August 29, 2011

Humiliation Television

Playboy: The Curse of Reality TV (url/ads may be NSFW)
posted by zarq at 10:12 PM PST - 57 comments

Town Of Cats

Town Of Cats is a new story by cult Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
posted by Lovecraft In Brooklyn at 8:27 PM PST - 48 comments

The Joy of Cooking

In 1931, Irma Rombauer, a Missouri homemaker struggling to support her family after the suicide of her husband, self-published The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. The New York Public Library later named it one of the 150 most influential books of the century. [more inside]
posted by Trurl at 8:23 PM PST - 61 comments

Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching - Peter A. Merel's Interpolation
posted by MetaMonkey at 7:54 PM PST - 44 comments

Woman eases release from a cotton disability.

This is what happens when you play the game Telephone with YouTube auto-captioning.
posted by lazaruslong at 6:49 PM PST - 25 comments

The second-fastest woman in history

"When I go to heaven, they're going to tell me where I really finished in the world." Ted McClelland suggests that women's track and field records be abolished to "give today's runners realistic times to chase." An As It Happens (CBC) interview with McClelland begins around 11:40 of this link.
posted by kneecapped at 6:15 PM PST - 38 comments

The CRPG Addict

The CRPG Addict is playing every PC role-playing came in chronological order. Currently, he's playing Ultima V. [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight at 6:12 PM PST - 58 comments

He's a Magic Man, Mama...

My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player. Jon Finkel's winnings topped $300,000 from 1997-2008, during his most active Magic: The Gathering years. These days, jonnymagic00 heads out on the professional poker circuit instead. But loyal Magic fans still have his back.
posted by misha at 5:31 PM PST - 359 comments

A Very Special Episode

Officially canceled: Former Baywatch star and 1995 Playmate Donna D'errico's quest for Noah's Ark (video).
posted by hermitosis at 5:12 PM PST - 52 comments

“Did... did that tree just blow up?” Rainbow Dash asked, confused.

It was a beautiful day in Ponyville. The sun was shining; the birds were singing. Ponies big and small cantered throughout the town, whickering and neighing merrily as they went about their business.
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion!
“Oh my god, that was a huge explosion!” yelled Twilight Sparkle, staring in shock and horror at the massive fireball rising from the center of town. Hundreds of ponies ran screaming from the burning wreckage of the Town Hall. Some were covered in soot, and limped as they streamed past her, desperate to escape the burning hell behind them.
“Yo Twi’, you see dat shiz?” said Spike, her jive-talking baby dragon sidekick. He stood on her back, one claw wrapped in her mane while the other casually removed a set of shutter-style plastic sunglasses. You know, like the ones Kanye West is always wearing.

Michael Bay presents My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. (It's fanfiction, but readable without knowledge of the show or fondness for pastel-colored horses.) [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 5:05 PM PST - 38 comments

AskMLKFi

Do you lack self confidence? Not sure what you should do after high school? Having trouble finding a nice young man? Are your friends interested in nothing but scotch, girlie magazines and gin? Ask Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about it. He's got Advice for Living. [more inside]
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 4:24 PM PST - 28 comments

Smile!

Portraits of married couples from the Victorian era. [more inside]
posted by gman at 3:37 PM PST - 77 comments

"Anywhere was home. Where I do good, I stay. When it gets bad and dull, I'm gone."

“Honeyboy” Edwards, the last of the original American delta bluesmen, died last night. [more inside]
posted by magstheaxe at 2:46 PM PST - 27 comments

A Frog for your Boils

Biomedical Ephemera, or, a Frog for your Boils is "A blog for all biological and medical ephemera, from the age of Abraham through the era of medical quackery and cure-all nostrums. Sometimes featuring illustrations of diseases and conditions of the times, sometimes fascinating ephemeral medical equipment, and sometimes clippings and information about the theories themselves." The archive page is also a useful starting point. via Things Magazine.
posted by Rumple at 2:14 PM PST - 8 comments

If Jodorowsky did sky burials

Creepy vulture art [SLVimeo] [previously]
posted by stonepharisee at 1:36 PM PST - 25 comments

Bunnyjump

The Ultimate Binky Video [more inside]
posted by joannemerriam at 12:45 PM PST - 42 comments

A.I. v.s. A.I.

Cleverbot vs. Cleverbot. [more inside]
posted by atomicmedia at 12:40 PM PST - 49 comments

It's solar noon, do you know what time your clock says?

