New footage from "UP" of the talking dog (<3 the talking dog!)



Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs trailer

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was one of my favorite books as a child. From the looks of the trailer, they're not sticking to the book very much, but then, it was a very short book. And what they've added, while a lot more goofy ( Read more... )

This CNN article was extremely upsetting to me. I don't think it should be hard to see why:

More than half of people who attend [Christian] services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often" or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who "seldom or never" go to services agreed, ( Read more... )

I probably do not need to tell any of the people that are going to take advantage of it, that it is Free Comic Book Day.

Tapir Toes!

I own shares in index funds. As a result, I get to enjoy fun voting activities on issues like "To approve updating and standardizing the fund(s) fundamental policies regarding: issuing senior securities." Each one of these items has a recommendation from the Board of Directors, which is good because honestly I don't even know what a senior ( Read more... )

I enjoyed these 'slice of life' shots of the beginning of Obama's administration.

Apparently there's a Microsoft product called Songsmith that will attempt to match music to whatever vocal track you provide.

There are tons of Youtube videos of all sorts of songs redone by Songsmith. I think these are the best.

Billy Idol's White Wedding, Songsmithized:

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I actually enjoy listening to this one; the intricacy of the banjowork ( Read more... )

Boke (or as it's popularly written in order to make the pronunciation clear, "Bokeh") is the term in photography for the aesthetic nature of the way the shape of the iris of a lens affects the blurry parts of the picture. This may sound odd or difficult to grasp, but just click here and scroll down to "Real World Fun" and you'll instantly

Stolen as larva, ants of another species serve the slave-taking colony up to a point. They raise the larva of the slavemasters, but then as those larva mature, their slave caretakers end up killing most of them either violently or through neglect, decimating the numbers of the slavemasters ( Read more... )

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