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When Did Americans Become Rotten Souless Voyeurs?

Take a look at these two recent YouTube clips and tell me something's not rotting at the core of our culture.

The first clip is a man being confronted by police at a Carl's Jr. restaurant.  He repeatedly refuses to cooperate, shrugs off the taser, then moves to swing a metal tool of some kind at one of the officers and is shot dead.

Someone gets shot ten times right in front of you and you giggle hysterically?  Really?

The second clip shows an elderly woman driving in the median of the highway.  Apparently she was having some sort of medical issue which caused her to be confused.

"I wanna see what happens when they get to the bridge! Ha ha ha!"

Now both clips are breathtaking to watch, and I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't watch YouTube, but when did it become commonplace for Americans to laugh at people who are suffering?

I weep for the future.

Planetary Scale Comparison Video

Here's an amazing video by Brad Goodspeed showing what several planets would look like in our night sky if they orbited the Earth at the same distance as the moon.

I just wish he'd done Saturn so we could see what the rings would look like.  Amazing work though, my hat's off to him.

Ok Go "White Knuckles"

Found this little gem over at Where Are My Keys? today.

All the Ok Go videos are like this, super creative, fun and funky, perfectly choreographed, and usually filmed in a single take. And dogs rock, so this one is a win win.

If you like this one check out their YouTube channel.

EXIT QUESTION: Is it just me, or does this sound like Prince circa "Sign Of The Times"?

P.S. Did you spot the goat?

67 Year Old Veteran Shows Us The Difference Between "Thug Life" And Real Life

Listening to gangsta rap doesn't make you a tough guy, however fighting in an actual WAR (not a rhyming one) probably does.

Can you say "busta"?

8 Bit Version Of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon"

This may be the coolest geek thing I've seen all year.

Hat tip to Brad Smith for truly going where no man has gone before!

I just downloaded all the MP3's.  They are going in my collection and on my Zune.  Can't wait to play that for my mom on our next road trip.  She'll REALLY trip!

Seperated At Birth?

Blog buddy Lord Mock sent me a photo to illustrate the uncanny resemblance of our younger selves.  Notice that even the pants are the same...

Like he says, it's either very cool or very creepy... I think I'll need to have a little talk with mom and see if I have any other secret siblings out there.

Welcome to the family Mock!

Create Your Own Star Trek Episode

Here's a handy flowchart you can use to easily create your own Star Trek episode (click to enlarge):

 

That's hilarious, and so true.  Kudos to the creator!

Sungha Jung "Hotel California"

The force is strong with this one.

I didn't hear one wrong note!  The kid's got a real gift.

 

Listen Up!

Hat tip to Third World County.

Carl Sagan featuring Stephen Hawking "A Glorious Dawn"

I loved Cosmos when I was a kid.  After Star Wars came out I'd watch anything space-related and be thrilled, even PBS documentaries.  My mother gave me the Cosmos book for Christmas when I was ten, and I thought it was the coolest thing I got that year... Yes, I've always been a geek.

Imagine my geeky surprise when I found two of my geek heroes were combined into this pretty sweet music video!

It's actually pretty good.  I'll probably even go hunting for an MP3 file later.

UPDATE: This was created by Color Pulse Music, and you can download the MP3 on their website!

Decimals Are Small, But They Make A Big Difference

Like when they forget to add them in the price of gas:

Hat tip to my buddy Dan for the pic.  Now he can tell his kids he remembers when gas was only twenty five cents a gallon.

Table Tap Rap

I don't care if you like rap music or not, this kid's got some talent to be creating all that sound with just two pens and a tabletop!

Can't really understand the words though... he might try to enunciate a bit, then again that's not very "street" is it?

This reminds me of my 12th grade English class where me and some kids on the other side of the room would battle back and forth with different beats whenever the teacher left the room.  I was pretty musical, but none of us were as good as this dude...

Hat tip to H8torade.  Welcome to my Guilty Pleasures list.

Cosplay Babe

I'm going with something different for this week's babe post, a cosplay babe. 

Cosplay is a hobby of sorts, where people create costumes inspired by comic books or movies, usually Japanese stuff.  Whatever it is I'm digging it, at least when they start with a pretty hot chick as a base for their "character".

 

I have absolutely no idea who this chick is supposed to be, but she's pretty tasty, so who cares?

Hat tip to Aardvarks for the inspiration. 

Preamble To The Constitution On License Plates

Liu Bolin

Liu Bolin is an artist known in his native China as "the invisible man" for his series of photographs where he paints himself to blend into the background.  These are real photographs, not digital manipulations!

Amazing...

Several more after the jump.

OMG! Rick Astley Nirvana Mashup

A heady combination of two things previously thought to be uncombinable, by some guy named DJ Morgoth.

Wow...  That was really well done, but...  was it good?  I can't decide.  Is it appealing just for the sheer craziness, or is there some musicality in there?

