8-bit Starcraft
It’s not real, of course. But I love seeing 8-bit conceptions of later video games. Reminds me of Ascii Portal.
Without comment
Taken in Floriana, Malta, not many feet apart.
clusterflock
Old friend and long time lurker, Dale Foster, was bored one evening and came up with this. He is the same fellow who created the clusterflock twitter icon.
quote out of context
The miss was so good that people immediately started calling it the best missed dunk of all-time.
Undercover Martyn – Two Door Cinema Club
Nobody needs to spend a million dollars to make a good music video.
Misplaced Priorities
I just tried to fix a cup of tea without having filled the kettle with water. At the same time I came within half an inch of overfilling the bathtub and flooding the bathroom.
Gayngs
Somehow their inside joke—a bunch of Midwestern bros (members of Bon Iver, Solid Gold, Dosh, and Megafaun; rappers Dessa and P.O.S. from Doomtree) coming together to make fun of the idea of an “upper Midwestern indie rock supergroup”—snowballed into something real. They actually started to get treated like an upper Midwestern indie rock supergroup. They were actually signed by an indie label, Jagjaguar. The record was actually finished. They actually had to get 20-some people together for band practice. And then another of Gayngs’ inside jokes—let’s theme our first show after our last song, “The Last Prom on Earth!”—gained a bizarre momentum too. They sold out First Avenue (the Minneapolis club Prince made famous in the ’80s).
You know I took the training wheels off a long time ago
from the spam
I dont like it any way at all
What kind of perfume does she use
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In the Buddhist tradition, people suffering from the diet.
Dachshund U.N.
A scale replica of a former U.N. office in Geneva, Switzerland, will be constructed by Miller in the Melbourne Museum plaza, where it will remain for the duration of the 2010 Next Wave Festival. Each Saturday afternoon, this structure will play host to a meeting of the U.N.’s Commission on Human Rights, wherein all 47 of the national delegates are live dachshunds, or ‘sausage dogs’.
(thanks, Teresa!)
exclusive elite gadgets
For the most elite individual, we bring you the worlds 1st solid gold and diamond ipad.
I almost couldn’t post this. Also, shouldn’t the world’s elite be able to use apostrophes?
beat up by a girl
I don’t know what’s more fascinating: that a Saudi woman beat up a virtue cop, or why we as a Western culture are so fascinated with a Saudi woman beating up a virtue cop.
quote out of context
70% of the reason I linked to this is because of the title, “Rampaging cannonball star is rampaging.”
You’ve been a longtime advocate for abstinence education
Congressman Mark Souder made a video with his mistress defending government funded abstinence programs.
In the November 2009 abstinence video, Jackson introduces Souder this way: “You’ve been a longtime advocate for abstinence education and in 2006 you had your staff conduct a report entitled ‘Abstinence and its Critics’ which discredits many claims purveyed by those who oppose abstinence education.”
Fantastic.
Thank You! And, uh, sorry we killed you…
An 87-year old man died from injuries sustained in an accident that took place as he was being honored with a ride around the track at the Texas Motor Speedway.
I believe we have a good chance of finding something
Mountaineer Duncan Chessel has set out to see if he can find a camera that may show the summit of Everest was climbed by George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924, 29 years earlier than previously thought.
“I was at North Col last week and the wind was 150 kilometres (90 miles) per hour and it was stripping snow off the mountain which has been there for many years,” Chessell said in a message from base camp, according to AAP news agency.
“There is now bare rock exposed which has been deeply covered for decades in the most likely areas where Andrew Irvine’s body may be.
“It is my intention to search those areas en route to the summit and take this rare opportunity to find him and, perhaps, the missing cameras.”
Mallory’s body was found in 1999 and documented in a television show on PBS I have never quite been able to forget.
Pot calls kettle “insufficiently awed”
Though I have gone silent recently (an absence comprising equal parts work-related stress, giddiness about clusterflockstock, and seething jealousy about Danny’s new iPad), the ‘flock has been in my every wa(n)king thought. Someone apparently has the same mixed emotions about David Brooks:
Introspective, cheerless, and vaguely addled, equal parts crank and cynic, a wet blanket in a world of cheerful optimism – this is the quintessential pessimist.
Or maybe it’s David Brooks of The New York Times. His impish grin and penchant for loud shirt-and-tie combinations masks, I’m convinced, reveals the psyche of a man stranded on a desert island with no hope of rescue — i.e., one on the very edge of shattering altogether. Sure, he delivers the standard political commentary and boilerplate eulogies for public figures like Ted Kennedy or Irving Kristol — no different from the stable of op-ed writers in most major newspapers. But the farther afield he goes, the wilder his aim gets; he criticizes celebrities for being insufficiently awed by contemporary events, and predicts one day that psychology will someday “replace misleading categories like ‘emotion’ and ‘reason.’”. And is it simple coincidence or a terrifying grasp into his subconscious when, in one column, he describes his total disillusionment with Republicans (“Are they really my guys? Do I have guys anymore?…I feel politically closer to Barack Obama than to House Minority Leader John Boehner (and that’s even while being greatly exercised about the current health care bills).”, and then in another column five days later wonders what would happen if a gamma-ray burst sterilized half the planet?
That first sentence refers to Eeyore, perpetual sad sack of the Winnie the Pooh multiverse. A fitting analogy, no?
tulips
I love tulips just as they are about to fall apart.
oh
YouTube turned 5 today.
Doomsday Protection Under a Desert
BARSTOW, Calif. – A company with a doomsday plan is taking money for what it promises will be a comfortable, nuke-proof bunker under the Mojave Desert, with an atrium, gym and jail, and sloppy joes and pearl potatoes on the menu.
See here. What would we want in a clusterbunker? Probably not sloppy joes and pearl potatoes.
The Summer of Beryl Markham
Someone gave me the gift of a discovery flight for my birthday at the tiny airport near where I’ll be staying for the summer.
Which I think means they take you up in a little plane and try to shake your imaginary love of flying that you’ve invented in your head.
I am so. excited.
Push bike
In powder blue
Something Good Can Work – Two Door Cinema Club
pianococktail
This is for Mike Dresser, obviously.
Pixel Kombat Trailer
A ‘hadokumentary’
