Kitten Cam

Miraranda and her kitten's are on the Kitten Cam. You can watch live or rewind.

What Tattoo Locations Mean

Ronin_S posted this in a Fark thread about tattoos. I like how head and hands tattoos are described.

I have added examples of tattoos from Ugliest Tattoos as examples after the jump.

In 1953 World Wide Computing = 1 Commodore 64

Have just started reading Turing's Cathedral, by George Dyson. Tells about the development and growth of digital computing in the 1940s and 1950s. According to the book, in March 1953 OTL there were 53 kilobytes of high-speed random-access memory on the planet Earth. If you consider that the UTers brought a quantum leap more RAM alone with them in just one of their various devices, imagine the boost to digital computing ITTL. This timeline's 2011 should have computing capabilities we won't have for many years.

Otis R. Needleman in the AH.com thread

 United American Flight 817 2.0.

Obama = White Guy in Blackface

Obama...basically a smart, middle class white guy with dark skin and an unusual life story who reinvented himself as a black guy for reasons of political opportunism and self-fulfillment. 

anonymous 

R2D2 Channeling Bender

Let us not forget the KIll all humans trope.

Found at Cracked.

Neopagans and Ancient Pagans

I came across an essay by a Germanic neopagan, Asatruar and Tattoos. Personally I don't get tattoos. However the article had some good points some explored the blog. There was a link to a group called Occupy Heathens. There a Mikkel was complaining that heathens need to stay away from the Occupy Movement.

Not trying to start a war here but the OWS movement has been making itself look very unsavory as of late, I really think us Heathens and Pagans should separate ourselves from their failing movement. They do not represent what we stand for. Their camps have proven to be filthy, disease infested, crime ridden, and wasteful. They are not self-sufficient individuals as Asatruar and other heathens are supposed to be, they want hand-outs.

In Tacitus's Germania there are numerous passages that describe the ancient Germans in similar manner. The quotes from below are taken from the English translation at Gutenberg.

During the intervals of war, they pass their time less in hunting than in a sluggish repose, divided between sleep and the table.

Their thirst for liquor is not quenched with equal moderation. If their propensity to drunkenness be gratified to the extent of their wishes, intemperance proves as effectual in subduing them as the force of arms.

Then they proceed, armed, to business, and not less frequently to convivial parties, in which it is no disgrace to pass days and nights, without intermission, in drinking. The frequent quarrels that arise amongst them, when intoxicated, seldom terminate in abusive language, but more frequently in blood.

Ötzi The Biker

This image is from Album: A New Face for Ötzi the Iceman Mummy. It is part of an article/slide show about Ötzi the Ice Man. Found this link in a Fox News (horrors) article about Ötzi, 'Iceman' mummy holds world's oldest blood cells.

The comments for these pictures are uses a facebook app. Because of that the comments are more pop cultural than scientific.

OMG... IT'S KRIS KRISTOFFERSON!

William R Warren Jr

Looks like he was born to ride.

Dennis Ray Wingo

Just a small mild irredendist comment. Ötzi was found 92 metres inside Italy. Or to say 92 metres inside Italian occupied Austrian South Tyrol. Don't tell me that the issue is resolved.  The Gruber–De Gasperi Agreement was signed in 1946, not a time when the Austria had a lot of diplomatic leverage and was still occupied by the Soviets among  others.

Cruel and Unusual Punishment - Gitmo Under New Management

“We were, but plans changed. Its under international management now. It’s being organized by the Italians, Bangladesh is providing the funding, the Germans the guards, the Russians the political speeches, the Belgians the entertainment, the Japanese the music and the British are providing the food.”

Petraeus visibly winced at the thought. “Ma’am, that’s inhuman. Please, whoever thought that arrangement up, buy them a beer for me.”

quoted by Dumanios at Civ Fanatics

Traced back to a chapter in a story on 

Star Destroyer, Armageddon???? (Part Fifty Up), 

by Stuart.

Cover of Civilaztion IV Theme

Darth Vader Microsite

Nooooooooooooooo!

Super Cool Sci-Fi Weapons and Realty

Games Radar has story comparing the the wanked out weapons and gear in computer games, Fantastic video game weapons vs their real-life equivalents.

