Star Wars Meets Hello Kitty
Wicked Crispy is the personal site of artist & animator Jeff Victor, who draws Star Wars characters (among other things) in adorable bobblehead style.
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Navy Numa Numa
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined In the Navy with the Numa Numa song? The crew of the USS Enterprise has the answer.
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Fifties housewives’ tarot deck (predict casseroles, aprons, A-bombs)
Found this for
Jenn to Neatorama post, here’s the deck itself.
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Neuroscience of deja vu
MIT researchers report the identification of a mechanism in the brain that’s tied to the experience of deja vu, French for “seen already.” The neuroscientists studied how subregions of the hippocampus–a part of the brain responsible for creating memories–contribute to our ability to differentiate between distinct places that are very similar. To conduct their study, the scientists observed the behavior of genetically-engineered mice in similar chambers, one with a floor that could shock them. (Yeeowch!)
From the MIT News Office:
Researchers believe that a set of neurons called place cells fire to provide a sort of blueprint for any new space we encounter. The next time we see the space, those same neurons fire. Thus we know when we’ve been somewhere before and don’t have to relearn our way around familiar turf.
But if we enter a space very similar to one we have seen before, a new but overlapping set of neurons creates the blueprint. When there is enough overlap between the two sets, we experience an eerie feeling of deja vu–a French phrase that literally means, “already seen.”
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vermont secession movement
13% of Vermont wants to secede, up from 8% last year. Here is their manifesto. Also Texas, Alaska, South Carolina, Hawaii.
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To Silently Go Where No Man Has Gone Before
Steam Trek: The Moving Picture – Absolutely charming Star Trek parody done in the silent movie style.
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Free Online Film School
TakeZer0 is a weekly videoblog by two young filmmakers aiming to be a free basic film school for anyone interested, with lessons so far on shot composition, lighting, camera stabilization & the overall process.
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The last samurai
Bakumatsu – from this to this. Photographs from an exhibition at the University of Tokyo.
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The Beast of Omaha
63 years ago today, 20-year old German lance-corporal Hein Severloh was armed with a rifle, a machine gun and 16,000 rounds of ammo when American forces landed in the early morning hours off Omaha Beach on D-Day. During the next nine-hour "Longest Day", Severloh gunned down up to 3,000 Americans before running out of ammo, making him personally responsible for about three-quarters of all casualties at Omaha Beach, comparable in scale to 9/11 or the Iraq War. Nicknamed The Beast of Omaha, today he says "I never wanted to be in the war. I never wanted to be in France. I never wanted to be in that bunker firing a machine gun. Thinking about it makes me want to throw up."
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Cat has camera on collar so we can see what he does
Mr. Lee is a cat in Germany, whose owner has attached a camera to his collar so that we can share his daily adventures! Some of the photos are mysterious. Others are beautiful. I love this!
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Get your cat totally wasted: brew ultrapotent catnip extract
Here’s a how-to on making an ultra-potent, 99%+ pure Catnip extract to help form that cat army you’ve always been dreaming of. The guide uses readily available materials and provides very detailed, easy to follow instructions which makes this within reach of the average person with too much time on their hands.
Caveat stoner. This may be potentially harmful to cats, I do not know. Also, the idea of intoxicating animals who cannot give informed consent to getting totally baked raises issues of ethics and animal cruelty. I’m posting this here because I think it is funny, not because I think drugging animals IRL is cute.
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Viral!
The network is down you foolish IT Administrator and no one loves you ! [warning! Viral advert-video link that may or may not please or amuse you]
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damn it.
so my cell isnt going to be covered for repairs, i was told to eat it. So I’m going to contact the guy who hit me, and get him to cover the repair/replacement.
fucking phone is only 5 days old.
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Awesome!
So what a nice weekend. I got nailed by a car while I was on my bike today, still dizzy/hurting.
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The fourth part of three
The fourth part of a trilogy of interviews with Douglas Adams before he got all famous. “I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.” Well, he certainly didn’t. And for that, much thanks.
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Choose Your Own Adventure!
Virginia Tech: A “Cho”ose Your Own Adventure.
It’s early on a Monday morning. You wake up and find you have your dorm room to yourself. The night before, your roommates had been talking about “hooking up” with some girls they met on Facebook while you were busy ignoring them and putting the finishing touches on your three page manifesto explaining why you decided to go on a shooting spree today…
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Artist eats dog to protest prince’s hunting
British performance artist Mark McGowan ate a few bites of a corgi dog live on the radio to protest Prince Philip’s hunting of a fox. Yoko Ono had a bite as well. The corgi is apparently the Queen’s favorite breed. According to McGowan, it tastes lousy.
The dog died of natural causes at a corgi breeder and was prepared and cooked by others for McGowan…
McGowan is well known for his outlandish performance stunts. He ate a swan in another protest against the queen. Swans are protected by the monarchy.
Reminds me of that old quote about when a dog bites a man, it isnt news… but when a man bites a dog, its a story.
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Little boy ruins sand mandala
Last week, eight Tibetan monks were halfway complete with an incredibly intricate sand mandala they were creating in Kansas City’s Union Station when a young boy went under the protective rope and messed up the entire design. The monks were gone when it happened but the episode was caught on a security camera.
“He did a little tap dance on it, completely destroying it,” said Lama Chuck Stanford, of the Rime Buddhist Center in Kansas City.
A security tape shows the boy’s mother returning to the mandala, grabbing her son by the arm and walking out of camera range…
“No problem,” Geshe Lobsang Sumdup, leader of the group from the Drepung Gomang Monastery in southern India, said through a translator. “We didn’t get despondent. We have three days more. So we will have to work harder.”
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Make all your phones ring at once
GrandCentral: Have a cell phone, a work phone and a business phone? This free service gives you one number that will ring all of them at once. Reviews: Slate, NYT, CNET
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Jobs and Gates interviewed together at the D5 conference
The Bill and Steve show: Jobs and Gates sit down together and discuss the past, present and future at the D5 conference.
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Awesome!
Found a backup of my site from 2005, woo! well, a backup of the database, just as good, imported from 2002 until 2005, still a few years missing, but better then nothing i guess.. heh
RobDurdle.com 
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