Genius says Madonna ripped him off
Posted: February 17, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »This guy thinks Madonna ripped him off for her track “Give Me All Your Luvin.’” Could be. I dunno. Maybe. But he can be comforted with the knowledge that his song is by far the superior work out of the two. This is “L.O.V.E. Banana” by Joao Brasil, feat Lovefoxx. It’s awesome.
Crazy dude dives from 36 feet into 12 inches of water
Posted: February 16, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
So, I always thought the Bugs Bunny cartoon about the high dive into a bucket was about a thing that folks don’t actually do. You know, it’s funny because it’s impossible. Apparently, it’s not, though.
This guy Darren Taylor does it all the time. Darren – who was voted “most likely to break his neck” in high school – broke the Guinness record for the 13th time by diving into 30 cm (11.8 in) of water from a height of 11.05 m (36 ft 3 in) on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 10 March 2011.
This shiz is nuts. See more videos of dudes diving off high things into teeny pools of water here.
Via: Laughing Squid & The Awesomer
Interactive graphic of “The Scale of the Universe,” by a 14 year old boy
Posted: February 13, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
When I was 14 years old I was skipping class, hanging out in the quad smoking cigarettes and mooning over punk rock boys.
These 14-year-old twins created an interactive animation called “The Scale of the Universe 2″ which shows uh, the scale of the universe, from the teeniest matter like quantum foam to the largest – the observable universe. What the hell is wrong with kids these days?
ABC News says “Scale of the Universe 2″ was created by Cary Huang, a 14-year-old ninth grader from Moraga, California, with the help of his twin Brother Michael.
“It was not a school project — just for fun,” says Cary. “However, my science teacher loved it so much she showed [it] to the class! My brother, Michael, helped me put it on the internet.”
This isn’t the interactive version. Click here for that. On that one, you can click on each object to get more information about it and control the zoom.
And yes, as the name suggests, there was a “The Scale of the Universe 1.” Cary says the first had less information in it, and the graphics needed work.
Eyeroll. It’s freakin’ brilliant.
I’ve wasted my life.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/589217
Rejection letter rejection
Posted: February 10, 2012 Filed under: Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
I hope this guy got the job after this.
via Geeks Are Sexy
Police composite sketches of literary characters
Posted: February 10, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
Found this through my amazing friend Lisa Mesbur and The Daily What. It’s a Tumblr of composite sketches of literary characters created using law enforcement composite sketch software and descriptions of the characters. And it’s all kinds of awesome.
To go with the image above:
“Humbert Humbert, Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov [but you could already tell that right? Like, duh. So obvs.]
Gloomy good looks…Clean-cut jaw, muscular hand, deep sonorous voice…broad shoulder…I was, and still am, despite mes malheurs, an exceptionally handsome male; slow-moving, tall, with soft dark hair and a gloomy but all the more seductive cast of demeanor. Exceptional virility often reflects in the subject’s displayable features a sullen and congested something that pertains to what he has to conceal. And this was my case…But instead I am lanky, big-boned, wooly-chested Humbert Humbert, with thick black eyebrows…A cesspoolful of rotting monsters behind his slow boyish smile…aging ape eyes…Humbert’s face might twitch with neuralgia.”
The Tumblr is by Brian Joseph Davis. http://thecomposites.tumblr.com/
Florida couple told their 2-faced kitty is a “beast” and to kill it
Posted: February 5, 2012 Filed under: pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
Check out this adorable Janus kitten.
Pros:
1. The couple that owns him is adorable.
2. His mom seems to have taken to him as well, which isn’t always the case with Janus cats.
3. His name is Harvey Dent.
Cons:
1. The odds of survival are against him.
2. They might not be able to afford his vet bills.
3. If you live in Port Charlotte, Florida, people on Craigslist tell you a black cat with two faces is an “abomination” and that you’re evil if you don’t kill it.
Awesome new menswear line from Thom Browne
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: fashion, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »I was gonna get this outfit for David but I’m not sure he’d have anywhere to wear it. How come nobody ever invites us to Fetish parties at Eton? Or to Pinhead’s Oxford graduation? My friends suck.
See the rest of this guy Thom Browne’s menswear collection here at Super Punch. (via Laughing Squid)
R.I.P. Johnny Otis…of Snatch and the Poontangs (among other things)
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: music, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
R.I.P. Johhny Otis, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, talent scout, deejay, “Godfather of R&B.” Otis died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 90.
Here’s a 1969 recording Otis made as Snatch and the Poontangs with his son Shuggie on guitar and Delmar “Mighty Mouth” Evans on vocals. Yep. Snatch and the Poontangs.
Florida: Call # on sign to report missing sign. Wait..what?
Posted: January 19, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff 1 Comment »
This is an actual thing, and not a hoax.
John Stossel of Fox Business called The Florida Department of Revenue and asked for an explanation. He was told, “A vending machine operator that does not place the notice on the machine presumably is not in compliance with the other requirements such as registration and payment of the tax.”
So, it just like Van Halen’s famous rider clause demanding no brown M&M’s anywhere in the backstage area on penalty of forfeiture of the show with full payment to the band. This has gone down in legend as an example of the band’s diva behaviour at the height of their career (late 70′s-early 80s). But in reality it was a test to see that producers were paying attention, since VH gigs were so technically complex for the time. David Lee Roth explained in his 1997 book Crazy from the Heat, “ if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl . . . well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.”
See? The same! Sort of.
But the question remains…if the sign is missing, how do we know what number to call?
(Image via popehat)
Supercut of Lionel Richie’s Hello!
Posted: January 17, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
This made my day. Ha! Someone took the time to go through all these movies just so they could put together a video of actors saying the lyrics to Lionel Richie’s “Hello,” It’s so weird that this is a thing.
Last week I found one of Obama “singing” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” Who. Has. This. Sort. Of. Time? WHO? (Oh, actually, I have an answer. For the first one, anyway. This guy)
I sometimes wish I wasn’t the sort of person who needed eight hours of sleep a night, as I often think one thing that’s holding me back from incredible success is my sleep requirements. The things I could accomplish with three or four more hours in a day! Is the work of an insomniac? Is this what people with extra time on their hands do? Or is there some sort of software that does it for you?
