Friday Ephemera

Plane loses wing, defies physics. (h/t, AC1) // Spacecraft force field inches closer. // Space elevator, maybe. // Monsters vs Aliens. // Sunspots and the Dow. (h/t, Maggie’s Farm) // Astronaut ice-cream. // Fibreglass igloo. You want one and you know it. // Crystal speakers. // Bacon flash drives. // Bacon lampshade. It’s a versatile product. // Chessboxing revisited. // Matchbooks of yore. (h/t, Coudal) // World’s most powerful wind tunnel. // Diffusion spectrum imagery of the brain. // Physical Loops. // Japanese gardens. (h/t, Stephen Hicks) // Sculpting with sugar cubes. // The headquarters of the Basque Health Department. // A gallery of American signs. // Creepy automata. // And, via The Thin Man, it’s Mr Lalo Schifrin. 

Comments

[carbon based lifeform]

The automata are definitely creepy. The laughing doll's pure evil. Burn it! Burn it now!

[David]

Yes, it’s hard to believe there was a time when Baby Laugh-a-Lot brought joy to young girls and didn’t evoke feelings of mind-freezing terror.

http://www.oobject.com/top-12-videos-of-creepy-automata/baby-laugh-a-lot/4189/

[Anna]

It looks like it's about to spray the Joker's laughing gas.

[John D]

"It is clear why they are hailed as chessboxing champions as their rapid, shrewd chess playing is matched only by the vicious ferocity of their boxing… As Costello took the checkmate it seemed Von Stauffenberg had a narrow escape. After the tournament, Woolgar has recovered enough to explain the pain and pleasure of chessboxing. 'I took an almighty pounding. I have a sense that it didn't do me any good.'"

[TDK]

You do know the plane loses wing is fake? It is viral marketing.

[David]

Yes, hence the “defies physics”.

[carbon based lifeform]

"It's a versatile product."

So far we've had bacon mints, bacon salt, bacon-flavored cigarette papers, bacon gumballs, bacon vodka, bacon chocolate -and now bacon flash drives and a bacon lampshade. Anything else?

[Anna]

And bacon popcorn.

[David]

And bacon air-freshener.

http://www.perpetualkid.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2593

And bacon in a can.

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2008/06/world-of-pig.html

[Franklin]

Bacon adhesive bandages:

http://www.mcphee.com/items/11476.html

[David]

Bless you, sir. My collection grows. Isn’t it terribly early in your part of the world?

[TDK]

Okay then in that spirit here's an interview with the pilot http://www.jamesandersson.com/interview.html

And via EU referendum (where I first saw the clip) http://umbrellog.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7007

... a real one wing incident
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DVkB7V-JybY

[David]

TDK,

After reading the comments at YouTube, I assumed the plane clip was rigged somehow; but I still haven’t figured out what, if anything, it’s intended to publicise.

The Israeli pilot is, it goes without saying, a major hombre.

[TDK]

Apparently it sells clothes from KillaThrill

http://www.avweb.com/blogs/insider/AVwebInsiderBlog_ViralVideo_KillaThrill_LostWingLanding_199096-1.html

[TDK]

Killa Thrill being here http://www.killathrill.com

[David]

Ah. Sadly, I’m not known for wearing hoodies or “urban” skateboard whatnots. I’m more likely to join the Israeli air force.

[erm]

here ya go...

http://www.snopes.com/photos/airplane/onewing.asp

[erm]

btw ..looks like snopes ought to update, based on TDK's link

[Baltar's Beard]

Love the cubist health department building.

[David]

Yes, it looks pretty good in profile and when lit at night.

See? I bring you architecture and high culture; it’s not just toilet jokes and things made of salted meat.

[Jason Bontrager]

I know I've seen those pre-fab, spherical shelters before. Back in the 80's on one of those "It's Incredible"-type TV shows. They were bright red and intended for use as emergency shelters in Antarctica.

[Candice]

Isn't every shelter in Antarctica an "emergency shelter?"

[AntiCitizenOne]

http://www.9news.com/news/elections/article.aspx?storyid=103273&catid=139

[TDK]

Off topic. Another fine example of neutral teaching here
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kDEAYgm0Dv8

[erm]

TDK..
Michelle Malkin is going to town on this one