January 2007
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Bright Bowl
These construction of the Bright Bowl pictures make it look like a work of art, rather than a skateboard ramp. The only youtube vid of the actual skating is almost a disappointment. Arkitip have noticed the same thing, because they put the underside of the Supreme bowl on the cover. Bonus link: also at the Bright show was this incredible retrospective of the skate shoe, featuring the debut of the...
Tuesday Links
Hidden in December’s Harpers Index:Factor by which the number of “perfect games” bowled last year exceeds the number in 1985: 7 [U.S. Bowling Congress (Greendale, Wis.)]Competitive bowling is in decline, and yet technology has made the game too easy. Having had to lengthen the holes at Augusta, are bowling alleys going to have to grow too? Great New Yorker article on the workings of Google...
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Trick shot madness
My favourite shot is at 1 min 15 seconds. 5 pool balls stacked one on top of the other (presumably using crumbs of chalk or salt), all on top of a bottle.
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Castle Smasher is a flash version of Crossbows and Catapults. Brilliant. Cute Otters super-niche blogging. Homemade AT-ST walker with software algorithms to teach it to walk itself.
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Sasuke Obstacle Course
Video of a Japanese game show that tests extreme Parkour / modern day Ninja skills.
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24 Season 6 Goof
1 min 44 seconds into the 24 Season 6 trailer there’s a classic goof. Jack picks up a phone with a cord, and for about 3 frames the unplugged end of the cord flails up in front of his body. They don’t call me Eagle-Eye for nothing.
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Ghostriding as Political Protest
Via ghostridedawhip.blogspot.com my new favourite niche blog.
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Even Ghostriders Started Small
An audioviusal clash between Werner Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small and a Nick Catchdubs remix, curated by Pinglewood. Herzog’s life story is unbelievable: shot by a fan during a BBC interview (bonus link: hilarious Henry Rollins interview with Herzog in which they both agree how invigorating and generally virile it is to be shot at), ate a shoe for a bet, caused Ian Curtis to...
Apparently if the UK converts from GMT to central Euorpean time, we’ll save £485M, 170,000 tonnes of C02, and prevent numerous traffic accidents. Interesting that in a poll of 600 dollar multimillionaires, they claim that wealth improved their sex lives. Epidemiologically, at least in the US, the exact opposite is actually true, with richer people having more dysfunctional sex, less...
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Nike x Transformers Shoe Toy Thing
Seen the movie? Now buy the 1/2 scale Nike Free 7.0 x Megatron (or Convoy) Transformer. (Thanks Iggy)
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The definitive Dr Pepper
I have tasted a Dr Pepper in every bar I have ever been to that offers such a cocktail. It therefore came as a shock to me to discover that FREVD (aka Freud) serves a remarkable, perhaps unbeatable version of said drink. The exact recipe remains a secret of sorts, but having observed the barmen in action on a number of occasions this evening, I can hazard an approximation: 3/4 fill a 14 ounce...
Gaza Bootleggers' Tunnels
The Guardian report on tunnels being used to smuggle cigarettes, guns, and exotic animals into Gaza. Make would be impressed by the combination of low-tech terrifyingness, and medium-tech gadgeteering (vacuum cleaner based air-con etc).
As Boromir famously stated, one does not simply...
Astonishing urban exploration of the abandoned, flooded Niagara hydroelectric plant. link (via l-bunnies)
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Sadist Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Machinima
This is clearly the hottest genre in machinma right now, except for Linerider, obvs.(also via Robowis 2)
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War on Everything
Until the Brüno Movie gets green lighted by Sacha Baron-Cohen, enjoy this 9 minute movie of Aussie Julian Morrow, “light heartedly” poking fun at America’s lack of cultural learnings of its own. (via Robowis2)
Japanese Wake Up Pranks
My comments re the inauthenticity of japanese TV pranks, still hold, but sweet flaming baby jeebus these gags are funny.
