April 2010
3 posts
WatchEXPERIENCE BEEEESH!
News: Watch French Animated SciFi Short FARD →
Simple and elegant, with some really absorbing sequences in it… and even with my pauvre Francaise, I was still able to follow most of the dialogue. Thanks again, Madame Carey!
March 2010
6 posts
user-guide_1.mov (video/quicktime Object) →
MIT computer geniuses develop a method for isolating segments or tracks from music based on user feedback: in this case, singing, whistling or humming along. (via O’Reilly Radar)
BBC News - Man used penis to assault female police... →
“The court heard Marium Varinauskas had been drinking heavily.”
Ah, the fine British art of understatement.
June 2009
4 posts
Snakes rattle war-torn Iraq: Scientific American... →
This poor country really can’t seem to catch an even break.
1-click Award by 株式会社リクルートメディアコミュニケーションズ →
How computers really work.
Classical Music - Popular, Famous, Best, Top 100 -... →
Holy crap. This is the greatest - the 100 most commonly-used ‘pop culture’ classical pieces. I double - no, quadruple - dare you to get to the bottom of the page without imagining Bugs Bunny at least five times. And boy, is it nice to finally have a name for some of these pieces besides ‘crazy piano song’ and ‘nutty factory music’.
May 2009
8 posts
aM laboratory →
Simple. Fun. Hypnotic. I want to use this to compose the soundtrack to an indie movie or anime flick.
“The first fun thing to emerge in the Australian case is email documentation...”
– The danger of drugs … and data | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian
April 2009
14 posts
WatchWe Didn’t Start the Flame War - CollegeHumor Video
LOL. Yes, I LOL’d.
The dark side of Dubai - Johann Hari, Commentators... →
Fascinating and disturbing - Dubai as a playground for the West to live out its basest Imperialist fantasies. Will an economic Judgement Day change that?
On gravel roads, people drive at speed they are... →
After spending the better part of a month driving extensively on some of South America’s Shittiest Roads(TM), I whole-heartedly agree with this finding, which should be fucking common sense after all. I’m an impatient dude, but I’m not gonna kill myself over it.
Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn May Get Superfund Status... →
But I was just getting used to the smell…!
The Road to Area 51 - Los Angeles Times →
Flying saucers? Nah - just fat-assed, Mach 3-flyin’ experimental aircraft.
Wrong Tomorrow - time vs. pundits →
Frustrated by how quickly pundits’ bad predictions just disappear down the Memory Hole? Fret no more - Wrong Tomorrow captures great oopsies, both silly:
I expect that within the next five years more than one in ten people will wear head-mounted computer displays while traveling in buses, trains, and planes.
- Nicholas Negroponte, 11 Jan 1999
and tragic:
“I think we are in the...
March 2009
5 posts
AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We're... →
So, so very full of awesomeness and truth.
Juvenile court judges accepted $2.6m for sending... →
Wow… this must represent some kind of all-time low.
Kutiman mixes YouTube - unofficial mirror →
These clips are fascinating. Dude took a bunch of ‘found music’ off of YouTube, and mashes it together into these wild multi-clip jam sessions…
February 2009
28 posts
Octopus floods Santa Monica Pier Aquarium - Los... →
Those Darn Octopods, Chapter IV:
The guest of honor in the aquarium’s Kids’ Corner octopus tank had swum to the top of the enclosure and disassembled the recycling system’s valve, flooding the place with some 200 gallons of seawater. “It had grabbed the tube that pulls out the water and caused it to spray outside the tank,” said aquarium education specialist Nick...
American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than... →
“The tenderness of the delicate American buttock is causing more environmental devastation than the country’s love of gas-guzzling cars, fast food or McMansions, according to green campaigners…”
John Gibson Did Not Compare Eric Holder To Monkey... →
Let’s just set the record straight for once.