if he had any manners he'd let us go first
via Gawker
And Poof! Just like that, a meme dies. Yes, Beautiful Agony is no longer the top post in the raincoaster blog. Let's look at the past 24 hours, shall we?
Going to the Past 24 Hours cam…we can see that yesterday, the top post was The 100 Most Influential People in History, followed by Operation Global Media Domination: The Search for Meaning (talk about going meta with OGMD), and then Beautiful Agony.
So far today it's a half-nekkid Britney Spears with hey y'all! coming in on top (and if you have any doubts she's a top, just ask Timberlake or K-Fed), three lengths ahead of The 100 Most Influential People in History, and then Geoffrey Chaucer's Hottest Pickup Lines of the Fourteenth Century.
Sex and power, power and sex. Plus ça change…
Update! Due to its posting on a British forum with which I am entirely unfamiliar, despite the pic of Viggo in the heading (I thought I knew all of them, dammit) the current most popular post on the blog is 06-06-06 Helpful Questionnaire: Is My Child The Devil’s Son? Because this is a question that has occurred to all parents at one time or another.
Quickie 6*6*6 roundup:
06-06-06 Helpful Questionnaire: Is My Child The Devil’s Son?
Not a retrospective of the show for which they became famous, The Brady Bunch, but rather a restrospective of the show in which they pissed away the tattered, post-Cousin Oliver remains of their showbiz legacy, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour.
First up, from YouTube's Bradynut:
A musical tribute (edited by Cindy Brady herself, Susan Olsen) to what is often considered one of the strangest shows ever produced. Props out to Sid & Marty Krofft for the wonderful memories and vivid nightmares.
And hey, wasn't there some sort of Dead-Paul controversy over that show? Why yes, there was.
Bradynut's Fake Jan video:
Here's the Story, of a Fake Jan Brady, who became one of three very lovely girls, all of them had hair of gold, like their mother, but she was just a clone!
as the commentor said, at least Fake Jan could sing.
If Monty Python were physics majors…they might come up with this. Forget the Dancing Waters; we present The Dancing Sodas!
Update: we DID present them. Now they’ve cruised through YouTube and insisted that everyone take the video down. Ah well, it was fun while it lasted (and if I weren’t annoyed with them I’d put a link to their site. But I am)
Double UPDATE: Okay, their friend has posted their side of the story, and I’m not so pissed off as I used to be. The video is available here, and the mad scientists (one of them’s even madder than I thought; he’s a LAWYER!) get a bit of revenue every time someone watches it there. My computer here won’t play that vid, but if yours will, it’s worth watching, to say the least. I note that revver will allow you to embed the video in your Myspace or whatever, but since that doesn’t work with WordPress we won’t be doing it here.
Via Sploid:
Two men in Maine have proven that the recipe for miraculous fun has only two ingredients: Diet Coke and Mentos.
In a three-minute video (Watch it in Quicktime here or on Youtube here), Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz show how this simple food combination can create astonishing geysers of carbonated, sugary goodness. They set off 100 Diet Coke bottles in an elaborately choreographed display worthy of the Bellagio fountains. They also venture into some detail about the physics and chemistry behind it, dispelling the popular notion that gum arabic may be the key to the mystery…
If you enjoy this kind of insanity, check out the rest of the blog here. You can also click on the Science or Weird categories in the sidebar over there. Squid too, Squid is good.
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