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A Fine Art...

is this art? someone seems to think so enough to pay several million dollars for it. its by a british artist Damien Hirst i guess an american collector snagged it and is bringing it to the USA. all your art are belong to us.

the title of the work is: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

at least bc.com readers are now a tad more cultured....

more images of it
shark 1, shark 2, shark 3

more on Damien Hirst's odd art...

while i dont know much about art this shark is pretty sweet...

Freaky Taxidermy

I usually get a little creeped out when I see a dead, stuffed animal. I get a little more creeped out when it's parts of different dead animals stuffed together.

Click below to see a picture of one such creepy dead animal(s).

"Feejee Mermaid" - in the article's slideshow

Disgusting

This is perhaps the worst news story of the year. I'm sickened.

Sleeping with Legs

A few weeks ago, I posted about an arm-shaped pillow for women to sleep on (as though they were sleeping with a man). The much, much creepier version for men has just been released.

Scary Sony Mannequins

I was browsing through some news articles today and noticed a picture next to this article about the Sony PSP's release. Scariest mannequins ever... those mouths, the weird santa outfits, the uncanny resemblance to Michael Jackson...

TV channels and other things

So the other week I was over at our wonderful leader's house, watching TV. This is one of the channels that our Wonderful Leader gets.

Glad its aimed for kids. It's a friggen Spongebob square pants channel.

Also here is our wonderful leader hard at work.

As you can see, our job is fairly stressful.

There has to be more to this story

This story was found on Reuters by Eric. It is 4 paragraphs long, but there has to be more to this story.

Let's analyze
Step 1:. 67 year-old Constantin Macanu ran outside in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awayke.
Step 2:. Mocanu Chops off his Johnson. "I confused it with the chicken's neck."
Step 3:. Dog eats it.
Step 4:. Mocanu is rushed to Hospital.
Step 5:. He reaches internet fame
Step 6:. Insert Choking the Chicken Joke.

Sleeping with a Headless Torso

Those crazy japanese have come up with another crazy idea: men-shaped pillows for women. The idea of sleeping with a "headless torso" is bit too creepy for me, though. Then again, maybe I'll like the version for men better, where I'd be sleeping with my head in a woman's crotch lap.

I love PODS

Hey its Noah! I'm back and I brought Pods with me. As I am sure you all know finding a place to live in London is expensive, so I asked myself, "Self, why don't we just go live in a pod?" According to this Website , it might not be such a bad idea.

Six Feet Too Far

Apparently now some Costco's are to start selling coffins. I wonder, could you buy the coffins in bulk? Costco is also known for their great return policy, I wonder if that extends to these coffins too.

Hard-worker

Apparently laziness is genetic and scientists have found a way to treat it in monkeys to make them hard-working. Scary stuff...

Couch Potato

Let me preface this by saying this is truly one of the more disgusting stories in obesity I have ever heard.

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, passed away on Wednesday after valiant rescuers attempted for 6 hours to remove her from her couch. Normally, this wouldn't be so difficult, but let's get some stats on our gal Gayle:

Height: 4 Foot 10
Weight: 480 lbs
Age: 40
Years on couch: 6 years
Skin Color: Paisley

After spending 6 years sitting on a couch, her skin had grafted to the couch. On the bright side, she had somewhere to sit wherever she went, too bad she never left the house.

After Taking her on a trailer behind a pickup truck to the hospital, Grinds passed away still stuck to the couch.

Olympics happening this year?

Are the olympics happening this year? I haven't seen a single ad on tv about the Olympics, granted I watch a lot less commercials now that I have a DVR, but NBC isn't hyping this at all.

Are the olympics old again? Are they "so last century"? Do we even care if we got screwed in Basketball to Italy? Are we more concerned about our Italian basketball player screwing around?

Maybe it's because there's nothing to watch during the summer olympics. There's no Curling, NASCAR isn't an event yet, and the power walking event seems a little stupid.

Maybe it's a plot by the Government. If we don't advertise the olympics, perhaps the terrorists will forget about it.

It's just odd to me that in this day and age where American's are gobbling up reality TV, when real reality TV comes along, they're not excited.

Explain yourself Seth Macfarlane?

So I've been perusing this thing called the internet, it's great for sleuthing up free music, movies, and things you're not necessarily supposed to see. In my latest perusal, I found the pilot to a new show that seems to be the bastard child of Alf and The Family Guy. It appears that Seth Macfarlane has created a pilot episode of American Dad which is another animated family sitcom.

