Archive for June 2009

The Ten Coolest Places to Swim

So you know.

Peo­ple fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

via fuck yeah.

SURFER Pro­file: Timmy Turner

Turner pio­nneered a bunch of breaks in Indone­sia, that were sim­ply too out of the way for any­one to con­fort­ably explore. Stich­ing and mend­ing him­self and his crew’s reef cuts, liv­ing off goats and chick­ens and col­lect­ing rain water. Upon return­ing from Indone­sia in 2005, he was diag­nosed with one of the worse staph infec­tions doc­tors had ever seen, was com­matose for a while and under­went hem­i­craniec­tomy wherein he lost about 75% of his skull. Chances of sur­vival were next to nil (let alone recov­ery), but Timmy not only man­aged to sur­vive but made a full recov­ery. Advised by doc­tors to stay away from the trop­ics as he woulnd’t sur­vive another infec­tion, Timmy went as far away as he could — in the oppo­site direc­tion. He is now film­ing the “sequel” to his acclaimed film “Sec­ond Thoughts” on Canada’s British Colum­bia, to be called “Cold Thoughts”. Although his films are slightly mad /​ manic, I can’t help but be inspired.

Exclu­sive: Com­edy Cen­tral Goes Back to the Futu­rama

*cue in Prof. Farnsworth voice* “Good News Everyone!”

EDIT: Con­firmed!

Hands-​​on: Scribblenauts

Joys­tiq write-​​up on a Nin­tendo DS puz­zler where you solve sit­u­a­tions with you own lex­i­con. Amazing.

Car­rie Fisher and her stunt dou­ble sun­bathing on the set of Return of the Jedi. I’m amused but not sur­prised there’s an entire web­site around her out­fit. Ah, nerds.

(…) Tam­bém nós temos essas crises de iden­ti­dade. Bar­riga cheia, segu­rança con­tra as intem­péries, elec­tri­dade, cidade, salário, mais anos de vida, mel­hor vida mate­r­ial; mas menos mon­stros mar­in­hos, menos per­plex­i­dades ances­trais, menos inscrições em latim, menos Terra con­hecida, menos cabos por dobrar.

~ Gonçalo Cadilhe, Tournée

This trailer (the best video game trailer of all time?) is mak­ing me want to jump on the Rock­Band bandwagon.

A remote con­troled *LEGO* DeLorean. To be any more awe­some it would had to have a LEGO flux capac­i­ta­tor, heh. (via)

Pi encoded in crop cir­cle. Freaky or nerdy?