April 1, 2011
"Survival, Strength, Sisterhood", a short film.
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside (Vimeo link; possibly triggering) is a 2011 short film by Alejandro Zuluaga and Harsha Walia, based on a concept by the Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group (TRT 32:00). [more inside]
Nunavut
The Trials of Nunavut: Has Canada created a northern Haiti? Despite hundreds of millions of dollars a year spent via Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, the Nunavut government, and many other federal agencies, we have the following situation: [more inside]
PROTIP: Don't Get Caught
G4TV.com, GamePro, and VGChartz GamrFeed have been abusing multiple accounts to spam and manipulate Reddit for months. Via Game Journalists Are Incompetent Fuckwits.
A Manhattan Microstudio
She adored New York City. She idolized it all out of proportion. Sure, she paid $700 for a 90-square-foot microstudio, but New York was her town, and it always would be (via).
Mahna Mahna!
Related: Before @aplusk became a Twitter star, he did a TV show called "PUNK'D"
TweetForger is the Ultimate Twitter Tool, creating webpages that look like Tweets from anybody who has a Twitter account with messages that you provide. Think of it as putting 140 characters into somebody else's mouth. (but with a flagging option for those who are not amused) Perfect for the waning hours of April Fools Day. [more inside]
Officer Bubbles!
Constable Adam Josephs of the Toronto Police is now known across the internet as "Officer Bubbles" for his questionable shenanigans during the recent G20 summit protests. He is now suing YouTube for hosting videos related to in incident.
"We are hot chicks with big cameras. We don't need talent"
Photographers are beginning to fight back against the race to the bottom in their craft. Witness these (painfully true) scenarios. [more inside]
HUGLAGHALGHALGHAL
You might expect a jokey April 1 press release announcing Comic Sans Pro is yet another seasonal prank. Yet here it is, as little as $35 per face or $120 for the whole family.
Hidrodentitis and Halitosis and Hilarious
Embarassing Bodies, your one-stop clinical revulsion shop! Is it painful? And does it ooze? Pus and blood? Yep, that sounds nasty. [warning: NASTY] [more inside]
Use Cheap Vodka
"The Bloody Mary has been called the world's most complex cocktail, and from the standpoint of flavor chemistry, you've got a blend of hundreds of flavor compounds that act on the taste senses. It covers almost the entire range of human taste sensations -- sweet, salty, sour and umami or savory -- but not bitter." Research that's part of the International Year of Chemistry.
Tigers on Surfboards
TigersOnSurfboards.com is now live!
Happy Friday Fun Flash(back) Day!
This year marks a decade of Strong Bad Emails, sent from Strong Bad's desk. Next to his computer sits a box of floppy discs, often displaying game titles. If you missed those titles, the detail-oriented Homestar Runner wiki (previously) provides game titles, summaries, and links. Many of the games are old computer games like Rise of the Dragon or Miner 2049er, and some titles are linked to Lord_Pall's revived Home of the Underdogs abandonware game archive. Other games have links to the Videlectrix catalog, where you can see box art and play some demos. Or you can go back to the Homestar Runner wiki, and go to the list of playable Videlectrix titles, like 50k Racewalker (play online) Polulation: Tire (play online) or Peasant's Quest (play online) (More previous stuff: Peasant's Quest and Where's An Egg?).
Mark Romanek's favourite new video
Yoann Lemoine has directed a video for Iron, a song he composed and recorded as Woodkid; among its fans, Mark Romanek. [more inside]
Do You Have What It Takes to Find the Future?
"The New York Public Library launched a website Friday to introduce a massive, smartphone-based scavenger hunt that will officially kick off May 20 with an invitation-only, all-night lock-in in New York City. The game, which will continue through 2011, works by getting players to download an app for their iPhone or Android-based smartphones and then head to the library's Stephen A. Schwarzman building, which celebrates its centennial this year, to play (folks not near New York can play a digital version on the Web)."* [more inside]
HOLLYWOOD SHADOWS
A cure for blocked screenwriters "Michels also told the writer to get an egg timer. Following Michels’s instructions, every day he set it for one minute, knelt in front of his computer in a posture of prayer, and begged the universe to help him write the worst sentence ever written. When the timer dinged, he would start typing. He told Michels that the exercise was stupid, pointless, and embarrassing, and it didn’t work. Michels told him to keep doing it."
Be sure to get the optional Line Pack to simulate your own exciting Apple product launches.
Awesome mini Apple Store tugs at your wallet. PLAYMOBILTM introduces your children to the magic of Apple; includes store, figures, and 60+ accessories. Use your own real iPhone 4 as the screen behind Steve Jobs in the Keynote Theater. [more inside]
Medicine: Back to the Middle Ages
Welcome to a world where the drugs don't work - it's here, today. 'A new wave of "super superbugs" with a mutation called NDM 1, which first emerged in India, has now turned up all over the world, from Britain to New Zealand.''After Alexander Fleming's 1928 discovery of the first antibiotic, penicillin, we quickly came to assume we had the chemicals to beat bacteria. Sure, bugs evolve to develop resistance. But for decades scientists have managed to develop new medicines to stay at least one step ahead of an ever-mutating enemy. Now, though, we may be running out of road.' [more inside]
Wheel of Jeopardy!
