24 Jul 06 Net Crap (7/24)

• This is what every Democrat should be saying every day until November …
  Richard Nixon, 1968: “Never has so much military and economic and diplomatic power been used so ineffectively, and if after all of this time, and all of this sacrifice, and all of this support, there is still no end in sight … “
  (tags: cool politics amazing)
• Music Video: “Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth,” by David Bowie and Bing Crosby
  Cool but weird little real-life duet between David Bowie (”Peace on Earth”) and Bing Crosby (”Little Drummer Boy”).
  (tags: seasonal video music cool)
• Music Video: “Hey Ya,” by Outkast
  Shake it … shake it … shake it like a posting to Flickr!
  (tags: cool music video)
• Music Video: “Stay (I Missed You),” by Lisa Loeb
  Me and Lisa Loeb. That’s all I’m saying. Me and Lisa Loeb. Man, those glasses.
  (tags: video music beautiful)
• Music Video: “Weapons of Choice,” by Fatboy Slim
  Christopher Walken rawks.
  (tags: video music celebrity cool)
• Music Video: “Buddy Holly,” by Weezer
  The Lost “Happy Days” Episode!
  (tags: amazing cool video music)
• Music Video: “Like a Prayer,” by Madonna
  (tags: video music religion)
• Music Video: “Sledgehammer,” by Peter Gabriel
  Trippy.
  (tags: weird video music)
• Music Video: Pulp: “Bad Cover Version”
  It’s a friggin’ hilarious send-up of “Band Aid,” with celebrity impersonators. I love the earnest playing of the glass pipes.
  (tags: video music funny)
• Music Video: A-Ha: “Take on Me”
  (tags: music video)
• Congressman to Colbert: “I Like Cocaine Because…”
  (tags: video politics funny)
• “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” the movie, coming out March 30, 2007.
  This *could* suck, but that trailer … wasn’t bad.
  (tags: video movies)
• THe Big Lebowski: the Fucking Short Version
  Funny little splice-together of every “fuck” moment in “The Big Lebowski.” It’s used so much in the film that this gives you a pretty good montage of the film.
  (tags: video movies funny)
• The Fountain
  This trailer looks absolutely gorgeous and absolutely amazing.
  (tags: scifi movies cool)
• digg - Cricket infected with Parasitic Gordian worm committing suicide
  “In Spinochordodes tellinii, which has grasshoppers as its vector, the infection acts on the grasshopper’s brain and causes it to seek water and drown itself, thus returning the nematomorph to water.”
  (tags: gross video creepy)
• A video detailing a visit to Hello Kittyland.
  Come on, haven’t you ever wanted to poop in a Hello Kitty fairytale glen-themed bathroom?
  (tags: cute whaddafuck weird)
• Jon Stewart has an amazing compare-and-contrast between neocon anti-stem-cell rhetoric and pro-Iraq War rhetoric.
  Bush: “This country’s got to be very careful about destroying life to save life,” and then Snow calling civilian casualties “lamentable” “side effects.”
  (tags: military terrorism video neocon amazing)
• It’s Bender! (Well, kind of.)
  (tags: scifi cartoons funny)
• Kottke: “The Independent has a great infographic on its cover today depicting which countries support the immediate ceasefire in the Middle East demanded by the UN and which do not.”
  The U.S., Israel and Britain are alone on one side of the infographic. Every single other flag in the world is on the other.
  (tags: powerful insightful politics)
• Stupid Plot Tricks
  “All naive, busty tavern wenches in my realm will be replaced with surly, world-weary waitresses who will provide no unexpected reinforcement and/or romantic subplot for the hero or his sidekick. All bumbling conjurers, clumsy squires, no-talent bards, a
  (tags: funny)
• Consumerist: iBitch, or Paying For Your MacBook With $600 Worth of Five Spots
  (tags: funny macintosh)
• Wikipedia: Doki Doki Panic
  Wikipedia’s article on the game that “Super Mario Bros. 2″ was built upon.
  (tags: games fascinating cool nostalgia)
• The released “Super Mario Brothers 2″ was a re-iconned “Doki Doki Panic.” Tales of the real “Super Mario Bros. 2″ and why it didn’t make stores.
  (tags: fascinating games nostalgia)
• An excellent political cartoon — succinct.
  (tags: terrorism politics)
• Walnut Creek won’t pay contractor the $500 they owe him unless he signs loyalty oath.
