Links posted in July 2008
July 31, 2008
Orwell a blogger? "...each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written, allowing you to follow Orwell’s recuperation in Morocco, his return to the UK, and his opinions on the descent of Europe into war in real time."
The future is here; here's your jetpack. (This post subtitled "Thanks again, New Zealand. First LotR, Now This.")
July 30, 2008
Esteban World Tour Watchers of HSN and SVC will be familiar with the Utter Crap that Señor Esteban hawks on the TV. [more inside]
LA Weekly's "Where to Eat Now" list for GPS Devices Long time no see everybody! I took the time to compile the "Where to Eat Now" list for use on GPS devices (at least on the TomTom) published by Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer prize winning food critic at the LA Weekly. See inside for link. [more inside]
Is Aging an Accident of Evolution? Stanford Scientists Say "Yes" [Via Disinfo]
'Curing' or 'enabling' hikikomori? "Millions of young men live their lives entirely on the Internet, unable to leave the house, in fear of human contact. In response to this troubled niche, an entertainment company has come up with a possible cure. Videos of girls that stare into the camera... and occasionally say good morning..." [Hikikomori and other social recluses previously discussed here.]
Mande Barang
(Indian Yeti) hairs are to be DNA tested.
Mande Burung encounters have apparently been on the increase in recent months.
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Harry Eng
was a master of "Impossible Bottles". Harry would tell you straight away that everything went through the neck of the bottle...
THINK!
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July 29, 2008
A little on Little House. Melissa Gilbert will star in a new musical of Little House on the Prairie. But as 'Ma' Ingalls? What? [more inside]
The breeding properties of M&Ms
Someone posts a message to Roger Ebert's blog about how he makes M&Ms "duel" to figure out which is stronger.
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Curious Holidays George Want to go on holiday soon. Don't know where. Please help! [more inside]
Warp Drive Engine Would Travel Faster Than Light. "It is possible to travel faster than light. You just wouldn't travel faster than light."
July 28, 2008
Curious George and the Required Reading List. What books are you ashamed not to have read? What books are you ashamed to have indeed read? [Blatantly lifted from der blau.]
Curious George: Intelligent heterogeneous political forum? Is there a forum (in the Interwebs sense, with threaded messages) about politics featuring an intelligent user base, made up of people with varying ideologies? [more inside]
Cuil has opened its doors to requests today. Brought to you by former Google employee Anna Patterson. Supposedly, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages, reportedly 3 times what Google has indexed.
Everybody needs cube toys!!
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Generate your own job title.
Decorate your cube.
Stay motivated.
AND ARE YOU? Ethical, that is. The Times (London) has this "Moral DNA Test." Interesting.
July 27, 2008
Fire in the Big Top!
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The Hartford Circus Fire
Well written essay
An American Circus Tragedy
Great information, hideous website
Who was Little Miss 1565?
Happy Birthday Monkeybashi !!! Many happy returns! Thank you again for this wonderful site, where we've made friends, had fun and generally hung loose.
Wired Magazine Looks Back at War Games, the movie that popularized computer geeks. [more inside]
July 26, 2008
REALLY irrelevant "The dot over the letter i is called a tittle," and why doesn't a duck's quack echo? Totally random facts that have nothing to do with anything other than it's out there!
July 25, 2008
The Curmudgeon VS. Trebek-
Josh Fruhlinger, author of the wonderfully snarky and Mary Worth obsessed blog, The Comics Curmudgeon, appeared on Jeopardy this week.
This is his story.
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Girly post
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Oh, you silly girls and your shoes
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Guinea pig festival in Peru. Aw, look, they've dressed their guinea pigs up as people. Now what are they doing? Oh...
Ella Enchanted: Ella Mind Control!
I occasionally run across advertisements or movies whose main purpose seems to be the reinforcement or triggering of covert MK Ultra mind control programming.... "Enchanted" or "bewitched" are code words for mindcontrolled, so the movie title might as well read "Ella Mind Controlled".
Just one of many photographic examples on this site of covert government and corporate wickedness. Bring your tinfoil hat!
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Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux ACPI?
- Foxconn make motherboards, and some of these do not comply with ACPI industry specification, and will not support features such as hibernate and suspend, as well as fan control and thermal zone on a non-Windows operating system.
Malice or "we decided we didn't really care about Linux about halfway through the BIOS writing process so we just left whatever we had at the time in there and called it a day," - you be the judge.
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Apparently the Northern Lights have been a mystery...until now
Article.
PS THEMIS= Time History of Events and Macroscale Interations during Substorms
I love that.
