Thursday, July 21, 2011

Bicyclists Beat Plane

OK, it was just 40 miles and it was a strange circumstance, but I still think this is awesome: Six cyclists raced a blogger who was taking a JetBlue flight - and won.

Read the story in the LA Times.

Rainbow Sponge Lady *loves* her art!

You've hear the saying, "Do what you love."
Here's the Rainbow Sponge lady to give us a demonstration.

Warning: Once seen, you cannot unsee

This one is just so disturbing I debated over posting it. Frank Pacholski describes himself as an interpretive dancer. This is a clip from LA Public Access Television. And we wonder why interpretive dancers & public access get such a bad rap... I blame it on this guy.

Madness: Pon Pon!

It's hard to say if this is the Most Insane Thing To Come From Japan (there are so many candidates) but I would wager it ranks:

Monday, July 18, 2011

Health Related Tweets studied by Johns Hopkins


This is so excellent! Two scientists from Johns Hopkins have analyzed 1.6 million health-related tweets to see if they can assist in tracking disease progression across the country & provide other useful information. Result: Yes!

Guess publicly complaining can be useful at some point after all...

Read about it in The Atlantic, or just jump to the actual study.

Need to Make Everything OK?

Go here: http://make-everything-ok.com/

Genki Sudo's "World Order"

Words can't express how much I love this.