Links posted in April 2006
April 30, 2006
If you have not watched Stephen Cobert's speech at the white house press correspondents dinner, then you really, really should. He went for the jugular with his jokes at an event that is normally pretty lightweight.
Grad Student Travel Grant to UK Farm Animal Welfare conference travel grant for graduate students. If you are interested send a note to the person listed at the bottom of the advert. Good luck. I know I'd be applying if I were still a grad student.
Prof. Spears: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love Quantum Physics From the site:
"It is a little known fact, that Ms Spears is an expert in semiconductor physics. Not content with just singing and acting, in the following pages, she will guide you in the fundamentals of the vital laser components that have made it possible to hear her super music in a digital format."
This site is the reason why I aced my Solid State Physics class.
April 28, 2006
Wanna watch CNN on air force one instead of fox? Well, it's a little bit tougher than you might think.
April 27, 2006
Harry Potter is exciting to girls of all ages! We talked about this at lunch. Unfortunately amazon realized what was going on and took down a bunch of the reviews. This pages is a snapshot of what used to be up there.
When I caught "Vince Young: Reality Star" out of the corner of my eye on a muted TV last night, I thought I might be imagining things. BET has this to say: "Nope."
Tom Goes to the Mayor returns in mid-June for season 2. In related news, Sir Mix-A-Lot enjoys 1.8 liters of soda at a time in Big Cups.
April 26, 2006
Fart-free beans: the end of an era.
Flip, Happy World Intellectual Property Day!
Myspace after death. Kinda weird looking at dead people's myspace pages.
April 25, 2006
"What is one science question every high school graduate should be able to answer?" Your suggestions below.
This is pure awesome. There are cows. There are cameras. There are cameras on cows. Wireless cameras. Live cows. Reality TV from PBS. [more inside]
April 24, 2006
Wonder Showzen is an absurdist comedy variety show, spiked with a team of puppets, kids, cartoons, and old educational films. Wonder Showzen takes your favorite things about watching TV as a kid and turns them into a twisted nightmare for all ages. Wonder Showzen was created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee. Augenblick Studios was hired to create the animated segments.
O Henry Pun-Off - on May 20th at high noon, Austin will be the capitol of pun-ishment as boys and gallows from all over convene to witness a public haranging. Enjoy the guillotine pleasure of seeing humor and good taste executed for no good treason. Hang out, don't lose your head, and enjoy dea-throes of hilarity.
Tuesday April 25th is Ben and Jerry's Free Cone Day. You can go to the shop conveniently located downtown or you can travel out to the hinterlands location.
April 23, 2006
solar panel revolution
The active component is CuInSe_2, an artificial form of the Chalcopyrite mineral CuFeS_2. Power to the people.
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April 22, 2006
How to cut glass bottles using a scribe, or a kerosene-soaked string, or nichrome, or a file, or whateva. Increase the peace, y'all.
April 21, 2006
April 20, 2006
Does anyone know if one is required to present government issued identification to a police officer upon request in the State of Texas? [more inside]
Drink deep of the Crumbling Presidency Haterade. Worst Ever? A historian weighs in. [Cyn-C] Enjoying his nadir is fun and all, but can we stop him before he kills again?
April 19, 2006
Play Sudoku and win an iPod -- all from your friends at MKS Instruments, the leader in vacuum stuff for nerds.
College, Pro Revenues Comparable - I've always wondered how much big-business sports at universities like ours cost or earn the school money. At least from this accounting, it appears they not only subsidize all the other athletic programs but kick in a huge profit as well. [more inside]
LabLit.com is an intriguing site that I'm just beginning to explore. The goal is to document how science is represented in our greater culture and at the same time to provide a place for scientists' voices about their work to be heard. On the one hand, you get dense stuff like Science in Postmodern Literature but on the other you have How to Lure the Ladies with your PhD (it's got to be good for something) and Sex(uality) in the Lab.
