So, here’s your Saturday morning dose of guess who’s more awesome than you. Don’t quit early on this one. About two thirds of the way through it goes doubly epic:
via Kottke.
Category Archives: music
Fading into Bolivian: Mike Tyson Quotes Song
So, here’s something to amuse you while you’re shutting down Oakland.
via Boing Boing.
Raponomics update: Tap Dat A$$et
So, here’s the best thing I’ve seen in a while. It’s the latest entry in the raponomics genre, which is a thing now.
K-RUG in the house, yo!
Grab your pitchfork and end this plutocracy – it’s the only way to save our pseudo-democracy.
There’s also a Keynes-Hayek smackdown rap here.
h/t to pillar of poetic righteousness D. A. Powell.
Sunday Linkasaurolophus: October 23, 2011
So, welcome back to Sunday Linkasaurolophus.
Remember, it’s like the Winter Linkolympics, but on just one ski.
1. Philosopher of Biology, blogger, and awesome-name-winner John Wilkins is looking for help to bridge a financial lacuna. If you’re in a position to loan or donate, please do. He’s one of the good guys.
2. Who says high schools aren’t preparing kids to function in our society? One consequence of the decade-long War on Terror™ (a wholly owned subsidiary of Haliburton) is the proliferation of secret courts, which are able to pass down judgments with absolutely no public scrutiny or oversight. Well, the kids are getting in education in twenty-first century American Justice at Alice High School in Texas, where a student was kicked off the cheerleading squad and suspended. The student claims that he is being punished for a same-sex kiss that was caught on one of the school’s surveillance cameras. The school says,
The Alice I.S.D. has recently reviewed the recent removal of a student from the Alice High School Cheerleading Squad. After reviewing the Alice I.S.D. Student Code of Conduct and the Cheer Program Handbook, the removal will stay in effect. The student’s parents are in agreement with the district’s decision. The student code of conduct and cheer handbook are designed to improve conduct and encourage students to adhere to their responsibilities as members of the school community. The student and parents are clearly aware that the student was not removed from the squad for kissing another student at school. While the student is free to discuss certain aspects of his discipline in the media, the District cannot discuss the specifics of this incident and must respect the privacy rights of the students involved in this matter.
Except, that the student’s family is not in agreement, and still claims it is about the kiss. But, you know, privacy concerns, so I guess we’ll just have to trust them. Via Jezebel.
3. Did you know that Oral Roberts has a gay grandson? Me either. He sounds awesome. He’ll be giving a series of public lectures starting today. Read about it here. And no, it appears he is no longer invited to family functions.
4. Global warming is real. Now most people who are not ideologically committed to global warming NOT being true already knew that. So what’s the news here? Well, a group of researchers called Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature has done a careful reanalysis of the major temperature records, and has concluded that, yes, things are getting warmer. The results are important in part because the group is not made up of existing members of the climate-science community, and in fact approached the question with a degree of skepticism. In a rational world, that would satisfy climate deniers. Oh well. Via The Economist.
5. And finally, if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and a whole crowd of folks singing at Columbus Circle in support of the Occupy movement. Via Boing Boing.
%&#! $#!& Stack
So, here’s a little something to relieve the monotony of the the Steve Jobs idolization that still has the internets in its grip.
The video is totally NSFW (for language) by the way, which is just one more reason why you need to walk out of your crappy office job and go join the nearest Occupy Wall Street protest. Mother Jones has an interactive map here.
Oh, and you can buy the shirt here.
via Topless Robot.
Allophones: Linguistics Humor from Darwin Eats Cake
So, here are the last two Darwin Eats Cakes. They go together to form a sort of continuing story. It’s like a soap opera, except instead of people killing each other and having weird supernatural experiences, they engage in clunky set-ups for jokes about linguistics. Woo!
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Mitosis Rap
So, here’s a little something for your Sunday viewing/listening pleasure.
Turn it UP!
Honky Tonk Blues
So, here’s a little something for your Saturday morning.
Today would have been Hank Williams (Sr.)’s 88th birthday.
The Week in Hooters (with video!)
So, this week brought us a veritable twin peaks of news relating to Hooters, the restaurant Americans go to for the articles.
First, on Friday evening, there was the Vampire-at-Florida-Hooters incident, which seems to have gone something like this. Josephine Rebecca Smith, a 22-year-old Pensacola resident, was dropped off at a Shell station, where she was waiting for a ride from a relative. While waiting there, she met 69-year-old Morton Ellis.
Ellis was hanging out on the front porch of a vacant Hooters, as you do.
Ellis invited Smith to join him on the porch, and proceeded to fall asleep. Next thing he knew, Smith was on top of him, telling him that she was a vampire, and biting chunks of his face off. Ellis somehow managed to get away from her in his motorized wheel chair, and call the police from back at the Shell station.
When Smith was later arrested, police reported that she was half naked, covered in blood, and recalled nothing of the incident.
Which sounds a lot more like a werewolf attack, if you ask me.
Second, in a move that is in no way a crass exploitation of human tragedy, Hooters released this video, which seems to be titled “Hooters® Remembers”:
To help cleanse your palette, now, I’d like to take you back to 1985. It was a simpler time, when millions of teenage girls had non-ironic crushes on George Michael, the only thing we had to fear was impending nuclear holocaust, and we danced. How did we dance, you ask? Like a wave on the ocean, that’s how.
Population Ge-e-ne-e-ti-ics
So, here’s a little something for anyone else out there who is slogging their way through a gloomy Wednesday.
from YouTube