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| Jul. 31st, 2009 @ 09:26 pm STOP SCROLLING AND READ THIS. | |||
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This week, I have been mostly feeling:  excitedI HAVE FOUND THE BEST YOUTUBE CLIP EVER. SOMEONE HAS DONE A MASH-UP OF VARIOUS TOP GEAR CLIPS TO FORM THREE MINUTES OF JEREMY CLARKSON BEING A HUMAN BEATBOX. It is wonderful and genius and I love, love, LOVE it. And now I have to attempt to top that with the rest of the stuff languishing in my tabs. I will do my best but cannot promise the rest of this post will be any good. Giant Jellyfish Invade Japan! See, even the imminent threat of Things from R'lyeh slaughtering the Japanese pales in comparison. Spectacular Twilight wank involving studio being twunts and dropping one of the better actresses from the next film. And finally, there is a new WoW guild forming - a team of top psychiatrists is joining the game to better treat Warcrack junkies for their addiction in an environment in which they feel comfortable. I love this bit: "Of course one problem we’re going to have to overcome is that while a psychiatrist may excel in what they do in the real world, they’re probably not going to be very good at playing World of Warcraft. We may have to work at that". Bless. :) |
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| Jun. 25th, 2009 @ 11:02 pm Michael Jackson | |||
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This week, I have been mostly feeling: shocked Has been taken to hospital after suspected heart attack. It isn't looking good, and there's several news reports that he's died - nothing confirmed but the fact that the BBC is repeating them, as are other news outlets is telling. Twitter has fallen over. JournalFen has very little concrete word. WikiPedia has the hospitalisation news but nothing about a death. I'm... not sure what to say. I'm a child of the 80s, he was such an icon when I was young, still is. And now he's gone? Flawed, certainly, but he was just such a huge figure the world over. It feels so weird to realise he's not here any more. It's Michael fucking Jackson, you know? Maybe this is another sign of my own mortality. I'm old enough now to see my childhood icons die. It's an odd sensation. ETA: Word from the LA Times is he's in a coma. Wait, no... LA Times announcing his death. Damn. |
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| Jun. 3rd, 2009 @ 08:17 pm (no subject) | |||
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This week, I have been mostly feeling: amused New Carmilla movie with proper lesbianism! Oh yes... Funky new web gadget: Mapumental. Does maps based on how long it'll take you to get somewhere on public transport! No more will you have to struggle getting to that place which looks so close on the map but in reality takes about three buses to get to. Presently in private beta, but I've signed up for an invite, so who knows, maybe I'll get one. UK maps only though, but it'll certainly be useful for me. Spinal Tap have a new song out! It's, er, interesting. :P But it was free. And it's called Saucy Jack and it's about Jack the Ripper, and I'm going to see them live at the end of the month so thought I'd better get some listening in. It's not bad actually! New hoax (maybe?) in London: a spate of memorial bench plaques all from the same family, all with sarcastic phrases. Genuine or a monumental pisstake? I'm thinking the latter, but it made me laugh. :) Doctors send a petition to WHO asking them to condemn homeopathy. About bloody time - there are some forms of complementary medicine that might actually work, and then there's homeopathy. Absolutely useless. Did a test one summer - over the counter antihistamines versus homeopathic pills. The antihistamines had been working well enough for a few weeks. Weather had been sunny and warm with moderate to high pollen counts, so I'd have been sniffling and sneezing quite badly with no meds. Came off the antihistamines and took the homeopathic pills as directed. HORRIFIC SYMPTOMS SO AWFUL I WAS BACK ON THE CLARITYN WITHIN THREE DAYS. Not the week I'd originally hoped to go for. Don't waste your time or money, folks. And finally, yesterday's XKCD, otherwise known as Twilight's Revenge. Nice. :) |
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| May. 9th, 2009 @ 03:31 pm Weekly Links Round-up | |||
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This week, I have been mostly feeling:  geekyAnd here is me getting my biology geek on - Mitochondria! Aren't mitochondria brilliant? They're former independent organisms that eos ago got taken over by other cells because of their ability to produce lots and lots of the ATP molecules that keep cells going (primarily by allowing things to pass through cell membranes, like food, waste products, things the rest of the organism needs). In return, the mitochondria are protected and cared for by the cells they form part of. You can tell they were former free living organisms because they have their own DNA that is nothing to do with the genome of the host organism. You inherit your mitochondria from your mother, because the mitochondria found in sperm don't become part of the embryo; they're left at the door, so to speak. Which is why variations in mitochondrial DNA can be used to track ancestry of a given organism/species via the female line. Next time you hear someone talking about mitochondrial DNA (and this crops up time and time again in pagan/new age circles, quite often by people who I suspect wouldn't know a mitochondrion if it threw a crystal at them), this is what they're referring to. And now there's a song about them! And you lot probably understand enough about them now to get the lyrics, so have a listen! On the topic of symbiosis, how to encourage kids to see things from both sides - It's Useful to Have a Duck. You can read it from either end, and if you read it from one side, you read about a little boy talking about how much he likes his toy rubber duck. Read from the other side... and you get to see the duck's perspective on what it gets out of things. Meanwhile, some researhers from Stanford are doing a survey on how knowledge about a pandemic among the general public might affect the outcome. So if you want to help, get yourself over there and fill their survey in. It is short and not difficult. Segueing neatly from human death to pixel death - 8 Bit Fatalities! Deaths from childhood computer games depicted realistically, with blood and guts and everything! Maybe not for the squeamish, that one. But on the subject of retro game - Atic Atac for Windows!!!! I haven't played this in years! Not since I switched PCs to one without a Spectrum emulator on it. Excuse me, I think my afternoon fun has been decided... |
