Bart Simpson goes to Judge Burns:
And then this happened: „A man called Bart Simpson has appeared before a judge called Mr. Burns. Company Director Barton Simpson, 56, denies possessing a prohibited firearm at Birmingham airport on May 31 last year.“
Showmethemoneyfucktomcruise has been taken on Gmail
Das lustigste Tumblelog für die nächsten 10 Minuten: Sorry, that Username is already taken… „officialkanyewestmotherfucker is taken on gmail“. (via Wondertonic)
List of Bands not allowed on the Catholic School Heavy Metal Radio
Diese Liste stammt angeblich von der Seton Hall University, einer katholischen Schule in New Jersey. Was die gegen Nun Slaughter haben, weiß ich auch nicht, aber immerhin setzen sie Prioritäten: Für Baby Jesus Hitler wird man suspendiert, für Justin Bieber gefeuert.
The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song:
The Mostly German Philosophers Love Song: I nietzsche so bad!
Miss Pussy Galore Honey Rider Solitaire Plenty O’Toole May Day Xenia Onatopp Holly Goodhead Tiffany Case Kissy Suzuki Mary Goodnight Jinx Johnson Octopussy Domino Moneypenny:
Meet Miss Pussy Galore Honey Rider Solitaire Plenty O’Toole May Day Xenia Onatopp Holly Goodhead Tiffany Case Kissy Suzuki Mary Goodnight Jinx Johnson Octopussy Domino Moneypenny: British woman legally changes her name to include 14 Bond girls. (via io9)
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop arrested:
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop wurde in Wisconsin wegen Waffenbesitz und Dope festgenommen. Die Hippies hatten damals ganz einfach die besseren Drogen, doh. (via Kate)
Giant Map of Rap-Names
Tolle Kartografie der Onomastik (Namenskunde) von Rappern. Hier das Teil in 4000×2800 Pixeln (lokale Kopie), hier kann man sich den Print für 30$ bestellen, kommt in 39″ x 27″ (bisschen größer als A1, bisschen kleiner als A0). Ich als größter lebender Fan des Hip Hop werde mir das Ding sicher nicht an die Wand hängen, extrem schick finde ich die Karte dennoch.
A ridiculously detailed guide to the semantics of rap names, this widescreen edition print spans over seven square feet and contains 636 rapper names as well as some all-time greats illustrated in the background. Blinged out in gold metallic ink, this print is straight stuntin’.
Horse Fly named after Beyoncés golden Butt
Wissenschaftler haben eine bislang namenlose Fliege nach Beyoncé benannt. Genauer: Nach ihrem Hintern und dem Destinys Child-Song „Bootylicious“, weil die Fliege als ultimatives Diva-Feature einen goldenen Arsch hat. Wenn ich solches Gejaule wie das von Beyoncé oder ähnlichen „Künstlerinnen“ hören muss, denke ich auch immer an Fliegen mit Goldärschen. Passt.
A previously unnamed species of horse fly with a glamorous golden rear end has been named Beyonce because it is the “all-time diva of flies,” researchers say.
The rare Scaptia (Plinthina) beyonceae species of horse fly was collected in 1981 (the year that Beyonce was born) together with two other previously unknown specimens from northeast Queensland’s Atherton Tablelands.
The singer Beyonce, on the other hand, was a member of the group Destiny’s Child, which recorded the 2001 hit single “Bootylicious.” The fly got its booty-ful name from its extreme diva feature: a big gold butt.
“It was the unique dense golden hairs on the fly’s abdomen that led me to name this fly in honor of the performer Beyonce as well as giving me the chance to demonstrate the fun side of taxonomy — the naming of species,” Lessard said in a statement.
Bootylicious! Horse fly with bling named after Beyonce (via Neatorama)
Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg
Youtube Direktzucki, via /.
