Shruggle

Check him out here. He looks like he would be a fun professor to have. Boing Boing seemed to think he was on drugs.

Here is a 5 minute long lecture if you want an uneditted taste.

Here is a picture of some documentation from Japan promoting proper cigarette ettiquete. My favourite bit is the cowboy one.

Also here is a pretty amusing video from Weird Al about being white and nerdy. So check it out if you have some degree of nerdiness in you and you will probably identify with some portions.

I saw this preview today before watching the Black Dhalia. I think it looks really good.

I was listening to the radio, and they started talking about these crazy ants. The mandibles or jaws of these insects are the fastest known moving part of an animal anywhere. "When the two mandibles snap together, they generate a force about three hundred times stronger than gravity, and reach a speed up to 64 m/s." While this is cool in itself, check out this video (edit - 3 actually!) of what they can do! It is pretty amazing. The radio show I got this from is Quirks and Quarks.

Check out this neat video of Bush doing a U2 song.

I haven't posted pictures lately, so here are a few of my favourites from this site.

Recently I have seen three movies. In theatres I watched Little Miss Sunshine and Crank.

Little Miss Sunshine was a very good movie. It could be classified as a dramatic comedy. It is well written, well acted, and has interesting characters. I like the soundtrack a lot too. Here is the song that opens up the movie that drew me right in from the start. I think it probably has some accordion in it, which is always good.

Crank on the other hand is one of the worst movies that I have ever seen. It stars the bald guy from Snatch and the story is about a hitman that is poisoned and the only way he can stave off death is to keep his adrenaline up. So this leads to doing things like drinking Red Bull, doing 'exiting' things and snorting cocaine. The movie is chock full of distorted shots, and other wacky modified shots to make things look more jazzy. I found this pretty tiresome. In my opinion this film panders to the lowest common denominator and it is horrible written and should be avoided at all costs.

The third movie, which was rented, was Akeelah and the Bee. It is about a girl that goes to a lowsy school and fights to make it to the national spelling bee. While this maybe sounds about as exciting as watching texas hold-em poker or ballroom dancing, it is actually a very nice movie that manages to be inspiring and moving without being smarmy.