Posts Tagged: Links
PZ Myers in Vancouver
Biology professor and godless liberal PZ Myers was in town last Friday to give two lectures: one at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, in the afternoon, one at UBC in the evening. The advertised title for both was “Atheism in the Scientific Battleground”, but the focus in each was a little different.
Blue!
No, not me. I’m still between jobs, still looking, but I’m not letting it get me down. I’m keeping my brain active, playing around with cool Web technologies like jQuery and Flex. It’s fun.
In addition to learning new tools, I’m building my portfolio.
Foggy
I took the day off sick. No, I really wasn’t feeling well, this wasn’t so I could watch the US Inauguration live—though that was a nice bonus. And I’d like to say that, as Barack Hussein Obama took his oath of office, that the damn fog that’s been hanging around downtown Vancouver for the last, oh, ten days at least, miraculously parted, letting the daystar shine down on my light-hungry eyes.
This is the scariest trailer I’ve ever seen
So first Matt Damon said this:
It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The Hockey Mom. “Oh, I’m just a hockey mom from Alaska,” and she’s facing down Vladimir Putin using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd. It’s totally absurd, and I don’t understand why more people aren’t talking about how absurd it is. [...] I need to know if she really thinks dinosaurs were here 4,000 years ago.
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
Let’s check…
Not that doomsday crackpots haven’t tried to stir up fear of black holes swallowing the Earth, and whatnot.
It really, really is
And now this xkcd strip makes sense.
Launch ridiculous website
I’ve been following Chris Yates’ Reprographics webcomic for a couple of years now. He’s cute, talented and hilarious. But now he’s taken his art to the next level:
Graphs
This is simply the greatest blog ever.
Nature’s Mothers
Surinam Toads—spectacularly fugly critters native to northeastern South America—have a rather odd means of reproduction. After mating, the male presses the eggs onto the female’s back. The eggs stick to her skin, which begins to grow over them. A few months later they emerge as toadlets, having already hatched and passed through the tadpole stage. Check it out, it’s equal parts gross and cool.
Science Tattoos!
Check ‘em out.
Flock of starlings
Crows have got nothing on these guys…
lol
I think this meme is getting out of hand.
Okay, so first we had lolcats. Then they upped the ante with lolbots.
Dude, Where’s My Flying Car?
Now here’s an awesome blog I just discovered: Paleo-Future, a look at how past generations saw the future (which is often our present). Domed, weather-controlled cities! Flying cars! Segways!
Dungeons & Dragons
I discovered The Order of the Stick about a month ago (with this episode, to be precise), and was immediately hooked. It’s got great plots, character development, action and adventure and tons of humour. Half of that is the hilarious metagaming dialog which spoke to right to my geek heart.
My Kingdom for a Horse!
Warning: Not for children or the faint of heart.
A few weeks ago, a hilariously weird and creepy entry came up on OTF Wank. There’s this guy, who’s married, and also has a girlfriend. His wife is happy being monogamous, but the girlfriend wants to have other partners and he’s jealous. So, okay, at first glance he just sounds like a controlling and selfish asshole, until you find out that his wife is a horse.
Wanna see something really scary?
From Robot Chicken: Arise, O Great Pumpkin!
From AlterNet: The Thirteen Scariest People in America
Everyday
Wow.
He took a photo of himself every day for six years. Then made a video out of the pictures.
Man Walking Against The Wind… OF SIN!!!
Just when I think I’ve seen everything, along comes a Web site so unique, so startling, so fucking ridiculous that I instantly feel humbled and relieved. Because there are whole dimensions of crazy and stupid out there, and if I searched for a lifetime I could only scratch the surface. Gawd bless the Internet.
Hooray! I’m Popular!
And a warm welcome to visitors surfing in from GayVancouver.Net. Seems I’ve been chosen as the GayVancouver.Net Proud! Out Loud! Web site of the week. Thank you to those who nominated me! It’s quite an honour to be counted with such excellent sites, but don’t worry: I won’t let it go to my head. Much.
