Tuesday, March 16, 2010

This tilt-shift video on my lil’ hometown is so incredibly cool that I demand that you WATCH IT RIGHT NOW! [via Brian at FREEwilly, who has more info]

p.s. Click the full screen icon with the four arrows.  You’ll be glad that you did.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/16/10 at 12:31 PM
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Normally I don’t like posting videos that have already gone wildly viral and the song doesn’t do a helluva lot for me, but none of the generally plugged-in semi-geeks I was out drinking with last night had seen this new entry from the band who delivered one of the best music videos ever and it just flat out fucking rocks in a million different ways, so here you go.  Enjoy. [via Ed at ginandtacos who asks A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION]

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/13/10 at 12:11 PM
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Erstwhile respected journalist annoying gadfly and attention addict Elinor Burkett did herself no favors on Oscar night when she barreled into “Music By Prudence” director and co-producer Roger Ross Williams and bogarted the mike, but she did assure that a documentary acceptance speech garnered attention, so perhaps she performed a purple-encased act of altruism after all.

Below-the-fold bonus: music from Liyana, the Zimbabwean musicians profiled in the film, verified to be 100% marimbalicious.

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Posted by Mrs. Polly on 03/09/10 at 11:57 AM
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Sunday, March 07, 2010

For me, the Oscar Ceremonies are right up there with really crappy Eastern European trance bands who have an obsession for robot art and overwrought typefaces. But just because I have no soul doesn’t mean the rest of you can’t have a party!

Consider this your swag-filled VIP Roastatorium for winner picks, gossip, Red Carpet cattiness and Oscar Awards live-snarking. 

UPDATE: Here’s the official list of nominees by searchable category. Here’s a potentially-lethal drinking game. Don’t thank me—I live to serve.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 03/07/10 at 01:32 PM
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Note: I promise this claymation thing is only a phase I’m going through. Please bear with me.

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Sunday, February 07, 2010

Pardon me for enjoying this all a little too much. But since Sarah Palin couldn’t manage pre-screened, canned questions from the friendliest audience since Edger Bergen was in vaudeville, without studying whatever was written on her palm, I am declaring that from now on, hands shall be known as “Wingnut Teleprompters.”

Palinophiles should just be grateful; I could have titled this post something else.

(h/t jeffinfremont) 

~~UPDATE * UPDATE~~EXCLUSIVE FROM THE RUMPNEWSROOM

Citing “just being sick and tired of dealing with Mo—you’re not recording this, are you?”, an anonymous source within the Palin campaign slipped us this photo from the Opryland greenroom of what was on Sarah’s hand BEFORE she wiped some of it off!

X-posted at newly revived and thriving Snarkopolitan. Thanks to all the busy bees who helped me!   
~~~UPDATE VIDEO BELOW THE FOLD~~~   

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Posted by Mrs. Polly on 02/07/10 at 01:10 AM
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

El Flushbowl makes Elaine from Seinfeld look like Isadora Duncan:

Notice how the judge at Limbaugh’s right firmly puts her hand on his shoulder and pushes him down into his seat. I guess she was trying to protect innocent bystanders from being thwacked by his jiggling moobs. I think I just threw up in my mouth. A lot.

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Monday, February 01, 2010

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

[via FREEwilly, where a commenter linked to a similar blog, iStock WTF]

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

“Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you’re dead? Nobody.”

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 20

J.D. Salinger has passed away today at the age of 91. RIP, Mr. Salinger. We hardly knew you, but you seemed to know us pretty well.

Posted by Kevin K. on 01/28/10 at 01:34 PM
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Monday, January 25, 2010

I don’t watch American Idol, but its odious influence permeates every facet of American life:

I guarantee you I could walk into any third-rate karaoke bar in any piss-ant town and find someone with a better voice and superior stage presence. That guy sucks.

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Yowsa, I didn’t have high hopes for Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller but even I didn’t expect it to be the pile of dated, uninspired mush that was unveiled this morning. I’ve got a busy day ahead of me, so I don’t have time for a substantial critique of the content, but there are some immediately glaring issues with it that require little comment, so here goes…

First of all, the design of the site is absolutely dreadful.  It’s so very awful that it actually made me mad when I first saw it.  That dreadful. Did Tucker get a niece or nephew to come up with the design?  I was going to write “wake up and smell the decade,” but I didn’t want people to think I meant the 00’s because I’m referring to the nineties. The drop-shadowed logos and icons, the beveled red header and navigation backgrounds, the gray-gradient news scroll at the top that looks like it was torn off of an old GeoCities page ... The Daily Caller is without a doubt one of the biggest design disasters in the history of “pro” web sites.

And their two current top featured pieces gives you a very clear indication of how groundbreaking and fresh The Daily Caller plans to be when it comes to content:

Breitbart and Huffington? Really? That’s what you roll out of the starting gate with? Why not just make your tagline “More of the Same Old Shit”? Can Roger L. Magoo be far behind?

Finally, getting back to the graphics, seriously, $3 million dollars and this is the best header graphic they could come up with for Jim Treacher’s new whatever-the-fuck-it-is?

Who designed/illustrated that header, No Quarter’s dismally untalented in-house illustrator Pat Racimora or did they hold a competition at local DC-area elementary schools (“Win school supplies for a year courtesy of Foster Friess!!!”)? What an embarrassment.

That’s all I’ve got for them moment.  Feel free to weigh in with your thoughts in the comments.

UPDATE: Ha ha! Click to enlarge.

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Tuesday, January 05, 2010

From the HubbleSite.

More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. This image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, was made from mosaics taken in September and October 2009 with the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and in 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). The view covers a portion of the southern field of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), a deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the evolution of galaxies.

The final image combines a broad range of colors, from the ultraviolet, through visible light, and into the near-infrared. Such a detailed multi-color view of the universe has never before been assembled in such a combination of color, clarity, accuracy, and depth

The goods indeed.  Wow.  Just wow.

Posted by marindenver on 01/05/10 at 06:37 PM
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Thursday, December 31, 2009

My kinda town. Updated techno score by the New Pollutants.

Robot Maria dance number is quasi-NSFW…but all of your co-workers are already smashed, so what the hell.

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Whatever you celebrate at this time of year, may it be all you wish it to be.

Barring instant global warming, it looks like we’ll have a bit of snow on the ground here to add to the enjoyment/horror. The above’s a shot from just up the hill from YAFB Towers about ten minutes ago, looking down the River Clyde towards Arran.

If you’ve any seasonal shots of your own you want to share, link them in the comments and I or one of my co-bloggers’ll add them to this post.

Have fun, take care, and be good.

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Posted by YAFB on 12/24/09 at 10:11 AM
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