Quotidian Hell

2011-01-05T13:54:00.000+11:00

In case you were wondering, this blog is, like, totally dead. And because I can't delink it from my other one, I'm now referred to here as Weaver rather than Fletcher. Ohwottagiveaway.

2008-08-15T00:06:00.001+10:00

...zzzzzz...

2008-08-09T16:30:00.000+10:00

More fun with Flickr: Symmetry

2008-08-09T14:58:00.001+10:00

Slow Motion Lightning

2008-08-09T13:53:00.001+10:00

Smoke Art

2008-08-05T13:25:00.001+10:00

Woot! (As I believe the kids say these days.)

Sydney now on Streetview.

2008-08-05T13:22:00.003+10:00

Art of the Title

Forget the Film, watch the Titles

Two sites devoted to movie title sequences.

2008-08-01T20:36:00.000+10:00

Facts About (American) Waiting

2008-08-01T19:51:00.001+10:00

World's Ten Oldest Jokes

Via , via.

2008-07-30T23:52:00.001+10:00

Dead Or Alive?

For all your celebrity deathwatch needs.

Via Laughing Squid.

2008-07-27T00:04:00.000+10:00

The Impossible Art of Li Wei

2008-07-26T16:51:00.002+10:00

Rotten Tomatoes Obscura

"RT Obscura, the exclusive column by renowned critic Kim Newman, sees the writer plumbing the depths of the RT archive in search of some forgotten gems."

If you're unfamiliar with Mr Newman, try here.

2008-07-26T16:39:00.001+10:00

Cardiff Public Library made to look like shelf of books

Nice idea - just a pity I see nothing there I'd actually want to read. Perhaps that was the artist's point.

2008-07-24T14:14:00.000+10:00

20 Abandoned Cities and Towns

Via things magazine.

2008-07-22T23:54:00.000+10:00

10 Racist Toys

See also, the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia

Via goatmilk.

2008-07-20T12:07:00.002+10:00

Brockenspectre

2008-07-19T15:14:00.002+10:00

Wikipedia's list of fictional diseases

Found following a link about pathohetorodoxy, though that particular ailment doesn't seem to be in the list any more.

Ah, WikiLists. Eek, Gynoids!

2008-07-18T15:54:00.000+10:00

Cellphone in microwave
Ah, right, so that's why they rot your brain.

2008-07-16T23:30:00.000+10:00

Ghostly Thai lightbulb ad

Via Flogging Babel.

2008-07-15T16:12:00.001+10:00

Famous Magazine Covers

2008-07-14T12:47:00.005+10:00

Kay-Tel!

A fascinating resource of compilation albums from this company (and others). Worth a visit just for the covers. Back in the 70s, they certainly thought "Tracklist written on buttock" was an idea too good to be used just the once. And who's this supposed to appeal to?

Below is the first album I owned. I was eleven. I had the cassette.

Via Ausrock.

2008-07-12T17:28:00.002+10:00

*snickers*

In early May, the Top 100 list was mentioned on the front page of Zaman, a Turkish daily newspaper closely aligned with Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. Within hours, votes in his favor began to pour in. His supporters - typically educated, upwardly mobile Muslims - were eager to cast ballots not only for their champion but for other Muslims in the Top 100. Thanks to this groundswell, the top 10 public intellectuals in this year’s reader poll are all Muslim. The ideas for which they are known, particularly concerning Islam, differ significantly. It’s clear that, in this case, identity politics carried the day.

Right, so "Top Public Intellectual" is just like Eurovision.

Full List

Amusing to see that Orientalist idiot Bernard Lewis get beaten by ten Muslims and Noam Chomsky (and Al Gore). Not so amusing to see him ranked so high.

Stephen Colbert was most popular write-in candidate. My five picks came 12th, 52nd, 31st (just edging out the Pope), 14th and 45th respectively - go TEAM!

Via Goatmilk.

2008-07-12T14:32:00.001+10:00

Looking for the late Bruce Connor's video for Mongoloid, instead I found Youtomb.

