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

- · Post by - » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:25 am

Drydic Guy wrote:I really don't get why people are freaking out over this.

A government just sort of loses track of a few nuclear f*cking warheads and you don't get why people are freaking out. Uh-huh.

Better news from Japan: powered robot suits, baby!

Terra · Post by **Terra** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:23 pm

A government just sort of loses track of a few nuclear f*cking warheads and you don't get why people are freaking out. Uh-huh.

Thank you Ils. That's my point exactly.

bi · Post by bi » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:40 pm

Would you eat wormy sweet corn? When it comes to biotech, if you can't convince them, then SLAPP them.

- · Post by - » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:06 pm

Like Rabbits for Hunting Season, only dumber: Israeli Russian Jewish Neo-Nazis. (Actually they're all apparently a couple of generations removed from Judaism, which I'd suppose illustrates certain problems with the Law of Return.)

The phrase shitty conceptual art takes on literal life.

The incredibly slick NameVoyager tracks the popularity of various baby names through over a century of American history.

bi · Post by bi » Wed Sep 12, 2007 7:18 am

Speaking of conceptual art (again): Damien Hirst, whose work was satirized by A Dead Shark Isn't Art, is selling his diamond-studded skull for $100 million ...to himself.

- · Post by - » Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:36 am

The 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time. Included are some famous examples like the Stanford prison experiments and the Milgrim obedience experiment (and lesser-known predecessors and followups), but the stuff from the annals of Soviet medicine takes the cake for sheer creepiness.

Royal de Luxe's amazingly cool giant marionette show, The Sultan's Elephant. (More here.)

Shm Jay · Post by **Shm Jay** » Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:11 pm

ils wrote:The phrase shitty conceptual art takes on literal life.

Can they produce an artificial fart, too?

- · Post by - » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:04 am

Shm Jay wrote:
ils wrote:The phrase shitty conceptual art takes on literal life.
Can they produce an artificial fart, too?

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the next phase of the project!

Remember Zork? MC Frontalot does.

frumpwallow · Post by **frumpwallow** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:55 pm

The Best Society

i really dont know anything about this page beyond the intro splash, but it definitely intrigues me. cthulhu cult? cephalopodophiles?

if anyone has a clue or can otherwise figure out the password, let me know.

bi · Post by bi » Sun Sep 16, 2007 4:41 am

frumpwallow:

It seems the thing simply throws up the error message no matter what you type:

Code: Select all

  Action 0x0000001A- PUSH DATA
    String: "error"
    Integer: 1 (0x00000001)
    String: "_parent"
  Action 0x00000032- GET VARIABLE
  Action 0x00000033- PUSH DATA
    String: "gotoAndPlay"
  Action 0x00000043- CALL METHOD
  Action 0x00000044- POP
  Action 0x00000045- END

¡Papapishu! · Post by **¡Papapishu!** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:44 am

ils wrote:Remember Zork? MC Frontalot does.

Did you notice how when he says "consider whose fault it could be", "whose fault" is pronounced /hu/ (pause) /sfOlt/?

frumpwallow · Post by **frumpwallow** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:13 pm

bi wrote:It seems the thing simply throws up the error message no matter what you type:

so are you saying there is no password?

it wouldnt surprise me to find that theres nothing actually interesting behind it, just a front page to make people curious, but i was hoping for better. i mean, its a registered domain name, so somebodys spending money on it, right?

bi · Post by bi » Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:08 am

frumpwallow: Well, a Google search on the site name does turn up a photo-blog...

Jashan · Post by **Jashan** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:29 am

Sir Mixalot's "Baby Got Back" done as an acoustic guitar ballad.

Surprisingly, it doesn't suck.

Also, a US senator is suing God

bi · Post by bi » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:51 am

Scroogled, a Google-dystopian scifi story by Cory Doctorow.

- · Post by - » Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:10 am

The Doctorow piece is pretty amusing.

Jashan wrote:Sir Mixalot's "Baby Got Back" done as an acoustic guitar ballad.

A lot of people get annoyed by the trend of white hipster guys doing ironic covers of classic rap songs. I can sort of see why, but I still generally find it funny.

Also, a US senator is suing God

Someone's in for a smiting...

Pickles were a bit of a theme around here at one point, weren't they?

Ruby · Post by **Ruby** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:14 am

Jashan wrote:Sir Mixalot's "Baby Got Back" done as an acoustic guitar ballad.

Surprisingly, it doesn't suck.

Or.

Ketumak · Post by **Ketumak** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 1:20 pm

Harry Potter fans with a taste for the bizarre should check out the Potter Puppet Pals on YouTube. There's a number of their adventures up there. This is my favourite, "The case of the mysterious ticking noise". It's great, in an insane kind of way.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

Klaivas · Post by **Klaivas** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 3:37 pm

Speaking of which, that video is fast spreading around my school at the moment

Perhaps that's how you heard it. I still don't know if I've seen your son yet though, I forgot what his name is.

LinguistCat · Post by **LinguistCat** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:26 pm

Sonib wrote:Harry Potter fans with a taste for the bizarre should check out the Potter Puppet Pals on YouTube. There's a number of their adventures up there. This is my favourite, "The case of the mysterious ticking noise". It's great, in an insane kind of way.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4

That's old news. And this is coming from someone in middle-of-a-freakin-desert-nowhere.

schwhatever · Post by **schwhatever** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:55 pm

vampyre_smiles wrote:That's old news. And this is coming from someone in middle-of-a-freakin-desert-nowhere.

The girl who animates it lives in Texas though, so it's not too far from where you live.

Hokulani · Post by **Hokulani** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:42 pm

I love the Potter Puppet Pals

Wish they did more stuff more often

Ketumak · Post by **Ketumak** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 1:02 pm

I learnt about the Potter Puppet Pals from my son, who's at Klaivas's school these days. From what he said, I thought some ZBB people would already know about them, but I also thought, there are so many Potter fans here, so it must be news to some. I like the care that's gone into it, clearer pictures than most on YouTube, at least five actor's do voices, costumes to be made, etc., etc.

Terra · Post by **Terra** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:35 pm

http://youtube.com/user/NeilCicierega

That's the author of the video. He also happens to an excellent animutation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animutation) movie maker as well. I enjoy his works ^_^.

Drydic · Post by **Drydic** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:36 pm

http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/12767
(couldn't find a text link anywhere, sorry)

Russian businessman Vitaly Kouznetzov opens casino in Suleimaniya, Iraqi Kurdistan. They have Kalashnikov-checkers at their doors. And they serve beer.