Saturday August 27 Bill Nye dedicated a solar noon clock he designed. The clock is embedded in the facade of Rhodes Hall. At Solar Noon, when the Sun culminates, that is, reaches its highest point in the sky, the sun-shaped feature will light up. It is the marrying of mechanical and electrical engineering with astronomy. What could be better?
posted by IvoShandor at 11:47 AM PST - 27 comments

That bird has some pretty sweet moves.

Crazy Axe Wielding Love Bird Attacks! [more inside]
posted by 2bucksplus at 10:39 AM PST - 30 comments

Humour can be the carrier of messages that are otherwise hard to convey.

Superherodom after 40. A series of paintings by Andreas Englund. Coral cache here.
posted by blue_beetle at 9:51 AM PST - 57 comments

In A Not Distant Database, Next Sunday AD...

MST3kdbx: Six Degrees of Peter Graves. Did you know Coleen Gray was in The Leech Woman and The Phantom Planet? Like the IMDB obsessive cinephile friend you never friend MST3Kdbx indexes and connects together every actor in every movie shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 [via mefi projects]
posted by The Whelk at 9:12 AM PST - 84 comments

Pert "V" Necked Jumper by: Nancy Edwards, Falls Church, VA.

"For goodness sakes, Hedy ... who is Jack Kirby?" "You goop! He's the one who draws the covers for Love Romances!!" [more inside]
posted by griphus at 7:12 AM PST - 41 comments

"I just want him to know"

Tennis player and coach Bob Hewitt is a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame who has held all the men's doubles and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles. Hewitt, who was born in Australia but became a South African citizen by marriage, also captained the 1974 South African Davis Cup champion team. The Boston Globe reports that Hewitt's lengthy coaching career in the US and South Africa has long been accompanied by allegations that Hewitt sexually abused his female students, mostly adolescents but one as young as 10. Hewitt denies the charges.
posted by catlet at 5:51 AM PST - 14 comments

No flying toasters here.

Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from? The man behind the camera is American photographer Charles O’Rear. Don’t let his name fool you into thinking that the photo was in fact taken in Ireland. Bliss, as it turns out, is in.....
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 5:50 AM PST - 80 comments

Obama nominates Alan Krueger as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers

White House economic policy largely originates with The Council of Economic Advisers, CEA, who directly advise the President of the United States. CEA research and publish the annual Economic Report of the President[ .pdf ], which details the state of the nation's economic health. Today President Barack Obama is expected to nominate Princeton Economist Alan Krueger as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Krueger, who previously held the post of Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy, has written on a wide range of topics, from the economics of rock music [ .pdf ], the causes of terrorism [ .pdf ] and American's changing work / life balance. But Krueger is best known as a labor economist who has extensively researched long term unemployment. [more inside]
posted by Mutant at 5:46 AM PST - 69 comments

Techno Journalist Dan Sicko Passed Away

Journalist and Detroit techno historian, Dan Sicko passed away Sunday, August 28th from a rare form of eye cancer. [more inside]
posted by p3t3 at 5:38 AM PST - 15 comments

Golden Retriever

President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela wants to bring his country's gold back home. Eleven billion dollars worth of Venezuelan gold (211 tonnes ) is currently deposited among a number of US and European banks, at least some of which will have difficulties meeting the call. Transporting the gold will be expensive and complicated - not because of the physical volume but because of its immense value. (via) [more inside]
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:16 AM PST - 83 comments

There can be only one?

People are thinking about immortality these days. Or at least living a long, long time. (There's a jellyfish that's already made it. [prev])
posted by rikschell at 5:07 AM PST - 93 comments

It's gifs! On a TV!

gif.tv is just what you might expect. It made me giggle a bit. [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:23 AM PST - 41 comments

The Latin American Canon according to Carlos Fuentes

"The most varied and fervorous literature of spanish speaking America is the Argentinian. The most sui generis (like the country itself) is the Chilean." Carlos Fuentes lists the novels of the 20th and, probably a little bit prematurely, 21st centuries which constitute the Latin American Canon (google translation). [more inside]
posted by lucia__is__dada at 2:55 AM PST - 28 comments

Teahupo'o Code Red

"At 7 a.m. Saturday morning the reports from the lineup were mixed. Big sets in the 20-foot plus range, some bigger ones and all on the verge of unsurfable. Tow-in crews who'd flown in from all over the world were sitting in the lineup watching the waves hit the reef and timing the sets. Meanwhile photographers and video crew were stuck on land arguing with government officials who had declared a "Code Red Alert" and shut down the channel leading to Teahupo'o."
posted by Ahab at 12:49 AM PST - 25 comments

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