Links posted in September 2008
September 30, 2008
The Last Supper - now with eels. Once thought to be bread or lamb, a new theory has it that the Last Supper shows the (supposedly super trendy for the time) combination of eels and orange slices on the table. [more inside]
Curious George and the Freaky Cat I got a wake-up call at 4am last night from an unknown cat... [more inside]
September 29, 2008
PSA: National Canadian Do Not Call List. Starting tomorrow, Canadians can register for the new No-Call List for telemarketers. It is expected that there will be problems registering. There are still a number of broad exceptions, and it doesn't look like it can do anything about calls coming from the States or elsewhere.
Swedish bailout *revised* for America?
How is it that Sweden could bail out its main banks, buying into their assets, while America can only give away tax money to foreign and domestic investors without getting any return in equity?
At 16 % of its GDP the Swedish bailout was relatively bigger than the newest American one at 5% ($.7 trillion/$13.84 trillion in 2007 = .05 = 5%), but THEIR taxpayers got cut in on owning the junk they bought and actually ended up making their money back.
We would rather bank on a wish and a hope?
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Insects and old watch parts combined. That's about it really.
September 28, 2008
SILVERBACK GORILLA TYPES
There just might be a few here.
You think?
"In real life as in Georgette Heyer, the reprehensible, oddly sexy brute fares rather better than the sensitive flower. Now it turns out that the unreconstituted, sexist male chauvinist is not only more attractive to many women, but earns more money and is more professionally successful than the kind man who sympathises when you have period cramps and offers to make you a nice cup of camomile."
Arthur Shapiro's optical illusions blog.
Endangered Baby Gibbon Ape Rescued by Toy Camel.
It doesn't have to be this way. One of your possible futures. Please check your voter registration. [more inside]
September 27, 2008
There Will Come Soft Rains. [Via]
Weekends suck on Mofi. So, here's an experiment involving 5 monkeys, a cage, a banana, a ladder and, crucially, a water hose.
Paul Newman has passed away at 83. One of the greats.
September 26, 2008
"Did you or did you not want a circumcision?" Man claims penis amputated without consent. And they say papercuts are the worst... [more inside]
For Whom the Dinner Bell Tolls. The six-toed cats of Hemingway's house in Key West can keep having their Moveable Feast in their Garden of Eden, on that Island in the Stream, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place where Ernest lived as The Old Man and the Sea. Where the cats can watch The Sun Also Rising. In Our Time.
SHRAPNEL.
A word with meaning. B'Henry and b'Godfrey! It's got history.
September 25, 2008
I fart in your general direction. Unfortunately, I got arrested for it.
TWO PLANETS.
Terrestrial planet collision. Apparently not as rare as we might think.
"This poses two very interesting questions," Fekel said. "How do planetary orbits become destabilized in such an old, mature system, and could such a collision happen in our own solar system?"
Thsrs., The Shorter Thesaurus.
Why perambulate when you can walk? Why walk when you can go?
Why be succinct when you can be terse? Why be terse when you can be curt?
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Magic Lanterns were popular in Japan, where they gave rise to Utsushi-e, a more complex show using hand-held wooden lanterns. There have been efforts recently to recreate these shows.
SLYT OMG! LOLZ!
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We be some chillin' monkeys here.
This is a test of the MonkeyFilter laidback quotient. Thank you for your patience.
Blog Monkey: Help name a monkey species after the blogosphere. [Via]
Jackie Chan brings peace to warring kungfu clans in Timor-Leste. Over to you, I think, Mr Herzog.
Chimps can recognize each other's butts according to a new study. Warning: Picture of chimp butt and stuff in article. [more inside]
September 24, 2008
Desperate antipodean speed dating.
MORE AQUA IN EXCESS.
Fantasy Island and Atlantis rising. "Atlantis' backers are optimistic they can fill its 1,539 rooms despite the economic uncertainty wracking some of the world's richest economies."
