Even fictional characters have fake blogs about them.
Fake John Conner is pretty hilarious.
I enjoyed this post very much.
I can’t tell if this is disgusting, hilarious or I don’t even know where to begin:
According to documents filed in the case, Gonzalez, Jones and an unnamed juvenile on March 15 went to an Humble cemetery, dug up a man’s grave, left with the head and turned it into a “bong.”
(Thanks Brandon, who along with sending the link said: “Put that in your head and smoke it.” Ha!)
This is an amazing visualization of the popularity of baby names. It’s interesting to see how names starting with the letter F have dramatically fallen in popularity since the 1880s.
(I found this because, well, I’m going to be a dad this year. Yay!)
SAN FRANCISCO - Computer attacks typically don’t inflict physical pain on their victims.
But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation’s Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
Physics professor James Kakalios takes a look at Iron Man’s suit:
Sadly, nearly all of the features of the Iron Man suit, with one important exception, are not likely to be realized anytime soon. Let’s look at each of the suit’s major elements in turn.
Malcom Gladwell has a new piece in The New Yorker about Intellectual Ventures, a sort of super-think tank that patents ideas.
The original expectation was that I.V. would file a hundred patents a year. Currently, it’s filing five hundred a year. It has a backlog of three thousand ideas. Wood said that he once attended a two-day invention session presided over by Jung, and after the first day the group went out to dinner. “So Edward took his people out, plus me,” Wood said. “And the eight of us sat down at a table and the attorney said, ‘Do you mind if I record the evening?’ And we all said no, of course not. We sat there. It was a long dinner. I thought we were lightly chewing the rag. But the next day the attorney comes up with eight single-spaced pages flagging thirty-six different inventions from dinner. Dinner.”
This is old but really cool:
Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective of showing the participants that it is not required to understand code to experiment and play with it.
Although they had no experience in coding, the task of each participant was to make a mod of a breakout clone built in Processing.
You can download the source at the link. Awesome.
Science Machine from Chad Pugh is a time-lapse of an illustrator working on a sweet-looking project.
(via Play with the Machine)
I know. I know. This tumblr is usually full of fun and goofy things. When it’s political, I try to keep it tongue-in-cheek.
But this story is too good not to share. Good in that it is well-written and takes us pretty deep into the bowels of human condition. Not good in that it deals with a tough, tough subject: Rape.
More 20 years ago a reporter at The Cleaveland Plain Dealer was raped and decided to come forward with her story in a series for the paper. Some parts are pretty graphic (you have been warned), but it is a necessary story to tell.
MODERNSHAME is a tumblr that posts regretful email correspondence that should never have been sent.
I have no shame when it comes to emails (I’ll post an email I recently sent to a county courthouse later today), but this may be a great opportunity for some of you to publicly vent.
And give us all a good laugh in the process.
