Tag: links

I want to find and marry the exploding aardvark but I think she’s already married.

  1. Best enjoyed with gin and juice, I suppose. Jack & Diane are wiggers nowadays so they’ll be delighted.
  2. Shaun O’Boyle photographs modern ruins, and does so very well.
  3. salome_st_john alerts me to Jeremy Harris, who takes similarly good pictures of broken stuff, including a fine set of Pilgrim State Hospital. Reminding me of Brad Laner’s old punk band, Pilgrim State. More about that some other time.
  4. Here is the complete list of infected music CDs released by Sony. These all have their nasty DRM software on them that roots your machine. Do not buy them or put them in your computer. I am sad to see Shel Silverstein and Earl Scruggs on this list. And Louis Armstrong? HOW DARE THEY.
  5. I am not averse to a tipple now and then, but an entire meal arranged around flavored vodkas paired with foods makes me feel queasy just thinking about it.
  6. There’s hope for me. I could date an older female fish! In fish years, that’s…
  7. Neo-Nazi “historian” David Irving made the mistake of going to Austria and got busted for Holocaust denial. At least he’s shaved off the Hitler ‘stache. What an unpleasant loonie he is.
  8. I don’t have a jackabellum problem, but my cake-coveting gland is no doubt enlarged and distorting the entire area of the brain.

this song don’t have no video

  1. This is some impressive video of the recent Iowa tornado. You have to ask about the brainpower of someone who was running around in the middle of that with a camcorder, much less with an unleashed dog.
  2. Via springheel_jack: Why does this bird hate dominos?
  3. wearescott directs me to the nightmare world of Paula Dean’s cooking show. She puts WHAT on her hot dogs?
  4. Oldest living Australian celebrates her 175th birthday with a hibiscus flower cake. So, Harriet, what was Darwin like?
  5. Also from Aetiology, a detailed analysis of the science of cow tipping.
  6. NASCARlequin wasn’t enough. We present: 50 Cent Novels.
  7. The new lame-o journalism term is apparently “ubersexual”, referring I guess to… plain old-fashioned masculinity. Or something. This is tiresome because 1) who needed a name for that? 2) neologism! argh and especially 3) “uber” as a prefix suggests faux-Nietzsche Nazi horse pucky and needs to go away. Thanks in advance!

It’s all about the sneetches

  1. jactitation returned from Japan with some great pictures of MONKEYS IN THE MIST!
  2. Defensetech reports that Honeywell is building a Star Wars Droid, no joke. (PDF file at last link.) Also that Drudge totally got the story wrong, surprise.
  3. AdJab reports that one of those dumb promo “throw the ball in this difficult way and win $1 million” things was won, and by a no-doubt impoverished combat veteran who now won’t have to live in a box. I cannot stop saying the name of the thing he won: “Bi-Lo Healthy Choice Pigskin Challenge”.
  4. NASA has an amazing gallery of photos-of-the-day from the MODIS satellite imaging system.
  5. Again from AdJab, the Seattle Times has an article about eating in cars that shows that the whole country is turning into Southern California as usual. Best quote:

    “The Crunchy Taco is the No. 1 seller. But we hear from consumers that it is difficult to eat in the car because it’s open on three sides,” says Laurie Schalow, Taco Bell spokeswoman in Irvine, Calif., who says the goal is to make drive-through service “faster and friendlier” without encouraging unsafe driving.

  6. Milk: it does a body good, but could it be madcowing your brain?
  7. Bookslut reports that the hellbound founder of BzzAgent, the company that gives you free stuff in exchange for you lying to your friends about how cool it is, deployed his army of zombie consumer whores to pimp out his own book on Amazon. People, if you’re going to sell out, at least take the trouble to get paid properly for it. This is sad.
  8. Apropos of nothing, because I was just talking to hydrozoa about this: I want to have a talk show where people who have written whiny books about how their particular upper middle class suburban childhood was worse than yours and how their particular neurosis is special and perfect are invited on TV to talk about their books. And just as they get into the self-important whining, the security guards, who are like the ones on Jerry Springer, come on stage and beat the shit out of them while the audience cheers. It will be called “SHUT UP, AMERICA!” Folks, that kind of talk is for livejournal and not for 250 pages hardback published by Alfred A. Knopf and dumped in a pyramid at the entrance to the Barnes & Noble. Oprah delenda est.
  9. Microsoft Korea has a song for you to sing! Thanks to the exploding aardvark. Developers developers developers developers…
  10. The Federal Government wants their Blackberry so much they’re intervening in a patent lawsuit to keep it from going away. What wouldn’t I give to have access to Karl Rove’s Crackberry…