  WHAT the FUCK?!?!
  (tags: government dumbass censorship fascist)
• BBC: Secrets of ocean birth laid bare
  “Geologists say a crack that opened up last year may eventually reach the Red Sea, isolating much of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa.”
  (tags: science)
• A rather stupid, but funny, insect video.
  (tags: video funny)
• Boing Boing: “Someone on eBay is auctioning off an old print plate of a Seven-Up ad showing a baby being fed a bottle of Seven-Up.”
  (tags: weird images funny)
• Silver Linings and a Cross of Gold: “Here’s a selection of excited messages spotted over the last few days on the Rapture Ready/End Times Chat online bulletin board.”
  “Got that dancing feeling on the inside of me.” “Whoa! I can sure feel the glory bumps after reading this thread!”
  (tags: cruel awful religion)
• A trailer for the third season of “Battlestar Galactica.”
  Amazing. This looks dynamite.
  (tags: tv scifi cool)
• IGN: Comic-Con 2006: Transformers Announcement
  “A vocal ‘greeting’ by Optimus Prime himself announced that voice actor Peter Cullen, who played the character in the popular 1980s cartoon TV series, will voice Optimus Prime in next summer’s big-budget movie version.”
  (tags: movies scifi)
• IGN: Comic-Con 2006: First Star Trek XI Image
  “This morning, Paramount released the very first image from their upcoming and as yet untitled Star Trek XI film at San Diego Comic-Con 2006. The image is a colorful, sleek treatment of the classic logo and hints at big changes for the popular sci-fi movi
  (tags: scifi movies)
• Top Five Things Linux Can Learn From Microsoft: “Just because many Linux fans hate Microsoft, doesn’t mean we can’t learn a lot from the Evil Empire. We can, and we should.”
  (tags: insightful microsoft)
• The “Super Mario Bros.” theme being played by Jean Beaudin on an 11-string bass. Very, very cool.
  (tags: video music games nostalgia)
• Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet the Segway
  Notable if only for the fact that Steve Jobs evidently constantly uses the metaphor “shit in [his/her/your/their] pants.”
  (tags: science funny)
• Consumerist: Polish Grannies Crochet G-Strings
  “Helena Kamieniarz, head of the local Society for Folk Art, is displeased with the venture, ‘What is being done to our old traditions is a disgrace. The art of crochet is not intended for making such garments.’”
  (tags: sex funny)
• Spirit Air Endorses Jeb Bush in $20.08
  (tags: images funny)
• I love this quote! “The film is a rogue hunk of hooey.” I haven’t seen it, but that’s just a hilariously funny line.
  (tags: movies funny)
• Charles Barkley: “I used to be a Republican, before they lost their minds.”
  (tags: politics neocon government funny)
• Shakespeare’s Sister: Interolant and Stupid
  “It’s like a big Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of conservative hogwash. Hey, you got your intolerance in my stupidity! Hey, you got your stupidity in my intolerance!”
  (tags: neocon religion funny)
• “Peter Gemma” - Google Search
  WELL, OF *COURSE* IT FUCKIN’ DOES! A fascinating discussion between the PMRC and Zappa on Crossfire. It’s not the video a lot of us have seen … it’s one a few years later. Zappa remains an amazing guy.
  (tags: video fascist cool censorship amazing)
• “Freedom to express one’s self, even to rebel, doesn’t mean a license to offend.” — Peter Gemma
  WELL, OF *COURSE* IT FUCKIN’ DOES! A fascinating discussion between the PMRC and Zappa on Crossfire. It’s not the video a lot of us have seen … it’s one a few years later. Zappa remains an amazing guy.
  (tags: fascist video amazing censorship cool)
• Sluggo denies gravity.
  (tags: comics images cool)
• An amazingly comprehensive map of the SImpsons’ Springfield.
  (tags: enjoyable whaddafuck amazing)
• Ask Metafilter: Feed your baby half a stick of butter?
  (tags: science weird)
• The Universe in One Year
  Anyone got any champagne?
  (tags: fascinating goodideas cool science)
• Star Wars Origins: Frank Herbert’s Dune
  A rather interesting comparison to indicate that “Star Wars” is one big plagiarism from “Dune.”
  (tags: fascinating scifi movies)
• “The Sky is Full of Diamonds,” by J.R. Blackwell
  (tags: enjoyable scifi)