July 2009
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“Forgive me for reiterating a point I’ve made before, but now that the guy who...”
– Conor Friedersdorf (via azspot, via robot-heart-politics, via ub14)
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Unexpectedly SFW Site of the Day →
Seriously you guys. How is this website not a porn site?
http://www.asspro.co.uk/
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Dance Dance Revolution →
This is the best video of someone playing Dance Dance Revolution that you have seen. Kid’s got some moves.
(via b3ta newsletter 387)
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lonelysandwich:
“Got the Hots” Michael Jackson...
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Watchadamdnewman:
If you didn’t know, my day job at CollegeHumor often consists of seeing dozens and dozens of actors’ auditions for CH Originals. We see lots of very talented folks from UCB, our favorite sketch groups, and the NY comedy community. A few weeks ago Dan Klein (Pangea 3000, Onion Sports) gave an audition that made us laugh so hard, we decided we had to share it with everyone - with his...
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“Getting re-adjusted to gravity, let go of a small bag of groceries and must have...”
– Astronaut Mike Massimino, struggling a little with his environment after returning to Earth from space. (@astro_mike)
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Animated Engines →
Very cool site* featuring animated illustrations of various different types of engines in three categories: Internal combustion, Steam, and Stirling. It is educatiocool.
My favourite is the Single Cylinder Stirling. Clever.
* What? Engines are cool!
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NSFW Streetname of the Day →
“… was a street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages, believed to be a reference to the prostitution centred on those areas; it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street’s function or the economic activity taking place within it. […] Although the name was once common throughout England, changes in attitude resulted in its...
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Michael Jackson A Cappella →
I didn’t post this back when I first saw it, because I was slightly disappointed it wasn’t ten off-the-cuff a cappellas. It’s just the vocal tracks from the actual songs on your Best of the Jackson 5 album.
But today is A Cappella Day! So here you are. Enjoy!
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Myoclonus →
Myoclonus is a brief, involuntary twitching of the muscles. The term encompasses hiccups, the myclonic or hypnic/hypnagogic jerk (when you step off a curb or fall off a chair just as you are falling asleep and land with a thud on your bed), and other spasms.
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Sphenopalatine Ganglioneuralgia →
nostrich:
An ice-cream headache, also known as brain freeze, cold-stimulus headache, cold headache, or its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia (meaning “nerve pain of the sphenopalatine ganglion”), is a form of brief cranial pain or headache commonly associated with consumption (particularly quick consumption) of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream.
Didn’t know this...
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The Extinction Oscillator →
Using the revised timescales and Fourier analysis, Rohde and Muller looked for a periodic signal in the history of biodiversity. They began by subtracting out biodiversity’s long-term growth—a vital step if you want to find any short-term signal (the wiggles) superimposed upon the rising curve. They were looking for evidence of a 26-millionyear cycle that had been hinted at in the 1980s; the...
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Ring Magazine's Best 80 Names →
And while we’re on the subject of fantastic names, take a look at Ring Magazine’s list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years, paying particular attention to numbers 31, 43, 45, 47, 64, and 78.
As Tom pointed out, “I suggest sending that link to anyone having a child in the near future — it contains all the boys names you could ever need.”
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Beauty of the beastly name game →
Knowing I’m crazy about names, friend of WYWG Tom sent me a link to this excellent article about sporting nicknames, commending in particular its “castigation of lazy journalism” and some of the punny comments.
However, it must be said that any article about nicknames (sporting or otherwise) that contains no mention of streetball is sorely lacking. To wit: Larry “Bone...
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“I don’t really get the whole fish-as-pets thing. They’re sort of cool to watch...”
– Bloody Well Write, in a thoroughly entertaining article which is not actually about fish at all. It is about en and em dashes. Thrilling!
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