The universe has given me a reason to visit Barcelona

Meet The Caganer

And on that note, merry Christmas!

Golden Eagles, Part 2

So remember a while ago when I posted about Golden Eagles? I mentioned their impressive size and power, didn't I? Well.... here's a little update on our fine feathered friends: a video of a Golden Eagle on Mont-Royal. Enjoy.

Movie Night

I have in my possession the film Norwegian Ninja. Released in 2010, it is by the same producers as Dead Snow. I propose a screening at my place in the very near future... perhaps Thursday or Friday?

Who's in?

With screenshots like these...

...how bad can it be?

Mr. Piffers strikes again!

Found this posted in the street:

You know you've reached god-like Internet fame when this shit happens.

Hitler Doesn't Get Mad...

He gets Führerious!

Why We Hate Others (1 of many reasons)

The affect heuristic is a fancy way of saying that people make judgments by consulting their emotions instead of logic.

The affect heuristic explains how our minds take a difficult question (one that would require rigorous logic to answer) and substitutes it for an easier one. When our emotions get involved, we jump to pre-existing conclusions instead of exerting the mental effort to think of a bespoke answer. The affect heuristic helps explain why birthers still exist even though Obama released his birth certificate—it’s a powerful, negative emotional issue about which lots of people have already made up their minds. When it comes to cyclists, once some clown on two wheels almost kills himself with your car, you furiously decide that bicyclists are assholes, and that conclusion will be hard to shake regardless of countervailing facts, stats, or arguments.

Bad-Ass Substitute Teacher

The Enigma Undone

Why we are who we are

What I like about UFC...

... is the post fight interview!!!



You dont even need to have seen the fight to know it was BRÜTAL!

Fight or Flight (or Freeze)

I could not do this.

The Browser

WebGl.

Is.

The.

Immediate.

Future.


GoogleEarth in your browser.


Quake 3 in your browser.


The possibilities are endless.

I'm drooling.

Blame the Black Man

You know, Molesto might be right. When something goes wrong, organizations just find the highest-ranked black man and blame him.

Here's the latest example:

UBS 'rogue' trader Kweku Adoboli found guilty of fraud

I'm sure he's guilty, but I find it hard to believe he was a rogue trader, that he was the only one behaving that way in a nest of psychopaths.

I love caulking

Because I get to discover special instructional videos like this one:

Can I get a What the Fuck?!?

When did video games start looking THIS realistic?

Proverbe mongo

Celui qui a la diarrhée n'a pas peur de l'obscurité.

Ahem...

So if it's laid you want to get, you should ask the computer how to dance. Its answer will be this.

Learn to Dance

Dance like this and you'll be neck-deep in pussy. For real.

Parenting with internet will be harder than I thought

Fun fact!

If you type 'coughing' into Google image search, it looks like a bunch of people are giving blowjobs to an invisible man.

Vomit is funny

On that note...

This is how that previous video could have gone...

I Need to Balance Out the Blog

Ok, the blog is back on even keel. Ouf, that previous post was brutal.

Guy got elected (says hes a scientist)

                    Dude sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Thats right, same committee whose other member suggested that its "really rare" for rape to result in pregnancy. Lets not forget that here in the Canada, our own minister of science and technology is a creationist. This is the era of full blown mental retardation.

'tis True

Same old shit

I dare you to try and peel your eyes away from this:



Oh, and comments please.

Et en cette période d'Halloween: Vomitron - Castlevania

Halloween

This is the best Halloween costume I've ever seen:

This is the scariest:

Very Manly Metal

Mercyless: Unholy Chapter

I would not recommend listening to this when drinking whiskey.

Contra, BRING IT ON!!!

Stallone, Arnie, Aliens, Wicked guns (S, M, F, L), Heavy Metal,... dude this IS the recipe for awesomeness... 

Rap You Might Like

Fighting Trousers - Professor Elemental

Death

When I die, this is how I want to go... with dignity and grace.

Veiligheid voor alles!

Gangrena Gasosa - "Cambonos From Hell"

Not really my style, but I thought the video was fun.

How Glitter Is Made

Happy Thanksgiving

Les Dents de la Mer version Indienne by Spi0n

Oh Louie Louie....

Jo y est vraiment con

Je regardais des émissions des chicknswell en revivant de bons souvenirs pis je me rendis compte qu'on avait jamais mis un seul de leur sketch ici. C'est inacceptable.

Lightning Captured at 7,207 Images per Second

Unrest in Spain

Shit gets real at 1:15.