September 23, 2008
crazy4cult Artists inspired by cult films. [more inside]
BOOGIE ON! Fun stuff. Love the blues, and the boogie woogie is in there from way back. This kid is brilliant, and here playing his own composition!
Dead horse found on 12th floor of apartment block
- Police in Serbia called to investigate a strange smell in a block of flats found a horse jammed into a ventilation shaft 12 storeys up. How rare.
I can only find this on the NZ site, NY Post and Ananova which is probably the source for the other organs, and not especially known for its reliability. Then again I can find nothing that damns anything from its pages as utter shite, so who knows?
World's Thinnest Balloon Created: Just One Atom Thick
- researchers have created a graphene membrane that is just one atom thick - but strong enough to contain gases under several atmospheres of pressure without popping. The breakthrough could lead to a variety of new technologies - from ways to image biological materials in solution to atomic studies, but make for a startlingly boring Monkeyfilter post.
Impermeable Atomic Membranes from Graphene Sheets: Abstract
Full Text: HTML - PDF
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The Internationale - originally a French song, is now a well known song available in most major languages. My favourite so far? Japanese [this link may break later].
September 22, 2008
Curious George: Neighborhood Ethics? I have an ethical question to pose to the monkey herd: I heard a neighbor being verbally abusive to his wife. What should I do about it, if anything? [more inside]
September 21, 2008
Disney covers. MP3s. Interesting to compare the multiple interpretations of the popular ones.
Splish Splash. The world's biggest swimming pool? Looks a bit empty. Might be something to do with where it is?
The show must go on!!
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Got fleas?
Flea circus
Flea circus?
Flea circus!
Flea. Circus.
Flea circus
Flea circus
Flea circus. Yeah, baby.
September 20, 2008
The Daily Puppy. Puppies. Daily. Blatantly stolen off of muteboy's blog. Sorry, man.
September 19, 2008
Going nowhere in your job? Then go nowhere faster! Behold, the workplace treadmill! [via ATL]
Curious George.. new dog questions! OK, Mrs. HB has lined up a dog rescue/adoption for us.. I'm afraid that 1.) New dog will eat the cats and, 2. I'm too much of an idiot to train it... HELP! [more inside]
A 10-foot spinning orb to replicate Earth’s magnetic field. [Via]
September 18, 2008
Chronophage The hour approaches. The beast's jaws gape, its tail quivers and then snap! Another minute has been devoured, and the hour strikes with the ominous clonk of a chain dropping into a coffin. The creature blinks twice in satisfaction. [more inside]
Your Guide To The Language Of Financial Disaster.
MEDICAL STONER
You think we didn't know this?
Cannabinoids, chemical compounds found in cannabis, are drawing the interest of medical scientists, as they contain compounds that may lead to treatments for ailments ranging from bacterial infections to nausea from chemotherapy. In a report from the journal Pain, British scientists attempted to figure out how cannabinoids affected (surprise!) pain and determine if they are effective against chronic pain.
At least scientists are actually taking a look at it! Another bounce out for the reality of folk-medicine.
Yahtzee reviews Spore - flash video.
Toxic Utah
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March 17, 1968
July 4, 1976
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Getting to the bottom of evolution: Genetic study investigates the origin of the anus. [Via]
September 17, 2008
Norman Whitfield, dead at 67. ...here to make right everything that's wrong...
Curious George needs some podcasts. Do you monkeys have any favourite podcasts you'd care to recommend? I do a few from among the ceeb's offerings (usually C'est la vie and Quirks & Quarks), but I'm looking for something a little different. Downloadable preferred over streaming. Suggestions?
Cephalopod consciousness: Behavioural evidence - by Jennifer A. Mather from the latest issue of the journal Consciousness and Cognition. [more inside]
Paintings of Fred Einaudi
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Mmmmmm, Monkeys are gonna love this.
scroll for a few not on his site may be NSFW
Fred blathers
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Beauty and the Brain. "Neuroaesthetics promises to reinvigorate science's search for a theory of beauty."
