Links posted in October 2008
October 31, 2008
The macabre art of Kris Kuksi.
Museum of Bags and Purses. Shoe Museum. Hat Museum. Fan Museum 1, 2, 3. Hanky Museum.
San Francisco has approved Proposition R to be on the ballot. What's Proposition R? A move to change the name of the city's Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant to the George W Bush Sewage Plant. Reaction has been mixed, both from Bush supporters to supporters of the sewage plant. Come on, Bay monkeys -- vote early, vote often!
October 30, 2008
If you can't say something nice try anyway. Voters are asked to come up with something nice to say about the candidate they aren't voting for. Can we give it a try? [more inside]
Laura Gainey report published. The report into Laura Gainey's death is out. Laura was the daughter of hockey great Bob Gainey, a formerly-troubled woman who turned her life around, thanks in part to her time aboard the tall ship Picton Castle. In 2006, she was swept off deck, and lost at sea. [more inside]
October 29, 2008
If Mos Def Were President, things would be better. [more inside]
Python vs. Gator. Two will enter. One will leave. Through the 'winner'.
I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna move to Canada with my gay friends so I can drink coffee over the Sunday New York Times before watching rugby. So there! full list
The Google Image Search Blog. Does what it says on the tin. Unfortunately, no activity for about two years, but still.
I love waiting for your flash to load For when you need to commmunicate, and just don't have the words to say it.
Forestry Commission scraps Magna Carta right to collect woods from forests. The Forestry Commission of Great Britain is phasing out licences for people to gather firewood from the forests, an almost 800-year-old right which was established in 1217 in the Magna Carta's companion document, the Charter of the Forest (previously on MeFi). [Via]
October 28, 2008
It's harder to get things wrong at 29,970 words per second.
Foreclosure Epidemics: West Nile Virus Tracks Housing Crisis.
October 27, 2008
Abuse of Power
Gordon Brown has put Icelandic bank Landsbanki on his shit list, using anti-terror laws to freeze Icelandic assets in the UK.
Icelanders are not terrorists.
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October 26, 2008
Daito Manabe hooks electrodes to his face. Signals are sent to the electrodes in time with music. Enjoy. Watch the videos.
Michael Kenna Photography. [Via]
Did they or didn't they? Did the US Post Office print a stamp honouring Bette Davis, first carefully deleting a cigarette from the image? Or is it a slightly altered version of this still?
October 25, 2008
Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins' "Almost eight decades on, Qamile Stema still remembers clearly the day she decided to give up her long hair and dresses in order to become the male head of her household." Burrnesha are women that take a vow to remain virgins for their entire life so that they can be viewed as men in the highly patriarchal Albanian society.
Creationists declare war over the brain. [Via]
October 24, 2008
WHAZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP
It was inevitable: McCain and Obama stage a Dance-Off (Happy Friday!)
And you can ****ing well keep her. Peaches Geldof, spawn of Sir Bob, has moved to America. And written a beautiful article all about it for a fashion mag. The comments are a joy. [more inside]
Moving the Earth: a planetary survival guide. [Via]
СОВИЕТ ЩИННИЕ ТХЕ ПООХ ЩАТЧЕС ЁУ
October 23, 2008
US Presidential Race as D&D Game
Anonymous, George: Daddy's Girl. Five years ago, my sister married. Both she and her husband have strong personalities, although his is more overt, and hers subtle. A year and a half ago, they had a baby girl. They both love the baby girl. Baby girl is growing up, and knows how to work it, especially on her daddy. Things are complicated by the fact that in their household, it seems that daddy always gets to be the good cop, and mommy has to be the bad cop. [more inside]
The Modern Cat
Because cats are better than dogs and deserve cool stuff.
We all know dogs are lovely too...
The Unemployed Philosophers' Guild has many enjoyable trinkets. My birthday's coming up, and it's not too late to get me a light-up "Starry Night" pillowcase and a couple Will-To-Power Bars, KTHNXBY.
October 22, 2008
Missing: Mister Rogers' shoe. One of Mister Rogers' sneakers was stolen from the Louisiana Children's Museum on Saturday, but has now been returned. The theft was committed by a student of Tulane Law School, whose Vice-Dean sent out a nasty note, which didn't remind people not to steal stuff, let alone the stuff of Mister Rogers, but to not post bad publicity to the internettes. So, you know, pass it along.
O Hai! I Has An STD Naow. You Mights Too! KTHXBY
Break that awkward news via special emails!
