http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/12.html
Aussie comedy show CNNNN interviewed some Americans about the war on terror. They managed to find a lot of people who were eager to attack countries that they could not find on the (deliberately mislabelled) map. “Wow, I never knew North Korea was so big!” says one interviewee.
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Archive for October, 2005
Send troops to Iran in the South Pacific
Posted by Martin Poulter on 12 October 2005
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Rethinking Schools - Just For Fun Map Game
Posted by Martin Poulter on 12 October 2005
How well do you know the map of the Middle East?. This Flash interactive game challenges you to know your Mauritius from your Turkmenistan. Found via Metafilter.
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The Passion Reloaded
Posted by Martin Poulter on 12 October 2005
http://passionreloaded.com/
Blasphemy warning, violence warning, large download warning. How many warnings do you need?
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Lounge Against The Machine
Posted by Martin Poulter on 12 October 2005
A few people have recommended me the album “Rock Swings” by Paul Anka with its sumptuously arranged swing versions of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and Spandau Ballet’s “True”. The true hero of easy listening rock, however, is Richard Cheese (friends call him “Dick”). Thanks Max_F for telling me about him.
The album “Lounge Against the Machine” features a hilarious version of “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails. “Tuxicity” has covers of “Insane in the Brain” by Cypress Hill and “Loser” by Beck. “Aperitif for Destruction” features “The Girl is Mine” done as a duet with a Stephen Hawking voice. (Samples online thanks to Amazon). Blisteringly funny and surprisingly catchy listening.
Cheese even did a version of “Smack My Bitch Up”, which I didn’t know about when I was working on my version of “Firestarter”.
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Bush Freefalling
Posted by misterchristophe on 12 October 2005
Figurative satire made literal. Absolutely mesmerizing.
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Firestarter, the lounge version
Posted by Martin Poulter on 11 October 2005
When the Mike Flowers Pops topped the charts with a version of “Wonderwall”, I thought that “Firestarter” was the obvious next choice for them to do. Several years on, I’ve decided to record it myself.
Update 2006: Firestarter: the Easy Listening version is available as part of my MySpace profile.
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Ig Nobel prize: the World’s unlikliest research
Posted by emmap on 10 October 2005
The results of this years Ig-Nobel prizes are now out … it’s amazing what research gets funded these days … maybe we should submit some more creative proposals?
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The Bubble Project
Posted by Paul Smith on 9 October 2005
I’m not particularly keen on graffiti or defacement of stuff, but this looks like a really interesting project, and the results are intriguing:
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Landover Baptist
Posted by Paul Smith on 9 October 2005
“Where the Worthwhile Worship. Unsaved Unwelcome.”
Lots of things I like on this site - it’s scary enough to be true!!
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Shining - the trailer remixed
Posted by Paul Ayres on 7 October 2005
Take a film and remix it in trailer form to completely change the meaning of the film
http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov
Think this might be first of many
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