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November 27, 2007
There's a Hole in the Universe
Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.
(via NRAO, warrenellis)
Posted by Groonk at 07:45 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Science
Random Wisdoms from The Interwub
sometimes, i want to punch john mayer in the face. and sometimes, he makes me laugh.
Profound or pseudo-wise? You decide. I just know you can replace "John Mayer" with a lot of names both real and imaginery.
- Carson Daly
- Maxim
- Jerry Seinfeld
- Disney, Inc
- CHUCK
- The writers of 2nd season HEROES
- The Marquis de Sade
- Amy Winehouse
- Dr Gregory House
Play along at home if you dare.
(via ontd)
Posted by Groonk at 04:51 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Intertube Madness, Quotables
November 26, 2007
The Future is Here and it Brought Giant Spinning Blades
Giant Spinning Blades!
Magnetic levitation is an extremely efficient system for wind energy. Here's how it works: the vertically oriented blades of the wind turbine are suspended in the air above the base of the machine, replacing the need for ball bearings. The turbine uses "full-permanent" magnets, not electromagnets — therefore, it does not require electricty to run. The full-permanent magnet system employs neodymium (”rare earth”) magnets and there is no energy loss through friction. This also helps reduce maintenance costs and increases the lifespan of the generator.Maglev wind turbines have several advantages over conventional wind turbines. For instance, they’re able to use winds with starting speeds as low as 1.5 meters per second (m/s). Also, they could operate in winds exceeding 40 m/s. Currently, the largest conventional wind turbines in the world produce only five megawatts of power. However, one large maglev wind turbine could generate one gigawatt of clean power, enough to supply energy to 750,000 homes. It would also increase generation capacity by 20% over conventional wind turbines and decrease operational costs by 50%. If that isn’t enough, the maglev wind turbines will be operational for about 500 years!
Posted by Groonk at 10:14 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Technology, The Future
November 21, 2007
Geek Theatre vs Nerd Resolution
The battles rage on.
These personalized home theater systems are bit geekier than even I, a comics fan, may care to admit. But I must concede to the universal turth. These Ultimate Geek Accessories look pretty fucking cool
I'm a Wars guy, of course. But the Trek system has better chairs and a
freaking bar.
Those Star Wars people made it hard to remain faithful to the cause.
While you continue the debate out of my earshot, go eat some turkey and apologize to your fellow indigenous brothers and sisters.
Then eat more turkey and fall asleep.
That's how Americans celebrate proper.
Eat out.
(via the geekologie wars: wars vs trek)
Posted by Groonk at 02:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Versus
When All Else Fails. Dance 8: The Wedding Edition
Well done, new hip couple.
(via un-face slapped ponzu, brubaker's youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 01:33 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Video
November 20, 2007
A Love Story 60 Years in the Making
(via writer's strike twitter, kiss me first youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 07:29 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Tee Vee, Video, Writer's strike
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Redband Trailer Ruins Me for other Movies
I thought I knew what a movie trailer was until I viewed this red band trailer for the Coen Bros new movie NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.
On top of that, Rotten Tomatoes has a 95% fresh rating for their latest effort. If you're into that kind of thing.
The NCFOM official site has better sound and all that. It makes me wonder. Have the Coens decided to kick ass again?
Please say yes.
(via NCFOM official site)
Posted by Groonk at 01:03 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Movies, Trailers
How WWII was Really Won
It's so clear now.
(via medicmike)
Posted by Groonk at 10:32 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Intertube Madness, Macro, WorldWarII
November 19, 2007
MOVIE: "Persepolis"
Because actual films like this can't afford to crash into your living room boob tubes, highway lcd billboard monstrosities, and please me meals like some other black and yellow jacketed insect. I bring you Persepolis:
Yahoo has a full and proper trailer that's currently unsharable. Tsk Tsk. What the hell are you thinking, you Yahoos?
MAIN SITE: http://www.sonyclassics.com/persepolis/
(via iwatchstuff, yahoo movies, eye of youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 10:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Movies, Politics, Trailers
Christmas with The Killers
I'm looking forward to the new album.
"Don't Shoot Me Santa" will be serviced to radio on Monday, November 26th, and released for digital download the next day. On December 1st (Saturday) the single and video will debut as part of RED’s World Aids Day activities. The following Tuesday, December 4th, the "Don't Shoot Me Santa" single package (including audio track and video) arrives in stores.
Nicely.