Apols for the tinyurl - it's from http://medicine.plosjournals.org
Yes, a SLYT music video. But watch this and tell me you don't want to be there playing with them. [more inside]
Borneo's Moment of Truth: "The majestic forests are vanishing in smoke and sawdust, but there's still hope for the island's fabled biodiversity—if the palm oil rush can be slowed."
HAY GUYS SOME PEOPLE WANT TO TAKE AWAY THE BEST KEY ON THE KEYBOARD DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS I'LL GIVE YOU A HINT (HINT: IT'S WHAT JESUS WOULD DO IF HE WAS AWESOME) YEAH THAT'S RIGHT IT'S THE CAPS LOCK KEY AND THIS IS ITS MOST SACRED DAY. [more inside]
Curious George: Indian wedding present protocol What does one get as a wedding gift for an Indian friend and co-worker? American-style nuptual gifting is generally solved with a "where are they registered?" question to a member of the bridal party. I don't know anybody in the party to which this question could be put, but we're friendly enough I'd like to get them something. [more inside]
October 21, 2008
The Great War made even GREATER!
Some chaps have come up with this horrid little number, wherein you command some Tommies in the trenches. Accurately enough, scores of men are lost before you learn the simplest of lessons, like "stay in the trench".
Right. Let's get this nasty business with the Kaiser all sorted, show him wot's wot, and we can all be home in time for Christmas and sticky pudding! Up we go, men! [Taken from the bloody Huns over on their Blue Danube.][Some sort of Prussian Flash-business, I expect.]
Drive-thru voting. For when you want to exercise your franchise and throw the bums out, but not get your fat ass out of the car to do it. [more inside]
A more fearsome saber-toothed cat.
October 20, 2008
40 Creative Lamp Designs (via StumbleUpon) [more inside]
Lucian Freud's portrait
of Francis Bacon sold today for rather less than expected. Bacon painted Freud many times.
The Tate has an interactive exhibition on Bacon. Here's some Freud to balance things a bit.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Boathouse: a Case Study in the Ontology of Art. In 2000, three rowers from Buffalo's West Side Rowing Club sought the approval of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation for the construction of Wright's design for a boathouse, and it was realized last year. But a new Frank Lloyd Wright building raises some interesting questions -- when is it a FLW building, and when is it a reasonable facsimile thereof? What is needed to make a building a FLW? [more inside]
Substitutes
Can let you down
Quicker
Than a
Strapless gown
Burma-Shave
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October 19, 2008
I had no idea who the other medallist was. (Or why there was one left handed salute and one right handed). [more inside]
"Gorilla" Theatre
WARNING: Admittedly Blatant Self-Linkage. A little while back, I asked about the voiceover on the People's Court. Risking flame attacks, I have decided to self-link in order to share with my fellow monkeys the results of that project - "Food Court!: The Musical". Enjoy...or fling poo at me. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. And one for the mythologically minded.
Also, Happy Alaska Day!
October 18, 2008
Stayin' alive, stayin' alive.....
NATURE'S HARMONIC SIMULTANEOUS 4-FLAVOR THYME CUBE (via MetaChat)
October 17, 2008
Tears for Levi Stubbs. The singer is dead at 72.
October 16, 2008
Digital artist Jason Feeny develops works of "candy colored madness".
CopyPasteCharacter. Because sometimes you need to copy and paste characters™.
Time Warp Wives Ever read the news and wished you could go back to a simpler, happier time? Some people do.
Help keep your hitchin' available for all Californians!
October 15, 2008
Monkeys move paralysed muscles with their minds: Sending brain signals through electrodes to a paralysed wrist muscle restores movement. [Via]
Broken Koans and other Zen debris Reader-submitted koans, some of which are great, some which are...eh.
And Now For Something -
completely gratuitous!
What was the top song on your d.o.b?
Faecal Matter On Public Transport. The Facts! [more inside]
The 15 Dumbest Names for Web 2.0 Startups selected by a "Plugg organizer" so they are all at least WORSE than "Plugg". And some more. And a few more from 6 months ago. And 10 more from last year. And 25 more from 2 years ago. Okay, it's an old meme, but as long as there are startups like oooooc.com...
October 14, 2008
In a World Where Dogs Wore Shawls....Dogs in Shawls 2: This time, they're upside down. [more inside]
Hair Hats. That look like animals. Made out of hair. [more inside]
1066
and all that.
942 years ago today, the pesky French turned up.
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October 13, 2008
Patronising American tries to tell the Brits they drink too much.
By choosing the most obvious examples of binge-drinking stag parties.
See this pint of Guinness love? Well you can have it when you take it from my (extra) cold dead hands.
