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June 29, 2007
Truer Words were Never Spoken
Quick peek from my hidey hole:
co-worker on the iphone: "apple is cool, but i hate how everybody is all over their dicks"
--vrogy twitter
And back inside the hole for a little while.
Not for much longer, though.
Posted by Groonk at 04:11 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Quotables
June 06, 2007
Flying Humpback Whales, Yes?
No?
(via daily mail)
Posted by Groonk at 03:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals
Oh Hai, Global Warming Island. Y U So Melty?
What a fine place to drink my Global Warming Beer.
Off the coast of Greenland lies an island resembling a bony claw. Long connected to Greenland’s coast by ice, the island escaped recognition for what it was for nearly a century. The island might have been discovered when explorers such as Jean-Baptiste Charcot and Philippe, Duke of Orléans, mapped Greenland’s coast. Instead, this little island was only recognized as such in September 2005, by Dennis Schmitt, an explorer from Berkeley, California. Melting ice enabled Schmitt to detect the island while flying over northwestern Greenland.
(via earth observatory)
Posted by Groonk at 06:50 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Science
London did Something Horrible to 2012 Olympics Logo
The jagged emblem is based on the date "2012" and comes in a series of very bright shades of pink, blue, green and orange in a modern take on the Olympic colours.
Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organising committee said: "This is the vision at the very heart of our brand.
"It will define the venues we build and the Games we hold and act as a reminder of our promise to use the Olympic spirit to inspire everyone and reach out to young people around the world. It is an invitation to take part and be involved.
The only reason it would "reach out to young people" is because the damn thing looks like a 6 year old let his 3 year old brother play with photoshop for an afternoon.
Get off it, London. Rethink that noise. Previous Olympic logos managed to not look like a hot mess.
And your noise apparently induces brain sickness:
A segment of animated footage promoting the 2012 Olympics has been removed from the organisers' website after fears it could trigger epileptic seizures.[...]
Christopher Filmer rang BBC London 94.9FM to say he suffered a seizure while watching the footage on television and his girlfriend also suffered a fit and needed hospital treatment.
"The logo came up on TV and I was thinking about the 2012 Games and then I was out," he said.
(via telegraph.co.uk, warrenellis, bbc news)
Posted by Groonk at 06:34 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Sport
BLIND CLICK 11: Robo Reconaissance
(via rocketboom)
Posted by Groonk at 05:48 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Research, Robots, Video
June 03, 2007
DID YOU KNOW: Tigers Can Strike Underwater
Son of a bitch, are you kidding me?
Six years old, and at the prime of his life, Odin lives at the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom Zoo in Vallejo, near San Francisco. He is about 10ft long from nose to tail, and is an excellent swimmer.
Odin learned to swim by diving after meat chunks. Are you seeing this? Zoologosts, hear me. We do not need fearsome, yet majestic, creatures learning new mediums in which to hunt.
(via garrett farrelly, daily mail)
Posted by Groonk at 04:35 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals, Photos2, World
DOCTOR WHO Theme: How it was Made, 80s Style
By the power of Thor! I've opened some sort of Geek Floodgate.
(via inside home recording, doctor who themed youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 02:30 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Tutorials, Video
FILE UNDER: Are We Actually Having this Conversation?
I think someone sent this to me before. I'm pretty damn sure of it. But at that time I wasn't bored enough to post it.
Now, on the other hand...
(via neo vs robocop youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 02:02 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Video
June 02, 2007
HAHAHAHA!
(via adventures of accordian guy, lolcats, )
Posted by Groonk at 11:53 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals, Funny, Science
Comedian Steven Wright is on Twitter
And he's blessing us with short bits of comedy without a price for admission.
http://twitter.com/stevenwright
I'm not sure I can handle actually liking Twitter. Someone give me a rationalization, quick!
(via twitter)
Posted by Groonk at 08:53 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Culture, Digital Share, Funny, Just Freaking Neat
A Little Girl Forced "Mike Seaver" to Tears
As I swung to the subject of God, a little Indian Buddhist girl stepped forward and said "So this is what you do now? You give people money so they'll stand here so you can brainwash them?!"
Little girl, I only call you "little girl" because I have no true or accurate description of what nationality you claim or which life philosophy you call your own, *you*, little girl, are *awesome*.
I hope you grow up and have an awesome life with awesome adventures and continue to tell others they are not as awesome as you.
