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Chemical Party
[link] This video should be standard curriculum in high school chemistry. ------- UPDATE: As soon as you post something up someone takes it down! 🙁 Here is an alternate link to a quicktime version: [LINK]
Incredible Green Excitement
As build up for the release of the new movie tomorrow the SciFi network has been running a marathon of that cheezy Incredible Hulk TV series from the 70s. Unlike other Superhero icons that I remember liking as a kid Hulk has this air of sadness that fits my mood right...
socialthing! Fancy Maintenance Page
Socialthing has a really gorgeous 404 page while they gear up for version 2.0. [link] This has me a bit excited about the possibility of MySpace integration (something that no firm seems to have been able to pull off yet) but we'll have to wait and see. I hadn't...
Buttersafe – The Organ Lender
These two Buttersafe comics speak to me for some reason. The Organ Lender[link] Death Ray [link] There's something relatable to me about suffering for technology or something. Then again maybe I'm reading into it too much.
Woman with objects fetish marries Eiffel Tower – Telegraph
Woman with objects fetish marries Eiffel Tower - Telegraph "She revisits the massive structure as part of a documentary on Five on Objectum-Sexual women. There are around 40 people in the world who have declared themselves OS, all of them women and many of them also...
Did You Mean Google?
This has to be the most egregious example of overstepping net-neutrality that I have personally encountered.
New ideas take flight in the City of Angels
John King, architectural critic for the SF Chronicle and the only newspaper columnist in my google reader takes a trip to L.A. and reports back about some of the new buildings and communities that have recently opened [link] "Next to the Cheesecake Factory stands a...
Tunnel from Brooklyn to London… | New York Public Library
This is the second article about this nifty under-sea tube thing I've seen in the last couple of days .. and while I don't fully understand it I must check it out! [link]
Hitler’s Greatest Hits
Proving once again that on a rainy day YouTube is your best friend I found this small meme revolving around remixing film footage of Hitler to make it appear that he is singing or dancing along with pop songs. I wont subject you to the sub-meme of Hitler as an...
Stealing from Children
What the hell is wrong with people? Clearly these little Paris Hiltons in training have absolutely no remorse for stealing from a little kid and no other excuse than "I like money". It's amazing to me that people like this exist. I'm not surprised -- I'm very aware of...
McSweeneys Internet Tendency: Lacanian Jokes of the Day.
McSweeney's has a list of "Lacanian" jokes. That is jokes associated with Jacques Lacan, the 20th century French philosopher/psychologist most famous for the "mirror stage".McSweeneys Internet [link] "A Freudian, a Jungian, and a Lacanian walk into a bar. The Freudian...
Microwave Business (via kottke)
So I found this video [link] on kottke.org. It's a video of someone putting a mobile phone into a microwave. Pretty sweet but you have to see it. Its what I feel I've known all along about cell phones. But what is kind of even more bizarre is that I found out that...
Archie vs. Common People – Popped Culture
Popped Culture has a post about taking the song "Common People" by Pulp and setting it to Archie comics: "Archie vs. Common People" [link] For a taste check out this youtube video:
Inhabitat » Kyouei umbrella holder waters your plants
[link] Kyouei umbrella holder waters your plants by Mike Chino
Margaret MacMillan; History as Religion
I've been wary in the past about submitting podcasts as blogs because I know its a time investment but I do listen to a lot of them myself and there are episodes every so often that are simply too fantastic not to put out there in the hopes that someone might possibly...
Live Diggnation in NYC in June
Hot damn!! I'm there!! [link]
Proto-Punk and Ethio-Jazz
ncooperta.muxtape.com liner notes: Ultra Orange & Emmauelle, Donât Kiss Me Goodbye - I fucking love this song right now. So I first heard it in a movie? Thatâs where I find my best music now adays. Plus I think I'm in love with Emmanuelle Seigner The Clash,...
WireTap Magazine – There Goes The Neighborhood
A really interesting article about gentrification and how to confront it in new and interesting ways: [link] (via BLAST) What strikes me most about the article is this conception of the influx of young, middle-class into the neighborhood as somehow devouring the...