Lois is a little hotter, Brian becomes a horny fish, Chris and stewey have been thrown together, and Meg becomes more miserable by becoming a liberal, and Peter becomes a CIA agent.

I'm try to place why Seth Macfarlane would devote his efforts to making something like this. It basically seems like a retuned Family Guy that's less offensive. Instead of poking fun of minorities and women, it makes fun of American stereotypes and objectifies women. All the characters seem to be bad mixes of characters from the Family Guy. I don't think the two could ever co-exist.

The odd thing is that this show was clearly made after 9/11, with the Terror Alert System on the fridge. My only guess is that this was made before Family Guy was scheduled to return. DVD saves the day. Anyone else think American Dad would have been a poor poor replacement?

Making it

Seeing as a good portion of readers are from Brown, I'm sure you'll get a kick out of this.

Several of you may have heard Jennifer Cheng '03 talk about her career in modeling. This summer she seems to have made it big. Previously, she was an extra on SNL as a prostitute, now it seem's that she has her cell phone love story on a motorola web promotion. It seems as though she's acquired the stage name of Fiona.

I find the video very entertaining. I wonder if this will launch her career, or not.

Stab-proof

In Japan, it seems that the children have most to fear from each other. As a result, one company has started producing "stab-proof" clothing in order to provide protection. Hm... that definitely could prove useful.

I can't think of a Batter Idea

Seeing sluggish sales in their stores, Krispy Kreme has looked to alternative ways to generate sales. Apparently people have begun to realize that the carb loaded, sugar drenched, fried snacks aren't that good for you. This has resulted in a period of less donut sales.

After mulling over what to do, they have decided to move from doughnuts into the beverage area. However, because they are a doughnut shop and they are idiots, they have decided to make a donut flavored drink.

There is no excuse for this ridiculous irreverant behavior. Krispy Kreme has clearly jumped the shark on this one. This heralds the end of Krispy Kreme. I can think of a million different things they could have moved to that would be better than this:

A Doughnut BLT.
Chicken Pot Donut
Hot Pocket, Donut edition
Splenda Donut
Meat Donut and along with Meat Donuts come MeatHoles or Meatballs
A beverage that doesn't taste like donut.
Baked not Fried Donut
Grilled Donut
Olean Donut
Tofu Donut
I could go on forever...

"Hanging out"

Oh yah, when I'm bored, I just go down to the beach and hang off meat hooks embedded into my back. Is fun, no?

Asian Lemmings

In a strange attempt to get their way, a group of 23 petitioners in Beijing climbed atop a building next to the Supreme court and threatened to all jump in an attempt to get their demands met.

Normally, when you try and bargain with someone, you try and keep yourself in the equation. Apparently the Chinese government didn't see this opportunity to win the battle with these 23 darwin candidates, but instead placed "large safety cushions to prevent death."

While standing up there for 5 hours, it never occured to them that it might be fun to take advantage of this "large safety cushions to prevent death" try some base jumping. Instead, all of them were taken into police custody and taken in for questioning.

Playing with Fire

When I was younger, my mother would tell me that if I played with fire, I'd end up wetting the bed. If that's true, then this guy will end up flooding his room.

White Chicks: Worst Movie Ever?

yes it may be true at least if the reviewers (two) are right. one quote from eberts article was intriguing though...

"Because they look so odd in makeup, the effect is quease-inducing. They fall victims, indeed, to the Uncanny Valley Effect. This phenomenon, named in 1978 by the Japanese robot expert Masahiro Mori, refers to the ways in which humans relate emotionally with robots. Up to a certain point, he found, our feelings grow more positive the more the robots resemble humans. But beyond a certain stage of reality, it works the other way: The closer they get to humans, the more we notice the differences and are repelled by them"

a rather odd but i think insightful comment. yet i can't figure out why this is the case.

German Supermen

It seems those German Nazis have finally discovered the secret super-soldier serum that made our hero Captain America and are rapidly breeding super babies.

German Confusion

This is the Third email I've received that's completely in German from someone I don't know. It doesn't seem like spam, and when I translate it in babelfish it doesn't make sense. I took German in High School, but I can't make sense of this at all. Anyone out there can explain what this email's about?

