Rogue Geoengineer Dumps Iron Into Ocean
Yeah so remember what I was saying about this all going horribly wrong…
A daily miasma of frivolity by two wanna-be cultural critics. Or: just, like, some good links, dude.
Author Archives: Mark Twain, probably
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgb6sVT6OYY
I’ve been thinking about getting a Nook for a while now, but I haven’t for one reason: the inability to play Wipeout on one. I demand this of all my electronic devices.
Well, it seems it’s indeed possible to play Wipeout on a Nook Simple Touch after rooting it and modifying the kernel, so I guess I’ll have to put one on my Christmas list.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Decades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers
Decades of Miss Subways smiled on NYC straphangers
Associated Press article:
It was an ad campaign conceived as eye candy to bring attention to other advertisements in New York’s transit system. But the “Meet Miss Subways” beauty contest posters of pretty young New York women and their aspirations quickly evolved into a popular and even groundbreaking fixture that ran for 35 years, from 1941 to 1976.
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The first African-American was crowned Miss Subways in 1948 — long before Vanessa Williams was named Miss America in 1984 — and the first Asian-American was honored in 1949.
“It was the first integrated and ethnically diverse beauty contest in America,” representing working-class women, said [photographer Fiona] Gardner, who was born the year the contest ended. “I realized I had stumbled on a piece of forgotten New York history.”
I don’t know terribly much about the New York City subway system, nor was I alive before 1976, so I’d certainly never heard of this ad campaign before. The reason this story was written is that that quoted photographer, Fiona Gardner, has an exhibition at the New York Transit Museum about Miss Subways starting later this month. Records of the winners were lost, so she tracked down existing copies of the old posters and then the women themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbzvdsoCQaI
The All Japan Kasoh Grand-Prix is a recurring televised content in Japan where teams use costumes and props to act out a scene depicting a person or people, an object, an event, etc. This video is a compilation of the first 79 winners, starting from the competition’s event in 1979 and going to 2008.
If you’ve ever wondered where the bullet time ping-pong video is from, this is where. It won in 2003.
(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Could pepperoni spoil presidential debate?
Could pepperoni spoil presidential debate?
Candice Choi, AP:
During the next presidential debate, the candidates will be pondering the important questions of our time. But the most controversial may be “Sausage or pepperoni?”
Pizza Hut is offering a lifetime of free pizza — one large pie a week for 30 years — or a check for $15,600 to anyone who poses the question to either President Barack Obama or Republican candidate Mitt Romney during the live Town Hall-style debate next Tuesday.
Capitalism failed. We gave it a good run, but if this is what we have to show for it, we might as well just pack it all up.
Death of roach-eating contest winner remains a mystery
Death of roach-eating contest winner remains a mystery
Anna Edgerton for The Miami Herald:
Eddie Archbold ate so many live roaches he had to cover his mouth with his hand to keep them from crawling out. He swallowed the three-inch insects faster than he could chew, trying to down as many as possible in four minutes to win a pet python in a most unusual eating contest.
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Over the course of the night, Archbold ate more than 60 grams of meal worms, 35 three-inch-long “super worms” and part of a bucket full of discoid roaches. He started vomiting after the last contest and collapsed outside the store.
Dr. Bill Kern, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, said it could have been an allergic reaction to so much foreign protein that killed Archbold.
- Colin:
- I KNOW WHY HE DIED HE ATE A BUNCH OF GODDAMN BUGS
The magnificent 1915 letterhead of Chung Ling Soo, a magician who, in 1918, died after his “bullet catch” trick went tragically wrong on stage.
Wow, this is something.
Chung Ling Soo was an American who pretended to be Chinese, by the way.
How did ‘Monday’ become a racist slur?
How did ‘Monday’ become a racist slur?
The Boston Globe, earlier in the summer:
When news emerged earlier this month that Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Crawford said he’d been called a racial epithet by an off-duty Leominster police officer before a minor league game in New Hampshire, reaction was swift. After an internal investigation, which turned up additional racist comments, the Leominster mayor fired the officer on Thursday.
But the epithet itself still has sports fans and commentators scratching their heads. Allegedly, the officer called Crawford, who is black, “Monday.” Monday? The day of the week? Is this really an insult, and one that has anything to do with race?
Messed up.