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I passed by a black ford pickup last night on the way home and there were quite a few cops searching through it. Here's what they found: [more inside]
April 18, 2006
The Myspace Song [via AVClub Hater]. [more inside]
Mylar Weave --"Woman's hair weave traps bullet as gunman opens fire"
The Longest Game - When the game began, Wade Boggs was 22, 1740 fans were in the stadium, and CF Dallas Williams was hoping for a big day at the plate. When the game ended, 33 innings, 8:25 game-time hours, and more than two months later, Boggs would be 23, the stadium would be sold out, and D. Williams would have yoked himself an all-time collar: 0 for 13. In the meantime, 3B Cal Ripken would have breakfast, P Mark Corey would get drunk, P Luis Aponte would get in big trouble with his wife, and 12 hardy fans would receive season tickets for their fortitude. [more inside]
Try and guess what's out of place in this ad I recieved in the mail from UFCU. Hint, it's in the picture... [more inside]
April 17, 2006
Da Vinci Code Puzzle has begun. Post hints and insights below. SPOILERS INSIDE!!!! [more inside]
Did anyone notice that it's supposed to make it to 100 degrees today?
Gonna be a hot summer...
The union of concerned scientists have a flash animation showing what a hypothetical nuclear bunker busting assault on Iran would do.
April 16, 2006
Ellsworth AFB Foam Test "How do you figure out whether a foam firefighting system in an air force hangar is set up correctly and works? Well you turn it on for a few seconds, to make sure it's got pressure and everything. First you set up a scaffolding so you can record the event and show the flow coming out of all nozzles.
And then you let 'er rip. After 15 seconds you can see foam is covering all areas it has to, so the test is successful. Shut 'er off.
Uh, guys? Shut 'er off?
April 15, 2006
Magnus - Happy Feast day of Saint Paternus!
April 14, 2006
Ebert's Movie Glossary - read about "The Tom Hanks Shift" (A phenomenon in which actors begin in comedies and progress to serious drama), "Two Guards, Two Dogs" (Whenever a movie character tries to [penetrate a guarded perimeter] two guards, each one leading one menacing dog, will walk past him side by side without noticing him) and other ineluctable laws of the movie universe.
STOP USING ReNu with MoistureLoc, you could contract a blinding fungal infection!
I wonder how many votes Perry lost with this:
Many of you may have heard that Governor Rick Perry's office will be closed tomorrow, Friday, April 14. Since the Governor has not issued a proclamation directing the closure of state agencies, the System Administration will be open during normal business hours tomorrow from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Google Calendar is live. [more inside]
April 13, 2006
This is a funny clip from the adam carolla show. Funny song explaining all the questions you have to answer if you played Biff in back to the future.
ACL Festival Tix on sale Now - for $90 plus a standard ludicrous amount of surcharges. [more inside]
Who can name the movies that this trailer was cut together with?
What city, based on its sports mascots, should most be feared?
The most fearsome city is Oakland, who come at you with Warriors, Raiders, and Athletics. Nashville (Titans and Predators) and Phoenix (Diamondbacks, Suns, Cardinals and Coyotes) also roll strong, and if Charlotte and Raleigh were combined to represent Carolina they would win (Bobcats, Panthers, and Hurricanes). The wussiest city is certainly Los Angeles, which brings nothing but cannon fodder to the table (Angels, Clippers, Mighty Ducks, no NFL team, and a bench of Trolley Dodgers and Lakers).
April 12, 2006
Off The Hook by Randall C. Miller Junior - A Dictionary of African American Slang (In Japanese). [more inside]
Hey! Boost Mobile is now offering Unlimited Chirp(TM) for only a buck a day. You can make and receive cellular chirps! [NSFW] [more inside]
Minutes from the latest meeting of the North American Man-Bowl Love Association:
- Enjoy The Atheist Manifesto, by Sam Harris (not by Sam Neill, who has absolutely nothing to do with Quantum Leap or the Atheist Manifesto).
- The superhero Terrifica prowls the streets and bars of Manhattan, box-blocking women who have had too much to drink from making ill-advised hook-ups.
- GPS Satellites travel in a Low-Earth orbit with a period of about one sidereal day. This makes their ground track the same from day to day -- enough that their ephemerides are easily captured in a simple program. How elegant!
- A modified version of the Mossbauer experiment can be used to implement the 'twin paradox' though experiment and verify predictions of relativity.
- Cities Judged by their Mascots posted separately.
When Do We Eat? Happy Passover! Now pass over the shmear.
Argentina on Two Steaks A Day - a massively entertaining travelogue through the food of Argentina:
"The classic begginer's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger steak later that night. But this is a false economy, like refusing to drink water in the early parts of a marathon. That first steak has to get you through the afternoon and half the night, until the restaurants begin to open at ten..."
