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{ Monthly Archives } February 2008

earthquake in England?

Clearly this is a cover story for something. Daleks? Derros? Dholes? Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 27 crushinator History
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Some Clickable Links

The plan…. Only $10 million for your own island off Dubai…. Movie revenue graphic…. Dan McCarthy (artist)…. Ms. Dewey search engine…. (warning: kinda annoying) Freebase pancakes…. All links via NOTCOT.ORG Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 26 squidocto art
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Garfield minus Garfield

This is an epiphany. For so many years, basically my whole life, there’s been this comic which has consistently sucked, has consistently dragged punchless punchlines through the dull, witless mud of cheap gags. And then some clever person simply points out that the whole time, the real problem with Garfield has been Garfield. via metafilter [...]

2008 02 26 squidocto art
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Kimchi in Space

Ko San will be South Korea’s first astronaut, and he gets to take kimchi with him. Originally buried in clay pots during fermentation, his kimchi will instead be canned in a special bacteria-free version. My favorite quote from the NYTimes version of the story: “Three top government research institutes spent millions of dollars and several [...]

2008 02 24 squidocto Food
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Earworm extraordinaire

They Might Be Giants have a new kids album coming out soon called “Here Come the ABCs 123s.” They’re posting videos and songs via YouTube to promote it. This here song is a certified earworm. But it’s so good. C’mon, listen. First time is free. Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 23 crushinator Sound
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John Hubley

John Hubley was an animator best known for his 1959 oscar-winning short Moonbird (below), which, in Squidocto’s humble opinion, is one of the all-time greatest animated shorts. If the youtube version someone kindly put up was a better print, I think you might even see why I consider it the best animated short ever made. [...]

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Ricky & Patrick

Gervais and Stewart, that is: Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 21 squidocto art
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Subprime explained

Using a cartoon, of course. A google-app powerpointish thing. via Metafilter Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 21 crushinator History
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Gisele Kerozene

Flying broomstick stopmotion madness. Via BoingBoing comments Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 14 crushinator art
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Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library has a simple mission: “to digitize the published literature of biodiversity.” That means scanning every page of relevant texts going back as far as 1480. That makes for some pretty cool surfing. According to the article that lead me to this site, however, the people who run it are a little [...]

2008 02 14 squidocto nature
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In Memoriam: Jan Kotik

Tonight there will be a memorial marathon concert/filmshow/tribute to the late Jan Kotik held at Magnetic Field in Brooklyn. Good opportunity to see Beekeeper, Babe the Blue Ox, and The Mommyheads, I suppose, if one wants to attempt to find silver linings in this sort of sad news. Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 07 crushinator History
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Mt Olympus

Mt Olympus, home of the gods, etc, appears in Clash of the Titans and other purely historical films as a misty columned temple/lounge, but what does the mountain actually look like? And how neat is it that you can climb it and take a look around? Related posts No related posts.

2008 02 07 crushinator History
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Pirate game

“Treasure of Cutlass Reef” is a flash-based naval pirate game, with sailing ships and cannons and all that. The earlier version had wind which was a fun element, this later version lacks the wind but lets you move across the whole screen. I ain’t saying this is a realistic masterpiece, but it’s fun. Update: OK, [...]

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The Puppetmaster

I broke down and watched the democratic debate last night. Even though I’m already decided, I figured I owe it to Hillary to give her one last chance before I crank the axle for Barack, especially considering, for the first time I can remember, our New York primary might actually make a difference. (Usually the [...]

2008 02 01 squidocto Politics
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