Photo of tiger and boy via thesesites. Source unknown.
Update: Thanks to the tipster, here's the tiger, available as a print. That's a major complaint I have about sites like Digg, Reddit, and Found - - users frequently show no respect at all for intellectual property holders and often craft links in such a way that you can't figure out where the images originated.
And a few more links:
1. An officer handcuffed a nurse and put her in a squad car because he was dissatisfied with the speed the hospital was moving to draw a suspected drunk driver's blood. There's video of the incident at the link (which I haven't watched). Via.
2. Funny anecdote about apparent senator to be Paul Kirk.
The crew behind Street Angel hits the ghetto with the Afrodisiac - in SuperColor! There’s cats, gats, spats, and feathered hats…action as big as a Georgia ham and wool so fine it'll blow your mind! Lock up your daughters, come hell or high water, cause here comes the king of the concrete jungle!
The Economist has a terrible new ad campaign by BBDO called "Red Wires." The film itself, featuring a wire-jumper named Florent Blondeau walking on high-wires throughout the city is fairly interesting. But the campaign's concept is stunningly bad. The imagery has no readily apparent connection to news. More importantly, The Economist is only mentioned at the very end of the 70-second clip, and when it is mentioned, it's accompanied by the ill-conceived tagline "Let your mid wander." But you go to TMZ (or Super Punch) to let your mind "wander." The Economist is serious news for the reader that's serious about learning about the world. It's a great example of an ad that might do wonders for its director but nothing for the product.*
While I'm on the topic, here's two interesting articles from The Economist, found via Tucker Stone's weekly summary:
1. A recent study indicates that the evolutionary reason for depression is that we feel depression when we realize a goal is unobtainable. Being depressed convinces us to abandon an unreachable goal, during the depressed phase, we conserve energy and devise a new goal, and then we can put our stored energy to good use pursuing the new goal.
2. Dinosaurs might have been much smaller than we grew up believing. (Still big, but not astonishingly big.)
*They're serious enough about the campaign that I was contacted twice and asked to write about it.
4. Respectful yo mama jokes by Lucas Klauss. For example, "Yo mama is so healthy her BMI is probably exactly within the ideal range for a woman her age."
A Cthuloid, created as a Spore creature by Hellopike, and then exported out of the game and rendered in Mental Ray by Ocean Quigley. At the same site, check out Mike Khoury's render of a bunch of stylized military vehicles. Relatedly, if you'd like to have a Spore creature turned into a toy, you can order one here. The results are apparently pretty good. Via thesesites.
And a few more links:
1. Like the last article I posted describing a heist, this explanation about how moon rocks were stolen from NASA sounds like a half-truth at best. Fun reading, though. Most interesting detail:
Building 31 North, which sits on the grounds of Houston's Johnson Space Center, is where NASA keeps all 600 pounds of the moon rocks it has secured. They are the sole property of the government, collected over six lunar missions and protected with the dramatic intensity of national treasures. Building 31 North is one of the few buildings on earth constructed under Class 100 standards—it is a structure that can withstand 1000 years of water submersion, among other durability metrics that should not be tested this side of Armageddon.
2. Former Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy on trial for trying to smuggle 161.5 grams of heroin, 24.4 grams of methamphetamine and 51.5 grams of marijuana into the correctional facility where he was a guard.
3. Dinosaurs may have died from the effects of massive volcanic eruption, rather than an asteroid impact.
4. Is it still April Fool's Day? Amazon expects people to pay $500 for a Kindle and pay extra for newspapers to read on it? Have they asked Sony how that price point on the PS3 is working out for them? You can read Mark Wilson's description of the Kindle here. And, by all means, if you want to buy one, buy one through this link.
1. Fossil of 43-foot snake found in Colombia. It's been dubbed "Titanoboa," and "[i]t challenges everything we know about how big a snake can be." Via.
2. Class action lawyer obtained for his "clients" (the members of the class) a settlement of a $10 gift card each. Usually the lawyer would earn a hefty fee, and the lawyer, Neil B. Fineman, was "entitled" to a $125,000 fee. But Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brett Klein ruled that Fineman will be paid in gift cards, instead - - "12,500 ten-dollar Windsor Fashions gift cards." Via.
3. Stephen King says J.K. Rowling's a great writer, but Stephanie Meyer "can't write worth a damn." On that topic, Stephen King's magazine columns for Entertainment Weekly are unreadable. Via.
4. CollectionDX is giving away a cool gorilla soldier.
