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The EU Supports Research Careers

The Marie Curie Actions program is funding science research in Europe:

The Marie Curie Actions provide research training, career development and mobility schemes allowing researchers to be truly mobile both internationally and between commercial and non-commercial sectors. There are opportunities for researchers at any career stage and of any nationality.

To explain their position, they have produced this video called CHEMICAL PARTY:

Also, if you haven’t seen it, here is an awesome ad for the Eppendorf EpMotion Pipetting Robot. This video was shot at Crissy Field:

I can haz complier??????

Here is a lightning talk by Partick Michaud at YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen, demonstrating the Parrot Compiler Toolkit. Live demo: a LOLCODE compiler. wut?

It would be really nice if we can take all these languages, pass them through Parrot, and translate them to other languages. I decided that wasn’t good enough. Let’s just translate them to LOLCODE.

video:

We have five grades of chili…

Found while searching for something South Park related:

RMSoulja Boy

Remember that Soulja Boy video that May posted? Well, here is Richard Stallman (yes, RICHARD STALLMAN) doing the Soulja Boy dance. His entourage is wearing labcoats, and he is holding a laptop. In a more perfect universe, it would be required that all music videos feature RMS.

via via

Art or Arson?

Paul Addis was arrested today for burning the man, four days early. We are left to wonder.. was is art, or was it arson? And why Tuesday instead of Wednesday??

This post needs a omgwtfbbq tag. Just look at his mugshot:

Burroughs

Via MeFi, a documentary by Howard Brookner called Burroughs, starring Burroughs, Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and many more of his friends and family. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen it before:

Also, even though I’ve heard it a thousand times, I didn’t realize Bug Powder Dust was Burroughs-inspired, and I had never the video of the original Bomb The Bass version either:

The William S Burroughs wiki entry is quite thorough!

First Edition Principia Discordia Recovered from JFK Assasination Archive

This is highly weird. In April 2006, a First Edition copy of the Principia Discordia was recovered from the John F. Kennedy Archives (see routing slip). Here is a bit of detail on how it was found:

I stumbled upon knowledge of the Dead SeePresident Scrolls purely by chance - a reference number on a scan of a copy of something I did not believe I was looking at: so much so that I passed over the title page of the first edition of the Principia Discordia (How The West Was Lost) many times before it dawned on me what it was before my eyes.

On that sheet was an Accession Number. And that number pointed to a secret which has lain hidden for over 30 years, trapped unseen in a musty, dusty vault in Maryland.

As luck would have it, the Rev. Karl Musser happened to be in the neighbourhood of that very vault, and willing to do me a favour, All Blessings Unto Him.

But how did these papers end up in the Assassination Archive in the first place?

In the late sixties, founding Discordian Kerry Thornley, who had been in the Marines with Oswald, found himself under the microscope of those investigating the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Such Official Investigations generate a Paper Trail - evidence proffered is indexed and stored… preserved against the erosion of time. (Well, mostly…)

Greetings from Las Vegas


I’m afraid these images speak for themselves … gotta love Vegas.


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Mr. T is the T in IT


Intelligence in the network is for suckas!

Fragile Like Eggs

IMG_3304.JPGFor my birthday, I received a package labeled FRAGILE LIKE EGGS! I need to work this phrase into my daily conversation…

I bet you can’t guess what was inside the box!

a big hole

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apparently the biggest! in the WORLD! so big that the vortex above it caused several helicopter crashes. there are more pics of this crazy hole over here.

The Tortoise and the Kat

You know the fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the Tortoise wins the race, but only because of the Hare’s sinful overconfidence? Well, in the story of Tortoise and the Kat, the Tortoise wins because Tortoises are completely fucking badass! See for yourself!

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Pushy Architects Unveil Groundbreaking Technology For Teen Titans

I just got the strangest email.. It came from pandemicrawfrankfurters at yourhippyfriendskilledaroosterbyblowingtoomuchsmokeinitsbeak.com

I don’t know what you are selling, dude, but I want in. Just let me know where to bury the shoebox full of money.

BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS – BREAKING NEWS

Pushy Architects Unveil Groundbreaking Technology For Teen Titans, Brush Aside Conspiracy Theorists Claims of Failure*

BUTTE, MT – NOVEMBER 31, 2008 –

In a remarkable discovery by Scientists who know things of importance, Banned substances composed of gold, freeze-dried tomatoes, bunions, cold frankfurters and extremely wet paste made in Peru have been combined in an innovative fashion to reveal what man has always feared: granite no longer weighs as much as it did in the Stone Age.

