really?

Giant USA sunglasses

By Cory Doctorow at 9:14 am Tuesday, Apr 10 • 43Comments • Share

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You know what these titanic, $260 map-of-the-continental-USA sunglasses need? An Alaska barrette and a Hawai'i epaulet. Seriously

300 Step Rube Goldberg Machine Sets New World Record

A team of engineering students at Purdue University have built a Rube Goldberg-style machine that inflates and pops a balloon in 300 steps—a new world record (video). The machine debuted at the 25th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University. The team’s entry in last year’s contest, a 244 step machine, was the previous world record holder

Airplane Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style

To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. She calls the series

my prayers have been answered.... bacon and egg ice cream.....Over at Instructables, makendo has posted the recipe and detailed preparation instructions on how to make bacon and egg ice cream. The dish was inspired by a more complex dish with a similar name created by Chef Heston Blumenthal of Fat Duck Restaurant.

Bacon & Egg Ice Cream

By Rusty Blazenhoff on April 10, 2012

Over at Instructables, makendo has posted the recipe and detailed preparation instructions on how to make bacon and egg ice cream. The dish was inspired by a more complex dish with a similar name created by Chef Heston Blumenthal of Fat Duck Restaurant. You may remember we posted about makendo’s intricate

wow...that must hurt coming from such a towering legal intellect.....

Clarence Thomas Chides Colleagues For Asking Too Many Questions

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Maybe it's Southern courtesy or his introverted nature that keeps him from interrupting attorneys during oral arguments, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Thursday evening.

Whatever the reason, the Georgia native had a blunt assessment about the rapid-fire questioning from his colleagues during recent hearings on the nation's health care law. The queries weren't helpful to him in deciding the case, he said.
And Thomas suggested his loquacious colleagues should do more listening and less talking.
"I don't see where that advances anything," he said of the questions. "Maybe it's the Southerner in me. Maybe it's the introvert in me, I don't know. I think that when somebody's talking, somebody ought to listen."
His remarks drew applause from the audience that heard Thomas' insights on the court during a 90-minute appearance at the University of Kentucky.
Thomas has gained a reputation for staying silent during oral arguments before the high court.
He said the lawyers presenting their cases are capable and don't need guidance from the justices: "I don't need to hold your hand, help you cross the street to argue a case. I don't need to badger you."
Thomas was asked specifically about the plethora of questions during three days of oral arguments as the justices decide whether to kill or keep President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. But Thomas said it's become habit for justices to interrupt lawyers.
"We have a lifetime to go back in chambers and to argue with each other," he said. "They have 30, 40 minutes per side for cases that are important to them and to the country. They should argue. That's a part of the process.
"I don't like to badger people. These are not children. The court traditionally did not do that. I have been there 20 years. I see no need for all of that. Most of that is in the briefs, and there are a few questions around the edges."

Instructions on a smoke grenade: Don't be a dick

An unnamed brand of smoke grenade includes "Don't be a dick with our products" in its instructions. Apparently this is Canadian (judging from the bilingual instructions).

dig it....

Horizons, Giant Steel Sculpture on a New Zealand Hilltop

the horror....the horror....

Peanut Butter & Raspberry Jelly Vodka

don't got it,need it.....

Thermosaurus, A Wonderful Radiator That Looks Like a Tyrannosaurus

Cthulhu!!!!

 

really?

Northern Mexico Pointy Boots Crews

In January 2012, New York City-based photographers Alex Troesch and Aline Paley traveled to Matehuala, Mexico and captured some wonderful images of the Los Socios and Los Parrandero crews wearing some very long and pointy boots. TIME LightBox recently published the set of images and they report that in “northern Mexico, the pointy boots trend is more about flash than fashion.”

“They’re worn by people who want to impress other people,” Troesch says. In fact, one boot maker they met had transformed a regular pair of shoes into pointy boots for a client who wanted to impress the jury of a dance contest. That’s how the fervor started—but not everyone is a fan. “Sometimes you’d hear people teasing others about wearing the boots,” Troesch says. “Still, it was very interesting for us to witness how such a common object—cowboy boots—worn by so many people in northern Mexico could be reinvented and reappropriated by young teenagers whose eyes and ears are so many times directed towards the other side of the border.”

