LOST - Abridged Version
Hey! Are you of those people who have never seen an episode of Lost, but would really love to get into it quickly? Well you're in luck! You can check out the abridged version below. Don't waste your time wading through 6 seasons of 115 episodes, all you need to know is below!
Or if you want it in English: Epic Fail ending! >8(
Or if you want it in English: Epic Fail ending! >8(
A Miracle Caught On Camera
The screams of shock & awe in this are blood curdling. How should a Christian interpret this? Reminds me of that scene from Terminator 2: "Hasta la vista, baby!" And wouldn't you know it, it actually happened in Spain too! The camera ran out of tape just before all the pieces of the Mary-1000 began to join back together.
I see it as a sign from Allah for the great Jihad, where all Christians are to be beheaded!
Evolution of PC Audio - Through The Music of Monkey Island
This is the best video you're going to see all week! It's hardly definitive, but still awesome. Never realised how creamy the AdLib cards sounded.
[via fasel]
She Swore She Wasn't Magibon
The more she protested the more the questions came, from curious viewers who flocked in for a double-take.
[Magibon] [hayleytehsnaileh]
Electric Universe by David Bodanis {Book Review}
Where the fuck is Nikola Tesla? [yeah it's going to be one of "those" kinds of book reviews] Seriously, how can someone write a book about the discovery's, effects and critical moments of the electric revolution without even mentioning Nikola Tesla once? Not mentioning Tesla is like writing a book about the liberation of African slaves in America and not mentioning George Washington. I was actually stunned when halfway through reading the book I flipped to the index to see where Tesla was going to appear in the narrative, only to be greeted by no such entry amidst the "T" columns. I can't explain it. I am surrounded by machines that run on Tesla's principle of AC electricity. Toasters, kettles, radios, lights... even the machine I am writing this very blog post on is powered by Tesla's version of electrical currant. I can't explain his omisson from the book. I actually wonder if David Bodanis has something personally against Nikola Tesla, as he even bizarrely mentions Tesla's invention, the radio transmitter, but perpetuates the 60 year old well-recognised error of crediting its invention to Marconi.The style of writing and narrative in the book also makes one question the absense of Tesla. Bodanis prides himself on not making the story of electricity "boring" by spicing it up with all the personal human issues surrounding the events of modern electrical discoveries. He colourfully describes, the arguing, betrayal and back stabbing that went on. War stories about beating the Nazis with their own radio technology stolen out from under their very nose one night. So why no mention of the greatest fight between electrical companies of all time?? The very first case of VHS Vs. BetaMax, BluRay Vs. HD-DVD.... the war between Edison's DC and Tesla's AC technology. This war was vicious, cut throat... even involving the public execution of animals, yet no mention of it in the book. I just don't get it.
Oh well nevermind, the book has lost all it's stars in this review so far because of it, so lets see if we can get any back for it. Well on the plus side, I only pay €2.99 for a hardcover copy of the book. Probably a euro too much, but hey, hardcovers are handy. He does cover a lot of stuff to be fair, even at the expense of omitting the man who invented AC electricity, radio transmitters, wireless power (Jesus, why did he not mention him?!). It was very easy to read book. It actually makes the ideal shitter book, and that is indeed where I read most of it. With the way it was going at times, I figured I could rip out a few of the pages that didn't have Tesla on them and wipe my bum-bum if I ran out of toilet paper. Some of the events he describes are interesting, but I often found his choice of explaining the genesis of their invention a bit odd. Take the part where he described the German invention of a highly improved version of radar. He makes no attempt at explaining how the German scientists developed the technology but rather instead how "Tommy boy stormed into Germany one night, and stole it from the Jerrys before you even had time to say, Hitler has only one ball". That was it, that's how radar was improved by scientists; they just stole it one night. That's probably how AC electricity was invented too. Oh and did I mention, Marconi invented the radio transmitter. He did right a good lot on Alan Turing though, and delved right into how Turing, a national war hero, was persecuted simply because of his homosexuality. Which was nice of Bodanis.