Amazing Photo: F-18 Apartment Flyby

That is not a Photoshop!  It's a real photo capturing the moment a US Navy F-18 buzzed an apartment building along the Detroit River as part of the opening ceremony of a speedboat race last weekend. 

Did the guy standing on the balcony get knocked down by the jet blast?  I'd be surprised if that didn't break a few windows, just from the noise and vibration.  How many dogs suddenly piddled on the carpet in that building?

Speaking Of Hoaxes... New Lifeform Discovered In NC Sewer?

Via Hot Air:

"Unknown lifeforms picked up by a sewer snakecam in North Carolina."

WARNING: Kinda gross.  Don't watch during your lunch hour!

Makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck don't it?  I hope it's fake, because these things are disgusting!

UPDATE: Via Geekologie we have an explanation from a scientist:

They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.

There you have it.

Korean Policeman Rocking Out At The Station

This cop can dance like it's nobody's business!

Hat tip to Mitchieville, who must have known I was overdue for some funny.

P.S. The song is "Nobody" by The Wonder Girls.

Drunk Monkeys

Hat tip to Innocent Bystanders.

LED Bike Wheels!

This almost makes me want to get out and exercise!

Almost.

Finally, A Che Product I Would Wear

Available for purchase at Etsy.com.

White Men Can't Jump?

Well, maybe not, but they ARE really creative.

That is pretty damn cool, but what the hell does "Dude Perfect" mean?   Sounds a little fruity to me.

Amazing Car Detailing

I know... you're thinking "what a stupid thing to post about on your blog", but wait until you take a look.

1. It's a Lamborghini Gallardo he's detailing, which is THE hottest ride on the planet IMHO.
2. This detailing is so incredibly thorough, and so insanely extreme that nothing is missed.  Not even the INSIDE of the fuel cap escapes scrutiny
3. I'm a dude, and we dudes dig this kind of thing.

So click on over to Leenks and watch an amazing car get amazingly clean.

ThruYou

This is just brilliant.

The creator of this clip sampled audio and video from numerous YouTube clips submitted by other people and then combined them all into one song and video. 

I'm really impressed.  These people probably had no idea their clip would be used this way, and that's the beauty of it.  Wouldn't you love to see the look on their faces when they see what somebody made with their little video? 

There are several more tracks availble on the ThruYou website.

Free D&D?

Wizards Of The Coast is promoting the launch of the 4th Edition of the Dungeons & Dragons game with a free downloadable kit called D&D Test Drive that contains everything you need to give D&D roleplaying a try.  Well, everything except the munchies, some friends, and the dice... those things don't PDF too well, so you're on your own.

So round up some buddies, a bag of Cheetos, a case of Mountain Dew, and that old bag of dice.  It's time to get your game on!

The World Is Going To End In 2012

Just thought you'd like to know about it in advance, so you can at least enjoy blowing all that retirement money before we all fry. 

For scary speculation about the end of civilization in 2012, people usually turn to followers of cryptic Mayan prophecy, not scientists. But that’s exactly what a group of NASA-assembled researchers described in a chilling report issued earlier this year on the destructive potential of solar storms.

Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy that could disrupt Earth’s magnetic field, overwhelming high-voltage transformers with vast electrical currents and short-circuiting energy grids. Such a catastrophe would cost the United States "$1 trillion to $2 trillion in the first year," concluded the panel, and "full recovery could take 4 to 10 years." That would, of course, be just a fraction of global damages. 

Good-bye, civilization.

Worse yet, the next period of intense solar activity is expected in 2012, and coincides with the presence of an unusually large hole in Earth’s geomagnetic shield. But the report received relatively little attention, perhaps because of 2012’s supernatural connotations. Mayan astronomers supposedly predicted that 2012 would mark the calamitous "birth of a new era."

Click on over to Wired for the full story.  You can thank me later, just make sure it's before 2012 I guess.

This Beatbox Dude Is Beyond Amazing

Jones' Good Ass BBQ And Foot Massage

Yes, this is a real business, not a spoof.  Really.

He also runs a truck rental and storage business.  Be sure to check out his website.

Wow! Close Up Pics Of Saturn And It's Moons

Nasa has just release a set of stunning new images taken by the Cassini spacecraft of Saturn, it's rings, and it's many moons.  They are so detailed and so close up that you feel like you are right there looking out a porthole in your spaceship!  Amazing.

A large asteroid (small moon?) rides along Saturn's ringplane in front of the cloud covered moon Titan.

A View of the moon Rhea against the backdrop of Saturn's immense ringplane.

Ripples in the ringplane caused by the gravity of a moon passing by.

Click here to see the other images in the set. Truly remarkable.

Most Awesome One In A Million Basketball Shot EVAH

Full court, at the buzzer, off the backboard, up to the ceiling, off a furnace, rolls down a rope and... nothing but net!

