Brownies and Bloodlust

A public service announcement

Prostate

Watch yourself.

And much cheaper than Depends!

There now exists, no doubt as a direct consequence of the Lord of the Rings series, the site RunPee.com.

Say you'd like to go see a movie, but figure you may well have to hit the bathroom at some time. RunPee tells you when the best time during the movie to leave (briefly) will be, and (if you'd like) what will be going on.

Covers current movies as well as archived movies. (Movies are archived two months after release, according to the home page.)

It's a beta site, so presumably it's still a work in progress. Still...pretty cool. It's raw and gives you not only a good time when nothing's happening but also an idea of how much time you've got. I'm not sure when I'd actually use this (I don't want to miss a thing when I first watch movies), but still fun for the commentary at least. Check out Ghosts of Girlfriends Past for a good run-and-pee time to see what I mean.

Enjoy.

Nicest use of the f-bomb possible

THE BIG FAT GAY COLLAB!

Very much NSFW, especially if you sing along.

Even with headphones the hand gestures may well make it NSFW.

Yet, this bit is impossibly bubbly and very much a satisfying reply to all of those narrow-minded, judgmental, petty little jerks I (and everyone else with any character) has had to deal with over their lives.

I remember one particular group of empty little snots from high school who'd make a point of following my best friend just to call her names. That group also had plenty bad to say about me and anyone else they thought shouldn't dare to step out in public without their explicit approval.

Perhaps they've grown and changed and are now fit for society. Perhaps they never had to grow up and are still their uptight snotty little selves. Perhaps they went to seed soon after high school, and proceeded to lead bitter lives wondering what happened to when they were the arbiters of cool. I'd like to think that they've changed, but the main point is that it just doesn't matter. They have no more hold over me, and haven't for years. I hope my friends are over their bit of hell as well.

But...

I like to think that whoever is the current "cool" guard at whatever little social niche is around gets this little number sent to them, maybe with a little note saying, "they DO mean you, quit it!"

Meantime, sing along!

In a nutshell

Reaganomics

Punxter eloquently explains the past thirty years of prevailing economic thought and fiscal policy.

Le sigh.

Aha!

Beard

Revealed at last! Wolfman Dilbert's evil plans! Found via reddit.

I've no idea how they caught on to his nefarious schemes.

Now try to use it in a sentence

The word of the day is: gongoozler.

That is all.

Way way cool

Over at New Scientist there's a great article on how lab conditions give rise more easily to "living" stuff much much more easily than previously supposed.

As in, it's happened in a lab. Fairly quickly.

I know the hardcore creationists won't bother listening to this or have any idea what it implies, but for those of us who care about actual reality- it's just amazing.

Read the whole thing and see if it doesn't thrill you, too.

There's a moral here, and I think it's that chores are overrated

I present to you Item 28 in a series of infinity of the phenomenon of Way Too Much Freetime.

Voici:

オオカミとブタ。Stop motion with wolf and pig.

Absolutely amazing stuff that's more low-tech then Seventies-era Doctor Who, but fun and lush. Found it at wakooz, via reddit, and I know that many, many more people know about this guy now than they ever would if he'd decided to clean the house instead. I suspect that this isn't the kind of thing that gets done if you're the fussy kind of guy who notices when laundry gets up to go wash itself.

I even forgive him his reality sitcom

Over at boingboing was a video featuring a guy doing "Crazy Train", the classic Ozzy song, on Ellen DeGeneres' show.

And the guy is nine years old.

And he raaawks.

Nine-year-old Guitar Player "Yuto Miyazawa" on ellen 2009-may-11

I had to watch this three times before the bigass goofy grin on my face started fading enough to compose actual thought.

Even if (may God himself heal your soul) you don't care for Ozzy and never heard of "Crazy Train" (you poor unfortunate empty shell of a human), it's amazing when this kid actually gets to meet his idol right after performing in front of a live audience a world away from home. And watching his idol lead applause for him.

Ozzy even looked like his old self, the one who actually knew where he was and what he was doing and not the one looking for this month's large-print Reader's Digest.

Even if this kid never does anything else ever, ever, ever...he's got enough story to last his lifetime.

Ozzy Osbourne: the other classical music.

Confirmation at last!

Totally independent corroboration of something that wasn't that secret anyway.

Tone Loc is the best one-hit-wonder producer ever. But, you say, he had TWO big hits. He had Funky Cold Medina and Wild Thing.

Nuh-uh, I say. They're the same song.

(And Paul at Paul's Pond is absolutely right. It is even better with headphones. Follow the link and you'll see.)

Sure, there are some minor lyric changes, but every bit of both songs maps onto each other perfectly.

Aaaaand, as an added bonus, you'll have it in your head for a good hour after listening to them both side-to-side.

You're welcome.