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a trend.

23 years ago, an amateur fossil hunter discovered something in a fossil pit near Whocares, Germany. For reasons unknown (my guess is he's a jerk), he kept it a secret until three years ago when he decided he wanted some money (probably bet against the Steelers). He sold the object via a third party to a Norwegian paleontologist for an undisclosed, less-than-one-million-dollars amount. The object was kept a secret so it could be studied closely.

Until yesterday.

The object:


Darwinius masillae, or "Ida."

The Internet:


crapping its pants.

Seems like guy-with-line-through-the-o-in-his-name wanted to earn back some of that undisclosed, less-than-one-million-dollars amount, because the scientific paper on Ida was released in tandem with an enormous publicity campaign including a jazzy website and some ridiculous quotes. Hurum says,
"It is the scientific equivalent of the Holy Grail. This fossil will probably be the one that will be pictured in all textbooks for the next 100 years."He also compared the future museum display to the Mona Lisa (which, of course, it will remain for the next 100 years). Even the guy who narrates Planet Earth needs a change of underwear.

Point: This is a great discovery. The hyperbolic reaction just needs some abating.

That said, I look forward to learning more about my great Aunt Ida



and the continued webwide reaction to her discovery.

great graph

Graph about topic trends:

It will also hold true for trending discussions of trending topics.
(via)

the tone matrix

Coolest thing on the entire internet:

Tone Matrix

good video

4/1

rule of the internet - good websites will do something funny on april 1

youtube has a new format, explained here

wikipedia is featuring the Musem of Bad Art and says that
... a team of archaeologists discovered a fossilized Han Solo in the rocks of Chinagoogle has introduced gmail autopilot
(probably nobody remembers this)

the pirate bay has partnered with warner brothers

maddox, who has altered his website thrice previously, didn't do anything because he has jury dury.

college humor has pretended to be taken over by axe, which should not count as a prank

I don't think pitchfork did anything, but they really liked trent reznor's prank

that covers all I can think of offhand.. if you need more, I suppose you can go here.

also, in unrelated news, LOSTpedia says that in a "shockingly quiet press release yesterday," it's been announced that M. Night Shymalan will direct the series finale. that probably means Jack has been dead this whole time, which I KEEP TELLING EVERYONE

update on what I did today forthcoming

culture barometer

Search for something, anything. See where and when people are conducting that same search.
Examples:

Pennsylvania is the state that most often searches for "cheesesteak."


There's a spike in LOST searches right around the premiere and the finale every year.

Infinite possibility!

more daft punk

Idaft: a straightforward website toy for daft punk fans

widened colum

Thanks to John Deere Mom, my main column is 240 pixels wider.

sturgeon faces

Bad comparison... good website. Check it out before it finishes making the rounds and flitters into obsolescence.

img

FAIL FAIL

Someone is a genius. At failsticker.com, you can buy rolls of stickers that say "FAIL" just like on photos on the internet. Here's an example from their "user-submitted photos":
Hilarious. It says FAIL on the toilet. The site is fairly young, so I imagine someone just went around their house and stuck a sticker somewhere in each room, but I really hope this goes nowhere. I'm all for internet jokes--but they should stay where they came from. I accept that in the future, every time someone drops a plate of food at a restaurant there will be someone (probably someone young and hip) pridefully smirking for their being the first to offer a spoken "FAIL" ... but I don't have to like it.

broken picture telephone

Anne's perennial favorite drinking game has a name... and a website.


Looks like it's been getting a lot of (deserved) traffic lately, so it might be loading slowly. It's still excellent... and addicting.

road lines

How long are the yellow lines on a road?
Take a guess. Then look at the answer.
(Photo of street art by Bansky)

drive cake

Probably the most hilarious thing that you or I will see today:


A cake place frosted the image OF a USB jump drive on a cake instead of the image IN the USB jump drive. Gold!

name change

That filthy, despicable varmint Charles Swaz has changed his website's address. This is it:

http://thecuisinart.com/

It looks much better, actually. Pears are a nice touch. Maybe I should try wordpress.

ball gymnastics

Found in away message:



High quality in link.

Stockton Borealis gets a blog

The illustrious, elusive, and multitalented Charles Swaz has launched a website for writing. Here it is:

The CuisinArt

First order of business (after the skyrocket in popularity following this post) should be sending a cease and desist letter to the annoyingly similarly named kitchen appliance company.

angioplasty staduim

Didn't get around to it yesterday, but I still wanted to post this:



You're looking at an early step in the creation of a monumental, edible (monumedible?) snacking arena:
"The twinkie is nature's brick."

An additional link found on the (very funny) holy taco front page:
10 Very Good Reasons Why You Should Grow a Giant Beard

cutting plastic

Don't you hate buying something and having to risk life and limb just to open the darn thing? Well, you're in luck!

You might want to buy one before you buy one, though:

minimalism

Cool minimalism:

A bench.

Related: "I'm with the band"