I was surprised that the entry on power armor didn't make reference to Project Grizzly.

from slashdot's. Real-Life Equivalents

 of Video Game Weapons.

All Hail Our Glorious Leader Stephen Harper

(from a link by Joesph K. at Ah.com)

Star Trek Recruiting Poster

Posted by Doragon in his thread/story Star Trek: A New Beginning

Have a Nice Trip

You always say I never take you anywhere.

Roger Sterling, dropping acid,

 Mad Men S05E06

Putin Demotivational Poster

From wophugus on David Wang's Image Thread.

Also check out earlier post

Super Villain Putin

 

I Love the Whole World

This TV ad for the Discovery Channel is an adaption of an old campfire song.

Here are the lyrics that someone has transcribed.

I love the mountains
I love the great clear skies
I love big bridges
I love how great whites fly
I love the whole world and all its sights and sounds
boombiada boombiada boombiada boombiada boombiada
I love the ocean
I love real dirty things
I love to go fast
I love Egyptian kings
I love the whole world and all its craziness
boombiada "" "" ""
I love tornadoes
I love arachnids
I love hot magma
I love the giant squid
I love the whole world its such a brilliant place
boombiada '''''''' (forever)

(from a link on Adfreak)

Update

The original video disappeared, the new one is twice as long. The lyrics above now only apply to the first half of the video.

"Do Not Go to Stupid Places with Stupid People to do Stupid Things at Stupid Times"

Rules For The Gunman

1. Don't carry the gun to make you a man. Carry because you are in fact a man.
2. Always carry your gun regardless of social pressures
3. If you can't physically carry a gun, always have a knife.
4. Whenever you carry a gun, also carry a knife...and some spare ammunition.
5. Carry the gun you can use best regardless of social fashion
6. Make sure you are good with that gun through continual and obsessive practice
7. Don't bluff or threaten with the gun. If you pull it, be certain you are justified and willing to use it.
8. Using it means shooting the other man or men in the chest and/or the face. Yes, it means killing.
9. If you can avoid having to shoot, it is a good thing, but do not second guess yourself once it has begun.
10. To facilitate the former, do not go to stupid places with stupid people to do stupid things at stupid times.
11. If you are involved in such activities, take a team with you....and rifles.
12. The default should be to mind your own business.
13. The only time minding your own business is superseded by getting involved is if what you see shocks the conscience of humanity and needs to be stopped.
14. The amount of violence you can justify and the number of rules you can break is directly proportionate to the level of evil displayed by your adversary.
15. Never apologize for using violence. Not only is it indicative of weakness but also of a lack of moral standing.

posted by lrsd05 at SBPDL 

originally from a bulletin board
 called Warrior Talk.

Kill Aliens - Join the Reduction Campaign

AlienSwarm is available free on Steam as is this campaign, AlienSwarm_Reduction, here is the website Prepare to Drop.

Hit by Stupid Shrapnel

Many are aware of the Darwin Awards and chuckled at such stupidity. The problem is that sometimes, many time, idiots don't cause their own destruction but kill the innocent and survive. It is like drunk driving, the stupid often harm more than just themselves.

The above shows the danger of drive by stupidity.

Don't "Root, Root, Root for the Home Team"

I hate this business of bringing England over in pieces . It's strictly for the homesick.

Lane Pryce, Mad Men S05E05 

He also talks about having no fond memories of watching football in pubs. I do during world cup, but I only follow in sport it doesn't involve professional teams.  National teams in big world wide competitions are the only time to pay attention to hockey or football. For me the service that professional leagues provide is that it keeps athletes employed between international events.

What Do We Do Now? - Seen This Movie Before

And let me remind you of Obama’s ideas of success in the presidency:

“…if Barack was going to run, he had to decide quickly, a point the group made by laying out primary schedules and game plans for fund-raising and building an organization. Insights were offered from around the room.

It was Michelle, Axelrod remembers, who stopped the show. “You need to ask yourself, Why do you want to do this?” she said directly. “What are hoping to uniquely accomplish, Barack?”

Obama sat quietly for a moment, and everyone waited. “This I know: When I raise my hand and take that oath of office, I think the world will look at us differently,” he said. “And millions of kids across this country will look at themselves differently.””

From a link in the comments at PJMedia.

Why One Must Learn to Serve Before One Can Lead

Once you've taken your share of stupid orders, you think REAL hard before giving an order that could be considered stupid.

