Beer-Drinking Tree Shrews: Sober As Judges : NPR
In the rain forest of Malaysia, scientists have found a small mammal, closely related to primates, whose major source of food is a type of beer.It's believed to be the only animal other than humans that chronically consumes alcohol. But this animal never appears drunk, according to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mostly Ghostly Music Sharing Blaaahhhggg!!!: "AT HOME WITH THE MUNSTERS" LP
I'm Learning To Share!: Larry Storch Reads Philip Roth's 'Epstein'
'Epstein' is a short story that appeared in author Philip Roth's first published book,'Goodbye, Columbus' in 1959. Like the title novella and other short stories in the book, it's theme relates to the concerns of urban American Jews - - specifically in this story, a middle-aged overbearing father and husband with demons of his own.
From the LP 'Larry Storch Reads Philip Roth's Epstein'(original Prestige/Lively Arts release circa 1962, this Prestige LP reissue circa 1969),
Real Dan Lyons Web Site » Blog Archive In case you missed it «
Woz apparently got himself into the front row at a taping of “Price is Right.” Sad stuff. Much love to William for passing along a link to the original version on Macenstein.
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Have you ever wanted to edit the web pages of another website? This simple line of code makes it possible.Of course you can’t actually edit the actual web page but you can edit the page as you see it on your screen.How to edit a website - cut & paste one line of code to make any site editable
Bad dancing draws suspicion, pot charges | sheboyganpress.com | Sheboygan Press
An 18-year-old Plymouth man whose bad dancing at a city festival attracted the attention of authorities was charged Monday with two drug-related misdemeanors, according to a criminal complaint.
SamePlace | Instant Messenger for Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird
Next-Generation Instant Messaging.User-friendly, secure, extensible—use it inside Firefox, Flock or Thunderbird.
Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine Online
Complete with interactive boxes that feature Super Mario sound effects when pushed, we have to admit that this installation makes us pretty nostalgic for our old, boxy, monochromatic Game Boy.
7 Awesome Ways To Reuse A Pringles Can | Life Hackery
Put all those Pringles cans you’ve emptied into good use and burn some fat and cholesterol along the way. Below are some things you can do with the long cylindrical shape of a Pringles container. These ideas range from obvious to awesome, with a little weirdness to pique your interest even further.
About Lexy
Just call 415-692-4933 from the same phone you subscribed with. Lexy will automatically play your quikcasts, starting with the most recently updated one. While you're listening, if you need anything, just say Lexy. She will be happy to assist you.
dandyid: manage your social graph once
Manage all of your social identifiers from a single location. Let friends on one service find you quickly and easily on another. Update once -- partner websites, services and apps will receive your changes automatically (with your permission).
Basic Hip Digital Oddio
Basic Hip Digital Oddio collects records from the fifties, sixties and beyond, focusing on soundtracks, pop instrumentals and incredibly strange music.
Fincher Brings Goon Comic to Big Screen | The Underwire from Wired.com
David Fincher is taking Dark Horse comic The Goon to the movies.Famously adept at crafting tightly wound creep-outs in Se7en, Zodiac and Fight Club, Fincher will team with Blur Studios to make the CG animated feature.Who exactly is the Goon? Hatched by Eric Powell nine years ago in his graphic novel series, the thug with an ugly mug serves as muscle for a mobster. The Goon's job: Dispatch zombies, skunk apes and other paranormal mutants.Goon is the first feature from Blur, the Venice, California-based outfit best known for its wacky TV commercials and Oscar-nominated Gopher Broke short.Dark Horse Entertainment plans to develop the project in-house, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Larry Harmon, who appeared as Bozo the Clown for decades and licensed the name to other Bozos around the world, had died at age 83.Harmon died Thursday at his home of congestive heart failure, his longtime publicist, Jerry Digney, told The Associated Press.Although not the first person to play Bozo, Harmon took on the famous clown's persona and, as an entrepreneur, he licensed the character to others, particularly TV stations. Those stations then recruited their own Bozos for local shows.Newsvine - Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83
Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » iTunes adds classic DC cartoons
iTunes is now carrying episodes of several of DC’s past cartoons, including Batman: The Animated Series, Super Friends, Batman Beyond and even Aquaman. Click here to check them out in iTunes.It doesn’t look like they have all of Batman: The Animated Series or Superman: The Animated Series quite yet … I never saw the end of the Superman series, for instance, and would like to download it. But hopefully they’ll get them eventually.