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Are you a kitty hatin', monkey lover? Actually you can play this flash game and still love kitties. (cuz it's not real...shhhh)
July 24, 2008
Curious George: Does anyone have experience turning a Sole Proprietorship into an LLC in California? [more inside]
Something in saliva helps heal wounds faster. And it took this long to figure this out. Because "licking his wounds" isn't a common phrase or anything. So nobody looked into it until now. Righty-O.
Hailstones Blast Man off the Shitter - oh god, poor man, all he wanted was a crap, and then he got iced up the arse by some Fortean weather. Pictures here. [more inside]
July 23, 2008
This, my friends, is the beginning of the planet of the apes. Viva la revoluciøn! [more inside]
CG: WTF with my glasses? Curious George: Are my glasses cheap pieces of crap, or is it just me? [more inside]
Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky. [Via Bng Bng]
July 22, 2008
He was working as an alternative medicine practitioner - complete with moustache and big white beard - in Belgrade. On the run for 13 years Radovan Karadzic is, strike that, was, Europe's most wanted, accused of responsibility for the deaths of 200,000 people and driving almost 2 million people from their homes.
July 21, 2008
Seven Best National Parks for Visiting Old Growth Forests. [Via]
Cuirous George: The Big C A FOAF (friend of a friend) who lives in CA, has pancreatic cancer. She is looking for any treatments that may help. [more inside]
Look at my monkey
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This first link is really cheezy and posted with Hank in mind. The rest of you *classy* monkey spankers will just have to go inside.
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July 20, 2008
WikiSky.org - a detailed sky map
Befriend a polar bear, by answering eco-friendly questions.
Yoshiyuki Iwase - a Japanese photographer, best known for his pictures of ama, women who dove for seaweed for the few days of the year when water temperatures were bearable and the tides favourable. [more inside]
July 19, 2008
More Evidence for a Revolutionary Theory of Water - The traditional picture of how liquid water behaves on a molecular level is wrong, according to new experimental evidence.
July 18, 2008
Build your own fantastic contraption [more inside]
The coolest video you will see today.
A series of images from the former Deep Impact Spacecraft looking back at Earth, as the Moon passes in front of (transits) our Little Blue Planet.
The result provides a previously unseen perspective of our little home in space. Amazing.
There's still no flying cars, but here's ten futuristic materials to start building one.
The Metropolitan Area Outer Discharge Channel of Saitama: Incredible Storm Water System in Japan. [Via Grinding]
July 17, 2008
WTF Dad?!?!?! She was the only one who didn't know what was going on.
The Beige Site. Because old people are LOLsome! [more inside]
Mechanism behind stress and Immune System Link - well, we've been saying for years that there's a link between chronic stress and chronic illness, even cancer, and now Eggheads have found out exactly what the deal is - it's those pesky Telomeres.
Dwelling crankily on old wounds. That's the criticism of the bishop organising World Youth Day to being asked about the Catholic Church's treatment of the Foster family. [more inside]
Star Wars on latest internet craze. (SLYTP) (filmed in Tokyo)
July 16, 2008
Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog See, apparently Joss Whedon got bored during the writer's strike and... well... Neil Patrick Harris as Doctor Horrible, struggling supervillain! With songs!
The Unbreakable Fighting Umbrella.
Useful against web 2.0 pool crashers, ninja attacks, evil giraffes, and carrier pigeon drug mules (video). Sadly, not effective against teh c0ff33 h4xx0rz, but certainly worthy of inclusion on the list of best anti-terrorism devices ever .
Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
"My name is Sean Tevis. I’m an Information Architect in Kansas running for State Representative. I’ve decided to “retire” my current State Representative. I’m going to win. This is my story (XKCD homage style) so far."
Lets get this guy in office!
# 3 TV Dinner Too too funny! [more inside]
My wife left me because the dolphins at Sea World gave me an erection
Canada starts deporting deserters back to the US
July 15, 2008
R.I.P. CAPTCHA Hello Spam! They've taken Yahoo!, Google, Hotmail and Craigslist. Be afraid... Be very, very afraid.
Belgium go Bye Bye? Somewhere up there in the ether, Douglas Adams is rubbing his hands together wickedly. And this, right on the heels of their coronation as the Beer Capital of teh World, too! [more inside]
Let's do this again! London meetup, anyone? [more inside]
Tacky Weddings. We've all been to one. [more inside]
White lion cubs delight zoo crowds [flash video] by doing delightful things whilst being small, furry and raw with squee.
"Terrorist" Watch List Hits One Million Names. The ACLU have set up form where victims of the watch list can report their experiences. [more inside]
July 14, 2008
Good News: Manners are coming back!
