It was 50 years ago today… Sgt Pepper taught a band to play
Birth of the Beatles On July 6, 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time at The Woolton Church Parish Fete where The Quarry Men were appearing. John Lennon was impressed that Paul McCartney could tune a guitar and his knowledge of rock & roll lyrics.
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They’re gonna get in.
Defend your server from viruses with, for some reason, flamethrowers and machine guns. Happy Friday!
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The World Just Lost Another Hulkamaniac…
Hulk Rules! Hulk Hogan’s memorable 1995 album examined, with audio samples. Not to be missed: Hulkster in Heaven (YouTube), Hogan’s soulful tribute to a young fan who died of cancer ("I used to tear my shirt/ but now you’ve torn my heart/ I knew you were a Hulkamaniac/ right from the very start…") featuring the most ambitious gospel choir ever to back a professional wrestler. Further appreciation and lyrics. Musical talent must run in the family…
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Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow, from Style.org. Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.
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Tim Hortons’ prices rise
From CBC News. Tim Hortons fans will be paying more for their daily double-doubles and doughnuts as of next Monday, when the company boosts its prices in Atlantic Canada, Ontario and Manitoba.
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Judge, Judy, and Executioner.
In this ten-minute segment, legal harridan Judge Judy Sheindlin tears an internet scammer a new one, questioning her ethics, morality, parenting skills, and intelligence.
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Bacon Dispenser
I’m glad somebody took the time to add words to these mystifying instructions.
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How to escape a fart
Leave it to the Japanese. A in depth video on how to evade a fart. The end is hilarious!
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Kid plays Simpsons theme on two guitars
This is well worth seeing/hearing if you’re a Simpsons fan (Simpsonian? Simpsonite?)
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Pretty pink
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More for Jenn.
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Packing Blues
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Blueberry!
Much love for Jenn.
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Working on it
Hey Kids ,
Almost done rewriting the code that runs the archives, yay! I figured, its been years since I re did the templates and designs for this site, so why not upgrade it to a new design? Well, after changing style, I realized, I like my previous (now current) design. So I’m re-writing that to be more up to date with current web design standards. More to follow.
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Watching Watchtower
Aside from the usual crap, YouTube has a great selection of one the most covered song of all time: All Along the Watchtower. Classics like Hendrix (live and studio), Neil Young (at DailyMotion with better sound) and U2–and some great contemporary versions like Keziah Jones’ blazingly-fast version, Bradley Fish’s 12-instrument (including Chinese Zither) version, Michael Hedges? reason-to-be-excited cover, and even a quite good version of DMB’s much-maligned cover. What doesn’t really rank: Dylan’s original.
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Frightening Little Question
Heh, funny post from Scott Adams;
When I watch a movie, I enjoy it more if I can empathize with one of the characters. I imagine myself in his or her situation: solving a crime, falling in love, wearing a leotard while battling injustice, and whatnot. It’s hard to enjoy a movie if I can’t relate to how the characters are feeling, even if they are different from me. That’s normal, right?
So how the f*ck do you explain the popularity of horror movies?
There are only two kinds of characters in a horror flick: the victims who are dying horrible deaths, and the psychopaths that are doing the killing. My problem with those movies is that I automatically empathize with the victims, and I can feel their pain. When a character gets impaled with a sharp object, I imagine what that would feel like. I think it would hurt. So I steer clear of horror movies. Yet millions of people enjoy that type of entertainment. Here’s your frightening little question of the day: Who are horror movie fans empathizing with?
By process of elimination, I assume fans of horror flicks are imagining themselves as the killer, thinking how cool it would be to disembowel attractive teenagers. Jeezus-frickin-christ! There are millions of these psychopath movie-goers. And they look just like normal people.
I wonder how many times in my life I’m at a store, for example, swiping my debit card, and the cashier is looking at me and thinking “It sure would be fun to drive a spike through his forehead and make a vest from his skin.” It probably happens more often than I’d like.
Do you enjoy horror movies? If so, what the f*ck is wrong with you?Share this:
Steampunk screenplay based on “Hackers”
Clockers is a screenplay for a steampunk version of “Hackers” — it’s a hoot! Here’s a snippit of the script.
PROSECUTOR
–criminal mischief and destruction of property. The defendant possesses a malicious cunning, which he has used to wreak havoc on the industry of his elders and betters. His “self-replicating automata,” engraved with his signature alias “Arctic Pole,” dealt brutally with the delicate workings of one hundred and fifty machines in the cotton mills which are the pride of our city, stripping them for parts and building more of themselves. We estimate that he has cost the owners a full month’s profits.
JUDGE
Daedelus Murphy, I hereby fine you one thousand pounds sterling.
Gasps from the crowd.
Should you be unable to summon sufficient funds, you or your surrogate will be sentenced to debtors’ prison until such time as he has repaid it in full. In addition, you are prohibited from owning or operating a wrench, geartrain, pocketwatch or clock of any kind so long as you reside within this county.
GAVEL.
Title card: 5EVEN Y3ARS LA+ER
Also, here’s a link to some other versions, including the MP3 soundtrack
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A perfect stealth invasion force.
The duck diaspora: thousands of rubber ducks condemned never to know the quietude of a suburban bathtub, which have instead spent 15 years wandering the world’s oceans like aquatic Cains.
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Thank You, Come Again!
7-Eleven turns 12 of its locations in the United States and Canada into Kwik-E-Marts in a promotion for the upcoming Simpsons Movie, including locations in Burbank, Mountain View and Bladensburg, MD.
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Desktop pictures – Computer wallpaper
Hi-Res Photos for the Masses! How about that bandwidth?
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Alka-Seltzer tag
Alka Seltzer tag sounds fun: each player wears an Alka Seltzer on necklace, and players run around with hoses/squirtguns trying to wet the others’ tablets. As the tablets foam, they drop off the string. The last intact tablet wins.
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I HATE YOOOOOOOOOU!
"I HATE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THIS DAMN WORLDDDDDDDDDD"… A dramatic reading of a break-up letter. (Audio may be NSFW, but the text is entertaining even without the audio).
RobDurdle.com 
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