Brian Cox is one of the best actors ever. He’s so good that I sometimes daydream about him and Rip Torn Indian wrestling. Anyway, here’s Brian Cox teaching a two-year-old the soliloquy from Hamlet because I know you fags love this cutesy sh-t. It’s always funny to hear little kids talk in British accents. My, where did you attend finishing school, guvna?
December 11, 2009
Brian Cox teaches Hamlet
September 22, 2009
Another Tazed Wizard
This is a video of some crazy bastard talking nonsense to the police and eventually getting tasered. But, unlike most poor suckers who get zapped, this character uses his new electric power to yell a magical chant, get up, and run for freedom. It works too! Feel free to skip to 2:45 if you just want to see the getaway, but I watched the whole thing because people who ramble nonsense make me feel better about myself.
Via Geekologie
September 1, 2009
$quid
In fact, all you really need to know is that $quid is about a guy who owes money to a giant squid.
$quid is an Australian short film starring Josh Lawson and Ed Kavalee about a giant squid in the Brisbane River. Enjoy. Daley Pearson & Luke Tierney are the writers, producers and directors of $quid.
August 27, 2009
100 Years Of Movie Special Effects In 5:00
This is a little video montage of notable special effects from movies in the past 100 years all packed into a five minute clip. And as you’ll see, we haven’t come very far.
August 12, 2009
Women take very attractive strangers to bed; men aren’t so picky
2:34 PM, August 11, 2009
In a never-ending quest to plumb the mysteries of men, women and sex, the journal Human Nature has published a study that minces no words in concluding that women “have higher standards” when engaging in a one-night stand.
Sure, sure, we’ve all heard the evolutionary argument: With the dangers of prospective childbirth and years of child care hanging in the balance, women would be expected to be choosier than men about whom they will mate with. Bound by no such commitments and keen to maximize the propagation of their DNA, men will mate, shall we say, more indiscriminately.
But do we ever tire of hearing the details? We do not.
So here’s how they play out in the latest study. A total of 427 men and 433 females from universities in the United States, Germany and Italy were asked to imagine their response to a request by a member of the opposite sex to: a) go out on a date; b) go home with the requestor; and c) go to bed with him or her.
The person making the invitation could be “moderately unattractive,” “somewhat attractive” or “exceptionally attractive,” and the research participant was asked for his or her answer under each of these permutations.
Across the board, men were more likely to accept any and all of the invitations than were women. There were a few national differences among the men: the German men were most reticent about going out or going home with any of the imagined women, and Italians were least discriminate about doing anything with anyone. American men were more likely than their German counterparts to go to bed with a woman. But they weren’t quite as randy as the Italians.
As a group, the men also showed a preference for a somewhat or exceedingly attractive woman over a moderately unappealing one. But as long as a woman was at least somewhat attractive, then men were equally ready to go off with her. Extraordinary beauty was not required to secure their willingness to go out, go home or go to bed with a woman extending the invitation.
Not so women. For female respondents who agreed they would go to bed with a man, only the best would do. While they were equally likely to go out with a moderately handsome man than with an exceptionally handsome specimen, the women respondents were far more likely to accept only the exceptionally attractive man’s invitation to his home or his bed.
“While men are not entirely insensitive to their requestor’s attractiveness, women have higher standards and are more likely to engage in casual sex with an exceptionally attractive man than with a less attractive man,” said the study’s author, psychologist Achim Schuetzwohl of Britain’s Brunel University. The differences among men appear to reflect “culural differences in sexual morals and preferences,” he added.
But the difference between men and women when it came to a roll in the hay? Human Nature, apparently.
Still not tired of reading about sexual differences between men and women? You couldn’t do better than the latest Kinsey report, published in the April 2008 Archives of Sexual Behavior.
August 11, 2009
Will rare redheads be extinct by 2100?
By Robin L. Flanigan
She was just walking down the street with her sister, in her old neighborhood, when an elderly woman stopped her car in front of her and called out, “I love your hair! It’s so beautiful!”
Caitlin Tydings was about 8 then, and caught off guard. Now a high-school senior, she has since grown accustomed to strangers commenting on her strawberry-blond locks.
If predictions by the Oxford Hair Foundation come to pass, the number of natural redheads everywhere will continue to dwindle until there are none left by the year 2100.
The reason, according to scientists at the independent institute in England, which studies all sorts of hair problems, is that just 4 percent of the world’s population carries the red-hair gene. The gene is recessive and therefore diluted when carriers produce children with people who have the dominant brown-hair gene.
Dr. John Gray’s explanation of his foundation’s findings: “The way things are going, red hair will either be extremely rare or extinct by the end of the century.”
Red hair certainly has made the endangered list. But with 4 percent of 6.4 billion people carrying the gene, says University of Rochester Medical Center’s David Pearce, it is too large a figure to be wiped out completely in the next 95 years.
“I think someone may want to check their calculator,” he says. The red-hair gene “will dilute out and become rare, but there are a variety of other factors that can change hair color that are not really understood well right now.”
The gene responsible for red hair was only discovered in the late 1990s. People have a good chance of being born with red hair if they have a mutation of that gene.
Red hair is found in all ethnic backgrounds but is most commonly associated with people of Celtic descent.
Red hair skipped two generations before sprouting on Brianna McBride, a 5-year-old preschooler from Penfield, N.Y. It comes from her great-grandmother on her father’s side.
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“As a baby, we’d be in the store and people would always try to touch her head. She didn’t like that, so she was very shy,” recalls her mom, Alice. As Brianna got older, “we started to point out other redheads, and she started understanding.”
Now, her mom adds, “she looks forward to the attention. She has really learned how to use it.”
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In case you are wondering I am indeed a redhead
August 11, 2009
John Hughes
“Really? People needed a documentary to remember John Hughes films? Say what you will about them, they weren’t exactly under-appreciated. Nonetheless, I respect this guy’s foresight and I’m hoping to follow his example. I just don’t know which is more likely, Michael Bay dying in a freak C4 accident or Brett Ratner choking on a nacho.” Film Drunk
