They win in style points, danger points and fake points:

[Via Neatorama]

La frustración máxima.

[Via Innerpendejo]

[Via Motorpasion]

Categorizar ésto bajo “grandes verdades universales”. No voy a poner la letra de ésta canción que hay niños despiertos (y niñas, nunca mejor dicho ).

Porta - Las Niñas De Hoy En Dia Todas Son Unas….mp3

[Gracias Gabi]

[Via Darkroastedblend]

Check out the dozens of creative “movie production company logos” that make the words of the lyrics in an continuous energetic animation. It’s like the movie is never going to start and you’re fine with that.

PS: Para residentes en España, sólo una palabra: “Mooooovie Reecord”

[Via Cuchara Sonica]

It really must be getting comfortably warm down there

Number of tourists in Antartica:
1990: 5.000
2003: 15.000
2007: 37.000
2010: 80.000 expected

No wonder they are building a highway across the continent.

Antartica [wiki]

I remember watching this great typography animation years ago but I bumped into it again just searching for any video that featured Ratatat’s “Nostrand” to introduce this awesome music to a friend. [so thanks Micro]

Link to everything Ratatat in Youtube

By Bjurström, from the student and upcoming designers booth at the Stockholm Furniture Fair

[Via David Report blog]

Flowing Danger
Nuclear Invincibility
Stoic Menace

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Microsoft, you don’t need Yahoo, BUY THIS FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER!!!

Solar from flight404 on Vimeo.

[Via Neatorama]

Higher res images of the visuals here. More videos after the break: (more…)

And I add “so far” because evidently we are waaay far from reaching anything that could be labelled as “definitive” regarding UFO’s”. THIS is the link to the “Out of the Blue” documentary on Stage6, although there is a slight disconnect from this file and the documentary’s Wikipedia and Official page, where the movie’s publication year is shown to be 2002 (the website doesn’t say this textually but they are selling a “5 year anniversary edition”) and its running time 90 minutes. The documentary available on Stage 6 runs for 113 minutes and shows and narrates documents and events happened in the last few years up to 2007 (that, or I am mixing memories of documentaries). Perhaps this is the 5 year anniversary edition, I don’t know, but in any case, best for us; more material, more proof… more hope?

One of the “additions”, I guess, is the mention and extensive summary of The Disclosure Project (non-profit organization with the intention of de-classifying and disclosing all information on UFO’s) [wiki] National Press Conference that “hosted over 20 witnesses, most of them ex-military, who provided testimonies, some of them about the cover-up of the UFO issue. You can actually watch the full conference in Google Video (2 hours). I would however recommend watching Out of the Blue first.

Another document addressed in the movie and worth commenting on outside is The Cometa Report, roughly a French version of The Disclosure Project [wiki] [more at Ufoevidence.org with links to the complete translated report in PDF].

Typically when the brain wishes to impose significance upon something, it rewards the activity with a portion of endorphins, thereby enticing the individual to repeat the action as often as possible.

The bliss found in eating fatty foods, for instance, probably provided early humans with the ambition to hunt and devour energy-rich animal flesh. Sexual intercourse also rewards the participants with a cocktail of natural feel-good biochemicals, perhaps as a means to encourage the development of the pornography industry, which is vital to a strong economy.

[Exctract from Damn Interesting’s article about the scientific study on laughter]

[Via Josh Spear]

Psychology + optical

Optical psychopath: epileptic

[Thanks Gabsis. Photo by sonofgawddog]

Deep Impact on rails!

Via Neatorama

Translated excerpt from José Luis Trechera’s “La sabiduría de la tortuga” (The wisdom of the tortoise, only in Spanish).

Some expert enterprise consultants travel to a rural area in order to discover possible “future business reservoirs” and to incite the locals to the enterpreneur spirit. With this objective, they find a man who’s calmly sitting under watching over his sheep flock.

The consultants see the ideal opportunity to apply everything they learned in the MBA they completed at a prestigious College. They approach the shepherd and they proposed the following:

—¿Do you have a business plan? They explain that he should optimize his resources: which sheeps you don’t need? how to better sell the lambs? when is the right time to buy? how to exctrat added value from your assets?…
—What for? Replies the shepherd.
—So that you can invest more in your business and, for instance, buy more sheeps.
—And what do I want more sheeps for?
—So that you can breed more lambs.
—And what do I want more lambs for?
—In order to have a bigger and more select flock.
—And what do I want a a bigger and more select flock for?
—In order to have lambs that with better market positioning.
—And why would I want lambs that sell better?
—Because you would be able to buy more land and install corrals so the number of livestock increases, contract employees and computing equipment that will let you do all these tasks and export “with quality”, and therefore have enough capital and resources to retire and observe your property calmly under a tree.
—The shepherd replies: Isn’t that what I’m doing right now!

