Movie mashups can be deadly.


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This 2012 Nissan Leaf SL leapfrogged me so far forward in technology from Mia, my '88 Corolla, that it's difficult to convey properly.

Mia was a great car.  I named her after the main character in Bruce Sterling's excellent novel, Holy Fire.  I replaced her engine/clutch/carburetor because she was in such great shape at 149k miles, which for about ( Read more... )

This is dedicated to mle292:
http://videosift.com/video/A-Jew-Christian-and-Muslim-were-walking-through-a-desert

The '60s had the first photos of earth as a whole, which started an important change in consciousness. The Hubble Deep Field here is the next step.

http://videosift.com/video/The-most-amazing-photo-ever-taken

It's clear that Mother Nature is annoyed at us.  We've been praying for rain, biased against fire, so today, she didn't even let it rain naturally.  She just put her thumb over a big hose and sprayed us down in swirling circles, making, I believe a clear statement.  We humans should stop with the "Oh we really need the rain" and STFU about Mother ( Read more... )

Why would I put a picture of 19 staples behind a cut?  Because those staples are holding my flesh together over where they put the 4 pieces of my left clavicle back into one.  :)

( some would consider it gross )

"During a campaign event, Newt Gingrich was bitten by a penguin. It was feeding time and Newt and the penguin were fighting over pieces of squid."
-Conan O'Brien

Please, someone make a video of this in claymation or somesuch.

This one goes out to the Captain, who loves maps and politics:  (from http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_357_19-things-college-students-suspect-about-real-world_p19/#13)


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Drive: Rotten Tomatoes described it as a perfect blend of art-house movie and action flick, but it was actually a very bloody violent mobster movie.  Fortunately, the film gave me occasional breaks from the bloodshed to zoom in on Carey Mulligan's dimples.  This movie had the plot (essentially) of Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me The Head of Diego Garcia ( Read more... )

He has been great on so many levels. First he was a Bill O'reilley clone who took it to its comedic extreme to mock it mercilessly. He did it right to Bill's and W's faces directly too.

Nowadays he seems to be channeling the Smothers Brothers in their most subversive fashion. With his chiseled looks (Church of the Subgenius-esque) he has provided ( Read more... )