Author Archives: Niall Murphy
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A tiny catapult hurls tiny pies at a selection of insects. To the sound of the Viennese Whirl, eh, Waltz.
A thing of great beauty. And a mobile phone ad, obviously.
If We Don’t, Remember Me is a single-serving tumblr dedicated to looping gifs of classic movie moments, with quotes.
It’s extremely well executed but will tend to mess with your head.
Last July, Ozzy Osbourne agreed to become one of a few humans to have his entire genome sequenced and studied.
“I was curious,” he wrote in his (Sunday Times) column. “Given the swimming pools of booze I’ve guzzled over the years—not to mention all of the cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol…you name it—there’s really no plausible medical reason why I should still be alive. Maybe my DNA could say why.”
So what did the genome analysis reveal about the Prince of Darkness?
He’s descended from Neandertals.
Aren’t we all?
Ozzy Osbourne’s Genome Reveals Some Neandertal Lineage (Scientific American)
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A patch of missing fur on the back of Vladimir Putin the rabbit in the shape of a…
…nothing. It’s all in your mind.
Pareidolia: what is it, and show me another, absolutely stunning example of it, this instant.
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Logorama, directed by the French animation collective H5: François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy and Ludovic Houplain. It won the 2010 Oscar for best animated short.
If you’ve never seen it before, and harbour any kind of ill-will toward Ronald McDonald, you’re in for a treat.
[YouTube version for the Flashless]
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