Does being colorblind mean never having to be blue?

Bits & Pieces has some interesting facts about color-blindness. Phew, that was close! I almost learned something!




One of the more amusing (or controversial) pieces from the Christopher Fisher showing at 58 gallery.




Counting Crows - "Colorblind"

Can you gimme a hand here?

15 Mildly Horrifying Vintage Prostheses




Rose McGowan played a stripper with a heart of gold and a leg of gun in 2007's Planet Terror.




Trailer for one of my most favorite funny movies ever, the Farrelly Brothers 1996 gem Kingpin.




Blues Traveler - "Hook"

Obi Wan had a cat?

Despite all his cool trips to Tosche Station picking up power converters and whatnot, deep down Luke is still pretty much of a dork.

I Am Joe's Lamestream Media

The Fake AP Stylebook Twitter feed provides, er... "helpful" guidelines for you New Media Journos out there. Here's a couple to prime the pump for you Pulitzer-winning wannabes:

• The correct plural forms are as follows: surgeons general, brothers-in-law, Spiders-Man.

• Real estate listings should not describe a building as a "murder house." Be specific: ax murder house, chainsaw murder house.

• "Ophthalmologist" has an 'h' in it. A handy mnemonic for this is that the 'h' stands for, "Huh! There's a 'h' in 'ophthalmologist'!"

Is it illegal to text "Fire!" in a crowded theater?

Thank God his texting thumbs weren't damaged.




Maurice Moss from the BBC's sitcom "The IT Crowd" hopes technology will save the day.

Morning Jukebox

L7 - Pretend We're Dead

C is for cookie, that's good enough for Twitty

L.A. musician Andy Rehfeldt re-records popular music in unexpected styles and comes up with a world where Motorhead sings "Ace of Spades" Broadway Musical style, country legend Conway Twitty gets his Cookie Monster voice on with a death metal "I See the Want To in Your Eyes" and where Slipknot performs a lovely Radio Disney-ized version of "Wait and Bleed" (warning: pleasant-sounding as the Slipknot song is -- and who thought anyone would ever type that combination of words -- there are a couple of instances of NSFW language going on).

A couple of my other favorites below, but really, do yourself a favor and subscribe to the AndyRehfeldt YouTube channel.


Metallica-Enter Sandman (Smooth Jazz Version)


Kiss-Detroit Rock City(Reggae Version)

The Anty 500

'The vortex of ants... is a circular mill where a group of ants (sometimes hundreds to millions of ants) get separated from the main swarm and ended up following each other’s scent in a circle. It’s called the death spiral because they continue to go in circles until they’re exhausted and die.'




Billy Preston - Will it go Round in Circles 1973 live Midnight Special

Kill pussycats! Faster! Faster!

The Vintage Ads blog is currently running a contest to find the Creepiest Kids Ad, and this is one of the five finalists. We may never know why they thought blood-red dye was the perfect color choice for this ad, making it appear that Little Miss Dahmer has just skinned the kitty, but we're glad for the lapse in judgement just the same.

Stop on by and cast your vote in the comments section! (via Boing Boing)

It's just a jump to the left

A really well-done montage of cinematic dance scenes (some expected: Footloose, Flashdance and not-so-expected: Rocky Horror, Clerks II) all mashed up with some Kenny Loggins. (via Kottke)

Bipolar Mama

The Human Magnet (via Everlasting Blort)

This is from the Brit rag The Daily Mail, for which the American equivalent might be Weekly World News when it comes to trustworthiness and truthiness, but it is an amusing story nonetheless.

A visit to the nickelodeon

The Empire Strikes Back: Silent Movie Edition. Done exactly right. It's got the scratched film and the jerkiness/ jumpiness as well as the brightness oversaturation when the light sabers clash. Beautiful. Makes me wish there was an entire movie's worth. (via Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!)




Die Hard: The Ballad of John McClane Not quite as artful as the above Star Wars clip. Goes a bit overboard with the stilted dialgoue, trying too hard to sound "old-timey". Still, I get a kick out of the whole faux-silent look...




From The Simpsons, it's the first pairing of Itchy and Scratchy in Steamboat Itchy, a parody of the Walt Disney 1928 animation Steamboat Willie, the character that later became Mickey Mouse.

Soft and absorbent on the outside, tiny and pretty on theinside

Anastassia Elias has made some lovely dioramas on the inside of empty toilet paper rolls. (via Laughing Squid)

You Got Me Floating

Two Fans, One Paper Airplane




Floating (Lit) Light Bulb

This movie demonstrates an implementation of wireless energy transfer, in combination with magnetic levitation. The result is a light bulb(20 Watt) floating in mid-air, while lit.

Ship Floating on Nothing




Magnetic Floating Bed by architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars.

I guess this is for real, though I'd never heard of it. TIME Magazine listed it as a Best Invention for 2006, so I guess it's an actual thing you could buy if you had the $1,000,000+ burning a hole in your (doubtless very huge) pockets.

The concept is you have very powerful magnets embedded in the floor, and the bottom side of the bed has magnets of the same polarity, which would repel each other. The bed is tethered in each of the four corners to prevent it from slamming up into the ceiling, and can withstand a load of 900kg, or the weight of about eleven persons.

According to the designer, the top of the bed is shielded from the magnetic force through various layers of plastics and other materials, and is safe not only for humans, but for laptops and other electronics as well. Uh-huh. You first.




Jape - Floating

Sorry, Steven, can we take that scene again? I said "Rrah owwhr" when the actual line should be "Rrahrw owrrh"

Courtesy of Savage Chickens, the only web's most popular Sticky Notes-based comic, it's "All of Chewbacca's Dialogue From Star Wars". This is but a little section, click to see the full thang drawn on an extra-large 12″ x 12″ megasticky note. (via Boing Boing)



Bonus GWMIOOWIENCTYWTIP ("Getting Way More Information Out Of What Is Essentially Nonverbal Communication Than You Would Think Is Possible") Graphic: