Links posted in October 2006
October 31, 2006
mentos experiment part two. These guys rock.
I know this is the wrong crowd for cat pictures but I figured, "what the hell I'll post them anyway."
Could someone please put a muzzle on this guy? Look, I agree with the stuff he says but he doesn't know how to say it in a way that doesn't make the democrats look bad. We're so god-damned close to winning this thing, we don't need Kerry coming in at the last minute and screwing it up
Get out and vote or this guy could end up back in the capitol. [more inside]
Nasa believes in science again! Or at least they're gonna send a shuttle to the hubble space telescope to fix it. Hooray!
October 30, 2006
Obligatory Link So...There is a naggling memory at the back of my mind... [more inside]
October 28, 2006
Write speeches for GW to speak. Really cool little web 2.0 app that lets you string together bushisms into your own custom speech. Plus you can save them for later.
October 27, 2006
Ender's Game, the Short Story - here is the original short-story version of Ender's Game, one of the great Sci-fi classics. The book is much better -- so if you haven't read the book skip this and go pick the full thing up. [Thx Cockeyed]
In car cam of a hill climb competition. Insane, friggin' insane. Puts those stupid nascar in-car cam shots to shame. This is even gnarlier than what you'd see in a video game...
October 26, 2006
Professor reads student comments So uh, some of you like, taught and stuff, so I thought this would be appropriate. Even if you didn't teach, its most funny.
Firefox 2 is out. Get that shit!
October 25, 2006
Tina found this little daily show gem. Try and guess why I think it's funny...answer in extended description [more inside]
Boy, I sure do wish I lived in Missouri these days. It's not because of baseball fever but because their political attack ads feature more celebrities than a typical night at Spago's. Witness Michael J. Fox stumping for stem cell research. Seems our buddy Jim Talent (R) isn't a fan. (But didn't he change his mind on that anti-cloning bill?).
In any event, nobody could let Marty McFly get away with this "sympathy for Parkinson's patients" crap. So they got together a super-pretentious Aramaic-speaking Jesus, that one Cardinal jerk, that other Cardinal jerk the St. Louisites have a soft spot for, and Ray Barrone's wife for a little attack ad of their own.
October 24, 2006
Commercials you'll never forget. Well, at least they're pretty good.
October 23, 2006
I go to the university of texas where we have a diverse student body [more inside]
Religious Intolerance. Oy, the guilt! Ya wanna give me a heart attack!? NSFW audio file.
Anyone interested in the Blue Dog Rescue Texas Howlers Music & Mutts 2007 Calendar should let me know, as I can hook you up. [more inside]
It's that time again. Time for some early voting action. Check Chronicle coverage and endorsements for candidate info. Or for free registration sites, check the Statesman or various links at the New York Times.
Here's an interesting and pretty funny portrait (by an Onion writer, no less) of the inner workings of Williams Street in the heyday of SGC2C and before ATHF. If the content doesn't interest you, you can just read it to work out the OCR correctness rating.
October 22, 2006
I know one activity badge mister flip won't be be adding to his boy scout sash this year...
October 20, 2006
So if you're planning on killing yourself by ramming another car head on here are some points to remember:
1)try and do it in a crappy unsafe car like a jeep wrangler, not a mercedes known for safety
2)when picking a car to ram make it a large one like an SUV, not a smaller car than yours like a daewoo
3)go ahead and hang up that cell phone, you'll need full concentration here
4)for christs sake don't run into a car filled with a mother and children
Failing to follow any of the above guidelines may lead to your unsuccessfull suicide, but will lead to a very successfull felony murder indictment. Oh, and it's also super bad karma.
Now this is the kinda politics I can get behind. Who wants a pint of Perry?
October 19, 2006
It's almost that time of year again. Time to lace up your corsets and slip on your fishnet stockings, that is. It's Slutoween.
I knew it. The stingray that killed steve irwin was just the first salvo in the man/stingray war to come. They're coming for us! Be afraid, be very afraid!!!