Jeffrey Tambor Confirms Arrested Development Movie | Comedy Central Insider - The Comedy Blog for Comedy Fans
Another day, another Arrested Development cast-member claiming the movie is happening. This time it's Jeffrey Tambor, who offered one of the most clear and overt statements on the matter yet. “After months of speculation, I think we have finally figured out for sure that we are indeed doing an Arrested Development movie," Tambor told EW.com at the premiere of Hellboy II on Sunday. "I am very excited about that. I love that cast and crew and I felt like we had more to say.""Finally." "For sure." "Indeed." Those words sound pretty definitive to me. Of course, there's still no studio greenlight as far as anyone knows, but hopefully next week the kid who played Annyong will insist the movie's bound for production.
Kellogg's, LEGO team up to train kids to choke | NetworkWorld.com Community
We're talking about a children's snack shaped like the tiny plastic building blocks that every kid fortunate enough to have toys has put in his or her mouth at one time or another -- or a hundred. (The only thing my kids like better than LEGOS is watching videos of "Star Wars" characters made out of LEGOS.)
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lets"lets" reuses existing things/garbage/scrap to create new uses and new identities
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Mozilla Labs » Blog Archive » Personas for Firefox
Personas for Firefox is a extension that adds lightweight theming to your browser.
Personas is a prototype that builds upon the ideas that:
- themes today are too hard to find, install and use
- graphic designers should be able to style the browser without having to code
- browsers can be more than just desktop software, they can include online components
- people just want their computer to be a little more fun and personal
Martinez said workers had replaced a group of nocturnal lemurs recently with the two new spider monkeys because lemurs rarely came out onto the island during the day.Workers had emptied the moat surrounding Monkey Island for cleaning, thinking the monkeys would stay inside despite the fact no water was there to serve as a barricade.Martinez said one monkey saw a garden hose near the edge and used it to climb up and over the moat wall. He then managed to jump onto the roof of the neighboring water filtration plant.Monkey Business
Specialists say that wearing open-toed footwear can increase the chance of getting lesions as the skin becomes exposed to intense sunlight, a key cause of skin tumours, or melanomas.Cancer that affects the feet is known as "acral melanoma" and typically occurs on the sole of the foot, between the toes or under the toenails.Flip-flops linked to skin cancer - Telegraph
Open Source Food | For Those Who Love To Cook™ - Recipes, Food Photos & Social Networking
Amazing Recipes. Delicious Food. Beautiful Photography. Created and rated by you and fellow food-lovers from all over the world. Open Source Food is your gastronomic hub where every visit will bring inspiration and a rumbling belly...
Rumor: A WebKit-based GBrowser?
In the post The Google Browser from earlier this year, someone going by the name “the Lizard” says that Google is developing its own, WebKit-based browser. Lizard argues that it is strategically dangerous to bet too much on just Firefox, which sends a lot of paid search traffic to Google, and that this made Google start an internal project in mid-2006 titled “GBrowser.”According to the Lizard, GBrowser is built on top of the open source WebKit browser framework
Where do they get those wonderful toys?: 18 obscenely wealthy comic-book and cartoon characters | The A.V. Club
Most billionaire superheroes consider costumed adventuring a higher calling, and think of their fortunes as just a convenient way to finance their mission. Not so Steve Dayton, the fifth richest man in the DC Universe. Obsessed with winning the hand of Rita Farr—The Doom Patrol's Elasti-Girl—Dayton used his wealth to construct a helmet that boosted his brainpower, turning him into the psychokinetic do-gooder Mento. He then married Farr, adopted teenage Doom Patroller Beast Boy, and ensconced them both in a mega-mansion roughly the size of a Las Vegas casino. Later, Elasti-Girl died, Dayton went nuts, Beast Boy changed his name a couple of times, Dayton became a crime lord for a while, a new Elasti-Girl arrived from a parallel dimension, and so on and so on. All of which proves that no matter how much money you have, if you're a minor DC character, nothing can buy your way out of convoluted continuity reboots.
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Ever Had Trouble Sending or Receiving Music?
SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals. We got fed up with the crappy tools available for sending and receiving music and felt we’d do things a little different. This is our version of how things should be.
SoundCloud is simple, it lets you...Send MusicSend tracks to one or 1000 people; any size, any format, super fast and flexible.
Receive Music Email, FTP and MegaSuperSendFile all suck for receiving music. Get a music only inbox instead (play button included).
Ready to tug on Superman’s cape? Heck, tear it off and take the tights back to the drawing board! Project: Rooftop is teaming up with Pulp Secret and Jim Hanley’s Universe for a new drawing contest that breaks even our own guidelines. That’s right, Jimmy Olsen, in honor of the 70th anniversary of Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1 way back in 1938, P:R, P.S., and JHU are putting out the call for redesigns of the first superhero with Superman: Man of Style! Jim Hanley’s Universe has provided these incredible prizes:
Grand Prize (1) - The Superman No. 14 statue, Superman: Birthright TPB signed by writer Mark Waid, and Superman #676 signed by our own Vito Delsante, who wrote the issue!
