@boblet

Iron, by Woodkid

I wish this was the promo for a new HBO mini-series…

The Burzynski Clinic gets PWNED ☞

Rhys Morgan wrote a blunt post about the Burzynski Clinic’s unproven antineoplaston therapy. Unfortunately they couldn’t respond with peer-reviewed articles proving the efficacy of their treatment, because there aren’t any. So Marc Stephens, acting as a “representative” for “Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, Burzynski Clinic, and Burzynski Research Institute” (but never actually verifying he’s a lawyer), emails Rhys some libel threats. While Rhys displays remarkable maturity, Marc demonstrates his professionalism by threatening to contact Rhys’ school, and including a photo from Google Maps of Rhys’ house(!). Rhys documents the conversation in “Threats from The Burzynski Clinic”, which makes for hilarious reading.

Welcome to the interwebs, Marc Stephens & @BurzynskiClinic, you just got mothereffin’ PWNED.

android dreams, by Samuel Cockedey

For background read “Floating Point – an interview with time-lapse photographer Samuel Cockedey”.

Simplicity ☞

It is a thousand times harder to make simple things than complicated ones

— Михаи́л Кала́шников

(Wikipedia entry for Mikhail Kalashnikov)

Good artists copy, great artists steal ☞

One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

A quote by T.S. Elliott from “Great artists steal the future” by Brian Ford, a precursor to Picasso’s famous “good artists copy, great artists steal” line.

Lioness tries to eat baby at the zoo

I can haz baby snax? plssss?

Go the Fuck to Sleep read by Samuel L. Jackson

Pure awesome in bedtime story form

原発震災

Genpatsu-shinsai, or nuclear power plant earthquake disaster

Unless radical steps are taken now to reduce the vulnerability of nuclear power plants to earthquakes, Japan could experience a true nuclear catastrophe in the near future

Why Worry? Japan’s Nuclear Plants at Grave Risk From Quake Damage, by Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi, published August 11th, 2007

The Children of the Clone

A music video for a Jim Guthrie song by superbrothers