Monthly Archives: May 2011

Very young guns

Posted on May 31, 2011 by RGE

Hot off of the Twitter links, a colourful music video starring the action heroes and villains of tomorrow!

Got to give this guy props for originality, he switched a wedding proposal into a fake movie trailer at the screening his girlfriend was attending. Of course the problem with setting the bar so high, she’s gonna expect all kinds … Continue reading →

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Tintin and the secret of the Unicorn

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Nestor

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming Spielberg adaptation of the famous Tintin. I’m cautiously optimistic, since the production values will be obviously very high, and I’m on record as saying that people just get used to the uncanny valley. I … Continue reading →

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Life on Forbez

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Nestor

Since I mentioned it in the last post I guess it’s worth pointing out that long running webcomic Life On Forbez is updating regularly once again. It’s a very well drawn and funny story that has never had the readership … Continue reading →

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Website katamari

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Nestor

javascript:var i,s,ss=['http://kathack.com/js/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement(‘script’);s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0); If you paste this code on the url bar on any website, using a html5 capable browser (Chrome, or the latest firefox) you get a katamari ball that runs all over the webpage picking up everything along it’s … Continue reading →

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Cat trap

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Nestor

Hilarious video of a DIY motion sensor activated cat trap. Cat pee is pretty pungent so I can see how he’s been driven to these extremes. edit: RGE asks in the comments if ultrasound wouldn’t be a better deterrent, well … Continue reading →

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Dan Dennet on memes

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Nestor

Should post more TED talks here, they’re usually good. Though I kinda lost respect for them when they let the 4chan dude talk, ugh. Anyway, here’s philosopher Dan Dennet talking about memes.

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The owl and the pussycat

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Nestor

they don’t have a beautiful pea green boat but they seem to get along pretty well. See, this is nature when human beings interfere. Two animals whose main interaction would be in terms of food find each other far more … Continue reading →

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Biting the hand that feeds it

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Nestor

You know just yesterday I was thinking about the nature of intelligence, and whether it is more intelligent to be able to do something directly or to be able to compel someone to do it for you, and on my … Continue reading →

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Makazie one

Posted on May 23, 2011 by Nestor

Makazie One – Star Wars Fan Film from Clutch on Vimeo. Another star wars fanfilm. I guess it’s the natural thing to do if you and a bunch of friends own stormtrooper uniforms…

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