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San Francisco to vote on naming sewer after George Bush

… However, Mr McConnell claimed to have only noticed two forms of opposition during his campaign so far. “First, we get people who say they just want to forget George Bush’s presidency,” he said. “Second, we hear from those who say that sewage plants perform a valuable public service and, as such, it does not make sense to name one after George Bush.”

USA Today writes about Tata and it’s recent acquisition of Jaguar and Land Rover. Via Thomas P.M. Barnett’s blog who predicts Tata’s future place in the world economy:

Tata aims to produce for the bottom of the pyramid consumers, and all those sales will mean Tata becomes a global car kingpin. And global auto kingpins buy upscale brands to complete their offerings. This happens all the time in consumer goods industries, and it will happen here. It’s just that this time, it won’t be American companies in the lead, because car manufacturing tends to be driven by rising economic pillars, not mature ones.

It’s interesting to hear the near death experience of a brain Scientist and the language she uses to describe it. No white light, but a lot of energy and atoms. Via Boing Boing’s Top 10 TED Talks.

“How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I’ve gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career.”

Jill Bolte Taylor

The New Yorker’s Simon Rich has a great piece titled Animal Tales the best part of which is posted below.

FREE-RANGE CHICKENS

“Well, it’s another beautiful day in paradise.”

“How’d we get so lucky?”

“I don’t know and I don’t care.”

“I think I’ll go walk over there for a while. Then I’ll walk back over here.”

“That sounds like a good time. Maybe I’ll do the same.”

“Hey, someone refilled the grain bucket!”

“Is it the same stuff as yesterday?”

“I hope so.”

“Oh, man, it’s the same stuff, all right.”

“It’s so good.”

“I can’t stop eating it.”

“Hey, you know what would go perfectly with this grain? Water.”

“Dude. Look inside the other bucket.”

“This . . . is the greatest day of my life.”

“Drink up, pal.”

“Cheers!”

(Laughs.)

(Laughs.)

“Hey, look, the farmer’s coming.”

“Huh. Guess it’s my turn to go into the thing.”

“Cool. See you later, buddy.”

“See ya.”

As usual the Onion treads the line so hilariously close I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

I saw Wall-E tonight, which was fantastic, and their logo always reminds me of this ad.

I’ve been rediscovering Mcsweeney’s recently, and this one from Carmen Nobel is an absolute classic.

Names for Your Transgendered Baby.
Sharonald

Jennifred

Pablarbara

Stevelyn

Gearl

Sethel

Bruth

Jimmy Marie

Half Nelson

A beating heart with a transparency slider.

From the Hirose Fukushima Lab in Japan. via

Our High Priest of Frisbeetarianism has died. May his soul be forever lodged in that part where the drain meets the roof.

Herald Tribune – CNN – AP

Growing up in a religious and morally conservative household, having George Carlin tell me that it was okay to laugh at it all, because it was all funny, was a welcome revelation. He was the best kind of joker, the kind that had to laugh hard because he cared about it all maybe a little too much, took it all a bit too personally. To be exposed to Carlin’s particular style of obscenity was such a welcome smack in the face, he challenged my ideas about religion and life and demanded I form my own opinions.

WARNING: The following videos are humorous.

They are NSFW and if you don’t know what that acronym means or if you don’t know who George Carlin is, you should probably not watch it and just go here instead. Do not click if you are easily offended. In fact you should use that as your mantra while moving around this thing called the ‘internet.’ What are you even doing online if you’re easily offended? Haven’t you seen these figures?

THE BPA – THE BPA ‘TOE JAM’ FEAT. DAVID BYRNE & DIZZEE RASCAL from Fabio Resende on Vimeo.

It’s been interesting to watch over the years how Sony managed to usurp Nintendo from the #1 console title and then has watched as Nintendo out innovated them to get back in the lead. As it stands Nintendo now outsells Sony and Microsoft at about 2 to 1. I’m not going to go into the reasons why this has happened, but I would like to draw attention to three adverts that I think sum up the advertising and marketing campaigns for each of the three generations of Sony consoles.

Beginning with a signature piece from Chris Cunningham for the original Playstation:

Some amazing work from The Mill for Playstation 2:

And the new spot from TBWA for Playstation 3:

Some good feelings for you now. Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forrest (which used to enchant me as a kid watching SBS in the afternoons) and the latest video from Where the Hell is Matt. Enjoy

Warning Adult themed visual pun. Click the vid for a higher res version. via

thunderheist – jerk it from thatgo on Vimeo.

Bomb It the new Graffiti Documentary. via Yo Peace.

A map of ancient courses of the Mississippi river. via