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October 12, 2008
You think your phantom limb is bad, check out my phantom erection! (Possibly NSFW.) [more inside]
I'm Feeling Like A Black Republican, Money I Got Comin' In
MonkeyFilter -Chimp is best friends with two baby white tigers.
October 11, 2008
Abortion is now legal
in the state of Victoria, Australia, after a 35 year campaign to remove it from the Crimes Act. Described by the Archbishop of Melbourne as an unprecedented attack on the freedom to hold and exercise fundamental religious beliefs, the Catholic Church, which operates 15 hospitals in Victoria, singled out for particular opposition a section requiring a doctor who was against abortion to provide a referral for their patient.
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Face Research Make a baby, make an average, make your own.
October 10, 2008
Rarindra Prakarsa Photography. [Via]
Whack the PM!
Flash Fun and beating up politicians.
(OK, so they're Canadian politicians that no-one else has heard of, and our election doesn't compare to that one, but it's all we've got.)
Medical Mystery: Only One Person Has Survived Rabies without Vaccine--But How?
October 09, 2008
Women Illustrators - at Drawger. An excellent selection of illustrations done by women: "Women illustrators, demonstrate your conceptual skills by entering work in any style on any subject as long as it carries a clear viewpoint."
Altered Album Covers. Several artists' creations on top of existing album art.
October 08, 2008
Mail Goggles Taking the fun out of late night emails. [more inside]
Monkey Waiters serve customers in a Japanese restaurant. Once again, I saw this and thought of you, MoFites. Via metafilter.
October 07, 2008
A Wayback Machine
from Google. For fun, Google gives us its state of the art as of January, 2001. Search whatever you like: I found September 11 to be interesting, as were:
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Earth From Above
pics.
Via MetaChat.
"More than a thousand juvenile Patagonian penguins have washed up on the northern shores of Brazil this year... Over the weekend, hundreds of the stranded birds were airlifted to the southernmost tip of the country and released into the South Atlantic Ocean [YouTube], close to their native territory. How exactly do you get that many penguins on a plane?" [more inside]
October 06, 2008
Dan Aykroyd would like you to try this vodka in a crystal skull.
Medieval Imaginations is a site from Cambridge which provides a large collection of medieval images depicting episodes from the English mystery plays. There's a zippy interface enabling you to zoom in and scroll around. [more inside]
October 05, 2008
OEDILF The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
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Just Rhymes, for no reason
There once was a poster named Granny,
Who decided to get off her fanny.
She decided to post,
to see what got the most
responses--or if she got any.
A real laugh riot - Denver police release commemorative t-shirt.
October 04, 2008
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods. [Via]
Curious George: Nanowrimo 08
Who's up for it? I know a few Mofites have had a shot in the past, but a fit of insanity has seen me sign up for this November. Just to make it interesting I plan to do it in public, ie blog the text as I go.
Who's with me?
Star Wars Hoodies. Here.
But they managed to avoid that annoying autolist generation thingy...
October 03, 2008
This is a worthless FPP! Tracicle's on vaca! Everyone pile on! BANNINATE ME!!!!!!
Centurian Virus.
A "48-year-old lymph node biopsy reveals the history of the deadly virus."
A finding that the virus causing HIV/AIDS can be traced back 100 years. I'm sure, by now, we all know someone or of someone who has the HIV/AIDS virus. I've lost a family member and three good friends to HIV/AIDS. Still grieving.
The more known about it's origins perhaps the faster an effective cure might be found.
Sergio Ruzzier Strange and wonderful illustrations [more inside]
October 02, 2008
Curious George is in the tank. The phrase "in the tank" popped up a few months ago, and while I understand it to mean that one is an emphatic supporter of whatever, I still can't find a clear definition anywhere, at least one that's current and makes sense in the context of positive support. Knowing the etymology would be a big help in getting a better grasp on what "in the tank" precisely means. Any monkeys know where it's from?
Body Bizzare online game Build yourself a circus freak and share with your friends.
The Magician?
Great design.
With a carved inscription on the lines of (Jesus) Christ being a primary exponent of white magic?
October 01, 2008
Birth of an Ocean: How It Works. Africa is splitting apart at the seam, making way for a new ocean. [Via]
Monkeyman, dressed as a monkey, is supposed to scare the monkeys away from this Indian train station. [more inside]
Zombie in my Pocket [PDF] ia a free, print-and-play solitaire game. Playing time is 5 to 20 minutes. Review and summary here. [Via Defective Yeti]
The Great Schlep
Would it kill ya?