Otis R. Needleman in the thread 

United American Flight 817 2.0 

discussing the training of junior officers, at AH.com

KodaChromes of Rosie The Riveter et al

A selection of 4X5 Kodachrome from a Russian photographer 's blog, Pavel Kosenko's blog, of Americans doing different sorts of war work.Came up in the discussion of the thread United American Flight 817 2.0 on Ah.com.

The Traditional Clue Weapons

This is what showed up in Ugly Americans S02E15 when the main character goes on a boat ride with his new zombie best friend.

Things ARE Getting Better all the Time

As an antidote to easy pessimism here is a UN report, or UNish, about inter and intra state violence, Human Security Report 2009/2010. According to the numbers things are getting better. There is still war but the numbers and severity has decreased. Of course people are still dying. But then things can always be bad as this passage from The General by SM Sterling shows.

Of course, the last battle—his first—had shown him you could get killed very dead indeed in the middle of the most smashing victory. Gharsia's lungs and spine blasted out through his back illustrated quite vividly what could happen to an experienced veteran on the winning end of a one-sided slaughter.

Link to the report from dingbat, in the the thread Star Trek, a New Beginning. at AH.com

Medical Malpractice

You must remember Sherlock I was a soldier. I killed people.

Watson

You were a doctor.

Holmes

I had bad days.

Watson

Sherlock S02E01

Don't Be Sloppy

A good interrogator doesn't allow his subject to die. He'd lose the advantage.

Gul Dukat

ST:DS9 S02E20

This might seem like mustache twirling. It seems like mustache twirling and something more humane. There was an episode of Life on Mars that focused on the  terrible hassle, legal complications and the career limiting problem of a death of a prisoner. Questions will be asked. Forms will be filled out.

WWII as a Crappy 60's Spy Flick

Danger 5 is a Australian action/adventure/comedy about WWII as reinterpreted into the 60's spy genre. It looks craptacular and worth a look.

Second Careers in Tokyo or Life After Crime

He explained that Tokyo job prospects are poor for an uneducated middle-aged man with nine fingers and tattoos that show beneath a dress shirt.

Former Yakuzi Mochizuki explains

  why he is a chauffeur/bodyguard

  for crime reporter Jake Adelstein.

 In New Yorker article, All Due Respect,

January 8, 2012.

Else where in the article there is mentioned of the book Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan, a book I heartily recommend. It is rollicking story about mid 20th century Japanese crime centered around New York wise guy Nick Zappetti.

In the Desert of Mistrust

In this land nobody ever keeps their promises.

Salam al Atrash

Bedouin Elder

When asked by Jeremy Paxman, on BBC Empire, about trustworthiness of Lawrence of Arabia. I have watched the first episode/segment but the presentation is so guilt ridden. As normal for such histories British imperialism is condemned as inhuman compared to such fun fests as Arab imperialism, Turkish imperialism, Mogul imperialism.

Lysol Endorsement From a Crime Scene

 I just finished cleaning up. I had to scrub the wall with Lysol, you know to get the stain off of it. Lysol's the best cleaning product you can buy.

Self Bereaved Widow

 Ava Crowder

 on cleaning up after her husband

 one last time.

Justified S01E01

.

Harry Crane (Head of Media) and his Pay at SCDP in 1966

Roger Sterling pays Harry Crane $1100 to give up his windowed office in Mad Men S05E01. This supposedly equals his net monthly take home pay. Looking at historical tax rates at the (US) Tax Foundation on can calculate that Crane is making about $20K in the middle of 1966. According to Measuring Worth that has a economic value of somewhere between $200K and $350K.

The Tax foundation also has inflation adjusted numbers. Measuring Worth however has measures more than just straight inflation rates but also the relative economic value, or clout, of money in the past.

There is another thing about this scene. Roger Sterling is walking around with the equivalent of $10 grand in his pocket. For the same relative value the US should have a $1000 bill. The Euro comes in 500 Euro bills. To fight the drug war the US made handling of large sums of money difficult and expensive in time and regulation. The other reason why the Roger Sterling's of today don't walk around with wads of wads of cash large enough to wear out their pockets is because of credit cards. Today Roger Sterling would have a black AMEX and only just enough currency to tip well.

