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Schadenfreude by proxy?
What are the limits to absolute hilarity when "in bad taste" comes into play before posting something to the blue? I ask because I'm itching to share this video with everyone. It's wholly repugnant, but ridiculously high on the Unintentional Comedy Scale.
It's not you, dear country, it's me
Canada, Belgium, Iraq. What is so bad about countries breaking up?
I shit a worm
I have worms in my stomach and zero possibilities of seeing a doctor. Tell me what to do! (Graphic Details within)
DHTML Arkanoid
DHTML Arkanoid
One of my favorite arcade classics, and one of the slickest applications of DHTML I've ever seen.
How do we help a 17 year old kicked out of the house?
How do we help a 17 year old kicked out of the house get his property and identification?
Welcome to New Jersey: Do not drink and sleep
DUI for NOT Driving while Drunk
A New Jersey appellate court yesterday upheld the principle that convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) can be imposed on individuals who were not driving. This is not one of those kooky old laws on the books.
‘I’ve stood around too long’
Someone call John Hughes!
Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
Rocks fall! Everyone dies!
Head Injury Theater presents: Dungeons and Dragons: Celebrating 30 Years of Very Stupid Monsters.
"Fighting is bad." *THWACK*
Child Beater. Part II. YouTubes, from onehitmaster.com. (No children were harmed during the making of these movies.)
Why is my energy bill so high?
How do I find out if my landlord is scamming me on energy?
REVERSO MADNESS
This is a composition. BACKWARDS! Because, hey, I've had insufficient sleep.
Well boys I reckon this is it
Well boys I reckon this is it.
A B-52 loaded with six nuclear cruise missiles leaves North Dakota and arrives in Louisiana with five prompting the ACC to schedule (and announce) an Air Force wide standown on September 14, 2007. What's next Major Kong?
Where can I find more melodic death metal without lyrics.
Where can I find good melodic death metal that don't have lyrics?
Any chance of explaining this: "This post was deleted for the following reason: clearly my filter for these isn't working properly. But wait, Hitchens AND Dawkins you say...? * taps pager * Damn this thing is broken. -- jessamyn"
Wait.. a longtime user criticises the deletion of a post about one intellectual's review of another intellectual's book - a deletion with obscure sarcastic reason "clearly my filter for these isn't working properly. But wait, Hitchens AND Dawkins you say...? * taps pager * Damn this thing is broken. -- jessamyn" ... then you close the Meta thread?
Low power homebrew NAS and ftp server
How do I build a super low powered PC, and just how low can I go without costing a fortune?
Markovfilter
Cortex restarted genefilter. It's in beta but still good. Forgive me if this has already been mentioned.
the really sweet, tangy stuff.
Not to judge an album by its cover or anything - see larger image! - but Animal Collective's latest, Strawberry Jam, looks to be as weirdly delicious as ever. Pitchfork gave it a glowing 9.3, but you can listen to two of their new songs and decide for yourself at the BBC's less enthusiastic (but still positive) review. You can also watch the video for the first single, "Fireworks", here.
Panda Bear, one of the group's four members who released a widely-acclaimed solo album in March, was interviewed recently (also by Pitchfork) about the making of Strawberry Jam, as well as his thoughts on that cover...
All You Need Is Blood...Blood Is All You Need?
[family squabble filter]: My brother is convinced that a human could survive by consuming nothing but blood from other humans. I want to prove him wrong without actually testing his theory.
How does one move data from old floppies to a MacBook Pro?
I have some Macintosh-formatted floppy disks from the 1990s. They
contain data I would like to have (old writing, Quicken files, etc.).
Leaving aside issues of media integrity, how do I transfer these to a
modern Mac. I have no access to Mac floppy drive of any kind. I do
have access to PCs with floppy drives. But, of course, under normal
circumstances a PC doesn't recognize a Mac-formatted disk. How do
I get my data from these floppies to my MacBook Pro?
Nowhere to run to, nowhere to hyde
While relaxing in my brown vibrating recliner, I wondered... Where does Naugahyde come from? No way. Seriously?
"If you’re going to have plural marriage, you need fewer men"
"Over the last six years, hundreds of teenage boys have been expelled or felt compelled to leave the polygamous settlement that straddles Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah..... 'So the parents kick him out because otherwise the father could have his wives and whole family taken away.'"
How can I be more frugal?
I'm on a (self-imposed) tight budget, but I don't want to compromise my quality of life. So I'm looking for the best strategies to get great deals on everything from computers to clothing to books. What are your recommendations?
Basic Recipes
What are some basic recipes to add to my cooking repertoire?
Is this what was supposed to happen before the Sept. 21st put options ran out?
On Wednesday Sept. 5th, German police stopped a
major
terrorist
attack.
The planned bomb consisted of 730 kilogramms of hydrogen peroxide to be mixed with other chemicals.
The explosive power would have been equivalent to 550 kilogramms of TNT.
The IHT reports the possible targets were the Ramstein US Air Force Air Base and Frankfurt International Airport.
The suspects had been under observation for 10 months, the chemicals had been clandestinely rendered harmless
by German authorities.
What caused the final arrest?
Two things: 1) they had just recieved a call from north Pakistan urgently ordering them to follow through within 14 days.
2) a local village policeman blew the surveillance cover by literally telling them at a routine road stop that they were on a watch-list. German intelligence immediately knew the policeman had blown their cover. How? They had bugged the car
[Spiegel,
rough translation].
