2008

Jul

A minute or so from The Dark Knight. The Joker is going to be Scary. As. Shit. in the film. Just...

Pelican: om nom nom nom

I wonder if Jerry Springer has a...

… or if the weirdness just naturally finds its way to his door. Right now, there’s a...

The Dark Knight - Tumblr Rules

katieschenk: Okay let’s lay out some ground rules here. Not all of us are going to be seeing this...

jeralyndwile: danhacker: Rumor has it all these faceless...

This trailer singlehandedly moved The Car to the top of my Netflix queue. Evil has visited the earth...

NY Times profile of Rush Limbaugh

Final Fantasy (aka. Owen Pallett) - He Poos Clouds I’ve been really digging this album, and...

National Review blogger issues a knee-jerk...

This dude's videos get millions of views on...

Another fun typographic animation, this time on genres of music.

This is what acid must look like (especially when he enters and exits through the door).

The iPhone 3G new features video

Hedgehog Launch

Chuck Klosterman surveys his classroom of...

A new trailer of The Dark Kight from… Dominos? it’s the creepiest and best one yet,...

Jun

I take back all the good things I said...

You can’t prepare Eggo waffles via microwave. LAME I WANT MY FIX NOW.

“I think Obama would be a disaster, and there’s a lot of...”
— In Flag City USA, False Obama...

Crows, lions team up to take down golden...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29)

4 Amazing Ancient Cities of Color I want to visit all of...

laceymae: Why are storm clouds so obnoxiously pretty? PS-...

As Election Approaches, Zimbabwe Horror Continues Once I...

BoingBoing deleting dissent

PostSecret becomes creepy when they post secrets on subjects...

such fun

kaiticalamity: I really love it when I’m giving a tour and one of the parents says to me, “So what...

robot-heart:microwalrus:carmenmariah:supernice: This is the...

Wall-E

… was incredible. I can’t think of the last time I saw a film as stunningly beautiful...

I get to see Wall-E in less than two hours. Excited.

The original trailer for Alien is some creepy stuff. Still holds up really well, which is odd for...

Why I don't take CNN seriously anymore

How the order of poll questions affects the...

Bierstadt was fucking awesome. (full-sized)

To Find Some Use For Every Wild Animal It’s strange to...

A Nuclear Rocketship imagined in 1959.

The New Yorker Presents: A Dalmation...

robot-heart: byerinb: (via paperflowers) I love this...

A Grammar of Film Storytelling

Bored by horror movies? Try REALITY for some...

mecha: (via hirai) This is what I loved the most in the new...

There are few things more thrilling than a nice big midwestern thunderstorm. I’m watching...

OBAMA GUNNING FOR THE STATES BUSH WON

give and take.

hrrrthrrr: Soooo….I have an idea. There are so many rad people on tumblr nowadays, and a lot of...

“When a couple was “going steady” in the 1950s, the young man...”
— If It’s Facebook, it’s love...

The only negative review of Wall-E

“Having a good memory is a serious impediment to...”
— Wow. This is exactly how I...

obama08: How Obama Reinvented Campaign Finance An...

Rolling Stone loves The Dark Knight

Holding Back Young Students - Is Program a...

Myanmar's Secret City

“It’s like some Harlem Globetrotters circus of...”
— A friend on Dubai’s...

A Silver Mt Zion - This Gentle Hearts, Like Shot Bird’s Fallen. This is the piece of...

“I began in about 1970, on the advice of John West, a Chicago...”
— Roger Ebert’s...

perpetua: Weezer and Weezer fans perform a cover of Radiohead’s “Creep.” I really like the sound...

How Vice-Presidential Nominees are "vetted"

It’s gonna be really hard to not try and do this next time I’m at Oak Park Mall in KC.

The Dark Knight TV Spot #7

allisonweiss: brooklynmutt: Ball Girl Makes Incredible Catch A minor league ball girl makes an...

“Phil thought it was a competition between us. In that sense,...”
— Blankets by Craig Thompson

The nice thing about Pixar being part of a giant media conglomerate now is that they can do wacky...

vinh: Yes. (via zoee / roberlan) I just got my PROGRESS...

New TV Spot for The Dark Knight “Very poor choice of words!”

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22)

Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children’s Healthcare

“I fought my [creative] despair with what I call “morning...”
— Julia Cameron (via...

