Author Archives: Niall Murphy

In the interests of child safety, and to avoid the attention of the ISPCA, Gardai and Department of Health and Children this Halloween, you may care to peruse the following:

10 Halloween Costumes You Should Never Let Your Kids Wear (Better Parenting)

‘This phenomenal picture (and close up) was taken by astrophotographer Alan Friedman on October 20th….You can see sunspots, giant convection cells, and the gas that follows magnetic loops piercing the Sun’s surface.

The (second pic) shows prominences leaping up off the edge and silhouetted against the sky. They look so delicate, probably because they make the Sun look fuzzy, like a comfy blanket… but have no doubts on the fury and scale of what you’re seeing here. See that little bright spot on the plume on the left, just above the Sun’s edge?

That spot is the same size as the Earth.’

Read more: The Boiling Erupting Sun (Bad Astronomy)

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Director Mark Wong’s turbo version of Top Gun, winner of Empire magazine’s 2010 Done In 60 Seconds Competition.

[Quentin Tarantino, (thanks Karl), also had a great take on Top Gun.]

Previously: There Will Be Blood as a 16-bit SNES game.

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pQIVdFjw8A&feature=player_embedded

Slowly running out of un-inked skin, Matt ‘arguably the most tattooed man in Portland Oregon’ Gone takes it to the next level, risking septicemia and permanent blindness.

Don’t try this at home, kids.

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Internet comment-magnet Ava Grace Barnettt Cafarelli giving it the full charismatic recently at Ignited Church in Lakeland Florida.

Inevitably, someone’s done this, now.

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