November 26, 2013
You have reached the end of the road.
Names for Change
Name this mouthwash. Name this winter coat. Name this urinal. Name the herb garden. Name this salt and pepper. Name this fire extinguisher. Name this Case Manager. Name this pie. [more inside]
Turduckens, Cockentrices and Helmeted Cocks
If you think turduckens are just too easy: Things inside things. Things on top of other things. Things that look like things. Things that do tricks, and other subtleties.
Pet Shop Boys / Battleship Potemkin
In 2004, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe teamed up with the Dresdner Sinfoniker to perform a new score at a presentation of Eisenstein's 1925 classic silent film Battleship Potemkin in Trafalger Square, London. It is estimated that 25,000 people attended the screening. The Pet Shop Boys' score and the film have been combined and are available to watch on YouTube. [1h15m] [more inside]
America Unhinged
Evidence suggests the Knights Templar maintained a fleet of pterodactyls and used them to colonize America years before Columbus. Some disagree with this theory, as clearly the Templars’ pterodactyls would not get along with their unicorns. [more inside]
It didn’t used to be like this.
Flag it and don't move on: the YouTube comment wars
Last month, an innocent video of Japanese celebricat Maru climbing a ladder was defaced with a dick pic in the comments (NSFW ASCII art). The Internet's favorite feline was the latest casualty in a hurricane of spam, links to viruses, ASCII art and other flying debris that has descended on the YouTube comments section ever since Google forced all commenters to adopt Google+ accounts. [more inside]
MeatFilter: Community Website
Positivity Is Bullshit When You Have Cancer
You are Zelda's...
Stop-Frame Animation and body art that will blow your mind.
Ruby by Emma Allen - The short film depicts the transition from living, to death, to eternity and reincarnation with some very impressive face painting make-up, which took Emma five days to apply. This is one of the most creative pieces of art I've seen in a long time.
Boys and girls come out to play, playing till they're old and grey
New Wave Artists of the 1980s aging gracefully (and not so gracefully) Don't click the link if you want to remember them "as they were" but why not click, because some of our favorites are still stone cold foxes 30 years later!
Animals Were Harmed
Animals Were Harmed On the American Humane Association's relationship with Hollywood.
What's White and Round and Goes Around
A malignant species of wit
The Berners Street Hoax - On November 26th, 1810, at 5 o’clock in the morning, a chimney sweep appeared at Mrs. Tottenham’s door.
How to Raise Charitable Money and Keep It Without Going to Jail
Y'all act like you never seen a Walter White person before
We are quite literally looking for a person that can do four jobs
On Penny Arcade, Exploitation, and the Myth of the Do-Everything Rock Star. "We want someone who can code well in multiple front-end and back-end languages, maintain servers and other hardware including load balancing and database admin, do general office IT, manage your own projects, deal with the fact that one of our co-founders is a rampaging trans-phobic asshole, and be on call 24/7 though we hope not to bug you too much in the middle of the night." Also comes with other benefits.
Wrecking LOL
“The Untouchables in pursuit of the unintelligible”
The FBI files on being and nothingness. "From 1945 onwards, J Edgar Hoover’s FBI spied on Camus and Sartre. The investigation soon turned into a philosophical inquiry…" [Via]
“Not to share wealth with the poor is to steal”
Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium has effectively labeled unfettered capitalism a 'tyranny' (previously). [more inside]
Warped Big Blues
Like the AmigaOS, TOS, and BeOS, IBM's OS/2 operating system's rise and fall gives insight into the current computing landscape.
“Tell your second grade teacher I’m sorry.”
At the elementary school in Brooklyn where I taught first grade, science was a “special,” along with dance, art, and physical education. That meant that students were delivered by their homeroom teachers to the science teacher between one and three times a week for less than an hour each time.[more inside]
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“I’M NOT A SCIENTIST, man,” Florida senator Marco Rubio told GQ magazine in an interview published in December 2012, following the first presidential debate season in twenty-eight years to fail to mention climate change. Rubio had been asked how old he thinks the earth is; it is unclear whether he was signaling a fashionable disdain for scientific facts or whether he truly did not know.
Far From Vietnam':Six Directors Join to Shape a Collage
Far from Vietnam 1967 (Loin du Vietnam) Far from Vietnam (French: Loin du Vietnam) is a 1967 French documentary film directed by Joris Ivens. In seven different parts, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam-war. [more inside]
Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future
Five years after my great-uncle’s death, penicillin changed medicine forever. Infections that had been death sentences—from battlefield wounds, industrial accidents, childbirth—suddenly could be cured in a few days. So when I first read the story of his death, it lit up for me what life must have been like before antibiotics started saving us. --
Lately, though, I read it differently. In Joe’s story, I see what life might become if we did not have antibiotics any more.
*Boop*Boop*BONK*
Cats Vs. Mirrors: A scientific breakdown (French narration, English subtitles, lots of kitties).
"Man vs. Woman"
Lovecraftian Roguelike Like
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw has released a pretty nifty Lovecraftian roguelike game. Croshaw is the acerbic fast-paced voice behind Zero Punctuation, and is also apparently a developer. And a poet. And a novelist. Somehow this all escaped my attention.
“They're killers. Bodies just pile up here."
The victim of the first big mistake I ever made was a gentleman to whom I had never been properly introduced (and whose name I still do not know) but who was possessed of three singular qualities: he was alone in a room with me, he was without his trousers, and he was very, very dead.
The wondrous world of geography
Twelve Mile Circle: a collection of geographical oddities and unusual places. The site is chock-full of short, well-written pieces on fascinating geographical phenomena around the globe, ranging from time zone oddities to islands joining the mainland to trap streets to roads with unusually low clearance. Among the many categories are borders, time, international oddities, roads, elevation, water, weather, US counties and states, Canada, terrain, history, government, etc. You can view all articles (there are a lot!) on a map as well.
You can’t sit in the chair; there’s already a cat in it.
"You are standing in a hallway at nine in the morning, facing a dining room/kitchen to the south. To the west are stairs up. To the north is an office." -- The Writing Life as interactive fiction, as lived through by Patricia C. Wrede.
Beautiful Moves
Final report on Sandy Hook shooting released
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