(via www.thekillersfansite.com, gun weary youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 09:20 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Holiday, Video
Aiko has a Mean(Slow) Right Hook
(via geekologie, pervert scientist youtube)
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Suddenly, Personal Safety is No Longer the Issue
(via jerem morrow's myspace)
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The Studios are Worried they Look Greedy
Do tell?
As Brooks Barnes wrote in Sunday’s New York Times: “Executives at studios like CBS, Fox and NBC Universal have said privately that their side was losing the public relations battle because they were not responding to union claims. Some were concerned that the union, using blogs and YouTube to publish its message, was succeeding in painting them as greedy.”The writer blogs include Late Show Writers on Strike, United Hollywood and Get Back In That Room. The studios have no comparable presence online. Despite the purchase of some full-page advertisements by the studios, the Writers’ Guild of America is winning the public relations war.
Because you didn't want to share the wealth, you honked people off. You honked off god knows how many creative type folk who now have untold amounts of time to vent their carefully constructed rage and criticisms through that wonderful 21st equalizer known as The Internet.
A full page ad ain't gonna cut it. I think what you really need are...wait for it...WRITERS.
You didn't think this through, did you?
(via writer's strike twitter, new york times)
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Hello, Monday
(via applegeeks lite)
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November 18, 2007
Nokia's Gone a Bit Strange
Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid says this little ditty is via Nokia's viral marketing team.
I think they may have gone a bit funny in the head over at Nokia HQ.
(via laughing squid, web 2.0 explainy you tube)
Posted by Groonk at 03:25 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Video
Tattoos of Science Love
A whole mess of them after this jump.
(via digg)
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BLIND CLICK 17
(via 7d)
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November 17, 2007
Comets are Now Supersized. Bigger than the Sun!
A comet that has delighted backyard astronomers in recent weeks after an unexpected eruption has now grown larger than the sun.
The sun remains by far the most massive object in the solar system, with an extended influence of particles that reaches all the planets. But the comparatively tiny Comet Holmes has released so much gas and dust that its extended atmosphere, or coma, is larger than the diameter of the sun. The comparison is clear in a new image.
"It continues to expand and is now the largest single object in the solar system," according to astronomers at the University of Hawaii.
Because scientists know they can be a bit dodgy, they exclaim that you can see this thing with the naked eye.
Holmes is still visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy star anytime after dark, high in the northeast sky. You can find it by using this sky map. It is faintly visible from cities, and from dark country locations is truly remarkable.
(via space.com night sky)
Posted by Groonk at 04:09 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Science
The Daily Show's John Oliver Knows "Spectacular Balls" when He Sees Them
Do I really have to write such sensational titles in order for people to read these things?
The writers from The Office were talking about how they wrote some web-only “promotionals” for the show and there was ad revenue generated from those and the writers weren’t paid any residuals. That’s right. Or, like, all our Daily Show clips were pulled off YouTube by Viacom, who is suing them for a billion dollars. That was not at our instigation – we were happy for people to watch the clips. But instead they wanted to set up a website where they can sell advertising while the clip is buffering, although I thought we were at the point where clips don’t need to buffer anymore. So you have to watch a commercial for thirty seconds or whatever. So they’re clearly making money on that; they’re also clearly making money because they’re suing YouTube for a billion. So that seems quite strange when they’re saying, "Well, there’s no money to be made off the internet but we’re suing YouTube for a billion dollars.” That takes spectacular balls! There are so many areas of it that seem so desperately unfair.
I know I do.
Posted by Groonk at 03:52 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Interviews, Writer's strike
MOVIE: "Look Who is Watching"
Looks better than that hot mess Soderbergh forced on us a ways back.
"A high school English teacher tries his best to be a decent husband, a department store floor manager uses the warehouse for more than just storage, a Mini-Mart clerk has big dreams, a lawyer struggles with a sexual dilemma and sociopathic brothers ruin the day of random strangers they come in contact with. Look tells five private stories which unfold before the prying eye of the covert camera to chilling effect."
(via Look official, ontd)
Posted by Groonk at 02:10 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Movies, Trailers
Doctor. Doctor? Half of 10 is 5.
The 5th and 10th Doctors meet for a very special relief.
Americans and other folks not in the general BBC area, watch this short special(while you can) and donate what you can.
Folks who have not seen the 10th Doctor's 3rd season might want to ignore this post.
Please note that I peed myself a little while watching that. Now if only Tom Baker were willing to make an appearance and if it wouldn't look so unfortunate on camera for him.
