Monthly Archive for December, 2005

Best Blond Joke Ever

Blonde Jessica Simpson

This is the Best Dumb Blond Joke Ever. It’s def­i­nitely worth a look.

The Chronic-(what)-icles of Narnia


Chronic-what-icles of Narnia

Go and watch this Sat­ur­day Night Live skit fea­tur­ing Chris Par­nell and Andy Sam­berg. It’s sup­poss­edly “spread­ing like frost­ing” around the blog­so­phere. Those cup­cakes really show how hard core these SNL guys really are.

Lazy Sun­day: The Chron­i­cles of Nar­nia Rap — Google Video via Boing Boing

Hamiltons

Suburban Sprawl

Suburban Sprawl

Check out this panorama of San Ramon, Cal­i­for­nia by Matt Jal­bert. Those houses seem to just eat up the sur­round­ing countryside.

San Ramon, Cal­i­for­nia Pic­ture | Matt Jalbert

Science Stuff

Science

Here are some ran­dom links con­cern­ing science.

Things sci­ence has yet to solve:
New Sci­en­tist SPACE — Fea­tures — 13 things that do not make sense

Some tips for the evil genius out there:
Sam’s Archive — How to destroy the Earth
Sam’s Archive — Earth­mov­ing

And finally, while not really sci­ence, this link kind of has a Myth­busters type ring to it:
40 Things That Only Hap­pen In Movies — Nos­tal­gia Central

Tale of the Tortoise and the Hippo

Tortoise and Hippo

A year after they first met, Owen, the baby hippo that sur­vived last December’s Tsunami, and Mzee, a 130-year-old tor­toise are still best pals. They live together at the Haller Park pre­serve in Mom­basa, Kenya.

Boing Boing: Tale of the tor­toise and the hippo

Rooftop Rollercoaster

Rooftop Rollercoaster

One more thing to do before I die.

Rooftop Roller­coaster at Flickr.com via Boing Boing

Photos of 2005

Here are some more of the best pho­tos of 2005. The theme seems to be destruc­tion and hard­ship; dra­matic but depress­ing at the same time. Is this the world we live in?

Fire & Water

TIME: The Best Pho­tos of the Year 2005

Katrina Ships

The Year in Pic­tures 2005 — Year in Review — MSNBC.com

Also see Sean Buck­ley Blog » Blog Archive » Reuters: Year in Pho­tos for more 2005 photos.

Update: Here are some more upbeat photos.

Hiding Bear

35th Annual Photo Con­test — National Wildlife Magazine

Transparent VW Factory in Dresden

Transparent Factory in Dresden

Looks more like an Ikea store then a car man­u­fac­tur­ing plant.

VWvor­tex Forums: A photo tour of the Trans­par­ent Fac­tory in Dresden

Reuters: Year in Photos

Lebanese Car Bomb

Only Reuters can bring you images like these. What a world we live in.

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Lego Robot Plays Super Mario Brothers & Wins

Lego Robot Plays Super Mario Brothers

Using Legos and a basic cir­cuit board, Matt Sesno, Ben Rowe, and Tim Doo­ley built a robot made of Legos that is capa­ble of play­ing Super Mario Bros., the first Mario-based plat­form game for the NES, and even beat­ing the first level. Why? Appar­ently (unless they’re lying to us), there is a Lego Robot Tal­ent Show every year, and they were look­ing for an entry. After all, there’s a huge need right now for videogame-playing robots made of Legos.

This is proof of my pre­dic­tion that one day Lego will rule the earth. Move over Skynet.

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