Where all stupid comes to congeal neatly in one handy tub.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Did the universe begin as a simple 1-D Line?
Physicists propose 'framework' to work through differences between quantum mechanics and general relativity.
Did the universe begin as a simple 1-D Line? | MNN - Mother Nature Network
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Ron Swanson Turkey Burger
[Photos: Jasmin Sun / Eater ]
When asked if he had ever eaten a turkey burger on last week's episode of Parks and Recreation, our hero Ron Swanson replied: "Is that a fried turkey leg inside a grilled hamburger? If so, yes. Delicious." And because we believe everything Ron Swanson says, we decided to make one. Below, a photo essay of the epic construction of the surprisingly delicious Ron Swanson Turkey Burger — plus the recipe, in case you want to try it out for yourself.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Banned in Australia - Mortal Kombat:
Since it is banned in Australia you can use the easy-peasy method of pinpointing the violent acts on youtube without having to play the pesky game.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Band names before they were famous
40 Names Of Bands Before They Were Famous: Pics, Videos, Links, News
40. Barenaked Ladies
Original name: Free Beer
Play Diablo II In High Resolution | Hellforge | Hellforge | Forging a Passion for Video Games
Are you feeling nostalgic? Do you want to rekindle your flame for Diablo II but you're afraid of how the low resolution might look on your 24" LCD? Fear no more!
A clever programmer has come up with a mod for Diablo II to add support for a host of high resolution settings for the timeless action RPG, allowing you to play in modes other than 640x480 and 800x600.
With added support for widescreen displays in both Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7, you'll be able to take your Diablo II experience to a whole new level.
According to testers on the widescreen Gaming Forums, players intending to use this mod should take note that the program runs better on Vista and Windows 7 than it does on XP, and that you should also disregard using software rendering, as DirectX rendering works fine and looks far better despite the author of the mod's recommendations.
Grab it here!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Yay Dayne!
Dayne Rathbone – Raw winner 2011 « Comedy.com.au
Dayne Rathbone has taken out the 2011 Raw Comedy national final.
After moving from Canberra just over a year ago, Rathbone has already made a strong impression on the Melbourne comedy scene. Last December he was selected for the Melbourne Comedy Festival showcase as one in a group of comedians to watch over the coming year. He then made it through the gauntlet of Melbourne RAW comedy heats, undoubtedly the most competitive of all the states, and has now taken out the most honoured new-comer achievement in Australia – National Raw Comedy Winner.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Can you practice to be good at something? Is this where I say duh?
Can a complete novice become a golf pro with 10,000 hours of practice? - St. Petersburg Times
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Amazing Waves
A dreamlike wave found in an Indonesian river is stunning surf world
What makes this latest wave discovery so fascinating is that it was made not on a coastline or island shore, but on a remote jungle river that gets pounded by a powerful tidal bore. But unlike other tidal bores that produce relatively small, mushy waves, this remarkable phenomenon pushes swells upstream in dream-like fashion at heights of 8 to 10 feet.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Kleva Sharp - fact or fiction?
I'm almost 99% sure that this may help knives that are in an interesting limbo of sharpness but there is no way that this could sharpen to a standard that and knife enthusiast would be happy with.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Ghost Towns
Travel Destinations - American Ghost Towns at WomansDay.com
Goldfield, Arizona
In the 1890s, Goldfield was booming—and threatening to outpopulate nearby Mesa—with three saloons, a boarding house, general store, blacksmith shop, brewery, meat market and a school house. But when the town's gold ore vein dried up, the town quickly lost its luster and was abandoned by 1926. Visitors can now check out the ghost town and tour the underground mines, take a tour of the Superstition Mountains or camp on-site. Photo: LASZLO ILYES/flickr
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Amazing Waves
A dreamlike wave found in an Indonesian river is stunning surf world
What makes this latest wave discovery so fascinating is that it was made not on a coastline or island shore, but on a remote jungle river that gets pounded by a powerful tidal bore. But unlike other tidal bores that produce relatively small, mushy waves, this remarkable phenomenon pushes swells upstream in dream-like fashion at heights of 8 to 10 feet.
6 Musicians Who Accidentally Crapped Out Masterpieces
6 Musicians Who Accidentally Crapped Out Masterpieces | Cracked.com
Little Richard, alongside Elvis and Bill Haley forms the foundation of rock 'n' roll. As Little Richard says himself, "A lot of people call me the architect of rock 'n' roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true." (Also, just for the record, he does occasionally call himself that).
His breakthrough single Tutti Frutti was named by MOJO Magazine as the most influential rock 'n' roll song of all time beating out the likes of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and Elvis. In the buttoned down and repressed early 50s, Tutti Frutti's opening scream of 'A wop lop a do wop alop bam boom" must have sounded, at worst, like the opening battle cry in a cultural war between adults and teens, and at its best like a "a torrent of filth wailed by a bisexual alien."
You aren't American, Little Richard ... You are America.
Of course, as you've probably already guessed, this nearly didn't happen. By 1955, Richard had been shuffling around the music scene for half a decade without any notable success. Now on a new and bigger label, he had been hoping for greater things but so far his first recording session wasn't going well. With his new producers trying to mold him in a style somewhere between Ray Charles and Fats Domino, his songs were coming out dull and uninspired.
And "dull and uninspired" are two things Little Richard absolutely refuses to be.
During their lunch break, a frustrated and pissed off Richard wandered over to a piano and started hammering out Tutti Frutti, a song he had been performing regularly in clubs. His producer heard it and immediately realized that this was exactly the kind of thing they should be recording.
There was just one tiny hitch.
If you're not already, you might want to make sure you're sitting down for this next part.
The venues in which Little Richard had been playing and perfecting the song were gay clubs, and the original lyrics demonstrated that:
A wop bop a loo mop, a good goddamn!
Tutti frutti, loose booty
If it don't fit, don't force it
You can grease it, make it easy.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?!
Now this was 1955. Down South, they were still lynching black men for looking too hard at white women. What they would do to an at best sexually ambiguous black man singing about the joys of anal sex doesn't bear thinking about. A lyricist was quickly summoned to rework the words, and by the end of the afternoon it was done.
The song made it as high as No. 17 in the Billboard charts. An unheard of feat for a black musician back then, but this was sadly trumped by Pat Boones anemic cover which made it all the way to 12. Little Richard was convinced that white kids were buying Pat Boone so they could show the Boone record cover to their parents while they were actually listening to Richard's version. He would gleefully attempt to make all his follow up songs too high pitched and too fast for Boone to be able to cover.
Friday, April 08, 2011
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Source Code (a game design)
You know when an idea gets inside your head, and you have no choice but to put it down on the page just to free your brain up?
No?
Just me?
I was lucky enough to catch an early screening of Source Code last Wednesday, and haven’t been able to get rid of the nagging feeling that it’d make an awesome premise for a game. Well, I’ve spent some time today thinking through my ideas and getting them down. The following image is the culmination of that process. Feel free to post elsewhere if you think it’s interesting enough
