moonbuggy

This is fucking dirty.

And by dirty I mean not safe for work.

`What high-tech product advances the fastest? It’s probably the hard drive. The capacity doubles easily every two years and sometimes every year, faster even than the chip progress described by Moore’s Law. The first drives took up storage closets. Now, a 5GB drive can fit in a phone. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, which has made drives for years and also now owns IBM’s drive division, recently collected pictures from hard drive history and made a calendar. Here are some highlights.’

` Since I was a little girl, I’ve always been drawn to cemeteries. I’ve been intrigued by the one across the street from where I live and have dubbed it “my” cemetery since the age of five years. As I grew older, my interest in exploring cemeteries expanded into a greater interest in the forgotten, hauntingly beautiful, mysterious and simply unknown, as well as the supernatural. The explorations included on this site are of abandoned places on small and large scales, cemeteries, roadside attractions, the allegedly haunted, just plain weird, and more. The need to photograph these places and things and share their stories is an undying one. And you never know what (or who!) will show up in photographs.’

`Being that he’s been exiled to the garage and it’s winter, the lazy fuck absolutely refuses to leave the confines of the garage to do anything. This includes shitting. In fact, I think he actually pisses in his sleep and just lives with it. Maybe he likes that it keeps him a little warmer. Well, he does leave long enough to shit. And he shat all over the garage. Well, Kronix our roommate told my brother that he’d pay him $40 if he agreed to lick the cat shit in the garage. With $40 rounded up (thanks in part by Monkey and me pitching in) we were off to the garage to see the events as they unfolded.

Watch the video!’

I didn’t watch the video. The still pictures are disturbing enough.

`Here’s a question for you: what have the Nazi wartime test facility at Peenemunde and the Australian city of Perth got in common? Well, the first thing (and just about the only thing, truth be told) which springs to mind is that they are both next to large bodies of water. This is useful if you’re going to test things which might go bang. Like V-2 rockets and – wait for it – flying cars’

`Five-year-old giant panda Chuang Chuang (R) and his four-year-old partner Lin Hui mate for the first time at the Chiang Mai zoo in northern Thailand January 17, 2006. The pair were donated to Thailand by the Chinese government. Picture taken January 17, 2006.’

A couple of amusing pictures.

Lots of photos of a computer built out of relays.

Who ever thought knitting could be so gory?

`Ever wonder what would happen if one of our favorite Food Network chefs created something they actually didn’t like? Well, we were lucky enough to witness such an event when Giada De Laurentiis of Everyday Italian attempted to make some sort of sorbet. She claimed on the air that her facial expressions of disgust and malaise were merely a reaction to the icy treat, but we know better. Behold the Great Giada Disaster of 2006.’

`Amongst all the fossils ever found in the world, there might be nothing more bizarre than this specimen. One Protoceratops, a herbivorous (plant-eating) dinosaur, perished in the struggle with a carnivorous theropod, Velociraptor. After their death 80 million years ago, both skeletons were fossilized, then finally unearthed in 1971 in fully articulated forms without having been smashed.

The reason why they fought with each other is not known. Protoceratops might have been defending its nest from the predator, or the two creatures might have encountered accidentally, but all we can do is build speculations and guesses about them.’

`In February 1995, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, I adopted a super fiber-rich diet which allowed me to successfully produce a single extruded excrement the exact length of my colon: 26 feet. I documented the extrusion at the Cranbrook-Kingswood High School Bowling Alley, Bloomfield Hills, MI, which offered a length of floor suitable for the process and measuring the results. The cathartic diet was supplemented by a high intake of Metamucil fiber substance. The weeklong endurance prior to the event was ensured by the employment of a plug specifically designed to curtail any premature excretions.’

`After a burglar broke into caricaturist Bill “Weg” Green’s Heathmont home on Sunday, it took the 82-year-old just seconds to draw his attacker.

Fifteen minutes later, patrolling police caught a suspect — and Mr Green’s drawing proved they had the right man. [..]

