What in bloody heck is this - I ended up on this page when I used google images to search for “voting icon.” You see, I’m looking for ideas for the icon you’ll be able to click to vote a user’s comments up.
Anyhow, from what I can tell this is a page of thousands upon thousands of random images. Let it load for about a minute or two and start scrolling … it’s absolutely endless.
Hilarious Hitachi Press Release - Who knew that hard drives could rock like this? Seriously, visit this link and do not stop watching until you get to the disco portion. Brilliant.
I continue to stumble on wedding pictures - This is a great candid.
Michael Jackson. A Star Tribune review of a local opera. The musical group Barenaked Ladies. How could these topics be anything but non sequiturs in a stream-of-conscious rambling? I did not know either until about ten minutes ago. That’s when I decided to write this post instead of simply linking to the Star Tribune’s review of an opera about a man called the “Elephant Man.” He lived in the mid 1800s and had an extremely rare genetic disorder called “Proteus syndrome.” He is pictured at right. More on that picture in a second. You see, I was reading that opera review, and frankly could have cared less about the actual opera … I was fascinated about the real story of this man who was shunned from society and what disease he actually had. Towards the end, the review finally mentions this man, Joseph Merrick. It says he died simply by laying flat; the weight of his head broke his neck. It was three feet around at time of death.
As I’m poking around the internet, I see a picture of Michael Jackson in a music video, dancing next to a claymation of the elephant man’s bones. The proportions are bizarre. You see, Jackson wanted to buy the bones for $1,000,000 from the British museum they are displayed at, but was turned down. The music video is poking fun at Jackson’s publicity problems with this. Anyhow, as I was reading this, suddenly a scrap of a Barenaked Ladies song popped into my head, “mmm all those crazy elephant bones.” Holy cow. That song actually mentions the elephant man by name, “If I had $1000000 (if I had $1000000) / I’d buy you John Merrick’s remains (all them crazy elephant bones).”
I think I will take a researching break for a while … sometimes the truth is too weird.
More photorealistic’ness - This is more stylized than that picture in the link I just posted a few weeks ago … but seriously, computer generated animation is looking better everyday.
Stadium Arcadium is good - It would seem from the reviews that the Pepper’s “Stadium Arcadium” is a pretty darn good album. An excerpt from this great Rolling Stone review:
” Much of the credit for the album’s depth — and the swelling, ever-morphing, headphone-candy arrangements that boost every track — goes to the band’s not-so-secret weapon, John Frusciante. It’s been clear since his return to the band on 1999’s Californication that Frusciante came away from his near-fatal heroin addiction with new musical superpowers, and they’re in full bloom on Stadium Arcadium. … after 2002’s By the Way, the band’s least funky album, the bassist finally cuts loose again here, reasserting himself as the best non-hip-hop reason to buy a subwoofer.”
Dutch store celebrates its 10,000th shoplifter - Too good to pass up. Via kottke (only my third visit in the past 2 months!).
Relative cost of video game consoles throughout the years - Check this out: the Sega Saturn, when first released, was equivalent to $524 in today’s money. Compare to the forthcoming PS3’s $500-$600 mark.
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