
A guy does an oration about his home town on a subway train. Main reason
I'm posting this is I've GOTTA admit I admire the guy's courage for doing it.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:13, Reply)

Like modern beat poetry.
And yeah, the guys got balls. Good news is: nobody seems to care.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 21:54, Reply)

Nah I'm just fucking wit ya. That was very eloquent.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 22:49, Reply)

www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hans_rosling_at_state.html
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:20, Reply)

www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:22, Reply)

I think he mentions that the db's/data would be online somepoint in the other video; he clearly wasn't making it up ;P
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:29, Reply)

My lady friend and I have started a website that shows a lot of things that used to be alive. People have done some weird stuff to dead creatures, and if looking at a few of these ways sounds like a good way to - erm - kill a few minutes of your time, check it out.

( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:59, Reply)

crappytaxidermy.com/
Sorry.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:03, Reply)

but we cover a lot more than just taxidermy. The whole idea for this one started after a fairly disturbing fish meal we saw.
i.e. -

( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:47, Reply)

29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l565ekl9IH1qze1jro1_r1_500.jpg
*and also me.
( , Thu 15 Jul 2010, 5:19, Reply)

I told you I tripped and my trousers just happened to fall down at the same time. Sheesh!
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:05, Reply)

Got an email earlier from a friend who knows a company that has just started setting honeytraps for numbers registered with TPS. 800 lines so far, shortly to go to 1 million, with a recorded message that pretends to be a human, even though it tells them it's a recording, and generally winds them up.
About time I think...
Click the headline for the page and story, or the shortcut to the mp3 is below...
www.me.uk/2010-07-09T12:54:01.mp3
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:32, Reply)

This is quite good.
Is there actually a legitimate use for withholding your number other than prank calls?
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:48, Reply)

I know it's necessary but I think the recorded small print at the beginning might put some off though.
Apparently not, the site says people carry on even after they are told repeatedly it's a recording. The callers must just be told to keep talking until the other end hangs up.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:51, Reply)

I've heard a couple now, it seems to be the small print bit often clashes with their pre-recorded bit too so isn't actually heard. The links on the left of the page have a few more calls, but either way I guess they don't care.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:03, Reply)

reminds me of when I used to connect "lost-£1-in-the-payphone" callers while working as an operator to similar argument prank lines, with a recorded message that basically went:
"'ello....
whadayou want!?
i told you not to call me! etc."
...while i was listening in :D
On the couple of occasions that they realised what was happening and laughed - I'd give em their free call.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:01, Reply)

Genius. Done right and fantastic. I'll be taking note of his number and asking people to call back on my 'work' line from now on.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 22:36, Reply)

I give you.....
Camelflage
NSFW - ladies knickers.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:44, Reply)

Also, am I the only bloke who finds a VPL on a nice round lady bottom quite a turn on?
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:52, Reply)

Loves Tom Waits!
Have this one of my faves by him.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOYcRXzs1Y
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:36, Reply)

I was going to post a link to "Kentucky Avenue" which makes me cry a bit, and realised you had too :-)
So I found a nice film to the studio version...which made me cry a bit.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:46, Reply)

this one.
P.S......Wot's wrong with Youtube today?
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:02, Reply)

But this version of Christmas Card from a Hooker is incredible:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=12qBoy2rhVw
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:52, Reply)

Also try this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwWQv0Gm3us
An acoustic version of Green Grass by two French girls.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:42, Reply)

who did the original cover do we know (who are they miming to)?
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:11, Reply)

They sang it themselves. Check out their other vids for proof - their one of Innocent When You Dream is also good.
( , Thu 15 Jul 2010, 9:11, Reply)

He's incredible.
Have his cover of somewhere www.youtube.com/watch?v=taeFKIKfnZU
Oddly, it started to rain in middle of that. Hard. Maybe it's his incantation...
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( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:11, Reply)

And I didn't need your help this time.
I did it all by myself. /Smugs
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:34, Reply)

