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February 28, 2008
Geek Networking of the 1990s was Quaint, Televised, Canadian
Explore the origins of Sci Fi fandom. See how little Neil Gaiman has changed in 15 years. Recoil at the (usual) curtness of Harlan Ellison. Be amazed by the teenaged Garth Ennis.
Chuckle at 90s TV graphics. I could probably do a rather long essay on how internet graphics changed the visual design landscape of television. I'll save that for another obsession.
(via neil gaiman, Prisoners of gravity: Fans, a response to neil gaiman's sharing of the Fans You Tube by the creator of Fans)
Posted by Groonk at 03:17 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Books, Comics, Culture, Documentary, History, Tee Vee
Someone On This Earth Needs Their Head Kicked
(via ponzu, amazon)
Posted by Groonk at 12:24 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Books
February 27, 2008
Jack McBrayer is Not Tina Fey
Due to massive asshattery by MT and various other things, this spot gets filled with akward comedy. Very good akward comedy actually. Michael Showalter interviews Jack McBrayer from 30 TV's ROCK on THE MICHAEL SHOWALTER SHOWALTER.
(via CH TV, ontd)
Posted by Groonk at 02:45 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Intertube Madness, Interviews
Guess Who's Getting Fucked Now
In reverse(cowgirl) order:
I think that's everyone. We now have a Hat Trick of fuckery. No more, please. Leave the fucking joke alone.
(via /film, affleck's you tube, damon's you tube)
Posted by Groonk at 02:45 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Intertube Madness, Movies, Sex
Nokia's Morph Phone. 7 Years Til Perfection
7 years. 7 fucking years?! The very technology I've bitched about the world not having is 7 damn years til production and that's in Europe. By the time the USA gets it, I'll be in adult diapers and overjoyed about wearing mittens.
The Future does not come fast enough.
Notice how it favors the eBracelet.
The press release video is after the jump.
(via whitechapel, gizmodo, future-like youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 04:24 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Nanotech
The Wind will Kill You if You Let It
News about it: Minister demands explanation for windmill collapse
Extras:
- The tower of the mill was 60m high
- Wind speed was probably around 30 m/s
- You can see a truck at the base of the mill, but nobody was hurt. The mill had been evacuated 400m in each direction.
(via bunny, destructive you tube)
Posted by Groonk at 04:00 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Technology, Versus, World
February 24, 2008
BLIND CLICK 25
(via digg)
Posted by Groonk at 11:52 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics
Veronica Belmont, Jonathan Coulton, Leo Laporte, and Merlin Mann. "Still Alive"
The things these guys, and gal, do for New Media. Wonderful!
(via veronica belmont)
Posted by Groonk at 05:43 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat, Music, Video
February 22, 2008
Huntsville Reopened Nuclear Fallout Shelters, Raises My Eyebrow a Smidge
Some old news brought to my attention just now.
"If Huntsville is in the blast zone, there's not much we can do. But if it's just fallout ... shelters would absorb 90 percent of the radiation," said longtime emergency management planner Kirk Paradise, whose Cold War expertise with fallout shelters led local leaders to renew Huntsville's program.
Huntsville's project, developed using $70,000 from a Homeland Security grant, goes against the grain because the United States essentially scrapped its national plan for fallout shelters after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Congress cut off funding and the government published its last list of approved shelters at the end of 1992.
After Sept. 11, Homeland Security created a metropolitan protection program that includes nuclear-attack preparation and mass shelters. But no other city has taken the idea as far as Huntsville has, officials said.
[...]
Plans call for staying inside for as long as two weeks after a bomb blast, though shelters might be needed for only a few hours in a less dire emergency.
Unlike the fallout shelters set up during the Cold War, the new ones will not be stocked with water, food or other supplies. For survivors of a nuclear attack, it would be strictly "BYOE" bring your own everything. Just throw down a sleeping bag on the courthouse floor or move some of the rocks on the mine floor and make yourself at home.
"We do not guarantee them comfort, just protection," said Paradise, who is coordinating the shelter plans for the local emergency management agency.
(via abc news, ponzu)
Posted by Groonk at 09:05 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Alabama, USA, War
Redstone Arsenal Rocket Goes Bada Boom, Scares 5 Counties
Something blew the fuck up late last night. I mistook it for thunder or my lead-footed upstairs neighbor. It seems, I was wrong on both counts.
