by natecooper | Jun 14, 2008 | culture, humor, media, Science
[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:...
by natecooper | Jun 12, 2008 | media, movies, music, television
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...
by natecooper | Jun 12, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology
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...
by natecooper | Jun 7, 2008 | cool, culture, digital media, humor, internet, technology
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...
by natecooper | Jun 5, 2008 | aesthetics, architecture, cities, culture, world
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...
by natecooper | Jun 3, 2008 | culture, digital media, internet, technology
This has to be the most egregious example of overstepping net-neutrality that I have personally encountered.
by natecooper | Jun 3, 2008 | architecture, culture, los angeles, san francisco
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...
by natecooper | Jun 3, 2008 | Brooklyn, cool, culture, new york, world
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]
by natecooper | May 31, 2008 | culture, humor, media, music, politics
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...
by natecooper | May 31, 2008 | cities, culture, media, politics
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...
by natecooper | May 31, 2008 | culture, humor, style
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...
by natecooper | May 27, 2008 | art, humor, media, technology
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...