Links posted in June 2008
June 30, 2008
French Film?
In need of help from bi-lingual monkeys. The BF of almost 2 years has a birthday coming up, and I have thought of an almost perfect gift.
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Quantum of Solace
- teaser trailer.
Epic. That is all.
Michel Gondry Picks 25 Classic Music Videos
with links to videos.
enjoy.
What is Hanny's Voorwerp? The mystery celestial object is.. it is.. well.. it is green, not of any clear galaxy type, and situated below a relatively normal looking spiral galaxy.
June 29, 2008
Up to 15,000 prints and negatives
in yellow crates. In 1984 Kulwant Roy left them to Aditya Arya. And last December, Aditya opened them.
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Curious George: Do you have MonkeyToes?!?!
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Does anyone else ever feel the presence of a phantom thumb jutting out of the side of their foot?
Lownotes question--stolen direct from the Green
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Mr W. finds a purpose (youtube, short film/commercial) [more inside]
June 28, 2008
Casual Car Pooling on the rise in San Francisco. It's been around for a while, but is getting more popular with the rise in gas prices. Be sure to observe the rules!
The Itch that wouldn't go away. A New Yorker story about the science behind itchiness. [more inside]
Man dressed as penis disrupts graduation - "Once I stopped laughing, he was pretty easy to catch because he was tripping on the lower portion of the costume," said Police Sgt. Sean Briscoe. With pic. [more inside]
Naturism meets pop music. (NSFW) [more inside]
June 27, 2008
Friday Happy: "Where The Hell Is Matt? (2008)"
Matt dances poorly, and travels a lot. You may have seen his earlier videos in 2005 or 2006. (The 2006 edition has been discussed previously.)
This year, Matt did something a little different. Watch the video and see what you think.
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Bottle or tap? How do you drink your water? Do you match up?
How to build a rocket stove
, following Larry Winiarski's Rocket Stove Principles. These highly efficient, easy to build cookstoves can cook a meal using a handful of twigs, so the inventor says.
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The Census of Marine Life has now taken the World Register of Marine Species, WoRMS, more than half-way to completion. [more inside]
June 26, 2008
How massive is Google? It processes 20 Petabytes of a data a day. This article will help you appreciate the humongousnessness.
June 25, 2008
Photographs made while travelling 50 to 70 mph
in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwestern United States.
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June 24, 2008
The Door to HELL! Thirty-five years ago, geologists were drilling for gas when then encountered a very large cavern underground filled with a poisonous gas. They ignited the gas expecting it to burn off in a few hours. via Neil Gaiman's Blog
Curious George.
What are you reading at the moment? Would you recommend anything?
In the last few weeks, I've read Waugh's "Black Mischief", a couple of Harry Potters, Rawicz's "The Long Walk", and had started Capek's "War with the Newts" (one of my all time favourites) before misplacing it. But my library bores me at the moment, and so I must open my reading list to all. Mofites, please don't disappoint me!!
Afro Ninja - THE MOVIE
June 23, 2008
Footbag world record thwarted. [more inside]
Roadside architecture: pages of architectural curiosities. I found some of the giant containers first while trying to find a good picture of Bondurant's Pharmacy.
June 22, 2008
New drugs in the pipeline. Very soon now we'll see even more bio-mass thrusting us aside at the check-out queue. Or would giant muscles not be so desirable if everyone had them to the nth degree already? Looking at the two mice, there's something sad about the poor muscle-bound one, skinned and flayed as he is. [more inside]
7 Modern Wonders of Green Technology: Conceptual and Actual Ecological Designs of the Future.
Yes, Ikan,
and so kan you!
Shopping at the grocery store makes me, I dunno. Psychotic? I want this gizmo RIGHT NOW.
(second link is NYT article, may require reg.)
June 21, 2008
Curious George Audible: Is there a reason that headphone earpieces are designated "left" and "right?" [more inside]
Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000. Or, how they managed to open-source Netscape in an insanely short amount of time. [more inside]
Map of the Milky Way Galaxy. Mouseover for feature labels.
June 20, 2008
Curious Banditsnatch So, the birdfeeder seems to be conspicuously empty in the mornings - how to ID the culprit? [more inside]
Those Damn Birds: Those goddamned, motherfucking birds. (flash game)
These are the greatest snow globes ever! Not that I'm a big fan of snow globes. Mostly they tend to be chintzy pieces of tourist crap. But THESE are beautiful, and delightfully creepy.
Are you Marriage Material, 1930's Style?
This month's edition of the psychology magazine Monitor has an amusing article about a psychometric scale designed in the 1930's for rating the quality of your wife.
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Sleepy sun bear with a squishy nose
4 Amazing Ancient Cities of Color. [Via]
June 19, 2008
Anybody know what this is all about? The Passively Multiplayer Online Game is....
