Tag: imported

Now that’s funny… 🙂

Athlists’ video compilation 20 Ways to Die Trying to Dunk a Basketball is pretty much what it sounds like…

I really hope that an article about Tom Cruise shopping around Top Gun II isn’t true. The pitch just sounds spectacularly awful: “The idea is Maverick is at the Top Gun school as an instructor – and this time it is he who has to deal with a cocky new female pilot.” Instant fail.

Bill Simmons of ESPN Page2 discusses the Holy trilogy of the Karate Kid, asserting that it “ran the gamut from ‘superb’ to ‘awkward’ to ‘wait a second … this isn’t really happening, is it?’” Thankfully he did not forget to mention one of the best movie montages of all time, set to the craptacular ’80s classic soundtrack song You’re The Best (Cynical-C has the must-see video). 🙂

Polyhedral Maps goes in-depth into some unusual cartographic projections, like the tetrahedral one above.

Amy’s Robot posted about an interesting story involving WMD and whisky, two apparently disparate items. Apparently a webcam at Bruichladdich, a small Scottish distillery, had gone offline, and of all people the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (an agency of the Department of Defense) e-mailed to ask why. It turns out that the agency was using the webcam for training exercises because the distilling process was supposedly very similar to processes for making chemical weapons.

Bruichladdich took advantage of the attention, posting about it on its site and even producing a special whisky, WMD 1 – The Weapons Inspectors, advertised with the graphic above.

Check out the YouTube video mash-up of Star Wars vs. Rush Hour…

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency’s list of Physical Theories as Women is pretty funny…

Nihilogic’s WolfenFlickr 3D is an awesome “Wolfenstein 3D / Flickr JavaScript Mashup” that places designated Flickr photos within the environment of the game. Cool…

A couple of weeks ago during the G8 Summit in Japan, W sunk to a new low:

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

Just when I thought I’d heard it all…