Red Copper Tinges

Clips from an almost-was 1930's John Carter cartoon.

Article here.

As Long As I Am On A Robot Theme

Go buy this.

NOW.

No Singing Here

Clip from Sundance winning short film, Tomo, about a man and a robot trapped on a barren, ice planet.

Can't wait for the feature.

Or the rest of the short, for that matter.

That is one tweaking bot.

http://www.blog.lunarfilms.co.uk/tomo/

La Balada de los Mecanicos

No le pedimos - sólo tienes que hacer clic!

Sci Wars

You're So Sweet

I made you a mixtape.

Learn To Dance - The Eva Way

Evangelion does the so-ranbushi.

For All Your Hard Work

Ladies and Gentlemen,Maestro Barry Gray.

Enjoy.

Best Rick Rolled Yet

Listed on YouTube as "Hilarious Muppet Show Bloopers."

If you have no idea what this is about, you are healthy person.

More here.

Das Singing Shoosher

Eat your heart out, Julie A.

Hooverville II

Uh-oh - someone's telling!

And because I do so love getting thrashed and snarked:



France 24 news report on Ontario Hooverville, featuring more sub-prime meltdown victim residents.

Team America, Meet Team Hamas

Children's puppet show, Street-no-Sesame style.

Presented as a mirror, not a finger point.

Article here, via Neharnet/Watching America.

Bikini v. Zombie

SONY BMG: WATCH THIS NOW!

Sony Sued For Pirating Software

according to the folks @ Zeropaid, big effin hypocrite BMG busted itself by calling for tech support to Pointdev on cracked software they pirated...
French article here.


Looks like it's time for some of that always in style Franco-dance craze, "Le Petard Hoisting."

Best Quote: " “We are not interested in an amicable settlement”

thy fearful memetry

'nuff said.

Gamblers Do So Love The Buffet

It appears that there is a real connection 'twixt risk-taking, predation, and vegemaniarianism, at least in the 'it's just a theory' Simian part of the brain.

"Chimpanzees turned out to be big risk-takers, being invariably tempted to go for the grand prize even if this also meant frequent disappointment.

Bonobos, like humans, were strongly risk-adverse, and preferred to go for the fixed, dependable reward.

The chimps' love of risk is in keeping with previous findings. Compared with bonobos, chimpanzees are more patient, waiting longer to get their hands on a delayed treat.

And their risk-taking strategy is also confirmed by the fact that, unlike bonobos, they hunt, kill and eat colobus monkeys. If the hunt comes off, the group gets to feast on protein-rich colobus meat -- if not, they all go hungry.

The distinction is intriguing, because in many respects the two primate species are very similar, having diverged from a common ancestor less than a million years ago, which in evolutionary terms is recent.

They have similar body size and appearance and share much of the same behaviour and social hierarchy.

The difference, though, lies in their diet. Both apes feed heavily on fruit, but bonobos also tuck into herbaceous vegetation on the ground, which is a more reliable source of sustenance.

In addition, bonobos may also have access to larger fruit patches, facing less competition within a given patch than chimpanzees.

So what makes chimps gamble is a clever survival mechanism -- their food resources are less certain, which means they have learnt to cope with going for big or bust, say the authors, led by Sarah Heilbronner of Harvard University and Duke University, North Carolina."

Link to article in full here.

Guess that explains THIS:

Don't Ask! Just Click It!

Father Cholesterol?

Meanwhile, at The Daily Soul

Bully says: What if Clark Kent worked for Barry, not Perry, White?
Check it out.

Same Zone, Different Day

As always we can count on CNN's Kyra Phillips:


To Get The Story Straight:


To paraphraze a prez:
"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'safe' is."

Trend Spotting: Copycat Craigslist Hoax House Ads

Same story, different victims:

Oregon:
"House Ransacked After Craigslist Hoax"


Washington:
"Cruel Craigslist ad trashes home"




Is this becoming the American version of the UK MySpace Party From Hell meme, as experienced in Belfast, Durham and Surrey?



Which has morphed into an alt.career in the antipodes:

Wavin’ Your Banner All Over The Place

Kinda makes you wish there was a whole K-tel compilation album and cheap commercial to go with it....

Mz. White Is Watching

"and then it happened"

The Empress of Taste reminds a generation of why it has done so little, while endowed with so much...

come with us now, to those halcyon days of yesteryear when 9 year olds were taught to fear the onset of something that was called "jr. High."

Return of Hooverville

What if there was a Depression and Nobody Told?

Tent Cities - 21st Century Hoovervilles - springing up outside Los Angeles to no media notice.

I live there, and the first I hear about is on the BBC?

Good thing we have Consolidated Media, Inc. running the show...
lying and obfuscation are much more efficient now.