Farming with dynamite! Why waste time and money rotating crops and tilling the same old boring soil when y'coulda just done blowed it up? [more inside]
Someone thought that this was a good idea. Hmmmmm. There's a thread over here where a lot of comments are falling into the "what's the big deal?" category. [more inside]
June 18, 2008
Little Chimp Society: The Illustration News Portal. Via an Ectomo link to this Anatomical viewpoint by Vicente Martí.
B.C. cops find sixth foot, another rightie. With bonus map, retracing the feet's last steps. [more inside]
Are you aware of all internet traditions?
GOATSE creature in SPORE
- the Spore creature creator demo has been released as a prelude to the full game later in the year. Someone has already gone ahead and created an animal that looks like.. well you can see what it looks like.
YouTube vid, short and sweet. It should be safe for work, cos there's no.. you know.. but in reality, it probably isn't.
June 17, 2008
Curious George: The End I have always had a fascination with the concept of the end of the human race. I can recall as a little boy feeling certain that our species was doomed due to pollution and human mismanagement. I had strong feelings that we had fifty more years, at best. As an adult, my doomsday prophesies get fueled over and over again by global warming alarmists, reports of nukular weapons in the hands of evil-doers, depletion of fisheries, bird flu, mutant viruses, rain forest atrocities, Lindsay Lohan, and so on. But here’s the rub: If humanity is going to exit stage right, I want it to happen during my lifetime. If we’ve trudged all these years from caves to condos and it is all about to fail, I’d like to be around to see that happen. Sick? I think not. What’s the point of living life’s great pageant if you don’t get to read the last chapter? Eh? Discuss.
Advert versus reality Not doing what it says on the tin.
Just a little gorilla humor for your enjoyment.
Gorilla & The Maiden [Risqué YT] - If I had to describe it, I'd say it's a sort of cross-species Apache dance - like La Valse Chaloupée.
The art of Ryohei Hase. [Via Ectoplasmosis!]
June 16, 2008
Real-estate barter. Screw the red paperclip, just put your house/land/FEMA trailer/whatever up on this website and watch the offers come rolling in. [more inside]
Blogger arrests hit record high. "More bloggers than ever face arrest for exposing human rights abuses or criticising governments, says a report."
FireNES
(Google translation) is a Firefox extension that takes your productivity, slaps it around, makes it put on clown makeup and do a little dance for its amusement. Then it gets out the ointments.
It also lets you play over 2000 NES games. Requires Java.
Cancer research - something that works.
I could have posted this in an existing thread....
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but I didn't.
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June 15, 2008
Mackie MixBusters Okay, so it's pretty much an ad for Mackie audio equipment but driving a pickup over expensive electronics is always exciting. The visceral crunch of snapped knobs and bent frames... destructive testing at its finest. Bonus: some guy pouring chocolate milk over his 5000$US camera.
When Album Covers Attack. YouTube. Maybe NSFW. Gratuitous gore. [more inside]
June 14, 2008
George Curioso Why am I suddenly getting Google and occasionally other websites in Spanish when I log on? [more inside]
Baby's First Manolos? Welcome to Heelarious, makers of fine high-heels for infants.
Monkey escapes zoo, tries to flee on speed boat. [more inside]
Hello. Hello. How Low. Kurt Cobain Signature Chuck Taylor All-Star Shoes! Wow! Some call it a black spot on whatever. But he always did admire John Lennon. [more inside]
When Candy Design Goes Wrong
- Gummi Lighthouses.
I don't need to say anything.
June 13, 2008
Goodbye Little Russ I liked this man. He is pretty much irreplaceable.
Censorship as Art. BPA (Fat Boy Slim) with David Byrne, performing "Toe Jam." Single YouTube Link.
A piglet on a farm in northern England has conquered its "fear of mud" with a set of miniature gumboots. Pig in boots (video & article). BBC version (with vid). The Mirror is there too. [more inside]
The Vatican goes Broadway!
The Vatican is staging its first ever musical next week, a dramatisation of the life of the Virgin Mary.
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Breakfast breads baked for bread baking day. Brioches (what is the plural of brioche anyway?), crumpets, cinnamon rolls - yum. Bookmarked.
Website peddles racially-charged ‘Sock Obama’ toy.
It's some sort of natural disaster epidemic of late. Thinking of any Iowan Monkeys or their relatives. Let's hope this isn't another New Orleans, eh?
June 12, 2008
On a Monday morning last month
highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend. But wait...there's more...
Lawson Wood - The Monkey Painter
There's a model shortage in New York. There's a stripper shortage in Toronto. Good-looking immigrants get to jump the queue?
The 7 Deadly Sins. Interpreted as wine glasses. I love pride.