In honor of Nikola Tesla, here's John C Reilly playing the part Tesla in a short feature about his life, as narrated by a drunk man. Very odd, but quite amusing and interesting. (via Andiscandis)
Why Some Hardcore Muslims Voted BNP
I was reading around some Islamic blogs that I have subscribed to in my feed reader and I was surprised to see a few bloggers advocating a vote for the BNP party in the recent British elections. This is surprising for a couple of reasons. Obviously first up, it would have appeared that the BNP with it's hardcore stance on anti-immigration, Islam and Niqabi... would fly in the face of the opinions of national and non-national Muslims. Why would you vote for someone who wanted rid of you? But it also seemed strange because fundamental Muslims believe in a thing called Shirk. Shirk basically means that to involve yourself in the election of a government official is to dissolve your belief in Allah being the Almighty. For you see, voting destroys first pillar of Tawheed and this first pillar of Tawheed is to reject Tāghūt (anything worshiped, obeyed or followed besides Allah), which means Muslims cannot accept a legislator besides Allah over them.
Some Muslims who did vote, argued that voting is allowed if it prevents the greater of two evils: in this case the election of BNP MPs. There were some however that thought the contrary to be more correct. They argued that the BNP actually represented the lesser of the two evils, that if the BNP got their way and removed British troops from Afghanistan, that would mean that hundreds and thousands of Muslim lives would be saved from slaughter in the military conflicts in the Afghan country. One voter in particular also liked the idea of leaving Britain with the GB£50,000 deportation incentive the BNP were offering to all immigrants, to re-establish themselves back in their native country. They saw it as the perfect way to fund their own personal Hijra out of Britain.Most hardcore, fundamental, and extremist Muslims abstained from voting at all though, due to the Shirk thing. Just goes to prove nothing is straight forward.
نانسي عجرم - اشتكي منه
I quite like the song "Ashtiki Menno" by Nancy Ajram, with it's lovely little "Allah, Allah" refrains. I also like this routine that was set to it by someone in the Arabesque dance group at Stanford University, practiced here by "Dania".
The audio on the original video was quite poor though. It was just recorded from the mic on the camera so it came out quite thinny sounding. I synced-up and over-dubbed the studio recording of the song to create a more pleasing soundtrack but I left just enough of the original audio to keep soundtrack sounding open and live.
This post first appeared on La Sylphide
La Sylphide is a dance orientated blog authored by Gammagoblin
Hunky Dorys: Selling Sex in Ireland Since the 1950's
In case you're not aware of it, there has been a blitz of advertising put up around Ireland in the last few weeks, for Largo Food's "Hunky Dorys" crisps. The ads have raised concerns and complaints from the general public and organisations like the Irish Rape Crises Network who say the ads are disgusting and encourage negative behavior towards women.
I usually sit on the fence with these kinds of matters (except for those god awful Lynx/Axe ads). The last time I think being with Lindsey Vonn appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated. I felt with that one, it was quite legitimately 50/50, and at most, they were merely touching on the well known elephant in the room when it comes to skiing; the tight race-suits and compromised body positions etc. This campaign by Hunky Dorys however, well this is just a load of crap to be honest. The recession must be hitting Largo Foods something awful if they have to resort to tits n' ass to sell their products. Of course, one must be very cynical and suggest that they aren't actually trying to sell crisps via the boobies of lovely young ladies, but by the controversy the ads have created. The oldest trick in the book, nearly as old as those who turn a trick!
The ads also proclaim that they are proud sponsors of Irish Rugby. Well that explains it then. I know rugby gets a bad rap at times, from people suggesting that its quite a homosexual sport but really, we must be fair in this and say that only most of the players are gay. And who can blame them! Rubbing your face into sweaty hairy butt cheeks all day: it's enough to put the gay into any man! So Hunky Dorys are doing us a favor actually, discouraging stereotypes etc.
Fuck it, you know what, I think these ads by Hunky Dorys are too tame! They leave far too much to the imagination. So I have created an ad for Hunky Dorys that they can use, by kind permission of (as long as they get consent from all involved), in their next campaign.
That's the shit right there... literally! I'm sure they'll go for it too because as their website says:
"Hunky Dorys campaigns over the years have been edgier and less conservative. Hunky Dorys is an fun and exciting brand. Communication is vital to our brand values and we want to engage in a humorous entertaining manner with our target audience"Look! "edgy, fun, humorous..." sure we're laughing! And while we are being all edgy and humorous lets keep it going by using a word game to advertise Hunky Dorys:
"Fill in the blanks to win a prize: ----- Largo Foods CEO ---- AIDS ---- contracted ---- HIV ---- child prostitutes ---- little bum-bums ---- Hunky Dorys..."Edgy fun for the whole family!
Others have had their feelings made known in their own particular style, take "Sexy Saorsha" (to give her her Rupert Murdoch name) for instance:
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Billboard image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kieranhynes/
Colonoscopy Image: http://www.gastrointestinalatlas.com/
Images of Saorsha Incident: http://russellpritchardblog.com/
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