The Near Death of a Salesman

Stable, is that step backwards between successful and failing.

Pete Campbell,
 Philosopher/Pessimist/Account Executive

Mad Men S05 E01

From Room Temperture to Freezing in 12 Hours

Today's weather in Toronto showed a drop from room temperature to near freezing in the short time between late afternoon to early morning. Above is a screen scrape of the weather office's page for YYZ at about 5:38 this morning.

Looking Back on Bohemian New York

It [early '70's New York] must have seemed that absolutely anything was possible.

Donald Macleod

Well, that's true. Most everything was possible, except making a living. And we couldn't figure out how to do that.

Phillip Glass

Interview On BBC Radio  3 

Composer of the Week

20 Mar 2012

 

TAC's Road Safety Campaign

I had a little insomnia last night and ended up watching road safety videos from TAC. The Transport Accident Commission, Youtube channel, "is the statutory insurer of third-party personal liability" for vehicle accidents in the Australian state of Victoria. As such they have a vested interest in car safety. The above is a compilation of TAC's greatest hits so to speak.One of the best things about these PSA's instead the ones produced by MADD. is that there are concerned with the entire range of possible traffic accidents and not just ones concerning alcohol. There are ads on the importance wearing full leathers while on a motorcycle. There even was an ad where a minivan driving mother, with her own children, runs down a toddler despite being not drunk, not on drugs, not on the cell phone, wearing a seat belt, not distracted, just slightly faster.

MADD on the other hand has produced PSA's involving with no driving, no vehicles, no witchcraft, no watercraft except the danger of camping and beer. I agree that drinking and watercraft don't go together, but for MADD all booze is demon rum. MADD focuses on the morality of drinking, TAC focuses on road safety.

It is interesting that sometimes PSA's crafted for small parochial organizations can produce work that has a global impact. I was thinking of The Montana Meth Project, see Spooky Anti-Drug Ads; and the amazing and disturbing work that they do. The advantage that these groups have over highly funded national and international campaigns is focus and resolve.

Here is what I think is their most moving ad, "Haunted, which seems to make guilt a visible yet fleeting presence.

Panzer in Colorado

(posted on AH.com

Things that look like alternate history,
but aren't)

Dog eat Wolf in the Business World

Great Wolf Resorts is being taken over by some outfit (shell company?) called K-9 Holdings. Link to SEC filling.

Preview for CounterStrike:Global Objective

Found on a German CounterStrike site. It is good to take a look the game many of us will be inhabiting shortly.

Polar Bear Animation

The artist Greg Martin has created an animation of a polar bear walking across a polar landscape. White bears in a white landscape means line animation. The image above is taken from wiki.

Fifty Hours of Rain

Enjoy for fifty hours.

Prairie Dog Behavior On Mad Men

(Dilbert 7/24/1992)

(Mad Men S04E04)

Thinking About Chairs

Chairs. Young designers design chairs earlier in their careers. It not their fault it is how they were trained. I am so convinced by this tutorial that I will not design a chair this year.

NO-CHAIR-DESIGN Year 2012! from Eero Y on Vimeo.

Is this Email Necessary? - Flowchart

During WWII railroads were militarized. At the same they were allowed to continued operating under existing management. The nationalization the British railway companies happened after not during WWII. Rail companies were placed in a ticklish spot, they were still private corporations, they didn't want to complete annoy the traveling public who were past and future customers. So advertising was done by both government and railways to discourage consumer traffic.

Here is a flowchart that discourages email. It is not that email is such a bad thing but because it so useful. But too much email is sometimes worse that no email at all.

 (Alex 9/29/2000)

Flow chart after the jump.

Star Wars Yoga

Not everybody wonder what types of yoga poses various Star Wars characters. practice. Rob Osborne has wondered that.Found at The Laughing Squid. Found after looking at alternate route designs for the Bay Area's BART.

Front Organization Leader for a Terrorist Group Says Sorry but Cause was Righteous

Sinn Fein chairman: IRA should say sorry for hurt caused

Belfast Telegraph Saturday, 3 March 2012

Shameless 

Chicom Hothead Defines the Rule of Law

Peking University professor Kong Qingdong is being interviewed after a video of a mainland Chinese woman eating  in Hong Kong subway went viral. Apparently it is against the rules to eat in the Hong Kong subway and many in subway car were appalled by her bold faced misbehavior and this led to flame war between Hong Kong and the chicom netizens.  

