it's dark here in the future

In India we reached the year 2008 a few hours back, and I thought I'd take some time here to let those of you lagging behind in on what to expect from the future.

robot car wash revolts.

jet packs AND flying cars.

ill-tempered mutants with prehensile spit.

snortable Tang.

carbonated grapes.

orange flavored watermelons AND watermelon flavored oranges.

talking dogs with monkey brains.

sharp poisonous radioactive fire.

undersea cities.

no money.

nuclear powered segways.

and it's dark. I haven't seen the sun all year.

update: I've seen the sun now.

vintage Disneyland home movies [part 1]

I love youtube, especially for all of the user-generated and uploaded content.

Here are some clips of Disneyland when it was apretty unique place and there weren't 37 of the parks scattered across the globe.



if you look carefully you can see a guy scaling the Matterhorn.



The Osmond Bros. [whenever someone asks me for a good band name I ususally suggest "The New Osmonds", especially if it's for a metal band.]


This ABC documentary isn't a home movie, but I thought it would be interesting to put up here because it shows Disneyland being built.



This last one also isn't a home movie, but it's cool because it shows the Shaw of Iran riding the Matterhorn with Walt.

Space Mountain with the lights on

that last video got me searching for some cool Disneyland clips. I really like the surreal ride-through-scaffolding aspect of this video.

wtf?! [part 3]

wet empty tea cups ride

wtf?! [part 2]

Catholic mom upsert that her son is an atheist. She reminds me of a high school friend's dad -- but she's not as scary.

wtf?! [part 1]

The first in a series of youtube wtf clips.





these guys jump over camels, sort of mid-est evel knievels;


old guys rapping in finnish:

Turkish Star Wars

As a Christmas bonus, I thought I'd post a clip of the Tuskish "remake" of Star Wars.



Splicing together footage from the orignial (that appears to be filmed by pointing a video camera at the tee-vee) with the hero bouncing around the desert decapitating furries with his judo chops, this truly has to be one of the most bewildering, bizarre, and awesome remakes ever.

[Although having heard of the majestic awefulness that is this movie, I found this clip while browsing on cracked]

Satisfaction

physical model of M.C. Esher's "Asending and Descending"

from Dark Roasted Blend.

meat that thinks. and talks.

"They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat."

I just found this (very) short story on reddit. It's a take on how non meat-based alien life might by a little grossed out at our ... um... meatness.

link.

this peanut looks like a duck

www.thispeanutlookslikeaduck.com

'nuff said.

Thug Life in Pie Graphs and Flowcharts

Just how black is Dead Mike?



[link to more aspects of gangstas' life styles quantified.]




Don't remember Dead Mike? He was a founding member of the early 90s rap super-group CB4, along with Gusto and Stabmaster Arson. [There was a time in '92 when I thought I was Dead Mike.]





If I ever adopt three animals together as a package deal (say, three llamas or spider monkeys or star-nosed moles -- or even one of each) I think I'd name them MC Gusto, Dead Mike, and Stabmaster Arson.

Internextperts answer F.A. Questions

Gabe and Max, the internextperts, answer Bing Boing readers F.A. Questions about all of the internets. Pay special attention to their craig's list apartment huntinng tips.

this breakdancer has backwards feet

seriously. check this out.

few things top old men skaters

LOLcats strike to support writers

[ok, maybe they're not LOLcats -- but they are funny youtube critters.]

Astronaut Sex

Research studies on sex in space found that the missionary position is impossible in zero-g without "mecahnical assistance".

Update: it seems snopes has debunked this "study". Still, someone should be conducting this research.

Evel never dies

Evel Knievel died yesterday.




He was trying to jump the Snake River on this.









A glorious death, as predicted in this Evel biopic poster starring George Hamilton.




He didn't limit his daredevilism to motorcycles.



This was one of favorite toys when i was little. I was even thinking about buying one on ebay,


but I had second thoughts because I didn't want to end up like this guy: