Artist eats dog to protest prince’s hunting
British performance artist Mark McGowan ate a few bites of a corgi dog live on the radio to protest Prince Philip’s hunting of a fox. Yoko Ono had a bite as well. The corgi is apparently the Queen’s favorite breed. According to McGowan, it tastes lousy.
The dog died of natural causes at a corgi breeder and was prepared and cooked by others for McGowan…
McGowan is well known for his outlandish performance stunts. He ate a swan in another protest against the queen. Swans are protected by the monarchy.
Reminds me of that old quote about when a dog bites a man, it isnt news… but when a man bites a dog, its a story.
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Little boy ruins sand mandala
Last week, eight Tibetan monks were halfway complete with an incredibly intricate sand mandala they were creating in Kansas City’s Union Station when a young boy went under the protective rope and messed up the entire design. The monks were gone when it happened but the episode was caught on a security camera.
“He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it,” said Lama Chuck Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.
A security tape shows the boy’s mother returning to the mandala, grabbing her son by the arm and walking out of camera range…
“No problem,” Geshe Lobsang Sumdup, leader of the group from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India, said through a translator. “We didn’t get despondent. We have three days more. So we will have to work harder.”
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Make all your phones ring at once
GrandCentral: Have a cell phone, a work phone and a business phone? This free service gives you one number that will ring all of them at once. Reviews: Slate, NYT, CNET
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Jobs and Gates interviewed together at the D5 conference
The Bill and Steve show: Jobs and Gates sit down together and discuss the past, present and future at the D5 conference.
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Awesome!
Found a backup of my site from 2005, woo! well, a backup of the database, just as good, imported from 2002 until 2005, still a few years missing, but better then nothing i guess.. heh
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The end of time
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through the looking glass
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They look like ants…
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Use the Force, Luke!
30 years ago today
the dream of a man
named George Lucas
became a phenomenon
that changed the world.
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One in 20 is too many.
Nearly 700 cyclists are killed on U.S. roads every year, and more than 540,000 are sent to the emergency room. The annual Ride of Silence was started in 2003 to honor and raise awareness for those tragically killed and injured on the road, and has grown into a worldwide event, with more than 270 confirmed rides planned to start tonight, at 7 p.m. Ride along on YouTube or grab a black armband and join a group near you.
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In praise of Budweiser..?
In praise of Budweiser, in which Daniel Davies defends Budweiser, claiming that it is in the right in it’s copyright fight with the Czech brewer Budvar and that the rice in Bud is not a modern cost cutting development but is an essential ingredient in brewing an American pilsner. Worth reading whatever your view on Budweiser is for the brutal attack on the Welsh town of Wrexham in the footnotes.
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Well played, Rob Schneider.
C’mon, Roger Ebert, tell us what you really think about “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo.”
Even though Roger Ebert had the last word with Rob Schneider. A few days ago, Rob Schneider proves that despite his undiscriminating film choices, bad films do not make a bad person and he is one classy guy.
On a completely related note, today Ebert’s website "Ebert’s Most Hated," a collection of classic zero- and one-star reviews. My favorites: "North" and "Freddy Got Fingered."
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Best of the Webb
“Clearly we need a much bigger telescope to go back much further in time to see the very birth of the Universe.” The venerable Hubble space telescope is going to be replaced by what looks like a honeycomb on a box of chocolates. Of course, if it takes more pictures like this (XL), nobody is going to complain about its looks.
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Disney’s 1958 vision of tomorrow’s highways
Disney’s 1958 short “Magic Highway” is a retro-future look at the highways of tomorrow that never were. It is a perfect storm of goofy futurism (imagining the future to be just like the present, only more so) and crazy, angular pop art visuals. This makes me terribly nostalgic for the future
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Quack breast enlargement ad from 1924
This June, 1924 breast-enlargement advert from Popular Mechanics is a lovely illustration of the era’s prudery, employing “double your breathing capacity” as a euphemism for “get giant knockers now!”
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Ye Olde Metal Days
Metal!
Slayer! Metallica! Girlschool! Quiet Riot! Megadeth! Maiden! And many, many more.
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Rice Terraces
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Why am I stuck in Moncton? I really should be in Bali… stupid North America.
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Stick Perv
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I see you!
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Discipline help
The Blurter. The Complainer. The Know-It-All. The Spoiled Darling. You can handle them all.
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CN Tower Toronto
Excellent flash photo, The things that can be done with Flash. Amazing. Very slowly run your mouse over the entire photo and see the city from dawn to dusk to the city lit up at night. I like.
This is Sam from Toronto’s project. The guy is an amazing photographer. I’d recommend his daily dose of photography.
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Smokin’
Sex Education media has been around since the days of silent films. Seems most everyone can use a bit of guidance when it comes to the appropriate handling of their lustful urges… your geriatric, dementia-ridden parents, soldiers, Boys, Girls, couples, teens, Christians, and yes, trainables. On a less serious note, the topic of Sex Ed as addressed by: Monty Python, Conan O’Brien, fireside chats, Amy Sedaris, MAD TV, Fry & Laurie, Weeds, Ali G and the Simpsons, Family Guy, and some Florida trailer park slut on youtube. Note: this fpp will not play well in Bangalore.
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I can see you!
Have you played with Google Earth recently? You can track flights live and in 3-D, or watch an animation of global cloud cover over the last 10 days, or simply make Google Earth prettier using NASA images. Google Earth isn’t limited to the current, you can also enable historical maps from the 1700s, and view an animation that will show you what will happen in the future to New York and San Francisco if the sea levels rise. Google Earth can also shed light on the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (and, indeed many other ship wrecks) to America’s top 150 buildings, now in all of their 3-D glory.
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Kool-Aid Pickles
“Kool-Aid pickles violate tradition, maybe even propriety. Depending on your palate and perspective, they are either the worst thing to happen to pickles since plastic brining barrels or a brave new taste sensation to be celebrated.”
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Nan’s Kitchen
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My home growing up
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Pop
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