March 12, 2009

Flash Friday

Shoot the fast shinies with your fast shiny! Ponies for all!
posted by leotrotsky at 11:08 PM PST - 17 comments

A Medical Madoff

A Medical Madoff: Anesthesiologist Faked Data in 21 Studies. "A pioneering anesthesiologist has been implicated in a massive research fraud that has altered the way millions of patients are treated for pain during and after orthopedic surgeries."
posted by homunculus at 10:10 PM PST - 46 comments

Slit-Scan

An Informal Catalog of Slit-Scan Video Artworks and References
"Slitscanw imaging techniques are used to create static images of time-based phenomena. In traditional film photography, slit scan images are created by exposing film as it slides past a slit-shaped aperture. In the digital realm, thin slices are extracted from a sequence of video frames, and concatenated into a new image." [via] [more inside]
posted by carsonb at 10:07 PM PST - 11 comments

When I get to the custom weapons creation section, I will keep turning those pages.

“I can't make anyone Jewish with a called shot.” “I cannot start the game pregnant.” “My medical supply bag will contain more than just a bone-saw and a bottle of whiskey.” “My halfling cannot take the flaw, 'Obsession: Ring of Invisibility.'” “Even if he was a paragon of humanity in his alternate dimension, Good Hitler is not an appropriate superhero concept.” “No more Crazy Ivans while I'm driving the AT-AT.” “I do not have to check before each adventure that my fellow adventurers are not doppelgangers, Cylons or pod people.” “'Everybody Wang Chung tonight' is not an acceptable use of the Mass Suggestion spell.” 1250 things Mr. Welch can no longer do during an RPG. (SLLJ)
posted by Navelgazer at 7:22 PM PST - 74 comments

Inscrutable, these grass-mud horses, what?

Stories about caonima, grass-mud horses have become a popular meme with their own theme song [Flash] in China. If you don't speak Chinese it's surprisingly hard to find out why: the name sounds rude. Sometimes juvenile humor can be the best way to poke fun at the ever-present government censorship.
posted by Joe in Australia at 5:07 PM PST - 27 comments

Momma Mia, Ragazze in Vespa! (Girls on Vespas!)

Enjoy a couple of old (youtube) Vespa commercials and some BONUS CHEESECAKE; Girls On Vespas (flickr).
posted by snsranch at 4:38 PM PST - 32 comments

Always look on the bright side of blight

"Ah, the mythical $100 home. We hear about these low-priced “opportunities” in down-on-their-luck cities like Detroit, Baltimore and Cleveland, but we never meet anyone who has taken the plunge. Understandable really, for if they were actually worth anything then they would cost real money, right? Who would do such a preposterous thing?" Amongst others, artists who have hope for the future and money to invest. [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 3:45 PM PST - 36 comments

Never Over

idaft [via]
posted by cashman at 3:32 PM PST - 16 comments

The Second Pass - Book Reviews

The Second Pass is an exclusively online publication devoted to reviews, essays, and blog posts about books new and old. It is updated every weekday. [via]
posted by sciurus at 3:21 PM PST - 7 comments

What Does $1 Trillion Look Like?

What Does $1 Trillion Look Like?
posted by ZenMasterThis at 2:38 PM PST - 76 comments

A Bazooka Rowdy?

The most awesome action sequence you'll see today. [via]
posted by clearly at 1:44 PM PST - 80 comments

Breakfast at Sulimay's

Breakfast at Sulimay's with Bill, Moon, Joe and Ann: 1 featuring reviews of The Thermals, Joanna Newsom, The Decemberists, and Clipse. l 2 with The Knife, Deerhoof, and Paul Wall featuring 'lil Keke. l 5 with Asha, TI, Toby Mac. 6 with the Shins , !!!, and Common. l 7 with Bjork , Wilco , and Black Reble Motorcycle club. l 9 with Santogold, Portishead and Death Cab for Cutie! more (v) yt
posted by vronsky at 1:13 PM PST - 19 comments

Crambone

And now ladies and gentlemen introducing for the first time a new singing television star: Uncle Pecos. [more inside]
posted by Smedleyman at 1:08 PM PST - 13 comments

Colombia's Agony

In 1985, less than a week after the Palace of Justice siege in Bogota left 11 members of the Supreme Court dead, the ice-clad Nevada del Ruiz volcano erupted, wiping out the Colombian town of Armero in a huge wave of mud and water. Most links contain disturbing and NSFW images. [more inside]
posted by jontyjago at 12:27 PM PST - 8 comments

Not even a talking kangaroo

"But no people. That’s the dream here. And that’s why nobody faces the pretty durn obvious fact that after the apocalypse, alliances, partnerships, gangs, whatever you want to call them, are going to be tighter, stricter, more important than ever. Because that’s no fun" The Omega Nerd: The War Nerd talks about survival porn, water, Mormons, and Mongols.
posted by The Whelk at 12:02 PM PST - 25 comments

What happens when the stock market goes to zero?

