That's the awesomely funny - in a twisted way (kind of like PBF). It's the Korean cartoon Asaekkiga by Yang Young Soon. I found the first few in Adam Whitlock's blog. Then I've wasted an hour or so going through this Something Awful forum thread for more!
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This is the best comic character Legofication (is that a word? No? It should!) EVAR! Behold Plastic Man in LEGO, as done by Flickr user graznador2: Link - via Super Punch
Plastic who? Plastic Man, dude! Even I know about him.
Cracked.com has a very interesting post about 7 insane conspiracies that actually happened. For example, here's The Business Plot:
In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the United States. And yes, we're talking about the same Prescott Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another one.
See how the plot failed (obviously) and check out the rest of the list: Link - via Miss Cellania
A bit late for last Caturday and way too early for the next one, but what the heck: in this video clip by Jonathan Howells, check out Hugo, the cat of 1,000 faces! See if you know who they
are ...
Link [embedded YouTube] | Episode II is here!
Photo: Annika Larsson
Psst, remember all those somber Vikings in the movies? Well, Hollywood was wrong, according to textile researcher Annika Larsson of Uppsala University. She said that evidence from the Viking Age revealed that the Vikings were very stylish:
Vivid colors, flowing silk ribbons, and glittering bits of mirrors - the Vikings dressed with considerably more panache than we previously thought. The men were especially vain, and the women dressed provocatively, but with the advent of Christianity, fashions changed, according to Swedish archeologist Annika Larsson.
"They combined oriental features with Nordic styles. Their clothing was designed to be shown off indoors around the fire," says textile researcher Annika Larsson, whose research at Uppsala University presents a new picture of the Viking Age.
Link - via Scribal Terror
Problem: your son is late for his tennis lesson, and the roads are so congested that you can't possibly make it on time in a car.
Normal Dad Solution: Call and tell them you'll be late or just reschedule the lesson.
Really Dedicated Dad Solution: Fly and land your airplane in a golf course next to the tennis club!
Guess which one Robert Kadera, 65, of Lake Villa, Illinois choose:
Police received worried calls about a plane circling twice, then touching down at the Crane's Landing golf course at the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort. Officials thought they might have a crash, with victims to attend to.
Instead, they found Robert Kadera, 65, and his 14-year-old son trudging through the snow, Prince racket and a bag of tennis balls in hand. They had parked on the 7th fairway, just 20 feet south of the retaining wall for Illinois Highway 22.
"We're all pretty dumbfounded," Lincolnshire Police Chief Randy Melvin said Monday. "I don't have any idea what the guy was thinking. ..... He was going to park his plane across the street like nobody would notice."
Lisa Black and Emily S. Achenbaum of Chicago Tribune report: Link (Photo: David Trotman-Wilkins / Tribune)
FL Mershberger (1990) An interpretation of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam based on neuroanatomy: "God, in the process of creating Adam, gives him the gift of ‘intellect,’ symbolized by the brain."
In the Renaissance, artists studied anatomy almost by necessity in order to capture a more lifelike portrayal of the human body in their art. But did they go a step further and try to incorporate neuroscience (in form of anatomically correct brain) in their paintings?
Here's a neat post from Street Anatomy exploring a recent article published by neuroscientists about brain imagery in Renaissance religious masterpieces:
During the Renaissance, scholars began to rely more on empirical evidence, especially in the anatomical sciences. The teachings of Galen, which were often based on studies of animals rather than humans, dominated for centuries. It wasn’t until Da Vinci and Vesalius came along that anatomy was jump-started once again. Artists were especially fascinated, but with most of their commissions coming from the religious clergy, how could they show off their deeper knowledge of the human body without being sacreligious? They had to hide it in their artwork.
Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for this one: an excellent font, called "Handwritten" by Björn Johansson of Solution.se, based on photographs of his hands.
Here's the obligatory spelling of Neatorama in the font:
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Handwritten/54939 | Don't miss the (sadly uncompleted) Typeface Anatomy - via bioephemera
Pink Tentacle has a fantastic post about monster paintings called youkai in feudal Japan (Edo period) by a relatively unknown artist called Sawaki Suushi.