Es gibt manchmal nichts witzigeres als Anwaltsblödsinn. Rotem Guez hatte im Januar Facebook verklagt, weil die seinen Account gesperrt hatten, wohl weil er einen „Like“-Store betreibt, oder sowas. Im Gegenzug verklagten Facebook im September den Herrn Guez und der hat sich nun ganz legal in Mark Zuckerberg umtaufen lassen und so verklagt nun Facebook einen Mark Zuckerberg. Die sind doch alle zu lang an der frischen Luft gewesen.
Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg. No, I’m not talking about Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. I’m talking about Rotem Guez, an Israeli entrepreneur who reportedly changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg after Facebook hit him with a lawsuit. “If you want to sue me, you’re going to have to sue Mark Zuckerberg,” Guez reportedly told Facebook. Talk about a publicity stunt.
Guez is currently in a legal dispute with Facebook. As you can see in the video above (via HolesNet), which looks like it was filmed by Guez himself, the man has legally changed his name to Mark Zuckerberg. It appears his main goal is to see if Facebook will continue to threaten and sue Mark Zuckerberg in spite of the publicity. He thinks he stands more of a chance as a Zuckerberg than a Guez.
Facebook is suing Mark Zuckerberg, hier die offizielle Seite zum Zuckerberg-Stunt: Will Facebook sue Mark Zuckerberg?
My Birthplacium is officially an Element now
Liebes Tagebuch, am 4. November hat die International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) den Namen Darmstadtium für ein bereits 1993 am GSI (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) entdecktes Element freigegeben. Der Name von Element 110 ist nichts neues und ich kenne ihn schon seit mehr als zehn Jahren, aber erst jetzt wurde er offiziell abgesegnet. Damit ist mein Geburtsort für die nächsten paar hundert Jahre im Periodensystem der Elemente vertreten und darauf bin ich wirklich ein bisschen stolz. Übrigens: Geboren wurde ich in Darmstadt und die ersten zehn Jahre habe ich in Weiterstadt gelebt, ein Ortsteil von Weiterstadt wiederum ist Wixhausen und genau da steht das GSI und die hatten neben Darmstadtium noch Wixhausium (Wi) für Element 110 als Namen vorgeschlagen, der hat sich dann aber aus mir unbegreiflichen Gründen nicht durchgesetzt. Ich mein’ ey! WIXHAUSIUM!
Three newly discovered elements were given names on Friday by the General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics at a meeting in London.
They are Darmstadtium, or Ds, which has 110 protons in its nucleus and was named after the town in which it was discovered; Roentgenium, or Rg, with 111 protons, named after the discoverer of X-rays Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen; and Copernicium, or Cn, which has 112 protons and is named after the Polish astronomer Copernicus, who disrupted the view that the Earth was the center of the universe.
None of these elements occur in nature, or even last very long once created. They were all made in Darmstadt, Germany, at the Society for Heavy Ion Research Laboratory (Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung) by bombarding heavy nuclei with beams of other atoms.
Three New Elements Named: Darmstadtium, Roentgenium and Copernicium
The shameful history of Online-Nicknames
Schönes Posting auf Good über lange vergessene Online-Nicknames: The Eternal Shame of Your First Online Handle (via Jason Kottke) „Those of us who came of age alongside AOL must contend with something even more incriminating than a lifelong Google profile: A trail of discarded online aliases, each a distillation of how we viewed ourselves and our place in the world at the time of sign-on. The dawn of the Internet was an open invitation to free ourselves from the names our parents gave us and forge self-made identities divorced from our reputations IRL.“
Ich kann mich an meinen allerersten Online-Nick in den 90ern gar nicht mehr erinnern, ich war damals bei Compuserve. Bei AOL war ich Thisisnotanaccident und Summonizer2121 auf Ebay, beides Nicks, die ich heute noch woanders verwende, ab dann war ich immer Walt74. Ich hatte auf dem C64 noch ein paar Nicknames, zuerst war ich Zack McCracken bei Opal, danach Damien von Genesis Project. Und seit jetzt fast sieben Jahren bin ich praktisch unter meinem Klarnamen im Netz unterwegs, geschadet hat mir das nie. Im Gegenteil.
