Mastodon -- Blood and Thunder

bitchin' video.

someone posted this on reddit

what a good idea.

and in Finnish even!!

Electric Wizard

Doom metal awesomeness.

Video of Meteror over Edmonton, Canada

awesome.

How to eat at a Sushi Restaurant

A video on the etiquette of eating in a sushi restaurant.



My favorite part (not surprisingly) is pouring the beer.

“Mah maa maa maa”

“Oh toh toh toh”

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.

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.

this breakdancer has backwards feet

seriously. check this out.

LOLcats strike to support writers

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

Chick style Cthulu Tract

Captain-Obvious States the Obvious

Captain-Obvious's reply to the reddit headline "Robot Canon Goes Berserk, kills 9. No, Seriously.":

"I guess when Robot cannons go berserk they can be dangerous".

Keep the Cat from Escaping

This is a pretty amusing flash game I found on reddit. It's actually not too difficult -- I got it down on the second try. but the game design site does have a lot more games that look worth checking out.

techno viking

he really starts to get down around 1:25 into the video.

giraffes fighting

I assumed they just spit at each other or something.

stuggle

I heard a story recently about a guy that went to get "STRUGGLE" tattooed on himself and ended up with "STUGGLE". This reminded about the guy in Chicago that tried to sue "Jade Dragon Tattoo & Body Piercing" for tattooing "CHI-TONW” instead of "CHI-TOWN". When that didn't work, a bunch of his friends got similar "CHI-TONW” tattoos to support him.



I can’t find a picture of the “STUGGLE” tattoo, but the word is too good to not be used in referring to misspelled tattoos.

Here are a few stuggles I’ve come across recently:

One of my personal favorites:


Another one I saw on this site:


A couple of foreign language stuggles:

(the following one also found at rankmytattoos linked above.)


David Beckham stuggled his wife’s name in Hindi:


If you have any stuggle pictures email them to me and I will put them up here. Especially if you come across the “STUGGLE” stuggle.

Even better: actually go out and get a “STUGGLE” tattoo.

(Credit where it is due: Mary and Will told me the stuggle story a week or so ago, and Sean sent me the "AWSOME" picture last week. A while back I saw the Chicago Tribune story on reddit, and saw the rankmytattoo link on reddit this morning.)

what America needs

What America needs is fair and unbiased media. like Iran. Here's what the Islamic Republic News Agency is reporting about Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia University:

"The audience on repeated occasion applauded Ahmadinejad when he touched on international crises.

At the end of his address President Ahmadinejad answered the students' questions on such issues as Israel, Palestine, Iran's nuclear program, the status of women in Iran and a number of other matters."

Other matters? Like homosexuality in Iran?



Yeah -- that looks like a standing ovation there.

added: here's the complete transcript.

English Lessons

English phrases to know in case you get mugged by George Costanza.




Added bonus: jazzercise while you learn!

Good Bye YouTube

The user created content and the communities that arise on the site are the most interesting aspect of YouTube, imho.

Here’s something where I feel like I walked into the middle of an awkward situation and I have no idea what is going on, but I'm intrigued nonetheless. This appears to be a farewell video from a frequent YouTuber living in Mexico City. He's leaving his YouTube community because he received threatening phone calls from individuals that seem to know quite a bit about his and his family’s daily habits.



I really like the fact that I have no context in which to place the video (not unlike how I felt the first time I went to a conference on formal semantics). Is he for real? Overreacting? Seriously in Danger? I really can't tell, but this guy clearly doesn't buy it:



Others take him at his word and are clearly pissed at the people threatening him.



I gather from the comments on this and related videos that supexcellency has been participating in youtube debates on religion and other touchy subjects, and somehow this activity, in his mind, has drawn the wrong kind of attention. He asks that you leave comments so that YouTube will take action, but if these threats hves something to do with the Mexican Mafia, as he seems to imply, I really don’t know what he expects from youTube. If this guy really is in danger, I feel bad for him.

It will be interesting to see how this develops. He posted his video about 18 hours ago and says he will leave it up for about 24 before deleting it. Does anyone know more about this story?

Update: it looks like he already pulled the video, but there are plenty of "Re: Good Bye YouTube" videos replying to it.

I thought the weird malaria pill induced dreams were over...

…but I was wrong. Today I was telling Karen and Alex that I had a really strange dream that I had read some graffiti on a wall and I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote it down. I forgot all about it until the afternoon when we were in the office, and I was curious what i actually wrote. Alex said he heard somewhere that people can't actually read in their dreams, but they only think they do, and then we were trying to figure out if there is an actual difference between the two. So I was really curious if what I wrote was actually words that made sense, or just babble.

When i got home and looked at the paper it said: "usho gandesha asho gundecha."

Well that answers -- hold on!! That’s not the paper I wrote on last night! That’s the name of the guy that owns the hotel. (I wrote down his name a while back because he had the bellhop call me up and invite me to his daughter's wedding reception which is another strange story.) When the person cleaned my room they must have moved the papers around. There it is, underneath the guy's name.

This is what I wrote in the middle of the night, what I remember being written on a wall in my dream:

"Under pursuit it can be understood that I am a dangerous learner.

6th June, 2006
Mark Fink"

what the...?

oh, I almost forgot -- on the wall in my dream this was written upside down, like this (from flip via reddit):

ɹǝuɹɐǝl snoɹǝƃuɐp ɐ ɯɐ ı ʇɐɥʇ pooʇsɹǝpun ǝq uɐɔ ʇı ʇınsɹnd ɹǝpun


I have no idea if Mark is a dangerous learner, under pursuit or otherwise, but I do know on that particular day I went to a metal show with Priya and Rick.