September 16, 2008
Shhh, Listen — Rare Soundscapes of Vanishing Habitats.
The Curse of the African Grey.
MY KIND OF PEOPLE "Zeitgeist" and "paradigms" in the same paragraph. Irresistible! And that pic is just like the framed portrait of my son I have displayed (as prominently as his brows) upon my mantle. :D
Now we know what happened to the nose of the Sphinx... [more inside]
Crazy shit on a skateboard
(skip ahead to about the two minute mark) plus skateboarding on the autobahn not to mention skiing down an escalator.
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History's Ten Most Terrifying Contraceptives
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Don't buy that?
How about sneezing?
Or stewed onions!!! No wonder Herodotus wept!
Back in the day we used fennel under our flannel.
Best be takin' some precautions.
need I say may be NSFW in certain prissy offices?
September 15, 2008
Interactive *Table of Elements* Clicking on an element uses QuickTime to show samples of mixed media animation produced by Curious Pictures, New York. It's an interesting demo, I think, from an animation house that uses everything from CGI to stop motion. [more inside]
Thoreau on the moose: "The great American writer found nothing heroic in hunting the gentle creatures. Rather, he saw their killing as a great tragedy." [Via]
See you on the Dark Side of the Moon Founding member of the Pink Floyd, Richard Wright, has died.
David Foster Wallace, dead at 46. The guy who wrote the doorstop Infinite Jest.
all about women The beliefs we have about ourselves, about what we should have accomplished, about how we should behave, about what a mother, family, or wife is determine whether we are satisfied with ourselves and ultimately whether we love and accept ourselves. [more inside]
Can Mother Nature forgive us?
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Watching the barn door after the pit's been poisoned.
Superfraud?
September 14, 2008
Stonehenge 'was hidden from lower classes' - Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of what they believe to be a 20ft fence designed to screen Stonehenge from the view of bloody peasants. [more inside]
September 13, 2008
ET could 'tickle' stars to create galactic internet say eggheads.
September 12, 2008
Cops illegally taped nursing home sex. GrossOutNewsFilter to start your weekend off right. Detailed Court decision available here [PDF]. [more inside]
A collection of vintage monkey cartoons
“Please note that for the sake of these cartoons, and our amusement, ‘monkey’ includes all primates that have hair all over their bodies. Yes I know a gorilla is not technically a monkey, Mr. Smarty-smart-smart… but I’ll call it a monkey if I damn well please!”
another shameless theft der von boingsie.
NY Post Movie Critic Lou Lumenick Attacks Roger Ebert at Toronto Film Festival The 66 year-old Ebert, still unable to speak following his recent cancer and surgery, apparently tapped Lumenick on the shoulder to signal that he could not see the screen. Lumenick responded by screaming "Don't touch me!" and hitting him "with a big festival binder. He hit him so hard everybody could hear it. Everyone freaked out and turned around." [more inside]
The 'Altin Mikrofon' Contest (1965-68) "The musicians who wanted to attend the contest had to either compose songs in Turkish or arrange a traditional tune. Also they had to perform this in a western style with electric western instruments!". [more inside]
September 11, 2008
Jeff Koons took his doggie to Versailles.
A Children's Treasury of Terrible 9/11 Art- On this solemn day a half-dozen years ago, nearly 3,000 people were horribly killed so that Rudy Giuliani could earn a hundred million dollars and run for president of 9/11 and the most corrupt administration in American History could wage endless war around the world that has killed some 700,000 people while finally restoring energy and defense stocks to the solid dividend payers favored by long-term investors. Also, “September the Eleventh” has inspired the most insipid, maudlin kitsch in the history of an already very kitschy nation, along with some truly stomach-turning old-fashioned American Huckersterism.
September 10, 2008
No, you!
