Monday Kickstarter - I can relate

[Stuffed] Animal Farm Friday - [Teddy] Bears be warned!

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Animal Farm Friday - Liquid Birds

Surfer Dude's Theory of Everything

I was just thinking about this guy a couple nights ago, and I stumbled across this article today - complete with a great animation that explains the concept. I have no idea if this is heading in the right direction (away from string theory), but it's still fascinating.

Full article here.

Superbad Sea Shepherds

I just wrote about how awesome the Sea Shepherds are. I think I understated that a bit. The Sea Shepherds are Supremely Awesome! How awesome is that? Well, just take a look at their new Superbad Anti-Whaling Stealth Boat. HELLZ YEAH!

Sea Shepherds Sink Ships = Awesome!

“Our objective,” explains Paul Watson, the 56-year-old SSCS founder and Greenpeace co-founder, “is not to get there, hold up banners and say, ‘Oh please, please stop whaling.’ Our objective is to shut them down by physically blocking and intervening.”



but the organization has also garnered serious criticism from the Japanese whaling industry and members of the International Whaling Commission, who have equated SSCS policies with terrorism

I just love how every little inconvenience caused is now considered tantamount to acts of terrorism. Pretty soon, the word will be co-opted for so many things it has no relationship to that it will mean the exact opposite. Just like the way Republicans use the words Clean Air to mean pollution, and Freedom to mean restriction of rights.

Well, way to go Sea Shepherds. I wouldn't particularly mind if there were people on the whaling boats that you sunk. But good for you for not breaking the law.

...the brazen tactics of the SSCS are supported by the 1982 U.N. World Charter for Nature, which permits individual enforcement of international conservation laws. “The fact is that we don’t break laws, we uphold them,” Watson says, “and we will never abandon our campaigns.”

The Awesomeness Manifesto, by Umair Haque

This guy makes economics cool!

Innovation: it's the ultimate source of advantage, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the economic ring. Innovation is what every organization should be ruthlessly pursuing, right? Wrong.

I'd like to advance a hypothesis: awesomeness is the new innovation.

Monday Kickstarter - Self Destructing YouTube

These kinds of takeovers never stop being boring. The video is pretty cool too.

http://www.youtube.com/experiencere

Ironic Jesus Music Album Covers

Animal Farm Friday - Benjamin Button Baboon

It looks ugly and cute at the same time. Filed under WTF.

Bush, Clinton Debate At Radio City In February

"Minds That Move the World"? George W. Bush's mind can barely move his mouth properly.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Alan Grayson Money Bomb Nets $500k

From News Junkie Post. I did my part to help!

Monday Kickstarter - Things to do with a Wii

A cheap and easy way to turn almost any surface into a multi-touch display with a Wiimote.

See more Fun with Wiimote videos here.

Monday Kickstarter - Accountability

Inspiring to see someone brave enough to take on Israel for their war crimes in the recent war on Gaza, and also holding Hamas accountable for their war crimes.

Animal Farm Friday 2 - Blue Whale Tragedy

This is incredibly heartbreaking.

This the tragic sight of the largest mammal in the world - a majestic blue whale - washed ashore after being struck and killed by a passing ship.

Grayson v. Broun

If all Dems had balls like Rep. Grayson, we'd have a better country. I love it when congressmen (and women) get bitch-slapped by the Constitution.

(thanks Scamper)

Animal Farm Friday - A Bazillion Bats?

Worth fighting - and dying - for

This is extraordinarily moving.

The Billion Dollar Gram

Click to zoom. (h/t to Lemme).

Life on Mars?

Science gets us one step closer to finding out with the evidence-based discovery of paleo-lakes on Mars. Wicked awesomeness!

Animal Farm Friday - Rats in a (VR) Maze

How cool would it be to play a virtual cat and mouse game with a real mouse?

Miniature biological machines

Stunning simulation of DNA replication.

First watch this:

Then watch this:

Amazing!

Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

WOW!

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.

I'd like to know how this photo was taken

Thanks, DIP!

Escape from Debt City

That's one way of avoiding debtor's prison:

Jaubert explains that he bolted last year after government interrogators threatened to stick needles up his nose. With 007 panache and a woman’s all-encompassing burqa concealing his frogman gear, Jaubert slipped into the sea, swam out to a police patrol boat and disabled its fuel line so that it could not give chase. He then used a rubber dingy to get safely beyond the UAE’s territorial waters where he was met by a confederate in a sailboat. Eight days later they landed in India.

Monday Kickstarter - The Fun Theory

While I imagine this could be annoying after a while, it at least seems effective at getting people to use stairs.

Read more at Mashable.

Animal Farm Friday - Fighting over scraps

There's always a middle man getting more of the cut!

I would taste like spicy fish to a cannibal

Created by Recipe Star

Some Bad from GOOD - Top 8 CEO Compensation (Infographic)

Nice work by Dee Adams.

Animal Farm Friday (on Wednesday) - Home Alone

This couldn't wait.

October 16th

Monday Kickstarter - Imaginarium!

The trailer for Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is out, and it looks visually stunning!

Animal Farm Friday 2 - Shagged by a Bird!

Love the look on this bird's face!

(thanks, Scamper!)

Animal Farm Friday - Attack of the Kickin Chickens

Be a treehugger without hugging a tree

George and Bill

Wisdom from the grave.

Monday Kickstarter - Art imitating life

In this case, artists using Google Street View as inspiration for landscape paintings. V. cool.



Street View: