Blinded Merseyside soldier 'sees' with tongue device

Holy Shit this is awesome. Check it out.

Notice how every cool Star Wars thing for the last 30 years has not involved Georgie Lucas in any meaningful way.

This one's for you, Nick

This is not photoshopped:

A pretty good start...

Japan cell phone goes 3D with special display

Better quality Tron Legacy trailer

No new footage, but the sound and picture make it worth watching...

It's more old timey

Update: Duplicate posting of video removed.

Seanbaby of Cracked.com presents:

Gary. Busey.

Long but worth it.

Gentlemen... BEHOLD!

My new ride, a Kona Major Jake.

In honor of the new HBO series The Pacific

Straight from the 803

Recommended by Thom Yorke:

Low: Murderer



Black to Comm: Hotel Freund



Scott Walker: If you go away



Gonjasufi: Ancestors



Mark Pritchard & Steve Spacek: Turn it on

According to Urban Dictionary, we're all awesome and have huge cocks...

Jon
Nick
Bryan
Brian
Kevin
Justin
Trevor
Brad
Grant
Marcus
Chris

Highlights:
Jon's #5
Nick's #5
Bryan's #6
Brian's #3
Kevin's #7
Justin's #5
Trevor's #2
Brad's #4
Grant's #4
Marcus's #3
Chris's #6

I'm not sure, but Trevor's #2 definition might be the best...

Carl's Back!

Battlefront 3: potentially badass

Suprise II: Return of the Killer Suprises

What I meant was....

http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/LauraEdwards&BradHamby

Plus all that other stuff I posted.

Suprise, Bitches!

Saw Brian's post and thought I should let you guys know ASAP. Still planning to come down (see the website). BBQ is going to be on the weekend of the 12-14th of March.
Any questions?

We were there, remember?

06-10-2003, HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta
User rating: 9.4 (5 votes)

Source: Soundboard

Setlist: The Gloaming / There There / 2+2=5 / Where I End And You Begin / Exit Music (For A Film) / Morning Bell / Myxomatosis / Paranoid Android / In Limbo / Sail To The Moon / Creep / Scatterbrain / Go To Sleep / I Might Be Wrong / Idioteque / You And Whose Army? / Sit Down, Stand Up / No Surprises / National Anthem / Wolf At The Door / Fake Plastic Trees / Airbag / Everything In Its Right Place

Links:
- artwork
- mp3 (192 kbps)

this

not as good as rahzel but not bad.

T-Bird's Bachelor Party

What up kids.

So what do you guys think about either the weekend of March 6-7 or March 12-14 for doing this thing? Those are the weekends around my vacation in March.

Manchester Orchestra 2010 Tour

Jan 29 Salt Lake City, UT Salt Palace Convention Center
Jan 30 Denver, CO The Fillmore
Jan 31 Colorado Springs, CO The Black Sheep
Feb 02 Tulsa, OK The Marquee
Feb 03 Little Rock, AR Juanita's Cantina Ballroom
Feb 04 Memphis, TN New Daisy Theatre
Feb 26 Orlando, FL House of Blues
Feb 27 Jacksonville Beach, FL Freebird Live
Feb 28 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Revolution
Mar 02 Houston, TX House of Blues
Mar 03 Austin, TX Emo's
Mar 04 Dallas, TX The Palladium Showroom
Mar 06 Tempe, AZ The Marquee
Mar 07 San Diego, CA House of Blues
Mar 09 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour
Mar 10 West Hollywood, CA Troubadour
Mar 11 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall
Mar 12 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theater
Mar 13 Seattle, WA The Showbox @ The Market
Mar 15 Boise, ID The Knitting Factory
Mar 19 Kansas City, MO The Beaumont Club
Mar 20 Omaha, NE The Slowdown
Mar 21 Minneapolis, MN The Varsity Theater
Mar 23 Chicago, IL Metro
Mar 24 Detroit, MI St. Andrews Hall
Mar 25 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Small's Theatre
Mar 26 Rochester, NY Water Street Music Hall
Mar 27 Toronto, ON The Mod Club Theatre
Mar 29 Clifton Park, NY Northern Lights
Mar 30 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club
Mar 31 Lancaster, PA Chameleon
Apr 01 New Haven, CT Toad's Place
Apr 02 New York, NY Irving Plaza
Apr 03 Philadelphia, PA The Trocadero
Apr 05 Towson, MD The Recher Theatre
Apr 06 Norfolk, VA The NorVa
Apr 07 Carrboro, NC Cat's Cradle
Apr 08 Charleston, SC The Music Farm
Apr 09 Columbia, SC Jillian's

Adidas x Star Wars - 2010

GET FUCKING PUMPED

This spring Adidas is doing a line of star wars shoes. Click the link for tons more pictures and info, didn't want to clog everything up here.

also i am lazy.

Stormtrooper


Skywalker


Vader


Theres a shit ton more shoes if you click the link, and multiple pictures of each shoe.

Obama's Big Sellout

"What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside."

Matt Taibbi from Rolling Stone lays out the case against "teh most librul prezident evar."

OMG I BELEVE IN GOD NOW

DIV BY 0

America Without a Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren is the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard and is currently the Chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel.

Rock 'n' Roll Show

Saw the pixies last night. It was awesome...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8FTy1HSc74

Not the same venue but same set etc.

What do they do for fun?

The Ballad of G.I. Joe from Olivia Wilde

Go Cocks!

How Dare You Criticize Wasteful Defense Spending

"... brazenly throwing away billions on outdated weapons systems and obsolete military programs is now a "conservative" value."

David Sirota has an interesting article at Salon on the US's wasteful defense spending. Worth the read, even if the central idea is one that most people figured out years ago.

What is Terrorism?

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be

"Men like Madison and Jefferson were moved by the ideals of Christianity, and wanted the United States to reflect those values as a Christian nation," continued Mortensen, referring to the "Father of the Constitution," James Madison, considered by many historians to be an atheist, and Thomas Jefferson, an Enlightenment-era thinker who rejected the divinity of Christ and was in France at the time the document was written. "The words on the page speak for themselves."

From The Onion, of course.

Extreme Dagobah

RiffTrax - Star Wars

via Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!

The day we have all been waiting for

Amer-cuh...Fuck Yeah!

Are you guys ready to here Tebow a whole lot?

Tim Tebow is so fast he can run around the world and hit himself in the back of the head.
If Tim Tebow has $5 and you have $5. Tim Tebow has more money than you do.
When the bogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks the closet for Tim Tebow.
Tim Tebow can get Chick-Fil-A on Sundays.
People with amnesia still remember Tim Tebow. (mostly thanks to ESPN)
Superman’s only weakness is kryptonite. Tim Tebow laughs at Superman for even HAVING a weakness.
Tim Tebow doesn’t do pushups. Instead, he pushes the earth down.
Tim Tebow counted to infinity. Twice.
When life gives Tim Tebow lemons, he uses them to kill terrorists. Tim Tebow hates lemonade.
When Google can’t find something, it asks Tim Tebow for help.
The average person gets 300 points for writing their name on the SAT, Tim Tebow gets 1000.
Tim Tebow can kick start a car.
Tim Tebow doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
Tim Tebow ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.
Tim Tebow can touch MC Hammer.
At birth, Tim Tebow came out arms first so he could stiff arm the doctor in the face. Nobody delivers Tim Tebow but Tim Tebow.
Tim Tebow sleeps with a night light. Not because Tim Tebow is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Tim Tebow.
Tim Tebow does not wear a condom; there is no such thing as protection from Tim Tebow.
Tim Tebow CAN eat just one Lay’s potato chip.
If at first you don’t succeed, you aren’t Tim Tebow.
As President Roosevelt said: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And Tim Tebow.”
Tim Tebow can slam a revolving door.

What Up Everyone

Hadn't posted in a long time and wanted to say hello. Hope everyone is doing well.
Talk to you fools soon.

Only one thing's for certain: Willie Nelson only smokes killer weed

I have a kick ass harpsichord

Good News! The rise of the machines shouldn't be too far away!

Click the title for a full article, but here's this:

Notice who that Ft. Hood shooter looks like.

Won

Cinematic synergy 

a whole lotta energy 

virtual reality 

doomsday scenery 

grab artillery 

burn the flag steadily 

depression 

driving a brand new chevy

Terminator Salvation: what could have been

I loved the Terminator franchise, then Nick and I went to see T4 and were both terribly disappointed. This is an article about what went wrong with Terminator Salvation - i.e. the re-writes resulting from casting Christian Bale as John Connor, re-writes due to the original ending being leaked online, etc.. It includes details about the original script and why the movie was called "Salvation."

Michael McDonald: Trickin' It to the Treats

Greatest Trick or Treater Ever -- powered by Cracked.com

20 Costumes That Will Earn You a Halloween Beating

From the Article:

#20. Spongebob Adult Man's Costume


"Aside from the "Would you like to buy some Bibles?" look on the model's face, it's the white leotards that seal the wearer's fate. Or possibly the little red dick-tie."

A Glorious Dawn

via Crooks and Liars.

Afghanistan

Gary Farber at Amygdala has an informative piece on the situation in Afghanistan, focusing on three crucial questions:

Can the government in Kabul become one that most Afghans regard as legitimate?

