Daily Archives: February 11, 2007

2-4-6-8 come on guys, hallucinate!

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This scene, from Absolutely Fabulous, is the single best hallucination scene ever recorded.

Sure, when I got shot up with morphine I saw angels surfing on the rays of the setting sun over English Bay which was certainly odd, particularly given that my room had no windows, but not really out of the ordinary for me. Lady Penelope sitting on my legs and Richard E. Grant howling to the four winds about how he turned gay because he wasn’t man enough for me and I broke his heart: that would have been noteworthy.

But it would have been Gabriel Byrne in my hallucination.

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the trouble with Linux

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PC, Mac, Linux

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pic o’ the day 2.0: Forest Fire

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This photograph of a forest fire was taken by a team working for the Alaskan Interagency Coordination Center under the Bureau of Land Management. Click to enlarge.

Forest Fire by BLM

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shitty DIY

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The Unnameable, by Rick GriffinThere are some things lurking in this world which were never meant to be. Absinthe. Uri Geller. The dodo. Nixon. The Tully Monster. Anna Nicole Smith. Ethel Merman‘s disco album. Eventually, a vigilant celestial being becomes aware and takes action against these abominations and outrages against all that is right and good.

We can only hope and pray that S/He takes action promptly against the atrocity known as fiberboard. This loathesome and amorphous agglomeration of unnamed and unnameable materials has long been the mortal enemy of those who respect the craft of carpentry, those who would live in a world free of synthetic imitations, and those whose very bodies reject the presence of formaldahyde-oozing $89 bookcases from Home Depot.

We at the ol’ raincoaster blog have some bad news for you. However shitty you may think this product already is, it’s about to get worse. Much, much worse. The AP has the report. Shit.

It's a shitty job, but somebody's got to do it

Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. Researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture insist it’s no cow pie in the sky dream. They say that fiber from processed and sterilized cow manure could take the place of sawdust in making fiberboard, which is used to make everything from furniture to flooring to store shelves. And the resulting product smells just fine.

Ch’yeah, whatever. Call me when it saves forests and can hold a screw.

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pic o’ the day: World Press Award Winner

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World Press Award winner

The international jury of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest selected a color image of the US photographer Spencer Platt of Getty Images as World Press Photo of the Year 2006. Click here for the award winning picture.

The picture shows a group of young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood devastated by Israeli bombings. The picture was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.

World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally describes the winning image: “It’s a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious.”

via Neatorama.

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