2008-07-12T14:23:00.000+10:00

"I'm not here to make friends."

Vias at link.

2008-07-07T23:16:00.003+10:00

Land of the Free

Steve Schofield's portraits of cosplayers at home.

Via wemakemoneynotart.

2008-06-26T01:20:00.000+10:00

OmNomNomNom

2008-06-25T14:00:00.002+10:00

Via Crooked Timber, the Internet Meme Timeline. Oooh, they have Charlie the Unicorn!

And PresidentialWatch08. The subject matter isn't that interesting (leader of the free world - pffft!) but the infowidgets sure are purty.

2008-06-18T01:32:00.001+10:00

Wordle

2008-06-16T12:48:00.003+10:00

IEEE Spectrum On-Line: The Singularity

Consciousness, AI, nanotechnology and the Rapture of the Nerds, with articles by both spruikers and debunkers.

2008-06-16T11:51:00.000+10:00

Food Timeline

2008-06-13T13:34:00.000+10:00

The Executive Coloring Book

2008-06-11T22:18:00.001+10:00

The utterly infuriating Spin the Black Circle flashgame.

2008-06-11T17:53:00.001+10:00

Interview with Harlan Ellison at The AV Club: Part One, Two.

Via this linkfest at Ecstatic Days.

2008-06-09T13:22:00.001+10:00

Kids are so lame.

2008-05-27T16:41:00.001+10:00

Mars Orbiter photographs Mars Lander

Via Larvatus Prodeo.

2008-05-25T18:15:00.002+10:00

I assume it's everywhere, but here's Bill O'Reilly's Producer.

Via World O' Crap.

2008-05-24T17:56:00.002+10:00

I can't believe I never "heard" about this "site" before: Unnecessary Quotation Marks

Via the boings.

2008-05-23T12:42:00.002+10:00

Photos of Japanese Highway Interchanges

Via Pink Tentacle.

2008-05-22T15:19:00.001+10:00

Like I said.

2008-05-20T23:37:00.004+10:00

At StrangeMaps, the story of the Friendly Floatees, the 29,000 bath toys spilled from a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean in 1992, some of which are now washing ashore on Atlantic coasts having travelled, ice-bound, through the North-West Passage.

And at Laughing Squid, Roll Your Own LOL, Not Just For Cats Anymore. (OK, that's, like, super-old.)

2008-05-18T15:29:00.002+10:00

Portrayals of George W. Bush in advertising

Via Sociological Images.

2008-05-14T17:32:00.001+10:00

HDR shots of the Sydney coastline from nathankaso

2008-05-11T15:26:00.000+10:00

Another View of St Petersburg

2008-05-11T12:49:00.000+10:00

Roy Edroso discovers talking e-cards.

2008-05-10T23:03:00.003+10:00

Reprinted from Not!1982, the Not the Nine O'Clock News calendar/almanac, here's The Skinhead Hamlet.

Via theinferior4+1.

2008-05-09T17:20:00.001+10:00

Some more HDR goodness:

Simon Crubellier

A r l e t t e

extranoise

gari.baldi

Christopher Chan

/\ltus

iseemooi

anthonyko

2008-05-09T13:07:00.002+10:00

At Youtube (I suspect this is going to become one of the most re-subtitled scenes in cinema history): Hillary's Downfall. Don't click if you have a problem with bad language, or angry Germans, or people being "compared to Hitler".

Via Dennis an' IOZ an' Jonathan an' ev'ybody.

2008-05-04T17:12:00.001+10:00

John Scalzi, Charles Stross and Ken Macleod play the Amazon one-star review game with their own works.

2008-05-04T16:08:00.002+10:00

Can't believe I didn't see this earlier:

In a story about Hillary Clinton challenging Barack Obama to a “Lincoln/Douglas style debate”, the geniuses at Fox News accidentally used a photo of Frederick Douglas:

Genius, indeed.

2008-05-03T01:40:00.000+10:00

Nightmare Playgrounds Part 1 and 2

Via the boings.

