I love the Muppets, always have, always will. So I was delighted to find this on Youtube. It’s Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody re-imagined by the muppets. Not sure if it’s actually new, but the 1080p quality certainly is new and it is pretty stunning to watch it stream.
Enjoy!
As I’m currently lacking in things to post, here’s a cat doing the robot…
Hopefully I’ll actually come up with something slightly more substantial in a day or two!
What can only be described as a human function, this thermal image at first glance looks like something from space, captured by a telescope….then you realise it’s just a man’s butt while farting and your world comes crumbling down.
It’s getting close to Christmas 2009 and once again it looks like X-Factor is going to be the christmas number one, regardless of what else comes up. I’m not sure about you but I feel it’s time for a traditional christmas song again, no more random song for christmas, it’s time for a real christmas song, and while there are plenty of options, I feel Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Bruce Springsteen has real potential, it embodies all that christmas has to offer. It’s certainly “christmasy” (Santa Claus, come on!) and it’s a happy song, it just embodies the feeling of christmas superbly.
So many people now just go out and get the latest number one at christmas, regardless of the context of the song. Children now have no idea of the true christmas feeling, the family gathering today to listen to a christmas album that actually has songs about christmas rather than being a depressing song about bleeding love.
It’s almost christmas which means soon enough will be time to start buying your CD’s or your MP3’s, so I urge you, don’t waste your money on the X-Factor song (just turn the radio on any hour on any station, you’ll get it for free pretty much any time you like!), spend money on something that embodies the true spirit of christmas, buy Santa Claus Is Coming To Town by Bruce Springsteen.
You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town…
And to help you out, here’s some ways to buy it:
Amazon – Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (Single Version) – MP3
Bruce Springsteen – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
And finally, because it is the 21st century and we have Youtube:
Edit: My friend at work Dan (who I was discussing this with today) has blogged about it too and he made a good point I missed out, don’t buy it yet! It needs to be bought in the 2 weeks prior to Christmas so it stands a change of being Christmas number one 2009. We can do this, we can get it to number one this year! Please please, if you have a blog, link to this article or to Dan’s. If you don’t, tweet about it or put it on your face book page. Spread the word!
It’s almost Halloween and that means costumes, however one parent seriously needs to re-think their childs costume, a fuzzy monster with a penis and single testicle isn’t going to go down well with a lot of parents I’m pretty sure!
You can view more over at io9.
There’s never a free toilet available when you’re in a rush, well not anymore! Except maybe the chinese would not be best pleased if you attempted to use this centre-piece as a pit stop. Created for a ceramics festival, it’s a different idea, but I really don’t like that blue toilet.
Saw this over at Lifehacker this morning from xkcd. I read this as “this is why geeks are more dangerous than terrorists.”
Holger Bech Nielsen of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and Masao Ninomiya from the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto are both in agreement that one possible explanation for the constant failings of the large hadron collider (LHC) is that it is being intentionally sabotaged by people from the future. Sound weird? Well it is, but at the same time, they’re basing their theories on current science fact about quantum physics and time travel. And the reason this is OK (unlike travelling back in time to kill your grandfather) and wouldn’t result in a paradox is apparently accepted.
However they also suggest maybe God (yes, scientics are saying God) may be preventing it as he does not want us to discover the Higg’s Boson particle either.
One reader on io9 made a comment that if you read the below quotes as though you’re the voice over from the movie Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, they take on a much more amusing tone – and he’s right, they suddenly sound “right.”
It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck,” Dr. Nielsen said in an e-mail message. In an unpublished essay, Dr. Nielson said of the theory, “Well, one could even almost say that we have a model for God.” It is their guess, he went on, “that He rather hates Higgs particles, and attempts to avoid them.
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While it is a paradox to go back in time and kill your grandfather, physicists agree there is no paradox if you go back in time and save him from being hit by a bus. In the case of the Higgs and the collider, it is as if something is going back in time to keep the universe from being hit by a bus. Although just why the Higgs would be a catastrophe is not clear. If we knew, presumably, we wouldn’t be trying to make one.
Volkswagen have decided to give the world of viral video a go and have pretty much nailed it. These two video’s are spreading over the internet like wildfire. The first is a “deep bin,” a trash can that when you throw rubbish in, sounds like it’s dropping for a long distance. The second is about musical stairs.
The best bit about these two videos though is the fact the only time you know it was Volkswagen is at the very end for about 2 seconds when they show their logo – that’s it. Now people are discussing Volkswagen like crazy and all they had to do was avoid any real advertising.
Friday afternoon, the working week is almost over, so here’s some random crap courtesy of engrish.com.