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Desde que estoy en San Francisco no veo ni la tele de aquí ni la de allí, y eso implica perderme Buenafuente. Pero me entero gracias a ¡Vaya Tele! que una de las novedades ésta temporada es un tal Berto (sobrino de Andreu, dicen), del que acabo de ver tres o cuatro videos a carcajada suelta, liderados por éste genial programa de Buenafuente comprimido en 4 minutos:

“Hola ¿sabes quien soy? Hmm pues no ni puta idea adiós” XDDD

Every February 14th, men have the opportunity to demonstrate their love to their better halves offering flowers, chocolates, dinners, love movies or anything that a woman finds romantic. For dudes… nothing. Let’s admit it; there isn’t a special day for women to demonstrate their affection…

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Cada 14 de Febrero los hombres tienen la oportunidad de demostrar su amor a su media naranja ofreciendo flores, chocolates, cenas románticas, películas de amor o todo lo que una mujer puede encontrar romántico. Para los tíos…. nada. Hay que admitirlo; no hay ningún día especial donde
las mujeres pueden demostrar su aprecio…

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1986. 4 años. Esto es verídico. [Lo que está entre corchetes no]

Luis viene contento al colegio, cuando llega siempre saluda [”Qué pasa neng”]. No tiene dificultad en realizar los ejercicios de motricidad gruesa: saltar, correr, andar, etc.

Su esquema corporal es bueno, tenindo claro qué hacer o dónde situar las partes del cuarpo humano trabajadas durante el curso. Es capaz de realizar bien los ejercicios de equilibrio. Participa en los juegos de relajación permaneciendo en posición de tumbado durante unos segundos. [En otras ocasiones, en la posición del loto].

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Pericote, de Hevia, es una canción que me flipa desde hace años, y cada vez más. Cante jondo pero del norte y de pueblo, con una letra que ya intuía yo que era graciosa, pero que acabo de encontrar y me parto y me mondo:

Valamé, valamé, Pericote rompió un pie
y despues que lu rompió llevolu a Santu Medé
Yo caseme con un vieyu por jartame de riir
puse-y la cama n’un altu y non se podia subir
San Xulian de los Carriles que tas cerca d’ Ardisana
Axuntate al de Porrúa qu’é el que cueye las castañas
A bailar el Pericote vino Xicu de la Braña
Con madreñes y escarpino y una faxa colorada

Hevia - Pericote MP3

Y de regalo, otra joya:

Todos los mozos del Valle del Pas
tienen un palu para saltar.
Saltan palanti saltan patrás,
con mucha fuerza y agilidad.

[Foto de Ciliembru]

Amazingly accurate Simpsons + 300 mashup.

[Via Neatorama]

People send postcards with their secrets to the website, secrets are shared with the world.

I believe this and Facebook’s honestly-named Honesty Box application, which allows the sending of annonymous private messages, are solid steps forward for open public sincerity. How can you possibly not find that exciting!

[Via Legal Alien]

Slightly visually confusing (Rand’s famous logos have been corrupted animated in it), this 4-minute video’s best value is actually the audio of himself talking about design, saying things like:

“Order, variety, contrast, symmetry, tension, balance, scale, texture, space, shape, light, shade and color. This is the language of form.”

“Don’t try to be original, try to be good.”

[Via Boingboing]

About sensibility and simplicity.

Sensiplicity: 1. quality of sensible through means of simplification.
Simpsibility: 1. tendency to be carried away emotionally with simple, unimportant stuff; for good or for bad. 2. tiny bits of sensibility in some episodes of The Simpsons.

[Photo by andyi]

Tranquil + kill.

Photo by Bumfluff

Jose Gonzalez (famous for the original Sony Bravia commercial song “Heartbeats”) has recorded a version of Massive Attacks “Teardrop“:

[Via Desaparezca]

OMG it’s Street Fighter 4 and it looks like it deserves its name!

[Thanks Ray]