August 2008
Watch“Before today, I had never seen or heard of Japanese pop star MEG, …[b]ut very quickly, I became mesmerized, first by her cuteness, then by the black body-suit puppetry a la Special People, and THEN…THEN! This video was literally catapulted into the awesomesphere at the 2:30 mark.” (via Best Week Ever Blog)
my favorite bits? the cats at 2:55 and 3:22.
“Oh war, it’s just God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
– Jon Stewart (via bellavita) (via interweber)
Lab Rabbit Strongly Recommends Cover Girl... →
“Cover Girl Long & Luscious waterproof mascara will dramatically magnify your lashes for a look that’s glamorous and natural,” LR-4427 said. “And the great part is, they won’t irritate your eyes, even if you accidentally smear some over your clamped-open eyeballs with a Q-tip and can’t flush it out for 48 hours.”
(an oldie but a goodie)
“Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies...”
– BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | (via haze)
Watchbrothersbloom:
Mountain Goats - ‘Woke Up New’ (Music Video Directed by Rian Johnson, whose tumblelog this be)
Captured in-camera with no special effects
wow, i forgot how much i love the mountian goats!
McCain unsure how many houses he owns →
skeetonmischa:
“Brand New Key” by Melanie
Time...
“I seen this story in the paper about the Russian troops invading Georgia, and I...”
– The Herald-Mail’s You Said It
HAHAHAOHMYGOD I HATE AMERICANS
Watchtv is awful.
“Alton Brown is the MacGyver of cooking.”
– BWE - Top 10 Celebrity Chefs That Would Make Great Spies
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
– H.G. Wells (via rlrr)
i. love. lil wayne.
Blender: Do you ever pick a subject at random [out of the encyclopedia] and learn all about it?
Lil Wayne: No. I’m a millionaire.
Blender: What’s that mean? Millionaires still have things they can learn!
Lil Wayne: Are you a millionaire? No. So don’t tell me what millionaires do.
Source: blender.com/LilWayneThereIsNoneHigher/articles/39237.aspx
A 2006 survey by Response Insurance, a national car insurer, found that 57 percent of American drivers don’t signal when changing lanes. Men are less likely to signal than women, and drivers under 25 are less likely to signal than older drivers. Their reasons were a bit scary:
• • 42 percent said they didn’t have time,
• • 23 percent said they were lazy,
...
http://www.instantrimshot.com/ →
The 100 Most Common English Words →
melanyouth:
(via theoriginaljoefisher):
So it’s true, I AM stupid. 31 out of 100, feel free and beat me embarrassingly.
Ha, I took this test, then wrote that I was stupid, before I got to this post. At least I am not alone.
But now I question what it is about this game that makes (one would assume highly) literate people berate themselves for their performance on it, when so often people...
“Dolphins washed out of an aquarium during the hurricane were rescued from the...”
– Conan O’Brien (via stewardesses)
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Pet dogs can 'catch'... →
adamadam:
Yawning is known to be contagious in humans but now scientists have shown that pet dogs can catch a yawn, too. The copying activity suggests that canines are capable of empathising with people, say the researchers who recorded dogs’ behaviour in lab tests.
i noticed rocko doing this just a few days ago!
'Extreme Water' Found at Atlantic Ocean Abyss →
“It’s water, but not as we know it,” Koschinsky said of her discovery, referring to the fact that the fluid has gone supercritical.
When the temperature and pressures rise in a liquid, evaporation and/or boiling will occur. However, if both temperature and pressure is pushed to a critical point, the gas and the liquid will merge in to what is called a supercritical fluid. This...
Human brains pay a price for being big →
“Our new research suggests that schizophrenia is a by-product of the increased metabolic demands brought about during human brain evolution.”
Bags Filled With Sand Still Most Advanced U.S....
The second-most effective U.S. anti-flood technology remains getting in the car and driving to an area that is not currently being flooded. (The Onion)
Little chicken growing up!: A pen and ink drawing... →
“Governments can’t, don’t, and never will create wealth. They drain...”
– a west virginian!?!
