress."
Donald Hall
Is the NewUS Poet Laureate
via stupid smelly GarbageFilter, but, like, I totally thought of it too eh
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John Heartfield's photomontage is on show at the Getty. A prominent Dadaist, he changed his name from Helmut Herzfelde as a protest against German nationalism in WWI, and produced a stream of striking anti-Nazi images. More here and here, and a bio plus quotes here.
SUV What happens when you don't design your stretch limo according to the environment you will be using it in?
June 18, 2006
A rather lame attempt... ...to create a new piece of Internet lore, and the swift debunking of it.
Not everyone who gets hit by a drunk driver dies. A very powerful ad.
Modern Movies illustrated in the form of Russian Folktale Woodcuts
- or something.
You don't need to read Russian, just look at the pictures. You can work out which movies they are. Example within.
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Hitler Cats. Does what it says on the tin, as they say.
Move over Chuck Norris. He's coming! YouTube video. via
June 17, 2006
The History of Felt Hats & Hat Making
Curious George: Global Warming? Why are people so oppsed to the idea? What is the worst that would happen if we all had more fuel-efficient vehicles and used less energy? [more inside]
LED artcrime tutorial An tutorial on how to light up your surroundings with LED (light emitting diodes) graffiti. Illustrated with cool photo examples.
June 16, 2006
Parze pleedon me
In the 1930s and 1940s, F. Chase Taylor – under his pseudonym of Colonel Stoopnagle – produced dozens of spoonerism fairytales which appeared. The originals were printed in the Saturday Evening Post and eventually published in a collection. The book is now out of print,but some of the stories are on Fun with Words, including:
Prinderella and the Cince,The Pea Little Thrigs and Beeping Sleauty
Judge called upon to use Wisdom of Solomon in a very literal way. Not so much halvesies, but...
27,000 Year Old Portrait
"Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be a 27,000-year-old drawing of a face, which would make it the oldest in history. Like many other ancient portraits, it is reminiscent of the work of some of the great modern artists . . ."
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Friday fiction frolic: The School by Donald Barthelme. A short, short story --dark, but funny, one of his best. Or if you're a music fan, another one: The King of Jazz which has the best lyrical description of music i've ever read.
It's been fun, Doc. Doctor Fun, aka David Farley, set out in 1993 to post 10 years' worth of daily comics. He completed that task earlier this week (it took 13 years). Arguably the longest running web-only comic ever produced, there won't be any more new ones. Fortunately (especially if you like jokes about heads in jars) there's an archive. [more inside]
June 15, 2006
Thanks. No. At last a solution to the usual friendship-ending requests to stop sending me the fucking badgerbadgerbadgerbadger song.
Screech from Saved By the Bell needs your money to save his home from foreclosure. Or you could, you know, help a starving orphan. Or get yourself a non-fat decaf latte with extra foam.
Think (About Paying Your Workers) Differently.
Claudia Joseph's article from the UK's Mail has forced Apple to "look into" allegations of wretched worker conditions.
Last year Apple achieved a record billion-dollar profit.... "We have to work too hard and I am always tired. It's like being in the army. They make us stand still for hours. If we move, we are punished by being made to stand still for longer." ... Labor costs in the Chinese factories we traced are ... Pounds 4.20 ($7.74) per iPod.... In Britain they sell for between Pounds 109 ($201) and Pounds 179 ($331).
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Hope is Emo. Chapter One: "The Words are Dying". Hope talks about the importance of words and how unfair it is for Marna to go to Senior Prom. [Brought to you by the fine folks at Ask a Ninja]
Tales by H. Beam Piper are now available online. [more inside]
June 14, 2006
Jesus Christ Superman: So, yeah, there's this new Superman movie coming out, and in line with the Chronicles of Narnia, the plot seems to be heavily christianized (or gay, as some see it). What gives? And whose idea was it to make another Superman movie without Richard Prior in it?
Happy Mornings You can sleep when you are dead. YouTube video. via
High School Pranking Season well underway.
Sexed Robots.
When boy meets girl, you just know there's gonna be some hot robot lovin'.
There's even a video! (QT 11.2mb) - They sing! They mate! They, er, fall asleep!
Not to be confused with
Minke filter Japan has gained the support of three more small countries to give its position a definite majority in the International Whaling Commission. This marks the climax of a 10-year campaign of using substantial foreign aid packages to persuade small countries - often with no whaling tradition, or even a coastline - to join the IWC and vote on the Japanese side.
June 13, 2006
Facing the Past
[In] The language of the Aymara, who live in the Andes highlands of Bolivia, Peru and Chile, . .
