prosthetic knowledge
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The Onion: Apple Promises To Fix Glitches In Map Software By Rearranging Earth’s Geography
Apple is working hard to move streets, buildings, and natural features of the Earth itself to be consistent with their heavily criticized Maps software.
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Dachshund U.N. by Bennett Miller
Playful art performance piece for the Fierce art festival, where a set resembling the United Nations features dogs as international representatives. From this is tomorrow:
“Italy’s checking out where the action’s at,” chuckled one voice in the crowd. “France is rather yappy,” observed another. The square outside Ikon Gallery in Birmingham was agog with obvious but irresistible gags yesterday as Australian artist Bennett Miller broke the first rule of theatre working with 47 dachshunds in a live art meets architectural installation experiment.For Dachshund UN Miller had built a large scale model of the famous United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland. Where normally one would expect to see the great and the good of international politics battling it out for the benefit of the world community, we instead saw a kaleidoscope of West Midlands based sausage dogs. Dachshunds of every shape, size and colour fussed about behind tiny dachshund sized microphones and miniature country name plates.The set was cleverly designed so that doting owners hovered below remaining clear of the audience’s view but very much in sight to the dogs. Clear of the audience’s view in the loosest sense - hands popped up here and there, heads even, when little Fido needed a spot of reassurance or encouragement to face the cameras rather than showing them his arse as China was wont to do. And when dogs became uncomfortable or fidgety they were moved. The notably oversized United States popped up in Pakistan at one point. In such a scenario the symbolism of the inadvertent was bountiful.More photos and info can be found here -
Lulzsec hack Ceefax in retaliation for arrests
From The Poke (a UK satire site similar to The Onion):
Technology News: Computer group Lulzsec have hacked the BBC’s Ceefax service in what is thought to be retaliatory act for a number of arrests of its members yesterday.
The Ceefax pages have been replaced by a message from Lulzsec and a crude 8-bit penis, which the group says represents the ‘puppet BBC acting as the lapdog of the totalitarian regime which controls us all’.
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Happy Birthday Bill Hicks
The comedian would have been 50 today.
If you are in the US, you can watch a very good documentary on Hulu about him here
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DANGER 5 (Trailer)
Australian webisode series is a humourous take on 60s / 70s shows (such as Mission Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, and maybe Gerry Anderson puppet adventures) where an elite group of agents attempt to foil the plans of an evil Adolf Hitler and his dastardly army, which include Nazi dinosaurs …
First episode is already out - more information can be found here
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Tumblr meme blog devoted to archive lines said by neighboring cubicle workers … with a picture of a hippo …
This one is: The “cool” coworker, part one.
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Pythagasaurus by Aardman Animation
Funny animated short about maths, cavemen (one voiced by Bill Bailey), and a math-loving Tyrannosaurus Rex with the body of a right-angled ruler.
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Kenny Everett - The Spider Man Clip
Over at the blog Dangerous Minds, there is a post talking about the performances of David Bowie on the Kenny Everett show.
This reminded me of one of my favorite comedy sketches when I was a kid … Spiderman Needs A Pee …
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Ghosts With Shit Jobs (Trailer)
Satirical, tongue-in-cheek lo-fi mockumentary set in the future, where the West collapses and becomes owned by the East.
In 2038, jobs still suck — but in whole new ways. The economic collapse of the west is complete and North Americans are a cheap labour pool for wealthy Asian and Indian markets. A Chinese documentary show focuses on these unlucky enough to have been born in the slums of Toronto in a special report that translates as “Ghosts With Shit Jobs”.
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Going To The Store by David Lewandowski
On the humour scale, this is firmly on the threshold between ‘completely absurd’ to … well … I don’t know ….
Imagine Francoise Gamma creating a comedy short in the real world …
normal guy normal walk.
Directed by David Lewandowski
Music is Jean Jacques Perrey’s “Little Ships”
This is a short I made for the final episode of “Everything,” an anthology series at Channel101. -
New Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘I’m Thinking Printers’ via The Onion
SAN FRANCISCO—Following the resignation of Apple founder Steve Jobs, incoming CEO Tim Cook called a meeting of shareholders and members of the press Thursday morning to announce that he envisioned printers as the company’s future. “Laser, ink-jet, double-sided, color, black-and-white—the future of technology is in printers. I am absolutely convinced of that,” …
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Obama Turns 50 Despite Republican Opposition - The Onion WASHINGTON—After months of heated negotiations and failed attempts to achieve any kind of consensus, President Obama turned 50 years old Thursday, drawing strong criticism from Republicans in Congress.
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Masterchef Synesthesia
Now for some British musical humour / stupidity (depending on how you look at it).
Swede Mason mixed a video together featuring samples from the UK cookery show ‘MasterChef’. The video has proven to be popular, and has just been released as a single, accompanied by a Facebook campaign. It is now currently number 40 in the mid-week charts.
The track is available at iTunes and Amazon.
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Hackgate - The Movie
This is doing the rounds in the UK - a spoof trailer on the Hacking Scandal - its very funny :)