WhalePower: Whales, Dolphins Inspire Wind Turbine Tech. [Via]
Dode, dude. Surprising amount of detail for an article warning about the dode-drug's dangers. Looks like I can finally cut down on the nutmeg...
LimerickDB - you can browse limericks or submit your own. Search before you do, tho'. Latest submissions and random ones are worth a browse, too. [more inside]
Dream recorder
- using your Mac to leer at you as you sleep, so you can confess to it the gauzy scenes you've just sashayed through.
"Our night times are very important and should in no way disturbed by computers. This is our motto." Somebody needs an editor.
July 13, 2008
Banksy Unmasked? Robin Gunningham, apparently. Or it's Banksy's latest hoax.
For all those modellers who have at some stage cursed warped plastic hulls , shrunken resin and fiddly photoetch take a step back and check out this fleet of model ships, over 500 of them, built entirely from wooden matchboxes. [more inside]
The 48 Laws of Power . The book has been around for a while. An interview with the author.
July 12, 2008
The IEoUIAtW: What rank is this Bulgarian policeman? What about this cocky young pilot from Singapore or these friendly looking sailors from China and Australia? Why not find out by using the awkwardly named International Encyclopedia of Uniform Insignia Around The World? [more inside]
July 11, 2008
Bible Map - Like Google Maps, except for the bible. [more inside]
July 10, 2008
The Apple Tax - How the "Apple Tax" Boosts Prices on iPod & iPhone Accessories
From Motown to Growtown Urban decay and rising food costs give spark to a new neighborhood assistance initiative: urban farming.
Iran Missiles Photoshopped? Headline making photo of Iranian missile test appears to have been "retouched". [more inside]
Windows update leads to web black-out - Hundreds of thousands of people who use the ZoneAlarm firewall to protect their PC have been locked out of the internet by Microsoft's latest round of software updates.
Curious Hairy George What can be creatively done with about half a metre of hair? [more inside]
The Fabulous Story of Poop A group of urban artists can find beauty in even the ugliest of subjects. [more inside]
The Big Picture - Pictures you see in your newspaper, but better and more. [via]
July 09, 2008
Reverend Jessie Jackson Not Helping- Threatens to cut Obama's dick off. [more inside]
Gorbachov: The Music Video. Some vid that is simply mindblowing in terms of its sheer AWESOMNITY. I won't spoil any surprises, except to say that it's made of 100% weapons-grade Soviet AWESOME. [Liberated from our Imperialist adversaries in the Blue.]
Eagle and Dragon - Part One. Part Two - Detroit and Part Three - Chongqing. Comparing the US and China, part *very large number*. Part one is pretty skippable but the other two are worth looking at. (Phrasing deliberately chosen to emphasise the photography in each.)
Photo Gallery: Translucent Creatures. [Via]
Yvette's. Um. Actually I have no idea. I saw this linked in a comment on Mefi and was simultaneously creeped out and intrigued. Warning: embedded music on every page.
July 08, 2008
Dave the Chimp and The Chapel of St. Martin. [Via Wooster Collective]
Disrespectful or just obnoxious? Where's the line these days?
100 Tanka poems, illustrated by Katsushika Hokusai, explained by a wet nurse. [more inside]
New analysis of Mercury backs up Vonnegut. An awfully pretty image, from the MESSENGER spacecraft, shows the moon-like planet. Unlike the moon, however, new analysis suggests that the smooth plains were surfaced mainly by volcanic action, rather than by meteoric impacts and the dusting of detritus. Its magnetic field too seems to indicate immense internal activity. [more inside]
July 07, 2008
World's Longest Concert Strikes a New Chord
"The church organ in Halberstadt will play the next - sixth - chord of John Cage's As Slow As Possible work. The performance began in 2000 and is scheduled to last a total of 639 years."
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Snuggly the Security Bear explains Constitutional Compromise. Snuggly loves you.
The Fly lands on the opera stage. David Cronenberg directs an opera adaptation of his own movie, and sets it in the time of the original. It's showing at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris if you happen to be in town. Reviews are good or simply so-so.
New Zealand war art showcases about 1,500 images of New Zealanders at war beginning with World War I. Lots and lots of images in a wide variety of media by a long list of artists. stolen almost word for word direct from marxchivist's post via the Blue. [more inside]
Scientists Map the 10 Billion Neurons of Human Cerebral Cortex & Find a Central Switchboard - The non-invasive technique of Diffusive Spectrum Imaging has enabled an international team of scientists to get inside the human head without breaking anything. The system has mapped the mass of ten billion neurons that make up the human cerebral cortex - and found a central switchboard hiding inside, a densely-packed region of connections which works hard even when the rest of the brain is chilling out.
