The decade in review

KRAKAPOW!

I wish I knew where this was

Should have written it in code, I'm thinking...

from What The Facebook?

James Woods, ladies and gentlemen

Would this really surprise you?

You what now?

A day late, what can I say?

No sense of humor at all, I said

Merry Christmas!

They call him "Mr. Glass"

awsome

It came from 11,000 BC

At the top of a small hill in suburban southern California, there is what appears to be a thicket of stunted, gnarled oak trees wedged between a pile of boulders. A passerby would likely miss this ancient, biological wonder.

The entire grove of trunks is in fact one plant, a newly discovered Palmer's oak (Quercus palmeri) that researchers estimate is over 13,000 years old, making it one of the oldest plants on Earth.

From Discovery News

Ah, the 70's

No, no no.

Dogs have no sense of humor. Well known fact

Uh huh...

Guess I missed it then...

I'm sorry, ok?

Oh, well that makes perfect sense then...

I have nothing to add

Best Man Rigs Newlyweds’ Bed To Tweet During Sex. Not Kidding.

awesome

Snoop tells you where to go

They can rebuild him...

Rachel Maddow: new personal hero

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Whoops!

Funniest Facebook Snafus

Swirly thing alert!

A mysterious light display appearing over Norway last night has left thousands of residents in the north of the country baffled.

Witnesses from Trøndelag to Finnmark compared the amazing sight to anything from a Russian rocket to a meteor or a shock wave - although no one appears to have mentioned UFOs yet.

The phenomenon began when what appeared to be a blue light seemed to soar up from behind a mountain. It stopped mid-air, then began to circulate.

Read more

ironic?

Glass Microbiology

E. coli (105cm long)

These transparent glass sculptures were created to contemplate the global impact of each disease and to consider how the artificial colouring of scientific imagery affects our understanding of phenomena. Jerram is exploring the tension between the artworks' beauty and what they represent, their impact on humanity.

Artists site here

OK, seriously, what the hell?

From Awkward Family Photos

Good to know

ha!

I have no words

Probably not

Unquote

“For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him — he may have a razor on him.”

– Editor of the London Daily Express, refusing to see John Logie Baird, inventor of television, 1925

Excellent claymation (pretty gory though)

Amazing sculptures

"Today I create the illusion of flesh by mimicking nature -- basically using materials that feel and behave like what they represent. “Bones” are made with wire shaped by heavy felt, “muscles,” simulated by batting, are attached to the bones in the correct anatomical way, and this all makes a perfect frame for the fiberfill and nylon that beautifully simulates skin."



The artists site is here.

How small is it?

Check it out here

I love slow-motion photography

Awesome papercraft

More pictures here

Burj Dubai Fountain Show

The tallest fountain in the world (with water reaching as high as 150 meters), near the tallest building in the world was recently completed and tested with this water/light/music extravaganza.

I did not know that

It all started with dancing goats...

Figures

From the always wacky Wondermark!

Completely speechless

Chickens are decent people

ha!

Oops

Gonna pass, thanks

more info

Poke

Great 'shop

It's a fair question

just sayin'

What?

What's happening?

Girls with guns

yowza.

Anyway you can, I guess

Mind if I play through?

hahahaha

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

Everyone's learning something today

Professor: So when humans evolved to bipedalism and were walking on two legs instead of four, their sexual practices changed and they began to have face to face sex.
Guy in back of class: Well, I mean... it's not always face to face.
Professor: Well, it tends to be the most common and most comfortable way for bipeds to have sex.
(long pause)
Professor: I assume by your silence that you disagree.

--Barnard

Overheard by: You had to say that to the Prof???
via Overheard in New York

Valley fog

Hey, it's good advice

Tourist man to girlfriend, pulling out a ring: Will you marry me?
Bag lady, interjecting: Has he made you come yet?
Tourist girlfriend, terrified: Um... no?
Bad lady: Don't marry him 'till he makes you come.