Members of “Los Socios” pointy boots crew, posing on the rest of an old mining field of Matehuala.

via LightBox, Design You Trust and Archie McPhee’s Endless Geyser of Awesome

photos by Alex Troesch and Aline Paley for

I used to live on this stuff.....

Sincerest Form of Parody: the lost ecosystem of MAD-inspired gross-out comics

By Cory Doctorow at 6:00 am Monday, Apr 2

Today marks the publication of Fantagraphics' magnificent archaeological comicsology, The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics. This volume collects the rare, nearly unheard-of parody comics that sprang up in the early 1950s to jump on the bandwagon that MAD magazine set in motion. Many of the same artists who made MAD such a success (Jack Davis, Will Elder, Norman Maurer, Carl Hubbell, William Overgard, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers, Bill Everett, Al Hartley, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, Hy Fleischman, Jay Disbrow, Howard Nostrand, and Bob Powell) were represented in long-lost tiles like FLIP, WHACK, NUTS, CRAZY, WILD, RIOT, EH, UNSANE, BUGHOUSE, and GET LOST. Many of these are racier, grosser, and meaner than even MAD dared. There's also an engrossing appendix of annotations from editor John Benson, a MAD expert who wrote the additional text for the first run of MAD reprints.
I grew up on Cracked and Crazy, but these were late, late, latecomers to the MAD knockoff party, and never went as far as these lost titles.
The Sincerest Form of Parody: The Best 1950s MAD Inspired Satirical Comics

oooow.....

The Knife, A Giant Bloody Cardboard Knife Art Project by Maria Luján

German-based artist Maria Luján created The Knife, a street art project that creates the illusion of being stabbed with a giant bloody cardboard knife.

Animating funny/scary effects into historic black-and-white photos

Kevin Weir's Flux Machine project creates surprising, Python-esque animations out of public domain photos of the olde worlde. The effects are horror-comedy at its finest

The Whole Universe In One Photo

The Whole Universe In One Photo

why so cereal?

Joker cereal

Sean Hartter has designed this notional Joker-brand cereal box. He notes that his FB friends quipped, "Why So Cereal", "You wanna see a Trix?" and "Whatever doesn't kill you simply makes you eat more delicious cereal"! Spend some times poking around on Hartter's site. He's very good at this sort of thing.

hahahahahaha....

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mileskahn

Sitcom idea: Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck share an apartment in NY getting fired from everything.

snarky...

Take The Stairs

wtf is up w/t arizona?

The Daily Show Mocks Tucson Mexican-American Studies Ban (VIDEO)

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The Daily Show's Senior Latino Correspondent Al Madrigal (also known as their Señor Latino Correspondent) went down to Tucson on Monday to investigate the city's recently instated Mexican-American studies ban.
Madrigal spoke with local proponents of the law which has outlawed the Mexican-American study program in K-12 public schools. School board member Michael Hicks gave justifications for the ban which were... err, underwhelming.
School board member Michael Hicks says he's never sat in on a Mexican-American studies class, but based on "hearsay" he presumes that they teach a violent anti-"gringo" message.
"I chose not to go to any of their classes. Why even go? Why even go? I base my thoughts off of hearsay of others," Hicks said to Madrigal.

live long and prosper...

President Obama & Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura Pose Together Giving the Vulcan Salute

Documentary about 1970s northern California Star Trek conventions

Apropos yesterday's post about 1970s science fiction convention costumes, Strephon Taylor sez, "I just saw your post on the 1970's science fiction costumes. I made a documentary on the early northern California Star Trek conventions called "Back to Space-Con", it has a ton of costume footage, I think you will dig it. We have some of the earliest full sound film on the subject. We got contacted by the producers of Trek Nation for our convention footage! "

WTF???? But I dig it....

Video: David Lynch’s ‘Crazy Clown Time’ Is 7 Minutes of NSFW Insanity

David Lynch’s new video for his song “Crazy Clown Time” hits you squarely between the eyes with seven minutes of madness. It’s like the director set out to create a perfect visual representation of “WTF” and actually succeeded.