Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance (Read 141742 times)

metroid composite · « **Reply #1000 on:** October 17, 2009, 02:31:26 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on October 17, 2009, 02:18:05 AM

Music, philosophy (math is a philosophy) and books.

I could get behind this.

I suppose you consider videogames to be an amalgam of music, math, and books?

Grefter · « **Reply #1001 on:** October 17, 2009, 02:40:16 AM »

Math and books at least anyway, yes.

Edit - And of course science is Math/philosophy and Music.

metroid composite · « **Reply #1002 on:** October 17, 2009, 02:44:11 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on October 17, 2009, 02:40:16 AM

Math and books at least anyway, yes.

Edit - And of course science is Math/philosophy and Music.

See, I would have pegged Science as Math/philosophy + Books. Then again, I tend to think of music as a subfield of math anyway, so...yeah, not seeing exactly what it adds to Math/Philosophy.

Grefter · « **Reply #1003 on:** October 17, 2009, 02:55:45 AM »

Science is a thing of beauty in ways that pure Math doesn't quite describe and Music is nothing but such beauty.

Edit - Oh yeah of course structurally Music is a kind of applied mathematics, but there is something else to it. That something else is pretty important to me.

metroid composite · « **Reply #1004 on:** October 17, 2009, 04:28:56 AM »

http://thisman.org/history.htm
This is really weird. Apparently a lot of people who have recurring dreams have the exact same man appear in some of those dreams (one of them drew a picture of him, and others started recognizing him).

Ultradude · « **Reply #1005 on:** October 17, 2009, 05:34:08 AM »

Quote from: metroid composite on October 17, 2009, 04:28:56 AM

http://thisman.org/history.htm
This is really weird. Apparently a lot of people who have recurring dreams have the exact same man appear in some of those dreams (one of them drew a picture of him, and others started recognizing him).

I might have a nightmare about him now.

Those eybrows!

NotMiki · « **Reply #1006 on:** October 17, 2009, 06:14:44 AM »

Now I know where the character design for Rock Lee came from.

(Or maybe here? Gotta respect the eyebrows.)

AAA · « **Reply #1007 on:** October 17, 2009, 06:27:07 AM »

Quote from: metroid composite on October 17, 2009, 04:28:56 AM

http://thisman.org/history.htm
This is really weird. Apparently a lot of people who have recurring dreams have the exact same man appear in some of those dreams (one of them drew a picture of him, and others started recognizing him).

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is viral marketing for a movie coming out. The site's owned by guerrigliamarketing.it.

http://assme.org/2009/10/16/thisman-org-viral-something-or-other-sure-movie-maybe/

NotMiki · « **Reply #1008 on:** October 17, 2009, 06:58:26 AM »

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/nyregion/17minute.html?hp

speaking of tricks played on the general public...

trains leaving New York = your alarm clock.

Shale · « **Reply #1009 on:** October 18, 2009, 02:51:21 AM »

Reasons why Incredible Hercules is awesome, vol. 1:
http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/8436/incherc136page010011.jpg

NotMiki · « **Reply #1010 on:** October 18, 2009, 03:41:11 AM »

so cruel.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1011 on:** October 18, 2009, 08:27:26 PM »

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20091017/wl_time/08599193082200

Russia promises to make sure it doesn't snow in Moscow this year. Clearly it's the right time for the Nazis to invade.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1012 on:** October 19, 2009, 11:28:31 PM »

The best Japanese game show ever

NotMiki · « **Reply #1013 on:** October 20, 2009, 03:34:20 AM »

what.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/glenn-beck-slams-obama-en_n_326632.html

Go ahead, hear him out.

superaielman · « **Reply #1014 on:** October 20, 2009, 03:35:48 AM »

IotD thread is over thatway, Miki.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1015 on:** October 20, 2009, 03:43:00 AM »

I didn't want to put it there because Beck's right in exactly one sense: the idea that this push for volunteerism is somehow completely unrelated to the Obama administration is dubious (now, the charity says they conceived of the idea about a year ago, so it's certainly possible they were influenced by Obama's volunteer-loving ways rather than being explicitly asked by the administration. They ARE lefties, after all.)

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #1016 on:** October 20, 2009, 07:59:22 AM »

Glenn Back is a walking IotD thread already anyways.

Grefter · « **Reply #1017 on:** October 20, 2009, 09:56:50 AM »

He has a point. Volunteering is UnAmerican (How the fuck does anyone ever seriously say that? It hurts me to type it and I rape the English language every single day).

Sierra · « **Reply #1018 on:** October 20, 2009, 03:07:39 PM »

It's un-American because there might be liberals doing it. QED.

Lance · « **Reply #1019 on:** October 20, 2009, 11:48:31 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix69Q-E_T_g

I don't know what this is, but I love it.

Glen Veil · « **Reply #1020 on:** October 21, 2009, 10:54:25 PM »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32632923/ns/health-fitness/

Drinking has been correlated to living a healthier lifestyle, yeah.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1021 on:** October 23, 2009, 06:31:41 PM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8321967.stm

Silly socialist Germans think that taxing the rich is a good idea to raise money for their country. Idiots! Don't they understand how the free market works!? The aristocratic upper class will never go along with this.

...

Oh.

Taishyr · « **Reply #1022 on:** October 23, 2009, 06:34:47 PM »

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Okay, that's actually pretty cool/impressive if it works out right, and props to them?

VySaika · « **Reply #1023 on:** October 23, 2009, 06:49:50 PM »

Yeah, here's hoping they pull it off, and good on them for making the effort even if it doesn't.

Sierra · « **Reply #1024 on:** October 26, 2009, 02:39:51 AM »

http://www.starwarsuncut.com/

Star Wars: A New Hope cut into segments of fifteen seconds each and parceled out to a wide variety of reenactors who can present their scene in whatever manner they choose. Not completed yet, but there's plenty of ridiculousness on display already. While plenty of the scenes are the expected amateurs reveling in the silliness and trying to keep a straight face, other participants got more...creative. Varieties of animation to be found, scene #57 probably being the most amusing of these. Grefters, of course, can just skip ahead to segment #245. Also, "Bacci, motherfucker, do you speak it?"

My favorite may be the one where the stormtroopers are Jim Bean bottles with helmets pasted on.

(I was linked to this via Darths & Droids, which all gaming nerds should be reading already.)

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Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance (Read 141742 times)

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