Some dreams aren't meant to come true, alas.
(via ontd, timey wimey you tube, children in need)
Posted by Groonk at 01:54 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Tee Vee
FILE UNDER: So Stupid it's Funny
"Magpies are the dive bombing gangsters' of the air!"
--Justin Timberlake
I wonder if the bird nation has developed a conspiracy to attack annoying celebrities at random instances. If so, they need to double time their actions.
Other less funny quotes are around. Birds, ready your beaks.
(via ontd)
Posted by Groonk at 12:03 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Quotables
November 16, 2007
That's Stephen Colbert, Saving Your Public Schools
By your public schools I mean South Carolina.
When Colbert announced last month that he was running for president, the Charleston native and host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" also asked viewers to give to DonorsChoose.org, which helps fulfill teacher wish lists for books, globes or other classroom materials in schools in the United States.
"So I encourage everyone, go on, make donations to teachers in South Carolina, let's make a difference," Colbert said.
The brief comment by the 43-year-old talk-show host who has since dropped his bid for the White House raised $59,000 in 10 days and reached 13,000 public school students in South Carolina, said Peter Bloom, the group's national chairman.
Colbert being on strike isn't one of them. The Suits need to get off thir butts and pay people what they're owed. I'm missing my Daily Show/Colbert Report one-two punch.
(via ontd, yahoo omg!beta)
Posted by Groonk at 11:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Politics, USA
BSG Producer Ron Moore Shares His Horror Story
"I had a situation last year on Battlestar Galactica where we were asked by Universal to do webisodes [Note: Moore is referring to The Resistance webisodes which ran before Season 3 premiered], which at that point were very new and 'Oooh, webisodes! What does that mean?' It was all very new stuff. And it was very eye opening, because the studio's position was 'Oh, we're not going to pay anybody to do this. You have to do this, because you work on the show. And we're not going to pay you to write it. We're not going to pay the director, and we're not going to pay the actors.' At which point we said 'No thanks, we won't do it.'"
"We got in this long, protracted thing and eventually they agreed to pay everybody involved. But then, as we got deeper into it, they said 'But we're not going to put any credits on it. You're not going to be credited for this work. And we can use it later, in any fashion that we want.' At which point I said 'Well, then we're done and I'm not going to deliver the webisodes to you.' And they came and they took them out of the editing room anyway -- which they have every right to do. They own the material -- But it was that experience that really showed me that that's what this is all about. If there's not an agreement with the studios about the internet, that specifically says 'This is covered material, you have to pay us a formula - whatever that formula turns out to be - for use of the material and how it's all done,' the studios will simply rape and pillage."
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Fox News ain't Nothing but *PORN*
(via Cliff Schecter)
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Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill have THE BLACK DOSSIER
Alan Moore Talks about THE BLACK DOSSIER and in doing so reveals I know nothing about anything.
"There are little undercover threads throughout our story with connections like that," continued Moore. "The film 'The Third Man' was written by Graham Greene, who based the character of Harry Lime on his lifelong friend Kim Philby, a very famous British spy who turned out to be a double agent for the Russians. And weirdly enough, there had previously been two Russian agents exposed, Guy Burgess and Anthony MacLean, and there was a rumour there was a third double agent in MI5. I remember there was a headline back in the Sixties that said, 'KIM PHILBY IS THE THIRD MAN,' which were written completely unaware that he was the third man. So he was the basis for 'The Third Man.' All of these obscure facts are woven into the fabric of 'The Black Dossier.' It's been very interesting, with some surprising inclusions."
More proof of my ignorance:
"Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother."
--Alan Moore
How fucking right is he?
(via cbr)
Posted by Groonk at 05:55 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Interviews
November 14, 2007
XKCD Influences People, Life, Ninjas
Wired finally figured out where the cool part of the web is and talked about the lovely comic, XKCD.
And then Munroe's fans read the installment in which a mysterious dream girl leaves the hero with a set of coordinates for a place and time in the near future.
In the comic, nothing happens. "It turns out that wanting something doesn't make it real," the comic's narrator says mournfully.
But in real life, those coordinates pointed to a real time and place: Sept. 23, 2:38 p.m., in Reverend Thomas J. Williams Park in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. On that day, nearly a thousand xkcd fans from as far away as England and Canada converged on the park, bearing tape measures and Rubik's cubes. At the assigned minute, Munroe emerged and spoke.