The good professor rants on about all the things about Hong Kong that he hates. But then he shows an interesting insight in the thought process communists. Western businessmen should remember that China is not Hong Kong writ large. Communist China lacks the rule of law. For Kong Qingdong this is okay because the rule of law is only for degenerates. 

At the  5:55 mark

• Interviewer: But I heard that the environment of hpng kong is cleaner than us [Beijing].
• Kong Qingdong: That is because the rule of law, not because of (human) quality.Just like Singapore the fine for smoking is 5000. That is rule of law, right. The reliance on rule law shows the people have no quality.

(taken directly from the English subtitles) 

(from a link at China Droll)

Pop Culture Knowledge or My Lack Thereof

For me it is the other way around. I have no idea about the American pop culture "characters" mentioned with out googling I have to have to assume they are made up names.

These are my guess for the meanings of the names/nonsense terms mentioned in panels 3-6.

• Tiger Woods: Protected forest game reserve with large cats, usually tigers. As opposed to Lion Veldts, protected grassland game reserve with large cats, usually lions.
• Snooki: Common name for a toy poodle.
• LeBron: Brand of baby shoe. Name derived from the concept of bronzing shoes, the "ze" was dropped and the "le" added for some sort of pseudo foreignness, see Häagen-Dazs. 
• Lady Gaga: Childhood nickname of some aristocrat.

The cartoon is by Jen Sorensen, her weekly comic is Slow Poke.

Flying Robot Musicians

Three years ago I came across a video of Mario's Theme done with beer bottles and a R/C car. The music was "programed" by varying the spacing and liquid level of the bottles. In the above case it was created by programing robot quadrotors to interact with modified musical instruments. Bond's and Mario themes have seeped into pop culture's unconscious so need no introduction.

Why Some People Don't Like FPS's

"Build Your Skills to Fit Your Preferred Form of Violence"

Ad copy for the game
PAYDAY™ The Heist, on Steam.

This may some people ask, "won't somebody think of the children". This phrase is a "thought-terminating cliché", a term coined by Robert Lifton in his Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism. A book I am going to look up after discovering it wiki link.

Beautiful Mathematics

At Random Website  I came across a site called uncontrol. Uncontrol is dedicated to mathematical image creation. That is images that are created by formulas. The above is part of an experiment in making a "wormy shape".

Broadcast Engineers Get Higher (video is available again)

One time in my youth my friends and I climbed a tower, that is to say they climbed a ladder contained within the tower and I didn't. I am not ashamed to write that this video made me scared, and physically sick. At the thread at AH.com where I got this video, This guy gets so high it has me scared, the link to the video merely said, "This link may not be suitable for all viewers". I was expecting something about Charlie Sheen, like the very funny Charlie Sheen Quotes As New Yorker Cartoons.

Looking at this I know how right I was to have some fear of heights. Acrophobia is not an irrational fear when you see the climbing conditions that these engineers have to deal with. A couple of years I blogged about a guy walking the Caminito del Rey, Extreme Hiking. That was pretty scary but this is worse. The other video was about an amazing trail this many people walk once as an adventure from their regular lives. This video is about guy doing something as part of his "regular life".

Video from Russel Brown of/at TheOnLineEngineer.Org.

Update 2012/2/11
Unfortunately the video is offline.
The image above is a frame grab from the video
showing the curve of the earth.

Update 

I have rediscovered this video, only the video,
 somebody took it and added "Spirit in the Sky".

Pejorative Terms for Geologists

Gravel Monkeys
and
Geo loving Feldspar Jockeys

Dr Sheldon Cooper,
The Big Bang Theory S05E17

Alternative Washingtons

In the movie Fatherland 1960's Berlin was furnished with buildings designed, but not built, by Speer. Not to compare the two capitals but here is alternative but here is a short video of alternate designs for Washington.

(link from oshronin in AH.com in 

Things that look like alternate history, but aren't)

Learn English or be Exiled to Hell

(from Engrish Funny @
the Cheezeburger network)

Rick Santorum Promotes Heavy Metal to Today's Teens

News reports, actually one blogger,  have him denouncing heavy metal as "satanic".  He goes on to condemn "new' bands such as Black Sabbath (founded 1969). This is probably satire, highly plausible satire. However Santorum (NSFW) is known for taking extreme positions. 