Around 11 p.m. a loud boom was reported in southeast Huntsville, east Limestone, Morgan and Marshall counties.
Across 5 counties this was heard. I heard and *felt* it. Rattled the building, it did. If you follow the link you see that the typical Huntsville geek, named Opticron, has taken it upon himself to be Super Geektastic (not in a good way) and track the latitude and longitude of the origin.
Who is the bigger geek, him for tracking or me for bothering to Google Map it, I'll let you decide. I just want to know what blew the hell up. (Looking at you, Redstone Arsenal.)
(via me)
EDIT: The reigning theory is a sonic boom from an aircraft. I'm cool with that, although I've no idea why you would test aircraft here. I wasn't even sure military jets bothered to land here. It's mostly helicopters and rockets round these parts.
UPDATE: And so the Arsenal admits to blowing up half a million dollar rocket late into the night.
Around 11 p.m. a loud boom was reported in southeast Huntsville, Limestone, Morgan, Marshall, Lawrence and DeKalb counties.The slow cook-off test involves placing a rocket engine in a stove-like piece of equipment and heating it until the engine blows. Normally the tests are scheduled to explode in the afternoons, but this one ran later - much later.
The low clouds helped carry the sound to at least five surrounding counties.
Before the Arsenal released a statement, The Andalusia Star News had speculations.
Posted by Groonk at 08:38 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Alabama, Google-fied, Weird
February 21, 2008
Burmese Pythons are Coming for Our Alligators, Me
"Global Warming Will Make Southern States More Habitable," is the article's official title. I guess *something* would find The South bearable eventually.
(via the daily green, ponzu)
Posted by Groonk at 11:24 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals, USA, Versus
Red Band Trailer: FATAL MOVE
Gotta love Andrew Cunningham and his love of ultra violence martial arts flicks.
Posted by Groonk at 09:07 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Martial Arts, Movies, Trailers
BLIND CLICK 24
That's more of a Blind-ish click as I told you what was there.
(via feednews)
Posted by Groonk at 07:48 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Blind Click
Looking at Ancient DNA
Discovery Channel. That advertisement at the end for this url: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/sidewalkscience/.
Are you fucking insane? Why should your url be comparable to writing a damn thesis paper?
Just sayin'.
(via discovery.com)
Posted by Groonk at 07:36 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Science, Video
February 20, 2008
Strange and Beautiful Architecture
One more of the Biblioteca under the cut.
Posted by Groonk at 08:52 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art
Listen to the Internet. If You Dare.
Listening Post allows its audience to eavesdrop on the online world. Sampling text from thousands of chatrooms, message boards and forums, the artists have created a huge display that attempts to "hear the internet".Artists Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen have forged a giant curved stand that is built out of 231 small electronic screens.
Those screens display text fragments, which are accompanied by the rhythm of computer-synthesized voices reading - or as some put it "singing" - the words that surge and flicker over the screens.
Those words are uncensored and unedited: they may be four letters but they are predominantly "clean ones", such as "skin" and "bone".
Posted by Groonk at 04:56 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Intertube Madness, Just Freaking Neat
February 19, 2008
Velafrons coahuilensis Made Music, Sweet Music
Coahuilensis refers to Coahuila, Mexico, where the dino was excavated in an approximately 72-million-year-old rock unit known as the Cerro del Pueblo Formation. Velafrons means "sailed forehead," and refers to the sail-like crest that grew on top of the dinosaur's head.
"Velafrons belongs to a group of duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, called lambeosaurs, which are characterized by having bony crests associated with the nasal cavity," co-author Scott Sampson told Discovery News.
Sampson, a Utah Museum of Natural History paleontologist, explained that these crests take different forms, ranging from "tall and crown-like" to "long and tube-like," in other duck-billed species.
[...]
"If the crest was suited to being a resonating chamber, it could have made a distinctive sound that may have been used to signal other members of the species," Sampson said, adding that the theory is still speculative at this point.Based on several bony features on the skull and skeleton, the researchers think the dinosaur was just a 25-foot-long youngster when it died. If it had reached adulthood, the dino would have grown up to 35 feet long.
