Great article over at Outside: Fair Chase
If you aren’t familiar with persistence hunting, this is the clip to see: Human Mammal, Human Hunter – Attenborough – Life of Mammals – BBC
Category: Web
The unbearable 1337n355 of being
I’m going to start incorporating this into my routine when someone asks for computer help: Hacker Typer
Internet Radio Done Right
This is now my default background music source: Radio Collective
The first time I listened to one of the shows, it sounded like like a sword fight between banjos and sitars, with silvery wiccan pixies whispering in my ear. Needless to say, I was hooked.
Somchai Norris
Not my video; just one I found around the way.
Tom Green Chain Gun
This album contains explicit lyrics.
Note: I set the video above to start playing midway through (to the part relevant to this post’s title); you can of course watch it from the beginning by adjusting the slider.
Water Business
I thought some translator was having fun when I saw a reference to “JR East Water Business Company” on this photo of a vending machine employing a facial recognition system.
As it turns out, it was somebody in a higher position having fun with katakana English:
(Many Japanese literally translate mizushobai — hostess bars, kyabakura [cabaret clubs], sunakku [err, snacks], etc. — as “water business.” Japanerds seem to prefer the term “water trade.” Of course, there’s no reason to break down this particular word and the Japanese that do it usually do it to show that they know some English…)
Power, Fame, or Winning?
I thought the Guardian really had something with their Charlie Sheen v Muammar Gaddafi quiz, but NY Mag did them one better with It’s Time to Play ‘Sheen, Beck, or Qaddafi?’
Yo should go check those out, but remember, these resentments, they are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my sabre!
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On a more serious tip, if you haven’t had a good cry in a while, go read this: The Someone You’re Not
Wolverine or Two Bat Men + The Defaced Bard of Avon
These two pics made my day:
Spicy Maple Links of Destruction 2/11/11
Offered mostly without comment because I’m still chewing on them:
The last Japanese man remaining in Kazakhstan
A Kafkian tale of the plight of a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union
An Evening with J. D. Salinger
Of course he’s crazy, that’s why his best works ring so true.
Educating B Students
My question is: Where have all the A students gone?
The New Atheists’ Narrow Worldview
If it weren’t for the crazy shit based in monkey-ass superstition, religion wouldn’t be half as entertaining… And in that regard, I think of animistic religions as more honest than others.
And finally:
Alternate Universe Movie Posters
So cool.
Legion, the chat transcript
Adam: yo
what up
Adam: that’s cool, I like chatting to myself anyway
me: hey
you there?
Adam: they killed the black guy!
me: ?
Adam: and he had a prosthetic hand…
bastards!
Legion
it’s a really good movie!
such an intricate plot
me: oh
Adam: and great acting
me: you should see spartacus the series
pretty cool
Adam: what up man
me: not much
just finished my only class for today
Adam: nice
me: i was sitting under the trees outside drinking coffee
Adam: gonna go do something fun?
me: um
soon
got a pal who’s cousin has an m4
Adam: lol
me: we’re going to go to the police range and surprise the shit out of some cops
Adam: nice
me: his uncle’s the governor of a nearby province so he has all the papers
he usually takes it to the range and gets asked about it by all the cops after he rocks full auto
Adam: oh no, black guy number two is rushing the zombies
fuck, where’s omar when you need him
oh shit, the little girl is a zombie
me: farmer in the dell
Adam: she ate him!
fuck
the white girl is going crazy
she’s in the van!
The little kid is leading the zombies
me: is that a gladiator movie with zombies or what
Adam: now the angel is taking an mp5 out of the diner
karate chop
flying forward kick!
cap to the dome!
me: wtf that movie sounds awesome
Adam: gasoline flame thrower
me: robocop
Adam: ooh, white girl is getting lucky
back safe in diner
me: you need to see walking dead
Adam: sorry, the movie must look super cool through text
me: it sounds awesome
Adam: that’s what I hear
me: keep going
Adam: oh shit, baby girl stabbing!
me: i wont bother watching it
Adam: lol
oh shit, the baby girl got tossied in the air
Adam: shot by machine gun!
Adam: like a midget toss
now the girl is in labor!
me: wtf
Adam: her vagina is glowing!
me: that movie is fucking complicated
Adam: never mind, was just a flashlight
wow, that baby popped right out
looks like quaid from total recall
Adam: “The baby was not meant to be born…but the future was unwritten. The baby was born.”
one handed baby catch!
Adam: wow, the angel is being rear naked choked@
oh, choker pwned by a switchblade hidden in a mace
Adam: “sorry, we’re out of business”
lolz
angel got shot in the head with a flare gun
wow, I think I should go study
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Adam is offline.