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May 16, 2008
Muto Wall Animation. Pretty fascinating animation created by the artist BLU in Buenos Aires.
May 15, 2008
Bugs Bunny: Greatest Banned Baseball Player Ever. The first non-Slate blog ever chosen to be in the Best (Damn?) American Sportswriting series (2007).
May 14, 2008
Darth Vader apprehended in the UK. However the judge let him off easy for attacking Jedi church members. This is a wierd news item that made me giggle when I read it. Those wild and wacky Brits.
May 13, 2008
Panopticist's Magazine Mashup Mishegas - I don't know how I failed to have previously linked the Panopticist's stellar magazine cover mashups. But now that Jezebel is picking up the slack with their Harper's Bazaar Index, please enjoy classic cuts like "The New York Review of Looks" ("Norman Mailer: `Kate Hudson's Too Thin'") the "Us! News and World Report" and "E!conomist" (`How the Housing Bubble will affect Desperate Homeowners`).
Bill O'Reilly isn't very nice to people. You already knew him as a stretchmark-loofaing sexual predator and a sanctimonious, hypocritical coward. Did you know he is also a bully? You will be as shocked by this video as I.
Fraser Lewry is Eating the Alphabet. Ran across this while looking for monkey brains recipes (really): Guardian food critic Fraser Lewry is going through the alphabet eating a dish featuring an exotic animal with that letter, from Actual Ants in Quicksand to Frog, Flounder & Fontina Fishcake to (most recently) Octopus and Ostrich Surf 'n' Turf (with some pickled testes along the way).
I feel like we've discussed crazy rock band tour riders before (though I can't find it). Anyway, the Foo Fighters do ask for some crazy stuff but don't take themselves too seriously while they do it.
Why am I not surprised that major bowling research is being done in Wisconsin?
May 12, 2008
The New York Times Food/Dining section decided to do a special section reviewing chain restaurants. It doesn't go as bad as you'd think! In an NPR story, one of the contributors talks with the host about how the idea was presented and what they intended by doing the story. Are they elitist snobs looking to poke fun or elitist snobs just trying to see how "normal folk" live? Or, I guess, some other option but really how could that be true.
Who knew that the green fluff I've been bringing to potlucks and parties was named Watergate Salad? What can I say? I enjoy it.
May 11, 2008
(Kind of) in the vein of Wholphin's Rescripted Turkish Sitcom, Kung Faux, or MXC is Soupy Norman. Taking what appears to be an overwrought Polish soap opera, some fine Irish comedians overdub it with new dialog that looks surprisingly convincing coming from the actors' mouths. Some of the episodes made it to the the youtubes for me to enjoy.
May 10, 2008
House Republicans vote against Motherhood -- no, seriously, they voted against a bill "Celebrating the role of mothers in the United States and supporting the goals and ideals of Mother's Day." Article also includes other recent shenanigans.
May 09, 2008
Movie Pooper and Ruined Endings, so Nate need never watch another movie again.
Google's Proposal for new Alkaline Earth topic categories - from their corporate "Web Security" app, a list of categories that can be blocked and/or logged. Other than 'Food' and 'Science', all of our current categories are on the list.
I don't like holding compaines when they buy apartment complexes. This practice of buying up complexes, making them more "profitable" and then selling them off really hurts people. I never thought about how the particular circumstances of NYC would make this a much easier thing for them to do.
40% increase in TX concealed handgun permit applications. "Handgun instructors point to factors [including] the looming presidential election." What? [Via] [more inside]
May 08, 2008
Uneven Playing Field - about the hidden epidemic of ACL injuries in women who play sports. [more inside]
Creative ways Obama could lose. No matter who you support, these reader submitted scenarios were hysterical. I had people looking in my office cause I was giggling too loud at this. I think it's noteworthy that the submission that Trailhead marked as #1 is physics based. Enjoy!
This is far better than a David Letterman Top 10 list.
May 07, 2008
Human Brain Cloud - like a free-form crowdsourced visual thesaurus.
Also in the category of "Building huge datasets though fooling people into thinking they're doing something else (playing games, looking up info)" like CoverBrowser's tagger and the Google411.
Bob and David are about to film a new sitcom pilot for HBO called David's Situation. I figured this Vanity Fair interview would be sort of a puff piece but I was surprised at what they had to say about the realities of being "marginal" comedy celebrities in Hollywood and why they thought the cancellation of Mr. Show was different than the cancellation of The Ben Stiller Show or Arrested Development. (thx same maxfun post that provided soku's last link)
May 06, 2008
American Consumer Spending and Inflation - a beautiful visualization from the NYTimes (who consistently crank out the best infovis of any commodity source). More on the math behind this kind of map. [more inside]