Links posted in January 2006
January 31, 2006
Sweet ! Garbage Pail Kids Stroll down memory lane with the virtual card collection on the right!
Wolf T-Shirt - The graphics on this Wolf T shirt are outstanding! Black Wolf with glowing gold eyes in the background and a grey Wolf howling into the night. [more inside]
January 30, 2006
Our long national nightmare is over - The AEthermixen are all burned, stomped, and ready to be handed out. Out of towners please send me your address so you can get yours. Austinites come to XMFC tonight or friday lunch or I can leave them in your mailbox.
Seth and Chris Ware talk Comics with Ivan Brunetti done up as a comic strip by Gordon McAlpin. [more inside]
January 29, 2006
The Inspiring, Amazing Story of The Great Zucchini - The strange secrets of humor, fear and a guy who makes big money making little people laugh. [more inside]
Last night, several people said that they hadn't seen the video of the asshole kid screaming at his mom about chocolate milk while playing Xbox Live. It's linked on this thread.
January 28, 2006
Flip
- Don't Try It Here! (Hell Hath No Fury Like That Of A Woman Scorned "Flipped Out".)
Benetton Advertising History Jo and I were having a conversation last night at the Crown about Benetton advertisements. This is a brief history of some of their more famous ads, including one NSFW campaign with a plethora of wangage.
Jason Cates - Associate Professor of Mathematics
Tilt-Shift Photography makes photos of real-life scenes look like detailed scale models.
Furry Fandom - Sarah discovers the horrors of furrydom. [more inside]
January 27, 2006
Common misconceptions about the failure of STS-33 Challenger. Tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of one of the worst disasters of the 1980's. [more inside]
The Burger Century - apparently In'n'Out burger lets you order *any* number of patties on a burger. Well, 100 is a number. Hilarity ensues. [more inside]
the end of the line - photographs by brendan corr
January 26, 2006
This is so .... cute? Weird? British? [more inside]
At least someone benefits if Roe v. Wade ends getting undermined/overturned under prospective Justice Alito. Still, I'm going to hope the dems get their fucking act together and fillibuster.
January 25, 2006
So you have a complex scheme to bilk your corporation out of millions using tricky programming or false accounting, but you'd like to know more about the potential downside. Why not have your enterprise hire a former white-collar criminal to lecture about what he did, how it went wrong, and what's happened to him since? I guess a corporation could also learn how to avoid [PDF] being conned [PDF] as well, but where's the fun? [also via Freakonomics]
Are Undergrads at UChicago Really Uglier? Two UChicago students put the question to quantitative test and found that the answer is yes.
"The comparison between Albion College and our very own UChicago gave a p-value of 0.00005 (ouch). That means that there is less than a 5 in 100,000 chance of getting the scores we got in our study if Albion and UChicago actually have a similar number of attractive girls. That’s very strong evidence to conclude that Albion actually has hotter girls than UChicago. I guess it’s time to transfer."
Top 10 Trivia Tips about Zieglerfe or almost anything else for which truthiness is your main concern!
10. Zieglerfe can remain conscious for fifteen to twenty seconds after being decapitated!
9. Czar Paul I banished Zieglerfe to Siberia for marching out of step!
8. Only fifty-five percent of men wash their hands after using Zieglerfe.
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January 24, 2006
Seventh graders go to a lab see what they think of what it is to be a scientist before and after they visit the lab. Amy has my favorite answer. Via Cosmic Variance.
January 23, 2006
Lint - A short movie.
Just hanging out right before UFC 56 [more inside]
All of these fancy modern authors with all of their different ideas about what can go in a book. Illustrations! Pages full of barely legible doodles and nonsense! "What is an honest guy trying to make an audiobook adaptation to do?" the Grey Lady asks. Describe the non-standard elements to the listener? Ignore them? I tells ya, black and white words were good enough for Dickens back in the day. God help you once you're five footnotes deep in the audio version of DFW's new monograph.
This gets me thinking: how does an audiobook of Breakfast of Champions deal?
January 22, 2006
Really awesome pictures of ferrofluid art (via tina).
January 21, 2006
You 'Rock' My World
To the Betty Page fan and crack cocaine enthusiast at the 31st St. IF shuttle stop -- you dropped the leopard-print swag bag containing your crack pipe but rode off with my heart.
Let's meet up and get high on life.
PS Not the Fuzz.
* This is in or around IF Bus Stop at 31st Street
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January 20, 2006
Rick Moranis surfaces Apparently he's been raising kids and working on his music, and not the victim of a Harvey Weinstein fatwa as some thought.
For the art lover in the swingin' you, behold: Michelangelo's Creation of Adam keychain condom holder. Not without some mild controversy, however. [more inside]
Implosion World - videos showing demolition by implosion. [more inside]
January 19, 2006
The Defective Yeti is trying his hardest to bring back text based adventures. Or at least humor based on text adventures. Instead of Zork why not try Iraqi Invasion where YOU are George W. You'll soon forget Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy adventure when you see Escape from IKEA! [more inside]
January 18, 2006
Aziz Ansari previously brought you shittiest mixtape boombox blast. Here is his excerpted recent performance featured on tsoya where he addresses working hard like Kanye, how not to hit on hot chicks in Tamil, and dealing with homeland security using the power of magical realism.