Mr. Piffers

I'm pretty sure that if Mr. Piffers was a real cat, this is what he would look like:

See more of Mr. Piffers here:

http://napsalot.tumblr.com/post/32358575220

This is pretty crazy shit

Shrooms

Taking magic mushrooms (psilocybin) can have a lasting change on the individual's personality, making them more open about their feelings and the way they perceive things, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, wrote in the Journal of Psychopharmacology. The authors explained that those who had mystic experiences while on psilocybin were more likely to subsequently exhibit certain personality changes, making them more forthcoming about their feelings, becoming more focused on being creative, curious, and appreciative about artistic things.

There's a birthday party coming up

Mark your calendars. There's a party on the 29th to celebrate the birthdays of Mr. Piffers and Moonshine. The theme? Enchantment under the sea. So start thinking about a costume.

I Couldn't Bring Myself to Post This on Facebook

See the comic in its natural habitat here.

Awesome gamers!

Tokyo Jungle - Survival Mode par play3-live

What did I just watch?

Wintersun: Coming to town!

Oh boy did I find out good news yesterday. Wintersun are coming to town. What a treat that's going to be! With Varg at that, one of my favourite bands. And it's on a Saturday, so there should be an even better atmosphere. I'll try to keep my expectations in the solar system. Anyways, Club Soda, December 15th. Master of the Claw, you'll be happy to know that they're also going to S-town, should you be interested.

Soundtrack to the 19?

How about Acid Rain by Liquid Tension Experiment.



I was reading that Mike Portnoy said that his first choice for the guitar was Dimebag Darrell, but he was unable to join because of conflicting schedules.

This Goes Here

Since someone was murdered and another seriously injured, last night's events were tragic. Nonetheless, I still thought this photoshop was funny. I thought to myself, what better place than the 19 to share tactless humour?

Cardinal's Car

Hey Cardinal, I found a great vehicle for your Apocalyptical adventures. Feast your eyes on the French FCM 2C Tank.

Wallball!!!!!

So I was at the Museum of Modern Art in New York a few years ago and I took a photo of a painting by Ben Shahn that I thought would be awesome to post on the blog. Then I forgot... for 2 years... until my incredibly sore arm reminded me of it this morning.

Ben Shahn

American, born Lithuania. 1898-1969

Handball 1939

Gouache on paperboard

In case of fire...

I Hate Zoos

I see them as animal prisons. I know there are good reasons for having them, but I nonetheless don't care for them. This idea, however, looks great!

Cardinal + Children

Hey Cardinal, I really think you should have children. Think of all the fun activities you can do with them.

To Be Taken Seriously

You need the right hat!

Song Birds

Check out this video on bird song and especially the musicality of their song, which is really noticeable when you slow it down.

To get straight to the salient part, click here.

or watch the whole video:

Away! Away! Away!

Only one way to get rid of this unbearable reality.

It's a Medical Fact

Flesh-easting disease is serious business.  In fact, it can cause this to your balls:

These are the joys of living with my girlfriend. How can I resist when she goes: "Pssst, look at this!" ?

In the beginning...

Funny Wednesdays

When I left the house today, I saw an old man dancing with a Chihuahua. That, coupled with this video, have given me my abs workout for the week.



*UPDATE*

ok... this day keeps getting funnier and funnier. I think I'm going to lose it.

read this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

and then hold on to your hat and watch this:

Trippin' out

If you maximise the window and turn your speakers up, the experience of watching a computer simulation of DNA replicating can be boner-inducing. I wouldn't recommend bringing drugs into the mix. It might break something in your head.

This speaks to me...

There's something about this photo of our Prime Minister that really speaks to me. Is it his jacket, the look on his face, his wife left behind to eat his dust, or is it the context: he's in Northern Canada telling them they ain't seen nothing yet in terms of development. I can't tell. All I knows is.. this twat sure knows how to handle a quad! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Ghost Tits

Get a rooster, and there will be order!

The Invisible Bicycle Helmet | Fredrik Gertten from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.

People falling down

Title is self explanatory

Nihilism

I did not write this. See the end for the credit. I did, however, adapt to put it into context, or rather out of context so it could be understood properly outside of where I found it.

