November 2008
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Siouxsie and the Banshees – Peek-a-Boo, via brilliantology:
nosmo: Peek-A-Boo still blows me away - I can’t get over how something so old manages to sound like it was made a few weeks ago
brilliantology: yes!
brilliantology: that was my same thought
brilliantology: its so fresh-sounding
nosmo: Although I tend to overlook the 80’s one-armed-drummer sound that still lies within
brilliantology: peek-a-boo makes me want to go to a goth karaoke night :s
brilliantology: i’d even use a whole can of hairspray for that authentic 80s gothic look
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Cult of Luna – Further
Epic.
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Friday is cover day! Here’s Carnival in Coal performing an, um… interesting cover of Pantera’s “Fucking Hostile”.
“First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.”
—Peter Ellis
Wikipedia's list of humourous units of measurement →
en.wikipedia.org
I can’t help but read this in the voice of Nigel Lambert:
Helen of Troy is widely known as “the face that launched a thousand ships.” Thus, 1 millihelen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship.
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“Most flickr comments on naked lady pics read like a guy trying to teach photography to his boner.”
—lonelysandwich
“The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
—William Gibson (via nosmo). So painfully true.
The Vanishing Sunspot Mystery: What Does it Mean for Earth's Climate? →
dailygalaxy.com
Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically move across the surface of the sun, contracting and expanding as they go. These strange and powerful phenomena are known as sunspots, but now they are all gone. Not even solar physicists know why it’s happening and what this odd solar silence might be indicating for our future.
This 11-year low in sunspot activity has raised fears among a small but growing number of scientists that, rather than getting warmer, the Earth could possibly be about to return to another cooling period. The idea is especially intriguing considering that most of the world is in preparation for global warming.
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“The Times once published this description of a Peter Ustinov documentary: ‘Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector.’ This is ambiguous as it stands, but even if a serial comma were added Mandela could still be mistaken for a demigod.”
—Wikipedia on ambiguity and the Oxford comma (via saramcpherson)
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