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Woowoo density goes to infinity

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 05:56 PM PDT


Fifth dimensional, quantum, Zarathustran, vibrational, third-eye, DNA activation and healing. It's apparently "calming."

Zarathustran!

Actually, know what? Insane Clown Posse "Miracles" video is pure awesome

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:15 AM PDT

ICP_miraclesth.jpg To fully appreciate the Insane Clown Posse science textbook parody, you must first witness the actually pretty awesome video above, for "Miracles," off their 2009 album Bang Pow Boom. And I ain't even hatin', fool. "There's magic everywhere in this bitch."

BONUS: Duckface at 3:30. (via Videogum)

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Learn F***in' Science with Insane Clown Posse

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 11:15 AM PDT

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If the Insane Clown Posse and their juggalo fandom created a science textbook, this is what it would look like. Daniel O'Brien of Cracked.com, who is responsible for this here shizzle, says,

wacktivitiesth.jpgI've created a juggalo-friendly textbook, taking into account the song's claim that they "don't wanna talk to a scientist," who they consider to be a "lying motherfucker" intent on "getting [them] pissed." To that end, every lesson will be directly based on actual ICP lyrics, and every page will be packed with in-your-face juggalo clown-rage. Or, the best clown-rage I can muster.

Juggaloco Psycho Clown-speak is a shockingly complex language.

Learn Your Motherf#@kin' Science: A Textbook for Juggalos

To fully appreciate this, watch the music video for the ICP song "Miracles."

(Cracked.com, thanks, Susannah Breslin)

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Get Excited and Make Things: the mug edition

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 06:49 AM PDT


Matt Jones and McLaggan Smith Mugs are selling these wonderful "Get Excited and Make Things" mugs, with proceeds to a children's hospice near the McLaggan Smith factory in Scotland.

Get Excited & Make Mugs! (via Warren Ellis)

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Copyright turns 300

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 06:43 AM PDT

To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Statute of Anne, the first modern copyright law, the British Council asked a lot of people with strong ideas about copyright, from the CEO of Random House to the founder of Wikipedia, to remark on what copyright is for and how it might be improved. Here's the short essay I contributed:
f there's one lie more corrosive to creativity above all others, it is the lie of romantic individual originality. Today, 'copyright curriculum' warns schoolchildren not to be 'copycats' - to come up with their own original notions.

We are that which copies. Three or four billion years ago, by some process that we don't understand, molecules began to copy themselves. We are the distant descendants of those early copyists - copying is in our genes. We have a word for things that don't copy: 'dead'.

Walk the streets of Florence and you'll find a 'David' on every corner: because for half a millennium, Florentine sculptors have learned their trade by copying (but try to take a picture of 'David' on his plinth and you'll be tossed out by a security guard who wants to end this great tradition in order to encourage you to buy a penny postcard).

I learned to write by copying. In 1977, when I was six, my father took me to 'Star Wars'. I couldn't figure out how a made-up story could be so exciting, so I went home, stapled some paper together and trimmed it to book size, and wrote out the story as best I remembered it, doing it over and over again as I strove to unpick it.

Today, I earn my living by copying: taking ideas that excite me and combining them in ways that are mine, but never wholly mine.

If copyright law is to truly nurture art and creativity, rather than merely lining the pockets of the last generation of copyists who now declare themselves to be pure of all replication and wholly original from the first word to the last, it *must* recognize and celebrate the wonderful thing that is copying.

Copyright 1710-2010 "For the encouragement of learning"
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HOWTO Make a Dalek Egg

Posted: 10 Apr 2010 06:36 AM PDT


Nancy Sims, a librarian and "proto-lawyer," made these absolutely wonderful egg-Daleks for a friend's birthday, fully documenting the build and putting it online so that you can make one too.

Dalek Egg (Thanks, RJ!)

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