(via discovery)
Posted by Groonk at 08:43 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Dinosaurs
Verva Vie Sports Gauntlet: Must Have. Give it to Me Now!
Du Nguyen Tran read my mind. He created something pretty darn neat.
The Vie (pronounced vee, French word for life) is a sports glove, of which the main objective is to incorporate today’s technologies to enhance human performance and safety via a simple human-machine-interface. The Vie is aimed towards those who keep active by running/walking but its features can easily be spread to other sports. The Vie is a typical health monitor that also uses GPS technology to do such things as map jog routes, rendezvous with friends, send out emergency distress beacons and more. To keep the sport natural, the input is made via a unique, single hand control interface.[...]
Jogging and other sports, like bike riding, usually require the freedom of both hands. The interface needed not only to be simple but flawlessly controllable with one hand. Influenced by sign language and communication through hand gestures, the Vie uses strain gauges embedded in the glove to receive input commands from each individual finger. Each finger corresponds to an icon on the E-ink screen and the act of tapping is the selection. The result looks like you are typing or playing the piano, in mid air. Miniature motors then also provide tactile feedback, to feel that you have actually pressed a key, as well as OLEDs to give visual feedback. This can be personalized by programming your own shortcuts through menus made up of a combination of few finger strokes. An interaction with a device that is so intuitive and natural, you will know it like the back of your hand.
(via grinding.be)
Posted by Groonk at 08:31 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Research, Technology, The Future
Proof of Evolution
Notice how each character goes from being cute little pixelated pics to action posing, cynical concept art.
(via geekologie)
Posted by Groonk at 05:34 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Games
Marky Ramone has Condoms. Oh, So Many Condoms.
What do you get with each kit, you hesitantly inquire? Why, a couple jimmy hats, some lube, and an STD resource card, packed in a discreet Marky Ramone-themed tin with the motto "Too Tuff to Break" emblazoned on top. Available in black or silver! And, as Ready Two Go reminds us, the tins are easily refillable with "coins, pills, cigarettes, stash, mints, gum."
(via ontd, pitchforkmedia)
Posted by Groonk at 12:26 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Music, Sex
February 18, 2008
New Zealand Aims to Damage My Calm with Dog Record
They have an album made only for dogs. And it's a chartbuster. One dog didn't take to kindly to the tune. He went beserk. Mad as a Reaver, some might think.
This has me thinking, New Zealand made an audible version of The Pax for dogs.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - It's a doggone chartbuster -- a song audible only to dogs has topped New Zealand record charts, and is looking to go global.A Very Silent Night, recorded at a frequency only dogs can hear, was so popular among owners it hit number one at Christmas, but has been receiving mixed responses from listeners.
"The most violent one was a dog that physically attacked the radio when it was played and went quite berserk and totally destroyed it," said Bob Kerridge, chief executive of animal welfare group, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).
"On the other side of the scale, they just lie down and did nothing." The charity CD, priced at NZ$4.99 ($3.93), contained an instrumental and a vocal version of the song, but Kerridge said he did not know what kind of music dogs would hear.
Joss Whedon is a prophet.
(via yahoo news)
Posted by Groonk at 03:44 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals
February 16, 2008
Frog Eats Snake Eats Frog Eats Snake
"Who Eats Who" by David Maitland (United Kingdom)
I like how the frog has that snake by the neck. He ain't giving up. No, sir. He's going out fighting.
(via telegraph)
Posted by Groonk at 08:40 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals, Just Freaking Neat, Photos2, Versus
One Day, Your Jacket will Power your iPod / Pacemaker / Pocket Vibrator
Scientists in the US have developed novel brush-like fibres that generate electrical energy from movement.
Writing in the journal Nature, the team say that the materials could also be used in tents or other structures to harness wind energy.
"Our goal is to make self-powered nanotechnology," Professor Zhong Lin Wang of the Georgia Institute of Technology and one of the authors of the paper told BBC News.
(via bbc news)
Posted by Groonk at 08:23 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Technology, The Future, USA
Meat-Eating Dinos, New Ones!
Still a sucker for palentology.
Two previously unknown types of meat-eating dinosaur have been identified from fossils unearthed in the Sahara desert in Niger.One of the dinosaurs probably scavenged its prey like a hyena, the other probably hunted live animals.