--Central Park

Overheard by: Kari
via Overheard in New York

Like Frogger, only different

Quality family time, right there

Dad: I won't tell mommy about the donut you're eating if you don't tell mommy about the cigarette I'm about to smoke.
Daughter: Okay.

--Coffee Shop, Park Slope
via Overheard in New York

Falling

Yeah, seriously!

Brunette girl: (enters elevator and stares angrily at Asian girl next to her, then leaves elevator)
Asian girl, to guy next to her: Oh my god!
Guy: What?
Asian girl: That was the same girl! I stuck a dildo in her mouth while we were all drunk last night.
Guy: Haha.
Asian girl: I don't know why she's mad at me. Like, what's the big deal, get over it.
Guy: Yeah, seriously.

--Chelsea
via Overheard in New York

Great face

It starts at home, apparently

Mom to screaming girls: If you do not stop right now, there will be no tv for a week.
Girls: Nooooo!
Mom: That or a spanking.
Girl #1: I'll take the spanking.
Mom: You don't want the spanking. I will spank you so hard you won't sit for a week.
Girl #2, yelling: When are you going to beat me? I want you to beat me!

--Post Office, Staten Island
via Overheard in New York

Couger cubs

wow

No one knows what causes the “morning glory” clouds of northern Australia, but they’re striking — long rolling tubes that can stretch for hundreds of kilometers across the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Glider pilots converge on tiny Burketown in Far North Queensland each fall, hoping to “surf the glory,” riding the unique air currents that accompany the clouds.

via Futility Closet

I can't get the hang of this lingo either

50-something man to friends: Have you heard about Twitter? It's a new way of communicating in short text messages. Each message is called a twoo... No, a tween. No, a twain. No, a twat... No, that's certainly not it.

--Lobby, Off Broadway Theater

Overheard by: another electric guy

via Overheard in New York, Oct 21, 2009

Buff!

Um...

On Feb. 5, 1958, during a simulated combat mission near Savannah, Ga., a B-47 bomber collided with an F-86 fighter. The fighter crashed; the bomber, barely airworthy, needed to reduce weight to avoid an emergency landing.

So it dropped a 7,600-pound nuclear bomb.

The bomb contained 400 pounds of conventional explosives and highly enriched uranium. There’s some disagreement as to whether it included the plutonium capsule needed to start a nuclear reaction.

That’s rather important, because in 50 years of searching the Air Force still hasn’t found the bomb. It hit the water near Tybee Island off the Georgia coast and is presumably buried in 10 feet of silt somewhere in Wassaw Sound. But exactly where it is, and how dangerous it is, remain unknown.

Politeness counts, I guess

Older gentleman on phone: I was just calling to ask if you wanted to make love to my nice, long, Lebanese penis again tonight. (pause) Yes, yes, 10 works for me.

--45th & 5th Ave

Overheard by: Morgan

via Overheard in New York, Oct 21, 2009

Ahhhhhhh

I did not know that

Imaginary patrons of Jersey City’s Tube Bar paged by owner Louis “Red” Deutsch at the request of telephone pranksters John Elmo and Jim Davidson in the mid-1970s:

• Al Coholic
• Al Kaseltzer
• Al Kykyoras
• Ben Dover
• Butchie Pantsdown
• Frank Enstein
• Holden McGroin
• Imov Irgin
• Jim Nasium
• Joe Mama
• Mike Ocksmall
• Moe Ronn
• Oliver Closeoff
• Rufus Leakin

Elmo and Davidson recorded Deutsch’s earnest pages and the wild, vituperative threats that followed when he realized he’d been had. In the 1980s the tapes began to circulate among professional sports leagues and eventually found their way to animator Matt Groening … who turned them into a running gag on The Simpsons.

via Futility Closet

Gonna pass, thanks.

Comedy club promoter: Comedy club, comedy club. Laugh until you get violent diarrhea!

--Times Square

Overheard by: Patrick


via Overheard in New York, Oct 21, 2009

Apparently you get it from swimming?