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Pulp Fiction: F*cking Short Version

I found this through looking at typography videos for my new Dynamic Type class.

This is the video that linked to it which is also very good:

Examples of Republican hypocrisy on moral values

The Damning List

Despite this wonderfully depressing link above, I am still supporting Ron Paul as our next Republican President.

Giant anti-ad stencil project

THIS looks like a really fun weekend project!

Best 5 Second Video on the Interweb

Morford

Sorry for the hiatus, spending much less time surfing this summer...

Mark Morford has another scorching hot treatise on the state of society over at the SF Gate - he discusses the scientific hurtle towards, "...advances that open so many cans of ethical and spiritual worms it shakes us to the very core of what we believe, of who we think we are and where we fit in and What It All Means...Hence, religion. This (at least partially) explains why so many are so eager to cling to religious dogma, to some sort of immovable, reliable framework of understanding, something that can help make sense of it all, even if making sense of it all involves shutting off your brain and killing your divine intuition and soaking up giant gobs of blind faith so you don't have to actually swim in those bloody murky confusing pools of ethics and meaning and actually thinking for yourself. Mmm, numb groupthink. It's what's for dinner."

Go read the rest!

Ping Pong Door

A conventional door connects rooms, this door connects people.

Folk Cover of Baby Got Back - Jon Coulton

This is an amazing folk-style cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot's Baby Got Back:

I’ve wanted to cover this song for a long time, because it is excellent - there’s a wonderful message in there for those of you who have big butts. In the proud tradition of many white Americans who came before me I hereby steal and white-ify this thick and juicy piece of black culture. Watch for my album “Jonathan Coulton Sings Songs by Black People.”

Enjoy

Cobra vs. A Little Baby

Apparently this is how they train kids to be snake charmers, the snake's mouth is sewn shut. The last few seconds are the most brutal.


Link

from BoingBoing

Best Frisbee

I bought the Aerobie Superdisc Ultra a couple summers ago and I found it to be an awesome frisbee but it was a bit wide/wobbly and would be caught by the wind very easily so I am going to go ahead and order one of these, the original Superdisc right now!



and for the nighttime fun:

Stoned Cop Dials 911 Fearing Overdose

From BoingBoing:

One Edward Sanchez, a police officer of Dearborn, Michigan met up with some serious karma recently. It seems that Ed confiscated some really good weed from some poor citizen and decided to throw the whole quarter ounce into some brownie batter with his wife.

Seems this was a tad more THC than the good officer had encountered previously, enough to claim that he was dying.

This mp3 of the 911 call is pure gold.

Make sure to listen until the end when he asks about the score of the Redwings game.

Peter, Bjorn, & John - Young Folks (f/ Victoria Bergsman)

Fun breakbeat folk


Straight to Youtube



Lyrics stolen from Top Hits Online

Lyrics:

if i told you things i did before

told you how i used to be

would you go along with someone like me

if you knew my story word for word

had all of my history

would you go along with someone like me



i did before and had my share

it didn't lead nowhere

i would go along with someone like you

it doesn't matter what you did

who you were hanging with

we could stick around and see this night through



and we don't care about the young folks

talkin' bout the young style

and we don't care about the old folks

talkin' 'bout the old style too

and we don't care about their own faults

talkin' 'bout our own style

all we care 'bout is talking

talking only me and you



usually when things has gone this far

people tend to disappear

no-one will surprise me unless you do



i can tell there's something goin' on

hours seems to disappear

everyone is leaving i'm still with you



it doesn't matter what we do

where we are going to

we can stick around and see this night through



and we don't care about the young folks

talkin' bout the young style

and we don't care about the old folks

talkin' 'bout the old style too

and we don't care about their own faults

talkin' 'bout our own style

all we care 'bout is talking

talking only me and you



and we don't care about the young folks

talkin' bout the young style

and we don't care about the old folks

talkin' 'bout the old style too

and we don't care about their own faults

talkin' 'bout our own style

all we care 'bout is talking

talking only me and you

talking only me and you



talking only me and you

talking only me and you

Wheatpaste + Stop Motion = Love

Link

from BoingBoing

Wheatpaste, learn to love it!

A Better Browsing Experience (Noscript)

The next extension that deserves your undevoted attention is Noscript. This extension will block potentially invasive and destructive JavaScript.

Most web developers these days use Javascript (little pieces of code) to give their webpages cool features like popup menus and embedded mp3 players. The problems come when someone figures out how to use Javascript to steal your personal information or otherwise breach the security of your personal computer. This is how many people get infected with spyware and malware and all that garbage.

So what does one do? Get Noscript.

A friendly chap named John Wilkerson has provided a video demonstrating exactly what this extension is all about.



I think he explains it pretty well but if you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments or email me and I will do my best to help you out.

A Better Browsing Experience (Adblock)

Ok, so getting back into the vein of my little credo on top of the blog, I would now like to discuss using a couple Firefox extensions to make your browsing experience safer and less stressful.

First off, if you are using a different browser I highly recommend going here and getting Firefox.

Now I know that other browsers like Opera have a lot going for them as well but I have found time and again that the extensions and development community surrounding Firefox makes it the easiest and most convenient to use for day to day surfing.

Whenever I reinstall Firefox or put it on a new computer the first extension I grab is Adblock Plus. This marvelous extension saves me from seeing almost every single advertisement on the internet that I might have otherwise been forced to ignore. It used to take a little more finesse to get Adblock working for you because you would have to define all the ads you wanted to block, but a new day is upon us and when you restart Firefox a box will pop up asking if you would like to subscribe to a filter list. These lists are maintained regularly by people whose singular goal is to save you, the surfing populace, from the mental vampires of banner advertising. It will even take the ads off of previously mentioned Pandora.

So go now! Install Adblock Plus and start enjoying the web ad-free.