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Palette Generator: Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:14:47 -0700

Palette Generator:
Automagically create a harmonious color palette from a photograph

A very cool tool that yields a colour palette based on its analysis of any image you submit.

Great for choosing a harmonious and pleasing colour scheme for a website or any other graphic project you might be working on.

This is one of a profusion of clever graphics tools offered free of charge at Big Huge Labs: Home of fd's Flickr Toys.

http://www.yourleaders.org/george_w_bushs_presidential_advance_manual

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:23:01 -0700

Just read it. I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or start an armed insurgency.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:21:17 -0700

Probably the best parody of the loathed Microsoft web server 404 error page I've yet seen.

Bush Vs. Zombies

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:20:02 -0700

Bush Sees New Threat

George W Bush -- incompetent bumbling sociopath, compulsive liar, villainous war criminal, and far and away the worst president in US history; but above all else, the most naturally gifted straight man who has ever lived, and God's gift to modern comedy.

Oh, by the way, I guess I should mention that this video is not some boring old news thingy -- it's a severely funny spoof by Barry Lank, who plays the reporter at a Bush news conference.

We've all seen and heard countless examples of people cutting Bush audio and video clips up and mixing them into new contexts. Surprisingly, these efforts rarely fail to be reasonably humourous -- more proof of Bush's idiot-savant comic powers, which only increase with time and according to how much he's trying to project an aura of solemn gravity and depth of feeling at any given moment, something that exponentially increases his sublimely unintended hilarity.

This video is one of the very best of this recutting-Bush-into-new-contexts genre, and judging from the comments on YouTube convulsive laughter is a very common reaction. Don't even think about watching it for the first time while cleaning a gun, defusing a bomb, or trying to figure out how to shave with your cool new ultra-retro straight razor.

The Invisible Sex Dance of Psychedelic Spiders | LiveScience

Fri, 04 May 2007 00:48:38 -0700

The Invisible Sex Dance of Psychedelic Spiders

Best Article Title Ever

Interesting article from the vast and fascinating archive of science news at LiveScience.com, but really the only reason it's here is the title. And the perfectly matching picture.

http://www.superdickery.com/galleries.html

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:42:57 -0700

Superman Is A Dick

Allow me to recommend the Seduction of the Innocent gallery as a starting point.

CAUTION: Consuming beverages while browsing this site may result in explosive nostril-spraying that could damage sensitive electronic equipment and one's sense of personal dignity.

Chicken Crap :: Weight Lifting

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:56:07 -0700

Chicken Crap
Twisted Pix to Amuse & Amaze
Galleries of humourous, bizarre, and/or perversely entertaining photographs have been a staple web commodity since the earliest hominids first cobbled together crude networks of primitive stone-and-twig computers in the African savannah hundreds of thousands of years ago, predated only by pornography itself, which constituted the entirety of the worldwide web for millions of years previous, and may indeed have been carried to Earth by meteorites once the planet had cooled to the point where water could remain in a liquid state and life was able to emerge and eagerly log on.

There is of course a very good reason that websites full of funny pictures enjoy so long a pedigree on the Interwebs -- they're a hoot!

For all our modern loquaciousness, humans have always been profoundly visual creatures. Long before infection with the memetic virus of language, whatever portion of our ancestors' rapidly growing mutant brain was not devoted to visual processing was almost certainly taken up by equally rapid expansion of the capacity to perceive the fundamentally absurd and ludicrous nature of the universe and everything in it, especially our ridiculous gangly half-baked-scheme-hatching selves.

There is thus a certain primal comic bliss in the nonlinear and instaneous apprehension of visual hilarity that tickles the very core of homo sapien consciousness, allowing us to share wholeheartedly in the raucous laughter of our chimpanzee cousins at the sight of a 600-pound silverback alpha male gorilla slipping on a banana peel and landing with a soul-satisfyingly thunderous crash upon his suddenly inverted hairy ass.

Chicken Crap is a pretty darned good collection of such right-brained prelinguistic graphic comedy. It's not the product of an exhaustive search for the ultimate in optical chuckles, but rather a chance discovery that a few minutes of giggle-laden browsing revealed to be at least an above average example of the genre, providing more than enough healthful stimulation of neural humour circuitry to make a visit worthwhile.