cause I gotta misdirection

  1. For salome_st_john and other panda fanatics, the Knorr food people in England have a bizarre meat sauce-loving Brit panda as their spokespanda. (Put “panda”) in the search field at the site he links you to, or “knorr”.
  2. The next generation of cars may well use the Flexray network protocol to manage their real-time electronics like suspension damping and stability control, etc. Autoblog reports that BMW is using it on their next X series. Do any network wonks here know about Flexray? Is it a good standard? Will the cars keep getting problems in their switching protocols and forgetting to brake? I’m suspicious.
  3. Epod has an incredible photo of a mirage today. I didn’t know you could capture that kind of thing properly on film at all.
  4. Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, to commemorate the end of the War to End All Wars, also known as the Worst Thing Ever in Europe. The Aftermath of World War One is devoted to the time after that war. Europe lost an entire generation and no one was untouched; it’s something we in the U.S. haven’t experienced and should learn more of.
  5. changeng toy piano alert: 3hive has mp3 downloads of Twink‘s toypianomania.

a riot of my own

  1. Ali G interviews NBA stars as promos for NBA on TNT. “Why don’t you just get three fly honeys talking nonsense?”
  2. No, this ad isn’t from 1961. It’s a new one from GM. Lame on about five levels.
  3. I always thought Dean Koontz was a pretty nice guy, especially locally here where he dumps money on libraries and the arts. Apparently he’s also a complete racist asshole. In response, Bookslut invites entries in the Man, is Dean Koontz a Prick or What? contest for slashfic featuring Dean and a Japanese guy.
  4. Plant attached to theremin = singing plant! Feed me, Seymour.
  5. Murder on the Nile! Forty centuries ago.

A tree grows in Stanton

  1. EgyptologyAlert: cool photos of a “virtual autopsy”!
  2. I am still in love with Agnieska. Also, she’s still a great photographer.
  3. Episcopalian church harassed by the IRS for a nonpartisan anti-war sermon. It’s true, we need to root out those radical, seditious, treacherous Episcopalians.
  4. The Sony DRM nightmare can come true on Macs as well if you make the mistake of putting in your admin password when their “enhanced stuff” program asks you to. Macintouch has details.
  5. My country grows too much corn (maize). In the past we’ve dealt with this by putting high-fructose corn syrup in food (oops obesity) and putting ethanol in cars (oops pointless pork barrel fuckup). Now we’re thinking outside the box and making socks for Japanese people out of the stuff.
  6. All about coffee houses, a description from 1661.

    At this place a man is cheated of what is, by far more valuable than Mony, that is, Time. A constant Companion of this House going in all haste for a Midwife, or to save the life of a Friend then dying, must call in, and drink at least his two dishes of Coffee and his two Pipes of Tobacco. And which is yet more wonderful, many persons prefer Coffee, (and the Company, which love it) before the gain of money, for many men neglect their Callings and Vocation, to tattle away their time over two or three dishes of
    Coffee.

    Gosh, we wouldn’t know anything about that.

  7. Schneier reports on the military uses of Silly String.
  8. Yahoo Pirate Map! Maybe we can find treasure.
  9. Our local univers hospital, UCI Medical Center, has apparently totally jacked up their transplant program to the extent that patients have died waiting for organs as the hospital refused offers of organs. Oh hey great. This after the 1990 “you stole and sold my eggs” scandal and then the 1999 “you’re running a human chop shop and renting out autopsies in the note-taking place and selling people’s spines” one.

Take 5, C.

