Archive for January, 2008

Save the Devil!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Tasmanian Devil

I was saddened to read about the battle going on to save the Tasmanian Devil from extinction. Perhaps because I grew up in the Warner Brothers cartoon era, the Taz was always a favorite animal of mine. They are small and generally just fucking mean. They are being killed off by an incredibly ferocious form of cancer that starts on the face, and spreads rapidly through the body. It spreads via “fighting and biting” which the little devils do quite often. We humans continue to fight each other in senseless wars, while cancer continues to kick our ass, and now is poised to remove the lovable cuddly Tasmanian Devil…Save the Devil dammit! Stupid humans.

Look at how cute they are as they rumble for some fresh meat!

Related Links:
Save the Devil Program!
Tasmanian Devils Existence Threatened…

Take Anything You Want!

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

It’s a good thing the Japanese are learning English as well as how to give it all away in such a creative fashion. They have combined 80’s exercise videos with something I can only guess is modeled after a scene from The Rockford Files, except I’m not sure why they choose to cast the Japanese George Costanza as the vicious knife wielding thief (don’t get me wrong I’m sure he’s happy for the work). The reverse modern styled bandanna really helps to complete his menacing hooligan character doesn’t it? Thanks to Mr. Waters for the link.

Suitcase Dwarves Fleece the Swedes

Friday, January 25th, 2008

First off this is NOT an article from the Onion although it certainly falls well within the realm of something you might see there. Dwarves have been reportedly hiding in suitcases to gain entry to Swedish long distance luggage holds (of the absurdly named coach bus line “Swebus”). There is so much awesome in this story, I’m not sure it can all fit into one small suitcase…I am not sure why the author of this report chose to end it with some unrelated facts they obviously found on Dwarfipedia…

The Artemis Fowl book series by Irish fiction author Eoin Colfer has a character called Mulch Diggums, a kleptomaniac dwarf. Read full story…

suitcase dwarf

Japanese Hornets- All it takes is One!

Friday, January 18th, 2008

So you’ve heard the hype about this Cloverfield movie right? Well here is a video that aptly shows what Cloverfield for bees must be like in reality. These giant Japanese Hornets descend on a nest of honeybees and just tear into them. Then they leave their young to feed upon the larvae of the desecrated victims.

Link via- Cracked

Pahhty boy loves to paahhhty!

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The aftermath of a $20,000 party in Melbourne, broken car windows, naked youths running the streets, and one unrepentant party boy who looks like he tripped and fell out of an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog. Watch as the equally pathetic “news”caster struggles in vain to get him to remove his sunglasses and offer a heartfelt breakdown apology for her audience…I got news for you sweetheart, you’re ten times more retarded than this kid…it’s your “story”. Long live Jeff Spicoli.

Free Hookers in the Igloo Room!

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Here we have the latest evolution in the wild west world of online porn. FREE HOOKERS! that’s right, well of course nothing is free, the cost is you have to show your big fat hairy hooker loving ass to every tech savvy porn surfing “customer” of the Prague brother Big Sister website. It’s really a small price to pay, and honestly I feel kind of bad for the ladies/employees of Big sister as I can see an obvious drop in the already questionable quality of customers. On the flipside perhaps this will lead to huge crowds of gentlemen callers, and they will get to choose the cream of the crop? Eyyyyow that analogy even grossed me out. The main reason I even posted this article though, was I discovered this picture of the “Igloo Room”, which is one of the fantasy suites…you know where you can get your groove on FOR FREE! It appears someone has eaten the eskimos from the “Igloo Room”, and we might want to call animal control.

Polar Bear

Bloomberg- full article

Chinese Medical Posters

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Here is a great collection of Chinese Medical Posters scanned and posted to Flickr. I am a big fan of medical illustration, and while I’ve seen the Indian versions of a lot of these, I’ve never seen Chinese ones. The personal hygiene ones are always good for a hoot. Thanks to Ben for the link.

Chinese Medical Posters

Squirrel Catapult

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

A few weeks ago while playing a friendly game of ball with my dog at the park I was totally mad dogged by a squirrel. He was posturing, making some kind of threat bark as he slowly creeped towards me down a tree! Maybe I’ll invite the little devil over to watch this video. Humans are pure evil, we will LAUNCH your furry ass out into the yard for no other reason than our amusement.

Link stolen from the Gizmodo popular stories of 2007

Nude Suits

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

View these Nude Suit images by artist Matthew Glover, and you may find yourself putting on an extra layer of clothing. No these are not some new secret x-ray vision spy camera, or a frightening new nudist clothing experiment, the pictures were cleverly modified in Photoshop (before anyone starts chortling about it) as mentioned in the artists notes. The subjects were photographed twice, once in the nude and then the images were composited creating the sometimes eerie images. The artist claims the final images are intending to show a more thorough understanding of the subjects by allowing them to choose the clothing, and posing them in a location of comfort. It creates and interesting dynamic as it shows them naked yet within the comfort of their clothing, but does it really help us understand them more, or simply distract? I think we can also learn something about ourselves from the viewing experience and how we react to the individual images, which is one thing good art should arouse.

Nude Suit

Matthew Glover- Nude Suits