For they clearly are not.
(via ontd and toasted pixel's guide to kirk cameron's new saviour site)
Posted by Groonk at 06:40 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Quotables, Religion
40 Years Ago...
The Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight, the Fray and other popular rock groups have joined to record songs from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in honor of Friday's 40th anniversary of the Beatles' epochal album.During the special recording session, which airs on BBC Radio 2 on Saturday, musicians and audio engineer Geoff Emerick will work with the same equipment the Beatles used for their album.
(via ontd)
Posted by Groonk at 04:53 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Albums, History, Music
There's a Hole in the World... of Mars
Black spots have been discovered on Mars that are so dark that nothing inside can be seen. Quite possibly, the spots are entrances to deep underground caves capable of protecting Martian life, were it to exist.
(astronomy picture of the day)
Posted by Groonk at 04:03 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Mars
Dutch TV Lies About Kidney Competition for Attention
That's either brilliant or a completely dickish thing to do.
A Dutch TV contest which purported to show a dying woman choose a patient to receive her kidneys was a hoax.The three knew that The Big Donor Show, which aired on Friday, was not real. The producers say it was made to highlight the shortage of Dutch donors.
(via twitter bbc)
Posted by Groonk at 03:17 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Culture
June 01, 2007
Today I Learned: Italian Doctors Grew a Biotech Vagina
Yes, from this day forth DESIGNER VAGINAS is the possibility.
Rome, May 30 - Italian doctors have built the world's first biotech vagina.So far, two patients lacking vaginas because of a rare malformation have been helped to grow ones, using stem cells taken from their own bodies.
Vaginal tissue was grown from the cells and surgically grafted into the women's groins at Rome's Umberto I university hospital. In the first case, a 28-year-old woman received 0.3 square centimetres of mucous membrane a year ago and has since grown a vagina. She has married and is "in good health," doctors said Wednesday.
Day of wonders, I tell you.
(via ansa, warren ellis)
Posted by Groonk at 12:08 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Health, Science
The Necessary Evil Myspace Presents:
(via neil gaiman)
Posted by Groonk at 11:08 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Movies
Apple's iTunes Proves Me Wrong, Tracks Data from DRM-Free Music
The slimey bastards.
The launch of music tracks free of digital locks on iTunes has been overshadowed by the discovery that they contain data about who bought them.Some fear this data could be used to identify the owner of the tracks if they turn up on file-sharing sites.
[...]
The tracks without the digital locks, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology, officially went on sale on 30 May under the iTunes Plus banner. The downloads cost $1.29 (99p) rather than $0.99 (79p).
Apple uses a technology known as Fairplay to limit what people can do with downloads. Fairplay can be circumvented by burning tracks to a CD and then converting them to another format.
It suggested that this information could be an anti-piracy measure as it could help work out who was putting downloads on file-sharing sites.
But it also added that the user information was found on all the tracks that people buy on iTunes whether free of DRM or not.
Knew I had a bad feeling about this.
(via bbc news)
Posted by Groonk at 06:05 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share
She wasn't a 13-year-old, She was a 34-year-old Woman
Strange does not begin to cover this:
It is almost two weeks since a disturbing story broke about a little boy named Ondrej who had been severely abused by his mother. From that point on, the whole thing became more and more curious, as somebody said to be his 13-year-old sister disappeared from a children's home. First it emerged that the authorities had no record of "Anna", who Ondrej's mother had been attempting to adopt. Hundreds of police officers searched the country for "Anna", in vain. Now it seems that the alleged 13-year-old is in fact a diminutive 34-year-old woman. The girl has never existed, apparently.[...]
Questions will also be asked of others who came into contact with "Anna" - how could they take a 34-year-old for a 13-year-old? The director of the Brno children's home from which she disappeared said she gave staff a strange feeling, and they thought she had a strange face.
What in the fuck is going on in Czechoslovakia?
(via warrenellis and cesky rozhlas)
Posted by Groonk at 05:16 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Weird, World
LOLBOTS Pleases My Funnybone
R Stevens broke out this meme dealing with macro-ing robots. It took off like a shuttle launch*.
I don't get why meme pages rule the internets. Some of them are hilarious like LOLBOTS and icanhascheeseburger. And some, well, we just won't mention them. Ever.
(*Meaning it was a hit)
(via diesel sweeties)
Posted by Groonk at 04:43 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Robots
