1.5 mos

long time since an update.
this song is so great, i felt the need to share it after hearing it once.






and here's some other stuff:

http://news.discovery.com/human/stress-and-sugar----are-they-linked.html

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/obama-wants-computer-privacy-ruling-overturned/

unjust treatment, unfounded accusations...GO WALMART!!!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/another-wal-mart-shoplift_b_376228.html

hey presto

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2009/10/20/bankers-perks-just-get-better.aspx

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2009/10/20/citibank-yanks-mastercards.aspx

roger ebert on the term "death panels"
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/death_panels_an_excellent_phra.html

food deserts (not desserts)
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/food-deserts-a-guest-post/

detroit as urban farmland
http://www.guernicamag.com/spotlight/1182/food_among_the_ruins/

you love experimental music
http://www.picturesforsadchildren.com/index.php?comicID=196

our decorating styles are not a match made in heaven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Marat

muhammed ali's great-grandfather is from ireland http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=4437539

dr. horrible cakes
http://www.hurryupcakes.com/fan-cakes/dr-horrible-party-cakes

jewish latin jazz http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112122180

F1 racing is like mario kart http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/push-to-pass/

monday

liquid-cooled light bulb http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/15/eternaleds-debuts-worlds-first-liquid-cooled-led-light-bulb/

gyro history http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/dining/15gyro.html

soymilk ice cream recipes http://lovesoymilk.com/soy-milk-ice-cream/

scott ian as author of LOBO http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/07/anthrax-guitarist-scott-ian-shreds-dc-comics-hellraiser-lobo/

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/06/06/dubai-opera-house-by-zaha-hadid/

bees

it seems as if the bees are making a comeback. i've been noticing a lot more flying around this year, compared to last year, though the ones i've seen looked a bit more weak and slow than usual. at any rate, i'm pretty sure i stepped on one earlier today. i've done it before, but this time, the experience was much more easy to deal with. the fact that it was much less painful and swelled less may have had something to do with the bee being small and weak. i think, though, that it had more to do with my being better prepared and knowing how to handle the situation.
-checked for stinger
-cleaned with peroxide solution
-applied some ice for a few minutes
-meditated, focusing on my foot and the reduction of pain and inflammation
-listened to bert kaempfert (especially "a swingin' safari")


PUMP THAT SH*T UP

TOTALLY SWEET MORTGAGE-RELATED ACTION!!!

WOW!!! two posts in a month. a new record!



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagyu

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/08/urine-power.html

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/nightclouds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_wave

i may go to see this soon
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/duncan-jones-moon

also, if you didn't know, the best place to get blueberries and strawberries right now is aldi. $1 for pint of blueberries, $1 for pound of strawberries. very good condition. news from the dealmaster.
peace out.

forgotten linx

more videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/sarascratch

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/22/greenland-ice-crack.html

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/barelyontheradar/

rancher mailbox mistaken for alien mailbox
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2008/08/26/20080826black-mailbox0826-ON.html

she wanted to kill a mermaid

138 lb. fish caught by little girl, instead of dead mermaid she so desired
http://www.adn.com/outdoors/fishing/story/832191.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Latin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

VEGAWATT:grease-powered generator
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/01/vegawatt.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Woman-finds-139-year-old-baseball-card-in-box-of?urn=mlb,132871

core http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/06/earth-twin-cores.html

reminded of this recently. great song.

2 new songs, etc.

another month has passed without me posting anything.
i guess that shows how much i've been using the internet lately.
here are 2 remixes i finished recently:

http://machinist.godxiliary.com/the_machinist%20-%20imgshrdplfpplx3.mp3

http://machinist.godxiliary.com/bbe%20machinist%20remix.mp3

the first is a remix of material created by plasticflesh for his peoplepeoplepeople project on http://godxiliary.com

the second mp3 is a remix of the song "big black eyes" by leafcutter john, for the competition hosted on his website http://www.leafcutterjohn.com

also, dan deacon is the man

teabagging in a nutshell

as one may have already realized, i'm pretty late in the game, out of the loop, etc. when it comes to many things. so it's no surprise that i'm a week late with this. better than 2 years late, as i was with the last video post. my friend kelly sent me these esepecially hilarious video clips.

