Don’t go in the basement!
Sally Cruikshank intends to put all of her animations on YouTube, including her opening credits for Ruthless People, the Seseame Street Feets too Big short, and don’t miss the Oingo Boingo assist on Face Like A Frog.
She’s very active in the comments section of some of her videos, too, answering questions and participating in the discussion of her work.
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One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place
Before Caligula, Cat People & Star Trek: Generations, even before he played Alex de Large in Clockwork Orange, Malcolm McDowell was dashingly rebellious in Lindsay Anderson’s If. (Some background of that cafe scene)
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Sing to us, O Muse, of our Timeless Myths
Sing to us, O Muse, of our Timeless Myths. A site dedicated to Classical, Norse & Celtic mythology and Arthurian legends.
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Frozen Moments – High Speed Art
Photographer Martin Klimas specializes in capturing high speed photography, but with a more artistic aesthetic than the usual "bullet through an orange", etc.
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Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
Amazing 747 landings at in the St. Martins
YouTube has a great collection of 747 landings at Princess Juliana International Airport in the St. Martin Islands, famous for its short landing strip � only 2,180 meters.
Here’s the view from the cockpit. Most of the videos seem to have been taken at Maho Beach. Here’s an Airbus.
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1960’s anti-pron propaganda movie
This short film begins on a somber note…railing against the dangers of pornographic magazines in the 1960’s, but as it progresses, the images it shares with the viewer are more and more tantalizing…from nudity, to promotion on sodomy, to bestiality (really, just a farmgirl pic with a goat in the far background), to hardcore S&M and B&D…all displayed for the soon-not-innocent eyes of the film’s target market.
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Robotic Insect Takes Off
Miniature Robotic Insect Takes Off Researchers have created a miniature robotic fly that weighs just 60 milligrams and has a wingspan of three centimeters for covert surveillance. Thats progress!
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What are YOU listening to?
Simplify Media has made my Sunday morning, and if you have pals with good taste in music it will probably make your day, too. It’s a small download (4 MB) that allows you to stream the iTunes libraries of up to 30 friends as long as they’re online.
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The Young Ones
"A mad, helter-skelter, rude, awesomely violent, unpredictable, swaggering, staggering, joyously infantile, exhilarating steamroller of a sitcom, The Young Ones provided the breakthrough for the new generation of aggressive and forthright ‘alternative’ comedians."
Originally I got to watching this show because it was on PBS right after repeats of “Doctor Who“, and before “Are you Being Served?“. (I recommend Summer Holiday and Bambi.) Lots of great and soon-to-be-great guests. Look for Emma Thompson in Bambi as one of "the posh kids."
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A tangled web
A (rather beautiful) subway map of web trends.If you like maps, check out Strangemaps.
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Land o’ Lists
Best (or Worst) Pickup Lines Ever. Other useful lists on this site include: Things nobody can like,
Why I hate implants, Petite phrases that pack a punch, How to tell if your boyfriend is cheating and everyone’s favorite, my favorite sex blogs
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Video: White Stripes play one second show
The White Stripes completed a tour of every Canadian province and territory they’d never played before. The last gig was in St. John’s, Newfoundland and it was a short one. Very short. One note, in fact.
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Enigma machine on eBay
Every so often, an authentic Enigma machine, turns up on eBay. The Enigma machine, introduced in 1923 by the Chiffriermaschinen Aktien-Gesellschaft (Cipher Machines Stock Corporation), was used by the Germans to encrypt messages during World War II. With eight days left in the auction, the current bid on this specimen is $10,100 and the reserve has not been met. According the auction listing, this Enigma is in “museum condition” and includes extra lamps. Here’s a description of the Enigma from a 1999 article in Wired:
German soldiers issued an Enigma were to make no mistake about their orders if captured: Shoot it or throw it overboard.
Based on electronic typewriters invented in the 1920s, the infamous Enigma encryption machines of World War II were controlled by wheels set with the code du jour. Each letter typed would illuminate the appropriate character to send in the coded message.
In 1940, building on work by Polish code breakers, Alan Turing and his colleagues at the famed UK cryptography center Bletchley Park devised the Bombe, a mechanical computer that deciphered Enigma-encoded messages. Even as the Nazis beefed up the Enigma architecture by adding more wheels, the codes could be cracked at the Naval Security Station in Washington, DC – giving the Allies the upper hand in the Battle of the Atlantic. The fact that the Allies had cracked the Enigma code was not officially confirmed until the 1970s.
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Trekworld photoshopping contest
Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: if Trekkers ruled the Earth.
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Barbie in Wonderland
A new line of Alice in Wonderland Barbie toys is in the offing, and dude, they’re weird. The Mad Hatter is a kind of bulbous, ancient harlequin, while Alice is a doe-eyed anime princess. Apparently the Queen of Hearts is coming too — I’m thinking anthropomorphic furry fire-ant.
I think I found a picture of the Red Queen in this picture.
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Song titles as movie posters photoshopping contest
Today on Something Awful’s Photoshop Phriday: Song-titles as movie posters. I’m partial to this Strangelove/End of the World as We Know It, though the Indiana Jones “Whip It” poster was very fine indeed.
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Guevara With a Sweet Southern Tan
Do the Coup D’etat. The White House has made the Constitutional Crisis official: the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges against an official invoking executive privilege — even if it’s blatantly illegal.
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Finally, you can claim experience points for housework
Chore Wars: Finally, you can claim experience points for housework.
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