I imagine this is pretty much what hell must look like.
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Magazine cover illusions
At least one of them is unstaged, even: Link
(via digg)
cute fish (and not-so-cute fish)
Go see for yourself:
Cute
Not-so-cute
(To my knowledge, I’ve only eaten one of the fish on that list. Hint: It wasn’t the coelacanth)
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In related news, the last of my impossible fish died a few weeks ago, I think. The red one was the first to go, and blue was the last. The whole tank got hit with some horrible gill disease that killed all inhabitants – impossible fish, algae eaters, tetras, and Japanese goldfish. The blue fish hung on a whole month or so longer than the second longest survivor (purple, I think), but in the end he just wasted away. Eventually, we put him outside in a ceramic fountain we have in the garden (aka “the hospital tank”) and (presumably – I haven’t seen him since, but there are places to hide in that fountain) let him go off to the big fishbowl in the sky.
RIP, blue.
Google Earth – Strange Sights
PC World has a cool gallery up: The Strangest Sights in Google Earth
(thx k)
24 Treehugging?
Before I got crippled in the bandwidth department, I was on the front lines of 24, seeing more than a few episodes before they even aired on television, so it pains me to read this: Jack Bauer’s Next Mission: Fighting Global Warming
Cry me a river if Jack Bauer drinks California Condor blood for dinner with a dugong fetus apertif; all I really care about is that he kicks ass constantly and consistently… Fuck the Prius delivery routine, fuck solar powered cappuccino makers, and fuck these arbitrary carbon footprints – for fuck’s sake are you all wearing palm frond skirts and organic hemp pantalones, or what? – and give me Jack shooting people’s mothers in the kneecaps in the name of national security already… Is that too much to ask, or what?
Besides, let’s not forget which channel produces 24 – this ain’t the Discovery Channel, yo.
fruit sacrilege
Thai farmers dumped a ton of mangosteens on the street in front of city hall to protest the low selling price. I’m pretty sure all the government workers rushed out to scoop up their share.
3 baht per kilo does sound pretty low, though. They retail for 18-20 baht/kilo up here in the northeast; the best quality ones at their peak went as high as 25 baht/kilo a couple months ago.
I do have to say that if you’ve never had a fresh mangosteen, you are missing out on one of life’s real pleasures.
Beheading a Whale
Link: Head of the Humpback
(via minh)
Fuck Beard Papa
This is what happens when you sell out your successful little shop, open stores all over the world, and try way too hard to make a cool corporate website: The Beard Papa Story
Listen carefully as BP admits that his cream puffs taste like hair!
File under: Really fucking annoying voice acting
Canine/Simian Deathmatch from 1799
Answering the most important of questions: A monkey versus a dog. Who would win in a fight?
Bowie’s in Space
Here’s the background: Flight of the Conchords episode 6 (which just aired 4 days ago)
I think I need to see this show.