“The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.”
This is oddly entrancing. via Fake Steve Jobs
October 17, 2009 - 1:34am |
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“The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.”
This is oddly entrancing. via Fake Steve Jobs
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Long video, but my favorite part is around the 7:30 mark onward. Amazing.
via Kottke
More gold from McSweeney’s. My personal favorite:
A Broseph Stalin is a broseph who so embodies the characteristics of a broseph that he is considered an ideal form of broseph. It is believed that a Broseph Stalin is so rare that only two men in history have ever been accurately referred to as such: the 20th century dictator Joseph Stalin, from whom the term received its namesake, and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated President James A. Garfield. However, there has been recent buzz in the brommunity that actor Wesley Snipes is perhaps a Broseph Stalin. Critics are quick to point out, however, that the nomination of Snipes is merely a token attempt to tear down the long-standing color barrier for Broseph Stalins.
Matt Damon after the credits in the season finale of Entourage
If you watched the last episode (and even if you didn’t, really) this is hilarious.
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
The question was, “What is your least favorite thing about Northwestern?” It gave me a good opportunity to put some of my thoughts on paper, so here it is.
It’s a little meta, but my biggest gripe about Northwestern is how much people gripe about Northwestern. People are, in my estimation, way too down on our fine school. Yeah, we’re not a state school and the weather sucks. Yes, the admin is a little uptight and the buildings are a shade old. Okay, the girls aren’t all 11’s and the guys can be a bit awkward. I generally say “get over it.” We are on an enclosed campus on a beautiful lake next to a huge, diverse city receiving a world-class education. We have a vibrant social scene held in some part together by a strong Greek community. The farthest walk possible is 15 minutes, and that’s uphill with a foot of snow. And yet somehow people still talk about NU as if it’s some type of leper colony full of students who missed the east-coast cut. Why?
I honestly think that much of people’s negative attitude is a bit of a placebo - you hear that the social scene here sucks so you believe it, even if you don’t have a great yardstick to judge it by. You hear about your friends at some state school having a million-keg block party with topless mudfights, completely forgetting that we’re still having fun here. It’s my sincere belief that if we all had just an ounce more pride in our school, an inch more perspective, and maybe a night or two more of cutting loose instead of burying ourselves in a book that we would have a different view on what it means to go to Northwestern. We’re here because we’re nerds. We’re here because we love getting an A on an exam as well as getting some T&A on the weekend. You only have 4 years, so don’t spend them wanting to be anywhere else, because you’ll spend the rest of your life wishing you were back here. It looks, sounds, feels, and yes, smells like college, so treat it as such and just enjoy it.
via Kottke:
Here’s the abstract of a new paper seeking to explain Superman’s powers.
Since Time immemorial, man has sought to explain the powers of Kal-El, a.k.a. Superman. Siegel et al. Supposed that His mighty strength stems from His origin on another planet whose density and as a result, gravity, was much higher than our own. Natural selection on the planet of krypton would therefore endow Kal El with more efficient muscles and higher bone density; explaining, to first order, Superman’s extraordinary powers. Though concise, this theory has proved inaccurate. It is now clear that Superman is actually flying rather than just jumping really high; and His freeze-breath, x-ray vision, and heat vision also have no account in Seigel’s theory.
In this paper we propose a new unfied theory for the source of Superman’s powers; that is to say, all of Superman’s extraordinary powers are manifestation of one supernatural ability, rather than a host. It is our opinion that all of Superman’s recognized powers can be unified if His power is the ability to manipulate, from atomic to kilometer length scales, the inertia of His own and any matter with which He is in contact.