"Until now, all the studied cultures and languages of the world – from European and Polynesian to Chinese, Japanese, Bantu and so on – have not only characterized time with properties of space, but also have all mapped the future as if it were in front of ego and the past in back. The Aymara case is the first documented to depart from the standard model,"
via, darnit
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These people give us pleasure. Children simply in delight! Some of the most amazing balloon creations I've ever seen.
Happy birthday,
James Clerk Maxwell, who some believe rates with Einstein and Newton.
Float copper.
Float. Copper. Giant chunks of....of....of copper. Just....out there.
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Gosh.
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Deportation rocks an island community: People on a small Scottish island are protesting the UK Government's deportation of a young man of Thai-origin. [more inside]
June 12, 2006
Curious Weight-loss George: Have you had any experience with the Leptin Diet? [more inside]
Curious George and his Bad Jokes. Tell me a joke. The worse, the better. [via, indirectly, a lengthy exchange in this.]
LotR, redubbed - just a small section of it, for those of you who find excessive word use troubling.
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep:
For families overcome by grief and pain, the idea of photographing their baby may not immediately occur to them. Offering gentle and beautiful photography and videography services in a compassionate and sensitive manner is the heart of this organization. The soft, gentle heirloom photographs of these beautiful babies are an important part of the healing process.
(NSFTSDTDB)
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Colorful language We've seen English words ranked according to usage before, and over on that other site there was a recent discussion of the Internet's favorite color, and now we have Color Code [slow-loading java applet], a "full-color portrait of the English language."
send a hammer to smash some xenophobic brick
Heres a response to the folks that have the right sending bricks to their congressmen to build a freakin' wall around us. Smash the walls of ignorance!
It's an Alligator, LOL
- A 6 foot-long alligator pounded on a South Carolina retired couple's front door and started scaling (uhuh huh huhn gedit?) the wall, all because of Mrs Roslyn Loretta's supernaturally good teriyaki chicken. Or something.
"It looked like he was going to ring the doorbell," said Mrs Loretta, who blames her delicious barbecued delights for the unexpected visit.
In other weird animal news...
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Squirrels with vintage cameras. [more inside]
Oo-er missus! Its bigger than we thought! Scientists have discovered that a ladys pleasure zone down there is a lot bigger than we first thought. (NSFW if your work doenst like the word "cl1tor1s"!)
Impeach Bush!
No, seriously, apparently we can... via Boing Boing
After Freud. On his 150th anniversary, Freud's legacy is being dismantled by the ideas of his greatest challenger, Aaron Beck. Cognitive therapy is now the orthodox talking cure in Britain, and the government wants more of it. But with cognitive science comes a new battle for the meaning of the human mind. From Prospect magazine.
June 11, 2006
Giant meteorite hits Norway. A big rock from outer space just crashed into a mountain in Norway. Any monkeys ever been within hearing/seeing distance of a meteorite strike? Any Norwegian monkeys see or hear this one? [more inside]
Interstation 3D. Some very nice digital art from Croation artist Toni Bratincevic. [more inside]
Keatley Creek
is an unusual and great plateau culture site in the interior of British Columbia.
[WARNING: crappy frames - resize for easier reading.]
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The Roxy Theatre in Forsyth, Montana. It's old. But some of it is new. And it's got a bitchin' crew.
Cat trees bear. Twice.
Curious George: Video editing PC system? Asking for guidance to windows-based pixel monkeys: what would be an acceptable, basic system for digital video editing? [more inside]
Your moment of zen. An assortment of stuff, updated daily. A few things we've seen before, and a few new things.
June 10, 2006
Animator v. Animation. [Flash] Xiao Xiao meets Harold & The Purple Crayon. (And also a hint of Fred's Escape.) Even more enjoyable if you work with Flash.
June 09, 2006
Don't hurt yourself: Something beautiful and cynical for your weekend.
Fuck yeah! I've had a shitty fuckin' week so this cheered me up immensely. Happy Friday!
Advice needed on managing a large website I've been asked to set up a website management plan where the updaters are not web-savvy. Do you have some tips on locking things down and eliminating frustration for the users? [more inside]
The Bilderberg Group
are meeting this week in Ottawa, Canada. Who are they?. What do they do? Conspiracy theories abound.
Previous discussion.
Bum Wines. "If your taste buds are shot, and you need to get trashed with a quickness, then "T-bird" is the drink for you. Or, if you like to smell your hand after pumping gas, look no further than Thunderbird. As you drink on, the bird soars higher while you sink lower."
The amazing (but true!) journey of a can of S & W® brand black beans
as they make their way
across this great land of ours, and to other nations!
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Bukowski
Yeah, yeah.
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Kill the gatso. Or kill the gatso. [more inside]
Goatonapole is the philosophy of being that holds that there is a Goat and a Pole and that the Goat is on the Pole. Whether we accept, reject, or live in ignorance of Goatonapole, we are all Goatonapolists. Adherents of Goatonapole often shout the mantra "The goat's on a pole!" to remind others of this central and single tenet of Goatonapole, that they might come to a deeper understanding.
