thebluthcompany:

It’s the Final Countdown | Fakin’ It

“My name is Judge.”

What kind of name is that, magazine?

Gob got an impressive amount of mileage from that four-word voice clip.

bigredrobot:

paimona:

odditiesoflife:

The Fukang Meteorite

Back in the year 2000, an incredible meteorite weighing 2,211 pounds was discovered near Fukang, a city located in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, China. Named the Funkang meteorite, it was identified as a pallasite, a type of stony–iron meteorite. With 4.5 billion years in the making, its golden olivine mixed with silvery nickel-iron to create a stunningly beautiful mosaic effect.

Pallasites are extremely rare even among meteorites (only about 1% of all meteorites are this type) and Fukang has been hailed as one of the greatest meteorite discoveries of the 21st century.

It has since been divided into slices which give the effect of stained glass when the sun shines through them. It is so valuable that even tiny chunks sell in the region for $40 to $60 a gram. An anonymous collector holds the largest portion, which weighs 925 pounds.

“Anonymous collector” is code for “Lex Luthor.”

Fukang hell!

thebluthcompany:

cinematicshit:

I love Arrested Development but I have no love for its crazy fans who quote everything even the lines that are not that funny and talk about it all the time and make all their Facebook cover photos into screenshots from the show. 

truncheonthing:

“near the nadir of the German electronic trend”

(Billboard, 1/11/1975)

I love Kraftwek.  They’re my favouite goup.

gaminginterrupted:

So there’s been rumblings over on YouTube’s gaming channels that have got a lot of people worried. On Friday, ZackScottGames posted on Reddit reporting that a large chunk of his Super Mario 3D Land videos had been “claimed” by Nintendo, meaning all the potential advertising revenue he would have amassed from the affected videos would instead go directly to the publisher. Apparently this had been happening to quite a few popular casters recently, all thanks to Google’s Content ID system, and automated copyright enforcer that been glitchy from the get-go.

Affected videos will now run adverts with each video, an approach Nintendo insists is much better than the alternative – banning the Let’s Plays altogether – even though most would fall under the umbrella of fair use:

“As part of our on-going push to ensure Nintendo content is shared across social media channels in an appropriate and safe way, we became a YouTube partner and as such in February 2013 we registered our copyright content in the YouTube database. For most fan videos this will not result in any changes, however, for those videos featuring Nintendo-owned content, such as images or audio of a certain length, adverts will now appear at the beginning, next to or at the end of the clips. We continually want our fans to enjoy sharing Nintendo content on YouTube, and that is why, unlike other entertainment companies, we have chosen not to block people using our intellectual property.”

Well isn’t that kind of them.

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Let’s Plays don’t function as “free advertising” though.  They function as a free way for people to see the content of a game.  I watched Let’s Plays of that new God Of War game and the Mass Effect 3 dLCs, because I had no intention of buying them but was curious to see the content.  I don’t know if that’s a majority opinion, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Nintendo think so.  Inasmuch as I care about this at all I’m on the side of the LPers, but I can see Nintendo’s thinking.

thebluthcompany:

It’s the Final Countdown | Notapusy

“You can control your bladder when you’re dead.”

My favourite episode of them all.

I was betrayed by my brother Micheal. Who’s your favourite family member and why?

leasthelpful:

“Great read, 4 out of 5 D d d’s”

I’ve never read a book that had this effect on me

palisader:

This is what happens when I have a few days off work.

Peak Gob

palisader:

I need to fiddle with the hat a bit to make it look more uniform, and I think the next one I’ll make will have bigger ears.  But I’m satisfied for a first go. 

She’s cut off Finn the human’s head! :(

Pile body upon body.*  

*And then let those bodies hit the floor

stfuconservatives:

mediamattersforamerica:

And this isn’t even the last we’re going to hear about “happy plants.” 

I love how climate change deniers suddenly think they’re experts on plant health.

So this is their other big talking point.  For when they’re arguing with someone who wants something a little more substantial than “there won’t ever be a big environmental catastrophe because God said He wouldn’t flood the earth again”