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All nine pairs of shoes that JB Classics are releasing this year are in my official (read “only in my mind”) Top 10 most anticipated shoes of 2007. Even as you read this, Nike designers are probably studying this slideshow for tips. Bottom right, JB x Sneaker Pimps, is a candidate for shoe of the millenium so far. (The other entry in my Top 10, is the jp only Nike Snow Trainer)...
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Your ears may never be the same again: a happy hardcore remix of “Throw the jew down the well” I wouldn’t have guessed it from his writing, but Chomsky can tell a good joke. In the first 90 seconds of this YouTube vid, he’s like a funnier version of Woody Allen. These people of the year have too much time on their hands: a list of video games that prominently feature...
Japanese Ski Resort Spa Prank
On TV. In Japan, etc etc. Either litigation is less common in Japan, or these “victims” are actually stooges. Even so it’s hilarious.
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Penny The Pony visits Great Ormond Street
Someone on the staff of “Roundabout”, the Great Ormond Street Hospital Magazine, clearly has a sense of humour about Geri Halliwell’s diminishing fame.
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John Upike, Television Writer tackles Friends:“Ross approaches Joey, his womanizing best friend, for advice. Drunk on sherry, and feeling particularly misogynistic after losing a recent acting job, Joey suggests that Ross improve his skills in cunnilingus: “Train your tongue to find that fleshy lodestone, those sweet lips peeled back like the tender skin of a blooming orchid.”...
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Lost Dialects of Britain
Due to high levels of migration, Britain has apparently been steadily losing dialects since the industrial revolution. The problem is so bad that even Cornish had to be artificially resusciated, at the end of the 19th century. One entirely lost tongue is the Berkshire Dialect, quoted here from the OED:“I be got rid o’ the doctor, an’ I be a-veelin’ quite veatish...
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Danse avec les Robots (then let them pour you a...
Every ride at Futuroscope is some variety of sub-Star Tours “3D” cinema experience, except for Danse avec les Robots. In a giant hangar, six enormous industrial robot arms, each have a pair of rollercoaster seats attached to the end. In time to music, choreographed by Kamel Ouali, (France’s answer to Bruno Tonioli), they flip and spin you in ways a normal rollercoaster never...
The Clones Shall Inherit The Earth
Running “The Joy of S*x” query through Google gives this: The Joy of Sex: about 173,000 results The Joy of Sox: about 213,000 results The Joy of Six: about 93,700 results The Joy of Sax: about 12,900 results The Joy of Sux: exactly 3 results I was initially surprised that the sox clone is more popular than the original. That’s not always the case: “Oh my God! They...
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Where the Dickens have I been? (Part 1)
My list of cities visited November 06-Jan 07 is mighty swish: London Bangkok (just a brief sojourn in the new airport) Christchurch Sydney (8 hours of tedium, as I had no visa to leave the airport) Hong Kong London Maidenhead (not quite as glam as the others) Capetown London Hong Kong and Cape Town were holidays, while Christchurch was for business. I was at the International Continence Society...
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Catch-up Links
dooogle.com, for all your Neil Patrick Harris search needs. Pictures of different amounts of food that all contain 200 calories. Britain’s forgotten wilderness: an area of the Norfolk Broads, visited by possibly less than 50 humans ever. Bangface has my Friday night covered, with “Murderation on the Orient Express”, the only Agatha Christie themed nu-rave event worth attending. ...
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The hiatus is back off
“I’m an arrogant, solipsistic, attention-needy freak who pretends to have an opinion about everything. I don’t have time to listen to you. I barely have time to listen to me.”It does me good to take a little time off from blogging each Christmas. I haven’t been entirely out of touch however. I did notice that you and I had become the person of the year. That glory...
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Mindstorms Factory Making Small Lego Cars
I’m not dead or anything. In fact I’m back from holiday on Monday, and might even resume posting regularly then. This video is simultaneously excruciatingly dull, and absolutely fabulously awesome. Go figure.