You can’t do that on television!
Rolling Stone’s 25 most outrageous music videos. Outrageous apparently includes the sacrilegious, the dirty, the disturbing, and, um, Christopher Walken. Some videos may be not safe for work and one contains David Hasselhoff.
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Flickr Self-Incrimination
Bill MacEwen’s laptop got stolen last week, but all might not be lost. Someone in possession of the laptop — possibly the thief — just posted a self-portrait to Flickr using the account stored in the laptop.
If you know anything about the gentleman in the photo, please contact
Bill through his blog. If you like to fantasize about committing “the
perfect crime”, add this boo-boo to your “DO NOT DO” list
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I’m 71. I’ve got a right to be loud, lady. I’m gonna die soon.
In 1964, Mel Brooks won both the Oscar & BAFTA Best Short Film awards for The Critic. His first film, it revolves around an old man heckling abstract animation that he doesn’t understand. Youtube (lower quality) | brettratner.com (higher quality)
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Judge Makes ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ Ruling
A federal judge was driven to rhyme after receiving a hard-boiled egg in the mail from a prison inmate protesting his diet. U.S. District Court Judge James Muirhead reached for Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham” for inspiration after getting the egg from inmate Charles Jay Wolff.
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Gordie Howe maliciously harassed by Neighbors
Wow, there’s some creepy ass stuff going on with Gordie Howe
He’s spent much of his life in the public eye, this icon. But at nearly 80, Mr. Hockey is just Citizen Howe these days, surely entitled to a little peace and privacy. His life now is mostly about tending to an ailing wife, Colleen, who daily slips further into the clutches of dementia, caused by Pick’s Disease…….
“My dad never minded having his picture taken,” says Mark Howe, standing just outside his father’s front door. “But 17,000 pictures in one day is a bit much.”…..
It is a kind of peeping molestation…..
Which is, of course, precisely what Lionel and Karen Dorfman had been doing, obsessively and intrusively, until just last Tuesday, training their various web cams at the house across the street – Gordie Howe’s house.
Non-Hockey fans might remember him from The Simpsons
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D’oh
72 scenes from various episodes of The Simpsons, each one beside the movie scene to which they refer.
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Bleach-stencil a shirt
This tutorial sets out the multi-step process by which you can stencil your clothes with bleach, working in inverse to create ever-lighter fabric sections by spraying on diluted bleach
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Make “witches jars” for Hallowe’en decor
It’s a little early to be getting ready for Hallowe’en, but I really enjoyed this tutorial on making “witches’ jars” for your Hallowe’en decor. They’d work just as well on the back shelf of your rec-room bar, after all. Very Martha.
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Unexploded Rocket-Propelled Grenade Impales Army Private in Afghanistan
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Thou art the homo sapiens now, canine …
Once upon a time, there was a very bad Sean Connery movie (directed by “the Good Will Hunting guy“). In it, Sean Connery looks at an inner-city African-American teen and says, “Punch the keys, for God’s sake! Yes … yesssss … you’re the man now, dog!” A NYC resident, Max Goldberg, saw this and said, “The world needs to hear that last part on an eternal loop.” From Forrester‘s hammy dialogue was crafted YTMND which, since 2004, has been an online community in which users, armed only with a sound file, an image, and the occasional zooming text, have set loose on the ‘Net fads, remixes of its fads, a strange obsession with a 16-year-old (sometimes becoming profoundly creepy), remixes of a strange obsession with a 16-year-old, another strange obsession with a nursing home resident suffering from Apert’s syndrome (as well as a call for compassion), its own self–analytical wiki, and alternate–universe versions of itself. Never the subject of its own post, the site is often both the birthplace, or feeding ground for, ‘Net memes, a locale of remixes of and commentary on pop culture, and also of stuff that’s just plain weird–funny. It’s not always constrained to humor, however: there’s a little history and science mixed in there. The site’s enemies are as diverse as Eric Bauman, the Church of Scientology, Sonic the Hedgehog, Harry Potter (Book 7 spoilers), and, most dangerously of all … Screech.
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Cancer cure ‘may be available in two years’
Cancer sufferers could be cured with injections of immune cells from other people within two years, scientists say.
US researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of “super strength” cancer-killing cells from donors.
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Split brain behavioral experiments
To reduce the severity of his seizures, Joe had the bridge between his left and right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) severed. As a result, his left and right brains no longer communicate through that pathway.
Here’s what happens as a result:
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Moncton mayor will not run again
To mix things up, a little local color.
Moncton Mayor Lorne Mitton will not seek another term in next spring’s municipal election, he announced Thursday morning.
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The fates of real-life advertising icons
Check out this insanely detailed ten-part post on Ira R. Schnapp, the most impressive typography/logo/stamp designer you’ve never heard of. Very cool and fascinating.
But who in the world is I.R. Schnapp? Why does HE deserve to be ranked among the hallowed creators who guided Superman through his earliest adventures? And why as “Senior Vice President of Advertising,” of all things? The surprising answer: Schnapp deserves to be there, perhaps more so than any of the others, because all the other people on this masthead came to Superman after his first adventure had been published. Not Schnapp. He was there from the very beginning. Schnapp was, as they say, “present at the creation.”