Against all odds and despite incredible circumstances of little merit, these Scientists determined this astounding fact while testing 5-year-old Beowulfs infected with the passive-aggressive DNA of long-extinct wooly mammoths.

During the initial testing phase of this mouth-watering experiment, Scientists were surprised to realize the 5-year-old Beowulfs responded with extreme vim and vigor to granite containing the aforementioned banned substances, adamantly licking the granite for days on end with little concern for their surroundings. Eventually, these Scientists came to the conclusion that their test subjects were drawn to the granite because the highly toxic DNA injections created an additional saliva gland completely obsessed with granite. The obsessive licking stripped the granite of its mineral exoskeleton, which proved to be the majority of granite weight.

“It’s a startling discovery, one for the ages. I suspect this will alter the future of man for days to come,” exclaimed Dr. Waz, one of the lead Scientists assigned to the project by his lazy neighbor, Jo-Jo. “I enjoy making things that people look at with their eyes, not their ears. This will eventually cure leprosy, we believe. If Lazarus were alive today, he’d be shooting arrows into the ground.”

Because this information is just now being released to the general public, there are fears of rampant rationing of atrophied orangutan livers, especially among sonar enthusiasts. But Jordan Jordanian, co-director of the experiment, dismisses these fears as short-sighted superstition.

“Spaghetti and meatballs will never be quite the same, as long as I have anything to say about it,” whispered Mr. Jordanian while sipping a bowl of spinach. “We stand by our findings. The results speak for themselves.”

The results quickly added, “Why can’t we save all the rhinoplasty victims, for God’s sake? Man wasn’t placed here to erect large monuments. We were placed here to erect social and sexual mores for the needy. What more needs to be said?”

What happens next, only the future knows. And the future isn’t talking in a loud voice anymore.

“Bacon will always be better than pork chops, that’s one thing you can count on,” echoed the future from a previous interview edited for television.

Yet, there are some who believe the Scientists need to conduct further tests before releasing these findings to the public.
“As a pushy architect with a zest for killing wild boars on partly cloudy days, I fear for the safety of teen titans from sea to shining sea,” brayed dr. P. P. timmmii, founder of the Swiss Foundation for Found Founders. “It’s still OK to prefer pavement. Granite is for the weak and ill-fitted. But I will say this – those stupid jackoffs who go to Burning Man every year will finally be able to ride faster, once we replace the granite. Gravity isn’t pretty.”

For more information regarding this important discovery by the Scientists, contact your local Notary and ask for more peanuts. Zygotes not included without written permission from your kidnapper. For less information, please
visit:
http://yourhippyfriendskilledaroosterbyblowingtoomuchsmokeinitsbeak.com/

killer bunny!

Peliom didn’t believe me when I told him I saw a bunny attack a snake, so here it is…proof!

cats in sinks

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So I’m not sure what’s up with all these cats in sinks…do cats really like hanging out in sinks??? I mean…it’s cold…and wet…and slimy. How could it be that they’ve got *thousands* of submissions and a book coming out at the end of the year?? (and if they’ve got thousands, what are we doing with a blog?! we should have a pineapples-in-sinks-site!! or something. admittedly pineapples are prickly and not as cute, but still.) Anyways, I bet all these cruel people are putting their cats in cold sinks just to get a cute photo…

…when really, I’m sure their kitty would rather be doing this.
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Dance Raja, Dance.

Bob: I’m bored. What should we do?
Raj: Only one thing, of course.
Bob: What is that?
Raj: DANCE!!!!
Bob: Um, OK.
Raj: Posse!! Gather and bring me my boombox!! HYAH!!!

NOTE: Watching the entire video may cause you to mess up at whatever you are doing.

DJ Jukebot

I love this! Do you think we could fit a couple in the rAnCH??

Señor Coconut would be proud!

Hard ‘n Phirm, the guys that made the awesome Pi video, have another awesome video for El Corazón, which is an anatomically-correct love song. (via bb)

This is why you should never ask me to do anything…

Remember when everyone thought it would be a great idea for me to go stand in a long line at the Indian Counsulate in SF to get visas for the family? Um, well, it was not that great an idea. (via fark of all places…)

Poodlerobics

We have a WTF??? tag now thanks to Joe, who sent me this…