Most expensive gig I ever attended was Tom Waits at the Playhouse in Edinburgh.
Worth every penny.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:33, Reply)

No other gig compares :D
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:35, Reply)

...as it was like spending an evening in another world.
I'm inclined to agree.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:39, Reply)

It's the only time I have actually been on the edge of my seat, with a massive grin on my face.
My 'bucket list' always consisted of 'Go into space' and 'See Tom Waits live.'
As soon as I'm back from space, I'm straight off to Dignitas.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:46, Reply)

Guy gets rage chasing after orbs.
Watch to the end for comedy payoff
(nsfw due to swears and the like)
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:24, Reply)

If i want to hear some usless merican rant about games i can just plug my xbox headset in. I want kittens or drunk people falling over videos! Entertain me bitch!
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:43, Reply)

Although that's clearly not a mexican acccent Gratch. Sounds more like one of those Italian Mafia accents from movies.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:15, Reply)

those renegade orbs are a pain though
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:40, Reply)

I'm so impressed that they've made these based on the game. I want some
Here's the game in case you haven't tried it.
www.popcap.com/extras/pvz/
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:46, Reply)

I never finished Plants Vs. Zombies, might have to get back on it...
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:11, Reply)

Completed it many times. I dele my saved game then start all over again. Love it!
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:20, Reply)

Which seemed particularly shocking given that they wanted me to pay for the full version.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:35, Reply)

or at least not for PC, can't talk about the iPhone version. To me it was incredibly simplistic and not on par with other more conventional ones.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:24, Reply)

Only available on VHS...
This and the Curse of Fenric are the first episodes I really remember, I've seen earlier ones since but these we're my first...
anyway, there is some proper ropey acting... especially in the COF... but they’re a good laugh
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:24, Reply)

It'll be taken down pretty soon. Unless it's actually on BBC Channel.
I'd love a way to directly download all the classic episodes though.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:27, Reply)

With more expensive special effects.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:22, Reply)

(weirdly, this is about the fourth time 'Harold Shipman' has been an applicable response on /links today).
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 20:40, Reply)

would love to see it again.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:08, Reply)

The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, on the other hand, was fabulous.
So fabulous that I never want to see it again. I couldn't bear finding out that it was shite after all.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 20:09, Reply)

I'm not going to spoil the memory by attempting to track down the episodes...
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 21:04, Reply)

Nice little anti-advertising film short.
Acting's a little wooden, but its pretty funny and thought provoking.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:14, Reply)

ADHD or ADD makes it hard to concentrate for long periods of time. The H is for hyper, which means that you get over excited about things that you can pay attention to.
ADHD normaly comes with depression born from the frustrations of not being able to do as well as you wish you could. Trying very hard to work on soemthing important in your life and end up spending most your time staring at the wall. (Litterly, 3/4 of my time studying will be spent wall staring)
The actions of the actor is more in line with depression or other problems than ADHD.
Apart from that I like the concept.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:14, Reply)

More Russian generosity, related to Avast's post below about Tartovsky. You can read the novel on which Tartovsky's film 'Stalker' is based. It's called 'Roadside Picnic' and was originally written by the Strugatsky brothers - two Russian SF heroes of the 1960s and 1970s. It's currently available in the Gollancz SF Masterworks series - that's how good it is - but you can get it for free and print it out yourself for the cost of about 100 sheets of A4 from the office (ie: nada). 'The Final Circle of Paradise' is well worth reading also.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:05, Reply)

Nice one. May I also suggest "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin? It's the blueprint to 1984, and, some say, Brave new world.
No freebie online copy, sorry =(
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:13, Reply)

This is amusing - two recent songs from bint-faced poptarts Ke$ha and Katie Perry....
The certain..."similarity" is highlighted through the simple method of cutting between them every split second. No mixing here - straight cutting.
Crikey.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:02, Reply)

I bet they're both produced by the same people - like when everyone sounded like britney when those scandinavian guys did everything, or when the neptunes took over the world, or more recently, when timberland spread his shitty hands over everything he could. This is very similar though
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:09, Reply)