Police soon arrived and were initially reluctant when Mr Green offered to draw the burglar.

“We were mainly concerned with catching the offender who was still in the area,” said Senior Constable Aaron Roche of Ringwood police.

“I thought (the drawing) might be a stick figure or something like that.”

Seconds later, Mr Green — who still works daily drawing private, AFL and other corporate caricatures, as well as running a gallery — provided a detailed drawing of the burglar’s face.’

Don’t worry about the URL. It’s safe for work.

Unless it is actually a hack and has reverted to the original page in the time since I’ve posted this. In which case, do worry about the URL. It may not be safe for work. 🙂

You’ll never know if you don’t click..

`Windows has encountered and unknown error.

The error is unknown because the guy who wrote this part of the code quit a while back and he was like really really smart and the rest of us are not really sure how this works or what to do.

BTW, if you are that guy, please give us a call and let us know what to do.’

`A Central Florida man was arrested on charges he exposed himself to a child at a Wal-Mart store, according to a Local 6 News.

Brian Williams was supposed to face a judge on drug charges Tuesday from a previous arrest, but he is now being held on $30,000 bond for allegedly flashing a child at the Fruitland Park Wal-Mart.’

with an amusing mugshot.

Safe for work because art is always safe for work.

If your boss complains, tell them they’re a philistine. They’ll have no option but to agree with you and apologise for being ignorant and uncultured.

`Lightbulb explores two phenomena I find interesting, the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Feedback systems often levitate objects, stabilize inverted pendulums, and the like. Wireless power transmission has been around since Tesla’s invention a century ago, although it is still not widely utilized. I wanted to explore these effects together.’

An animated GIF of the stabilized bigfoot footage.

`Felice Varini paints (lines, concentric circles, triangles) on things (tunnels, castles, groovy interiors). A seemingly random smattering of elements that, viewed from a specific point in space, coalesce into a tangible planar element.’

I want some of these painted in my house. 🙂 Very cool.

High speed photoraphy of things being destroyed.

Hilarious forum thread.

Everyone couple of pages this guy posts more pictures of him and his friends. As if the first one isn’t enough. You’ll see what I mean. 🙂

.. I’ve been reading the thread on and off for the past few hours now. It just gets funnier and funnier. These guys are the biggest tools ever. It’s amazing.

More at Lee Hotti’s website.

`WARNING! These images are graphic, not suitable for kids and vegetarians! [..]

I do not personally condone cruelty to animal (any animal), and these photos are not for promoting the asian tradition of eating dog. But do you really think that eating a dog is worse than eating a cow, a pig, a lamb or a chichen?

Yes, In the U.S., people get prison terms for what Asians do to dogs. But in India, people also get jailed for what Westerners do to cows.’

`Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/1000,000,000 of-a-second exposure. [..]

Note: the electric like energy that runs down the towers guide wires.’

`Back in 1985, hard drives were gigantic and not to mention insanely expensive (40MB/$40,000) as shown in the above image. That was coincidentally the same year Microsoft released Windows 1.0 which sold for $100 ($177.47 with inflation) a piece. I like how the display behind it has a huge magnifying glass that almost makes you think hard drives now days (2006) are microscopic which they really aren’t…yet.’

`What exactly is it about Hollywood and fame that gets into people’s heads? What is it that penetrates into the minds of performers and makes them feel omnipotent? Make them believe they are all powerful and knowing and that everything they touch will turn to gold? Is it the mandatory narcissistic obsession that comes with being a star? Is it the constant exposure to drugs and alcohol? Is it the close proximity of greasy executive and slimy producers who are out to exploit anyone and everyone to make a buck?

We are not sure, we’ll let you be the judge as to the drives and/or motivations behind the current list of nominees for the Fade To Black Rock & Roll Hall of Shame. So crank up the volume and prepare to listen to your favorite Rock & Roll classics sung by the likes of Andy Griffith, Pat Boone, Leonard Nimoy and more!’