Links posted in February 2006
February 28, 2006
Confessions of a car salesman. Quite entertaining and informative, even if you aren't shopping for a car.
Sure, some people want to listen to "music" on their Ipods. And that's fine, there's no law against that. But those in the know? They know that the best use of that hard drive is carrying around Wikipedia with you wherever you go.
I don't know whether this makes Roger Clemens totally awesome or a total asshole. I just know that I don't want to be playing a friendly game of touch football against him, ever.
Clean Water Act: According to a few developers, a bad thing. So nothing new here, environment under attack. Just amazed at the extent to which people will go to earn a buck. [more inside]
February 27, 2006
Some of us have an unhealthy obsession with merkins. For them, MerkinWorld (nsfw?) must be like a heavenly sanctuary. [more inside]
February 26, 2006
My people. Well, actually they are 25 miles from Chattanooga. They are responsible for the Paperclip Project. [more inside]
The Falkirk Wheel - Applying 21st century engineering to an 18th century problem. [more inside]
Wonderlic no more about who will be the first QB taken in the NFL draft. [more inside]
February 25, 2006
Awesomely awesome videos from webjunk 20. The cup stacking finals are pretty impressive and the feeling up mom video is priceless! Ifilm is a little bit annoying but it's defenitely worth it...
Catch the Ayds wave man! Hilarious commercial for a product introduced right before the AIDS epidemic hit. Defenitely worth a watch...
Toy Story 2: Requiem - Trailer was made by me strictly for entertainment only.
I was wondering why there was an APD car blocking a street on campus yesterday, looks like they found ricin in one of the dorms.
More Johnny Weir quotes And look whose blog this is -- Dan from Real World Miami!
Here is the video of a cat suckling a series of Japanese women that I was talking about yesterday. An update says that this is a comedy spoof and not a real show (not that it makes it any less insane).
February 24, 2006
Pi Not Pie, Pi!
Eating Grasshoppers - jsk and beckto... [more inside]
February 23, 2006
Bang! Banned Xbox 360 commercial. Funny, but a bit risky for TV, I agree.
"I can smell your blueberries" This is the web site of the folks who brought Toby Mcgraw to the Open Screen Night at the Alamo. The fictitious portrayal of a C&W celebrity garnered them 1st prize in 2003. In 2004, their efforts produced a bizarre story of a businessman at a hotel, who couldn't quite get that blueberry muffin he so hungered for. Word has it there are more works in progress. Maybe some clips can be dnlded. Check it out...
NBC has helpfully collected all of your favorite olympic chills and spills onto one webpage. Fire up your WMV player and let it roll. I thought for sure the overturned bobsled would be the roughest crash but the ice dancing montage looked pretty brutal as well as the luger whose body went limp after the crash...
On a technical note, why does NBC make you access a "security license" for every video? What the hell is up with that?
February 22, 2006
Guts - By Chuck Palahniuk (from the collection Haunted)
Update: Chuck Palahniuk reading it outloud.
Behold! Shrimpoluminescence... Check out all the high speed videos, I wonder if they're triggering fusion too?
Update! apparently the UT tunnel information has been taken down due to copyright infringement? [more inside]
February 21, 2006
Si Lane has some pictures available on the web. He has his email all set up if you want to send him a message. He's already getting calls from the World Wrestling Federation after displaying these sweeet moves on his dad.
Odd question: but does anyone know of any good self defense courses? Just need to be a "maestro de desastres". [more inside]
February 20, 2006
A Scanner Darkly - Movie preview.
For those of you who hate cell phone use in cars... [more inside]
Here's one way to get out of paying your parking tickets.... be dead. While they ticket you.
Mir was launched 20 years ago today. But what have those crazy cosmonauts (not these guys) done for us lately?
February 19, 2006
I Want To Poop Back And Forth - Clip from the film "Me and You and Everyone We Know"
February 17, 2006
The minutes of the Friday Happy Hour @ Posse East. 17 Feb 2006. [Much Much More Inside] [more inside]
WTF mate? Kangaroo! please watch the video, you'll laugh your ass off.
SxSW wristbands announced on Feb 24th ... unless it's Feb 23d
February 16, 2006
I saw these two new road signs on my way to work today...
[more inside]
At the University of Florida, we promise not to punkscriminate against others on the basis of race, color, sexual orientation, and all that. Creed is another story.
I could eat knob at night. God, I do love this podcast (even though it has high British content). [more inside]
Turns out that the book of Mormon, whose pages contain literal truths without error, is wrong. I always forget how crazy the church of latter day saints is until I'm reminded by stories like this.
Scientists can't get dates. A house of representatives analysis From Wonkette today. For once, I can agree with some Republicans as gross as that makes me feel.
February 15, 2006
The Bode Miller Experiment - Bode Miller famously asserted in a "60 Minutes" interview that he had skied while wasted. His judgement? "It's Not Easy." Well, two bedrock principles of modern science are the scientific method and replication of results, so the guys at Noobsports took it upon themselves to critically examine the issue. [Thx, Deadspin]
A double shot of Goldschlager, ... a shot of Hot Damn 100 proof .. Crested Butte local's favorite beer, a Pabst Blue Ribbon. ... a shot of Rumpelminze ... [a] second PBR ... a shot of Jagermeister ... [plus a couple pulls of Hot Damn 100 proof while riding up the lift]. Remember, I weigh 155 pounds (and that's being generous), and I'm drinking at 10,000 feet.
What do you get when you cross Beckto with Mr Bill? Beutiful art made with kintting, that's what. [more inside]
February 14, 2006
Yoda one for me, valentine.
Oh, Doc! A love that was more powerful than time!
