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My favorite posts of 2011

Clayton Ashley — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:57:02 +0000

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

I Give This Video a 9

Don’t Make Friction Negative

At the Center of Oblivion

My Favorite Games of 2010

Ridiculously Trippy Music Video

Favorite movies of 2009

F#&king Particle Accelerators, How Do They Work? (And What Happens When You Stick Your Head In One?)

Super Quick Game Impressions

Something Awful Forum Asks: What Tripped El Hadji Diouf?

The (Quantum) Birds and Bees

Don’t Be Such A Hate Witch

Only You Can Prevent Revenge Against A Landowner For Some Assumed Injustice

My favorite science books

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’.

Infographic: The Rise of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Requests and National Security Letters

Sexy Sexy Saxophone (and a super-neato transparent fish)

One of the first infographics I made: The Corporate States of America

Art of the Brick

I learned Javascript lol

Oooh, pretty.

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)

I built something!

Images created from thoughts

My friends and I don’t mess around when it comes to brunch.

Human space flight rules.

Google Motion charts rule.

Cuttlefish rule.

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

The best talk show ever

I’m still here!

Clayton Ashley — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:30:30 +0000

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?

Clayton Ashley — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:00:21 +0000

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.

Merry Christmas

Clayton Ashley — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 23:27:35 +0000

(Via Laughing Squid)

The best talk show ever

Clayton Ashley — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:17:23 +0000

I can’t believe I haven’t posted this yet. The kid at 34 seconds is simply the best.

Happy first day of Hanukkah!

Clayton Ashley — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:46:06 +0000

Damn I wish I was eight again

Clayton Ashley — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:02:53 +0000

Do baby rhinos make the cutest noises?

Clayton Ashley — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:18:22 +0000

YESTHEYDOOOO, YESTHEYDOOO! WHOSACUTIE? YOUARE!

Six famous thought experiments in sixty seconds

Clayton Ashley — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:27:20 +0000

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”

Clayton Ashley — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:02:02 +0000

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.