"Sidetaker: let the world decide who's at fault"
Finally, a sensible use for the internet! Fighting couples can post their respective sides of an argument, and the internet votes on who's right!
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Election Projection. For your U.S. election forecast needs: Electoral-vote, Fivethirtyeight, Pollster.
Planet of the Lemur: 10 Beautiful Little-Known Species.
September 09, 2008
Brilliant Noise The seething, screaming fury of that giant fusion reactor in the sky.
Fossil Fuels Brewing Co.: The Beer That Takes You Back . . . Millions of Years.
Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers
September 08, 2008
SPORE IS HERE!!!!!! Holy shit, it's finally here!!!!!! Fucking Spore!!!!!!! SHRIEK!!!!!!!!!! [more inside]
Einstein's 23 Biggest Mistakes - also: The Master's Mistakes.
September 07, 2008
The writ has been dropped. Canada's election is on.
20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects & 50+ Excellent Body Enhancement Photoshop Tutorials
September 06, 2008
Lessons about memory from Homer Simpson.
September 05, 2008
The 8 Most Obnoxious Internet Commenters
Yeah it's cracked.com, STFU it's Friday. I should really post this over on MeFi, where these commenters all live, but they'd be all "OMG single link cracked.com post u die now". I can get away with it here cuz you guys love me.
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Heroin-addict elephant to rejoin herd after rehab.
The highest railway in the world is the line to Lhasa completed and opened in 2006. [more inside]
Christian Bale and Kermit.
Parallel lives. Points for going on and on and on...
Once again lifted from the B3TA newsletter. I'm not ashamed
Why Super Nintendos Lose Their Color: Plastic Discoloration in Classic Machines - an investigation into why old computers turn yellow.
September 04, 2008
Farming Innovations in a Slum. [Via]
HOMOSEXUALITY: LEGITIMATE ALTERNATE DEATHSTYLE (1986), or 'Dick Hafer was an asshole'. An astonishingly honest comic that explains just about everything you ever needed to know about homosexuality [more inside]
The International Male 1986 Holiday Catalog: The Recockulous Jackpot!
Bill Melendez has died at 91. [more inside]
September 03, 2008
Michael Jackson at 50; or, "What Happened?" A photo essay from Rolling Stone.
Think Globally, Act Locally. Behold the genius of William Lamson.
idhi oka idi le
- YouTube! WARNING: FAT Moog sounds, shitty Bollywood choreography, massively distorted audio transfer, rubber animal masks, chick singing in an incredibly high pitched voice in Telugu, Chiranjeevi's non-existent genital bulge in a skintight lycra costume, general incomprehensibility rating of OVER 9000!!!11!, Banana-Splits vibe and by god I'm covering this in my 9 piece electro-pop blues band, Fuck Yuo I'm a Dragon (Rhino)
Nicked from everlasting blort, naturally
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Jerry Reed dead at 71. Smokey unavailable for comment.
September 02, 2008
Trenary Toast! My very favorite regional food, Trenary Toast is made in the small town of Trenary in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Much like the pasty, also famous in the U.P., it's greatly appreciated locally but largely unknown outside of the area. Which makes me wonder: What's your favorite regional bite? [more inside]
Stand up, stand up for toilets... We need to talk about... toilets! [more inside]
The 90-miler. This weekend will see the annual running (?) of the Adirondack Canoe Classic, a canoe race of three days, eight portages, and, well, 90 miles. Classes include one- and two-person canoes and kayaks, War Canoes, and for that touch of authenticity, beautiful Adirondack Guideboats. Can't afford one? Build your own!
Celeb Obits Filt0r: Ken Campbell dies, 'Voice of God' Don LaFontaine passes, and Aussie acting legend Michael Pate leaves the stage. [more inside]
September 01, 2008
Wearable Dino Suits That Look and Move Realistically
English Russia--strange and wonderful pictures --just because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth surface