That is the antepenultimate question, rather than which military forces or strategy should be used.

The penultimate question is: if so, can we help the government in Kabul become that legitimate government?

The ultimate question for America and NATO is: if so, how high a price is too high a price for us to pay to help the government in Kabul become that legitimate government?

Get Pumped: god/the universe/whatever answers prayers

Radiohead to record NEW ALBUM this winter


There’s been a lot of speculation on Radiohead’s next album. Would it ever be recorded? Or would be just get digital tracks, EP’s or whatever made the press. Ed O’Brien confirmed that a new Radiohead album (yes, album) is in the making.

It was the interview in The Believer that kick-started a lot of rumours on Radiohead’s future. Thom Yorke told the magazine: “None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again.(…) But we’ve all said that we can’t possibly dive into that again. It’ll kill us.” The news hit the press worldwide.

Radiohead have spent this Summer in the studio, releasing tracks online like ‘Harry Patch (In Memory Of)’ and ‘These Are My Twisted Words’. This sort of seemed like they were serious about not releasing albums in the future. But guitarist Ed O’Brien has confirmed that the band is in fact interested in recording more albums and the follow-up to ‘In Rainbows’ is actually in the making.

Ed O’Brien told NME that with sessions planned this winter the band would “definitely” be releasing a full album physically next year.
“We were misquoted,” claimed O’Brien of Yorke’s comments, loudly adding, “WE WILL BE MAKING AN ALBUM!” Although he said the band hadn’t decided how it would be released, he said the album would come out on vinyl and CD whether it first arrived as a download or not.

“We love the artwork; that’s really important, the physicality,” he explanied. “And we all like vinyl. That’s not going to go away. I still like CDs as well. I got the Speech Debelle CD the other day – I nearly downloaded it from iTunes but I thought, ‘No. I want the physical thing.’”

O’Brien wouldn’t be drawn on specific tracks, but suggested that recent free download ‘There Are My Twisted Words’ was not a marker for the album.

On releasing ‘These Are My Twisted Words’ online he said: “It’s a kind of one-off. It could have been a darker side of ‘In Rainbows’ – it’s got that autumnal vibe, we’re leaving the summer and going into the darkness.”

He added that with Radiohead set to reconvene in their Oxfordshire studio this winter, the season might similarly affect the new songs. “Typical Radiohead,” he laughed. “We’re going into the studio in winter. It’s always miserable! Are we at the whim of the seasons? We are! When you’re in a studio in the countryside, the music you make is definitely affected by what season it is.”

What up party people

Hey guys - I have vacation the first week of November. Is anyone still interested in camping?

GO COCKS!!

From: "5 Reasons being a Joss Whedon fan sucks"

No Explanation Necessary

I'm not sure you guys are ready for how awesome this is...

New Carolina

Protect Insurance Companies

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Show Me Your Genitals

Radio Friendly Song

Courtesy of Urban Dictionary

Broccoli slut

Broccoli bump

Cajun Pepper Stick

Robocop

"8 Insane Ways Parents Are Politically Brainwashing Children"

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David sums up the drug experience

Twitter still sucks...

But this and this are fucking great.

Tonight I dine in Virginia

I have finally found some work in the District. It is full time, but temporary (just how temporary is unclear, even to the people I am working under). I have the suspicion, one that is shared by several others, that now that I am in the Georgetown University system, the odds are good that I will be able to find something permanent in the future. I hope that this is the case, in any event.

I have been essentially homeless since the end of June. I have crashed in extended-stay motels, with the junkies and prostitutes, and on the couches of various friends. This, to put it mildly, is not all it is cracked up to be. Having had enough of this, I have secured a basement apartment in Rosslyn, Virginia. It is, for the area, large and cheap, meaning 2/3 the size of my old apartment and 1/3 again as expensive. The landlady is a former aid worker specializing in HIV prevention in Africa, which is cool.

So, it looks like things are coming together. Fucking finally.

Forest Whitaker

Negotiations

Tit Slap

Horses Love Stegosaurus

The Boner Song

Han Solo, P.I.

Watch this one first:



Then watch this one - it'll blow you away:

Girls In Bikini Reading Star Wars

Enjoy these Oscar worthy performances...

Possibly the coolest dad ever

This Kid Actually Sleeps in a Y-Wing:



Click the link to see additional pics.

New Radiohead Song

It's free and here's the download:

These Are My Twisted Words

The GOP's Misplaced Rage

Bruce Bartlett, a former Republican official who served in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, reiterates the case against George Bush's stewardship of the economy.