One of the creatures was about 8m (25ft) in length and sported a short snout with a horny covering. It has been named Kryptops palaios or "old hidden face".
Kryptops may have scavenged food in a manner similar to a hyena.
Like later members of its dinosaur group - known as the abelisaurids - in South America and India, it had short, armoured jaws and small teeth, well designed for gobbling guts and gnawing carcasses.
The other discovery is of a similar-sized contemporary called Eocarcharia dinops or "fierce-eyed dawn shark".
It possessed blade-shaped teeth and a prominent bony eyebrow ridge. Unlike Kryptops, its teeth were more suited to attacking live prey and severing body parts.
The Carcharodontosaurids, the group to which Eocarcharia belongs, included predators as big, if not bigger, than Tyrannosaurus rex.
A swollen bony brow over Eocarcharia's eye gave it a menacing appearance and may have been used as a battering ram against rivals for mating rights, say the researchers.
(via bbc news)
Posted by Groonk at 08:10 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Dinosaurs
The Rinspeed sQuba Makes James Bond Blush with Anticipation
Things you should know:
- The car goes under at 2:30.
- It is not fake as far as I know.
- I needs me one...NOW.
(via geekologie, submerged You tube)
Posted by Groonk at 07:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Technology, The Future, Video
February 14, 2008
Steve Novick Bought My Vote, with Laughter
Someone will have to tell me what his goals and ideas are someday.
(via daily kos, steve novick's twitter, virally you tube)
Posted by Groonk at 04:08 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Marketing, Politics, Video
Harlan Ellison Talks the Writer's Strike Settlement
I was told to share this. I am a loyal flunky. Oh yes, I am.
HARLAN ELLISON ON THE WRITERS STRIKE SETTLEMENT YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO RE-POST THIS ANYWHERE:Creds: got here in 1962, written for just about everybody, won the Writers Guild Award four times for solo work, sat on the WGAw Board twice, worked on negotiating committees, and was out on the picket lines with my NICK COUNTER SLEEPS WITH THE FISHE$$$ sign. You may have heard my name. I am a Union guy, I am a Guild guy, I am loyal. I fuckin’ LOVE the Guild.
And I voted NO on accepting this deal.
My reasons are good, and they are plentiful; Patric Verrone will be saddened by what I am about to say; long-time friends will shake their heads; but this I say without equivocation…
THEY BEAT US LIKE A YELLOW DOG. IT IS A SHIT DEAL. We finally got a timorous generation that has never had to strike, to get their asses out there, and we had to put up with the usual cowardly spineless babbling horse’s asses who kept mumbling “lessgo bac’ta work” over and over, as if it would make them one iota a better writer. But after months on the line, and them finally bouncing that pus-sucking dipthong Nick Counter, we rushed headlong into a shabby, scabrous, underfed shovelfulla shit clutched to the affections of toss-in-the-towel summer soldiers trembling before the Awe of the Alliance.
My Guild did what it did in 1988. It trembled and sold us out. It gave away the EXACT co-terminus expiration date with SAG for some bullshit short-line substitute; it got us no more control of our words; it sneak-abandoned the animator and reality beanfield hands before anyone even forced it on them; it made nice so no one would think we were meanies; it let the Alliance play us like the village idiot. The WGAw folded like a Texaco Road Map from back in the day.
And I am ashamed of this Guild, as I was when Shavelson was the prexy, and we wasted our efforts and lost out on technology that we had to strike for THIS time. 17 days of streaming tv!!!????? Geezus, you bleating wimps, why not just turn over your old granny for gang-rape?
You deserve all the opprobrium you get. While this nutty festschrift of demented pleasure at being allowed to go back to work in the rice paddy is filling your cowardly hearts with joy and relief that the grips and the staff at the Ivy and street sweepers won’t be saying nasty shit behind your back, remember this:
You are their bitches. They outslugged you, outthought you, outmaneuvered you; and in the end you ripped off your pants, painted yer asses blue, and said yes sir, may I have another.
Please excuse my temerity. I’m just a sad old man who has fallen among Quislings, Turncoats, Hacks and Cowards.
I must go now to whoops. My gorge has become buoyant.
