‘The new Doctor… He’s so young!’
Doctor Who fun and games. While you wait for Series 3 to start – and toss and turn wondering who the next Doctor will be – blow a little bit of time with K-9, the Daleks and the Slitheen.
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Doctor Who meets the Beatles, 1965
The Beatles had a guest appearance on Doctor Who in 1965 — singing “Ticket to Ride.” Afterwards, a traveler from the future remarks that she’s heard of the Beatles, having visited their memorial in Liverpool, but that she didn’t realize that the Beatles also performed “classical music.” This is black-and-white Doctor Who comedy gold.
The original recording of that particular Beatles performance has been lost along with a lot of the BBC library which was tragically thrown out in a great video tape purge in the 1970s. That Doctor Who footage is now the only visual record of that performance.
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Woman falls six stories into pile of crap
A woman in Nanjing, China fell off a sixth floor balcony and survived thanks to a pile of poop on the ground below. From Sky News:
“She landed in a 20cm thick heap of excrement,” the Kuaibao tabloid newspaper gleefully reported.
“Workers happened to be emptying the building’s septic tank, which had not been tended for a long time, and had regularly blocked sewage pipes.
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Cookie Millennium Falcon
Pastry chef Damien Hurst Blair Fukumura made this Millennium Falcon cookie — it’s a very exacting replica, though it wants for a little cookie Chewbacca.
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Tub sofa
Flavour Design transforms antique clawfoot tubs into sofas. Their site says that the tubs start at $4800 but that this one is $2900. Not sure what that’s about.
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Google’s driving direx from New York to Dublin, Ireland
Awesome: ask Google Maps for driving directions from New York to Dublin, Ireland and they’ll give them to you, including this step, “Swim across the Atlantic Ocean 3,462 mi.” Weirdly, they instruct you to swim to France, drive the Chunnel to England, then take a ferry back to Ireland. Surely there’s a more efficient totally impossible route?
Of course, you’d have to swim about 4.9mph for 29 continuous days to achieve this time. Considering that the worlds fastest swimming records (in a 50-meter race) are just over 5mph… your mileage may vary.
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JFK Re-Reloaded
Anyone remember the short-lived FPS game JFK:Reloaded? It caused quite a stir when it was released a little over two years ago. Since then, the game’s development company discontinued the game and JFK:Reloaded is now considered abandonware. The full version can be downloaded here and a site dedicated to the game is located here.
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The Flying Crowbar
“We were tickling the dragon’s tail all the way.” The true story of the nuclear ramjet missile and the hypersonic nightmare that nearly was.
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Hotmail users deemed too dumb for employment at firm
A guy, who works in the department of a Human Resources consultancy company, says they made a selection process in which, among other things, they asked for a person with ample experience in using the internet (navigation, searches, formats…).
They received 50 candidacies, from which 30 came from Hotmail-directions, all of them erased as they entered.
The reason: You can’t pretend being an internet expert and use a Hotmail account at the same time.
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Tattoo of text under peeling skin
This dude’s tattoo makes it look as if he’s got a bunch of handwriting under his skin.
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Reverse video of accidents happening
Here’s a video of mishaps, presented in reverse, turning tragedy into comedy.
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No means maybe
Three Strikes is a TV pilot from the writers of Frasier, Larry Sanders and King of the Hill and executive produced by Jon Stewart for Comedy Central. It was turned down by the network but like Nobody’s Watching the makers have turned to YouTube to revive its chances [Parts 1, 2, 3].
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You Have Won Second Prize In A Beauty Contest. Collect $10
Have you ever gotten stuck in a never-ending game of Monopoly? Turns out the game wouldn’t take so long if we didn’t play with so many made-up rules. There are many different variations of house rules. Some people even make up their own extreme game. The official Monopoly rules are posted at Monopoly Collector, which also has game history and facts, as do the Monopoly pages at Hasbro. If you’re into statistics, Durango Bill has an excellent article on Monopoly probabilities. Also related, old-style Monopoly card illustrations. And just for fun, check out "Monopoly Cards We’d Like To See" at Dribble Glass. Or, make your own Chance and Community Chest cards at Sign Generator.
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You got your drugs in my candy!
Meth Candy! The media are reporting that meth is being mixed with candy to "make it more appealing to younger users". But drug candy is not new, although it’s more likely accidentally given to kids, or maybe it’s mostly speculation , hysteria and urban legends? Of course, there’s always candy flipping, or chocolate pills. Just remember that chocolate is not an antidepressant.
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Autopsy may show that Yan Yan died of an accidental overdose
After twelve years of not getting laid, Yan Yan the Chinese panda finally kicked the bucket late Monday at the Berlin Zoo. Officials admits she died alone and nobody immediately noticed. Now the media is running with the story that the popularity of Knut the polar bear cub may be the reason behind the death of his neighbor. In other news, the European Union celebrated its 50th birthday in Berlin. Nobody noticed.
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CRAYON!
Before RSS and personalized aggregators such as Personalized Google and NetVibes, there was CRAYON, a service that allowed you to "CReAte Your Own Newspaper" by providing a page with links to chosen sources.
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The Green Fairy
The Virtual Absinthe Museum What is there in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? … Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing
apart – Aleister Crowley.
The Virtual Absinthe Museum has the whole fabled history plus literature, art and antiques. The accoutrements: spoons, glasses, brouilleurs and zoomorphic pichets. Classic art-nouveau posters, postcards showing Les Perils of France, French poetry, English fiction, and American pulp magazines.
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Even they get tired of fried eggs, hamburgers, and greasy coffee
My favorite entree is the salmon sandwich on foccacia bread. Water is served with a slice of cucumber which is very refreshing.
Which profession dines out the most? Whose judgements can be counted on for honesty and straightforwardness? The truckers’.
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Spinning openness
How to control your look of openness by Microsoft. An inside look at how Microsoft spun wired’s article covering Microsoft’s video site Channel 9. It’s an interesting peek at how PR works.
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Magnetic imaging of human genitals during intercourse
Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal. "Only the first couple was able to perform coitus adequately without sildenafil (experiments 1 and 2). The reason might be that […] as amateur street acrobats they are trained and used to performing under stress." Possibly NSFW, although the images are pretty "scientific."
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7-11s to be re-made as Kwik-E-Marts
11 7-11 stores are going to be refurbished as Kwik-E-Marts to coincide with the Simpsons movie:
If all goes as planned, the convenience store chain plans to refit 11 stores across the U.S. — Richmond is an unlikely choice — to resemble the front of the Kwik-E-Mart, the convenience store that Homer and other characters frequent in the classic cartoon TV series.
Customers also will be able to buy products inspired by the nearly two-decades-old show, including KrustyO’s cereal, Buzz Cola and iced Squishees (the cup says Squishee, but the contents will be Slurpee).
The chain also will use pictures of Simpsons characters to promote 7-Eleven’s line of fresh foods, such as placing the face of Homer and his classic “Mmmm . . . sandwich” quip on sandwich wrappers.
RobDurdle.com 
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