It appears that there's a new comic in the Daily Texan that addresses the lives of many AE readers...
The Groupies - MP3s of the astounding, disquieting 60s record 'The Groupies,' a collection of actual interviews with Manhattan groupies discussing their depraved post-gig activities, previously featured as an excerpt on the 365 Day Project.
Also check out Groupie's Guide to Sex (from Sensible Erection)
Could be a good talk on thursday about the emergency controceptive debacle going on in the FDA (speaker info on the right of page).
January 17, 2006
Mighty Tonka lineup from 1974 Has an awsome picture of a Mighty Dump carrying a HEAVY LOAD. Scroll down.
This must be why splatnik keeps that bird around.
January 16, 2006
Make your own motivational posters. See if you can do better than the fellows at Despair.
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Just to fill in anyone who wasn't with us Friday evening, doncarlo informed us of This soon to be released film, starring one Samuel L. Jackson, which is sure to be one of the greatest ever made. Check out the discussion boards while you are at it. What's that, you don't have an imdB ID? Fill out the registration, then, just so you can give this un-f***ing mitigated disaster a one star rating.
Maryland: Good for more than just crabcakes. Wal-Mart: Against special interests and for the well-being of the people. Ha.
"This vote was never about health care," [Wal-Mart spokesman Nate] Hurst said. "In allowing a bad bill to become a bad law, the General Assembly took a giant step backward and placed the special interests of Washington, D.C., union leaders ahead of the well-being of the people they serve. And that's wrong."
David Sedaris will be at Bass Concert Hall on April 10.
01/16/2006 - What is new and interesting this month?
Conan possibly influences Finnish election. If you don't read the article, at least check out the facial comparisons.
Pictures and videos from saturn and the Cassini-Huygens mission. Totally worth a look... [more inside]
January 15, 2006
Shutting Themselves In - "After years of being bullied at school and having no friends, Y.S. retreated to his room at age 14 and proceeded to watch TV, surf the Internet and build model cars - for 13 years. When he finally left his room one April afternoon last year, he had spent half of his life as a shut-in." An alarming and significant fraction of Japanese youth are becoming hikikomori (Japanese for 'withdrawal') -- persons who retreat to their room for six months to many years, interacting with no one outside their home.
Atomic bomb at the first instant of detonation. Now those are some crazy pictures. Check out the bomb tower guy wires as that thing's exploding, what's up with that?
January 13, 2006
Upload a file and you get to download one random file. Interesting way of wasting time because there's no telling what you'll get back...
In an effort to beat ziggy to the punch, I present to you the jackhammer johnson(NSFW) which was linked to in this SFW wired story.
Man Sues for Chatroom Harassment - a case study in the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
January 12, 2006
Houston To Tie Teachers' Pay To Test Scores - Houston is about to become the biggest school district in the nation to tie teachers' pay to their students' test scores.
Just to annoyingly bring up politics again, the Alito hearings are going on right now. Already we have a 4-year old level tiff between the (scroll down for the liveblogging) Republican Senators generally making asses of themselves. I've watched about 3 hours of hearings, after that, it just destroys my soul. But they are all availible on C-Span's website.
The committee vote is coming up. Get ready to call your senators (especially if one of them is on the committee). This is the most important thing to happen in US politics this year, at least at the magnitude of the 2004 elections.
If the Dems cave on this and fuck up, I will never forgive them.
Teach yourself Remote Sensing with the Remote Sensing Tutorial.
I Will Teach You to be Rich - If you're like most people our age, you aren't investing for the future and you're wasting money on fees and credit card interest. IWTYTBR has just started a series of 'personal finance boot camp' articles that will help you fix that over 3-4 hours each week.
Think of me as your drill sergeant, only a frail, Indian version with a larger vocabulary and, frankly, better etiquette. ... starting next week, we are going to be taking a multi-week journey down the yellow brick road of personal finance.
Sexploitation Movie Posters - You know, for ExMFC.
January 11, 2006
Spinal Tappets - if Dr Demento were in a Vintage Triumph Auto club, here's what he'd open with. Quite funny. [more inside]
Need something to defend your Retroencabulator from thieves or martian invaders? Try the Brotron Alpha-9 Liquidator! "Yesterday's Future, Today!"
SxSW 2006 - looks like SxSW has posted an initial list of bands for this year's music festival. Word on the street has initial registrations and hotel bookings way up so if you're going to get a wristband you probably shouldn't fart around til the last minute like Phil & I did last year. [more inside]
Truthiness named Word of 2005 by linguists. Report cites NC State prof Michael Adams defining truthiness as "truthy, not facty." The Colbert Report takes issue. Fortunately, Prof Adams has a sense of humor. No response from reporter Heather Clark.