  1. It’s a little known fact that the Superfriends had a filipina maid, and she didn’t like the gig very much. Flash from a Rex Navarette routine. His bit about SBC Packers is here on Newgrounds. I really miss working with Filipino people when I was in health care. They have the best sense of humor ever. Courtesy Anna Pirhana.
  2. Audiophile idiots make me laugh really really hard. Yeah, get me some of those $30K cables. (via The Null Device and Gizmodo).
  3. I like webcams, but I really don’t see the necessity of a live cam of dentistry as it happens.
  4. Albert Brooks is pretty good on what it’s like to be a boomer who doesn’t like lame boomer culture or advertising overload. Gives me more sympathy for a generation that mostly annoys me.
  5. This woman is a God Warrior, indeed. She should join a black metal band. (video, shrieking, cringeworthy, courtesy wearescott.
  6. Those confused by the riots in France would do well to read this informative backgrounder on why the country is currently on fire.
  7. The joys of aviation testing: “bonking” at 800 knots and seeing how we do in a spin. Both from Maciej’s del.icio.us page.
  8. The always-useful Aardvark points us to a Mindhacks article on artist Richard Dadd, a deranged artist who heard the voice of Osiris in hookah noises and painted wonderful art while locked up in Broadmoor Hospital. Fans of Louis Wain will be interested.
  9. Here are some excerpts from one of the books in that NASCARlequin series. You’re welcome.
  10. Uhh… fancy box wine?? No.
  11. Lit-Dork Alert: Nabokov on translation.
  12. Own a piece of L.A. Punk History! I’m not really a Bad Religion fan, though.
  13. We might be saved from asteroid impact by playing gravity billiards in space. Very awesome.

late posting of too much due to too much too late today

  1. This year’s Yo-Yo championshows off his stuff (video).
  2. All gave some. Some gave all. Courtesy kynn.
  3. VillainyWatch: Auto engineering expert alters evidence for Honda against paralyzed girl’s lawsuit. Some people don’t want to wait to go to Hell.
  4. Ha!! The director of the poison-industries shill group American Council on Science and Health, the “arsenic is good for you” people, is a delicensed doctor who did four years in prison for Medicaid fraud. He was also convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice. Nice.
  5. Is Hepatitis B killing huge numbers of Asian women?
  6. This is an amazing optical illusion!
  7. More toy piano fun for changeng and others!
  8. The OC Weekly has an article about my local WACK JOB CULT LEADER, who rules with an iron fist and sells fibercraft supplies.
  9. Finally:
    The Dog Will Not Fly

The Shins will change your oil.

  1. Cool optical phenomena can be found by looking up into the sky. Fascinating pictures and descriptions.
  2. Awww! squirrel raised by cats dogs! AWW!
  3. It’s the 25th anniversary of Steve McQueen’s death, and Ursi is celebrating him with some good links. He was so cool.
  4. I made a surrealist painting, and so can you with this museum-based generator.
  5. The trendy hookah pipe is even worse for your teeth than cigarettes.
  6. I am, sad to say, a ROCK SNOB.
  7. I do not want Macromedia Flash in my car. I do not like it, Sam I Am.
  8. Marvel Origins of Supersneezers? I see trouble ahead.
  9. SEA MONSTERS ARE ACTUALLY JUST WHALE PENISES!!! [punchline]

Electuary of Jallap… is a good Phlegmagogue.

  1. The launch command password is “admin”. I’ll write it down for you on this Post-It™. (thanks to trinnit for this one)
  2. GOAT ON TRAMPOLINE!
  3. Further madness from SEMA: tires that make colored and scented smoke.
  4. “Thanks” to eyeteeth for sending me the link to this fabulous book about child rearing. So to speak. The cover is so creepy that I want to leave the planet and not come back.
  5. I have no idea wtf is going on in this site, but it’s flash animation and it makes coffee fly through my nose: 86 The Onions is a very strange diner. Thanks, Aardvark!
  6. I now want to buy a small cow.
  7. Drunks who ask for tattoos in foreign languages often get humorously bad ones. Apparently it’s even worse if you’re a dumbass white supremacist.
  8. Exclusive first photos of the H5N1 bird flu virus from a Norwegian paper! It looks like an evil Mickey Mouse to me:

    virus

  9. I wouldn’t have thought a digital sun dial was possible.