Disaster Aid, UN Style

FOR EVERY HUNDRED
WE’LL KEEP TWENTY.
UN SAYS “SURE!”
“IT’S NOT OUR MONEY!”
BURMA SHAVE

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Lucas with the Lid Off (Michel Gondry, director, 1994)

What a cool video. Early rap/hip-hop, before all the idiot gangstas turned the genre into tedious mysogonistic crap.I’ve never seen this before, but apparently it was done in one continuous take with a steadycam. Click on the video for the YouTube page with the full lyrics and more info. via The Anchoress
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FBI: We Don’t Have Tesla’s Death Ray

FBI: We Don’t Have Tesla’s Death Ray | Threat Level from Wired.com
Uh oh. If they don’t have it, WHO DOES? (CUE DRAMATIC MUSIC)

“Don’t be ridiculous! The death ray we use here at the FBI is a completely different model.”

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Funny commercial from Thailand

Steph and I were just talking about why those “Ghost Hunter” shows always turn out the lights and stumble around the dark. This commercial reminded me of that.

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Cadillac

A nice gallery of B&W photos:
Joseph Bellows Gallery – Cadillac – Images

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Energy independence or moonshine?

Rand Simberg, my favorite blogger for things space and science related, points out the flaws in counting on an “Apollo Program for energy” as a serious solution.
But my favorite is when I hear people call for a “Manhattan Project for energy”. We already had one of those about 65 years ago, and it found a [...]

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Hubble Kaleidoscope Finds Evidence Of Space Looking All Crazy | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

Hubble Kaleidoscope Finds Evidence Of Space Looking All Crazy | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Despite excitement over the discovery that space is all crazy-looking, a number of legislators have threatened to cut funding for NASA’s kaleidoscopic program. An outspoken critic of the agency, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said she hopes NASA scientists don’t [...]

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The Life Aquatic

This article on the practicality of “seasteading” reminded me of the hazy legal status of these British Sea Forts. I’ve always interested in the Munsell sea forts ever since a sea fort of a different type made an appearance in “The Sea Devils” episode of Doctor Who.
Some cool pictures of the Forts: The Sea Forts [...]

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Photograph a cop, go to jail? Utterly stupid.

I’ve taken a lot of flack on various photo forums for occasionally defending the police, and for suggesting that good cops are not the natural enemies of photographers. When bad cops like this one come along and abuse their authority in such a blatant way it makes defending the good ones that much harder:
Tennesee man [...]

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Dean Martin – On The Street Where You Live

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