New Order’s Blue Monday, performed in an old-school style. // Space race remnants. // Orbits is a game. // For those who had fun with Ultraflow, there’s now Ultraflow 2. But beware the hardcore mode. // A brief history of the umlaut. // Bike bell of note. // These bees make cannabis honey. // It happens, apparently. // Ocus is a puzzle. // It’s scenic, yes, but not everyone’s cup of tea. // A collection of coffee lids. (h/t, Things) // Acrylic and ink. // A series of bad decisions. // Rock salt firearms. // Music made with stones. // An archive of Oz magazine. // It’s a job with a high staff turnover. // “The victim pulled the knife out of his own neck, and stabbed his attacker.” // Thanks, Mythbusters. // It’s Marvel time. // And finally, ambitiously, all this little boy needs is a bit of a morale boost.
. . . performed in an old-school style
Singing glasses
Posted by: Hal | March 11, 2016 at 01:19
. . . For whatever reason, the first of the following, followed by the next, brought to mind the one text to rule them all . . .
A brief history of the umlaut.
These bees make cannabis honey.
Posted by: Hal | March 11, 2016 at 01:43
Oh, and given that next week will be the one year anniversary of The Announcement, consider a 2015 twosomething minute movie about a boy following his kite.
For more use of the same tools, see also The Infiltrator, from 2013, and The Elemental, from 2012.
No, I don't work for Epic Games. What I am extremely interested in is figuring out how to make better documentation so that way more developers and movie makers---like me--can have a far easier time playing with all the really neat toys . . . .
Posted by: Hal | March 11, 2016 at 02:38
In defense of one of my favorite idioms, I always pictured the balloon or Zeppelin completely filled with lead. Though I always said "honed in on" instead of "homed in on", so you can't go by me.
Posted by: WTP | March 11, 2016 at 03:08
"Trained" the bees to make honey from cannabis?
I doubt the training process would be much more than spraying the cannabis plant with something nice smelling.
Posted by: TimT | March 11, 2016 at 04:33
And finally, ambitiously, all this little boy needs is a bit of a morale boost.
Got something in my eye. :-)
Posted by: Joan | March 11, 2016 at 06:52
"Underoos!"
Posted by: svh | March 11, 2016 at 07:45
“Underoos!”
It’s certainly an improvement on earlier efforts.
Whu-TISSHH!
Posted by: David | March 11, 2016 at 07:59
Something ephemeral I just saw that really made me laugh - Chihuahua or muffin?
Posted by: Nikw211 | March 11, 2016 at 09:28
Chihuahua or muffin?
Heh.
Posted by: David | March 11, 2016 at 09:30
'Socialism in action.'
h/t Tim Blair.
Posted by: Anna | March 11, 2016 at 11:37
Thanks, Mythbusters.
Thanks, ants. Thants
Posted by: Sporkatus | March 11, 2016 at 13:57
This.
https://twitter.com/AlexCKaufman/status/704711207786291208
Posted by: Liz | March 11, 2016 at 15:01
Hop a hill! Pop a pill! For Old Tim Benzedrino!"
Related, and also a song.
Posted by: Farnsworth M Muldoon | March 11, 2016 at 16:20
Regarding coffee cup lids, I note the authors assert that variety is indicative of ". . . human ingenuity and capitalistic greed."
Greed? Really? Someone with an idea who's able to sell it and support a family as well as employees is now declared to be morally suspect.
Posted by: R. Sherman | March 11, 2016 at 16:22
Greed? Really? Someone with an idea who’s able to sell it and support a family as well as employees is now declared to be morally suspect.
Yes, it does rather jar. But it’s a default conceit in certain quarters. I’ve lost count of how many art-and–design-related items catch my eye as ephemera-worthy and are then soured by the obligatory leftist signalling.
Posted by: David | March 11, 2016 at 16:34
Car control in Dubai.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hf6ke1-i3E
Posted by: Hedgehog | March 12, 2016 at 01:34
It’s a job with a high staff turnover
Oh Lord!
I have no head for heights.
My stomach does somersaults at youtube videos of engineers in safety harnesses scaling transmission masts and at Russian idiots hanging from buildings.
This however is in a class of its own.
Posted by: james | March 12, 2016 at 11:47
It’s a job with a high staff turnover
Dear employment applicant Ahmed:
We are pleased to inform you the sledgehammer position in our building demolition company became available as of 3:27 PM yesterday afternoon. Please see our Human Resources manager at your first convenience.
