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| Thursday, January 26, 2006 02:57 PM |
| The Dirty Baker's Half Dozen |
 by Fëanor |
- This amused me terribly. It's even funnier if you're familiar at all with Penny Arcade.
- Some scientists were mucking about (as the British would say) with a particle collider, making up weird-shaped atoms, when they discovered a new kind of radioactivity. Wild. (Via Digg)
- It's a Salon subscription link, and I try to keep those to a minimum here at Feanor and Poppy's, but it's also really funny, so here you go. It's a Tom the Dancing Bug comic about the sensitive gay clones of Brokeback Mountain that will inevitably arise in the wake of that film's success. I can't decide if the gay science fiction movie, Forbidden Invader, or the gay gay movie, Nob Hill, is my favorite.
- If you're planning to engage in a stressful activity soon (such as a public speech, or a big test of some kind), the best way to ensure that you will remain relatively calm and that your blood pressure will return to normal quickly is to have penetrative sex beforehand. No, seriously! Science says! (Via Digg)
- I didn't realize, what with all the excitement about the upcoming live-action Superman movie, that there's also an upcoming direct-to-DVD animated Superman movie, brought to you by the same folks who did the quite good Superman cartoon show. Cinematical has the link to an exclusive image from the movie. In it, Superman will be facing off against two of his most famous and dangerous enemies: Lex Luthor and Brainiac. I'll have to Netflix it when it comes out.
- Whereas a movie cameraman will often find himself trying to take pictures of models in such a way that they end up looking real, photographer Olivo Barbieri takes pictures of real things in such a way that they end up looking like models. Just check out the fantastic photos here to see what I'm talking about. Barbieri takes these from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens, and somehow this causes the cities and landscapes he shoots to come out looking like tiny, incredibly detailed models. It's really amazing. (Via Digg)
- Although I hate Walmart and everything it stands for, I'm still tempted by this page to give in to their creeping evil and reserve a Nintendo Revolution with them. And they actually have some relatively detailed specs of the system here; at least, more detailed and official than anything I remember seeing before, including the news that the thing will actually be able to run the physical GameCube discs, as well as the 12 cm optical Revolution discs. I was starting to think you'd only be able to play GameCube games on it by downloading them through some kind of online system, but it is not so, and that's hot. (Via Digg)
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