Monthly Archives: February 2012


Feeling a little short-changed by the measly minute-long Avengers trailer? Here’s the unofficial fan-made version, edited by Nick Montgomery with help from Thomas Gofton.

Screen Rant and Synn Studios put together the ultimate fan-made trailer for The Avengers using the extended Super Bowl trailer, the first trailer for The Avengers, and footage from previous Marvel Studios films including Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger.

Ahh. That’s better.

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Some moon have gone astray at times of revolution or political transition. The US national archives show that a rock was presented to the late Romanian dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, but Gutheinz [Joseph Gutheinz Jr, the Texas-based lawyer and former Nasa agent, who has become known as the “moon rock hunter”] believes it was sold after his execution.

Then there is the mysterious tale of how – after a fire at an observatory in Dublin – Ireland’s Apollo 11 moon rock ended up lying in a rubbish dump, after apparently being thrown out with the rest of the debris.

“It’s still there under a couple of tonnes of trash. That could definitely be worth over $5m (£3.1m). I’ll tell you where it’s at. It’s in the Finglas landfill dump in Dublin,” Gutheinz says.

 

To Finglas then.

And don’t spare the horses.

What Has Happened To Nasa’s Missing Moon Rocks? (BBC)

Thanks Eoin McLoughlin

 

Blogger Hashi discovered a rather wonderful piece of Japanese art which he sums up beautifully:

The whole scroll, which is called He-Gassen (“The Fart Battle”) is just about people farting. Farting at other people, farting at cats, farting off of horses, farting into bags; just farting everywhere.

The whys and wherefores of the scrolls origin is lost to time but he speculaties

I kept expecting to find some deep cultural explanation as to why these guys made whole scrolls about farting. But I think it really just boils down to one universal truth: farts are funny.

You can’t say fairer than that.

[via @ameliacc]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVEaHcyMesQ

Politics: it’s a dirty f***ing business…

(Australian) Foreign Minister (and former/possibly future PM) Kevin Rudd says the timing of the release of a damaging video in which he furiously swears and rounds on embassy officials and a Chinese interpreter is “a little … unusual”.

The video, in which Mr Rudd – who was prime minister at the time it was recorded – slams the table and curses repeatedly, has been posted on YouTube as a Labor MP publicly warned the party would be ”decimated” if it stuck with Julia Gillard.

In an interview on Sky News this morning, Mr Rudd said the video was embarrassing but his frustration was directed at himself and no one else.

Rudd row gets dirty (The Age.com)

(Hat tip: “Marko Van Bosnich”)

Nick O’Neill dissects how Forbes was able to outdo the New York Times by sexing up a headline. “How Companies Learn Your Secrets” just didn’t set the internet alight like “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did”.

As of the writing of this story, the New York Times article has 60 likes and shares on Facebook versus 12,902 which the Forbes article has. The Forbes article also has a mind boggling 680,000 page views, a number that can literally make a writer’s career.

[via @irishstu]

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