This is the best thing that has happened to Heavy Metal for a long time.

Modern Day Russians Build German Panzer

When WWII war movies were made in the immediate decades afterwards there was enough existing materiel to provide for many movies. Catch-22, filmed in the late '60s, found enough working, flyable B-25, to fill a squadron. This was beyond military surplus that dressed their set. Other movies were made with authentic equipment to save money not stress realism. Now such film must be shot as period pieces with nearly everything reproduced at enormous cost and bother. 

A Russian film about the Great Patriotic War/Eastern Front is being made, here is their webpage in Russian. They can find enough T34s to use, 90K were built. But only a little more than 1300 Tigers were built. They had to build their own Tiger I. They built a panzer.

Dancing as Athletics

Here is a spare little ad highlighting the principal dancer at the National Ballet of Canada. This ballet company like many other national institutions in Canada is from Toronto. The late animation touches and the subject matter brings to mind Norman McLaren's Pas de Deux.

(from Ads of the World)

Silent Movie Star Wars

Grant Snider - Cartoonist of Whimsy

I came across this cartoonist on Lovely Listing.

From The Highlands of Qo'noS

It's Sean Khaaaaaanery.

Emperor Norton I of AH.com
not Gold Rush San Fransisco
at Things that look like alternate history, but aren't

Steve Jobs in Hell

Friends and Allies

Are we to be friends then?

Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham

We are allies, my dear. Which can be a good deal more effective.

Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham

The Darkest Ted Rall Ever Gets

That was depressing.

One Line Description of Jobs the Monster

...Jobs could be charming to people he hated as easily as could be insulting to people he liked.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Bad Pun from Romney

“I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce,” he said. “And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce in hubcaps. Because there’s no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.”

from Dana Milbank article in
The Washington Post,
A day of awkwardness with Mitt Romney.

God Bless the Internet

It giveth and taketh away.

Ray Sullivan, West Wing S07E010

Subtle dig at Woody Allen

Are you a big Rob Zombie fan?

Matt Santos

I prefer his earlier, funnier, movies.

Josh Lyman

The West Wing S07E05

Dog's Eye View of Dogs at a Dog Park , Not shot at Isle of Dogs

Video was shot by a Kelsey Wynn. At his site he states the slow motion effect was done by, "[shooting] at 60fps and [slowing] down to 23.976". Original link from The Washington Post.

"What Is the Internet, Anyway?"

This was linked from the comment thread on Boingboing about some painfully out of touch comments from some flack from Hollywood, MPAA's number two admits industry "not comfortable" with the Internet. This mashup was produced by a a site called Urlesque. in the cooments at Urlesque blackbelt_jones mentions:

The thing that struck me as hilarious was "the internet yellow pages" Right in
the beginning, I paid about 20 dollars for that book. It seems like a joke now:
a search engine in book form!

Christmas Blues from Piano Playing Cat

Vince Masuka, Romantic

In matters of the heart, always follow your dick.

Vince Masuka, Dexter S06E09

Super Villain Putin

Here is a man who deserves his own Theme Music. He is listed on TV Tropes as a real life Memetic Badass, where there is also a discussion that he is James Bond. This image was posted on AH.com by Alternatehistorybuff5341, with this comment, "I swear no matter how I look at it, Vladimer Putin looks like a criminal mastermind or a 007 Villain." others also commented.

He isn't one?

Iserlohn

If you ask me, he looks more like a modern-day Russian Emperor.

SavoryTruffle

...you're implying he isn't?

Nietzsche

Building churches to spread his word. He is starting a whole new branch of Christianity.

Opunium

Well, he is the reincarnation of St. Paul.

Polish Eagle

Well, he already IS a saint.

Marc Pasquin

I know who that is, it's the infamous Dr. Nyet!

Letterman

Fake Ad for Somali Pirate Safari/Cruise

After a couple of links and a couple of links more I ended up on a blog page, Somali Coast Cruise Package, that purported to be about a tropical cruise. It turns to be a vessel set up to lure and ambush Somali pirates. I have no problem with that, pirates need to be killed.

