Fred gave one of the best of excuses I've ever heard for not coming round for tea and cake: she said she was going to be busy sailing an Oyster 47 from St Maarten to the Azores. Not that I know what an Oyster 47 is, but those who do and are interested can follow the Suilven and her crew as they battle winds and fruit on their journey in Suilven ( Read more... )

Another video, this one via sessifet25. I spent about half of it turning round to Wingnut, going, "really?!" The last one is my favourite.

Scheldwoorden - Don Quishocking

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Can't remember where I got this from, but it's great.

Quaked - Skating in Christchurch After Earthquake

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On a lighter note, in The pen of my aunt is on the gardener's postillion..., clanwilliam asks about the origin of the phrase, "la plume de ma tante." Good question. But then she has to go and invite people to come up with other clichés and translated phrases... flexor's Amsterdam phrasebook is my absolute favourite so far.

I was in the Netherlands over a week ago and ran into all sorts of interesting things: football cards, eels, special ice, travel smart cards, etc. Unfortunately, the minute I returned, I became embroiled in the continuing problem of how to get Tower Hamlets Council to fix the water to our building ( Read more... )

We were discussing what happens to diamonds in volcanoes last night when Stroopwafel Fiend alerted me to some puerile chemistry humour, Molecules With Silly Or Unusual Names. Starting with arsole and going on to things like megaphone, moronic acid and snottites. Yum.

I can't believe I missed this. Italian singer Adriano Celentano wrote a gibberish song to sound like American English. The video of it is something else.

Prisencolinensinainciusol - Adriano Celentano with with Raffaella Carrà

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(via Public Address.)

Montevideo gets a good stomping on. This was originally made for a music video, interspersed with shots of the band, but the plain version's best.

Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) 2009 by Fede Alvarez

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I can't imagine the budget was huge, but hey, it's always fun watching places you know get trashed by giant robots.

I tweeted this earlier, but it's such a perfect Friday afternoon video that it deserves a wider audience. It's a clip from a reality show, Police Ten 7, featuring a NZ police slogan. Pure gold.

Police Ten 7 - Safer Communities Together

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So I was a bit more tired last night than I thought, which resulted in bad links in both reviews. Thanks, Reinier. Wish LiveJournal had the equivalent of Google's Mail Goggles.

Last night, I also wanted to post a link to Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman's hymn but could only find one with poor sound quality. However, isihac has just posted another link on ( Read more... )