HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MR. AMATOSAUCE!

Move over, Apocalyptica, there’s a new game in town: Van Canto.

(I know it seems stupid at first, but give it a chance. It actually turns out to be pretty amazing, all things considered.) Their “Master of Puppets” might even be better than their “Battery”.

Who would have thought you could get four-part (or five?) harmony on Metallica!

P.S. Mike, this background’s all for you. But wait, THERE’S MORE! Here’s a free bonus alternative background image.

P.P.S. Don’t use the fancy new “hide everything and show background” button while the video is playing, or it’ll just go back to the beginning when you show it again. :(

Okay, I’m not exaggerating when I say that I saw this video yesterday, and it’s already one of my most favourite videos on the internet, ever! (Yes, Nick & Tom, more than silly animal videos.)

It’s a little bit twee, and maybe the idea isn’t original (I don’t know).

But the idea is still genius, and the execution is exceptional.

The only downside is that I am absolutely gutted that we didn’t think of it first. (Especially since Mike would have the domain name for it already.)

It’s embedded below, but I would recommend full-screening it; it just looks nicer.

Oh, apparently, there’s a longer version at the guy’s site, but that video didn’t play for me.

(P.S. If one of you CG nerds says “Well, actually, they’re not pixels at all… they’re actually voxels!”, I’m going to break a bottle of AmatoSauce over your head.)

(P.P.S. Vimeo says it was only uploaded yesterday, so I’m safe from the “OLLLLLLLLD!” haterade.)

Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog Robot (for videos, description, etc.)

I honestly can’t decide which is greater: how absolutely fucking creepy this thing is, or how impressive it actually is.

There is, and has only ever been, ONE Glaswegian football team; and they are the Glasgow Diamonds.

They are the Diamonds.
They come from Glasgow.
They’re here to play football
Football’s their game.

Fuckin’-a!

Bask in their awesomeness:

So, despite all the warnings, and crazy people, saying how it would kill us all, the LHC is online and kicking some scientific ass, and I think we should all celebrate that!

For example, I would recommend checking out the live webcams, from the LHC itself, near Geneva.

(That’s just a still image, you have to click on it to view the webcams. Worth watching for a minute or two, just to marvel in the awesomeness of science.)

At least, that’s what I assume it is.

There’s no way it’s a real spider, despite what everyone else, and the Wikipedia, says.

It’s not. There’s no such thing, and there’s no fucking way this thing exists in nature.

Nope. Not true.

FALSE!

All the other countless similar videos on YouTube? Also fakes. People are determined to keep this myth alive.

Tom: I warn you, if you comment, saying “Oh strewth, we’ve got loads of them little blighters over here, you flamin’ galah!”, then well, I think it’s safe to say I’m petitioning the Home Office to prevent you (and anyone else travelling from Australia) to never be allowed back into Britain again. Just to be safe. No offense; nothing personal.

(Alternative title for this post: “Take off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”)

(From Married to the Sea.)

I dunno, it makes me laugh.