Today is the 100th anniversary of the explosion that flattened some 500,000 acres of Siberian forest near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River on June 30, 1908
Commonly referred to as the “Tunguska Event” it is widely accepted that the explosion was the result of an air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 3–6 miles above Earth’s surface.
I remain unconvinced.
Apparently this song is all the rage in Poland right now and totally worth watching from beginning to end….
The Lyrics in English
I drive Skoda 100 to camp here on Orawa
So I hurry, take a risk - go through Morawa
The monster lives there, comes out of the bog
Eats mostly Prague citizen, its name is Jozin (Joseph)
Chorus: Jozin from the bog creeps through swamp
Jozin from the bog closes to the village
Jozin from the bog edges its teeth
Jozin from the bog bites, strangles
To defend Jozin from the bog, who could imagine, only works a plane with manure (white powder)
I was driving through the village on road to Vizowice
The village mayor greeted me, said to me during drinking Sliwowica
‘The one who will bring Jozin dead or alive
gets my daughter and a half of National Agrarian Farm
Chorus
I said: ‘give me a plane and powder, mayor,
I’ll bring you Jozin, I see no trouble about that’,
Mayor helped me, in the morning I went up in the sky
The powder from the plane prettily fell on Jozin.
Chorus
Joe Swamp is now all white
Joe Swamp escapes from the bogs
Joe Swamp has turned to stone
For Joe Swamp, this is the end
I caught Joe and now I have him, woohoo!
Cash is always good so now I’m selling him to the zoo
Do a Youtube search on Jozin z Bazin to see various new versions and adaptations of the song…
Spotted at The Telegraph
The Get Out Clause, Manchester stars of CCTV
Unable to afford a proper camera crew and equipment, The Get Out Clause, an unsigned band from the city, decided to make use of the cameras seen all over British streets. They set up their equipment, drum kit and all, in eighty locations around Manchester – including on a bus – and proceeded to play to the cameras. Afterwards they wrote to the companies or organisations involved and asked for the footage under the Freedom of Information Act.
I recall reading about a performance by the Royal de Luxe during the Jules Verne festival in Nantes, France celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Jules Verne’s novel “Around the World in Eighty Days”.
The performance included these giant marionette style creations that were controlled by dozens of operators. Check out this fantastic video…
More recently I heard about the Sultan’s Elephant performance in London by the same group, using many of the same elements.
Now comes the the story of The Telectroscope, A Viewing Tunnel Between London & New York.
Hardly anyone knows that a secret tunnel runs deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. In May 2008, more that a century after it was begun, the tunnel will finally be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope will be installed at both ends which will miraculously allow people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.
A project by Paul St. George, it is employing the Artichoke creative company who were instrumental in producing The Sultan’s Elephant.
This performance is occurring from May 22nd to June 15th. The first sign of the telectroscope has already appeared in London yesterday in the form of this huge drill bit…
And another in Brooklyn
Considering that The Sultan’s Elephant began innocuously enough with a simple pod in the city center
And then evolved to something like this:
I would expect this performance to be QUITE interesting….
Now I want to go to London or New York to see this performance unfold….
With another blistering summer firing up and an in-place population of any number of unpleasant bugs and critters, life in Houston may be getting just a little more unpleasant as we find ourselves being invaded by a species of ant that seems to be impervious to pesticides and has an appetite for electronics.
Exotic Texas Ant, Paratrechina also known as the Crazy Ant or the “Raspberry Ant” (named for Tom Rasberry who discovered them) stands to make his mark our humble little town.
Mentioned at Engaget this horrifying little creature has captured the limelight and is making headlines all over the web.
They have been known to short out many different types of electrical apparatuses. In some cases the ants have caused several thousand dollars in damage and remedial costs. These ants often cause great annoyance to residents and businesses.
For now they seem to be mostly in the South and the East…near the chemical plants oddly enough.
(queue 50’s sci-fi music).
I’ve already had one support call where the user jokingly suggested the problem with our Blackberry Enterprise Server might be a result of Crazy Ant infestation…har har…Rasberry, Blackberry, get it? Ugh!
On the plus side, these “Crazy” Ants seem to eat Fire Ants so they could be a boon to our area.
Now playing - Cheepnis by Frank Zappa
Ladies and gentlemen,
The monster,
Which the peasants in this area call FRUNOBULAX
(Apparently a very large poodle dog)
Has just been seen approaching The Power Plant
Bullets can’t stop it
Rockets can’t stop it
We may have to use NUCLEAR FORCE !
When I first read this I thought Baby Loves Disco must be a hoax or a prank but it looks like the real thing. Imagine your local disco filled up with parents and their toddler, preschoolers and pre-adolescents moving to the groove.
The fun spills out from all corners of the club: bubble machines, baskets of scarves and egg-shakers, a chill-out room (with tents, books and puzzles), diaper changing stations, a full spread of healthy snacks and dancing, LOTS of dancing.
Sounds like a rave for children!
As this video from buzz.mn points out, these folks manage to inculcate in our youth the finer points of bar culture…
I can only imagine that this is a precursor to a much more violent and subversive movement that will inevitably be called Baby Loves Mosh Pits.
I grew up with disco and it’s my cross to bear but I just can’t imagine inflicting it on someone too young to defend themselves.
Hello therapy!
Pilfered from Groovehouse’s blog.
Time-lapsed video showing Nicholas White trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building in New York City for 41 hours in 1999.
For some reason this recent LOLCat cracked me right heck up.
Maybe it’s the indirect reference to Jin-Soo Kwon because I am a total geek for that show. Still, it’s a little dark as far as LOLCats go.
Reminds me of the one a created awhile back…
I am sure this was a result of watching too many of those psycho-killer shows. You know the ones. Criminal Minds, Dexter and so forth.
No, wait…this traces back to Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.
But really, who am I kidding…we can go back as far as Eraserhead.
Yea, I’m old and I’m blaming David Lynch for my warped sense of humor.
Works for me!
One good thing about these high end hotels where we hold our sales conference is the the hotel’s commitment to providing an abundance of coffee in the morning.
Speaking of coffee, I had the oddest dream the other night. In my dream there was an online service where you could upload your unused coffee to a web site to make it available to others to download free of charge.
It was for those times when you brew a pot of coffee, but don’t finish it. It wasn’t for uploading a half drunk cup of used coffee though I could see that as a potential abuse of the service.
Cynthia tells me it strikes her as a very “Jay-like” dream. I have to agree.
