Weekend Link Explosion
May 31, 2009
Awesome email exchange: Pets in the building, by David Thorne.
Kitten hides inside couch, via buzzfeed. (Video after the jump)
Literal video version of Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
This is cool. Oxford physics professor Josh Silver invented cheap eyeglasses with an easily-adjustible water-filled membrane that you can adjust to your vision needs without a doctor. He’s already distributed 30,000 free pairs in 15 countries.
Homemade $14 Video Camera Stabilizer
Wanna see some swearing muppets?
Seven-year-old tells NASA how to unstick Spirit, the Mars rover.
Wikipedia has banned the Church of Scientology from editing any articles.
The improved version of “Never Back Down”
May 30, 2009
Link Explosion
May 28, 2009
10 Ridiculous Anti-Pornography Commercials, via buzzfeed. (clip embedded after the jump)
Awesome pictures: Old Habits Die Hard and No one likes Greg.
These are some pretty sweet stunts.
Another good comic from superpoop.
Bike ad with slogan “Put the fun between your legs” sponsored by anti-rape group. Whoops.
More video evidence that the 1980s were completely ridiculous.
Couple of serious links: What is the cause of excess costs in US healthcare? Also, an article on emotional economics.
DennisKnopf posts youtube videos promising booty-shaking, films empty rooms instead. Comments are priceless.
Link Explosion
May 27, 2009
The second greatest shirt now has it’s own Official Three Wolf Moon Video.
An important message from Sushi Cat (video after the jump)
Awesome .gif alert: Steven Seagal Is A Killer
Che killed people, you trendy douchebag.
Want to see a dog doing aerobics? Of course you do.
Pygmy Jerboas are cute.
This owl loves a good scratch. [Thanks Eib]
Jonathan Lee Riches is suing the Guinness Book of World Records for saying that he’s sued the most people ever.
This dog and cat are adorable.
Ronald McDonald death metal mashup. (No need to watch the whole thing)
Cool website: Show Me How
The Royal Society announces their picks for The Best Science Books of 2008.
Justin and Justin review the new Terminator movie (HolyTaco)
na na na na na na na na BAT CAT!
Liberty University not so fond of liberty
May 27, 2009
Via washingtonpost:
Liberty University will no longer recognize its campus Democratic club because, officials say, the national party’s platform goes against the conservative Christian school’s moral principles.
[...] Liberty, which has 11,500 residential students and 35,000 online students, has had a College Republicans club for years. The College Democrats formed in October and worked aggressively to elect Obama president.
[...] Diaz was informed in a May 15 e-mail from Student Affairs Vice President Mark Hine that the club, which has about 30 members, will no longer be able to use Liberty’s name or be eligible for funding because of the party’s stand on abortion rights and gay rights issues.
Mathew D. Staver, dean of the university’s school of law, said Liberty recently came up with new guidelines for all student groups. On May 15, a campuswide review began. The recognition of only the Democratic club has been revoked. Staver said the students can continue to meet in certain locations on campus, and school officials have encouraged them to find a parent organization that supports a “pro-life, pro-family” platform. [emphasis mine]
Hmm. So the club starts in October. Seven months later they lay out new guidelines for student groups that only affect the Democrat club, and then label them anti-life and anti-family. Yeah, that’s what Jesus would do.
Another interesting quote, via Ed Brayton:
But let’s shine a spotlight on the hypocrisy. After all, this is the home of Liberty Counsel, which files suits whenever other schools refuse to recognize Christian clubs.
By the way, Liberty University is tax-exempt. Doesn’t banning a group based on their political affiliation violate their tax-exempt status?
The Campaign to Save Paste Magazine
May 26, 2009
Paste Magazine is giving out over 110 free mp3’s with every donation (you choose the dollar amount). You can read the track list and listen to all the songs here. The donation isn’t tax-deductible, but, with all this free music, who cares?
Via pastemagazine (donation link here):
Artists include The Decemberists , Neko Case , She & Him, Cowboy Junkies , Of Montreal, Indigo Girls , Jayhawks, String Cheese Incident, G. Love , Josh Rouse , The Hives, Matthew Sweet , The Avett Brothers , Joe Henry , John Roderick of The Long Winters , Over the Rhine, Bob Mould, Arrested Development, Brandi Carlile, John Doe, Josh Ritter, Marc Broussard and more. We also have a number of goodies (such as signed R.E.M. and Band of Horses posters, an ocean-view cabin on next year’s Cayamo cruise, and more) to give to donors in random drawings.
Memorial Day Link Explosion
May 25, 2009
Laser cut money from Scott Campbell's "Make It Rain" exhibition
I didn’t feel like writing individual posts for each of these articles/videos.
- This is the coolest optical illusion I’ve ever seen. Be sure to have the audio on so you can hear the instructions.
- Scientists are pervs, Part One: Mary Roach, author of Bonk, with a funny (possibly NSFW) presentation on 10 things you didn’t know about orgasms. Video after the jump (or view here)
- Another candidate for the Best Shirt Ever pantheon: Rip Out Bear Adult T-Shirt. Never bring only three wolves to a bear fight.
- I want to chillax with this guy: “Fond du Lac police continue a fruitless search for a man wearing an ape costume who has attempted to steal foam banana displays from inside local gas stations.”
- Vote for Tom Lennon or he’ll punch you in the dick. (NSFW language)
- Are Patients in Universal Healthcare Countries Less Satisfied? Some great graphs here.
- Picture Show: You Are What You Eat. Mark Menjivar photographed the contents of other people’s refrigerators. Yep. He sure did.
- Winners of Princeton University’s 2009 Art of Science photograph competition.
- Notorious B.R.A.D.Y. (mashup by FuntToob)
- How to make your own yogurt cheaply with stuff you probably already have.
- You know Hippo Rollers, the water carriers that allow people in the third world to carry 5 times more water with less physical exertion? Well Project H and Engineers Without Borders have improved the design, so now 250% more Hippo Rollers can fit in a shipping container.
- Scientists are pervs, Part Two: a probably NSFW article on the first 3-D ultrasound of an erect penis including this choice quote: “it’s the first time a gel matrix was used as an artificial vagina to allow for detection via ultrasound. [...]With any luck, detection methods will allow for more and more erratic movement, and some time in the future, we may see ejaculation from the inside!” . . . Dude.
Spider cat, spider cat
May 20, 2009
(You can see another spider cat here.)
Via dailymail:
Any old cat can shin up a tree. But this brave moggy regularly takes his nine lives in his paws and climbs 13ft up the wall of a block of flats to his owner’s home on the first floor.
Seven-year-old Charlie hit on the idea after growing tired of having to wait outside the shared front door to the block for someone to let him back in after he has been allowed out for some air.
[...] Charlie belongs to Hannah Smith, of Denny, Falkirk
The reporter went on to say, “Oi, govna, shine ya claws? Fancy a spot of Milk Plus? Viddy well.”
Look at this graph.
May 19, 2009
LOOK AT IT. CLICK TO EMBIGGEN. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.
Via Ezra Klein:
That orange line headed heaven-ward? That’s our deficit. All those other lines dipping down? That’s our deficit if we had the same health care spending per person as France, Germany, Canada, and the UK (all countries, incidentally, with higher life expectancies than our own). You might say, of course, that even radical reform would not bring us down to their health care spending. We could copy France’s system wholesale and still pay more for care. You would be right. But such reforms would bring us much closer than we are now.
It’s time to play Whack-A-Kitty
May 18, 2009
Via buzzfeed.