Come Away, Oh Mortal Child: The SurLaLune Fairy Tale Site offers a wealth of resources for the volk-inclined. Illustrations beautiful and strange, thouroughly annotated versions of old favorites, and complete texts of works you are perhaps not so familiar with. [more inside]
Ok, everyone can be Curious George except MonkeyBashi.
I sent this email out in May to people who are identified in the 4th paragraph: (Damn, this is going to be really long, so please have patience.)
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June 08, 2006
Gentlemen, start your thetans
Scientology is not the first religion to make its way into racing.
Morgan Shepherd has competed the past few years in the No. 89 Victory in Jesus Racing Ministries car. NASCAR had to sign off on his paint scheme, and refused to let his first offering onto the track before finally agreeing to allow the message "Racing With Jesus" onto the hood of the car.
And in 2004, Bobby Labonte drove the season-opening Daytona 500 in a car that advertised Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of The Christ."
World Cup Filter. Unofficial World Cup discussion thread. Spoiler-rich environment, so stay away if you've taped the games.
Baby left for dead is all grown up. A moving true tale.
"Can a human subsist on a constant diet of pelletized, nutritionally complete food like puppies and monkeys do?" "On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: 'a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.'" This guy is either crazy, a genius, or both--but either way, he's a monkey at heart!
Genpets: the only bioengineered buddies. Available in the one-year- and three-year-lifespan models.
June 07, 2006
Billy Preston Dies At 59. An an amazing musican gone.
Mentos & Diet Coke combine to make dancing waters of the first degree. Just stunning. (embedded QT video) [more inside]
Curious George: Cellphone City My "Mo-Bile" is on the fritz. Help me pick a new one! [more inside]
ascii pr0n, still almost sorta exciting after all these years. NSFW, if your boss squints a lot. (Note -- site includes obligatory ascii anime pr0n.)
Mad Jack Churchill Eccentric, but efficient, Fighting Jack Churchill brought his own special touch to everything.
Iowa! Land of mysteries! More, much more, inside! [more inside]
Squalor Survivors: Schadenfreude much?
Curious George: You bunt, too? I'm installing Ubuntu Linux on an old (Win98) PC. It's my first time with open source. What's good? [more inside]
I was Russell Crowe's publicity whore All the world's a stage, it seems, and an elite few are aware of the plot. We clueless extras are there to be deceived, abused and bullied into playing our parts, for the show that celebrates the stars must go on.
June 06, 2006
The Monkey Chow Diaries: "On June 3, 2006, I began my week of eating nothing but monkey chow: "a complete and balanced diet for the nutrition of primates, including the great apes.""
Don't. Move. Your. Eyes.
Original Optical Oddlusion Offers Ocular Orgasms.
Ok, so 'oddlusion' isn't a real word, sue me.
Meet your new excuse
Yet again not just devaluing people with actual mental problems, but also the effects that modern society has on people, and the need to take personal responsibility, Intermittent Explosive Disorder (or road rage) has now been classified as a mental disorder, and should be showing up as a legal defense in 3... 2... 1...
"People think it's bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment, but what they don't know ... is that there's a biology and cognitive science to this," said Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago's medical school.
Curious George: Pittsburgh I just got a job in Pittsburgh, and I'm going there either later this week or early next week to go look for a place to live. Can any monkeys offer advice? [more inside]
Au Revoir To Foie Gras?
Next lobster, next rabbit. Myself, I believe I'm lucky to find myself on top of the food chain. I think God created rabbits and ducks for me to enjoy. And soft-shell crabs.
Cruel, or just plain bad for you?
Homer Simpson: Philosopher of Our Age?
. . . That's why it is no coincidence that the most insightful and philosophical cultural product of our time is a comic cartoon, and why its creator, Matt Groening, is the true heir of Plato, Aristotle and Kant.
BBC article (print version) on why a cartoon character, and no other kind, is a perfect vehicle for philosophy today.
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Bohemian Rhapsody. Considered by many to be one of greatest singles ever. It was one of the first to utilize a promotional music video[YouTube video] and it reached the Top Hits List not once, but twice. What about this amazingly complex piece of music has captivated so many people and continues to today?
6/6/6
It's the Day of the Beast! Figure it out, Einstein! Here are some handy Greek & Hebrew alphabet guides to help!
<flames>LOOK FURTHER IF YOU DARE</flames>
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June 05, 2006
Curious Globetrotting Husband George: #2 has another question for y'all. He's been asked to attend some training in Chicago around June 26th, and is trying to find useful work-related stuff to do at the same time. Does anyone know of or can anyone recommend any embedded software, software process or safety system-related conferences in the US around then?
