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"If someone ever asks you to describe the Internet to them in four words look them straight in the eye and say
“cats morphing into croissants.”" May not apply to black cats, unless you like badly burned croissants. Croissants are good for
breakfast, but so is
bacon. And
waffles. And
cereal. And if you include "civet cats",
coffee (
via). And maybe even
Pop Tarts.
Seriously. (Sadly the
t-shirt has been discontinued.)
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at 3:23 PM on September 29, 2010
(21 comments)
The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down (a SLYT 40 years in the making) showing one frame from every Warner Brothers theatrical cartoon made from 1930-1969 (thankfully at a rate of about 3 per second). See the evolution of animation! Porky Pig's successful diet in '37! Michigan J. Frog's memorable single appearance! And illegal alien Speedy Gonzalez replacing American toons in the '60s! (via
M.E.)
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at 5:36 PM on September 23, 2010
(80 comments)
"Everything's Better With Muppets" (Can't argue with that.) from Spray featuring Ricardo Autobahn (
previously) who also gave props to another cultural icon with the also-true
"DEVO Was Right About Everything" (DLYT)
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at 6:28 AM on September 19, 2010
(6 comments)
"Duel In The Somme" a webcomic collaboration of
Ben Bova,
Rob Balder and
Bill Hollbrook, has just completed its 24-day, 24-page run. Storywise, imagine if Dilbert got to play Snoopy's WWI Flying Ace.
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at 9:48 PM on September 9, 2010
(19 comments)
"A Collection of the Best Marriage Cartoons by the Foremost Comic Artists" from 1955.
Part Two. The good old days, when you could beat your husband and bash your wife. Selected for the web by a
2010 cartoonist who's
better than that.
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at 9:57 AM on August 27, 2010
(20 comments)
A Star Wars/Calvin & Hobbes mashup t-shirt has gotten a lot of buzz, but the 'relentlessly cheerful'
James Hance did it first (and it went semi-viral just a few days earlier). But Calvin and Hobbes have gotten 'mashed-up' before... a lot.
«
Cthulhu and Hobbes.
«
Batmin and Robbes.
« Fight Club (spoiler)
illustrated and
in text (
previously).
« The controversial (for here)
Calvin and Jobs.
«
Calvin Rockwell
«
Kraven the Hunter from
Ryan Dunleavy's mashup collection (
previously).
«
Buddy Cops (incorrectly labeled as P.I.s).
« Semi-related:
C&H meet Christopher Robin & Pooh,
Hobbes Meets Tony and
Role Reversal.
« And, of course,
Calvin and Hobbes.
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at 4:24 PM on August 21, 2010
(27 comments)
Yeasayer's first album was so deeply
'World Musicky' you'd be forgiven if you thought they were from Kathmandu or Uzbekistan rather than Brooklyn. Their second album is somewhat more accessible, but their videos...well,
"Ambling Alp" is full of people without clothes (semi-blurred
NSFWness!) or without faces or made of clay or liquid metal, and
"O.N.E." is a visit to a sci-fi rave and a game of tetra-dimensional-backgammon with a CGI morphing dude. But their newest,
"Madder Red" features Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell and her pet... uh... welll... WTF
IS THAT THING?!?
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at 2:52 AM on August 19, 2010
(27 comments)
(TYLM) There are actually many ABBA fans who believe their songs sound good
even played backwards (and ABBA haters who think they sound
better backwards). So, of course, there are now Backwards ABBA music videos on YouTube*:
"eM nO ecnahC A ekaT",
"emaC uoY erofeB yaD ehT",
"emaG ehT fO emaN ehT",
"llA tI sekaT renniW ehT",
"sleeH revO daeH" "suoV-zeluoV",
"yenoM yenoM yenoM"
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at 5:37 PM on August 14, 2010
(67 comments)
Those wacky New Scientists are reporting on a
"new challenge" to part of Einstein's theory of special relativity that changes the relationship of
Space to
Time. No, this has nothing to do with
Conservapedia's laughable challenge to the theory*.
Petr Hořava** won't replace
Einstein*** in scientific importance in this new Century, but maybe
Hendrik Lorentz whose theories on symmetry apparently take a beating****. Remember kiddies, Science (especially Physics) doesn't have Absolute Truths, it just keeps getting closer to them. And even ol' Albert E. can and WILL be improved upon.
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at 5:20 PM on August 10, 2010
(37 comments)
Pop music in the '60s ran the gamut from Bobby Russell's
"Saturday Morning Confusion" to
"Come Saturday Morning" (from the soundtrack of
"The Sterile Cuckoo"* and performed by the same guys who sang of
"Guantanamo -mera"). And they still write songs today about
"Saturday Morning" (with pancakes! and vampires!).