See Full text in German and in Babelfish Translation in Extended Entry.

Original ----
Am 3. Dezember wurde mein Sohn gegen 18 Uhr in der Innenstadt von einer Gruppe tuerkischer Jugendlicher angepoebelt und schliesslich von einem der Jugendlichen zusammengeschlagen. Obwohl mein Sohn den Schlaeger auf eine erst kuerzlich bei ihm durchgefuehrte schwere Kopfoperation hinwies, die durch eine ca. 20 cm lange Narbe auf der Stirn unmoeglich zu uebersehen ist, bekam er einen Faustschlag mitten ins Gesicht. Nach ambulanter Versorgung im Krankenhaus, fuhr ich anschliessend mit meinem Sohn zur Wuelfrather Polizeiwache um Anzeige zu erstatten. Dort aber mussten wir feststellen, dass der wachhabende Beamte sich Gedanken darum machte, ob mein Sohn eventuell einer rechtsradikalen Gesinnung nachhaengt. Den Verdacht hierfuer begruendete er mit den sehr kurzen Haaren meines Sohnes, die ihm nach einer Chemotherapie ausgefallen waren. Weder ich noch mein Sohn sind Anhaenger einer rechtsradikalen Gesinnung. Es kann unmoeglich sein, dass man sich noch dafuer rechtfertigen muss, von!
wem auch immer verpruegelt worden zu sein.

Kommentar des Sober Autors:
So sieht es in unserem Deutschland aus. Die Bullen sind nur bezahlte Geldeintreiber (DIE DU AUCH NOCH BEZAHLST VON DEINEN STEUERN,,...)!
Wenn man die Taeter schnappt, wird sich dein Sohn wohl entschuldigen muessen, weil er sich nicht hat tot schlagen lassen!

Klingt zwar etwas Zynisch, aber Kanacken duerfen das in Deutschland!

In diesem Sinne

Babelfished---

On 3 December my son was angepoebelt against 18 o'clock in the city center by a group of Turkish young people and finally together-struck by one the young people. Although my son the racquet referred to one only recently with it accomplished heavy head operation, by one approx.. 20 cm long scar on the forehead to survey impossible is, got he a punch in the middle in the face. To ambulatory supply in the hospital, I drove afterwards with my son to the Wuelfrather police station around announcement to refund. There however we had to state that the sergeant of the guard an official thought about whether my son possibly after-hangs a right-wing extremist convicition. For this it justified the suspicion with the very short hair of my son, which had failed it after a chemotherapy. Neither I nor my son are trailers of a right-wing extremist convicition. It can be impossible that one must still justify oneself for it, of! whom to have been also always flogged. Comment of the Sober of author: Thus it looks in our Germany. The bulls are only paid money A drivers (WHICH YOU ALSO STILL PAY FROM YOUR TAXES,,...)! if one the authors snatch, your son to excuse will probably have themselves, because it could not be struck dead! Something Zynisch sounds, but Kanacken may in Germany! In this sense

Yum-yum

I don't know what's more appetizing about this chocolate-covered pork fat - that it's chocolate-covered pork fat or that it looks like a big slug. Or what would happen if Lorena Bobbitt married a black man...

For the best rice, head to Japan

I hate ricerockets. this is one of my biggest pet peeves. First of all, 90% of the "modified" cars you see out there are just modified so that they look faster, but actually are probably slower. The ridiculous wings people attach to the back of their cars, the extra lights everywhere, sticking chrome in new and exciting places. It's just a mess. I just enjoy encountering them on the I-95 and smoking them with my biturbos.

Here's a site that shows what rice rockets look like in Japan. It is interesting that the Japanese do ridiculous things to their cars too, but they take a different approach, instead of making their cars look faster, sleeker, and futuristic, they make their cars look broken, tacky, and post-apocolyptic. I really hope none of these fads catch on in the states, the Star shaped exhaust? the intercooler piping through the headlight?

Handi-Capable

What's got four wheels, a rifle with a scope mounted on it, camoflaugue, tenessee mudflaps and a thirst for blood?

Demonstrating that all Americans should exercise the right to own a rifle with a scope attached to his or her wheelchair, Here's a gallery of Handicap Hunting photos that shows just what these heroes are capable of.

I don't know how I feel about this. Should a blind person really be hunting? With a crossbow no less? Isn't this just a slap in the face of all animals out there?