I include here a couple more or less randomly grabbed sample pics, again not meant to represent the cream of the chickencrap crop (repeat that phrase ten times fast), but indicative of the general quality there to be found.

A separate collection of videos have been added to the site recently -- connosieurs will of course eschew the messy narrative linearity of such faddish moving picture exhibitionism, immersing themselves instead in the picture gallery and the holistic purity of the single, sublimely mirthful, ROTFLMAO, funny picture.

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:26:12 -0700

Flickr Related Tag Browser

THIS is the kind of thing that makes computers and the Internet cool. Super-cool.

Almost worth the molding of one's ass to the contours of a computer chair, the near amnesiac vanishing of hours, the slow steady increase in correctional lens prescription specs, and other such terrible costs exacted by the glowing rectangle's persistent whispered promise of the ultimate link just one more click away, and the yielding tactile embrace of mouse and keyboard upon one's busy, restless, whisker-twitchingly inquistive fingertips. Almost....

Don't be fooled by the pedestrian name. The screen shot above is just one of approximately eleventy-seven jillion possibilities, in this case a search of Flickr for the tag "peace". Get it?

Just try it. Unequivocally super-cool.

Mysterious dwarfish alien brutally murdered in Russias remote village - Pravda.Ru

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:20:41 -0700

Mysterious dwarfish alien brutally murdered in Russia's remote village
Wow. Those crazy Russians -- you gotta love 'em. The Russian newspaper Pravda, synonymous with government-controlled news media back in the good old Soviet days, has mutated into an online surreal amazement-park of news and newsoid material, freely blended together into an amalgam of serious domestic and international news reporting and analysis, supermarket tabloid sci-fi sensationalism, soft-core porn, reality-based "news of the odd" science articles, and other unpredictably bizarre nuggets of reality, fiction, and fascinatingly random photographic archives.

The dead alien story this Stumble links directly to is as good an entry as any into this kaliedoscope of real and really weird news and views. If this metamorphosis of Pravda from grim 1984-esque state propaganda organ to vast, madly hyperlinked surreality newsscape mirrors a similar transformation of Russia as a whole, then Krushchev's declaration upon viewing Disneyland that Russia will "bury" the West takes on a whole new meaning.

It's not that childish American fantasizing would inevitably be overcome by stern Soviet socialist realism -- it's that American fantasizing is comparatively impoverished, desexualized, compartmentalized, and sterile. It stands no chance against the robust, adult-oriented, hallucinatory Russian refusal to give any quarter to distinctions between reality and fantasy. Forget the dusty elbow-patched tweed of academic Western postmodernism -- Pravda.ru is the real deal! Postmodern carnival in the virtual flesh.

Just check out the text of these enticing links found in and around the web pages relating the Dead Alien story, and then let Jerry Springer, Phil Donahue, Oprah, and the network "creatives" endlessly reconfiguring reality-TV premises all hang their heads in shame at their own tepid modesty and prudish restraint:

* Pervert obsessed with bondage sex dies after playing victim of Nazi hangman
* "Gumologists" blow and measure gum bubbles for a living
* Male students call police when young woman starts masturbating for them
* Female orgasm switches off brain areas governing fear
* Young woman grows ugly nipple on her foot
* Microwaves turn healthy food into sophisticated killer
* Russian fishermen catch squeaking alien and eat it
* Playboy 1956: Best models
* Cat rapes woman after performing oral sex on her
* Man's buttocks provide him with a new tongue

...and so on, all from the Moscow equivalent of the New York Times.

Now pour yourself a tumbler of straight vodka, substitute hits of LSD for ice cubes on a one-to-one basis, and get down with Pravda!

http://www.bushflash.com/thanks.html

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:55:43 -0800

Thanks for the Memories
The long, deep relationship between Uncle Sam & Saddam Hussein...

This illuminating and rather moving animation provides more essential background on the historical context of American involvement with Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

It's well worth the 3 or 4 minutes it take to sit and absorb the information and conclusions, and it's pretty much impossible to even begin understanding the Iraq situation without this fascinating historical knowledge.

This item goes along with the Gwynne Dyer article on Saddam Hussein's execution below. But do ascend the URL and check out the rest of what's at the website run by the creator creator of this animation: http://www.bushflash.com