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Not content with rampant sexism, this appeared in an ad on The Age online today: Could my son be...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:43:23 +1100

Not content with rampant sexism, this appeared in an ad on The Age online today:

Could my son be gay?

My six-year-old son has always been a very gentle kid and prefers playing with his sister’s doll house than kicking a ball. Am I worrying too much?

Yes you are, you fucking homophobe.

Booty Groove, a mashup of Professor Booty and Groove Holmes from...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:52:00 +1100

Booty Groove, a mashup of Professor Booty and Groove Holmes from Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head album.

This mashup is the standout track from Doublecheck Your Head. Some of the other tracks are a little over-engineered, but this one hits the mark for me.

"In 2007 a group of lesser geniuses at MIT got all pumped up out of their minds because they..."

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:20:58 +1100

“In 2007 a group of lesser geniuses at MIT got all pumped up out of their minds because they wirelessly transmitted energy a distance seven feet through the air. Nikola Tesla once lit 200 lightbulbs from a power source 26 miles away, and he did it in 1899 with a machine he built from spare parts in the middle of the god-forsaken desert. To this day, nobody can really figure out how the hell he pulled that shit off, because two-thirds of the schematics only existed in the darkest recesses of Tesla’s all-powerful brain.”

- Badass of the Week: Nikola Tesla

(from Daring Fireball via I Am Bored) The Mariana Trench is the...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:23:46 +1100

(from Daring Fireball via I Am Bored)

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known place on Earth. It’s more than 2000 metres deeper than Mount Everest is high.

Trying To Find A Balance by Atmosphere. Yeah, I’ve got...

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:00:50 +1100

Trying To Find A Balance by Atmosphere.

Yeah, I’ve got some last words — fuck all a’ y’all,
Stop writing raps and go play volleyball

Who Farted? (Part 1), a surprising dump of toilet humour from...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:53:00 +1100

Who Farted? (Part 1), a surprising dump of toilet humour from the normally earnest and poetic Sage Francis.

Who farted? Was it Will Smith?
Did you check his underwear? Did it leave fresh prints?
Who farted? Was it Jar-Jar Binks?
Is he the reason the new Star Wars stinks?
Johnny Cash? Is that who farted?
When his ass passed gas was it dearly departed?

…and so on.

(via juliasegal)

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:45:48 +1100

(via juliasegal)

Women of Melbourne by The Sailors. There’s lots of...

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:54:00 +1100

Women of Melbourne by The Sailors.

There’s lots of lesbians in Northcote…

I Will Lick Your Arsehole by Regurgitator. Still awesome 13...

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:45:00 +1100

I Will Lick Your Arsehole by Regurgitator. Still awesome 13 years later, and they spell “arsehole” correctly.

"Apple has also been planning a revamp of its iTunes music service by creating a Web-based version of..."

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:58:10 +1100

“Apple has also been planning a revamp of its iTunes music service by creating a Web-based version of it that could launch as soon as June, say people familiar with the matter. Tentatively called iTunes.com, the service would allow customers to buy music without going through the specialized iTunes program on computers and iPhones.”

- Wall Street Journal

I hope this is true. iTunes’ bloat has taken it from one of my favourite programs to use in 2002 to one of my least favourite today.

andytlr: Last song at The Tote. The drones with Joel...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:15:00 +1100

andytlr:

Last song at The Tote.

The drones with Joel Silbersher on vocals singing My Pal by Joel’s band GOD.

Fucking amazing. Nuff said.

Update: Download here.

Theme from Rocky XIII by “Weird Al” Yankovic. In a...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:10:07 +1100

Theme from Rocky XIII by “Weird Al” Yankovic.

In a world gone mad, it’s good to know Weird Al’s still out there. Takin’ it easy for all us sinners.

Sweat Of My Balls by CB4, a song dedicated to last night.

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:53:08 +1100

Sweat Of My Balls by CB4, a song dedicated to last night.

Professor Booty by the Beastie Boys. Killer rhymes from Mike...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:14:00 +1100

Professor Booty by the Beastie Boys. Killer rhymes from Mike D:

You’ve got the boomin’ system but it’s blasting out doo-doo,
You think it’s chocolate milk but it’s watered down yoo-hoo

…and MCA:

So many wack M.C.s, you get the T.V. bozack,
Ain’t even gonna call out your names ‘cause you’re so wack,
But one big oaf whose faker than plastic,
A dictionary definition of the word spastic

"See, here’s the problem: if rappers were bass players, most of them would be Flea."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:42:07 +1100

“See, here’s the problem: if rappers were bass players, most of them would be Flea.”

- Buck 65

Ah, cheese — you traitorous bastard. Remember the good old days? I don’t remember ever...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:07:46 +1100

Ah, cheese — you traitorous bastard.

Remember the good old days? I don’t remember ever being introduced; it was as if you were always there. First, as Kraft singles—individually wrapped in that weird plastic—then as Coon, followed by a wide-ranging affair, taking in soft cheeses, hard cheeses, cheeses with fruit in, cheeses in strange colours…

I remember taking you to school for years as a child, sometimes on your own, sometimes in sandwiches with Vegemite or tomato … those were good times, weren’t they?

Yeah, we didn’t always get along—I still don’t know what you were thinking when you let yourself go all mouldy, and what you let the Americans do to you beggars belief—but more often than not, you were a brilliant bastard. A brilliant, delicious bastard.

Oh, what did I ever do to you? I loved you, goddamn it!

Now, when I see you, I have to look away. I just can’t stand it.

Okay, I’ll admit it. Occasionally, I’ll try a piece. Just a small piece is okay, but who am I kidding? I can’t just have a small piece, I need more. And you let me have it too, you bitch. Then you laugh at me, as I’m doubled over in agony, my insides a mess.

Fuck you cheese. I never want to see you again.

…

…wh-what? You’ve got a lactose-free cousin?

Too Soon?

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:04:00 +1100

According to the Daily Mail, somebody’s in deep water for selling an ice tray which lets you create a replica Titanic from ice, complete with four icebergs.

Titanic boffin Brian Ticehurst described them as distasteful, adding “hundreds of people died in the tragedy … how long will it be before this firm makes ice cubes of the Twin Towers to commemorate 9/11?”

My first impulse was to dismiss of Ticehurst as a humourless toff—I know I’ve seen plenty of pop-culture send-ups of the Titanic disaster—but it got me thinking — how soon is too soon to poke fun?

The Titanic sank 97 years ago, and to me, it feels like it’s completely OK to make a joke about it. Massive disasters which happened centuries ago, such as the Black Plague or the Potato Famine, also feel like fair game — that I play in a band with a song called “Potato Famine Waltz” is testament to this.

The Holocaust, on the other hand, happened 64 years ago, and it’s definitely not OK to poke fun at that. Same with the World Trade Center disaster.

I suspect that I feel it’s OK to poke fun at things which have no living survivors, provided a reasonable time has passed. Maybe I’ll save this for my Mathematics thesis.

(via cmdrriker)

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:08:13 +1100

(via cmdrriker)

The glamour and excitement of the Melbourne Cup. via The Daily...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:05:57 +1100

The glamour and excitement of the Melbourne Cup.

via The Daily Telegraph

Rice is Nice by mclusky. Sixty-six seconds of the noisiest pop...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:56:19 +1100

Rice is Nice by mclusky. Sixty-six seconds of the noisiest pop you’ll ever hear.