Gmail: Manually Enable Gmail Labs in Your Account
If the 13 new experimental features in Gmail Labs have you salivating for new Gmail functionality, but your account still hasn't been enabled, here's a quick solution: Just copy and paste https://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=1#settings in your address box when you're logged into Gmail to enable it manually.
FOXNews.com - Million-Dollar Reward Offered for Proof Bigfoot Exists - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News
Bigfoot and lake monsters, beware: There's a price on your heads.Binocular manufacturer Bushnell, along with Field & Stream magazine, have teamed up to offer $1 million to anyone who can "provide an unaltered photograph/video, verified and substantiated by a panel of scientific experts [including a zoologist and biologist], the evidence required to prove a Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Yeti exists."The contest started a few days ago and ends Dec. 15, but before heading out to claim your million, note that the rules' fine print states that they are not liable for any injury incurred during a Bigfoot attack.
I already love Jott! Now I love it more!
Jott™ - Feeds
Jott Feeds offers you a new and easy way to get updates from your favorite websites by listening to them on your mobile phone. It is a simple service designed to make accessing the information you want as easy as a phone call.Add any RSS feed to your Jott account, call Jott and have them read to you over your phone. Whether you are in the car, on the train, or walking around town- you can now listen in to your trusted sources of news and other content without needing Internet access.
Big Buck Bunny from Blender Foundation on Vimeo.
Big Buck Bunny on Vimeo
Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.
Electronista | Eee desktop titled EBOX, given June intro
ASUS' E-DT desktop take on the Eee PC has been given a final name, launch date, and specs, according to a leak sent to the Inquirer. Now just called the EBOX, the system is due to be unveiled at the major Computex show on June 3rd and will buck the Eee PC's past use of flash memory for storage: the stock model will carry a 160GB hard drive that provides it six times as much capacity as the 20GB Eee PC 900. The EBOX will also hold 2GB of RAM, or twice as much as the newer Eee notebooks.
Goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.
This google-interface behaves similar to a unix-shell.You type commands and the results are shown on this page.
SECRET FUN BLOG: JEAN SHEPHERD- SHEPHERD'S PIE
You know his legendary storytelling from A Christmas Story, but have you ever wondered what Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) has to say about the rest of our annual American rituals? Shepherd was a longtime radio personality and a successful author who's fierce sense of humor, expert wordplay, and uncanny ability to evoke powerful "sense memories" made him a true master of retrospection. Or as he put it— the "pleasant tinglings of mingled regret and exhilaration that we all call nostalgia."Here I'm offering a super-sized album of eight recordings of Jean reading some of his own published "short" stories (perfect for summer listening!) complete with a nifty new "cover" design. Jean serves up laugh-out-loud wit as he guides you through all the places you'd be lucky to visit this summer— the county fair, Saturday matinées at the Orpheum, and the yearly family drive to the cabin by the lake. Shep also covers prom and a devastating fireworks display before concluding with two of his familiar Christmas pieces.
Test-Drive Flock 1.2b Beta | Flock
Welcome to the Flock 1.2b beta!Flock 1.2 integrates even more of your favorite services, providing youchoice and the ability to stay connected to the services you care aboutwithout being tethered to a single location.
The Paris Review - Reel to Reel
When not pressing the valves on his trumpet or the record button on his tape recorder, Armstrong’s fingers found other arts with which to occupy themselves. One of them was collage, which became a visual outlet for his improvisational genius. The story goes that he did a series of collages on paper and tacked them up on the wall of his den, but Lucille, who had supervised the purchase and interior decoration of their house in Corona, Queens, objected. Armstrong decided to use his extensive library of tapes as a canvas instead, and the result is a collection of some five hundred decorated reel-to-reel boxes, one thousand collages counting front and back. The collages feature photographs of Armstrong with friends.
Condi may not be a rocker, but Kiss likes her - Yahoo! News
Use iGoogle and Google Reader in the Sidebar
A simple use for Google's iPhone interfaces is to add them as sidebars in Firefox or Opera. I mentioned last year some Google gadgets for Google Notebook, Google Talk, Google Docs, that could be displayed in a permanently-visible sidebar. Here are two interfaces optimized for iPhone that have permalinks:
ACT-I-VATE - New FEAR, MY DEAR
WhatTheFont : MyFonts
Ever wanted to find a font just like the one used by certain publications, corporations, or ad campaigns? Well now you can, using our WhatTheFont font recognition system. Upload a scanned image of the font and instantly find the closest matches in our database.
A new daily comic blog feature such artists as Gabe Swarr and Fred Osmond!
Patrick Owsley: Cartoon Art & More!: REMINDER - H-B TITLE CARD SET AND ART AVAILABLE TO OWN!
