Archive for March, 2008
Brian Eno answers the question “What have you changed your mind about?” at The World Question Center.
I like the idea of Another Green World Question Center.
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Tags: ambient, Brian Eno, music, politics, prog rock
Gentleman Lobster
For reasons that are not entirely clear, even to myself, I just googled “gentleman lobster” on google image search. Once again the Internet provides…
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Tags: animals, crustaceans, lobster
The New York Times has a selection of Al Jaffee’s fold-ins from MAD magazine right from the early days. You can click and drag with the mouse to fold them yourself.
I liked Don Martin’s cartoons the best. He had the best line in crazy words. From an obituary…
The cartoons had a vocabulary all their [...]
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Tags: art, cartoons, comics, pop culture, retro
Big-assed moth holocaust
Back when I was still in shortpants our house had a big pepper tree in the back yard. It was my favourite climbing tree, but you had to watch out for gum emperor moth caterpillars which grow up to the size of a really small baguette. They are big juicy wankers that look like this.
The [...]
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Tags: animals, entomology, insects, moth
Soft pixels
Via Yanko Design, a pixel sofa…
UPDATE: also check out these tetris shelves.
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Tags: design, furniture
Possessed
If you don’t hoard things yourself, you most likely know somebody that does. This is sensitive documentary about people who are at the extreme end of the spectrum.
‘POSSESSED’ enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions. The film questions whether hoarding is a symptom of mental [...]
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Tags: collecting, documentary, hoarding
Hocus Pocus
Could any fundamentalist christians out there please translate the speaking it tongues bit?
Focus were a Dutch band though, so I supposed he might be singing in double Dutch. Holland is the only place I’ve been where orange jeans seem to be very popular.
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Tags: 1970s, focus, music, prog rock, retro
Making shit up
You used to hear people say “fact is stranger than fiction”, but in our potty mouthed era you’re more likely to hear “man, you couldn’t make that shit up”. That’s why I like documentaries, because, well, there is so much shit out there that you couldn’t make up.
Here is the Documentary Blog.
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Exploding Head Syndrome
I’ve got exploding head syndrome. Do you? From Wikipedia…
Exploding head syndrome is a condition first reported by a British physician in 1988[1] that causes the sufferer to occasionally experience a tremendously loud noise as if from within his or her own head, usually described as an explosion, roar or a ringing noise. This usually occurs [...]
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Tags: brains, exploding head, medical, neurology, psychology, sleep
Delightful Disnoids
For the second time today I find myself poised above the typewriter bit of my electrical computer, about to relate a pop cultural memory. A memory from a long long time ago in a galaxy far, far (but not far enough) away. A memory from a movie that overused anthropomorphically sentimentalized robots to the point [...]
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Tags: android, black hole, disney, droid, movie, retro, robot, science fiction, scifi