June 11, 2008
Mom sends kid to school wearing a swastika, now trying to get her kids back. [The mother] says she's not a neo-Nazi, just proud of her northern European heritage.
The Bikini Effect. Your beach wear is making me want Burger King. Trufax.
Sudoku in the court - a trial run. A drug trial has been aborted after three months when the some of the jury admitted to doing Sudoku rather than paying attention. The judge had previously complimented them on their copious notetaking, apparently not noticing that they were writing up and down as well as side to side.
June 10, 2008
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a portal to 3416 free, full text, peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals. Talk about the weather, dig some prehistory, learn why making websites isn't computer science. Learn how to build an aqueduct or a bridge. [more inside]
Little black notebooks. And some pens. And more notebooks.
June 09, 2008
Really Really REALLY Good News
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Critter news is good news!
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June 08, 2008
Mall Ninja!
Cos malls are DANGEROUS people. You don't know it but shit goes DOWN in malls like you wouldn't believe. Well, I feel like scrubbing my eyeballs safer. via.
The Problem with Palm Oil. New website shows which shampoos, foods kill lovable primates.
Found in books
"Be careful what you use as a bookmark. Thousands of dollars, a Christmas card signed by Frank Baum, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a marriage certificate from 1879, a baby’s tooth, a diamond ring and a handwritten poem by Irish writer Katharine Tynan Hickson are just some of the stranger objects discovered inside books by AbeBooks.com booksellers."
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June 07, 2008
The lost rivers of London: Many of them played important role in the development of the city, as the location of mills, the source of drinking water and as open sewers. Most of them have been pushed totally underground, forced into culverts, out of sight and out of mind – even if some of them have left their mark on the city’s topology. [more inside]
Underwater Relationship: A National Geographic photograper describes how he was adopted by a leopard seal. [Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath]
Rocket Fishing Rod --- In case you've ever contemplated what's wrong with modern culture, not to mention modern youth... Please hold firmly in your mind, before clicking the link, the concept of simply having a pole, with a line and a hook on the end to catch fish, as it has existed throughout the ages. Then click the link and see just how far down the wrong path we have gone. How do we fix this?
The Great South West Walk - a 250 km loop in the south east (work with me here) coast of Australia, it follows the coast between Portland and Nelson before swinging inland and back to Portland. It's....a little obscure.
Man Babies Just wrong.
The Ladybird Book of The Policeman Meet Pc Brian Plectrum, the world's tallest copper, and his colleagues in this educational and informative children's classic.
June 06, 2008
Radiohead's Nude ... radically remixed. (Vimeo Video link) [more inside]
Cool Graphic on the Barack vs Clinton race This is just a damned fine interactive graphic from the New York Times. What matters when it comes to which candidate people voted for? Race definitely mattered. Income matters sort of. And education.
dinoballs (a webcomic)
The oil shock of 2008. A (US-centric) guide to why GM is closing plants. SUV depreciation - ouch!.
The California Paradox What if the word California completely disappeared from your universe? Yet you still lived there?
June 05, 2008
How a small town loses a bank.
More Lost and Found: Where's the Wellfleet Lighthouse?
Lost pyramid relocated. The pyramid of Menkauhor Kaiu, has been found again. [more inside]
A short read on Facebook Etiquette from the often-entertaining Sabrina Jalees.
3 Ideas That Are Pushing the Edge of Science - 1: Spermobots. 2: Fusion On Tap. 3: Two-Time Physics.
itty bitty kitty committee: teeny tiny bloggy about itty bitty kitties.
June 03, 2008
Michael Johnson talks about his decision - to hand back his 4x400m gold medal from the 2000 Sydney Olympics. A team mate on the relay team has recently admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs during that time.
Eat Something Bendy. (metacafe video, via metachat)
First Contact, The Zoo Hypothesis And The Prime Directive
'You've probably seen the incredible photographs the Brazilian government recently released of an uncontacted tribe deep in the heart of the Amazon... A connection exists between this story and the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence...'
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June 02, 2008
"That picture has obviously been photoshopped!"
That's the rallying cry of the forum nerd for whom any evidence is suspect, and who apparently has intuitive image analysis abilities beyond those of the average viewer.
Well, here's how the experts determine a photo is fake.
First day of the week; 6 letters:
Four Bad Cases of the Mondays
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Kindergarten court Florida kindergartener kicked out of his classroom by a class vote
June 01, 2008
A web design company with a very cool web 2.0 design Techness Business Solutions is a Vancouver based internet marketing and website design company. They just launched a new web 2.0 design. Nice looking website!
Stories from the last Chinese earthquake. Warning: some of these will rip your heart out. (via Reddit)
Johnnie Worker Red Labial Oh dear.
