April 24, 2011

Rumor Sweeping World's Science Community that CERN's LHC has Detected the Higgs Boson -The "God Particle"

Rumor Sweeping World's Science Community that CERN's LHC has Detected the Higgs Boson -The "God Particle" The controversial rumor is based on what appears to be a leaked internal note from physicists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 17-mile-long particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. It's not certain at this point if the memo is authentic, or what the data it refers to might mean — but the note has sent the physics community into full buzz mode.
posted by Leisure_Muffin at 10:21 PM PST - 103 comments

Pufnstuf Pogo-fied: Living Island

Living Island is Pogo's latest bit of audio-visual remixery, using H.R. Pufnstuf as the source. Bonus bits inside. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 9:18 PM PST - 27 comments

So, I'm not a racist but...

How to tell people they sound racist [more inside]
posted by Blasdelb at 8:04 PM PST - 161 comments

Botswana's Cowboy Metalheads

Atlas Hoods: Botswana's Cowboy Metalheads (via).
posted by nasreddin at 7:41 PM PST - 35 comments

On top of spaghetti, all covered in cheese...

Tom Junod writes about cooking, his mother, and mashed potatoes. [more inside]
posted by WalterMitty at 7:20 PM PST - 14 comments

Renovation

Blogging the Hugos: Decline (part 1, part 2, part 3), is a series of blog posts covering some dystopian trends in recent Hugo nominees and itself winner of the of the BSFA award for non fiction. Meanwhile the 2011 Hugo finalists have been announced, with Mefi favorites featuring strongly: In Best Novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang (previously), In Best Short Story The Things by Peter Watts (previously). Doctor who features heavily under Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form (too many posts to mention), but has strong competition from Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury.
posted by Artw at 7:06 PM PST - 27 comments

More voices you won’t hear in the election campaign

Though mentioned intermittently, Mr. Harper's determination to muzzle critics will not be a “ballot box question” for most Canadians when they vote. Yet the implications for a Canada ruled by an unrestrained Harper majority government are obvious, and terrifying. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has now published an excellent commentary by Maria Gergin called “Silencing Dissent: The Conservative Record”. [via Gerald Caplan for the Globe and Mail] [more inside]
posted by ServSci at 6:59 PM PST - 35 comments

cheetah and lion whisperers

Cheetah woman - lion man, big cat whisperers. [more inside]
posted by nickyskye at 6:35 PM PST - 11 comments

Seoul through music videos

Seoul as seen through music videos, whether driving (1, 2), sitting (3), running (4), or walking (5). [more inside]
posted by needled at 6:32 PM PST - 5 comments

Get Drunk But Neither Broke Nor Fat

If you ever needed to know which booze has the most alcohol, the fewest calories, and costs the least, but were too lazy to do the math yourself, there is now Get Drunk But Neither Broke Nor Fat.

previously
posted by spitefulcrow at 4:59 PM PST - 130 comments

You Are Awesome

Webstock! The best little web design (and development, and content) conference around. The kind of place with opening credits, swag that includes confidence-boosting pencils, all the free ice-cream you can eat, and NZ Sign Language interpreters for the whole event.
Also, lots and lots of clever people talking. [more inside]
posted by roobot at 4:31 PM PST - 11 comments

Cthulhu Anesti!

Today is a day to celebrate the Risen God. I mean, of course, Cthulhu, that most adorable of Old Ones, who stars in The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu. If you haven't been eaten yet and need to waste time until then, The Calls for Cthulhu series is a nice way to distract yourself from your impending doom. If all that cuteness isn't enough, or perhaps too much, then you might want to check out oldie but goodie Cutethulhu.
posted by Kattullus at 3:21 PM PST - 35 comments

Puss 'N Boots

Cat videos, we've all seen them. They are in fact the lingua franca of the internet. But none of them, believe me, can quite prepare you for the pure psychedelic strangeness that is Puss 'N Boots. From the wonder world of K. Gordon Murray, the same man who gave us Santa Claus And His Helpers.
posted by puny human at 12:56 PM PST - 30 comments

"Oookun oooo uuva engs ooo. Oookun uhtawn ocean."

Victoria Looseleaf's mesmerizingly WTF facial-stretch video set to Placido Domingo has been making the rounds this weekend. But who is Victoria Looseleaf? [more inside]
posted by BeerFilter at 12:17 PM PST - 48 comments

Making Ebenezer Scrooge look like an ok guy

Children in foster care in Michigan get an allowance for clothing. Republican State Senator Bruce Caswell wants to limit their clothing purchases to thrift stores only.
posted by helloknitty at 11:04 AM PST - 244 comments

A Modest Proposal

Gearbox Software helps a fan with a modest proposal. (with some help from Borderlands' Claptrap and Anthony from "Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'?"
posted by empath at 9:36 AM PST - 31 comments

Portraits of Iraqis by Daniel Heyman

I am an artist who by a stroke of good fortune met a brave American lawyer who represents several hundred Iraqi detainees in the US federal courts....the Iraqis I interviewed, released by the American military after many months or years of detention, were never formally accused of a crime, brought to a trial or given legal representation. Daniel Heyman paints and draws while sitting in on interviews between former Abu Ghraib detainees and their lawyer Susan Burke. Interview (including Heyman's thoughts about Errol Morris' documentary Standard Operating Procedure). Review. Another gallery. Related: The Detainee Project. Via zunguzungu. [more inside]
posted by mediareport at 9:22 AM PST - 5 comments

To Crank and Crank

Cranking. "She couldn't really help my Dad. My Dad couldn't really help her. But they sure tried. She cranked and cranked. I was seven. I didn't know how to help anyone." - A brief essay on life, happiness and work by Merlin Mann.
posted by Memo at 8:15 AM PST - 50 comments

The frozen desert

Huge cache of frozen carbon dioxide found on Mars.
posted by The Whelk at 7:50 AM PST - 45 comments

Artis Gilmore elected to NBA Hall of Fame

Update: In Sept. '09 I posted about Artis Gilmore being denied his place in the Basketball Hall Of Fame. Injustice rectified. [more inside]
posted by planetkyoto at 7:50 AM PST - 9 comments

BBC Radio 4 Collections

BBC Radio 4 now has a dedicated online program library! Rather than hunting through the site, you can now browse by subject and/or program from one main 'Collections' page. It's not all of the output by any means, but there's plenty there to keep you going, such as the philosophy archives from Melvyn Bragg's "In Our Time", or various mathematics programs from different series. There's much much more as well. [more inside]
posted by carter at 6:14 AM PST - 11 comments

Take this song and cover it!

Straight outta the Department of Obscure and Unlikely Covers, here's Hank Crawford's version of Johnny Paycheck's Take This Job and Shove It. [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:41 AM PST - 60 comments

At the end of the day

The Jeremy Kyle Show has been described as 'human bear-baiting', but the programme itself makes great claims about the good it does. So what happens when the cameras stop rolling? At the end of the day... Previous
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 2:21 AM PST - 26 comments

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