A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction

I think we just found out what happened to all the other intelligent civilisations

Japan from space

Monkeys harrass kenyan women

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Along with carrying inter-office mail, overnight packages and bills, mail carts in Washington, D.C., Chicago and Dallas delivered the aroma of freshly prepared Kentucky Fried Chicken during pre-lunch mail drops.

http://www.kfc.com/about/pressreleases/082807.asp

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

World's smallest vehicles

Low-landing planes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solved_by_MacGyver

"Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not"

Illusion is the first of all pleasures

Some surreal aerial shots

Light-up keyboards

Tesla coils

We broke the speed of light and created gravity; next week we invent a machine to kick god in the balls.

Taliban

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/taliban.aspx

Chernobyl Legacy

http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essays/chernobyl.aspx
Magnum in Motion: http://inmotion.magnumphotos.com/

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter'.' There is death. And whatever is matters.

Uniqlo Clock

"Death cult didn't register among the tweens so we're going with very-sleepy-pony-club"

Worst stunt scene ever

Swiss fallout shelter

Mysteries in History

This Working Life

Betelnut girls (Binlang Xi Shi) are a unique part of Taiwan culture. They sit in brightly-decorated glass booths wearing skimpy outfits, and sell cigarettes, drinks and betelnut to passing drivers. It’s a controversial trade but not actually illegal. The question of whether the girls are exploited is open to debate – certainly their own perception is mostly that they are doing a job like any other, and the less they choose to wear, the more they sell.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobie_openshaw/sets/72157594581621891/
http://www.takaoclub.com/binlang/binlangbox.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betel_nut_beauty

George Orwell Wounded by a Fascist Sniper, by George Orwell

The blood was dribbling out of the corner of my mouth. "The artery's gone," I thought. I wondered how long you last when your carotid artery is cut; not many minutes, presumably. Everything was very blurry. There must have been about two minutes during which I assumed I was killed. And that too was interesting

http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/soldiers/george-orwell-shot.html

One Must be Absolutely Modern

Maison Bulle; Pierre Cardin’s outrageous bubble house, originally designed by Antti Lovag, near Cannes.

http://kensparkesphotography.com/?p=42

Trapped in the Closet; a Hip-Hopera by R Kelly

Full: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2969374583886026984&q=trapped+in+the+closet&total=1199&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
EDIT: And there are new episodes, introduced by the man himself: http://ifc.com/static/sections/kelly/trapped.html

Lion Vs Buffalo Vs Crocodile

Also: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=036_1186245897

Trauma Pod

A single human will operate the robot remotely during surgery, but Trauma Pod will be able to perform a number of functions, such as fluid administration and surgical assistance, autonomously. The goal is to stabilize injured soldiers as quickly as possible, and previous Trauma Pod designs have included related systems that evacuate the patient... a prototype will be delivered to troops within two years.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4220163.html

When the going gets tough; start sucking dicks.

"I certainly wasn't there to have sex with anybody and certainly wasn't there to exchange money for it," said [State Representative] Allen ... who was arrested on charges of soliciting prostitution.

"This was a pretty stocky black guy, and there was nothing but other black guys around in the park," Allen, who is white, told police in a taped statement after his arrest. Allen said he feared he "was about to be a statistic" and would have said anything just to get away.

Random

"One more baby means one more tomb."

Meat-flavoured cardboard ends all bad news for China.

Stanislav_Petrov#1983_incident

Rats laugh.

I live in the valley, my friends are always smiling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunraku
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley

Ferro Fluids

http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/protrudeflow/index.html

A Thousand Monday's

King KaMehaMeha

1 ounce passion fruit nectar
1 ounce pineapple juice
1/4 ounce triple sec
3/4 ounce dry gin
3/4 ounce brandy

Blend all ingredients over 1/4 cup shaved ice. Pour into 7-ounce highball glass. Garnish with slice of orange, red cherry, 6-inch candy-striped straw with paper parasol inserted.

Random links section with interesting title

Polish radio station makes first moonbase.

“Larger pieces of flesh torn off by the lizards were scooped up and taken back to the webs of tarantulas and other bird-eating spiders.”

New Oklahoma licence-plates.

Your personal moon.

Bottom-up demolitition.

David Lynch tells it

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

DNA wrapping and replication visualisation:

This is happening inside you right now:
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_innerlife.html

The Great Happiness Space

"The lives of the hosts and their customers at first seemed to be extreme and unfathomably foreign from a western perspective. Although many people in Japan see hosts as despicable I see hosts involved in something that is close to all of our hearts, which is the struggle between making a buck and doing the right thing. There is real fascination in looking at this strange form of emotional pseudo prostitution that caters to some women's desires so successfully that they will got to almost any lengths, and pay thousands of dollars to consume it.

I felt no need to be judgmental ... The extent to which there are parallels between female prostitution and male host culture is left up to viewer, but everyone in the film is paying a price one way or another. " - Jake Clennell (Director)

http://www.thegreathappinessspace.com/
Watch: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6186147595582048109

Propaganda Quotes

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”

—Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004

More: http://alternativereel.com/conspiracy/Propaganda_Quotes.html

Non-newtonian fluids

more: http://www.everyoneforever.com/content/2007-06-28/nonnewtonian_fluids/

I didn’t want an idea until later; and that turned out to be much too late.

Ryûichi Hiroki’s new film : M

http://www.movie-m.com/

The Wild Man - Chris Doyle Interview

FILMMAKER: You are currently working on a U.S. film. Is there a fundamental difference in the process of filmmaking between the U.S. and Asia?

DOYLE: No. I think the real difference is the level of energy. In Asia now it’s like the Australian new wave, the cinema novo in Brazil, the French new wave. Why? Because there was this confluence of intent and economics, and all those elements sort of matched up at that time. What is strange in the west is — well, not strange I guess — is that people are lost. Let’s be honest. [laughs] People are lost, whether you blame 9/11 or whether you blame the lack of education in schools. Whatever you blame it on, it doesn’t matter. Whereas in Asia, people are finding their voice. It’s been a long journey, you know. Everyone in China is on a roll, [laughs] there’s no question.

http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/fall2005/features/wild_man.php