The site is called “God Hates Protesters.” It’s a picture site with humorous and sometimes very wrong protest sings, and there holders:
Winter Wonderland in China – 26th Annual International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival in Harbin, China
•January 14, 2010 • Leave a CommentMore breathtaking, AMAZING photography courtesy of T H E B I G P I C T U R E
Above, is my favourite picture of the set (It’s sure to change though.) Northeastern China, in the city of Harbin celebrates its 26th annual International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival. Here are some of the wonderful sculptures:
Workers shape snow sculptures prior to the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, China on December 18, 2009 [Sheng Li]
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At night, visitors who endure the bitter cold will see the lights switched on, illuminating the sculptures from both inside and outside. This year’s festival opened on January 5th, and will remain open until some time in February.
Ice structures large and small light up a park in Harbin, China during its 26th annual Ice Festival on January 5, 2010.
People at the Harbin Ice and Snow Festival climb illuminated stairs on December 24, 2009. [Sheng Li]
A visitor climbs on icy stairs on an ice sculpture in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, December 24, 2009. [Sheng Li]
A tourist visits an ice sculpture for the 26th Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival at a park in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, China on January 3, 2010 [Aly Song]
People visit an ice sculpture at a park in Harbin, China, December 24, 2009. [Sheng Li]
People visit tall ice pagodas in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, December 24, 2009 [Sheng Li]
A woman slides down an ice slide at a festival in northeastern China’s Heilongjiang province, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2010 [Ng Han Guan]
…One day. Be sure to visit the site for all 31 photos, coooool.
8% of Human DNA Comes from a 40 Million Year-Old Virus
•January 13, 2010 • Leave a CommentThat sentence alone is BRILLIANT!
A team of scientists led by Keizo Tomonaga of Osaka University determined that a virus dating from 40 million years ago is embedded in human DNA.
This infection, known as the bornavirus, might be the cause of schizophrenia and passes from generation to generation inside human cellular nuclei, filling out 8% of human genetic code:
The assimilation of viral sequences into the host genome is a process referred to as endogenization. This occurs when viral DNA integrates into a chromosome of reproductive cells and is subsequently passed from parent to offspring. Until now, retroviruses were the only viruses known to generate such endogenous copies in vertebrates. But Feschotte said that scientists have found that non-retroviral viruses called bornaviruses have been endogenized repeatedly in mammals throughout evolution.
Bornavirus (BDV) owes its name to the town of Borna, Germany, where a virus epidemic in 1885 wiped out a regiment of cavalry horses. BDV infects a range of birds and mammals, including humans. It is unique because it infects only neurons, establishing a persistent infection in its host’s brain, and its entire life cycle takes place in the nucleus of the infected cells. [ScienceDaily]
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realised that humans are not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. Instead you multiply, and multiply, until every resource is consumed.
The only way for you to survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern… a virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague, and we… are the cure.” – Agent Smith
Farmer, Dick Kleis Expresses Love for His Wife with 120,000 Pounds of Manure!
•January 12, 2010 • Leave a CommentTrue love can tolerate a lot of crap 😀
It’s not often that a woman will say that her husband gave her a gigantic pile of crap for her birthday — and she loved it.
But Carole Kleis isn’t just any woman — she’s the wife of a farmer, and a little natural fertilizer doesn’t bother her a bit, even if this particular usage is rather unusual.
“He’s done weird things before for birthdays,” she said. “But maybe not this weird.”
It took Dick Kleis of Zwingle, Iowa, about three hours to spell out ‘HAP B DAY LUV U’ — shorthand, he says, for “Happy Birthday, Love You” in 120,000 pounds of manure.
“I was going to put a heart out there after the happy birthday, but I ran out of manure,” he said.
“It’s not hard. Any manure will work but the good, soft, gushy, warm stuff works the best. It kind of melts the snow.” –
– And her heart I’d imagine.
FLAIRS “Truckers Delight” [music video] [NSFW]
•January 11, 2010 • Leave a CommentI’ve put off posting this sweet fucking video for far too long. Personally, I wouldn’t go as far as to call it ‘NSFW’, but rather, “Truckers Delight” is a mature, acquired guilty pleasure …and I’m jizzing in my pants just talking about it 😀 ENJOY: WARNING NSFW
Multiple viewings will make those doubts and fears of yours go away – Press Replay Now!
