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The ChainSAW

PAgent — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:08:59 +0000

Just a little toy the guys at the Knight’s Armament Company mocked up for fun.

I want one.

White Box

PAgent — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:48:44 +0000

White Box from makoto yabuki on Vimeo.

Thanks to @reidab (Reid Beels)

Skipper Dan

PAgent — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:21:53 +0000

via Drawn!

Recipe Book Fail

PAgent — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:27:10 +0000

I have to admit, I laughed at this. I am a bad person.

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What’s wrong with a Government Health Plan?

PAgent — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:11:25 +0000

Well, if you’re a big insurance company, everything. It will introduce a competitor in a highly lucrative industry, a competitor that can provide better care at a lower cost. So why is it that all you hear is how horrible a government-sponsored health care plan would be?

Because that’s what the Insurance industry wants you to believe.

Watch this Bill Moyers interview with Wendell Potter, who spent almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, and hear him describe how that industry is standing in the way of health care reform.

Then ask yourself a few questions.

Why should your premium payments go toward insanely huge salaries for executives, shareholder dividends, and lobbyists, instead of toward your health care?

Why should private and hugely profitable insurance companies be determining U.S. policies regarding health care?

And who should be in charge of your healthcare decisions? You? Your doctor? Or your insurance company?

Watch the interview.

Ninja Fast Doggie

PAgent — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:35:15 +0000

I love dogs. But I especially love HAPPY dogs. And this, my friends, is a happy dog.

via i has a hotdog

Hibi no Neiro

PAgent — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:54:29 +0000

A video for “Hibi no Neiro” (Tone of Everyday) by the group Sour. It’s interesting how in this day and age of fancy digital effects, we can still be so impressed by the beauty of a cooperative effort.

via Miss Cellania

The Life of a Sample Cup

PAgent — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:15:47 +0000

Dear Lord, Please Let This Be Viral

PAgent — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:23:31 +0000

Ostensibly footage from a sewer cam under “Cameron Village”, Raleigh, North Carolina. I’m desperately hoping this is a viral video, intended to promote some sci-fi or horror film, because if these twitching, pulsating blobs of flesh are real, I may never sit on a toilet again.

Update: The bad news is, this video is apparently quite real. The good news is, it’s not flesh-eating brain-sucking mutant aliens, but clumps of worms. Worms?? Yes, according to Dr. Timothy Wood, freshwater bryozoa expert:

Thanks for the video - I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video.

Thanks to Geekologie for the follow-up. And I still say ick.

Machu Picchu Post

PAgent — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:07:09 +0000

Machu Picchu Post from Machu Picchu Post Team on Vimeo.