Folsom Prison Blues

A report from NPR explains how the California Prison System has gone from being one of the best in the nation to one of the worst over the course of the last 40 years.

From the You've Got to be Shitting Me Department

From the Investor's Business Daily:

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

The editorial in question has since been corrected, removing all in-text references to Hawking, and with an Editor's Note explaining that the original article implied that Hawking didn't live in the UK.

That's some fine editorial work there, Lou.

Update: Hawking responds: "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS... I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."

Thom Yorke: No more Radiohead albums

"None of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again. Not straight off ... It worked with In Rainbows because we had a real fixed idea about where we were going. But we've all said that we can't possibly dive into that again. It'll kill us."

Living Root Bridges of Cherrapunji

Inhabitants of Cherrapunji have developed the innovative technique of using roots from Ficus Elastica trees to create living bridges over rivers and streams. As the bridges are alive and growing, the bridges become stronger over time, with some examples reportedly 500 years old.


via Metafilter.

See also Flickr and this site.

Old School

T-Bird, this one's for you. Reminds me of cruisin' the stip at Myrtle.

The final word in Black Dragon t-shirts

The following is an actual review of an actual item on Amazon.com:



If dragons could wear t-shirts, this is the one they would wear.,
May 20, 2009
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
By O. de Frias "realmadrid2727" - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
This is, without a doubt, the best black shirt with an angry monochrome dragon perched on two natural pillars on a cliff that I have ever seen. I know that when I get married, this is the undershirt I'll wear. The amount of awesome displayed on your chest canvas while wearing this shirt, obviously a shirt given to man by Zeus himself, is currently impossible to calculate using our current mathematical constructs. We actually need to devise a new form of mathematics which we should call Wurm Theory in order to parse the data.

I'm going to explain to you what it's like wearing this shirt. Each separate occasion merits a new stage of awesomeness being unlocked.

First wearing - You hear Sean Connery's voice command you to be the greatest. Whether you want to or not, while this shirt is on your back you will comply.

Second wearing - The best theme song of all time is instantly created for you and sung by the dragon on your shirt which, contrary to what you would assume, has an awe-inspiring singing voice.

Third wearing - You ascend to a higher level of consciousness.

Fourth wearing - The "what came first, the chicken or the egg" riddle is conclusively solved.

Fifth wearing - Zeus reveals his master plan and the meaning of life.

Sixth wearing - You get like, $0.20 off all your Starbucks purchases, and some places even let you take the cup you used the day before and knock an additional $0.05 if you use that.

PROS: Dragon on your shirt, Sean Connery finally gets some steady work again
CONS: Some of the independently-owned Starbucks don't let you do the used cup thing.

Auto Tune The News

Fucking Hilarious...There's 7 currently, these are a few of my favorites. Watch them.

Ps. you might want to click them and watch them on youtube, because the lyrics are provided with the songs.

Radiohead: Harry Patch (in memory of)

Radiohead has released a new song in honor of Harry Patch, a World War I veteran of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry who died on July 25th.

8-Bit Lebowski

No king but the law

Instead of "the President shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed," we have: "Presidents should try to obey the law except when they decree there are good reasons to violate it." Instead of "in America the law is king," we have: "we can only apply the law when it won't undermine bipartisanship." Instead of "treaties shall be the supreme Law of the Land," we have: "we can't have torture prosecutions because they'll distract from health care." To "no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause" and "No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," we have added: "unless there are Terrorists who want to harm us, in which case we spy without warrants and imprison people for life without charges."

Glenn takes on a pernicious and pervasive establishment mentality.

Say what

And also this...

It is about that time.

Should I make another countdown?

Alice in Wonderland

Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen:





The Trailer:



This one will also be shown in 3D.

Tron Legacy

First Called TR2N, and now Tron Legacy...

Here's a pic of the new Light Cycle:



Here's the official trailer:




Yep, it'll be in Imax 3D.

Craig Ferguson on Why Everything Sucks

Camping

So I know I drunk-texted some of you at an ungodly hour last weekend - that aside, we chould go camping in November. I gots vacation that first week and a buddy of mine down here wants to go. Nick, welcome back.

Jimmy Carter leaves the Southern Baptist Convention

So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service. This was in conflict with my belief - confirmed in the holy scriptures - that we are all equal in the eyes of God.

via Metafilter.

MCA has cancer

Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has cancer.

Maynard doesn't want to meet you....at all.

Just got my new password, good to be back

Man's sight is restored after 12 years...

... by implanting a camera and a bit of his tooth into his eyeball.


via Metafilter.

New Rules, Michael Jackson edition

Is Jon gonna have to choke a bitch?

This is, if true, fucking bullshit.

What up, Holmes?

Smokin' in the Military