I'm going to Jail, Who's coming with me?

I'm going to jail. Not because the state wants to lock me up and throw away the key, but so that I can sit back have food cooked for me, not have a job, and sit back in my cell and watch my nice flat screen TV.

In Oregon, they have begun to allow Flat-Screen TV's with basic cable in individual cells. This seems to go against the view I had of prison of it being a way of punishing criminals. The only way that this would be torture is if they fixed the TV on an endless loop of the Nanny, movies that have the endings edited out, and a loop of the horrible crime they committed.

I can imagine this only leading its way to internet access in cells, at which point the deal is sealed.

Anyone have some salt?

Some Giant African snails have been found inside the US. Giant... Snails... can you imagine accidently stepping on one of these? Or better yet, I want to see what happens when you pour salt on them (I imagine them exploding).

How to beautify a campus

Recently they've blocked traffic on Thayer Street right in front of the Brown University Science Library. As it reaches skyward as the highest point in Providence, this concrete monster is often thought of as Providence's ugliest building. The Public Art Committee is looking to change all of that by hanging a 33 x 40 foot picture of a donkey in a boat on the side of the library. My only guess is that they're hoping that this ginormous boatload of ass will make the sci-li not as ugly in comparison.
Why is it that all art on college campuses are ugly? Who is this ugly art benefitting? What are some other ugly examples of art on campuses? Do students have any say?

Creepy

that about sums up this post... nothing more to say... so far I've learned jump, fly, and fort work as commands... but seriously this link is not for the faint of heart... it may give you nightmares...

Help!!!?

I came home today and my computer was on a loop playing "The Good Ship Lollipop". It was the weirdest thing ever. I haven't been able to find anything on Google that explains this. If anyone has any information on why my computer was doing this, it would be most helpful. I'm running Fedora Core 1 as my operating system.

Crap. where is my money?

For those of you who have things to hide from prying eyes, I introduce you to you the the brief safe. You've seen those clever can safes but those can't match the power of a couple of skidmarks from stopping would be thieves from taking your stash. The two things that come to mind about the brief safe is that the residue may not look real enough and you might be a boxers kind of guy like myself. So I'm working on a do it yourself method that I'll post soon.

More American than I am

The only thing that tick's me off about this guy from Kuwait is that he's living more like the capitalist arrogant American schmuck more than anyone I know in the states. He drives his little bmw 330ci and fills it up with gas thats 3 cents a gallon. He listens to his ipod at a nicely decorated office while working on OSX. I his free time he enjoys eating at KFC, Chilis, TGI-Friday's and other American restaurants. Then he comes home to watch News Radio and reads playboy while his roomba vacuums his hardwood floors. He watches his back and protects his right to own a handgun, Mod chips his xbox, buys pirated DVD's. Then he uploads pictures from his phone cam onto his website. What exactly are the Iraqi's fighting against?

Hearing unspoken words = reading minds?

According to this article, NASA has developed technology to hear words that aren't even audible or mouthed, by placing sensors along one's throat. Pretty cool, I thought... but then again - could this be used to basically tell what a person's thinking? I bet subconsciously people are using their throat muscles when they think to themselves...

Yummy.

I am a fan of most meat products, having tried cow tongue, pig blood, and cow brain. What this hick version of Hannibal Lecter did, however, might be a little much for my tastes. I wonder if he was looking for an alternative source of meat in order to avoid Mad Cow disease...

Law & Order episode, anyone?

This story about a mother finding her baby daughter, presumed dead, several years later is the stuff you'd think could only come out of Hollywood. An arson conspiracy to cover up a kidnapping? The daughter actually living with nearby friends? Stealing hair strands for a DNA test? I smell a movie deal...

Look ma! No hands!

This is a strange thing. In some ways, inspiring. In other ways... something else.

Sketchiness. But I'm still curious...

I think the title of this page fits perfectly: Games That Make You Feel Funny. "Funny" as in a "funny down there" feeling. On a sidenote, Bryant does own a copy DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Strange thing is, he's pretty good at it. I make sure to wash my hands after using any of his controllers.

Old School Memories

for some reason i had a flash back to my days being a kid and going to the zoo. and the greatest thing about the zoo was the mold-a-rama! so it got me thinking about all the great molds and even the possibility of buying my own machine. enjoy the nostalgia....