Amazing.

Must See Video: Juan Enriquez At TED

Juan Enriquez speaking at TED about the current economic crisis, the coming wave of technological advances and what it all means to the human race.

Breathtaking.  Not the science part, but the part where he lectured all those college types who voted for Obama about how a real economy functions and what needs to happen in order to keep it functioning.  And they applauded?  Oh, the irony... 

I also was not aware we'd made a heart from stem cells and that it started beating on it's own.  Wild.

Nerdy Lesbians...

Hat tip to Aardvarks & Asshats.

Pole Dance Instructional Video

Strippers Exotic dancers have always fascinated me for some reason, but it wasn't until watching this video that I realized it was the intricacies of their pole dancing technique that I found so captivating.

Yeah, I could watch that for hours... Hey, where did all these dollar bills on my keyboard come from?

Cat Shit One? (Japanese People Are Crazy)

This is a trailer for a Japanese animated movie called Cat Shit One... Yes, that's the real title.  I'm assuming it sounded really badass in Japanese. 

Okay.. I'm confused.  Part of me is thinking "wow, that was actually kinda cool", but the other part of me is thinking "Cute bunny snipers? WTF? I want no part of this Japanese insanity".

UPDATE: I think I might have figured this out somewhat.  Why make the movie with bunnies and muslim-looking camels?  Because political correctness would make doing it with people a real hassle.  This way the filmakers can say "What do you mean you are offended?  Are you a camel?"

The Imperial March Played On A Tesla Coil... WTF?

Hat tip to Geekologie.

Manahmanah

The Next Big Thing?

Geek Target Practice

Who Eats This Stuff?

Star Wars Imperial Currency

Wyatt Earp's Hate Mail

My long time blog bud Wyatt Earp recently blogged about Al Sharpton's latest "protest", i.e. attempt to blackmail a company using trumped up charges of racism.  His commentary caught the attention of a Sharpton disciple named Marlene, who was eager to apply her mastery of language, politics, history and racism in the comments section.  Here is an excerpt from her diatribe:

[...] Take heed new world order puppies, you like sheep, came as all the volunteer slaves of America, to think you could live a wholesome life in spite of God’s wrath of infringement for 400 years against Blacks in involuntary servitude. YOU STEPPED FOR SATAN ON 35 DECADES ON BLACKS WHO BUILT AMERICA, FOR YOUR AMERICAN DREAM. In the end you will find out all you own is your legacy of VOLUNTEERING FOR SLAVERY. BECAUSE YOUR HOUSES YOUR LOOSING WAS NEVER YOURS. HOW COULD IT BE?cause someone told you 400 years of slavery force didn’t matter? SEE YOU ARE THE VOLUNTEER SLAVES, THE PUPPETS AND SIMPLES OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER. You still worry about Blacks, when Hispanics are shitting on your land, suing you left and right, and raping and killing, and burrying pregnant White women. ie. chandra levy. [...]

Ye, that's only an excerpt...  Be sure to go read the rest of it, along with Wyatt's rebuttal.  Comedy gold.

Fanboy Bedroom

The only female who's ever been in that bedroom is probably his mother, when she vacuums. 

Teach A Bird To Fish...

...and he's awesome!  This bird uses bread to lure fish in then snaps them up.

Dumb animals indeed.  I think most animals are a lot smarter than we think.  I still love a good steak though.  Whatevs.

Riding High

Word Cloud Art

I found a really cool website called Wordle that automatically creates a word cloud image from any text or website.  For instance, here is the cloud for this website as of today:

Words repeated more frequently are larger, and less used words are smaller.  Placement and coloration are randomized.  There are a large number of alignments, fonts, and color schemes to choose from so the variation is nearly endless.  

Mystery Of Stonehenge Solved?

Scritti Politti "Perfect Way" + Japanese People Are Wacky

So, I've been posting a variety of cool tunes via YouTube and I decided it was time for some classic 80's stuff.  So, I went searching for a video for "Perfect Way" by Scritti Politti.  I couldn't find the actual video anywhere, but I did stumble across this bit of wierdness:

Now, on one hand I'm glad to have all the lyrics, because some of them had never made sense to me and I'm grateful for twenty four years of confusion being put to an end.  On the other hand, what the hell is up with the Japanese?  Sure the chick dancing is kinda cute, but a maid costume with pink fluffy ears and paws?  I just don't get it...

I believe Japanese people are descended from aliens from outer space.  Let me know if you've got a better explanation.

P.S. Don't miss Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Two Tribes", The Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams, Depeche Mode "Just Can't Get Enough" or the Duran Duran "Girls On Film" videos by the space aliens while you're getting your freaky deaky on.  Don't click on the J Geils "Centerfold" link though... that is liable to get you arrested.

Obama Launches New US Currency

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