Why don't you get a job
with
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 17:35, Reply)

I actually love her.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 19:10, Reply)

But which is better? There's only one way to find out....
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:18, Reply)

I don't really know much about them, but I always thought Pumas are sand-coloured?
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:29, Reply)

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just lovely.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 20:12, Reply)

I see a little puma running away from a chimp a lot.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 21:20, Reply)

but he fears more that it coud rip him the thing off with these canines...
( , Thu 15 Jul 2010, 9:14, Reply)

( , Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:29, Reply)

Link is to b3ta favourite Ben Goldacre's twitter page, where most of this is going off.
"summary: @gillianmckeith abused a random, called @bengoldacre a liar, then deleted the tweets and claimed the account was fake. it's not."
Still picking through the history of it myself, but felt it was worth posting - anything that defames the stool molester in chief has got to be worth sharing.
Edit - now with added #McKeithFacts hashtag...
Edit Edit and now the chapter and verse from BoingBoing. With double points for BoingBoing's URL.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:10, Reply)

Very amusing. Mad old bat.
edit - it just went mainstream :)
www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2010/jul/14/gillian-mckeith-ben-goldacre-twitter
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:16, Reply)

It's amazing how, after making an ass of herself on twitter, SUDDENLY she acts as if the twitter feed is a troll.
In other news, the "University" she got her "degree" from has gone for good: www.ccnh.edu/
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:18, Reply)

... the educational credentials of an institution with access to animated gifs of that calibre?
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:26, Reply)

for them to say it closed due to 'economic recession'.
It closed because Alabama law has changed to stop un-accredited educational institutions from awarding degrees.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:01, Reply)

managed to block API access to her tweets. She's going fairly mental I think.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:18, Reply)

www.gillianmckeith.info/newsletter/newsletter_stepstofabbeachbody_02-06-2009.html
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:19, Reply)

Stop digging, love...you're nearing the Earth's core...
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:30, Reply)

what a mad old trout :P
nadiaknows.blogspot.com/2010/07/gillian-mckeith-tweet-at-haste-delete.html
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:31, Reply)

"If McKeith would like to add to her woo credentials, she could also pick up a degree in astrology from Kepler College."
the fucking nerve to use Keplers name. jeez.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 20:29, Reply)

www.zenbuffy.com/2010/07/gillian-mckeith-has-no-phd/
Including screen shots of her website's source code which has links to the 'fake' Twitter account
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:18, Reply)

...and if you believe that, you'll believe anything, like her so-called Phd.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 18:14, Reply)

NSFW as, well - one or two swears :p
They need to just have a cuddle and make up
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:42, Reply)

Corky And The Juice Pigs fine parody of R.E.M.
And this is exactly how i see Michael Stipe's banal drivel.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:10, Reply)

Lyrics sound more like Tori Amos though.
/quite likes REM's later stuff
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I've only ever heard the studio version of that "I look outside my window and see you there... and I'm frightened... because I live on the eighth floor... you must be really really tall"
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:29, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns6ypkfg9dM
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:45, Reply)

16,000,000 spent.
391,000 back.
That's almost 2.5% return on their investment.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 13:47, Reply)

Hopefully now they will sit down and stfu. Can they afford to continue like that?
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 14:13, Reply)

that every lawsuit won, would put off 50 people from breaking the law and buy legit. Impossible to measure in reality of course.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:01, Reply)

391000 / 16000000 = $0.024 return on every $1 spent. Which is a 2.4% return on their investment.
100% return means you get back everytihng you spent. 102.4% return is the same as a 2.4% profit.
a 2.4% return is pathetic.
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 15:40, Reply)

and it's not an investment it's a cost.
So their legal fees cost £16m, but they only managed to recoup 2.5% of that amount in damages, losing 97.6%.
A lot of the big companies have in house legal teams too, so I imagine some lawyers are in trrrruuuuubbbllle...
( , Wed 14 Jul 2010, 16:06, Reply)
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