October 18, 2006
Here is what you gotta do: first, watch as much of this guy's video resume as you can handle. Next, and only after, please enjoy the backstory behind the insane brobdignagian exploits of Aleksey Garber, tennis star, author, philosopher, male model, international man of mystery, and friend to the Dalai Lama. No mention is made of luge lessons in Rangoon or treading water for three days in a row.
October 17, 2006
If you start feeling too bad about yourself for breaking something in the lab, just head over to this site and breathe a sigh of relief that at least it wasn't a $200,000 lamborgini.
Sudorku (mirror) - so, anyone solve last Sunday's Foxtrot? [more inside]
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You know that one movie, and they made that one episode of entourage that was just like it? Or that other movie? Turns out that shit totally happens all the time. (The secret ingredient is a superabundance of stunning scandinavian blondes, as it turns out).
Ladies -- You're beautiful just the way you is. Just wanted to let y'all know that. [more inside]
"Porno actors and script writers were honored to become the first humans to put the new device on and try it in action." Script writers? Really?
Wonderboy, what is the secret of your power? Guess who's coming to the Paramount for the AFF. Stupid badge holders get first dibs but then it's on. So rile yourself up and then go wait in line. Oct 26th, 7:45pm. [more inside]
Dear leroy,
I have recently been talking to Valatan about rushing my application to temporarily join the St. Louis Cardinals fan base. He says my chances are good but that it would help if I had a co-sponsor that could vouch for my intentions. Let me spell them out for you in greater detail. As you know, I am not usually affiliated with any particular baseball team but since I learned that a contest involving mrflip was on the line I could not stand idly by.
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October 16, 2006
One of the most incredible photos I've ever seen...way to go nasa! (picture is after the break and I left it full size in all it's glory) [more inside]
All 1,943 Cornell Faculty were asked to respond to the following question:
Of the many charts (graph, map, diagram, table and ‘other’) you have seen in your life, which has been the most important, remarkable, meaningful or valuable?
Request for tenure by Indiana Jones is denied.
October 15, 2006
You know you're not relevant anymore when you get only 152 Google hits... [more inside]
Julio Franco turned forty-eight years old this year. And he is still playing in the postseason, his twenty-fourth major league season. Here, you get a slide show of his career, not on the diamond, but on the console. Every console. Enjoy, as this week might be his last in the major leagues.
l-diddy.tv Say what i can do for you in this shop ? [more inside]
October 14, 2006
The martial art that Beckto and I practice was featured on KXAN's morning show as part of the advertisement for the Austin Martial Arts Festival. You can watch the video. Scroll down the left side to the link for "1st Annual Austin Martial Arts Festival." [more inside]
October 13, 2006
Best Morsels with MouthFeel -breakfast tacos with a side of breasteses, anyone? [more inside]
This just in, a reason for Cheech and Chong to enlist.
October 12, 2006
"How top editors decide whether to publish national security stories based on classified information" [more inside]
I saw this description in campus watch and couldn't help but think of paul. I wonder if the bike was a fixie? [more inside]
Voting corruption in Mississippi. (NYT) This is the first federal lawsuit under the Voting Rights Act accusing blacks of suppressing the rights of whites. [more inside]
I've always been interested in strange atmospheric effects and have wanted to learn more about meteorology but never quite got around to it. Well, turns out the university of illinois has a really comprehensive tutorial on the matter (it's an ugly site but the info's great).
Do you know why mammatus clouds form? Where freezing rain comes from? I'm sure all the nonlinear dynamicists out there should love this stuff... [more inside]
October 11, 2006
If you smell the delicious scent of mouth-watering burgers on campus today, rest assured that is (probably) not Bevo XIII. Too much class.
October 10, 2006
This helps put things in perspective. Next time you are having a rough workout, just think about what this dad must go through in his training!
The MSM is more retarded than previously realized.
October 09, 2006
A Contest Is Born [more inside]
How cool is this? The mars reconnaissance orbiter takes such high resolution images it can actually see the oportunity rover AND its tracks! Fuckin-a man.