Ira R. Schnapp was an eyewitness to the first-ever appearance of the Man of Steel. He also saw the debuts of the Caped Crusader, the Scarlet Speedster, the Emerald Gladiator, and the Amazing Amazon… in person. He was there the day Barry Allen raced across the bridge between the earths and became the Flash of Two Worlds. He saw the mightiest heroes of comics’ Golden Age unite for the first time to form the Justice Society of America. And he witnessed the unforgettable first meeting of the JSA and Justice League of America with his own eyes. Through it all, there was one constant, and one constant alone: IRA SCHNAPP.
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Canadian Money becomes Real Money
Parity – The Canadian Dollar is (almost) at equal value to the American Dollar for the first time since 1976.
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Landis Guilty
Say It Ain’t So, Floyd. Landis found guilty of doping, must surrender 2006 Tour de France title.
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Illegal x 2 = Refugee?
“The fact someone wants to come here for better economic opportunity or a better quality of life … that’s no basis for a successful refugee claim.” That’s not the Minutemen talking, but rather Canadian Immigration Refugee Board (IRB) spokesman Charles Hawkins. Over the past three weeks, approximately 200 illegal immigrants from the U.S. entered Canada at the Detroit River crossings and applied in Windsor for shelter and social assistance. So far, no cries of racism or xenophobia against the Canadians for defending their borders.
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Girl can’t help it: a critique of porn star Ashley Blue’s blog
Susannah Breslin has an essay up today about the online life of (former?) adult film performer Ashley Blue, whose very interesting blog seems to document a kind of transition from working in porn to whatever lies beyond that. Snip:
Ashley Blue‘s blog is like no other. On it, Blue–whose real name is Oriana Small–reveals the real girl behind the porn star. Blue is–or at least was–a porn star like no other. She has starred in some of the most extreme porn movies ever made. According to IMDB, she has appeared in over 200 adult videos, among them: “Ashley Blue AKA Filthy Whore,” “American Bukkake 26,” and “Gag Factor 15.” Take “American Bukkake 26,” for example, in which Blue fed fried cum to a bukkake girl. (“It was amazing,” she later noted.) Her performances have not gone unnoticed. Last year, “Gag Factor 15,” in which Blue reenacts a scene out of Abu Ghraib, was listed in an 18-count federal obscenity indictment. Her blog, though, shows another side of the sex star. There, in a stream-of-consciousness assemblage of words and pictures that’s part tumblelog, part haiku, and part Molly Bloom’s monologue, Blue–that is, Small–exposes the woman behind the sex with unrivaled intensity. This is a blog that stars the usual suspects found on confessional blogs–the boyfriend (erotic photographer Dave Naz), the new puppy, the night out on the town. Blue takes blogging to a whole new level.
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Get yer Marvel Universe info right here!
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I watched a particle crawl randomly along the edge of a straight razor
Cinematic particles is an online applet that draws watercolor-like visualizations of movie dialogs, from Apocalypse Now to Zabriskie Point. See also: Spinal Rhythms, L-Garden, SpyCamp and other online toys by Austrian artist Eva Schindling.
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Scholarpedia: the free peer-reviewed encyclopedia
Welcome to Scholarpedia, the free peer reviewed encyclopedia written by scholars from all around the world.
Scholarpedia feels and looks like Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Indeed, both are powered by the same program – MediaWiki. Both allow visitors to review and modify articles simply by clicking on the edit this article link.
However, Scholarpedia differs from Wikipedia in some very important ways:
* Each article is written by an expert (invited or elected by the public).
* Each article is anonymously peer reviewed to ensure accurate and reliable information.
* Each article has a curator – typically its author — who is responsible for its content.
* Any modification of the article needs to be approved by the curator before it appears in the final, approved version.
Herein also lies the greatest differences between Scholarpedia and traditional print media: while the initial authorship and review processes are similar to a print journal, articles in Scholarpedia are not frozen and outdated, but dynamic, subject to an ongoing process of improvement moderated by their curators. This allows Scholarpedia to be up-to-date, yet maintain the highest quality of content.
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My Phone is so hot
My phone rocks, I finally got around to repairing it, and I LOVE it. I have it in a more classy shiney black though, super hot.
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All Creatures Great and Small
Meet the Crew: Dot, Gael, Jon, Spot, and Cap. They’re border collies who live and work at Border Collie Rescue in North Yorkshire.
The volunteers there rescue, train and find homes for these extraordinary dogs.
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TRANSIT – an art deco murder mystery
T.R.A.N.S.I.T. is, by a wide margin, my favorite animated short ever produced. Set in the art deco Europe of the 1920’s and (and released in 1997) it tells the story of a journey throughout several major vacation destinations of a wealthy tycoon, his young wife with wandering eyes, and a murderous turn of events. The story is told in reverse, from the final stage of the “vacation” back through each prior stop, and the artwork for each segment is painted in the style of the luggage travel sticker for that stop.
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