M.U.G.E.N: The 2D Fighting Game Engine
M.U.G.E.N [wikipedia] is a 2D fighting game engine, originally developed by Elecbyte and released in 1999. The engine is highly customizable; characters, backgrounds, and sound files -- whether from existing games or original works -- can be easily integrated. Some examples of the engine in action [youtube]: Homer Simpson vs. Peter Griffin, Ryu vs Popeye, Green Power Ranger vs Osama Bin Laden, Fat Albert vs Juggernaut, Marvin the Martian vs. Duck Dodgers. Also, game crossovers: Homer in NES Land, Thunder Force III vs. Duck Hunt. [mi] WARNING: some of the videos are very loud.
Level 50 is evil
[Friday Flash Fun] Gravity Pods, a physics-based shooter/puzzle where you use special gravity pods and repellers to alter the course of a projectile and avoid barriers to hit a target.
Whatever You Want To Call It
Several years ago, a friend loaned me this AV Geeks DVD and recommended that I watch The ABCs of Sex Education for Trainables. I wasted no time in sampling selected bits of the film into a song, and I've dug it up for your NSFW pleasure.
Legalities after Bicycle Accident?
I got hit by a car on a bicycle while carrying a laptop. Bicycle & laptop are busted, but thankfully I'm not. What do I do now, legally speaking?
Illegal Signs
IllegalSigns.ca tracks illegal billboards in Toronto.
You can use their Google Maps mash-up to find illegal signs in your neighbourhood.
i need litter box training.
how to train a human to use a litter box?
Quirked Around
We're drowning in quirk.
It is the ruling sensibility of today’s Gen-X indie culture, defined territorially by the gentle ministrations of public radio’s This American Life; the strenuously odd (and now canceled) TV sitcom Arrested Development; the movies of Wes Anderson; Dave Eggers’s McSweeney’s Web site; the performance art, music, and writing of Miranda July; and the just-too-wacky-to-be-fully-believable memoirs of Augusten Burroughs. It’s been 20 years of beneficent, wide-eyed gazing upon the oddities of our fellow man. David Byrne probably birthed contemporary quirk around 1985— halfway between his “Psycho Killer” beginnings with the Talking Heads and his move to global pop—when he sang the song “Stay Up Late”: “Cute, cute, little baby / Little pee-pee, little toes.” (As it happens, Byrne appeared on July’s recent book tour.) Jon Cryer’s “Duckie” Dale in Pretty in Pink came a year later, and quirk was on its way.
Myth-busters have the odds against them
Persistence of Myths Could Alter Public Policy Approach.
"The conventional response to myths and urban legends is to counter bad information with accurate information. But the new psychological studies (PDFs) show that denials and clarifications, for all their intuitive appeal, can paradoxically contribute to the resiliency of popular myths." [Via Firedoglake, more at MindHacks.]
MILLION DOLLAR STRONG
What's It Gonna Be? NSFW language (Single link music video). On the website of Chicago's Schadenfreude comedy troupe.
Can I tell my doctor I smoke weed?
Are there any potential downsides to telling one's doctor that he uses marijuana?
Going after Gore
Going After Gore
"Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration for Love Story), and strangely off-the-mark needling, while pundits such as Maureen Dowd appeared to be charmed by his rival, George W. Bush. For the first time, Gore and his family talk about the effect of the press attacks on his campaign—and about his future plans—to the author, who finds that many in the media are re-assessing their 2000 coverage."
Online Morphing
MorphThing
combines two faces into one. It's fun, free, and no download is required!
Should you lose weight without eating health?
Does what you eat really matter for weight loss, or is it simply a numbers game?
TRANSIT - an art deco murder mystery
T.R.A.N.S.I.T.
is, by a wide margin, my favorite animated short ever produced. Set in the art deco Europe of the 1920's and (and released in 1997) it tells the story of a journey throughout several major vacation destinations of a wealthy tycoon, his young wife with wandering eyes, and a murderous turn of events. The story is told in reverse, from the final stage of the "vacation" back through each prior stop, and the artwork for each segment is painted in the style of the luggage travel sticker for that stop.
Who's your daddy now?!
The Comeback:
I apologise for the single YouTube link, but after watching it, I don't think anyone will care, because Samuel L. Jackson rules ... the football field.
Me too!
Along the lines of the "favorite" button, I suggest adding a "me too" button to appear alongside comments. A list of the people who have clicked "me too" would appear after the comment.
Rationale: I get the impression that a lot of people use favorites not so much as bookmarks, but to endorse or "vote for" a comment. Particularly on AskMe, where the point is not so much to discuss a topic as it is to answer a question, it could be useful to indicate "I have nothing to add to soandso's great comment, but want to let it be known that I endorse this answer."
I suppose that a "me too" button also invites a "you've got to be kidding" button, but that's a lazy form of argumentation, and would be served just as well by clicking "me too" on a rebuttal comment or writing your own.
The allure of the underground city
Derinkuyu wasn't discovered until 1965, when a resident cleaning the back wall of his cave house broke through a wall and discovered behind it a room that he'd never seen, which led to still another, and another. Eventually, spelunking archeologists found a maze of connecting chambers that descended at least 18 stories and 280 feet beneath the surface, ample enough to hold 30,000 people. [flickr]. [wiki].
Google Maps and Earth Lights
We've seen that one picture of earth at night. And we all know what Google Earth is. But someone has put the two together. Be sure to check out the map overlays, including the dusk map.