Think Spielberg’s Duel + Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat Kill Kill! and Marc Dorcel’s wildest fantasies, warped into an 8-bit Sega era style graphic.
myspace./mightyflairs(😢rip myspace)
Help Jack the lonely truck driver in his very own truck simulator:
Super Mario Jesus [flipbook animation]
•January 10, 2010 • Leave a CommentNice flipbook… But JC got a bit violent there; I thought this man never hurt anything. Not as faithful a comedy sketch as I was hoping for.
This is a flipbook animation featuring Jesus plowing through World 1-1 with God-like speed and strength:
Comic Book Hero-to-Album Cover Conversions by Cliff Chiang [mashup]
•January 9, 2010 • Leave a CommentIllustrator Cliff Chiang turns classic 12″ album covers into their comic superhero counterparts:
“Dear Batman: We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in Bat-detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you’re crazy for making us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us: in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is an archer, and a speedster, and a swimmer, a princess, and an acrobat. Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, The Teen Titans.”
Thank you, John Hughes. Rest in peace.
This man is a wicked artist – Checkout His Work
Timon & Pumbaa
•January 9, 2010 • Leave a Comment
Timon and Pumbaa are an animated meerkat and warthog duo introduced in Disney’s popular 1994 animated film The Lion King.
R.I.P. Curtis Allina – Inventor of the PEZ dispenser
•January 8, 2010 • Leave a Comment
From Star Trek to Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to GUNDAM, Warner Brothers Looney Tunes to Disney, MARVEL UNIVERSE to The Simpsons, Wizard of Oz to Sesame Street and SpongeBob to Nintendo – PEZ has it all!
Curtis Allina is the inventor of the forever popular PEZ dispenser. He passed away Tuesday 5th 2010 at the age of 87 at his home in Olympia, Washington. Heart Failure. This is one legacy that will live on, refill, anon forever.
Originally, PEZ weren’t aimed at kids at all. They were mints – the name PEZ comes from the German word for peppermint, Pfefferminz – and when the dispensers arrived on the scene, they were supposed to resemble cigarette lighters as the candies were marketed as an alternative to smoking.
Then along came Curtis Allina who, back in 1955, convinced the PEZ company to put the whimsical heads on their dispensers. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Today PEZ is a highly collectible pop-cultural artifact. Not to mention tasty treat, for children and adults.
…I’m going to the dairy to PEZ out in honour of Mr Curtis Allina.
Curtis Allina was born Aug. 15, 1922, in Prague, and raised in Vienna. Between 1941 and 1945, he and his family, Sephardic Jews, were forced into a series of concentration camps. Mr. Allina emerged at war’s end as his family’s sole survivor in Europe. Making his way to New York, he worked for a commercial meatpacker before joining Pez-Haas, as the company’s United States arm was then known, in 1953. [full story/nytimes]
Whos The Man?
•January 8, 2010 • Leave a CommentMy friend Chris, whose secret identity I can’t divulge, Facebooked me this:
AWESOME right? Batman is the shit, but I think Snake would make a full recovery …Well, that’s what I thought, before I was corrected:
That was impressive Snake… Snake? SNAAAKE!!!
The Origins of the ‘Futurama’ Theme Song Date Back to the 1960’s!!! [music video]
•January 5, 2010 • Leave a CommentFuturama has a catchy and very unique theme song. Bet you didn’t know that it’s based on a tune from 1967 called “Psyché Rock” by French composer Pierre Henry:
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Pierre Henry is a pioneer of the musique concrète genre of electronic music. One of the first to painstakingly tweak instruments in order to get ONE sound at a time. Considered crazy by some at the time; today, this man is a legend. No surprise really that Futurama would pay homage to this man and his work. How awesome!
Kia ora! Hola! Bonjour! سلام! こんにちは! नमस्ते Namastē! مرحبا! 您好！Hallå! Hallo! Selamat Datang! Welcome! ⭐(★´♡‿♡`+)⭐ You have found ditb
From Gaston Velle’s “La Fée aux Fleurs” (1905)
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