Why are these companies free? In which we learn about "negative enterprise value" and an interesting prospect of using a market collapse to get free money. "Seemingly, a buyer who can afford all of the shares can end up being paid to own these companies."
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 11:34 AM PST - 29 comments

Hooping For His Life

Talent-show Filter: 14-year-old Kepa Police versus 30 hula hoops. (SLYT)
posted by hermitosis at 11:15 AM PST - 27 comments

Soccer is a European sport because it is all about death and despair

America is doomed. Why? Soccer.
posted by Artw at 10:59 AM PST - 150 comments

A Handy Guide to What the Hell...

A Handy Guide to What the Hell Just Happened in Darfur. [more inside]
posted by lullaby at 10:37 AM PST - 47 comments

LOADS OF CRAP

@metatweetfilter Can you believe digerati like John Battelle bought into shilling Proctor & Gamble for the price of a ticket to Cincinnati?! [more inside]
posted by humannaire at 10:34 AM PST - 66 comments

In a short animated world...

100 fantastic animated shorts for a century of animation. Almost all entries with video.
posted by louche mustachio at 10:20 AM PST - 7 comments

The nearest to being alive.

Dare Devil Alma Skinner started riding the Wall of Death at the age of 18, doing the same tricks as the men (including her future husband, Skid Skinner). Hear her reminisce -- she did it "for money reasons." [Real Media grumble.] She died in 2008 at the age of 98. [more inside]
posted by mudpuppie at 10:00 AM PST - 6 comments

A Muppet and a fat guy

An interview with Elmo and Ricky Gervais. (SLYT)
posted by hifiparasol at 9:27 AM PST - 28 comments

The Anthology, notated.

"With this blog, I want to use the Folkways Anthology as a roadmap to explore American folk music and maybe other countries traditions along the way. I’ll use texts, images, music and videos gathered from my personal collection and from the net to make this work-in-progress enjoyable and educational the best I can." (via)
posted by 1f2frfbf at 9:15 AM PST - 17 comments

I can't take my eyes off of her.

"Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves." Also: male gaze on the Gender Ads Project. Laura Mulvey's original 1975 essay on Male Gaze in cinema.
posted by Optimus Chyme at 7:57 AM PST - 248 comments

Pink Tide to El Salvador

Will El Salvador become the next Pink Tide nation? FMLN leader Mauricio Funes is running for president. Elections on Sunday. [more inside]
posted by aniola at 7:32 AM PST - 8 comments

Iraqi shoe-thrower sentenced to three years in jail

Iraqi shoe-thrower sentenced to three years in jail. Can an internet campaign for his release be far behind?
posted by Silky Slim at 7:30 AM PST - 67 comments

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist

The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist.
posted by chunking express at 6:03 AM PST - 60 comments

It's not often you see a battleship about to be rammed by a giant swan.

The Smallest Manned Navy in the World [more inside]
posted by bokeh at 5:16 AM PST - 17 comments

High Performance Web Sites

Steve Souders works on web performance and open source initiatives. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance, and is a bestseller. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. He always shares best practices, for example, 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites, and the very informative State of Performance featuring his predictions for web performance in 2009. [more inside]
posted by netbros at 4:54 AM PST - 13 comments

Time paradoxes and alternate universes

These subjects still fascinate me after a lifetime of interest: faster-than-light speed, alternate time streams, parallel universes, time travel, antiparticles moving backward in time, time loops, and the recurring themes of paradox -- all serious but astonishing ideas of science. Something about them inspires infinite possibilities. Am I not alone?
posted by ember at 1:19 AM PST - 64 comments

Daisy, Daisy

A Bicycle Built for Two Thousand
posted by flatluigi at 1:01 AM PST - 42 comments

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