January 10, 2006
The Garfield Randomizer - What could possibly be better than a Garfield comic? Well, almost anything of course. But as it turns out, the combinatorial explosion of mirth and surreality that results when you present three random cells from different Garfield strips in arbitrary order really does the trick. [more inside]
Mercedes owner is an asshole. Skaters observe what follows.
A while back, Bill Simmons wrote about Adam Corolla's "Cooking Show test" -- "See what happens next time you're half-asleep and watching food getting cooked on a late-night TV show. You won't change the channel. I'm telling you. There's something satisfying about seeing the host dig into a seafood primavera that somehow took five minutes to prepare and cook. There just is." Watching Rob Corddry barely keep it together on the Daily Show tonight, I was inspired to make this list of things that pass the cooking show test; post yours below.
- An actor noticeably trying not to crack up laughing
- Anyone drunk on camera
- Person + Exotic Animal (esp. a dangerous one)
- Mike Tyson
- The reaction from other actors when someone obviously goes off-script
- Spanish-TV soap opera women
- Anyone dressed as a pimp
- A car or building that is on fire
January 09, 2006
OBJECTION! - A neat little flash animation which allows you to create customised "Objections" which is a feature of a Nintendo DS game by Capcom called "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney"
Things My Boyfriend Says - "You're not going to post this to the internet, are you?"
January 07, 2006
I'm sure this keyboard will be expensive but damn it's a great idea. Each key has its own display so you can change and view the new layout on the fly. Seems like it'd be great for mathematical applications.
January 06, 2006
via sG (via whatever he's reading lately), we bring you The Musical Scanner. Thrill to the warbling strains of the stepper motor as she wheezes out Für Elise.
I think there are enough cat people that read this page to justify this link - the NY Times reports on a Science article where DNA geneticists track the evolution of cats. [more inside]
To find out more about today's Friday lunch topics, consult your local AE links:
- An insane dog that attacks his own leg
- Political Flame War using only Magic: The Gathering cards
- A very long but fascinating article on life lessons learned by the 1989 USC Rose Bowl winning team led us to learn that not only are there three women's professional football conferences, but there is a team in Austin (on top of the men's arena football team here). Also, the Canadian Football League tried unsuccessfully to expand into the United States in the mid-90's.
- Ernie Hudson was a multifaceted member of the Ghostbusters
If you haven't checked out pandora.com yet it's a radio station based on the music genome project and it rocks for finding new music. It's got a totally different recommendation engine than places like amazon.com use and according to some podcasts I listen to it works really well.
January 05, 2006
Lego had a problem with their old mindstorms robotics kit because the programming language was too difficult for novices so they got help from a certian company to develop a graphical programming language. Now who would be good at that Laura?
Hey, you might have heard that UT won the national championship. If you were down on campus with splatnik, mrflip and I after the game then you saw the roving crowds of half-drunk people (of all ages, really) walking down the middle of a pedestrian only Guadalupe street. You probably also saw that the Co-op was not only open but was wall-to-wall with shirt buyers. I got to thinking: how many of those got printed before the game ended? Turns out, the Co-op sold 5,000 shirts and 1,200 hats valued at over $125,000 last night and (somehow) has topped $1 million in sales thus far. (pre-orders or bad reporting?)
And what happens to all those USC National Champions shirts? (scroll down to question seven)
Appalachian Hot Hot Hot - I don't even know why I deciced to attend the University of Texas at Austin. I should have gone to Appalachian State University because it is HOT, HOT, HOT.
Nintendo - What do you do with an old console? Make it a computer.
January 04, 2006
The roving thoughts of a liberal insomniac and Why I won't be seeing Brokeback Mountain - by Larry David.
Can't get enough of Bill O'Reiley? See his segment from Letterman (via OGM).
January 03, 2006
The AustinIst keeps it up, eschews hanging it up. Now with Mo' Better Content.
FrankenBike. Where people come to buy/trade/sell bicycles, bicycle parts, and stories about bicycles. The next Frankenbike swap meet will be held January 28, 2006 12-5pm @ Dee & Jim's Lounge (scroll down) (3808 S. Congress). [more inside]
Fernando Is My Leader - The pictures I was telling Nate and Sonia about during lunch. [more inside]
January 02, 2006
Even though you missed out on all the fun that NanoCindy and I had last year learning the basics from Romeo Navarro, you can still get in on this year's BreakDancing course through Informal Classes! Radtastic!!! [more inside]
Losing? Outcome won't affect playoffs? Need an ancient and amusing way to get an extra point? Send in Doug Flutie!
Heard any good ones lately? This blond joke cracked me up.
January 01, 2006
The Central Texas Bluegrass Association hosts bluegrass jams at Artz Rib House the first Saturday of every month from 4-6PM. All are Welcome. [more inside]
Einstein has left the building.
A thought-provoking article to end the World Year of Physics.
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Have you seen "Dinner for One"? If you're from the US, you've probably never even heard of this short film unless you had Christmas dinner at Gennekay's house. But, if you are from Europe (recently), then you probably know the script by heart. Why them and not you? Slate takes up the question -- What is it about "Dinner for One"? [more inside]