A hip-hop feud on YouTube!

International Trailer for Burn After Reading

Trailer for the Coens’ new film Burn After Reading, coming out in September. “I thought...

macuyiko:vasta: This was just too cute not to post. Really,...

This would have made for an awesomely huge ball-pit....

Gender and the Tumblr ratio

(via alla1) After several conversations on the topic, I am really curious about this question: What...

MoveOn To Close Its 527 In Response To...

claudia:doree: The Unseen Movement - The New York Times...

Touring a stately English home... on the back...

Schizophrenia and the Brain (w/ audio)

Check out the woodcut-esque detailing on the new Obama...

“Most Americans oppose last week’s U.S. Supreme Court...”
— The Washington Post This gives...

(via skineart.com)

Barack Obama announces that his campaign will be opting out of federal (aka. “public”)...

Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High - TIME

julyshewillfly: Barack Obama’s first general election ad. According to AMERICAblog it’s currently...

Slow-motion video of a swing by Tiger Woods. The stats at the end are insane, especially along with...

what (full-sized)

via Married to the Sea

jeralyndwile: riotrepublic: See the cute little speck?...

claudia: denis darzacq: Hyper.

Requiem For A Day Off I’m kinda burnt out on the whole schtick of making alternate-genre...

It’s the worst to feel sad without anything to feel sad about.

OMG AWESOME clip from The Dark Knight

“Lane Dean had never believed in Hell as a lake of fire or a...”
— David Foster Wallace in his...

“It’s as though people think, “I’m such an individual that I...”
— Ben Gibbard (via scout)

sarahchristine: Query: Does anyone use Facebook chat? I haven’t at all … well once to try it out...

A spoiler-laden review of ‘The Happening’

A Treasure Travels, Inconspicuously

Libertarian Party Convention Shenanigans

ugly: Painting by an inmate in the mental health ward of...

This guy was speaker of the house?

Gingrich criticized Obama for his support of certain policies and most pointedly for his backing of...

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15)

alla1: ( via mascarah and meghanasha) Found this in a...

Nerdy admission of the week

I really like FiveThirtyEight.com. Really really like. It’s been several years since I dabbled...

England, 1940-41. “Battle of Britain. Children in an...

Blurry, indistinct video of the tornado that hit campus on Wednesday night. It was an F-4 when it...

“When the chips are down, these ‘civilized’...”
— The Joker in a new trailer for...

The best scene from John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Pro-tip: don’t order items from Best Buy’s website and select “store...

New trailer for The Dark Knight, released through Comcast.

NBC's Tim Russert Dead At 58

Dogs: Humankind’s savior. (via jeralyndwile, animalinsider,...

I think the teleprompter may have skipped a sentence or two.

(via robot-heart and ae) I’m like the dude version of...

Tornado hits KSU, tons of damage (PICS)

Well, at least the campus nuclear reactor is...

An example of what went down elsewhere on campus when the...

A tornado came to town

It got within a block or so of me, plowing through the northern part of Kansas State University....

Thirteen Rules for Radicals

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. Never go outside the experience...

Lieberman Defends McCain's Comment That It's...

This pig isn’t just wearing boots because it’s...

Robots That Moo

The upcoming Metal Gear Solid 4 game has robots that moo. Seriously. And as you can see in the...

Christian leaders meet privately with Obama

I love old photographs of kids’ amusements, and Shorpy...

The real difference between Obama and McCain is that he...

Grumpy old Harrison Ford is awesome.

(via robot-heart and others) [last lines] Joel: I can’t see...

Some days I’m oddly glad I can’t read any...

Masters Cup | International Color Awards

Hmmm...

jeralyndwile: I just went through 25 pages of Dashboard (since I was at work all afternoon) and all...

alla1: i WAAAAAAAANT ONE!! (via topherchris) Me too!...

SiCKO

sayrah: My health insurance is retroactively denying my claims including prescriptions for...

“The most important thing that I learned in grad school is...”
— Robot Heart, in a great essay...

Wall-E is going to be the cutest, bestest movie ever.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8)

claudia: matthewb: How many versions is that now? Still,...

Obama Is Mapping a Nationwide Push in G.O.P....

“What are books but for traveling the world without moving an...”
— The Namesake (via mufti and...

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