"There seem to be two camps of general Nihilism - one closer to absurdism, one closer to existentialism. There's also the idea that everything is futile and nothing matters. That is not philosophy. That is pop caricature fatalism, and fortunately it describes itself (it is goddamn useless). Such a conception of nihilism is also used synonymously with "people being goddamn depressed and witless, and having lost their motivating ideas;" when Nietzsche uses 'nihilism' to mean a bad thing (this particular author uses the word very inconsistently), he means the latter. If you ever think something that is pointless, stop that. If your version of nihilism is useless, go on to something else.


I think every 'nihilist' should at least know what existentialism is, because many of the great interpretations of nihilism resemble it. Existentialism is the idea that "existence precedes essence," ie, that one is born without a purpose. Under this kind of thinking, if you're going to get a purpose, you're definitely going to acquire it. And your purpose need not be permanent. But psychologically, people do badly without a sense of purpose, so you should go ahead and get one. There are lots of things to give one to you - authority figures, belief systems, responsibilities - but with existentialism you can realize that you're not bound up in a commitment to one particular purpose, and if you don't like it you can change.

So if you take your nihilism to mean something close to this, your nihilism becomes very empowering. It is in your interest to avoid any ideology that is overly arresting or disempowering. My personal take on nihilism, as a self-described nihilist, starts off as an observation. I'm not a 'general' nihilist, in that I don't actively apply nihilism to everything; instead, the focus of my nihilism is moral nihilism. I do not see morality as something I need to cling to. Thus I am freed from many restrictions. Having made that observation, I have a decision to make about my behavior. I decide to be nice, and diplomatic. This is behavior that appears moral in many cases, but is always focused on empowering the individual. So what has happened here is that a restricting way of thinking has been replaced with an empowering way of thinking.

So yes, you've observed that you need not cling to certain things. This does not mean that nothing matters. Things just don't matter absolutely, say, to the universe. But you are not a universe. You are a sentient (presumably), a human. And you can make and decide meaning for yourself, or adopt existing conventions as convenient. Please do not see nihilism as meaning-destroying; you are wasting an idea with great potential. See it as meaning-liberating.

 -- Former editor of an undergraduate philosophy journal aka Scithionon Reddit.

What?!?!?!?

The pope says it's o.k. to wear a condom?!?! Next thing you know, we'll be letting the gays eat our straight food!

Blasphemy!

Funny

Bertrand Russell

I've been meaning to read some of his books for the longest time now. Hopefully I shall start soon.

Charity

Kvelertak - "Mjød"

Good party metal. The music is not what a prefer, but from time to time, it has its place. The video was fun.

Early Galaxy Merger Simulation

Really amazing video simulating how galaxies form and then merge.
Absolutely amazing.

Imagine this was your dad...

H & N

You ever wonder why the Americans dropped atomic bombs on civilian rather than on industrial or military targets?

The Cannibal

I like to watch this once a year.

I've Got an Idea

I've got an idea for a tv show. It would be called Bum the Coworker. It's about this character who works in an office by day and is a raging lunatic vagrant by night. He's like a super hero, see. Except instead of his hidden identity being that of a super hero, it's that of a schizo vagrant. Picture the teaser: Slightly overweight, late 30s average office guy walking in a cubicle farm, back to his box after lunch. Says hello to various boring co-workers. Jump to black screen. White text appears: Matt Stonefield works in an office just like yours. Like everybody else. But he's not like you. Jump to night-street scene with Bum-Matt yelling and fighting another person. Garbage is strewn all over and around a garbage can. Bum-Matt is yelling in a hoarse voice: "Get outta here dickwad, she's my princess. My precious princess. Leave us alone or I'll fuck your last good tooth outta your mouth." Jump to office meeting room. Office-Matt is paying attention to some Powerpoint presentation. Jump to alleyway scene where Bum-Matt is loudly and coarsely protesting at getting violently beat up by cops. Fade out as protesting turns to tearful pleading. Blur in to dirty sidewalk curb and road. Dirty water mixed with blood slowly trickles through. In the background, you can hear light weeping mixed with vomiting. Text on screen slowly appears, one line at a time: "Bum the Coworker Coming September 14th Only on AMC TV Story Matters Here" -30- I think I have a winner!

Diiiiaaaakkaaaa!

Petropolis (Arte)

Hell! Seriously, Hell! You're going there.

Lucky Woody and CrawMaster, they get to see this kind of shit on tv.

Psychology in video games : there's still hope

Here's a Day-Z interview extract.
I think its fascinating how the survival aspect of this persistent fps/rpg is indicating different gamers psychology depending on the servers geographical situation.