This one to the left is Nurarihyon, the house guest from hell:
In the Edo period, Nurarihyon came to be known as a mysterious old man with the uncanny ability to sneak into homes and “take over.” When the residents of a home encounter him sitting around drinking tea, they are unable throw him out and cannot help but treat him as the head of the household. Nurarihyon is said to be a highly respected figure in the world of youkai.
One day, Michael Surtees of DesignNotes blog decided that he was going to take an image of the sky from his Manhattan, New York, apartment. This is the result:
It wasn’t until I started noticing that most mornings have a really unique colour to the sky that I thought there might be something to comparing the colour day to day. There isn’t any specific time for me to point my camera in the same direction though for the most part I’ve been taking the photograph somewhere between 7 and 9 am.
I counted more than 20 grey skies out of 36. New York is one gloomy city (or is it just winter?)
This is excellent: John Holland strings together bits of himself playing out single notes using "tin whistle in D, tabla, bongo, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, triangluitar, ukulele, another ukulele, chair with ukulele, chair with tin whistle in D, violin, casio keyboard, erhu/chinese violin, piano, and chair with cellular telephone" to play an Irish reel.
Photo: megstao [Flickr]
Pamplona, Spain, has the famous Running of the Bulls. There are no bulls in Anchorage, Alaska, so they have to make do with reindeers. Here's the story from last week's running of the reindeers called "Fur Rendezvouz":
The animals proved more than game, defying predictions that they would be too domesticated and docile to put on a good show.
Starting in the middle of the street behind several rows of runners, they built speed quickly. After less than a block, they were weaving through people like ski racers on a slalom course. By the time they neared the finish line -- where two "bait" reindeer stood, plus trailers filled with treats and straw -- they were moving fast and looking almost manic.
Tom Williams, who runs the Williams Reindeer Farm in the Butte and brought a dozen of his best beasts for the show, wasn't surprised.
"They make their living outrunning wolves," he said.
http://www.adn.com/furrondy/story/325213.html (with videos) - via Intelligent Travel
It's now a law in Norway that large, publicly-traded companies must have at least 40% women in their corporate boards ... or risk dissolution:
"A woman comes in, a man goes out. That's how the quota works; that's the law," says Kjell Erik Øie, deputy minister of children and equality, in the centre-left "Red-Green" coalition government in Oslo. "Very seldom do men let go of power easily. But when you start using the half of the talent you have previously ignored, then everybody gains."
Businesses fought hard against the legislation, but they lost:
... even in Norway the quota went ahead only after years of ferocious debate and some resistance. As one male non-executive director who has survived the recent cull of boards put it, "What I and a lot of people don't understand is why it is seen as good for business to swap seasoned players for lip gloss?"
But such scepticism was not as widespread as one might expect. Ansgar Gabrielsen, 52, a Conservative trade and industry minister, and former businessman, is the unlikely champion of the quota. In 2002, in the then centre-coalition government, he publicly proposed a 40% quota on publicly listed boards without consulting cabinet colleagues. The law would be enacted in three years, he announced, only if companies failed to comply. The challenge was huge. Out of the 611 affected companies, 470 had not a single female board member.
Gabrielsen's reasoning at that time set the terms of the debate that followed. The quota was presented less as a gender-equality issue, and more as one driven by economic necessity. He argued that diversity creates wealth. The country could not afford to ignore female talent, he said. Norway has a low unemployment rate (now at 1.5%) and a large number of skilled and professional posts unfilled. "I could not see why, after 30 years of an equal ratio of women and men in universities and having so many women with experience, there were so few of them on boards," he says.
Here's the Evil-est Case Mod evah! Behold [Dell is] the Great Satan by Ken Kirby, complete with fog machine!
Links: Build Log | Gallery - via ExtremeTech and Blue's News
If you haven't seen it before, check out Neatorama's Ultimate Case Mod Page
The mad scientists of pixel art: Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr of eBoy have just released their newest building poster. The 1.2 m x 0.8 m (about 4 ft by 2 ft 6 in) poster is incredibly detailed - with lots of unexpected pixel characters going 'bout their business in pixeltown.
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