The first thing Disney did when it took over ABC was
"One Saturday Morning"**. But then there are the
"REAL Saturday Morning Watchmen" (remixed from
previously on MeFi). (
other Saturday Morning video posts)
*yes, that is a very young Liza Minnelli
**I'll never forgive them for canceling "Reboot" and "Bump in the Night", the only Saturday toons I still enjoyed, because they weren't produced by Disney
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at 5:08 PM on July 31, 2010
(10 comments)
Cathy Berberian (warning: auto opera audio!) was not your usual mezzo-soprano. Her vocal range was only exceeded by her range of musical interest (multi-YouTubage follows)
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at 12:07 PM on July 28, 2010
(6 comments)
Is it possible to have too many books? Legendary Sci-Fi Author and Crankypants Harlan Ellison thinks so (or maybe his wife) so it's time for the
Third Harlan Ellison Book Purge Sale! 289 items of varying levels of collectability, ranging in price from US$4 to US$1200. The eBay-averse Ellisons are only accepting mail orders (mailing deadline already past, sorry) or phone orders via a dedicated phone number at specified times, starting July 6th (today for most of you) at 9:00AM Pacific Time, your timezone will vary. All the offerings and instructions are in this
pdf (also in semi-readable webpage form
here). Mrs. Ellison is standing by!
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at 9:11 PM on July 5, 2010
(61 comments)
The King Is NOT Dead, he's just retiring from his nightly show you didn't realize was still on in order to spend more time with his family and less with Hannity and Maddow. The NYT's David Carr wins the prize for
perfectly-timed speculation. So what will happen to Kevin Pollak's
"Larry King Game" now?!?
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at 8:19 PM on June 29, 2010
(33 comments)
"Scenes from a Multiverse"* is a brand new webcomic from Jon Rosenberg, the Lonely
Goatherd, developed when he recently realized that when his
absurd magnum-opus reaches its pre-destined conclusion (
on the Mayan-designated Dec. 21, 2012), the
impressive bound volumes of the story were not going to pay for his kid's college education. So here are
daily visits to
random levels of
existence (if you assume all those levels of existence contain strange beings a lot like people you find annoying) without the bothersome story arc. PLUS the opportunity to
vote for the alternate universe you'd like to revisit! (bonus previ-eewww content)
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at 12:41 PM on June 20, 2010
(7 comments)
Jimmy Dean (Aug. 28, 1928 - June 13, 2010) is best known to Mefites for his
brand of
sausage, although he sold the company in the '80s, and was
dropped as its spokesman in 2003; its current owner is
Sara Lee*. But his musical legacy is sealed by his 'country rap*' classic
"Big Bad John" (performed live in 2008), often imitated, but never parodied better than with
"Big Bruce"** (info). But to me, he was the guy with the variety show where he spent several minutes every week
bantering with the
muppet Rowlf****.
Here's Jimmy in Esquire Magazine's "What I've Learned". His final resting place is
music-themed, NOT sausage themed. "Here lies one hell of a man."
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at 4:47 PM on June 15, 2010
(48 comments)
Sexual Congress is the cleverly titled site which tries to find the most attractive members of the U.S. Congress by having you choose between two official portraits, in the proud tradition (and methodology) of
KittenWar * (and
PuppyWar *) and Randall Munroe's late lamented
Best, Fairest and Funniest Ever sites. For non-USians, there's a similar, more subtle,
British site.
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at 3:33 PM on June 14, 2010
(47 comments)
"And This Is Where We Leave Our Annie: For Now" After 86 years, several artists and a major makeover,
"Little Orphan Annie" the comic strip has ended... in mid-story. Leaving a hole in the comics page of less than 20 newspapers, the 'Princess of Pluck' already has a comeback planned with
a revival of the "Annie" Broadway musical. So, once more, let's all sing that wonderful song... no, not
THAT one... this one:
"Who's that little chatterbox
With the pretty auburn locks..."
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at 2:18 AM on June 13, 2010
(28 comments)
Those wacky Muppets are like everywhere these days, right? (
pre-
vio-
sly). But a part of the muppetty empire called
Henson Alternative is working on 'more adult' concepts with unfamiliar felt, and hasn't seen too much success yet. Maybe that'll change with the puppet-celebrity game show that debuted last night:
"Late Night Liars". Or maybe not.
Here's a clip.
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at 12:59 AM on June 11, 2010
(33 comments)
A perfectly
cromulent new word:
Collapsitarianism. Apparently coined by social critic
James Howard Kunstler when he declared
"I've never been a complete collapsitarian,*" comparing himself to
Dmitri Orlov, who uses the term Collapse in his writings -
a lot. It failed to be popularized by
blogger Kevin Kelly in early 2009 (during the fifteen minutes after Obama's inauguration when optimism came back; bad timing), who defined it as an umbrella term for a diverse collection of dystopian groups, but specifically the ones looking
forward to whatever Collapse they expect.