14-piece HANNA-BARBERA cartoon title card set and the 18" x 24" HANNA-BARBERA original art
FoxyTunes - Control any media player while surfing the Web and more...
The Newest version of Foxytunes has an embeded browser player. If you visit a website with mp3 files on it you can play them directly on the page with a new Yahoo! webpage player. Much like the songbird player.
this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter.twistori
Choose a word and watch how they appear in real time
Sue Simmons curses on live television broadcast -- -- Newsday.com
During the 10 p.m. hour, the station featured a brief promotion for the 11 p.m. news with Simmons and Chuck Scarborough. Simmons was teasing a story about rising grocery prices when the footage laid over her voice switched to a cruise ship that had a passenger go overboard.That's when Simmons blurted "What the ---- are you doing?"
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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
An animated short using the walls of the city as it's canvas.
Post a notable quote to Twitter, preface it with "overheard" and we’ll do the rest.Tweets - Overheard.itOverheard.it is a fun site that pulls in all the fun things people overhear on Twitter.
Ways to interact
- If your tweets are unprotected, just start a tweet with "overheard" and we'll snag it.
PaidContent wrote last night that Turner will fold comedy site SuperDeluxe into Adult Swim and lay off much of the SuperDeluxe staff. Turner sent us the following statement this morning: “Effective immediately, we will begin transitioning the content of Super Deluxe.com to Adult Swim.com and merge the operation of both sites. This move allows us to grow more strategically and create a richer, stronger platform that builds on Adult Swim’s number-one position with young adults.”SuperDeluxe Sinks into Adult Swim « NewTeeVee
Bungee Connect :: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Bungee Connect is a platform all about interactive applications connected to multiple web services and databases. It's a great fit for many types of real-world applications connecting live to CRM, business productivity systems, e-commerce, entertainment, social networking,...whatever you need.
What is that all about?Page2RSS - Create an RSS feed for any web page
It is a service that helps you monitor web sites that do not publish feeds. It will check any web page for updates and deliver them to your favorite RSS aggregator.
Location-based social networkingDiscover who visits your favorite places. Join the community in real time.Track your friendsSee where your friends are and what they're up to, in real time.Meet people around youMeet real world friends. Reveal your location, befriend, and chat with people around you.brightkite.com
Michael Freiman
The Resignitent Series from mike on Vimeo.
My friend Michael Freiman just posted a video outlining his current art projects. His pursuit of Beer, Words and what is interesting?
Movies Through the Eyes of Kids
Once upon a time we were all pretty stupid. It's an unfortunate side effect of being young, impatient, and uncultured. Eventually we grew larger, gained extra limbs, and became adults. But during that horrifying nightmare of youth, with all its jumbled priorities, interests, and miniature attention spans, we saw things remarkably different. With that in mind, the Something Awful Forum Goons took a big pile of movies and edited them to show how they would appear when viewed through the eyes of the typical elementary school kid.
Student 'Twitters' his way out of Egyptian jail - CNN.com
Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested April 10.On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter.The message only had one word. "Arrested."Within seconds, colleagues in the United States and his blogger-friends in Egypt -- the same ones who had taught him the tool only a week earlier -- were alerted that he was being held.
andLinux.org -- Run Linux natively inside Windows
andLinux uses coLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is a bit like running Linux in a virtual machine, coLinux differs itself by being more of a merger of Windows and the Linux kernel and not an emulated PC, making it more efficient. Xming is used as X server and PulseAudio as sound server.
Three Men Put Human Feces In Microwave At Sandy 7-11
Police are looking for three men who put human feces in a microwave inside a 7-11 store in Sandy, Utah.Officers say the men put a one gallon plastic baggie with human feces inside the microwave in the store at 2175 East and 9400 South and set the timer at ten minutes.The suspects left the store and the feces bag blew up ruining the microwave and spreading the feces and ugly odor around the store. The 7-11 had to be aired out for a long period of time.
Download YouTube Videos as MP4 Files
An interesting side-effect of YouTube's recent push for higher quality videos is that most videos can be downloaded as MP4 files directly from YouTube. Until now, you could only get FLV files from your browser's cache or using one of the many websites that let you download YouTube videos. In fact, to download the MP4 files, you need to use the same URL like for FLV files and append "&fmt=18":
Art Price, Jr., 40, has been charged with four counts of public indecency after a neighbor videotaped him getting all nasty with the umbrella hole in the middle of his plastic picnic table. Apparently preferring the table's legs in the air, Price reportedly flipped the table over before forcing himself inside of it.No Picnic: Man Charged With Screwing a Patio Table - Asylum | For All Mankind
Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows
Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!
Relevantly Speaking #11: Matt Galligan of Socialthing!
Nice interview with Matt at SXSW
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