New Car Kills Driver of Old Car

This is the first time have seen a car crash test with a antique car. When tests are done are done with production models or prototypes nothing much is lost. But this test has flushed a little piece of the past down the memory hole.

The Counter Strike Player

Gamer Tonight uses the Talk Show conventions to examine different games and gamers who play them. Check out the interview with the Counter Strike player. This player is solely dedicated to the game to point of being only vaguely aware of any other game, "source?". Check out some of the other bits to see how your psychosis is depicted.

A Short Film on Urinal Etiquette

My bad public bathroom habit is to sing a version of this song as:

A place to stand
And a place go
A place we call
AAAA Urinial

According to this instructional film, Male Restroom Etiquette, this violation of social norms could lead to the destruction of civilization. I know better now

The Social Media Decison Tree

(the Smoke-Filled World)

Why I Hate Facebook

I am not on Facebook. I will never be on Facebook.

Cat Videos and the Studio the Produces them

A Groovy Warning of Nuclear War

Link from Orville Third on AH.com's Things that look like alternate history, but aren't.

Johnny Drama's Philosophy of Life

You see, life is a big jerk. It punches you in the face over and over again. You have fight back or it will knock you out.

Johnny Drama, How to be a Gentleman S01E01

For those unfamiliar with the character of Johnny Drama here is collection of Johnny Drama's best moments from some suspiciously no-name news site (World News).

Not All Canadians are Canadiens Fans

I went to Firefox today to needless mess around with my extensions. Then I found the above suggestion. I stopped looking for amusing time wasters like Play Your Piano and went looking for useful extensions like Aviary which is how I screen captured the above image.

I was appalled (mildly) that Firefox assumed that I would support a Montreal team. Looking a little more deeply through the choices only a 7 NHL teams are listed as having "official" themes, including the zombie franchise Phoenix.

Still I'm not a fan of the Habs despite how many of their "ethnically cleansed" fans I meet in Toronto.

How to Win Reunions

1. You've had a personal tragedy.
2. Unlike everybody else you look better than you did 20 years ago.
3. And you have a cool job.
4. Put all those things together and it makes you...
   

Ghost dad Harry Morgan

Popular

Dexter, Dexter S06E01

Education (institutions) and its Discontents

High school, a small world unto itself combining all the warmest elements of a federal work camp with those of a third world poultry farm.

Dexter, Dexter S06E01

Why No Halloween Leads to Very Bad Things

Children must know fear. Without it they won't know how to behave, they'll try frenching grizzle bears, or consider living in Florida.

Sue Sylvester, Glee S02E05

Definition of "Executive"

It's a meaningless title but it helps insecure people feel better about themselves.

Hermes Conrad

I feel better about myself.

Philip J Fry

Futurama S06E17

Alignment Inspection

Inspection at an assembly line in in Hell in Ugly Americans S01E11 to determine the D&D alignment of new demons.

The Black Market Burgers of Connecticut 1963

The above is a screen capture from the new TV Show Pan Am, S01E02. For 1963 the price for a onion-less, chili-less, cheese-less burger costs somewhere between $10 to $40 in today's currency, according to Measuring Worth. It seems a little high.

Drinking, Smoking, Pregnacy

Boardwalk Empire S02E03

Business Opportunity 1920

We're thinking of getting into heroin.

Lucky Luciano

When you run the numbers it starts looking very attractive.

Meyer Lansky

The point of historical fiction is too insinuate a fictional character in to real events. Or in this case fictionalized conservation about getting into the drug business by two people who were involved in narcotics after the end of prohibition.

Dexter Inspired Music Video

Here is a music video inspired by the TV series Dexter. What I find interesting is that it depicts all of Dexter's "ritual". In this context "ritual" is a criminology term to describe way a common pattern that a murderer may show, (here for more details on ritual murder). I was looking for the teaser for the upcoming season and happened upon this and a lot less well crafted pieces of fan art. I like Dexter but some of the other fans have produced "art" that only functions as mental health diagnoses.

Bad taste can be a serious matter.

How the Military Values of Stuff Compared to People

Beans on toast for the human using thousands of dollars of tech in a squat.

Torchwood S04E01

A Short Formula of India

India = Silicon Valley + Africa

Anonymous

I don't remember where I got this.

Triumph of the Darth Vader's Will