"Maybe wanting something does make it real," he said as his fans cheered and fought duels with foam swords. The comic that spurred the gathering was enlarged and hung from a fence, and fans took turns contributing to a new last panel, where dreams can come true.
You lost me with the foam sword duels. I'm not sayin' I'm too cool for school. I'm just sayin' I'm entirely too cynical.
Every sword I wield in public will have a razor's edge. Every battle I fight will be to the pain.
(via wired, xkcd meetup pool, xkcd, hober's flickr)
Posted by Groonk at 04:57 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Culture, Flickrlicious, USA
What Ever Did People Do with 5 KB of RAM?
A strange museum where facts on old computers live.
(random find)
Posted by Groonk at 04:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of History, Research, Technology
Some Jokes Write Themselves
(via 7d)
Posted by Groonk at 01:57 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Religion
Giant Barosaurus Found in Museum Drawers
My dinosaur geekery finally warranted its own category.
The Barosaurus skeleton discovery was made this year, not during a field dig but in the halls of the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada as Associate Curator of vertebrate paleontology David Evans dug through collections of isolated bones once assumed to belong to as many different dinosaurs.
The Jurassic Period dinosaur weighed about 33,000 pounds (15,000 kilograms) and belongs to the four-legged, plant-eating group of dinosaurs known as sauropods, some of which sport long necks and tails, like this new specimen. The largest sauropods reached nearly 100 feet (30 meters) in length and tipped the scales at more than 50 tons (50,000 kilograms).
Evans was tasked with finding a sauropod dinosaur to display in a forthcoming exhibition at the museum. After months of researching dead ends, Evans hit the treasure-hunt jackpot. He spotted a reference in an article by famed sauropod expert Jack McIntosh suggesting that a Barosaurus skeleton was stored at the ROM.
The ROM’s databases turned up squat. Evans finally connected disparate dinosaur dots, realizing that what were thought to be isolated bones scattered throughout the collections room actually belonged to a single dinosaur—a Barosaurus.
(via yahoo news)
Posted by Groonk at 04:02 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Dinosaurs
A Talk with Monkey Punch
Monkey Punch created the LUPIN III manga that the anime was based on. He's got some neat views on comics in The Future.
His work was discovered by an editor of Futabasha, the company behind Weekly Manga Action, for whom he created the Lupin III series, loosely based on the Arsene Lupin novel series and 007 movies. The artist's strange pseudonym, he explains, was given to him by his editor, who compared his characters' faces to those of a monkey.
[...]
Monkey Punch began using computers in his work nearly two decades ago.
"Digital technology allows me to look closely at the details [of the images] and easily change minor things several times. This means, though, that it's sometimes hard to give up the details and complete [the images]."
Cooperating with famous mangaka, including Machiko Satonaka and Tetsuya Chiba, Monkey Punch established the Tokyo-based Digital Manga Association five years ago to explore and develop manga content for the Internet.
"I thought it would be a waste not to utilize the Internet, since it allows us to directly communicate with people around the world," the creator said.
"Japan's manga culture is drawing international attention, but we don't even have an archive containing information about all the manga published here," he said. "I want to find a way to set up such an archive, getting cooperation from other mangaka and relevant experts."
(via green jacketed josh hechinger, daily yomiuri online)
Posted by Groonk at 03:23 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Digital Share, Grammar, Interviews, Marketing, Only in Japan
If You Laugh that Means You're Going to Hell
I laughed my fool head off.
Posted by Groonk at 02:23 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Video
November 12, 2007
That's Another 20 Dollars Out the Damn Door
(via glarkware)
Posted by Groonk at 06:30 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Tee Vee
How The Future Killed Television
You do know that you are living in the future right now? Damon Lindeloff sure does. He talks about how television is dying in his New York times article "Mourning TV"
Twenty percent of American homes now contain hard drives that store movies and television shows indefinitely and allows you to fast-forward through commercials. These devices will probably proliferate at a significant rate and soon, almost everyone will have them. They’ll also get smaller and smaller, rendering the box that holds them obsolete, and the rectangular screen in your living room won’t really be a television anymore, it’ll be a computer. And running into the back of that computer, the wire that delivers unto you everything you watch? It won’t be cable; it will be the Internet.This probably sounds exciting if you’re a TV viewer, but if you’re in the business of producing these shows, it’s nothing short of terrifying. This is how vaudevillians must have felt the first time they saw a silent movie; sitting there, suddenly realizing they just became extinct: after all, who wants another soft-shoe number when you can see Harold Lloyd hanging off a clock 50 feet tall?
