Category: Cool
300 A.D. Roman Swiss Army Knife
Yeah, you think I’m kidding. Check it out.
Nothing Much Happened Today.
[Found here.]
Nature’s Calling
Hotlinks LIVE In Arturo’s Loft
Awesome balancing act: Gravity Glue.
“As we gazed into each other’s eyes, Athena encircled my arms with hers, latching on with first dozens, then hundreds of her sensitive, dexterous suckers…. Athena’s suckers felt like an alien’s kiss—at once a probe and a caress.”
Thomas Sowell Dismantles Racialism and Feminism in under 5 Minutes. (ca. 1979)
Beer can pinhole camera with 6-month-long exposure photo.
The horse is approaching the gate. And it’s off…
40 years in the taiga wilderness.
The Amazing True Odyssey of the Paskowitz Family.
Story time: The background of “Never Mind The Bollocks” the Sex Pistols’ debut album from 1977.
Top image: Early Ramones, live in Arturo’s loft 1975.
Saturday Matinee – Spoondog, New Orleans Zombie Report, “The Creation” & Joe Bonamassa
Spoondog is a dog with a spoon [via].
Since tomorrow is the SuperBowl, here’s how one New Orleans reporter trolled an inebriated videobomber.
“The Creation.” Awesome hand drawn animation by Thomas Meyer-Hermann & Film Bilder. ” (Comment on the Utoobage sums it up: “It’s cyriak but drawn.”)
Joe Bonamassa‘s “Just Got Paid” at the 2009 North Sea Jazz Festival. So much groove crammed into one jam, and it’d take me too long to post all of the obvious influences. “Wheedlie-wheedlie-spoo” guitar solos turn me off because they sound silly and self-indulgent, but this ‘un is a good ‘un.
Have a great weekend folks, and I hope your team wins.
The .Gif Friday Post No.265 – Zombie Baby, Hot Pony Girl & Hellstorm
Bottom .gif is an animation of a photo of a super cell thunderstorm from 2004.
Middle animation found here. No idea where that awesome event took place.
The top .gif is my own experiment gone wrong, based upon this image. I like it.
1931 Ford Model A 6-Wheel Snow/Mud Track Coupe
Images found here via here. Bottom image, with the snow skids mounted but without the additional spot lights, is from an Ebay advert. Video here.
Hot ‘Lanta in May
On May 11-12, 1997, NASA used a specially outfitted Lear Jet to collect thermal data on metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Nicknamed “Hot-Lanta” by some of its residents, the city saw daytime air temperatures of only about 26.7 degrees Celsius (80 degrees Fahrenheit) on those days, but some of its surface temperatures soared to 47.8 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit). In this image, blue shows cool temperatures and red shows warm temperatures. Pockets of especially hot temperatures appear in white.
50 degrees Celsius = 120 degrees Fahrenheit = flat roof temperature. The red zone looks to be about 30C = 86F, but these are surface temperatures. The 1997 survey recorded air temperatures of 80 F – exactly the average high temp for May for Atlanta. Cool.
In other words, it’s a peachy image of normal surface temperatures for the city.
BRAAAAAINS
[Found here.]
Tacky Raccoons 