Friday Ephemera
Eggs with decorative holes. Made with a very small electric drill. (H/T, Coudal.) // One man, one parachute, one very large catapult. (H/T, The Thin Man.) // Shaft soundtrack rehearsal. // Oh. Dear. Lord. // Cigarettes and magic. // Green movement demands greatest sacrifice yet. “Even among very green households the family cloth creates controversy.” // George Monbiot bemoans jet skis and diamond saucepans; prays for recession in the interests of equality. // Chinese cave dwelling. “It’s a matter of tradition and sheer common sense.” (H/T, Chastity Darling.) // Population density as art. London, Cairo, Mexico City. People per square kilometre. // Good news, everyone. Che Guevara still dead. // Fabian Tassano on Terry Eagleton. // Mick Hartley on Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth and the staggering bollocks written about it. “An artwork that provokes us to question the very foundations of our ways of thought.” Or maybe not. // Via 1+1=3, old signs exposed. // An abundance of nudity. // How to iron a shirt. // Via Coudal, how to cook lasagne in a dishwasher. // “Few critters make for better eating than feral hog.” (H/T, Maggie’s Farm.) // The social lives of baboons. “Monkey society is governed by the same two general rules that governed the behaviour of women in so many 19th-century novels.” // Synthetic genomics. “The successful completion of this research will allow us to realize the ultimate goal of creating a synthetic organism.” // Custom creature taxidermy. Winged kitten, vampire squirrel, two-headed rat. // Greyhounds doped with cocaine. (H/T, Metrolander.) // Cross-dressing cartoon rabbit. (H/T, Savage Popcorn.) // Bloody Cartoons. // Artist has third ear grafted on forearm. “He hopes to have a microphone implanted to allow others to listen to what his extra ear picks up.” (H/T, Dr Westerhaus.) // This is Tengu! // And, via The Thin Man, this is Vera.
Right on time: http://tinyurl.com/2dm5cr
Posted by: Vitruvius | October 12, 2007 at 08:42
Heh. My, I was tardy one morning in March. For a moment I thought the graph was to display the level of general fabulousness.
Posted by: David | October 12, 2007 at 09:08
Alas, I tried writing a program to analyze the fabulousness time series, which as you know is a rather difficult axiological problem, given that beauty is in the aye of the beholder, de gustibus non est disputandum, &c, but my attempts to use it with this blog's data keeps producing a bus error - http://tinyurl.com/bxrf2
By the way, if anyone's interested, I updated my Collected Aphorisms list a few days ago, it's at: http://tinyurl.com/s4dlp
Posted by: Vitruvius | October 12, 2007 at 09:48
Warm thanks for the fabulous Vera Lynn song, David. It's a powerful antidote to a whole lot of things.
Posted by: EBD | October 12, 2007 at 10:20
EBD
"Nightingale Sang" is one of my particular favourites....
I have to say that I have recently gone back and actually "listened" to some of the WWII and post war songs without the prejudice of my teenage years when Dad would play them.
Vera sure could sing!
Posted by: The Thin Man | October 12, 2007 at 15:15
Like a pale bird.
Posted by: EBD | October 13, 2007 at 11:59
The Star Wars Trumpet performance is truly truly bizarre. I'm still in shock!
Posted by: georges | October 13, 2007 at 14:12
It’s the choreography that makes it work. That, and the, um, small harmonic discrepancy.
Posted by: David | October 13, 2007 at 15:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqTi0ZFDawY
Posted by: AntiCitizenOne | October 14, 2007 at 15:43
I rather like this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eZBevXohCI
If only the entire franchise had been made in a similar vein…
Posted by: David | October 14, 2007 at 17:55