The Lindelof article is a good read. I suggest you give it a go.
(via the new york times)
Posted by Groonk at 05:16 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Quotables, Tee Vee
Doonesbury Remembered the "Proper Days" of Frat Hazing at Yale
Did you know that the Current President (yes, that one) once defended a fraternity's practice of branding its pledges with a red-hot coat hanger?
I didn't. Mind you, I'm not at all surprised by the idea of it.
Trudeau's cartoon "Doonesbury" featured fictional character Mark Slackmeyer explaining the President's position against current anti-torture legislation by revisiting a series of 1967 Yale Daily News articles that exposed DKE's rush activities, which at the time included brandings and alleged beatings. Soon after these stories were published, the University's Inter-Fraternity Council fined the fraternity for performing "physically and mentally degrading acts," and the Times published an article in which Bush defended the brandings, comparing them to cigarette burns."At the time, it caused quite a stir on campus, even generating some national attention," Trudeau said.
(via yale daily news at the fraternity in question's site)
Posted by Groonk at 04:24 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Politics, USA
Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007
And I didn't know until now but, Norman Mailer died.
Some of his works were highly praised, some panned, but none was pronounced the Great American Novel that seemed to be his life quest from the time he soared to the top as a brash 25-year-old "enfant terrible." Mailer built and nurtured an image over the years as pugnacious, street-wise and high-living. He drank, fought, smoked pot, married six times and stabbed his second wife, almost fatally, during a drunken party.(via aol news)
Another author that I failed to get around to reading while he was alive.
The word "fug" is thrown around quite a bit on the Internet. But did you know that it was Norman Mailer who coined the word in 1948 in his first book, The Naked and the Dead?(via writer's blog)
No, I did not know that Writer's Blog. I did not know.
On the other hand, he said, writing was now easier for him in at least one respect. “The waste is less,” he said. “The elements of mania and depression are diminished. Writing is a serious and sober activity for me now compared to when I was younger. The question of how good are you is one that really good novelists obsess about more than poor ones. Good novelists are always terribly affected by the fear that they’re not as good as they thought and why are they doing it, what are they up to?"
After reading The New York Times obituary of Mailer, I've come to decide that Norman Mailer was quite mad and possibly an impossible man to know. But it's the mad ones that have all the unique and, at times, forward thinking ideas.
Posted by Groonk at 04:15 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Grammar, People Who Died
Captain America Returns! (sort of) for Veterans Day
Captain America may not be back from the dead, but he's back — sort of. After Marvel Comics unexpectedly killed off the champion of liberty and the American way earlier this year, he appears in a comic made exclusively for U.S. soldiers. He is seen on a videotape made before his death.[...]
Captain America is not being resurrected in "Spirit of America," said Bob Sabouni, Marvel's vice president of business development.
But when AAFES asked Marvel officials to include the hero in the latest military issue to be released before Veterans Day, they agreed because no other character better symbolizes the heroism and patriotism of the American soldier, Sabouni said.
(via yahoo news)
Posted by Groonk at 04:07 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Culture, USA, War
John Rogers Explains it All
John Rogers weighs in on the folks who think free market solves all problems.
Listen, I get it. You love free markets. So do I. I just know that they weren't designed by Jesus. They're not perfect, and sometimes you need a union not out of any high moral stance, but just to maintain fair business practices.To paraphrase a previous post -- I live with the tiger, I love it, but I respect its teeth and instincts. Stop asking why I don't just pet the kitty.
(via kung fu monkey)
Posted by Groonk at 04:00 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Quotables, Writer's strike
November 10, 2007
The Office Writers Talk about "Promotions"
Ms Fischer breaks down the situation with hard numbers. This is something I've been wondering about for a while.
Let's say you write a movie script and you sell it for $100,000...that's GREAT money! Your movie gets made and yada yada. You start churning away writing more scripts. But it takes you 4 years before you sell your next script. That $100,000 windfall is now stretched to $25,000 a year for 4 years. (And, I'm not even counting the 30% that goes to taxes and 25% to your agent/manager.) If during that 4 years they sell your movie on DVD or run it on Pay-per-view you get little residual checks for $1,000 here or $2,500 there. That money is essential for getting by. This scenerio is what the majority of writers, actors and directors in Hollywood face. You have a few flush years and then a big drought.The future of media is the internet. In a few years it is more likely that you will download a movie or television show than buy it on DVD. But as it currently stands, those downloads produce no residuals for the creative types that made them. All the profit goes to the studio.
