Jaaa je weet dat je het altijd al hebt willen hebben en ik weet dat ook. Dus hier is je kans!  Het blad “New Scientist” heeft een prijsvraag ter ere van het 40-jarig jubileum van de maanlanding. De hoofdprijs is een stuk maansteen. En meedoen is zo simpel… zo simpel… Je hoeft alleen maar een betere text te verzinnen die Neil Armstrong had kunnen zeggen in plaats van: “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

En dat kun jij… Dat kun jij beter dan ik. Het mag iets cultureels zijn:

High diddle diddle,
The Cat and the Fiddle,
The Cow jump’d over the Moon

Of iets diepzinnigs:

E=mc², where E=earth, m=moon, c=cow that jumped over the m

Of iets grappigs (of een poging daartoe):

Hi Honey, I’m actually in a tv studio, I’ll be home for dinner tonight.

Kortom… Win die maansteen.

Okay here’s a really funny video. Sure you’ve seen all the raps to order at drive-thru fast-food joints… But these guys do it in a folk song…. and… they get p0wn3d… BIG TIME!!

Oh alright a few days ago I wrote how I like the muscial parodies of Weird Al Yankovic. And I remembered seeing a video of Al doing Bob Dylan. A parody on Subterranean Homesick Blues. Now I really love most of the work of Bob Dylan. And to be honest I really like Subterranean Homesick Blues. I think it’s a pretty solid song. I love the line “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”. Very powerful…. The man is an icon however poking fun, even at icons, is okay in my book. So first watch Bob Dylan:

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I just saw this picture on digg. The title is “The most ironic tattoo you will ever see“. Well ironic may not be the right word but it’s kind a weird, isn’t it? Look at the nose of the shark. It really is a great tattoo, a piece of art. I really don’t know if a shark really bit off his arm or that he forgot to read the manual of the toaster. Really funny comments can be found in the reactions on the digg page.

Love. How beautiful it can be… It’s warm… it’s cozy… you even have the right music to match the romantical moment… cuddling is so good… until you rub her the wrong way.

I always liked the extremely funny musical parodies of Weird Al Yankovic. I recently found out that Weird Al is on twitter. He twitters about all & nothing. So read about how he has been recording some new songs in the studio. I especially like the photos he’s making. For instance 9 days ago he met Ray Manzarek, the legendary keyboard player/composer from The Doors… Who doesn’t love the brilliant organ solo in “Break on through” and “Light my Fire”?

And look-a-here who he has also met… captain Kirk. Oh boy, how exciting life is when you ride the rollercoaster instead of watching it from the ground. There’s even a picture of Al cutting himself while shaving… how’s that for glamour?

Oh this is very nice. I just came across this geek hack that plays the Super Mario tune using the stepper motor of a laser cutter. Now they actually use both axis. One for the tune the other for the bass parts. A truly amazing hack found through hackday.com. Even the ruby source code is available through the link.

Oh hilarious… there will be a brand new Spinal Tap album. For those unfamiliar with the Spinal Tap phenomenon read this. Spinal Tap is a parody heavy metal band featured in the mockumentary “This is Spinal Tap” (1984). Please note that there should be a ¨ above the ‘n’ in ‘spinal’ to make it more ‘heavy metal’. Unfortunately this symbol is not even available in unicode

If you’ve never seen this funny movie please put some effort in obtaining a copy and watch it. You’ll wet your pants. Here’s one legendary scene where the guitarists explains why Spinal Tap is way better than all the other bands: they have amplifiers that go to ’11′. For when they need that little extra to push it over the cliff you know?

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Oh no… the economic crisis has reached Southpark. Very funny episode… “Margarittaville” where Cartman is Judas.

UPDATE: Video is not available anymore “Due to pre-existing Contractual Obligations, we cannot stream this episode until 04.25.09″. We’ll just a few nights ago the video was available!!

My favorite part (the beginning of the episode) is available as YouTube preview:

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Yep, I kind of need new sunglasses. I misused the old pair and it has scratches all over it. So tonight I was looking for a new pair online and found great new Ray-Ban sunglasses, the RB2151. Almost similar to the pair worn by Jake Blues in the Blues Brothers…

So while browsing for sunglasses I stumbled upon a link to a cool video of a guy catching a pair of sunglasses on his face…

Surely this must be trickery of some sort but I couldn’t really figure it out… and it’s so simple. I could tell you how they did it but why not leave it to Captain Disillusion himself in his own explanatory video?

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A while ago I had a small post about photography by Matt Stuart. His pictures are funny because they are taken at the right angle. On digg i found another post that has 100 photos taken at the right angle… Here’s one sample image.

Mijn goede collega Harry stuurde onderstaande foto van het display van zijn onboard navigatie systeem voorzien van een logisch analyse.

Dat is nog een eens Pech op de Weg !

Omtrek van de aarde is +/- 42000 KM
Dus….
Ik moet nog ongeveer 100 keer een rondje rond de aarde en dan kom ik tussen Laren en de Vechtbrug in een file van 8 KM en….
er is geen alternatieve route.

Schat ik kom wat later !

Oh this is, or can be, great news for Seinfeld fans. The complete star cast of the sitcom Seinfeld will reunite on multiple episodes of ‘Curb your enthousiasm‘ which is also written by Larry David and he plays the lead role as well. Individual characters from Seinfeld have appeared on the show before but not the entire group. So hopefully some good scenario’s are prepared to justify the reunion. Can’t wait for these episodes… due in fall. So here you have something to look forward to to overcome the long hot dull summer.

The airstrip at St. Maarten (SXM) is known for it’s dangerous approach. On YouTube you can find many examples of this. However this video is the most bizarre landing I’ve seen. This is really.. really… really close.

An idea for a short story popped into my head. Someone driving a car accidentally hits a pedestrian at some remote location. He calls the police to report the accident and call for help for the badly injured pedestrian. The emergency operator wants to know the exact location of the accident but the driver has no clue where he is so hangs up. He drags the injured pedestrian into his car, drives to main street unloads the deceased pedestrian and calls the emergency service again this time able to pinpoint the exact location…

Stupid idea? Yeah I thought so as well.. so I searched the internet to see if someone already thought of this before I did. Guess what? It’s a little different though. A man calls the emergency service because his wife is attacked by a warthog real bad. The 911 guy wants to know the address.
“Yeah, we’re at 1825 Eucalyptus drive…”
“Can you spell that for me, sir?”

“Eeehhhmmm…. I’m gonna drag her on over to oakstreet and you can pick her up there…”