Seahorses, I Love 'Em (& other Links of Interest)

[Pie Man]

I have just discovered ZUG.com.

Some excellent pranks:
The Powerbook Prank
The Credit Card Prank: Part I, Part II
The Walmart Prank

And when you're done with those, go read every other prank on the site, because they're all awesome.

[Raphael]

Well, at nearly any age, I don't really want to hear about any of my own ancestors' sexual experiences -- my mom's least of all. (I don't even want to hear about my dad's, or my grandparents', or my sisters', though my brother has a few interesting stories.) As an adolescent or late pre-pubescent person I would have screamed "Gross!" and refused to listen. But I wouldn't have wanted them in jail.

Pretty much what I meant- at the moment when it happenned, I would have thought things like "EEEK GROSS!" and "Oh my, jail wouldn't be bad enough as punishment for that- what about burying in an anthill?" I didn't mean that I would have thought like that once I had cooled down.

[Shm Jay]

Future idiom:

Instead of saying "the skeleton in the closet" for a family scandal that people try to keep quiet, the people of the late 21st century will instead refer to this concept as "the yoopornvid". This derives from "YouPorn video" ["on the Internet" understood], YouPorn being a site on the early 21st-century Internet where amateur pornographic videos were posted. The phrase took off in the mid-21st century when the grandchildren of the younger subjects of these videos discovered how erotic their grandparents had been.

[gsandi]

Future idiom:

Instead of saying "the skeleton in the closet" for a family scandal that people try to keep quiet, the people of the late 21st century will instead refer to this concept as "the yoopornvid". This derives from "YouPorn video" ["on the Internet" understood], YouPorn being a site on the early 21st-century Internet where amateur pornographic videos were posted. The phrase took off in the mid-21st century when the grandchildren of the younger subjects of these videos discovered how erotic their grandparents had been.

Erotic? Surely, you mean exhibitionistic!

To each his/her eroticism, but there is nothing erotic in recording one's love-making on video, not to me. Might as well record what is going on in one's mouth while chewing a delicious steak.

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I think the idiom Shm Jay is looking for is the curiously anachronistic "sex tape," which seems likely to endure well past the plausible involvement of any sort of tape in much the same way that children still make "choo choo" noises when playing with toy trains.

(I also agree with Gabor that the whole phenomenon is rather unerotic. Enough so that I wonder if it's the kind of thing that people will eventually no longer be very embarrassed about. Maybe the equivalent of "skeleton in the closet" will be "empty sex tape folder.")

Keeping along in the same vein, ten vulgar ticker symbols from Wall Street.

The rather amusing Scientology quiz. Also a list of fifty best "cult" books; don't miss the hilarious defenses of Ayn Rand's Fountainhead in the comments section.

Shooting Britney, an account of the inner workings of the lucrative, insane paparazzi business.

[Delthayre]

FOX News is dumb

I know that that's not very clever, but am I wrong?

[Pie Man]

Cthulhu cake anyone?

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FOX News is dumb

I know that that's not very clever, but am I wrong?

You're not wrong. Even if that "mistake" is intentional, it's still dumb.

African mystery meals.

[Delthayre]

Everyone say, "hello," to Schnappi, das Kleine Krokodil

For contrast: The horriblest bicycle saftey film ever

[Terra]

Everyone say, "hello," to Schnappi, das Kleine Krokodil

Well, if we include that, we have to include Knut das Eisbär too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNWrFmCCfXw

[Shm Jay]

The latest word in lolcats.

[Hokulani]

Ewww

Worlds worst mouse plague

Penis-potato-boat

[pharazon]

I have just discovered ZUG.com.

Some excellent pranks:
The Powerbook Prank
The Credit Card Prank: Part I, Part II
The Walmart Prank

And when you're done with those, go read every other prank on the site, because they're all awesome.

Although a favorite joke doesn't come to mind, I do enjoy laughing.

That is complete gold.

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LSD vs alcohol vs tree.

All sorts of cool data visualization stuff to be had at Ben Fry's website. Includes a map that features all of America's streets (and only the streets), a dynamic performance vs. salary chart of major league baseball teams, and the extremely nifty zipdecode.

(Special The-Eighties-Never-Died Metal bonus: Michael Angelo shows you how to work the double guitar.)

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A first-person shooter style commercial from Nike shows how effective lifestyle advertising can be.

Interestingly, it's much the same technique used to make the infamous Prodigy music video Smack My Bitch Up (NSFW), which starts off with a shot of... Nike runners. (Not quite "starts off," it's a few seconds in.)

[Pie Man]

http://www.penisland.net/

[Toko]

http://www.penisland.net/

Maybe they ought to rethink their web address...

[Raphael]

Why? This way, they get everyone who types "penisland.net" into a browser as a visitor. That might be a lot more than they'd get with another URL.

[Risla]

Whether you're looking for a long and skinny pen, a thick pen, a fountain pen that squirts ink, or even a black pen...

Can has joke website?

At least I think they acknowledge it.

[Xephyr]

A first-person shooter style commercial from Nike shows how effective lifestyle advertising can be.

Interestingly, it's much the same technique used to make the infamous Prodigy music video Smack My Bitch Up (NSFW), which starts off with a shot of... Nike runners. (Not quite "starts off," it's a few seconds in.)

Not to nitpick, but just because something is POV doesn't necessarily mean it's "FPS-style".

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Not to nitpick, but just because something is POV doesn't necessarily mean it's "FPS-style".

Nit duly picked. In my defense, I'm also making an terribly clever reference to the content of the two videos.

[Ketumak]

Talking of music videos, Manchester band The Get Out Clause have found a new way to make one. They performed their song "Paper" at several places around the city where they would appear on CCTV then requested the footage back under the Freedom of Information Act!

It's cheap, guarantees good pictures and got them on national TV news. The result is here, on YouTube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=W2iuZMEEs_A

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Deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie gives a brilliant talk, with musical illustration, about listening with your whole body. The whole thing is about a half hour long and well worth making some time to listen to in its entirety.

[Shm Jay]

A little novel in French for your summer reading pleasure.

[Pekka]

Kate Beaton's comics.

http://katebeaton.com/Site/Welcome.html

Here is one of my favorites.

http://katebeaton.com/Site/History_Proj ... stings.jpg

It's about the Battle of Hastings.