(via pam/jenna's myspace, the writely youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 08:03 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Artist, USA, Video, Writer's strike
Real Life Halo Warthog vs a Warehouse
But the real question is: how does one make a real Halo Warthog?
(via dans blog)
Posted by Groonk at 07:24 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Technology, Versus, Video
November 09, 2007
COMICS: Learn from the Best Why Don't You?
There are days that I love the internet more than peanut butter cookies and coffee.
The Comic Book Script Archive
An online resource for comic books scripts
(via comicbookscripts)
Posted by Groonk at 02:34 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Google-fied, Research, Tutorials
November 07, 2007
BACCANO!: I Don't Know What was said but He Just Kicked Your Ass
Andrew Cummingham shared this cip of BACCANO! and claims shit like this happens in it all the time.
Consider me sold.
UPDATE: I know what was said now. Firo was right to kick your collective asses.
(via andrew cummingham, panel&pixel)
Posted by Groonk at 04:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Anime, Only in Japan, Video
November 06, 2007
Political Ghost Whispering
This is President Eisenhower's complete (audio only) 1961 farewell speech:
part 2
Everyone please note how this statesman - this Leader - addresses his people. Notice his clear diction. Notice how he talks "to you" and not "at you?" Soak that in for a minute.
Prof. Emanuel Pastreich of George Washington University compares the current state of affairs to Japan's occupation of Manchuria rather than Vietnam. He also mentions Eisenhower coined the term, "Military-Industrial Complex."
huh.
Posted by Groonk at 08:20 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Grammar, Politics, USA, Video
DANGER: DIABOLIK Old School Comic-2-Movie
Funny the things you learn when you're not looking for them.
(via diabolik google video and film junk)
Posted by Groonk at 02:43 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Movies, Podcast, Video
BLIND CLICK 16: A Website Rube Goldberg can be Proud of
(via digg)
Posted by Groonk at 02:14 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Flash, Marketing
November 05, 2007
Good Literature (Blogs) Must be Acknowledged
And know that a vote for the Neil Gaiman Journal is a vote for all the good and right and lovely things in this world.
It's also a vote for marmite and a canine Cabal.
UPDATE: Please note the winner.
It is nice to know that everything is as it should be.
Posted by Groonk at 03:31 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Blogged
Magician Pulls Burger from a Poster
Come on ladies. That's not so impressive. In america, we get carboard burgers from those little windows found in the side of McDonald's every day.
There seems to be a whole series of vids dedicated to this guy on You Tube.
I can't believe she drank that.
(via feed the hungry with magic youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 12:28 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Only in Japan, Research, Video
November 01, 2007
Stephen Colbert White House-Blocked
The bastards blocked South Carolina's favorite son.
To get on the ballot, a candidate must demonstrate two requirements: that he or she is viable nationally and has spent time campaigning in the state.Carol Fowler, chairwoman of the state Democratic Party and a member of the executive council, suggested Wednesday that Colbert did not meet the standard of national viability.
"He does not appear to be campaigning to win if he is only running in one state," she said.
Well, yeah. You got him there.
Opponents such as Howe argued Colbert would make a mockery of the political process.
Oh, hell naw. You did not take that route. Do you watch the news? Do you live on the Earth?
(via cnn)
Posted by Groonk at 04:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Politics
AIR GUITAR NATION: "Less Disturbing to Watch than Figure Skating"
That's a direct quote. I can't find fault in it.
(via popbitch, air guitar nation)
Posted by Groonk at 04:05 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Trailers
You Should Be Watching Veronica Belmont
This burned up the Tubes yesterday. I just stopped laughing long enough to share the goodness that is Ms Belmont.
Her homage to Ze Frank made me re-miss The Show all over again. Ze Frank, stop hating us and share more vidz plz.
kthxbai.
(via mahalo daily)
Posted by Groonk at 02:39 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Podcast
In Russia, Halloween is Underground
A day late but I have things to do some times.
Moscow schools have been ordered to ban students from celebrating Halloween despite the widespread popularity of the imported festival to Russia.Halloween is being forced underground because it "includes religious elements, the cult of death, the mockery of death," a spokesman for the city's education department Alexander Gavrilov said Wednesday.
Is it me or is Russia being a little weird lately? It's like Cold War mentality reaching up from the grave and grabbing hold of whomever's nearby.
(via reuters)
Posted by Groonk at 01:39 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Culture, Holiday
