Down to the tenth of a second is close enough for me.
09/09/09 09:09:09 Pacific Standard Time
Down to the tenth of a second is close enough for me.
Category: Cool
Hot Links Vacation
Dan found “Vacation ’58,” the short story for the John Hughes’ movie “Vacation.”
Crappy Taxidermy, and lots of it here.
Slime mold remembers patterns of events. Short article here.
In 2005, this actor played 165 parts in a popular movie. [Guess who before you click here.]
Eternal Moonwalk is clever.
Because we all love Paleogene ungulates.
Nice collection of videos by Quirkology here.
Google “handmade aboriginal novelty fake turd” and you get 6,390 results.
Some trees just piss each other off.
1:30 of pure greatness.
Saturday Matinee – The Pencil, The Multiverse, & The Echos of Nyro
School is back in session, so check these out.
The Pencil. The late Milton Friedman is one of my favorites.
2005: Dr. Michio Kaku describes the purpose of LISA, scheduled for launch in 2010(?). Woof. This guy’s got some amazing ideas, despite his Berkely ties.
The intelligent Homerbird describes the daily rotation of the earth in easy to understand terms.
[Found at the Presurfer.]
Speaking of Dimensions, I caught myself before I posted a 5th Dimension vid, and decided to post Laura Nyro instead since she wrote several of their hits. Because there are so few decent Laura Nyro videos on the Utoobage, here are three of her songs performed by others, including the 5thD.
Blood Sweat & Tears‘ version of “When I Die” from 1970, live in Japan. (Hope someone can take this semi demagnetized video tape and balance out the sound.)
Three Dog Night‘s “Eli’s Comin’.”
I secretly liked Nyro’s version of this song, too.
The Royalettes‘ “Gonna Take A Miracle.” This was not a Nyro song, although she covered the 1965 hit in 1971.
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The .Gif Friday Post 95 – Big Boy, Chuck & Jello
Honk.
[Found here.]
I snorked at today’s “Rubes.”
[Found in the funny papers, here. Great one, Leigh Rubin.]
“Oh! Look everyone!”
Target Practice
[Found here.]
Saturday Matinee – Do the Fly, Do the Freddie, Slip Away, but Stay Away from the Chick-a-Dilly
Chubby Checker‘s “Do the Fly” didn’t quite make the cut in 1963, but two years later we got this:
In 1965, “Do the Freddy” was Freddy & the Dreamers’ attempt to create a new dance craze. I’d never heard of it, so it must have been a West Coast/British Invasion thang, but F&theD’s actually DID manage to have an influence on later rockers, including the Ramones (watch DeeDee’s moves). Wait for classic dopiness at about 1:00.
Clarence Carter‘s “Slip Away” went to No.6 in 1968. From Billboard’s Top Pop Singles: “Born in 1936 in Montgomery, Alabama. Blind since age 1. Self-taught on guitar from age 11.”
And now for our Feature Length Presentation (courtesy of Hanuman) 1961’s “The Choppers.” Pay attention, parents. This could happen to YOUR KIDS, but they’ll never have such a cool soundtrack.
The .gif Friday Post No.94 – Trouble in WorpDress City: Reanimating Animations UPDATED
[See update below.]
Folks, many of us who use WordPress noticed recently that our posted .gif animations won’t animate once posted, even though the animations work in the “Edit Post” view, like this one:
The .gif file above and the one I posted below are from the same file, but the one below runs. The solution is easy… unless you have several hundred .gif animations already posted on your blog, like we do. I hope WP fixes the glitch. TechTalk continues below, after the break.
Quick! Run and tell WordPress!
Meanwhile, here are a couple of Buttheads.
NOBODY can play the jukebox like Brando.
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Tacky Raccoons 