2008-05-02T12:25:00.006+10:00

HDR Shots of Sydney

Those of you who aren't fans of the Psychedelic Middle Earth school of High Dynamic Range photography might not like Mr Kess' pics, but I think they're brilliant. Be sure to check out his famous shot of the Miranda Fair carpark.

2008-04-28T16:56:00.003+10:00

Great God! This is an awful list. (Here if you don't want the fancy voting panel which disappears once you've voted.) I mean, seriously - Thomas Friedman? Pope Benedict XVI? Larry Fucking Summers?

Via Unspeak.

Alright, if you must know - I voted for Chompers, Lawrence Lessig, Jared Diamond, Umberto Eco, and Tony Judt (because if Richard Dawkins gets any more publicity his head will explode). Then I wrote in Thomas Frank just to be irritating.

2008-04-26T13:52:00.002+10:00

Drumbeats of the Decline and Fall of Western Civilisation No.3,876,262

Via theinferior4+1.

2008-04-23T13:45:00.002+10:00

Uçhisar Castle

2008-04-14T14:21:00.001+10:00

The map's not that interesting, but the comment thread is hilarious.

2008-04-12T23:53:00.002+10:00

Slower to this than usual, but here's GeoGreeting.

Via Eyeteeth.

2008-04-08T11:22:00.000+10:00

Via the boings, this is tres cool - a Jack Chick style comic book history of LSD.

2008-04-07T13:27:00.000+10:00

Just a reminder: 360° Cities

2008-04-06T23:28:00.001+10:00

At Nitrome: Dirk Valentine, Chaingun Wielding Steampunk Hero.

Via Brass Goggles, of course.

2008-04-04T12:48:00.001+11:00

Please do not write below the line

2008-04-03T23:25:00.000+11:00

Barack Obama, Klingon

Plus a few others.

Via A Tiny Revolution.

2008-04-03T23:00:00.000+11:00

Slow motion face slap.

2008-04-03T22:57:00.000+11:00

Creepy follow-the-mouse avatar.

2008-04-03T13:29:00.003+11:00

Via TomDispatch, the animated version of the graphic novel version of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the ~~United States~~ American Empire.

2008-04-02T11:04:00.001+11:00

Oh, did I mention -

FAFBLOG!!!!!!

2008-04-02T10:46:00.003+11:00

Raed Jarrar:

I was told by one of the officials that wearing a t-shirt with Arabic script in an airport now is like going to a bank with a t-shirt that reads, “I am a robber.”

Yes, I believe that's how they caught Dillinger.

Meanwhile, FAFBLOG!

2008-04-01T18:03:00.000+11:00

Top Ten Sweded Films

This was, like, so totally posted on the 1st.

2008-03-31T13:30:00.001+11:00

Yes, folks, we've been here five years. Cue David Bowie. Thanks, Dave!

And, yes, folks, I couldn't be bothered waiting until the actual day to post this.

There's another five year anniversary I could have mentioned this month, but I try to steer clear of angry rants on this weblog. They're for elsewhere.

Here's a song for that one. Yes, I know it's not really about Iraq. The lead singer should send a memo to the guitarist.

2008-03-30T20:02:00.002+11:00

Kinetic Typography

See also:

Top 12 kinetic typography films at The Place João Bordalo Calls Home

15 stunning motion typography videos at Marco Folio

(and via) Great scenes from television and film told using only typography at Always Watching

2008-03-30T13:11:00.001+11:00

Stop-motion cardboard cut-out animation of light cycle scene fron Tron. Is this the sort of thing we apparently call "sweded" now?

Via Drawn!.

2008-03-29T15:41:00.001+11:00

Lisa Anne Auerbach's The Little Red Blog of Revolutionary Knitting

Via Eyeteeth.

2008-03-29T15:39:00.001+11:00

Endings depress me. Rankings irk me. This is hell.

(And a pdf file.)

Via Talking Squid.

2008-03-24T18:30:00.001+11:00

Now you don't need to climb Everest.

(Not that anyone ever did, mind.)

2008-03-24T18:21:00.002+11:00

Ah, the old George Bush Speechalist bit. Good to see it's still around.

