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

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:12 pm

The pros and cons of singing in your native language.

- · Post by - » Mon Oct 05, 2009 1:13 am

rickardspaghetti wrote:The pros and cons of singing in your native language.

Ex-cellent.

Radius Solis · Post by **Radius Solis** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:49 am

Not sure if a related story has been posted yet or not, but:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091005/ap_ ... _meat_mess

Imagine all the flies.

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:09 am

Radius Solis wrote:Not sure if a related story has been posted yet or not, but:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091005/ap_ ... _meat_mess

Imagine all the flies.

Why don't they just sell all the meat to Poland like we do?

jal · Post by **jal** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:02 am

rickardspaghetti wrote:Why don't they just sell all the meat to Poland like we do?

Poland has their own bisons.

JAL

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:05 am

jal wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:Why don't they just sell all the meat to Poland like we do?
Poland has their own bisons.

JAL

Well, that explains it.

Delthayre · Post by **Delthayre** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:19 pm

"A Glorious Dawn" by Carl Sagan, featuring Steven Hawking

Word.

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:08 am

Delthayre wrote:"A Glorious Dawn" by Carl Sagan, featuring Steven Hawking

Word.

Awesome!

Where can I download it?

- · Post by - » Wed Oct 14, 2009 12:19 am

Random atmospheric phenomenon, proof of alien visitation or just the next wave in movie viral-marketing campaigns? The halo cloud over Moscow.

Farewell transmission from Songs: Ohia, just as a random treat.

Radius Solis · Post by **Radius Solis** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:02 am

The LHC-discovered Higgs boson reaching back through time to prevent the LHC from discovering it? Why CERN isn't dismissing it as crackpottery. Apparently the math actually does work out.

pharazon · Post by **pharazon** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:34 am

Radius Solis wrote:The LHC-discovered Higgs boson reaching back through time to prevent the LHC from discovering it? Why CERN isn't dismissing it as crackpottery. Apparently the math actually does work out.

The math works out for a lot of things (or so I gather from string theory!). There's a longer article here, by a physicist even.

Viktor77 · Post by **Viktor77** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:48 am

Hottest Heads of State courteosy of JMCD.

Radius Solis · Post by **Radius Solis** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:07 am

Oh, also, for all those who had Spirograph sets as a kid... I ran across an online generator.

Delthayre · Post by **Delthayre** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:51 pm

I found it through slightly controversial special election in northern New York State, but the fascinating graph of party ideologies in the state legislatures shown below is derived from this paper by Boris Shor, Christopher Berry and Nolan McCarty of the University of Chicago.

I think, essentially, that the two vertical lines represent a sort of average ideological point for members of the federal congress and that the bars represent an ideological range, with the black line within each bar being an ideological average.

The most striking things are that California has the most progressive Democrats and the most conservative Republicans whereas Democrats in Mississippi are to the right of Republicans in Illinois, Oregon, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Hawai'i, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Some other southern states have similar patterns. My native Commonwealth of Pennsylvania seems to have relatively convergent parties with slightly less progressive than average Democrats and slightly less conservative than average Republicans.

Unrelated to all of that, I really highly recommend watching the premiere episode of the fourth season of The Venture Bros., which may be watched online until November 2nd, although I suspect that furriners might be denied access.

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:58 pm

Sorry, but I don't understand those kinds of graphs at all.

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:16 pm

It makes you see why California is ungovernable.

Neek · Post by **Neek** » Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:50 pm

Republicans for Rape.

I'm surprised I'm the first to mention it, mainly because I'm the last to know anything and everything (which someone had to tell me about. Yeesh, guys.)

Io · Post by Io » Sun Oct 25, 2009 7:55 am

http://bigstupididiot.com/2009/09/24/20 ... re-a-girl/

Nortaneous · Post by **Nortaneous** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:03 pm

Trolling as art

TzirTzi · Post by **TzirTzi** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:26 pm

Summary video of Nick Griffin's QT interview.

Neek · Post by **Neek** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:55 pm

Nortaneous wrote:Trolling as art

Sadly, this is mostly a farce; there is no Richard Whitehurst, and a quick googling of him will reveal that. The only thing that does show up is the copypasta sites all reporting the same thing, but no history of this guy. Trying to find his credentials or his previous work reveals dead leads. It goes to show you how easy it is to make stuff up and have people believe it on the internet.

Information is powerful, falsifying information is empowering but shallow.

Nortaneous · Post by **Nortaneous** » Mon Oct 26, 2009 1:15 am

Left-wing WTFery

Neek wrote:Sadly, this is mostly a farce; there is no Richard Whitehurst, and a quick googling of him will reveal that. The only thing that does show up is the copypasta sites all reporting the same thing, but no history of this guy. Trying to find his credentials or his previous work reveals dead leads. It goes to show you how easy it is to make stuff up and have people believe it on the internet.

Information is powerful, falsifying information is empowering but shallow.

Interesting way of looking at it. I just figured that the article itself was art, since it basically accomplished what it said that the nonexistent art that it described was trying to do.

rickardspaghetti · Post by **rickardspaghetti** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 11:58 am

The best test answer of all time.

Yiuel Raumbesrairc · Post by **Yiuel Raumbesrairc** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:42 pm

rickardspaghetti wrote:The best test answer of all time.

A+!

Delthayre · Post by **Delthayre** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:58 pm

I have found a comic that is so hilariously bad and distressing that I feel obliged to share it.

Behold:

If it weren't meant seriously and sincerely, it would be a most fine satire.

Why can't we have a better opposition?

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

Their rap is infectious

Re: Their rap is infectious

It's no wonder that Lincoln Chaffee was from RI&PP

Politics must be better everywhere else