Und jetzt will ich natürlich Eure Nicknames wissen. Alle, vor allem die peinlichen.
Woody Allen Movies, In Order Of The Likelihood That Their Titles Will Be Used As Titles For Wu-Tang Clan Songs
Tolle Liste von The Awl: Woody Allen Movies, In Order Of The Likelihood That Their Titles Will Be Used As Titles For Wu-Tang Clan Songs. Hier die Top10:
10. Bullets Over Broadway
9. Oedipus Wrecks
8. Match Point
7. Crimes and Misdemeanors
6. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
5. What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
4. Mighty Aphrodite
3. Small Time Crooks
2. The Purple Rose of Cairo
1. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
The History of the Brains Asshole and other Neurovulgar Linguistics
Slate hat einen superamüsanten Artikel über die Herkunft der Namen vieler Bereiche des Hirns, die sehr, sehr oft ihre Wurzeln in Bezeichnungen für Arschlöcher, Penisse, Vaginas und die Einzelteile derselben haben. You’re brain is an asshole and that’s the truth!
Régis Olry, of the University of Quebec, and Duane Haines, of the University of Mississippi, […] “historians of neuroanatomy” (yes, there is such a profession, and we should be grateful for it) reviewed a very old, circuitous medical literature and found that the human brain was once described as comprising its very own vulva, penis, testicles, buttocks, and even an anus. In fact, part of the cerebrum is still named in honor of long-forgotten whores. […]
When the mid-16th century Italian anatomist, Matthaeo Realdo Colombo, peered into the small recess adjoining the anterior commissure and the dividing line of the fornix’s two columns, report Olry and Haines, he saw what looked like a lubricated vulva—and called it the vulva cerebri. Perhaps that’s not too surprising, given that Colombo is also widely credited as being the anatomist who first “discovered” the clitoris (the real one, down there).
The authors point out there’s a bit of a mystery about precisely which hole Colombo was poking with his Italian probe. It might, in fact, have been the more posterior opening identified by the 17th-century Dutch anatomist Isbrand van Diemerbroeck, who found, in Colombo’s groove, “the hole of the anus.” Your brain’s anus, incidentally, is what we’d now call the common posterior opening of the midbrain’s aqueduct, which spills into the third ventricle. There are so many defecation-related puns about intelligence to be made here that my mind is cramping up, so, shit, I’ll just leave that part up to you assholes.
How the Brain Got Its Buttocks – Sixteenth-century anatomists couldn’t keep their minds out of the gutter (via Mindhacks)
Captain Awesomes Autograph is awesome –>☺<–
Douglas Allen Smith Jr. hat seinen Namen in Captain Awesome geändert und unterschreibt ab sofort nur noch mit –>☺<-- which is awesome!
Deadspin has acquired the official petition for change of name that Captain Awesome, the Oregon man formerly known as Douglas Allen Smith, Jr., submitted to the Circuit Court of Lane County in late September. This is his legal signature.
This Is How Captain Awesome Signs His Name (via Boing Boing)
Sexplanets discovered
Man hat zwei Planeten entdeckt, die die Sonne 24 Sextanis umkreisen. Und da man Planeten nach ihrem Zentralgestirn benennt, heissen sie 24 Sex b und 24 Sex c. Jayne Fonda is starting her engines.
The two worlds circling 24 Sextanis are also in a close embrace, keeping within about 70 million miles (112.6 million kilometers) of each other.
What the CalTech release fails to mention is that the planets have names: 24 Sex b and 24 Sex c.
While each world in our solar system bears an official name based on mythology, the basic rule for naming an exoplanet is to use the star’s name followed by a lower-case letter. The star itself is considered “a,” so the first planet found gets labelled with a “b,” and so on through the alphabet.
