LOLcano!

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/03/fun-with-a-banks-sec.html

http://www.theonion.com/articles/supreme-court-upholds-freedom-of-speech-in-obsceni,17372/

weeee!

Airspace Rebooted from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

would you trust google to tell you which sites are safe?

result of :

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=google.com/

What is the current listing status for google.com?

This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 181401 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 17 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-04-19, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-04-18.

Malicious software includes 141 scripting exploit(s), 10 trojan(s), 7 exploit(s).

Malicious software is hosted on 28 domain(s), including monidopo.bee.pl/, shifmant.co.il/, recover888.com/.

20 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including googleusercontent.com/, mots.go.th/, aliraqnews.net/.

This site was hosted on 5 network(s) including AS15169 (Google Internet Backbone), AS20940 (AKAMAI), AS13867 (CNET).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, google.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 17 site(s) including zerogradinord.net/, aekcka.googlepages.com/, themeadowblog.com/.

Has this site hosted malware?

Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 42 domain(s), including sangalonews.com/, ro777.com/, aviris.com.ua/.

hardehardehar.

AZO

this guy is now my absolute hero:



also in the news:

extremely long exposition of why star wars 2 sucks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBhi6qqFLA&feature=channel

mobius bagel slicing:
http://www.georgehart.com/bagel/bagel.html

want!

"This type of vehicle called in Russian ekranoplan uses so called ground effect - extra lift of large wings when in proximity to the surface. For this reason they have been designed to travel at a maximum of three meters above the sea [...] It is also interesting to note that this aircraft is one of the largest ever built, with a length of 73,8 meters (comparing with 73 of Airbus A380)."

more info here. don't miss page 3 of pictures....

http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/

thanks Felix!

2 comics

1: I am skeleton jelly (thanks George): http://i.imgur.com/3oboX.jpg
2: Latest XKCD references cereal + booze, so this one's for Dan:



PS: pirate party manifesto

the answer...

fucked up south african rap-rave?



check!

(full version ft. 'entertaining' lyrics and a bit more of a stomp-out ending: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0sVdEMg90A )



new predator film directed by robert rodriguez and starring laurence fishburne?



check!

all is well with the world...

videos

i was going to post something about the new lady gaga video, but i figured that'd find its way to yall on its own.

instead, watch this:

Denmark introduces harrowing new tourism ads directed by Lars Von Trier

feel free to dally on the site for the baby skulls bit...

also:

http://twitter.com/michaeljordan

thanks George.

google date

and, i really shouldn't have lauged quite so hard at this i think:




and finally, a little political poster:



Vote Pirate, people. It's the only party with any remotely interesting proposals.

(last couple of links from the excellent Halt! Suppenzeit)

Max update:

dancing predators: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljEC7HKbP0g

autotune the news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bduQaCRkgg4

the plymouth orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKH3iemEd-A (warning: capable of reducing adults to tears)

words & beards

I gather “Epic Beard Man” is a meme.  Here’s the Mortal Kombat version (thanks Dave):

And here are some entertaining word definitions – probably been doing the rounds of email forwards since 1994, but they still made me laugh (thanks Deak).  Illegibly, they’re from some Washington Post competition.  Kinda Profanosaurus for your mum:

1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3. Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n), olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), (back by popular demand): The belief that,when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

At first glance this looks like a normal party cup

However, if you look close enough you will see that its really a Glock.

http://www.dontevenreply.com/view.php?post=84

romantic cryptography

http://www.anagram.com/~jcrap/Volume_7/Romance.pdf

Abstract. We show how Alice and Bob can establish whether they love each other, but without the embarrassement of revealing that they do if the other party does not share their feelings.
This is a “secure multiparty computation” of the AND function, where the participants cooperate in producing the result of the AND, but without learning the input bit contributed by the other party unless the result implies it.

Nice illustration involving scales too.

Also:

Hexapods!

 

Recursive webcast!

and finally, those lyrics to “battery” in full:

including “coming through the fraction, show me to the fashion, coma kill the battery”

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Or something like that.

Also I can't help but think Star Wars would have been better without the dubbing. Possibly.