Respectfully, Yr. Pal, Harlan Ellison
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I'm happy to have Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert back to scripted goodness but I read the deal. It is a shit deal. WTF guys?
(via warren ellis)
Posted by Groonk at 02:33 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Writer's strike
Valentine's Day. You Can Suck It
These geek valentines cards are ok, though.
Posted by Groonk at 01:39 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Holiday
February 13, 2008
Guitar + Tesla Coil = 250,000 volts of Distortion / Win
(via supercharged You Tube, scopeboy, eggradio.com )
Posted by Groonk at 12:14 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Just Freaking Neat, Music, Tesla, The Future
His Attention, You Now Have It
Jesus, is that a lip balm or are you happy to see...EVERYBODY?
The Yahoo page this was originally on seems to deny the product ever existed. Curious.
NPR reports the product was yanked from Singapore shelves after people complained about it. People don'tlike questionable marketing avenunes regarding their faith.
Sinagapore. Really. How long have you been on this Earth?
(via medicmike)
Posted by Groonk at 10:59 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Marketing, Religion
February 12, 2008
Nemicolopterus crypticus Was Tiny. Really Small.
A tiny, toothless pterodactyl with bat-like wings, bird-like claws and a sharp, pointy beak has just been identified from a remarkably well-preserved Chinese fossil, according to a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
According to the research team that discovered the sparrow-sized flying reptile, named Nemicolopterus crypticus, the pterosaur could be a record-breaker.
It's "the smallest arboreal pterosaur, the smallest toothless pterosaur and the smallest Cretaceous pterosaur in the world," co-author Xiaolin Wang told Discovery News.
Wang, a paleontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, explained that the pterodactyl's features indicate it fed on insects while living in the canopies of ancient forests. Its beak would have been perfectly suited for grabbing bugs, while its curved claws would have helped it hold onto trees.
And I want one as a pet. Come on science, hurry up and start mass cloning the bastards.
(via discovery news)
Posted by Groonk at 04:18 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Dinosaurs
February 11, 2008
Steve Gerber (1947 - 2007)
Well today just wants to be a sad day, doesn't it?
Mark Evanier shares his memories:
Stephen Ross Gerber was born in St. Louis on September 20, 1947. A longtime fan of comic books, he was involved in the ditto/mimeo days of fanzine publishing in the sixties, publishing one called Headline at age 14. He had a by-mail friendship with Roy Thomas, who was responsible for the most noteworthy fanzine of that era, Alter Ego. Years later when Roy was the editor at Marvel Comics, he rescued Steve from a crippling career writing advertising copy, bringing him into Marvel as a writer and assistant editor. Steve soon distinguished himself as one of the firm's best writers, handling many of their major titles at one time or another but especially shining on The Defenders, Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, Morbius the Living Vampire, a special publication about the rock group Kiss...and of course, Howard the Duck.[...]
...Steve began to get work in the animation field, starting with a script for the Plastic Man cartoon series produced by Ruby-Spears. This led to a brief but mutually beneficial association with the studio, especially when Steve launched and story-edited one of the best adventure cartoons done for Saturday morning TV, Thundarr the Barbarian. Later, he worked for other houses on other shows, including G.I. Joe and Dungeons & Dragons.
I didn't know Steve Gerber but he created all of the animated projects I watched as a kid and still remember fondly today. In a strange way, he influenced my love for tales of the fantastic.
Funny, and strange, the invisible connections we have with other people.
(via rantz1, mark evanier's memories of Gerber, comics reporter)
Remembering Steve Gerber:
- The Beat: Trapped in a world he never made
- Rantz: In Memory of Steve Gerber
- The Comics Journal: Steve Gerber Interview
- Neil Gaiman speaks
- Slate: One-Man Counterculture
Posted by Groonk at 07:33 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, People Who Died
KnowThis: Cookin' with Coolio is Here
Fuckin' genius!
(via mydamnchannel)
Posted by Groonk at 06:31 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Intertube Madness, Video
Roy Scheider (1932 - 2007)
The actor Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his portrayal of a small-town police chief in the 1970s blockbuster Jaws, has died. He was 75.Scheider died yesterday of complications from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood cells, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, where he had been treated over the past two years.
[...]