Hollywood baby names!
Those wacky Hollywood celebs are giving their fashion babies all sortsa kooky names! See if you can come up with some new ones!
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Hello Sooty!
You pig!
Bow-chicka-bow-chicka-bow!
The Fenian Raids. This weekend marked the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Ridgeway. The plan was for members of the Fenian Brotherhood to either hold Canada hostage for the ransom of a Free Ireland, or to create a New Ireland, nobody's quite sure. [more inside]
on-line resources for victims of ATM fraud This is related to a very interesting article from the Register last year: How ATM fraud nearly brought down British banking, which detailed how prone the early ATM systems were to fraud. [more inside]
In homage of our good friend aluminum foil. We use it often, yet we so rarely stop to admire it's shiny foily-ness. What can you do with foil? [more inside]
Furious George So is it just me or does Endnote totally suck? [more inside]
June 04, 2006
The Emperor get bad news from Darth. A YouTube video link, trivial entertainment when set against the sweep of humanity's current problems but amusing nonethless. [more inside]
Formaldehyde and Fido (video): What is with people who feel the need to have pickled pets? Is this a strange cousin of taxidermy, or a branch of mental illness? [more inside]
Toys for the resoundingly average child.
this Wiki is an attempt to create a complete reference to Asian pop cultureThis is a really good idea. The internets should have complete references of South American popular culture, and of African popular culture, and of otther places where funny-coloured people live. [more inside]
June 03, 2006
Why did God ignore Colonel Steve Austin? Logic and theology dancing around the "may" pole holding hands.
Drawing is fun. I spend many hours here at iSribble and find it to be great fun. With friendly people and lots of talent. If you like to draw check it out.
Skeletal Systems: A character study of 22 present and past cartoon characters.[Via]
American Monsters purports to be "your one stop guide to all things cryptozoological." The supernatural beasties covered by the site can be found here. One of the more interesting features of the site (even if it's a little incomplete) is the Monster Map.
Eternal Sunset follows the sunset around the world with webcams. Windows users could also use Desktop Earth to follow the sun on its path from inside your dark cold house or cubical.
Curious, George: Cultural misconceptions I recently met a Chinese woman who moved to NZ in January and is studying NZ English and cultural norms. Her English tutor told her class that in New Zealand, it is inappropriate to touch a child's head -- which is rubbish. What have you been told or otherwise heard about other cultures that turned out to be wrong? What have you heard that sounds wrong and you'd like to find out the truth? [more inside]
June 02, 2006
Looney Manholes (Personholes for you Femmies) Maybe the streets of the US would be a tad more peaceful if we were subjected to more random, crazy artwork. Probably not.
I didn't understand a word, but it doesn't matter. Viggo as el capitán Alatriste. Bueno. Muy bueno. [direct video link of some kind]
Marshall McLuhanisms to refresh your mind. These thoughts are perhaps more relevant now than ever. [more inside]
Teenager's deodorant causes explosion. Mind you get the right colour next time.
Cuirios George: Shoes on or off in the house? (more inside) [more inside]
One girl was killed and another in a coma after an accident. The VanRyn family has kept a blog detailing their comatose daughter Laura's recovery since a truck hit the van in which she and Whitney Cerak were passengers. However, when "Laura" woke up, they realised that the comatose girl was not their daughter. (Warning: really depressing.)
The #mofirc army wants you! Yes, folks - it's that time again. The IRC wing of Monkeyfilter, unofficially known as the "mofircers", wants you! Yes, you! Now! Join, or ... just join! [more inside]
June 01, 2006
The Ship That Sailed to Mars Online version of William Timlin's 1923 illustrated book. [more inside]
Pictures to confuse your soul and make you go pee pee in your pants. I think I need a chair without wheels, this one isn't stable enough after looking at these pictures.
We are not alone 18 year old kid discovers eight new species in a cave deep under Israel.
Penis News: ARTIFICIAL RABBIT PENIS
Dining out tonight? Read what might happen if you annoy your server. There's also rants from waitstaff about bad menus, bad kids, and bad stuff in the bathrooms Check out the list of which celebrities are bad tippers. Admittedly a very anecdotal site, but still worth a look. For the inside track on what it's like to be part of a restaurant's waitstaff, there's the Waiting Tables blog.
Zentai, Zentai, Zentai, Zentai
stab witch (cartoon strip)
Batwoman switches teams. This changes EVERYTHING. [INSERT OBVIOUS JOKE HERE] Miaowrrr!
Javajive
- Some truly spectacular images from a "frat boy turned obsessive photographer" who is on an extended vacation in Indonesia.
They make my Bali photos look like crap
Curious George: 3:14 is the new pi o'clock?