Working from home? Feel like you're missing out on that vital office culture? Maybe you should join the Pretend office. The inter-office mailing list is a valuable resource. (It's quite realistic...)

Bay 12 please…

Ripley goes mental, and who can blame her /

she shoots everything inside, destroying the egg chamber /

after wasting all the ammo, which would be handy later /

she escapes with newt, to the nearest elevator /

thanks F. also:

from failblog

my shopping freedoms curtailed: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/28/tesco-store-bans-gro.html

finally, bored builders develop spider-skills on the tape measure:

Up the RSC corner…

from http://www.warrenellis.com/… where there is also some talk of this eagerly awaited film.

charlie brooker on a t-mobile ad i haven’t seen.

zombie gingerbread house:

http://www.geekdo.com/thread/474706/last-night-on-earth-gingerbread-house

event horizon song:

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/01/event-horizon-as-an-80s-theme-song

thanks felix for those two. finally, this made me cry with laughter:

http://failblog.org/2010/01/20/mobility-fail/

Overthinking and undercutting

Like giving yourself a haircut, only more so

Nakatomi space

That is all

why can these foolish entities not appreciate the joy of melding?

massive thanks to Felix for some awesome links over crimbo.

Let us begin.

 

“The Things” – an arctic story told from a different perspective. Absolutely freakin awesome. 1MP.

http://niccageaseveryone.blogspot.com/ Need i say more?

and finally:

• aliens timeline
• xenopedia

Bumper update!

well, in the wake of Ben’s awesome find of competely disturbed meta-manga, i have to make up in quantity when i cannot compete in quality.  without further ado, I present:

Super Mario Metal! complete with gay ending!

next:  The Tetris God

Obama pills!

http://www.fhm.com/news/funny-stuff/ecstacy-pills-that-look-like-barack-obama-20091208

Sonic vs Pac-man

did you know that pac-man is so called because japanase people, when they eat, don’t go “yum yum” or “miam miam” or anything like that – no, they go “paku-paku”. FACT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grog#In_popular_culture

credit: many of these video game-themed links i came across via the excellent soup.io stream called “we love video games"

man weds anime game character!  (guess where?)

Read up on what the correct technique for peeling a banana is.  if you need practice, but want to avoid the calories, why not use a banana peeling simulator?  more info here, make sure you read the description!.

some fail:

from http://failblog.org/2009/12/16/jump-fail-5/ thanks george

hilarious prank on twitter - you’ll have to scroll down to the first few updates to figure out what’s going on…

and finally, a quote from a friend of mine, who would probably wish to remain anonymous, but that was of such high quality that it should be shared with the rest of the internets:

"I was trying to see which setting to put my fan on without my lenses and it fell on my face , but i was drunk naked and simultaneously eating cheese and crackers so i passed out - woke up to a bruised nose, how many times???"

aaaaah.

Meta-Manga

First, Abstraction. That's pretty weird. Then, by the same artist (Shintaro Kago):

Punctures
Multiplication
Blow-Up
The Memories of Others.

A pome

a poem by my mum:

As I was sitting there, not thinking very much,

Quite quiet, eyes bemused by the flick’ring picture’s touch,

A spider descended slowly, slowly from its hidden seat

And landed, oh so delicately, between my slippered feet.

                                         --

It was not a very big spider, barely visible at all.

In fact, by domestic standards, it really was quite small

And my poor eyes could barely see the thread

That attached it to the beam above my head.

                                         --

Securely anchored, self absorbed, serenely unaware

That I could be death’s instrument, just for a petty dare,

Randomly exploring the carpet, this arthropod so neat

Turns eight legs, this way and that, between my slippered feet.

                                         --

I looked at the spider and I suppose it  looked at me

But exactly where its eyes were, I really could not see.

Then it went back up, drawing in its slender thread ,

Slowly, slowly, no explanation, to its beam above my head.

                                         --

 

Now my mum’s poems are usually a bit deeper, but this one was so much fun I thought I’d share it with the internets. not bad for someone with english as a second language eh?

meanwhile, here’s a round of the stuff that made me giggle on the onion video:

• is the government doing enough to secretly spy on paranoid schizophrenics?
• supreme court rules death penalty ‘totally badass’
• army holds annual ‘bring your daughter to war’ day