Paperbark - moving in. Australia, not just a victim anymore. The paperbark, Melaleuca quinquenervia, is listed as a noxious pest in the USA and several US states. It's particularly problematic in Florida and Hawaii. Take that rest of the world!
Whenever someone implies that history is boring, I bring up Napoleon's penis.
More from those perverts at NPR.
Make your own "bring up" joke.
July 06, 2008
One Bag packing: A great collection of tips and tricks for getting the most out of your limited baggage allowance. Check out, in particular, the neat bundle wrapping technique. [more inside]
July 05, 2008
Man flying lawn chair lifted by helium balloons. Again. See also more flight details, or track the flight live. Also reminiscent of Danny Deckchair.
ObGyn opens Spa and Reconstructive Service in NY 1-2, squeeze, release, breathe, 1-2, squeeze, release, breathe...now, put your lips together and blow... [more inside]
July 04, 2008
When a daddy loves a mommy very much... he buys a home server.
Life Support: Could animals be transformed into medical devices? [Via]
Curious George wants to ask about you and Bob. What's your Bob Dylan story? [more inside]
Dan’s Auto & Truck Parts - For all your baby otter repairs. Baby otters have a weekend break. With vid.
July 03, 2008
Thought Police no longer fiction
Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.
Thank goodness I have nothing to worry about- oh, wait!
11 Best Foods You Aren't Eating.
Really long NYT article with technical lingo on what foods we should be eating for better health. To save you time, I've condensed the list. Presented without further editorial comment:
1. Motherfuckin' beets.
2. Cabbage.
3. Swiss chard: They protect the Pope and are also green and leafy.
4. Cinnamon: Sometimes spelled cinammon.
5. Pomegranate juice: A type of juice.
6. Dried Plums. The food previously known as pruny prune-faced prune fruit.
7. Pumpkin seeds: These are packed with magnesium. Also available in .44 hollow point.
8. Sardines: Mash them up, use as a spread or as figurines.
9. Turmeric: Sounds like tumor. Don't think about that.
10. Frozen blueberries: a.k.a. "tundra testicles"
11. Canned Pumpkin: i see the big-assed can, but where da seeds at?
In a story tailor-made for Monkeyfilter
a 42-year-old chimpanzee, who eats with a knife and fork but also occasionally bites bits off people, has gone missing in a southern California forest after escaping from his cage.
The owner is the same guy who was hideously mauled a few years ago while bringing the same Chimp a birthday cake (it wasn't the same ape that attacked him).
[more inside]
Metropolis- Complete at Last- Last Tuesday Paula Félix-Didier traveled on a secret mission to Berlin in order to meet with three film experts and editors from ZEITmagazin. The museum director from Buenos Aires had something special in her luggage: a copy of a long version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years.
Bonne fête Québec! At about 11 a.m., July 3rd, 1608, French explorer Samuel de Champlain walked up to Cap Diamant, and founded Québec City, before going on to lose his astrolabe and stuff. [more inside]
Digging a hole to China?
Use the Map Tunneling Tool to figure out where you'd really end up if you dug a hole through the Earth's core.
Apparently, I'd come out somewhere off the southwest coast of Australia. Antipodean Monkeys, keep watching the waters!
US President tries to reassure survivors.
Christopher Hitchens learns about waterboarding. (second link, video. Video of Christopher Hitchens being waterboarded.)
July 02, 2008
How much do you love your local public transportation? Not as much as these kids, I'm betting! This made my day.
The Snooze to Destiny Thread. Here's where we can breathlessly await the big day when The Record falls. It will be so exciting!
The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later - something over Tunguska went kablammo in 1908 - nobody knows what or why. Might not have been an asteroid, because there's no meteoritic debris - although some suggest Lake Cheko may be an impact crater. [more inside]
email recall Curious George [more inside]
July 01, 2008
Covering Canada: The best, worst and strangest foreign covers of Canadian songs. Happy Canada Day!
Fish School! My officemate got one of these at a conference last week. The best part of the web site is the video. And they have a live streaming FishCam! [more inside]
Drug Raid at 4AM! Sorta. (NYT) Unemployed truck driver pretends to be federal agent, attempts to recreate Walking Tall and Beverly Hills Cop. City officials go along with it. [more inside]
A monumental enema. The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels, was unveiled at the Mashuk-Akva Term spa, the spa's director said Thursday.
Pippi!
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Fun game, cute character.