BABY!!! we can work it out. let's put it back together.

i don't know anything. inlcuding the fact that devo had a new song 2 years ago. here's the video for it:

presidents' day

here are some presidential videos by the great and hilarious brad neely:

GEORGE WASHINGTON


JFK


the bandwagon left me behind

lazer gunz in the attic

found this in the attic at my dad's house. apparently, it only costs $3.97 to "destroy evil forces." i think my brother and i were supposed to receive these as gifts when we were little. looks like a knockoff star wars gun. interestingly, this toy is made by the same company that makes the super soaker squirt gun.



out of the box














what exactly are "real lazer sonic-sound[s]"?

123456

apparently, i just gave away someone's password...
this is hilarious. more reason to use full sentences for passwords.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/120554
http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/2009/02/phpbb_password.htm

intuition research:
http://www.livescience.com/health/090208-gut-instincts.html

fast food news brings us this tale of ingested "McD Sanitizer"
http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/2009/02/mcdonald-serves-cleaning-solution-tea.html
original article: http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=10663&type=UTTM

shepard fairey in more trouble
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090208/ts_alt_afp/usobamaartcrime

56 year old woman swims across atlantic
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SWM_TRANS_ATLANTIC_SWIM?SITE=ALOPE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

9yr.old programs iphone drawing application in Pascal
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7874291.stm

shepard fairey HOPE in trouble

shepard fairey's obama "HOPE" design in legal trouble
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_POSTER

empathic mirror neurons article on edge
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/ramachandran06/ramachandran06_index.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/29/great-lakes-warming.html

here's some info about scientist and writer J.W.Dunne:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Dunne
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Experiment_with_Time
The Serial Universe by J.W. Dunne
http://www.archive.org/stream/serialuniverse032783mbp

[old] humorous facebook "news"

i found out about this a couple weeks ago, but i really haven't had time to post anything new until today.
facebook whopper sacrifice application/promotion
http://news.cnet.com/delete-10-facebook-friends-get-a-free-whopper/
http://www.whoppersacrifice.com/

some of these are placed in various locations around Chicago. seems like a pretty nice/positive idea. i can agree with both sides' arguments written about in this article.
bigbelly waste compactor
http://www.primidi.com/2007/07/18.html
http://www.bigbellysolar.com/products/custom.html

free range chicken study http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/01/23/free-range-chickens.html

relation between adjusted monetary base of the united states and the rate
of inflation increase and purchasing power of the dollar
http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2009-01/001113.html

he is still alive

martin luther king, jr. is one of my personal heroes. he was assassinated after changing his focus to helping all poor, disenfranchised people, and to bringing about peace in the world, after concentrating on working for civil rights alone. here are some easily found links to info on one of the greatest of men:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090118/ap_on_re_us/mlk_economic_equality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#Poor_People.27s_Campaign.2C_1968
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2269
http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featdyson_mlk.shtml

a speech given by dr. king one year before his death:
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

and here is an audio excerpt from it:

this is bizarre and somewhat hilarious

and this is not very hilarious at all:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090112/sc_livescience/superpredatorshumansforcerapidevolutionofanimals

only four things

i'm trying to lay off the internet usage, so i haven't been reading as much.
hence, only 4 links:

it could go either way
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090107/ap_on_he_me/goat_milk_drug

goofball
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090106/ap_on_go_co/senate_burris

chew on it
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Four-reasons-Americas-drive-longer/story.aspx?guid={1FE4B90E-4DDA-438F-92D1-D3B1FE0468C3}&siteid=yhoofront



i watched Dr. Strangelove last week and thought the ending was a little weak or poorly edited. This is why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#Original_ending:_the_pie_fight_scene