Analyzed by Mother Jones (and
semi-rebutted by Dmitri Orlov hmself), the term has even been used by such semi-forward-looking entities as
The Tomorrow Museum. The word appears to be due for a comeback (if it has anything to come back to) as the
New York Times used it in an article about Peak Oil. Finally,
premillenialism for the non-religious!
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at 5:17 PM on June 8, 2010
(54 comments)
MOVIES R FUN! A li'l inappropriate book by Pixar Story Artist Josh Cooley. Not yet in stores,
but several totally awesome samples are in his blog.
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at 11:24 AM on May 18, 2010
(10 comments)
The Google Job Experiment... or... how to get hired at Young & Rubicam using $6 of Google Ads. From the author of
"50 Days Worse Than Yours" and
"50 Relatives Worse Than Yours". Why it worked:
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at 11:59 AM on May 16, 2010
(40 comments)
Instants! Fun is a smorgasbord of single-serving-site sounds, a central web collector of effects, clips and quotes, starting with the daddy of them all (
previously),
INSTANT RIMSHOT! (called
BADUMTSS! here to put it first in the alphabetical arrangement) and including most of the sounds featured
here, and more! (
via)
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at 7:26 PM on May 13, 2010
(16 comments)
Most people don't realize that Betty White was
awesome nearly 60 years ago. In 1952, she was already TV's first female talk show host, and she became the first woman on TV to star AND co-produce her own sitcom (without being married to one of the other producers),
"Life With Elizabeth", and the show is (IMO) a Lost Classic. (less lost now, with the help of YouTube; MLYT follows...)
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at 1:48 AM on May 8, 2010
(24 comments)
Don't like those commercials that run before the movies in the theaters? Well, this weekend, Kraft Foods is introducing something new to screens across the U.S.,
"two- to three-minute branded-entertainment vignettes" that promise NOT to "knock you over the head with a bat as a brand commercial", but instead they... well... here's an example: Lunchables kids' meals present:
Alien Field Trip* (Warning: more artificially cheesy than Cheez Whiz). Kraft and other big advertisers are betting that
long-form ads will be "the Wave of the Future", and the perfect audience for them will be the folks who have already paid to see "Iron Man 2", "Sex and the City 2" or "Toy Story 3". What could possibly go wrong?
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at 3:59 AM on May 5, 2010
(74 comments)
Oh, punt appalled bait oars, Hal. Why Computer Speech Recognition hasn't gotten any better since 2001. Or bed her sin stew thou send Juan.
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at 11:14 PM on May 3, 2010
(111 comments)
Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge" is considered "
one of the most widely read, widely anthologized, widely taught, and widely admired short stories in all of American literature." As well as TVTropes' earliest example of
[SPOILER] a
Dying Dream. An Oscar and Cannes award winning short film was made from the story,
"La Rivière du hibou" that was aired on American TV as an episode of "The Twilight Zone" (part
one,
two,
three). Since then, it has been read by
'Front Porch Al' on the CBC's "As It Happens", and been the basis of umpteen
other short films. Recently, the original film was 'mashed up' with
Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick", and now the story has gotten the full Music Video treatment, for the (not really related) song
"Unlovable" by Babybird, directed by Johnny Depp.
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at 5:43 PM on April 21, 2010
(55 comments)
MAD Magaziner Jack Davis' multi-page montage of everything on NBC in the Fall of 1965, including the
Huntley-Brinkley Report,
Johnny Carson,
Hullaballoo,
Dr. Kildare,
Andy Williams,
My Mother The Car,
Please Don't Eat the Daisies,
I Spy,
Dean Martin,
Camp Runamuck,
The Man From UNCLE,
Flipper,
I Dream of Jeannie and
Get Smart. (missing from the reconstructed pic are the Sunday shows, including
Bonanza and
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color).
via Mark Evanier
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at 3:54 AM on April 18, 2010
(21 comments)
American Mensa members across the country cast their votes, selecting their Top 50 Web Sites. MetaFilter is NOT on the list, proving what I've been saying for years that IQ is a poor measurement of real intelligence.
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at 8:27 AM on April 6, 2010
(207 comments)
Anders Loves Maria, the funny, dramatic, romantic and quite NSFW webcomic, with its distinctive visuals, often frustrating characters and very Swedish attitude, has concluded after 3 years and 3 months (ending with a difficult delivery in more ways than one; the last 3 months were an excruciating wait for the last two extended chapters). A tale of semi-fidelity, baby birds, hitting the wrong hole and grown-up responsibility forced upon those who never grew up, A♥M was a favorite among other webcomic creators from day one, and, hey, they ought to know! If you never got into AndersMania, you can start at the beginning of the 250+ updates
here.
