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An x-ray of a youth’s hand after a lit explosive went off before he could throw it away. Happy Independence Day, America.
(via bad banana blog)
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Daddy and the Husband - “Nipples Like Sailor’s Thumbs”
Daddy and the Husband are an electro group from the UK (that list Kate Moss as their only influence, amusingly). They seem to be defunct now, which is a shame, because this is quite good.
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A couple of weeks ago, I was e-mailed by a podcaster that had read one of my blog entries and wanted to read it on their podcast. Naturally, I was more than happy submit to that (they didn’t even need to ask, really), and then I promptly forgot about it.
Today, to my absolute delight, I got another e-mail with a link to the podcast episode. I wasn’t really sure what to expect, not being familiar with the podcast, but it sounds great.
If you’re interested, you can listen to it here (my written original is here) — the reading of my entry starts about halfway through.
Awesome!
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Text reblogged from Marco.org
Inevitably, people start getting impatient and hitting the door-close button after about 4 seconds. It doesn’t do anything, but the doors close a second or two later regardless, so people think they’ve affected the outcome, and they push the door-close button again the next time. If they push the button too soon, and the elevator waits a few more seconds before closing the doors, the people assume that it’s just being slow today or they didn’t hit the button hard enough.
They never consider the possibility that their action is not related to the result.
This is why superstition works. Animals learn it, too. “If I perform this action, I get this result.” It takes a more advanced or analytical mind to consider performing a test: “If I take no action, will I get this result anyway?”
I secretly think less of door-close people in the elevator.
Door close buttons in most elevators haven’t worked since around the early nineties. They’re there to trick passengers. There’s a lot of psychology involved. People tend to feel closed-in and helpless in elevators, which leads to claustrophobia and anxiety. Even something as small as allowing the passenger to think they have control over the doors can put them at ease.
There’s a surprising amount of deception involved in elevator design, actually, reinforcing the paseenger’s false belief that they have control, putting them at ease. They are, after all, in a box suspended by ropes. It’s all rather interesting. I recommend reading up on it. I can’t remember how I know even this much. There was a fascinating article on elevators in the New Yorker, I think, that the right Google queries might turn up.
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Hello, Nick here. Jared and I cannot agree on the merits of Axe. Disappointing, because when he’s not around I’ve been dousing his bedsheets in it.
This is the first episode of Nick Douglas’s new sketch show. Generally speaking, I find most sketch shows disappointing; they rely on cheap laughs and easy gags — and that’s not really a complaint, more a comment on the inherent limitations of sketch comedy — and that’s not my thing. That’s not to say they have to be like that, just that they usually are.
But anyway, I’m not a comedy critic. This is well made, even if it isn’t my kind of comedy. That alone makes it worth sharing. There’s so much utter trash masquerading as comedy (how you doing over there, College Humor? How about you, Jake and Amir?), thanks to the ease of entry provided by sites like Vimeo and Youtube, and this seems to be aiming a little higher.
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This is kind of odd. The person that writes this blog posts an image of some art product, and posts a quote with it. This image had one of my tweets with it:
Funny how “happiness” sounds like “a penis” in a French accent. And that’s how asking what she wanted most led to a very awkward encounter.
I don’t get the connection at all, but I’m glad I insipired some sort of artistic commentary!
(via Today’s Artist)
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I love these icons so much. They come from two sets on Iconfactory, made by Gedeon Maheux. Arcade Daze System for system-wide icons (not pictured), and Arcade Daze Apps Vol. 1 for application icons. It contains icons for over 70 applications — which includes most of the standard apps like Safari, Address Book, and iCal, but also a lot of popular third party ones like Coda, AppZapper, and Adium, so it’s fairly complete. It does have a number of notable omissions, like Firefox and iTunes, but fortunately Anne K. Halsall noticed, and made some unofficial icons for Cyberduck, iTunes, NetNewsWire, Interface Builder, Xcode, and Firefox — available here and here.
They look great with this wallpaper, also made by Gedeon Maheux.
I’ve got a full screenshot, showing the dock, Finder and some of the system icons, and the wallpaper here.
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Sigur Rós playing “Gobbledigook” at last night’s free Náttúra concert. Check out Björk on the drums; that woman is wild.
Trying to find a full (and official, ideally) recording of this at the moment, since I missed Sigur Rós’ set.
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