This Week 3.11.2011

 
Commentary

"Attack, attack, come on, out…" Got your police issue baseball bats and axe handles? Got your inappropriate langauge at the ready? Cool, let's go. Utterly ridiculous. I love the fact the guy's just playing the completely sedate Fast Car on his stereo. I'm sure there's some sort of irony attached to that somewhere… ah irony, what a commonly misunderstood turn of phrase. Still, least they kept their jobs anyway, eh? I need my window's smashing at some point.

"Everyone in your dreams, you will have seen while awake at some point in your life." Mind

"World's Top Scientists Ponder: What If The Whole Universe Is, Like, One Huge Atom?"

"In small print – I'm at an awful place where I sometimes have to use reading glasses – it tells me that if I go to a website and register then I can enter the given code at which point the caring people at Dannon will give one thin dime to Breast Cancer.
You see the big pink ribbon and logo on the top and assume that you – by simply purchasing and eating this product – are DOING something to help. Total up the amount of people that actually take the time to lick, read, log on, register, enter a code and hit send and I'd guess that the total contribution to The Cause is less than nothing." Doug Stanhope and his suitably opinonated views on the pink month Good little video on f$%£ ticketmaster on his site too.

"abstemious diet  [abstemious = eating and drinking in moderation]
abstract character
abstruse reasoning
absurdly dangerous
abundant opportunity
abusive epithet and 1500 (ok 1494) other useful phrases

Shaved guinea pig looks like a baby hippo… and other equally important facts. In fact the one about the Snake Fish living out of water for three days in pretty interesting too.

Drive your car by thought – ummm… really, is that wise?

Nasa night sky

Careful of the auto-play on here but can we download our brains?

SLR Camera simulator… bit pointless, quite interesting tho.

Smell the Difference "Even though the same atoms combine to make mirror molecules, the left-handed and right-handed versions can have very different properties, such as smell."

woodtreks.com – cool little site with videos about wood art & wood craft.

Wow, Rainbow Lorikeets

I want to go to Skaftafeli i in Iceland

"Is it just me who thinks that most of these look like they are actually photoshoots and/or are models?"  The week in b^%$&*%… sorry, ahem 'street styles'.

God, I'm linking to the Daily Mail… again! But these are some really interesting pictures of New York in the 40's

Think you're good with a nail gun?

Steal money from glass

The Phobia List – this guy started this list in the 1980's… quite amazing some of em. One of my favourites Anablephobia- Fear of looking up & Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.

I can't belive this guy hasn't got beaten up more often.

Never say no to panda… I know this is old now… but it is amazing.

What are the white, crescent shaped part at the top of a nail called? Find out here along with the name to give you when your second toe is bigger than your big toe. So now you know…

And now, I'm off… think you've done pretty well out of me today here haven't you?!

Love you
Wx