Thank god the republicans in control let the assault weapon ban expire. I think personal responsibility is enough to keep an AK-47 out of the hands of a 13 year old school kid. And damn if they don't make good squirrel huntin' rifles.
North Korea is officially nuclear. I don't know what the consequences of this will be. Furthermore, I don't really kow what the foreign policy options that the international community has with North Korea now. Being armed with a credible threat to at least Seoul and Tokyo is in their national interest. I guess we're stuck hoping that Kim Jong Il isn't as crazy as his persona would have us believe (and there is much anecdotal testimony to support this hope). I would die for some good international news right now.
October 08, 2006
Since minutes seem to be the next big thing, here is a to do list for future group activities, composed this morning at brunch: [more inside]
So these two dudes with awesome mustaches are going to try to visit 50 capital cities in 50 days all while hitchiking. You can view their epic journey at their website and also donate rides to them if you'd like. I offered the Houston to Austin trip if they needed it (assuming they're coming to or from Louisiana).
October 07, 2006
Battle of the Bands - great album covers face off in a fight to the death.
October 06, 2006
The Ig Nobel Prizes for 2006 were announced last night. Among the winners is the medical article "Termination of Intractable Hiccups with Digital Rectal Massage."
In case metal or plastic isn't really your thing, you can opt for a computer that's a little more stylish. [more inside]
October 05, 2006
Minutes I was charged with preparing the minutes of several recent meetings, in which we discussed ABBA's Fernando, Obi-Wan Ginobili, Paul Wall Grillz, St. Charles High School in FL, Fascism, Strippers, the Spanish Civil War, Shingles, the sinking of the Maine and the Gulf of Tonkin, and melodic inversion. My extensive findings follow. [more inside]
Navier-Stokes solved? That's two (maybe) down, to go?
I don't know if you all realize it, but our first President was a total badass (NSFW language)
October 04, 2006
So in the past I've been hesitant to try out linux because it's tended to be a bitch to get setup, and I just didn't care that much. Well, that's all changed with these new virtual appliances that run on the free VMWare client. [more inside]
October 03, 2006
The Rise and Subsequent Boring-ization of Food TV - by Bill Buford. If asked on a survey, I'd have to check "Strongly Agree" for the statement: "The Food Network (when I can catch it) seems like a hundred reruns of that "Unwrapped" show or the "Al Roker tours the country" show and mostly seems less essential/exciting/interesting than it did when I used to watch it all the time in oh, say, 1996 in my first year of college when I had the free cable."
October 02, 2006
I get the feeling that Pitchfork didn't much care for Jet's new album.
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Don't watch this if you dislike:
1) breakdancing
2) small-ish people
3) bollywood
I'm saying - you're either going to love it - or hate it.
Move over, Hasslehoff -- Cow Juice is the new Hot Shot City.
My grown children and I sat down to breakfast this morning looking forawrd to trying this new... milk we bought online. At 1st it seemed absurd to buy milk and have it shipped at almost 3 times the cost of the milk itself. But then we... tasted it. It didn't taste like milk at all. It tasted... better. This could not have come from a cow. Men of great knowledge must have... engineered this substance. I couldn't help myself, I had to have more. I finished my glass like a man just rescued from the desert. And I remember... I... I... I cried... I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead... and I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we.
Just because I can't believe no one else has posted it yet: why Foley stepped down. Or is this only big news in DC (and presumably Florida)?
It's nice to see such responsible behavior from the "morally upright" majority. Particularly from the guy in charge of the Caucus on (Missing and) Exploited Children <insert ob witticism here>.
(BTW, just to instigate more tagging ideas, I know this should probably go in Politics, but thought the NSFW caution might be more important for some... Sorry mrflip :)
Kinky to speak at UT. This Wednesday, 11am in the Union Ballroom. [more inside]
October 01, 2006
The Poor Man and I will be in town this weekend. Anyone up for happy hour at the Posse on Friday evening? Say around 5:30 pm? We'll probably stop by RLM after AMO seminar (what floor are those in now?) to say hi to Fink. And then we'll head over to Posse. I would love to see everyone again. Before y'all graduate.