2008-03-23T14:03:00.000+11:00

Self-destructing website

NB: largish flash animation.

2008-03-22T15:28:00.000+11:00

Harlan Ellison interviewed (click the "Listen to the interview" link for the whole thing) at Salon, about, ostensibly, the new documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth. Trailer, footage of the premiere speeches and Q & A, and various readings available at the site. See also Ellison's thoughts on the proposed WGA contract, just for the hell of it.

2008-03-21T12:32:00.002+11:00

24-hour Live Journal Strike

We have* these at blogger too, but only coz the site goes down.

* OK, to be fair, it's been a while since the last one.

2008-03-20T12:19:00.000+11:00

Clarke and Dawe get boinged. Hope the steam-driven ABC site bears up to the traffic.

2008-03-19T12:20:00.000+11:00

Ah, cool! I was hoping to find the link to this: Wind turbine explodes

2008-03-18T12:36:00.001+11:00

BigDog

Packhorse robot. Watch this thing negotiate hills and snowbanks, and avoid falling over after slipping on ice.

2008-03-17T23:55:00.000+11:00

Move over, Cute Overload - it's the Armadillo Girdled Lizard!

2008-03-16T17:11:00.000+11:00

CGI animated short film: Rockfish

Via theinferior4+1.

2008-03-15T00:43:00.003+11:00

From the ridiculous* to the sublime: the tsuba

* Yesterday's post, just to be clear.

2008-03-14T17:23:00.001+11:00

I choose to link to the Dancing Walrus.

2008-03-13T16:47:00.001+11:00

Objective Christian Ministries Science Fair
Yes, it's satire. Enjoy.
Via Pharyngula.

2008-03-13T12:47:00.002+11:00

Night of Silence

Commemorating the victims of Nazism on the 70th anniversary of the anschluss.

Some photographs of the candle installations at Heldenplatz, Vienna, from Flickr:
one two three four five six seven eight

2008-03-13T12:12:00.000+11:00

Not. Glow. In. The. Dark.

They fluoresce under ultraviolet light. Making them fluorescent.

NOT. GLOW. IN. THE. DARK. Got it?!

2008-03-08T17:59:00.001+11:00

Urban Exploration in Poland

2008-03-08T17:19:00.001+11:00

Denis Darzacq - Hyper

2008-03-08T14:50:00.000+11:00

Original Vs Remake

2008-03-05T13:32:00.001+11:00

"DVNO" by Justice

Dunno if the single's any good (didn't listen, to be honest) but the video is a lovingly detailed tribute to the cheesy animated logos of the Eighties.

2008-03-03T21:21:00.001+11:00

At Google Video, the 1990 (or is it 1993? - given I saw it on first release you'd think I'd remember) documentary Cyberpunk. Gosh, Gibbo looks young.

2008-03-03T00:53:00.000+11:00

Chat Noir
Catch the cat.

2008-03-01T15:58:00.003+11:00

Peter Russell Clark (Australian celebrity chef of the 80s) blooper reel - NB: Frequent Strong Language.

Scene from Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger done in claymation - internet scuttlebutt claims this clip was banned, which seems to mean deleted from original cinematic release, like all those other "banned" scenes you get to watch on DVD extras. Wikipedia entry; IMdB entry. You can't help be amused by people commenting "Who knew Mark Twain was so dark?" What did they teach these people?

2008-02-28T16:21:00.003+11:00

Really Just Odd:

Melty Bunny - Video

The People's Mario - Video

Garfield Minus Garfield

Though that last is also genius. (An extension of this.)

2008-02-26T01:08:00.001+11:00

My six word motto: Thankfully, Americans Aren't Always This Lame.

2008-02-25T11:25:00.000+11:00

Airtoons

2008-02-24T12:15:00.000+11:00

At Flickr, Disturbing Sculptures.

Via Monster Brains.

2008-02-17T15:49:00.002+11:00

I hadn't seen the original for a while but it's still as good as ever: Creature Comforts.

2008-02-16T01:54:00.001+11:00

Minimal Lemmings