My favorite posts of 2011
Wrapping up the celebration of my 1000th post a few months back, I bring you some of my favorite posts of 2011. Here are my favorite posts from 2009 and 2010 in case you missed them. I don’t think its bragging to say that 2011 was my best year yet; the website become a full blown paying-for-hosting-and-actually-earning-a-few-bucks-from-ads website in addition to a brand new name. I also introduced a couple of returning features: Instantwatched, Liquor I Like, and the What I’m Reading Round Up (BTW, I won’t be including any of those posts in this list because I love all of them unconditionally). So thanks to everyone that has ever Internet stumbled onto my humble little website. I hope its been as fun to read as it has been to write!
I Didn’t Even Know These Animals Could Exist
Wikipedia’s List of Common Misconceptions
I’m still disappointed by the fact that vikings didn’t wear horned viking helmets.
Favorite Films of 2010
First List
Second List
Ridiculously Trippy Music Video
F#&king Particle Accelerators, How Do They Work? (And What Happens When You Stick Your Head In One?)
Something Awful Forum Asks: What Tripped El Hadji Diouf?
Only You Can Prevent Revenge Against A Landowner For Some Assumed Injustice
I sure did miss Luke’s Lobster
Spy Party Impressions
Still eagerly awaiting this game.
No Wonder The Kakapo’s Critically Endangered
Netflix Instantwatched: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Okay, I’m posting just one of my Instanwatched reviews because this movie is just the best.
America’s Best Desktop Wallpaper
Ken Jennings Is A Ridiculously Funny Man
Still hoping this guy gets a TV show.
How it took me this long to get a Pokemon joke into one of my posts I’ll never know.
Never Ask A Graphic Designer For Help
An excellent, hilarious first time PC builders guide
Have A Laptop? Then You Probably Already Have A Standing Desk: It’s Called A Bookshelf
Probably My Favorite Music Video Of 2011. No wait, it’s this one! Good thing I added that ‘probably’.
Sexy Sexy Saxophone (and a super-neato transparent fish)
One of the first infographics I made: The Corporate States of America
My Favorite Documentaries of 2010 and revised top 10 list.
Could a balanced budget amendment actually be ratified? (short answer: nope!)
The Space Race in beautiful picture form
If you’re ever in the God forsaken hell hole* that’s known as Columbia, MO take the time to visit a refreshingly cool hell hole known as the Devil’s Icebox. (I kid only because, as a Jayhawk, I’m contractually obligated to despise this town and its school. Also, because I’m jealous my college town never had a classic burger place like Mugs-Up Drive In)
My friends and I don’t mess around when it comes to brunch.
Wilford Brimley rules wants to give you diabeetus.
I believe this pushes the number of goat posts on this website well over 20
I went to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival for the first time since I was a little kid. It was kinda lame.
I got to see President Obama give a speech. It was not lame.
Note to self: Target does not carry Daddy Butter.
The insanely awesome way the Curiosity Rover will land on Mars
I’m still here!
No, I didn’t die, I just moved to New York city (again) and didn’t have time to blog. I’ll probably be blogging much less frequently now, but I’ll do my best to post updates a few times a week.
1960s Political Snark: Who’s In Charge Here?
I found this old book in my grandmother’s house and thought its hokey jokes and puns were like a primordial version of today’s political snark. I’ve ‘scanned’ (photographed) a couple of my favorite pages and made them into the slideshow below.
The best talk show ever
I can’t believe I haven’t posted this yet. The kid at 34 seconds is simply the best.
Do baby rhinos make the cutest noises?
YESTHEYDOOOO, YESTHEYDOOO! WHOSACUTIE? YOUARE!
Six famous thought experiments in sixty seconds
This charming little video runs through six of the most famous thought experiments, which used to be incredibly important to science research and building new theories. They still are to a degree, but the prevalence of powerful computers have allowed scientists to test what would have been a thought experiment a century ago.
(Via Laughing Squid)
Google Ngram Viewer: “Income Inequality” vs. “Billionaire”
Google’s Ngram Viewer allows you to see how frequently certain words or phrases were used in books over a given period of time. You can also compare two different words or phrases, as I have done above with ‘Income Inequality’ and ‘Billionaire’. I filtered the time from 1900-2008, which is as recent as it can be (it would be interesting to see if Occupy Wall Street has had a large effect on this instances of the term ‘income inequality’). I also set the corpus to American English, the smoothing to 2, and used only uncapitalized words.