2001: An Adapted Odyssey
Scans from Jack Kirby’s comic book adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Here are some scans of his sketches as well. You can read more about the adaptation here and here.
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There’s water in them there tanks…
"The business is definitely an art, the men are craftsmen…"(YT) NYC’s rooftop water tanks are a unique and often overlooked part of the city. Watch as one goes up (its worth the 10 minutes for the money shot at the end): "New York, is water tanks, yes."(YT)
"New York, which has thousands of cylindrical wooden rooftop water tanks with conical roofs, couldn’t exist without them." Its the only city with its own section under Wiki’s water tower page.
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Smells like elderberries
The Times reports: Lily-livered milquetoasts trying to suffocate the British insult. In case you illiterate turkey-buggering colonials have comprehension troubles, consult this handy glossary and usage guide.
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Public Domain Photos
Public Domain Photos. An extraordinarily rich resource for free stock photography.
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Ready to work some yellow magic? No, not like that.
The Simpsons Movie website just went live. In 12 languages, apparently (including non-American English).
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Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome
Coping: A Survival Guide for People with Asperger Syndrome. A short, to-the-point guide to the unwritten rules of life.
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Hilarious exchange between lawyer and SmartFlix
Travis Corcoran is the owner of a wonderful how-to DVD rental service called SmartFlix. One of the publishers of a DVD that SmartFlix offers didn’t like the idea that SmartFlix was renting out his video so he retained a lawyer, Robert H. Tourtelot, to try to get SmartFlix to stop renting the DVD.
Corcoran has published the email messages that the DVD maker and his lawyer has sent him, along with Corcoran’s replies to these clueless emails. The lawyer was so out of his league with Corcoran that he resorted to making jokes about Corcoran’s height! The email exchanges are hilarious.
Tourtelot: Dear Mr. Corcoran: I am in receipt of your e-mail to my client, Mr. XXX. I note your comments about me. I have a proposition for you. I will pay your way to California if you will agree to come and meet me in a gym, the address of which the limo driver who meets your flight will have.
Oh yes, the deal only includes a one-way ticket, as I do not believe you will be needing the return portion! Ciao, and have a good day. RHT
Corcoran: Are you proposing a boxing or MMA match?
I accept. I’ll pay my own way back, of course.
Any weekend in June works for me.
Please mail the airline ticket (departing from Logan Airport, in Boston) to the address I previously supplied.
I look forward to our bout (I usually do heavy bag work in my training sessions, but I’ll make sure to add some speed bag work to the mix over the next few weeks).
Shall we specify the same $1,000 wager that you suggested to Mr. XXX in your bet about my height?
Tourtelot: Plain and simple, pal. A street fight.! By the way, do you have a Black Belt also?
Corcoran: Please send the plane ticket.
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Thrill ride severs rider’s feet
I love themeparks, but I don’t care for thrill rides — I’m a Haunted Mansion guy, not an upside-down vomitcoaster 3000 guy. I don’t have the stomach for it. Besides, people get hurt on those things.
A girl’s feet were cut off Thursday when a free-fall thrill ride malfunctioned at the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom Amusement Park in Louisville, Kentucky, police said.
A cord wrapped around the 16-year-old’s feet and severed them at her ankles while she was on the “Superman Tower of Power,” a police dispatcher said. The girl was taken to a local hospital.
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Adalberto Abbate’s disaster-themed micro-sculptures
Charming arrangement of toy cars depicting riots, murders etc.
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Steampunk problem light
Patrick Kovacich made this steampunky “Problem” light that you can switch on when your life is giving you problems; he lavishly documented the build in a Flickr set so you can make your own.
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20 magic trick videos
http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/414509/snap_vanish_explanation.swf
Here’s a collection of 20 videos produced by amateur magicians showing you how to do some wonderful tricks with cards and other small props. Shown here: The Snap Vanish.
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Solar beach tote charges your phone
The Juice Bag is a beach tote with an integrated solar panel that will charge your phone, camera, laptop and MP3 player while you manufacture vitamin D.
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HOWTO make a toy soldier table
Simple and striking DIY “soldier table” — just line up your soldiers on a flat surface and cover with a sheet of glass.
The “toy soldier table” is very remenescent of the super-cool ‘Floor’ installation by Do-Ho Suh at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
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UK rejects tourists visas for stupid reasons
From the BBC News website, this report highlights some of the ridiculous, yet common, reasons for UK visa refusal — including ‘planning a holiday for no particular purpose other than sightseeing.’
The government goofballs who reject tourist visas for no good reason also delight in using confusing language to explain why tourist visas were rejected:
The provenance of the funds depicted is not evidenced allied to other financial commitments.
You have failed to complete pivotal areas of Section 6.
P>I can only assess your mutual knowledge in a subjective context.
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Chess tactics explained in plain English
A Field Guide to Chess Tactics. Chess tactics explained in plain English, with hundreds of examples. A great site for beginning to mid-level players. Includes a large library of positional problems, organized thematically, with the solutions explained and discussed. For example, learn about knight forks, then quiz yourself on the same topic.
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Brie. Roquefort. Camembert. Gouda. Edam. Gorgonzola. Parmesan. Cheddar.
Ratmaze 2 is a flash game by PixelJam.
You are a RAT. Start ACTING LIKE ONE. You noble mission: to EAT ALL CHEESE. Your universe consists of an ATARI MAZE. Your soundtrack is COOL PCM MUSIC. Eating cheese awards MORE TIME. DON’T FORGET THE CRUMBS! Eating FRUIT speeds you up. Eat LETTERS for SECRET BONUS. Some walls are FAKE. Get ALL THE CHEESE for AWESOME BONUS ROUND. Solve bonus round for COSMIC CHEESE BONUS.
PixelJam also made Gamma Bros..
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Count on it.
1, 2, 3,4, 5,6,7, 8, 9,10, 11,12!
Classic Sesame Street taught us Counting
and other important stuff.
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The future is not clean and antiseptic
Slime molds may control our future computers and robots, and fungi may protect us in outer space.
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Girls. Cars. Etcetera.
Some Girls and Cars. Just Girls.* Just Cars. Some Girl(?) and Her Cars. Some Girl’s Cars.*Some Car Girls. Some Girls.Cars.
(*=Mildly NSFW if you work for idiots)
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FEELS LIKE A LASER! FEELS LIKE A LASER!
The LED Museum has long been the Internet’s premier source of absolutely obsessive LED and Laser analysis. Going strong since 1999, Craig Johnson’s amassed quite a range of test equipment. Recently, he acquired a Playstation 3 Blu-Ray Laser Module. Did he mod it? Oh yes he did. (Warning: NSFC64)
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Crazy Mammoths
Crazy Mammoths is the finest single-button, mammoths-encased-in-blocks-of-ice racing game.
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The Incredible Shrinking World
The great-grandfather could walk six miles to go fishing; the grandfather could walk a mile to go to the woods; the son can’t go more than 300 yards from his house. How children lost the right to roam, including a map illustrating the point.
RobDurdle.com 
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