October 24, 2015
DANGER MASTER ROBINSON
WARNING WARNING: Scientist discovers puppy-sized spider in rainforest
Deep down Louisiana close to New Orleans
Chuck Berry was born in 1926. Here he is performing Johnny B Goode: The date is April 14, 2014.
BEEP! BEEP! MURDER!
“Bette Davis was right—bitches are fun to play.”
Maureen O'Hara, Irish-born star of The Quiet Man and more, dies aged 95. [The Guardian] [more inside]
Two owls? Count me in!
whatever colors you have in your mind
To support their latest album the band Dawes recently held a competition in Paris where fans uploaded videos lip synching the lyrics to the song “All Your Favorite Bands"” for a chance to cover his/her favorite classic rock song with the group. The winner was a woman named Paloma, and her favorite classic rock song is Lay Lady Lay and here is their version.
The World Is Now a Chaotic Mess
This week, in an article for The Nation, Bill McKibben reports the story of how two separate teams of reporters at Inside Climate News and The Los Angeles Times have, “reached the same bombshell conclusion: ExxonMobil, the world’s largest and most powerful oil company, knew everything there was to know about climate change by the mid-1980s, and then spent the next few decades systematically funding climate denial and lying about the state of the science.”
...particular wedges not readily available at the toystore
In early 2010, experimental multi-instrumentalist and headgear innovator Buckethead (previously) released It's Alive, the first of a series of albums called "Buckethead Pikes" sold directly to fans "from a small kiosk inside the Bucketheadland park." While things started out slowly, with a release now and then squeezed in between other commitments, by 2014 Buckethead had left most of the bands he'd been playing with, and was releasing on average one pike per week. And he has kept going; earlier today, Buckethead released pike album #199
8 Days Til Halloween: Flare Up, with #200 not very far away. [more inside]
The first person to ever really *tune* a banjo …
Bill Keith, creator of melodic bluegrass and the mechanical wonders that are Keith Banjo D-Tuners (used here), has left us.
The biggest raise our mothers will ever receive
On Friday, South African university students achieved a historic victory; after a week's protest they ensured there would be no fee increases at universities in 2016. This has been led by women. [more inside]
The Mostly True Adventures Of Standup Comedy’s Legendary Frat House
Little videos about talking eggs and a burnt red bean bun, from Japan
Hello Kitty's newest friend is an egg named Gudetama, who is unmotivated because he realizes he only exists to be eaten. He has a twitter account (really, he does). Each episode ends with the gudetama song and dance, and there is a handy playlist of 18 short shorts with English subtitles. If you want some more talking food, try some KogePan, or burned bread (unofficial fansite), which also has a handy playlist of the 10 episodes, but organized in reverse order. (KogePan previously, but the links are dead.)
Quality meat, No fillers. Or maybe just some fillers.
The Hot Dog Report: Everyone makes jokes about chicken lips in their hot dogs but someone finally tested a wide variety of brands to see what they're really made of. [more inside]
Look where you're going, look behind you.
One of the greatest nautical painters in history
Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900) - "In 1840, Aivazovsky traveled to Rome, where he became friendly with Nikolai Gogol. He also received high praise from the Roman critics, newspapers, and even Pope Gregory XVI. The pope purchased Aivazovsky's 'Chaos' and hung it in the Vatican... [more inside]
Really wish I could find a good link for the Titan Sphere
As Valve prepares for the general release of a divisive PC gaming controller (and Microsoft readies their "Elite" version of the popular-on-PC Xbox One Controller), perhaps it's time to revisit the strange history of our attempts to make the ideal dedicated controller for PC games. [more inside]
Harriet Klausner (1952-2015)
Amazon Reviewer #1, Harriet Klausner (previously) has passed away at age 63. At the time of her death she had over 31,000 reviews to her name, none of them negative.
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