Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Alfred Hitchcock                                                       Einstein in his beach sandals

Stevie Wonder and Grover

Michael Jackson and Steve Tyler

Christoper Walken                                                       Nancy Reagan and Mr T (1983)

Keith Richards, Tina Turner and David Bowie (1983)

This Is Not Porn is a fully searchable, regularly updated website dedicated to ‘rare and beautiful celebrity photos’. The examples above are just a taster.

It’s superb. Bookmark it. Bookmark it now.

According to Redditor, alyisontrodyx, Esperanza Spalding’s Best New Artist win at the Grammys this week didn’t go down at all well with fans of Justin Bieber, who was pipped into second place.

It could be a fake, but the use of the epithet ‘heck’ has all the hallmarks of a Bieberite.

Either way, eagle-eyed editors at Wikipedia have already set the record straight.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S02aJ2nUQo&feature=player_embedded

Der Mensch als Industriepalast, by the Berlin-based popular science writer Dr Fritz Kahn (1888 – 1968) was one of a series of illustrations created in the 1920s and 30s, showing the workings of the human body as if composed of machinery.

This 2009 animation, by Henning M Lederer, adds a further layer of detail, in period-specific style.

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image: dephx

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yidx8hykIiQ

Twisternederland, Broadsheets favourite Dutch fail compiler, has added a new string to his bow: Win-Luck compilations. Here’s his tribute to the first two months of 2011.

All the sevens. Not a faceplant or crotchshot in sight.

Twisternederland

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM3s37fZZts

Outtakes and unused scenes from the unbelievably cute Superbowl ad for the VW Passat featuring a pint-sized Darth Vader learning to use the Force.

If anything, this one’s better than the original.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDdM1q6qOfU

On Superbowl Sunday (6th February) Bill O’ Reilly of FOX News interviewed Obama and managed to interrupt POTUS no fewer than 48 times. Here’s a fair and balanced supercut.

Full interview here.

Meanwhile, because it never gets old, here’s our favourite Bill O’Reilly flip-out:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY

Haranguetastic context.
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