For all your Easter baking needs, why not try replacing regular eggs with Cadbury cream eggs. This guy did. [more inside]
April 11, 2006
When Engineers Miscalculate - What would you do if you realized that construction modifications and omitted factors made the 59-story skyscraper you signed off on perilously unstable in a storm? An absolutely fascinating read. [Thx Cyn-C] [more inside]
So, this biologist makes a movie about ID
and evolutionists. Shows the idiocy of the debate, as expected, except it is not unilateral idiocy.
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April 10, 2006
It's time to come correct with what I'm guessing is the only guide to African-American slang in Japanese. For when your Tokyo-departed plane is accidentally diverted to South Central Insanetown, I guess.
Is your PC not hot enough to run Oblivion? Don't want to shell out monthly fees for World of Warcraft? Then perhaps Kingdom of Loathing is for you. [more inside]
The bananas at night
Are big and bright
*clap*clap*clap*clap*
Deep in the heart of Texas!
Check out the latest controversy to hit the human reproductive world.
Drawings of KITT's Dashboard - Because the author of this website likes Knight Rider with all of his body (including Jaime's pee pee).
April 08, 2006
Alkaline Earth Advertisement - Because Jamie likes Alkaline Earth with all of her body (including her pee pee) [more inside]
April 07, 2006
April fools abound - A list of the top 100 AF jokes. Todd winning the Pulitzer doesn't appear, guess he really did win.
Grillz under attack. Another repost from CNN. But this one is funny. er.
PS: There's still no "REPOST" category. :(
April 06, 2006
Bush/ Cheney okayed Libby's leak. I honestly don't know what this means or what the repercussions are, but this just sounds really bad.
Phun with Photoshop, NBA Edition - Nate showed me this, and it's too insane to not share with everyone. Some guy in australia obsessively photoshops the face of an NBA star onto each head in a random family portrait. Enjoy The Cubans, The Okurs, The Waltons, The Duncans, or the whole collection. [more inside]
The Quad Rugby Nationals will be held on campus at the Rec Sports Center on April 7th, 8th, and 9th! Members of this team represented in the United States in the US Paralympics and were featured in the 2005 documentary Murderball. [more inside]
This is what a prank should be. The Caltech Cannon has been stolen by That Other Institute of Technology!?! [more inside]
April 05, 2006
Look, it's the best litter box evar! And for only $2000 it can be all yours. [more inside]
Those of you at lunch today wondered about the back story on my totally sweet T-shirt. I discovered Outbursts of Everett True a few weeks ago and immediately knew that this was a comic strip that spoke to our times. Then I found out it ran from 1905-1927 so maybe that's not totally correct. The concept is simple: in panel one somebody slights Everett True (example: offering to substitute a generic prescription) and in panel two Everett True goes fucking berserk and hands someone their ass (examples are one in a thousand) Who doesn't hate baseball umps, fans, and concessions? And, seriously, I can't say enough about how much adherents to Roosevelt's reformed spelling piss me the hell off.
It's been a while since the Onion was reposted, so here we go:
"Goddamn Findings Fail To Support Researcher's Hypothesis"
A group of resourceful computer users managed to get Windows XP to dual boot on an Intel Macintosh last month. This was considered a big deal. Now that it's been done, it turns out that Apple is releasing it's own software that will allow dual booting on its Intel computers that will be included in the next version of OS X. [more inside]
April 04, 2006
Austin Ultimate (Frisbee/Disc) Spring League has sprung! [more inside]
It's the Piss! Seriously, this is cool. One small step toward living forever...
There is a god! And s/he/it is watching over Texas and the U.S.
The Aphex Twin Face - Spectrograms are the new "Paul is Dead".
April 03, 2006
OMG It's the Tits!!!! (Spring has Sprung edition) - What has kicked your ass since last month's tits?
Someone I know is following in his mom's footsteps... Do I see a regular column in his future? (firing line article about a certain april fools day joke).
Man Flogs Wife's Box on eBay
- I'm selling my wife's box, my cock won't fit.
April 02, 2006
Apparently hanging shit as a practical joke for april fools day is considered illegal outside of RLM as well. The terrorists have won...
April 01, 2006
I know that some might consider linking to a web video on your blog (without so much as a crumb of pithy commentary, even) to be kind of played out. But they don't know anything about NINTENDO SIXTY-FOUUURRRRRRR!!!!!!
Official April Fools 2006 link aggregation thread