Crowe: Yeah, you were saying, there was no such concept as bandits while you were in New Zealand. Then these Europeans came in and started killing each other. Hall: They did. It got so bad. Because there was a bug where everyone was spawning on the beach. No problem in New Zealand. Buchta:: People started helping each other, right? Hall: Yeah, they started helping each other. Buchta:: While the Russians… Hall: There was a guy who would wait there and he would help the new players when they spawned in. And then on the Europe server, it just became a bloodbath. It was so bad we had to shut the server down until I fixed the mechanic. Buchta:: I’m usually playing in the morning, the European morning, because the servers are full and I have family to take care of in the evenings. It’s always like I’m somewhere in the hills, and I’m always so glad I’m away, because the Russians are all chatting about how they killed people in Chernarus. Crowe: If there was a real zombie apocalypse, I hope to God I’m in New Zealand. Anywhere near Russia, just end it now. Hall: I love the passion the Russian players have, though. That’s why I love participating… I’ve done a few interviews with the live streams… “If there was a real zombie apocalypse, I hope to God I’m in New Zealand.” They’ve got that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. background… Hall: They get it, they so get it. I love watching their live streams. They’re crazy. They’re all bandits. All bandits. They’re just ruthless, they don’t care if they get killed. And they’re not PvP… They’re not player killers. Or they are, but they care about their gear, they care about staying alive. They’re just cutthroat. It’s great. Buchta:: They form small groups and… Dslyecxi: Set a honey trap. Hall: I just think they’re really good. I just think it’s great. The amazing things that people start doing, you just have no idea what they’ll do. There’s a dude who’s being set up… He set himself up as like a surgeon, a doctor, and he’ll go on to servers to help people out. No way. Hall: Yeah! And he has a whole team of supporters, and he has a bunch of people who will spawn in as an escort. And protect him? Wow. Hall: And what he did was, he actually, in character… He went in and figured out all the scripts that I’ve written, what all the medical values are that you need to get sick and how transmission happens. And he wrote up a massive guide, in-game, in-world, explaining it. Not just listing the stats, but actually explaining, okay, if you get sick then people close to you have a high chance of getting sick as well. It was just amazing. He put a lot of effort into that. Do you know if he’s US-based? Hall: I don’t know. He hops around a lot of the servers. But it’s just awesome, just totally spontaneously getting into that. Crowe: It’s nice that you didn’t have to make a medic class. It just emerged.
Complete interview here

Slow Friday

Never Hide Real Life from Children

Itssss ....... international small dude vs big dude day!

Brick-laying Music

I don't if this is what I'd choose for my brick-laying machine video, but damn, it's pretty good.

Wintersun Update (teaser)

The new album “Time I” will be released October 19, 2012 via Nuclear Blast. The tracklisting looks like this: 1. When Time Fades Away 2. Sons of Winter and Stars I Rain of Stars II Surrounded by Darkness III Journey Inside a Dream IV Sons of Winter and Stars 3. Land of Snow and Sorrow 4. Darkness and Frost 5. Time More info here.

Boson

There's a blog for this dumbass.

The most metal fighting game ever.

So Brütal.

Weather Report Teen Town

Mozzarella: How It's Made

Nothing to see here, move along!

Diablo Swing Orchestra — Voodoo Mon Amour

You like?

Honestly, I always knew I would see this one day. It had to happen.

After his cat Orville died, Dutch artist Bart Jansen decided to give him a new lease of life … by having him stuffed, attaching propellers to him and flying him around as a radio controlled helicopter. He's now on show at an art festival

Honestly...

I never thought I'd see this:

More Propaganda for You

In touch with his people... wait... no... not at all.

When asked about the casserolererzzz..



an example of these threatening psychos:

Have You Ever Considered Another Career?

Three Minute Philosophy: Immanuel Kant

So proud of my community, city, and province.

More Propaganda, Effective Propaganda.

I like this rant...

New York City

Alerte Rouge

Arcade Fire

Jon Lajoie

A bit late... to my defense I already did Cruella.

Clarity

Si on était indépendant (interesting rebuttal)

I thought it was funny. Maybe you have to play the game to find it funny, but I thought it was funny.

Any of you guys still got hope for humanity?

Just wondering.

Convincing

This is the first argument that I've seen for the tuition increase that is actually 1. An argument 2. Convincing. Am I missing something? It all seems pretty simple, how come this hasn't been brought up by the government or the media? If it really is that simple, it only further highlights the government's incompetency in dealing with the issue.