In it, he played Martin Brody, the intrepid police chief of a New England seaside resort who goes on a hunt (alongside a shark scientist and a grizzled old fisherman) for a Great White Shark that is terrorising his community – although not before doing battle with the town mayor who wants to keep the beaches open.
The film's most memorable line - said to have been improvised by Scheider himself - was: "You’re gonna need a bigger boat."
(via kelly sue, Times Online)
Posted by Groonk at 12:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of People Who Died
The Anonymous March of Yesterday
No, I did not forget.
- Whitechapel has pictures and video
- Google newsfeed notes the protest
- Brainwash. Brainwash. Brainwash.
The Whitechapel link is, by far, the best one to find photos and discussion. All that happened was well and good but all the Real World saw was this, I'm afraid.
That sums it up perfectly.
One last pic of choice after the leap of faith.
A picture of the Australian Anonymous Fest pilfered from Warren Ellis' site.
Posted by Groonk at 10:58 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Intertube Madness
February 08, 2008
BLIND CLICK 23: Hello, Friday
(via digg)
Posted by Groonk at 02:09 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Blind Click, Culture, Video, Weird
February 07, 2008
Rewritable Holograms in Our Homes, in Our Lifetimes
A material that can create rewritable holograms could bring 3D displays to the home, or provide dramatically high-capacity computer memory, US researchers say.A layer of the material can record a holographic image, erase it, and replace it with another in a few minutes. While technological challenges remain, the researchers are confident they can advance the technology to refresh pictures at video frame rates of around 30 times a second.
(via grinding.be, newscientisttech)
Posted by Groonk at 01:03 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of The Future
More Free Stuff: This Time, Comics I Know Nothing About
Crazy things happen on the internet. Myspace Comic Books has been blowing up my email with free samples of random comics the past few days. I've no idea of their calibur, but who am I to turn down free as a marketing gimmick?
(via myspace comics)
Posted by Groonk at 11:34 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Digital Share, Marketing
February 06, 2008
Moby's Giving Away Music
If you want a Moby fueled video project, you're in luck.
this portion of moby.com, 'film music', is for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short. to use the site you log in(or on?) and are then given a password. you can then listen to the available music and download whatever you want to use in your film or video or short.the music is free as long as it's being used in a non-commercial or non-profit film, video, or short.
if you want to use it in a commercial film or short then you can apply for an easy license...
(via ontd, moby gratis)
Posted by Groonk at 04:43 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Movies, Music
February 05, 2008
Bill Hader Interviews Ed Brubaker about CRIMINAL
It's CRIMINAL week on Myspace. This has to be the cleverest...cleverful...cleverite... most brilliant interview tactic ever. Good show, Bill Hader. Ed Brubaker, you're a special kind of awesome for participating. I like the interview so much, I'm dropping it above the jump.
Plus: Simon Pegg on a pink bicycle.
(via the beat, myspace video)
Posted by Groonk at 08:26 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Comics, Funny, Interviews, Just Freaking Neat, Video
Porn Stars are talking about Politics
View Porn Star words on who they're voting for this Super Tuesday. Oh shit, that's today.
See some hilarity after the jump.
(via digg)
Posted by Groonk at 02:59 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Politics, Sex, USA
February 04, 2008
Horizon went In Search of Gravity
Particle physicist/keyboardist for some band I've never heard of, Dr Brain Cox stalked the USA last week. He attacked then moon with his laser, encounters bending space-time at a military base, and tries to detect reality ripples in Louisiana.
(via doc video google)
Posted by Groonk at 02:47 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Documentary, Google-fied, Science, Video
February 02, 2008
Grand Central Station Freezes. New Yorkers Freak Out
There's a much higher resolution video on Improve Everywhere's site. I recommend it.
I dropped the You Tube version below that cut.
(via stillness you tube, ze frank blog)
Posted by Groonk at 09:01 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Art, Just Freaking Neat, Video
Nikola Tesla. He Saw Machines Swirling in His Head
The Groonk Nation admires most things Tesla, mad genius that he was. Others are talking about him now. Others are writing books with detailed history.
Studio 360 is podcasting about it all.
(via coilhouse)
Posted by Groonk at 08:39 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of History, Podcast, Streamed Goodness, Technology, Tesla, The Future
