Category: Web

Here’s a cute little parody of Star Wars that promotes Organic Farming over the Dark Side of chemical-laden produce. It’s interesting that the original movie still stands up to parody, while none of the others have anything to offer in the way of the iconic. People have included the “Luke I am Your Father” scene so much though, that I’m sure there are those out there that are convinced it’s from the first film. And nobody parodies the most recent three…because they suck!

Two weeks ago, Metafilter blogged about Sudoku the number logic game that has conquered the Brits. Now Slate brings it stateside.

My Days Are Numbered – I’m addicted to a Japanese logic puzzle. You will be, too. By Seth Stevenson: “When Slate asked me to write about ‘sudoku’ the number puzzle that’s taken Britain by storm (and seems poised to conquer the United States, too) I thought it might be a pleasant little assignment. After all, I like puzzles. I’m always up for trying a new one.
And now it’s 2 a.m., my deadline is looming, and (as you can see) I’m only on my second paragraph. All because, damn it, I can’t stop playing sudoku. I’m a full-on sudoku addict. Thanks, Slate. This assignment is like when the New Republic got that dude to try crack.”

I’m not very good with logic puzzles, and my own attempts look retarded. Use pencil. Lots of pencil.

I was on my 6th page of allmusic.com browsing and I got this warning:

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Huh? Has anyone else come across this?

Do right wingers ever get naked and protest anything? Of course not, as this visual blog of Naked Protestors around the world proves by example. All the freewheeling gals (and guys) are on our side. And they’re naked. Yay!

??????? This collection of Japanese cookie ads made me chuckle. This sort of surrealism-for-kids is something the Japanese do well and the Americans, um, haven’t figured out.

More fun (and illegal) infiltration as the Minneapolis Urban Adventurers go spelunking in the abandoned Hamms Brewing Co. I wonder if these have been turned into lofts by now?

Stories at the top of the hour…
Ordinary attempted home break-in or zombie attack?
Young high schooler puts investigative journalists of the Fourth Estate to shame.
All this and Chuck Hernandez with the weather!

Everytime I begin to think that Disney isn’t an evil megacorporation they go and do this: Disney Rejects Pleas Against Serving Shark Fin Soup. Argh. I’ve seen fisherman harvesting shark fin. They pull the live shark out of the water, slice the fin off, and dump the suffering and very much still alive shark back in the water, where it bleeds to death, rudderless. The thought makes me sick and sad. And yes, Disney sucks.

An excellent commercial for something or other from Beam TV.

The A9 project is some sort of plan to photograph whole cities from street level, with a camera mounted on top of a slowly driving van. A lot of this will be boring as all get out to look at, but already there are some good curated galleries over at Flickr.
I particularly like this one, an accidental timelapse shot when the van got stuck in traffic.