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| Feb. 13th, 2009 @ 09:49 pm Today we are mostly looking at geeky tat and swearing Presidents | |||
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This week, I have been mostly feeling:  amusedFor all the Hertfordshire-based people on the flist, a Valentine's Day treat for you! And now for the Geeky Tat: Scary Joker Ski-Mask. Eep. A Bacon Lamp Shade. Starfleet Corsetry. Pacman Ghost Lamps. Grinning bowls of oatmeal - for some reason I can see ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} envoy liking these.How to make latex leggings. May be of interest to a few of you. Truly the internet has been generous. But never has it been so generous as it has in providing what I am about to have shown you. As you know, Barack Obama is US President. You may also know that many years before that, back in the 90s, he wrote a memoir called Dreams From My Father in which he tells of life growing up as a young black man in Indonesia and the US, and his journey to discover his African roots. And given that he was a young black man at college in California for some of that time, it was inevitable that there would be talk of drug use and occasional uses of foul language. I cannot have been the only one to have read it and giggled at the thought of the US President swearing. Turns out I wasn't. Ladies and gentlemen, not only is there a book, but an audiobook, read by the man himself. And now someone as juvenile as me has taken it and lifted various fruitier excerpts and set them to video. And then someone else took it a step further, and created a techno mix. Best use of the Internet EVER. :DDDDD |
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| Jan. 11th, 2009 @ 11:40 pm Quick links before bed | |||
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This week, I have been mostly feeling: amusedFor thehalibutkid, who has this as an icon: Mandelbrot the Fractal Teddy! Someone's made a real one.Chocolate Beer! Want. The future is here - Back to the Future II, that is. Someone's found a way to convert cars so they run on rubbish. Who knows, by 2015 maybe it'll be a standard feature. I still want a hoverboard though. I was promised hoverboards! *pout* And finally, a little song about... The Internet! Sung by a geek songwriter called Jonathan, but not Coulton. It's called 3 Rules of the Internet and it is very catchy. |
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| Jan. 8th, 2009 @ 10:10 pm Links collection | |||
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This week, I have been mostly feeling: amusedCurrently in the Jukebox: Hole - Awful Anyway, to cheer myself up, here's what I've dredged off the net lately. Plus I wanted to show off this icon. :D One for carlanime: Some adult women are "adopting" hyper-realistic fake babies and treating them as their own children. Each to their own, and if their own kids are grown and/or they can't have kids, I suppose it's better than nothing. Plus having a child that won't talk back/throw tantrums/lie to you to get out of trouble/turn into a teenager is probably quite a bonus. Just as long as I don't get asked to babysit one.Katy Perry is offering cash for a genuine lesbian/bi woman to duet with her on That Song at the Grammys. Don't all jump at once. It's a catchy enough tune, but really, do the Isles of the Queer really need any more sex tourists? If it was a man in the aggressor position, you can bet your life everyone would think it a bit creepy and Not Cool. "My girlfriend likes to watch me snog other women, fancy it?" Er, no. OTOH, I can't really hate a song that has women all over the country singing about kissing girls and liking it. And talking of sex, here's something for the pervert with more money than sense: A $2000 rock-star themed vibrator with diamonds on it. Actually looks pretty cool... but $2k?? On a sex toy? Do me a favour. Quick, let us move on to less tawdry amusements. Here is a map of the Milky Way in Tube map style! It's very pretty, althoguh possibly a little confusing if you are not astronomically minded. Still science-y, but less technical: Two-headed calf born in South Africa. Didn't survive though - it was born very weak and got put down. Shame as it is rather cute. Wonder if they autopsied it... I know how he feels: Barack Obama to lose BlackBerry. He's putting up a brave fight, but it seems inauguration will mean no more emailing. Or Twittering. Or Facebook updates. Poor man. Mine's like my daemon, although I am possibly a bit too attached to my shiny tech toys. But if we didn't have them, we wouldn't have stuff like this - a forum thread in which you are challenged to create your fave vid game moments in MS Paint. Bad art ftw! But even better is this - how to make an electrified steampunk Monopoly set! Come on, one of you has the skills to assemble it, surely... Talking of steampunk - ABSINTHE LOLLIPOPS! Brilliant! Is tempting to order a few for future parties... And finally, they're making a movie of Where the Wild Things Are! I MUST see this film! |
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