I feel like we need to step up to dork level a bit. Here’s my humble attempt at a more pronounced geekery for a Thursday.
Cracked.com has been doing a fine series of photoshop contests lately. I’m partial to the series If History’s Greatest Minds Lived In The Modern World. Check out the facebook exchange between Newton and Pascal. “Shut up Joule!”
I’m going to get a Lawn Jawa. A friend rightly pointed out, “if you don’t get this for your yard then i don’t know you at all”
Ben doesn’t know it yet, but he’s getting Mad Scientist Blocks for Christmas. I think my favorite one is “K is for Potassium”. You bet it is!
There was a time, when Don’t Worry Be Happy was on the radio constantly, that I would have happily slammed Bobby McFerrin’s head in a door until he was both worried and unhappy. Either I’m getting older (which is entirely unlikely) or he’s getting less annoying. This spontaneous sing along video is actually pretty cool. Now I just need to figure out how I missed the world science festival.
This is roughly the effect you would achieve if a star collapsed in on itself in your den. Click through and check out the awesome apartment tentacle monster too.
There are so many things I like about this article: the poor translation, the flagrant disregard for environmental impact, and that you know in the first year or two some guy kept trying to figure out where he could get a big enough bucket of water. Good stuff.
There is nothing more frightening than when the Mafia installs transmitters in your ipod to be able to issue death threats in an effort to coerce you to work for their modeling agency. We’ve all been there. This is why I keep my ipod securely wrapped in tin foil.
I hate the auto-tuner. If you can’t sing in tune, you should not be a professional singer (I’m looking at you Jamie Fox). Auto-tune is just not very subtle cheating. I am willing to look the other way, however, when it comes to Churchill. This is just fantastic.
A while back I posted about an interesting Google discovery. If you start a question with “Why is”, one of the first suggested searches from Google is “Why is my poop green?” Since that first post, I’ve been steadily getting search traffic from folks apparently afflicted with polychromatic poo asking some form of that question. It seemed that more research was in order.
Green poop seems to be a relatively new phenomenon. Check out the Google Trends for searches of “Why is my poop green?”
While it seems to have been a mild issue since 2004, something really hit its stride mid-2008. What is adversely affecting America’s poop? After exhaustive research (20 minutes this morning), I have some theories related to major events around that time:
Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination. I am well aware from watching a lot of TV that the presence of a black president is a clear indication that a show is set in the future. Since we’re all living in the future, some poop discoloration shouldn’t be too surprising.
Bill Gates stepped out of day to day operations at Microsoft. Green poop may be the biological equivalent of the blue screen of death.
The bottom dropped out of the economy. Perhaps economic uncertainty manifests itself as poop in the hues of spring. It’s also possible that the $700 billion “bailout” consists of surreptitiously grinding up money and hiding it in Kraft cheese.
So there you go. Hopefully our lower intestines will not spin the color wheel again.