February 13, 2006
International Ginger Kids Foundation - The International Ginger Kids Foundation, or IGKF, is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002. The goal of the IGKF is to achieve equality, understanding, tolerance, and acceptance for Ginger Kids all over the world. Gingervitis is a serious disease affecting millions of people. Every day 1337 children are born with gingervitis in the United States alone. Not only do these special people have to struggle with a life long disease in which there is no known cure, they are often the target of ridicule and jokes. The only way we will ever find a cure is if we work together. [more inside]
This puts the consoles from Star Trek to shame. This is innovation.
Digg has a post about the secret tunnels of UT.
I wonder if there's a pirate ship at the end?
Don't touch that! That thar's willies gold.
I guess he really is a Dick. I wish the old boys club outings ended in someone getting shot more often.
February 12, 2006
Bike In Movie - Thur Feb 16th, 7pm - Waterloo Cycles near 29th & Guadalupe.
We all learned about how the Olympics are a pretty good place to get some action. I'm guessing that these people are the ones most likely to be partaking of these unoffical games. [more inside]
February 11, 2006
Sympathy for Lady Vengance - The movie trailer.
February 10, 2006
Some , using at least scientific-sounding reasoning, claim that global warming is semi-existent, and then claim that stuff like Kyoto is a bunch of left-wing overreaction.
others claim that global warming is very real, and the vast preponderance of scientific research shows that it is an important factor in hurricane frequency and intensity. Clearly everyone here knows which side I'm inclined to side with, but I'd like some evidence, so:
Has anyone run a computer simulation of Navier-Stokes in the context of the Earth's atmosphere/ocean which has features like intense storms running opposite in direction from the jetstream, and when the do, does the intensity of these storms increase when the average yearly temperature increases by the order of 1-10 degrees?
'Cause logically, it all makes sense to me:
more temperature = more energy
more energy = either more storms or more intense storms.
But then, I'm a total non-expert in all this, and I know that some people who read this actually know what they're talking about.
Whatever happened to Barbie? Or, better, whatever happened to Barbie and Ken? For a few years there we wondered if he'd go all brokeback on us.
Yup, now is certainly the best time in history to raise a daughter.
February 09, 2006
The Harrison Ford interview on the daily show was surprisingly funny. It's defenitely worth a watch.
Now that it's early February, I finally find out about the greatest Christmukkah present in many years: The Book of Cool (thanks once again tsoya). Imagine a book/DVD resource that teaches you step-by-step how to do all the cool stuff you've ever seen other people do: pen spinning, throwing playing cards, pool shots (with Mike Massey), that Tiger Woods trick, and the list goes on.
If you've got beefy bandwidth, the Book of Cool website has lots of short demo videos to show you what you'll be getting for your money.
KinkyToon #2 released. Be sure to check out the first one as well, if you're not already following the campaign.
February 08, 2006
Mexico city pictures from the air (ala digg). Wow, before seeing these pictures I had no interest in mexico city but it looks like a really interesting place from the air.
Caution: you can't look at just one picture
February 07, 2006
What a Deutsch bag! "George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said." [more inside]
February 06, 2006
Enter your dollar bill serial numbers here and see just where they've been. Well, that is if someone else has entered the bill into the system. I heard about this site on the nature.com podcast because researchers are using it to model the potential spread of desease like the bird flu. I think it's a really interesting idea.
Fight Club: Members Only - Remake, Bollywood style.
Fun with euphemisms.
Another reason to get an account on IMDB. Check out the thread asking "What did he throw at her?" This is only NSFW because:
a) the movie happens to be Silence of the Lambs
And
b) It is referring to the scene where Starling first meets Hannibal.
I Hate Horses - A late-in-coming antidote to this. NSFJo.
Alternative medicine doesn't work. Especially when you use it to treat cancer.
February 05, 2006
I think that I like where Steven Colbert's logic is leading here.
Chappelle on Oprah, the Cliffs-Notesy version. [more inside]
February 04, 2006
Go Transformers! Is it sad that I want a Citroen C4?
February 03, 2006
BBC radio Interview with Richard Dawkins about his recent series "The Root of All Evil?", concerning religious fanaticism vs. reason and logic. [more inside]
February 02, 2006
Everyone has heard the story of the ET: The Extra Terrestrial Atari 2600 video game: the game was produced by the jillions because it was expected to be a can't miss but it turned out to suck balls. Atari had no choice but to bury the cartridges en masse in a New Mexican desert.
You might be thinking: are those things still out there and can you dig 'em up? You betcha!
Its the Tits No really, its the Tits.
It's the Tits: What's Cool This Month? -- There are an abundance of worthy channels through which you can find out what's NEW! NEW! NEW! and GOOD! GREAT! BEST EVER! each and every week. Which greatly appreciated to be sure, but it would be nice to have something with a broader perspective yet a bit more communal. So we're starting a tradition on AE called "It's the Tits!!!" Each month, anyone with two cents to throw in can share and review music, movies, books, or anything else worthy and exciting they've discovered. [more inside]
Olbermann Skewers O'Reilly, Again - In a performance that deserves an oscar nomination Keith Olbermann ridicules the Fox News poster child Bill O'Reilly.
February 01, 2006
Mrflip has long maintained that Longhorn Po' Boys is not that far of a walk from RLM and that we should be patronizing it more frequently. (His own agenda is more subtle and sinister: it's on the way from his house so he doesn't have to walk over to meet and/or can be late). Using the power of Gmap Pedometer (bookmarked here) I find the walking distances from RLM are:
Posse - .22mi
Kismet Cafe - .45mi
Longhorn Po Boys - .47mi
Dobie/Baja Fresh - .70mi
Arguments remaining against Po Boys are: the walk is louder (traffic), unshaded (concern for summertime), uphill, and with fewer hot chicks along the way; Kismet has the same food and is tastier; and it still feels farther.
But now you know it's not actually as far as you thought.