November 6, 2010

Deep beneath Vegas’s glittering lights lies a sinister labyrinth inhabited by poisonous spiders and a man nicknamed The Troll who wields an iron bar.

The tunnel people of Las Vegas: "They lost their home when they became addicted to drugs after the death of their son Brady at four months old." [warning: Daily Mail]
posted by rodgerd at 11:56 PM PST - 26 comments

White Lines

Cocaine - how it's made, how it moves, and who might be cutting it with a deadly cattle-deworming drug, a follow up to the mystery of the tainted cocaine.
posted by Artw at 10:32 PM PST - 45 comments

If we don't, remember me.

Moments from classic films, in animated GIF form.
posted by zamboni at 7:18 PM PST - 67 comments

The Greasiest Sandwich Ever: Bacon, Hot Dogs, French Fries, Cheese, Gravy, French Toast And Maple Syrup Combine In "Angry French Canadian."

"We're Canadian and we're crazy, too". Welcome to The Angry French Canadian. From the "authors" of the worst pizza ever. Bacon, Hot Dogs, French Fries, Cheese, Gravy, French Toast And Maple Syrup combine for 5,343 calories of sheer heaven. Or not sheer heaven. C'est tout. [more inside]
posted by YamwotIam at 5:54 PM PST - 33 comments

"Show me what you eat and i will tell you who you are" - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

While many government organizations are pushing a healthy lifestyle complete with a low-fat diet, one marketing group formed by the USDA, called Dairy Management, is making a case for more cheese in America's menu items. [more inside]
posted by mccarty.tim at 5:45 PM PST - 65 comments

Dude, Yer Robots R Crap 4Ever!!

Kill Your Co-Workers, by Flying Lotus. [more inside]
posted by bwg at 5:12 PM PST - 11 comments

Turn Back Your Clocks Song

Your dad wishes to remind you that it's time to turn back your clocks. And since he's heading there, do you need anything from Costco?
posted by zizzle at 4:42 PM PST - 73 comments

Secret Cinema presents Blade Runner

Secret Cinema presents Blade Runner. Secret Cinema is a growing community of all that love cinema, experience and the unknown. Secret audience. Secret locations. Secret worlds. The time is now to change how we watch films. [more inside]
posted by Sailormom at 3:19 PM PST - 32 comments

Gimme an F! PH! Gimme an E! I! Gimme an A! S! Gimme a T! H!

"There was hookers, and hustlers, they filled up the room." It's a Phish Halloween tradition to play a costume set as another band. Last Sunday at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall, they paid tribute to Little Feat's 1978 live album Waiting for Columbus. "Phish are repaying," David Fricke says in his Phishbill essay [pdf] "a lifelong debt to the band that has inspired and influenced them above all others." [more inside]
posted by muckster at 3:01 PM PST - 23 comments

Henry Mancini

His melodies are more familiar than those of any other soundtrack composer except perhaps John Williams. He won 20 Grammy Awards, more than any other pop musician in history, and 4 Academy Awards. He scored what some consider the greatest opening shot in cinema history. His versatility encompassed situation comedy as well as science fiction horror. He is commemorated on a 37-cent stamp. He is Henry Mancini. [more inside]
posted by Joe Beese at 2:54 PM PST - 32 comments

Free cotton candy!

All you can eat just got a little stickier. The number one all-you-can-eat chain Golden Corral is rolling out cotton candy to all of its buffet lines nationwide. [more inside]
posted by MattD at 2:46 PM PST - 61 comments

God of Snacks!

Kratos makes a peanut butter & jelly sandwich. (SLYT, please don't hurt me.)
posted by Strange Interlude at 2:34 PM PST - 25 comments

Wishery

Wishery a new song based on Snow White, from Pogo (previously 1 2 3)
posted by juv3nal at 12:42 PM PST - 22 comments

Quantitative Easing

One day after midterm elections in the U.S., Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announces the nation's plans to purchase $600 billion in Treasuries. NPR takes Bernanke's announcement and attempts to "translate it into plain English." [more inside]
posted by The ____ of Justice at 12:37 PM PST - 85 comments

Artiste hors-pair, celui qui s’est fait connaitre sous le nom de Djilali Raina Rai...

The Algerian singer, Djillali Rezkellah, has passed away from stomach cancer at the age of 49. [more inside]
posted by HopperFan at 11:33 AM PST - 5 comments

Human Stories From Prison

"Between the Bars is a weblog platform for prisoners, through which the 1% of America which is behind bars can tell their stories. Since prisoners are routinely denied access to the Internet, we enable them to blog by scanning letters. We aim to provide a positive outlet for creativity, a tool to assist in the maintenance of social safety nets, an opportunity to forge connections between prisoners and non-prisoners, and a means to promote non-criminal identities and personal expression. We hope to improve prisoner's lives, and help to reduce recidivism." [more inside]
posted by gman at 9:44 AM PST - 22 comments

Can we stop making tasers look and operate like guns now?

Followup-Filter: Former BART Ofcr. Johannes Mehserle, who shot and killed Oscar Grant, has been sentenced after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter [previously]. Although the jury originally did not believe the officer's story - that he had intended to reach for and fire his taser but grabbed his firearm instead - the prosecution offered insufficient evidence to show that the use of his firearm was intentional. Former Ofcr. Mehserle will spend 2 years in prison for the shooting.
posted by thesmophoron at 9:38 AM PST - 86 comments

Newton says

Boom.
posted by Mblue at 2:45 AM PST - 64 comments

The Cassiopeia Project

The Cassiopeia Project is quietly producing dozens of high-quality science videos and making them freely available online. [more inside]
posted by knave at 2:09 AM PST - 21 comments

"All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are rich and well born; the other, the mass of the people." -- Alexander Hamilton

A financial manager for wealthy clients [“dedicated to ultra high net worth individuals, their families and foundations”] will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job, prosecutors said Thursday. “Felony convictions have some pretty serious job implications for someone in Mr. Erzinger's profession, and that entered into it,” [District Attorney Mark] Hurlbert said.
posted by orthogonality at 1:06 AM PST - 160 comments

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