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05-23-09
Saturday, May 23, 2009

A news byte is making the rounds today about a man who drove through city hall in Wichita, Kansas early last year. He recently was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Naturally, the security camera footage of the incident goes really well with Yakety Sax.

(Please note that the security cams are motion activated: they only record when something on screen is moving. So the dramatic near-misses on the video are actually between 10-20 minutes apart if you check the timestamp at the bottom of the screen)

via boingboing

05-21-09
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Allen, if you haven't already seen this, have I got a treat for you...

So, tire maker Dunlop decided, as corporations do, to do some kind of crazy promotional stunt to get media attention. Apparently they concluded that the best way to show that their tires would hold to the road and not burst under pressure was to build a giant vertical loop and drive a little car through it like some kind of giant Hot-Wheels playset.

The video on the website is pretty amazing. I'm guessing there was some pretty serious physics involved, as well as some serious bravery/stupidity (physics + stupidity = ???). Love it.

05-18-09
Monday, May 18, 2009

People who work in movie theatres may be stressed to the nines in 2009.

On June 19th, $9.99 comes out. A stop-motion film about easy answers, the meaning of life, and what an angel would sound like with the voice of Geoffrey Rush.

On August 14th, District 9 comes out.

On September 9th (or 9/9/09), Tim Burton's new 3d-animated film 9 premieres.

Then finally, on November 25th, a film adaptation of the Broadway musical Nine (spelled as a word, not the numeral) will be released.

Keep it straight, folks.

05-14-09
Thursday, May 14, 2009

My YouTube mining continues.

This is a song by last.fm artist "Pogo" composed almost entirely of samples from Disney's Alice in Wonderland.

05-13-09
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime. Well done Jonathan Coulton.

05-12-09
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Please vote today.

And please consider voting for Single Transferable Vote.

05-05-09
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Here's a mashup of Carl Sagan speaking dubbed over Agent Smith interrogating Morpheus in The Matrix. The results are... surprising.

via Bad Astronomy

05-01-09
Friday, May 01, 2009

District 9 Has a wonderful viral marketing campaign going on.

Adam is a romantic comedy about people with asperger's.

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