Posted by: Southpaw | March 12, 2016 at 13:25
That Times of Israel story: I picked it up somewhere else, and the report said that pro-"Palestinian" groups had protested that the chap who pulled the knife from his neck and killed his attacker with it, was thereby a "Zionist" oppressor.
Posted by: Jeff Wood | March 12, 2016 at 13:50
protested that the chap who pulled the knife from his neck and killed his attacker with it, was thereby a “Zionist” oppressor.
It’s as if the great stupidities of the world shared an underlying pattern, a common psychological dynamic.
Posted by: David | March 12, 2016 at 16:41
It’s as if the great stupidities of the world shared an underlying pattern, a common psychological dynamic.
Heh...you noticed that too. Thing is, I've been seeing it in places where I didn't think I was ever would (or was supposed to) see it. Which is its own psychological dynamic.
Posted by: wtp | March 12, 2016 at 19:03
duh...edit fail..." I've been seeing it in places where I didn't think I ever would (or was supposed to) see it."...prolly unnecessary but was bugging me to look at...for some reason...i blame the leftover New Year's sauerkraut and pork that I had for lunch.
Posted by: wtp | March 12, 2016 at 19:06
It’s as if the great stupidities of the world shared an underlying pattern, a common psychological dynamic.
E.g...
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/228970/
Posted by: Rafi | March 12, 2016 at 21:26
the Umlaut saga - shame they got a few things wrong. "Around sound"? Nah. "Convert-sound" more like.
And the double dots replacing the e is because the old-fashioned German handwritten "e" looked a bit like a short, backwards N, with two strong vertical strokes and a weak diagonal. So when written small over a letter it looked a bit like 2 dots.
I guess the producers didn't read Wikipedia.
Posted by: abacab | March 13, 2016 at 07:55
"there isn't any lives left"
Really quite difficult with a hangover
Posted by: Henry | March 13, 2016 at 08:13
It’s as if the great stupidities of the world shared an underlying pattern, a common psychological dynamic.
Milo Yiannopoulos 1, Sarah Silverman 0:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/12/5-times-students-got-it-wrong-sarah-silverman/
Posted by: Joan | March 13, 2016 at 08:54
Milo Yiannopoulos 1, Sarah Silverman 0
I’m just shocked that Sarah Silverman isn’t the mental and moral colossus I was led to believe she is, largely by Sarah Silverman. And I suppose you have to wonder how it’s possible that so many of her equally pious peers and admirers, many of whom have wafted through the world’s most prestigious and expensive educational institutions, can apparently have no knowledge of twentieth century history.
Posted by: David | March 13, 2016 at 09:13
Pure genius:

Posted by: Jonathan | March 13, 2016 at 10:06
Someday, Sarah will get bored with rebelling against her parents.
Posted by: mojo | March 13, 2016 at 15:04
Oh, btw, sez here that Barry, our Pointless President, is headed over to blighty to annoy somebody new. The man is indefatigable. Also annoyingly smarmy. Enjoy. Feel free to keep him a while.
Posted by: mojo | March 13, 2016 at 15:39
And then there’s this, from the, like, totally non-sexist Laurie Penny. Because feminism is all about equality, right?
Posted by: David | March 13, 2016 at 17:12
Apparently we would all be better of with one People's Coffee Cup Lid for all times, places and situations. Presumably designed by government engineers in the Hot Drinks Division of the People's Grocery and Dry Goods Service. That's how it'll be in Bernie's socialist utopia - one deodorant and one coffee cup lid.
Posted by: JerryC | March 13, 2016 at 19:16
From the evidence of Laurie's photo, she is growing her resting Bitch face at quite a clip.
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | March 13, 2016 at 19:30
There is no need to pile onto individuals, particularly women.
Is he didn't have double standards she'd have no standards at all.
Posted by: Liz | March 13, 2016 at 19:44
If she didn't have double standards she'd have no standards at all.
Damn autocorrect.
Posted by: Liz | March 13, 2016 at 19:45
That's how it'll be in Bernie's socialist utopia - one deodorant and one coffee cup lid. . .
. . . but no coffee cup and no coffee.
Posted by: R. Sherman | March 13, 2016 at 20:19
It happens, apparently.
Is white van man being oppressed by the male gaze?
Posted by: Rafi | March 13, 2016 at 20:20
"That's how it'll be in Bernie's socialist utopia - one deodorant and one coffee cup lid."
Or maybe even "No coffee cups. Bring your own washable mug you earth-destroying capitalist pig."
Posted by: pst314 | March 14, 2016 at 00:35