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at 10:09 AM on February 5, 2010
(30 comments)
Two and a half years after
ceasing publication, and months after its back catalog was
archived by Google Books, The Weekly World News has returned to the dead-tree marketplace as a
comic book in a limited 4-issue series from
IDW. So what's next for Bat Boy and his Friends? A TV show? (
Maybe...)
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at 11:55 PM on January 13, 2010
(18 comments)
For the 75th birthday of Elvis Presley (yesterday in most time zones), here is an Elvis Impersonator doing famous TV theme songs:
The Flintstones,
The Partridge Family,
Rawhide,
WKRP (opening theme, wish he'd try the end theme),
Danger Man (Secret Agent Man, the full-length Johnnie Rivers version),
The Brady Bunch,
The Love Boat and
Cheers (maybe next time Frasier's 'scrambled eggs song'?).
Other wacky musical repurposing from the same silly singer includes David Bowie (celebrating his 62nd birthday on the 8th) doing Elvis'
Viva Las Vegas.
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at 9:27 PM on January 8, 2010
(13 comments)
Arnold Stang has passed away at the age of 91. While best known as a movie 'milquetoast' (co-owner of the gas station Jonathan Winters destroys in
"It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World"; sidekick to 'Arnold Strong' in
"Hercules in New York"), he was also a cartoon voice actor who was the pugnacious mouse 'Cousin Hoiman' in in the repetitive
"Herman & Catnip" toons and the alley-cat-con-man
"Top Cat" (channeling Phil Silvers).
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at 1:09 PM on December 22, 2009
(20 comments)
A Wish... (part 1)
...For Wings... (part 2)
...That Work (part 3). The only Christmas Special you'll see this year with hairballs, a cross-dressing cockroach, Ronald Coleman and a 22-second warning. The apex for Berkeley Breathed and Opus (for Bill, notsomuch).
via.
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at 6:12 PM on December 12, 2009
(26 comments)
Hokey Smoke! Today is the
50th Anniversary of the television debut of Rocky and Bullwinkle! (...and Boris & Natasha & Peabody & Sherman & Fractured Fairy Tales... Dudley DoRight debuted later in the 1st season) The entire first episode is online at both
Hulu and
Joost (with some minor alterations based on the DVD release) so, hopefully everyone can see how it began.
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at 4:25 AM on November 19, 2009
(49 comments)
The New Oxford American Dictionary Word of the Year is.... UNFRIEND. That's right, the negation of the verbification of 'friend'. Well, it's not quite as cringe-worthy as some of the runners-up...
Teabagger?!? And previous winners of this honor were
Hypermiling (2008),
Locavore (2007),
Carbon-Neutral (2006) and
Podcast (2005) (links include each year's finalists, including frugalista, staycation, bacn, mumblecore, Islamofascism, funner, lifehack and squick). Best comment about the WotY (so far)?
"an unreliable yet fascinating barometer of tech". But, at risk of over-editorializing, these look more like candidates for the
Banished Words List. Clearly better is the recent list of
"A Word a Year, 1906-2006" from Oxford's website (if only for the invaluable perspective of time).
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at 3:27 AM on November 17, 2009
(73 comments)
Demand Media (not to be confused with Media-On-Demand) is a
success story in the "on-line content" business creating 4000 text or video pieces
a day with an
assembly-line formula that includes an
automated editorial algorithm and
an army of lowly-paid freelancers (but, hey, they're starting to offer
health benefits!). Their own sites include the mind-numbingly practical
eHow (and
eHowUK for the non-US-centric), the .com affiliate of Lance Armstrong's
Livestrong and the infamous (at MeFi)
Cracked.com (link goes to parody of parody). They're syndicating content through their own domain registrar
eNom (better than 'parked pages', right?), and one other thing: Demand is the
#1 content provider to YouTube (and YouTube is their #1 revenue provider). All this from a
CEO/mastermind best known as
'the guy who sold MySpace to NewsCorp'.
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at 11:26 AM on November 12, 2009
(80 comments)
Apple has rejected an iPhone app for making contact with your Congressperson. Why? Because it identifies each US Representative/Senator with a 'bobblehead' caricature by
MAD magazine artist Tom Richmond (who, having done 540 not-terribly-disrespectful caricatures, is justifiably pissed). “Obscene, pornographic, or defamatory”?!? Well, maybe the
Nancy Pelosi is gratuitously goofy...
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at 9:37 AM on November 9, 2009
(152 comments)