Exactly fourteen years ago, the day's episodes of Wheel of Fortune (Part 2) and Jeopardy! (Part 2, Part 3) seemed slightly different somehow.
We're all doomed.
Koch-funded study confirms global warming
Cooking with Google
"The more Google's scientists refine search algorithms, the more they manipulate the results, even unconsciously. When you search Google for a recipe now, you get steered towards something with low calories that can be made quickly". An interesting post about how Google's search results can be seen as "promot[ing] a cooking culture focused on speed and diets. "
Slutwalk
You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.
"It is my wish to come very close, strikingly close, to the times in which we live, without submitting to artistic dogma...Otto Dix best known for his Weimar era work such as the now lost Street Fight.
I need the connection to the world of senses, the courage to portray ugliness, life as it comes."
Probably his most well know portraits are of the uninhibited dancer Anita Berber and of the writer and poet Sylvia von Harden.
Here are a couple of Galleries of his work and a six part video on Dix: Postcards from the front 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6;
Inside a dog, it's difficult to operate a mobile scanning device.
Books2Barcodes is an ongoing effort to convert all the world's great books to QR codes (2D barcodes). Each work featured here is the entire text of a piece of classic literature translated into several thousand barcodes. With a mobile device equipped with a camera and a barcode-scanning app, you can experience the joy of a great book as read through 800-character fragments on your cellphone.
Ever since the local American Apparel closed it’s been impossible to find any ironic tees within biking distance.
Sourcebits Launches The Hipster’s Companion, a Guide to Making Your Life Better. Finally, the app that lets you prove just how much better you are than everyone else without even having to try. This critical guide will help users better their lives by replacing their totally lame everyday tasks with hipster-approved alternatives. [more inside]
Very Nearly ADD
I Always Wondered. A light-hearted outlet for curiosity.
Hardcore History
It's Hardcore History with Dan Carlin, arguably the most intense amateur history podcast you'll run across today. Catch the Ghosts of the Ostfront series (1234) before it slips behind the paywall, and indulge in the epic of the fall of Rome in Death Throes of the Republic (12345).
Tech Support For Everyone
Songs of Spring, Boys of Summer
Talkin' Baseball: Cali, Cardinals, Giants, Mets, Red Sox, Tigers, Twins, Yankees, The Simpsons softball. [more inside]
"Now tell me, which one of these dogs would you want to have as your wide receiver on your football team?"
Ren Netherland takes photographs of animals at 'creative grooming' shows across the US (warning: horrible, horrible use of Flash). Via The Daily Mail (warning: The Daily Mail).
Decorah Eagles
Watch Bald Eagle eggs hatch (live stream). The Raptor Resource Project brings you the Decorah Eagles from atop their tree at the fish hatchery in Decorah, Iowa. The eggs are supposed to hatch any time today.
How much is a Noble Laureate worth?
Snooki's worth more than Toni Morrison, apparently. Toni Morrison is scheduled to deliver this year's Rutger Univerisity commencement speech, for a sum of $30,000.
The same school recently paid Snooki of Jersey Shore $32,000 to teach students how to fist pump, and to relay such advice as "study hard, but party harder."
That's all there is. There is no more.
About:Blank can be considered an inevitability of one's online journeys, though many a virtual traveler can spend their time without ever encountering the phenomenon. Part of a vast family (but not to be confused with any other similarily named personages, aliases, objects, paraphenalia, bound published texts, functions or any imitations thereof), it has not been without its share of jealous detractors. Its very reputation was nearly besmirched, yet remained largely benign compared to more terrifying finds. Indeed, it continues to persevere, even in analog form.
Did a piss, Says he was dejected, Asks to be exonerated
How To Piss in Public [SLYT—NSFW].
Crushing Creepy Crawlies
Freaky Friday Flash Fun, Flatting Flies:
Insectonator is a top-down shooter. Well, "shooter" is a stretch; this is more of "stomp, drop things, overkill with naplam" attack on pretty much every homeowner's nightmare: a bunch of crawly bugs in the dark that avoid the flashlight.
The bugs don't shoot back, so the game is just an endurance test by the player. And there are two awards for actually sticking around long enough. Weapons include a rock, your boot, various guns (including sniper rifles), rocket launchers, an anvil, naplam, and finally, a nuclear weapon.
Via the ever excellent Jay Is Games.
We get to see how the 60s ends!
After some tough negotiations, AMC and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner have come to an agreement to resume production on the series, which has been renewed for two - and possibly three - more seasons.
A perpetual notion
Oh Google, you foolers
Gmail Motion by Google. Gmail for the Knect generation.
The cops are crashing the Fiesta.
A long investigation into the Fiesta Bowl has produced a long and damning report (link goes to long PDF) detailing a culture of corruption under CEO John Junker. The report details gifts given to lawmakers, college administrators and others to help boost the bowl's stature in college football. [more inside]
The real tragedy is that Ryan never got the voice mail.
Love at First Sight, Quite possibly the worst case of drunk dialing ever to reach the internet. Ryan Responds spoof.
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