A hilarious video about how not to prevent suicide. It presents itself as a serious video, but you’ll have to decide that for yourself. It starts to get pretty damn funny once they reach the forest.
Skyscrapers That Move And Make Their Own Energy
June 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been predicting it for some time — skyscrapers will eventually become sentient and take over humans. That includes time travel to serve their deadly purpose. In my book, “Skyscrapers Will Fuck You Up,” I outlined how skyscrapers would evolve, with number fourteen being that they would be able to morph their shape to disarm us and number 8 being that they would be able to generate their own energy. If you read my book, you would know that all fourteen evolutionary steps have occurred, including number twenty six, where they store three symbolic brains in the steam room (most people don’t even know that’s happened already).
Noise Pollution
June 25, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Katharine Mieszkowski over at Salon does a nice job of reporting on noise pollution. She discusses the health effects of noise pollution and finds some interesting people along her way. Including Henry Bean, the director of Noise, a movie about noise pollution in New York, starring Tim Robbins.
Bumper Sticker President
June 17, 2008 By Leave a Comment
A bumper sticker for a better president. Instead of a person, elect a song. This is actually a sticker for the song, “If a Song Could be President” by the band Over the Rhine — Bergquist & Detweiler being the two main band members. It’s easily one of the most clever songs I’ve ever listened to.
If a song could be president
We’d hum on Election Day
The gospel choir would start to sway
And we’d all have a part to playThe first lady would free her hips
Pull a microphone to her lips
Break our hearts with Rhythm and Blues
Steve Earle would anchor the newsWe’d vote for a melody
Pass it around on an MP3
All our best foreign policy
Would be built on harmonyIf a song could be president
We’d fly a jukebox to the moon
All our founding fathers’ 45’s
Lightnin’ Hopkins and Patsy Cline
If a song could be presidentIf a song could be president
We could all add another verse
Life would teach us to rehearse
Till we found a key changeBreak out of this minor key
Half-truths and hypocrisy
We wouldn’t need an underachiever-in-chief
If a song could be presidentWe’d make Neil Young a Senator
Even though he came from Canada
Emmylou would be Ambassador
World leaders would listen to herThey would show us where our country went wrong
Strum their guitars on the White House lawn
John Prine would run the FBI
All the criminals would laugh and cry
If a song could be president
Magnolia Blooms
June 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment
An iTunes Alternative
June 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Songbird is an open source music player project — utilizing Mozilla Layout Engine (MLE) as its rendering base — that looks to unseat or at least give iTunes a run for its money. Although it doesn’t have anything close to the iTunes Music Store, it does have something that iTunes doesn’t have — a built in browser with features for easily finding and downloading music on the Web. They recently released version 0.6, which is a stable and public beta version of their player.
Fighting the Smears
June 13, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Barack Obama’s campaign team really knows how to effectively use the Internet for their bidding. Fight the Smears is an excellent example of how Obama’s campaign is controlling the message and squashing lies as soon as they occur.
Scouting For "Camel Toads" At The Pool
June 12, 2008 By 1 Comment
A nosy parent finds a message that their young son was writing to a friend.
In it he says he’s going to our local pool to “scout out some camel toads.” (I believe that’s what it said, he had spilled iced tea all over the desk when writing it…)
Of course, even Leslie isn’t as clueless as this parent. She writes:
What he undoubtedly wrote was “camel toes,” a crude euphemism for, well, too-tight pants worn by females. The good news is that the expression has absolutely nothing to do with drugs. It has everything to do with why teenage boys go to the pool in the first place.
A Vagina Bicycle Taxi
June 10, 2008 By 4 Comments
You can go in, but it’s questionable whether or not you can actually get out once you reach your destination.
Finnish artist Mimosa Pale feels the world is too man-parts-centric. We’d agree. However, we’re not sure what to think about a form of protest that includes thrice weekly cruising the streets of Helsinki. inviting its inhabitants to take a ride by slipping inside her giant disembodied vagina mounted on top of her bike taxi.
