“Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.” – Kliban
Mr. Nice Hands is kinda like Purple except with music, a nice curl-up-beside-the-fireplace song. It’s interactive, too, just like The Overnight Open Thread.
Posts Tagged ‘Graphics’
Click on it. I dare you.
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 34 Comments › )Filed under Art, Humor, Music, OOT, Open thread at December 18th, 2011 - 11:00 pm
Just Get On The Bus, Gus
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 111 Comments › )Filed under Art, Humor, Music, OOT, Open thread, Transportation at September 28th, 2011 - 11:00 pm
[h/t 1389AD]
I wanna be a bus
I wanna be a big bus
I wanna bus the world around
I wanna be the biggest bus that ever bused the world around.
And the riders on the bus go beep beep beep, at least they do here, on
The Overnight Open Thread.
The Essence of the Correlation Tool
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 94 Comments › )Filed under Art, Blogwars, Humor, Open thread, Technology at May 30th, 2010 - 10:00 pm
[Image from somewhere here.]
Statistical analysis always fascinated me because you can do anything you want to prove any point. This example shows how any competent blog monitor can identify sock puppets.
The chart shows that a single poster has up to 16 socks on one person’s blog, and the size of the pyramid functions identify which socks are used the most. In this case, the largest purple pyramid is the puppet master. Note that it hits the tan hexagon, thus giving away the sock owner’s true identity.
Once identified, the blog monitor has some choices. He/she can delete the prime feed, and deal with the other 15 socks if and when they become nuisances, or he/she may choose to vaporize all socks at once.
Note that the correlator tools is not without flaws. In the example above, all of the blue-colored pyramids are NOT controlled by the previously identified sock master, and the blog monitor may inadvertently delete regular non-posting loyal readers who are more likely to hit the tip jar than others.
On the other hand, those with the most socks win, and often enjoy an Overnight Open Thread.
Frank Frazetta 1928-2010
by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 111 Comments › )Filed under Art, Humor, Open thread at May 10th, 2010 - 11:04 pm
By MARYCLAIRE DALE (AP)
PHILADELPHIA — Pioneering fantasy artist Frank Frazetta died Monday in a Fort Myers, Fla., hospital, a manager said. He was 82.
Frazetta had been out to dinner with his daughters Sunday but suffered a stroke at his Boca Grande home later that night and was taken to Lee Memorial Hospital, manager Rob Pistella said. A hospital spokeswoman confirmed the death, as did his daughter Heidi Frazetta Grabin.
“He’s going to be remembered as the most renowned fantasy illustrator of the 20th Century,” Pistella said.
Frazetta created covers and illustrations for more than 150 books and comic books, along with album covers, movie posters and original paintings. His illustrations of Conan the Barbarian, Tarzan, Vampirella and other characters influenced many later artists.
Frazetta had many imitators, but there was only one Frazetta.
The image above was one of my favorites in the 1970s, but my girlfriend wasn’t impressed when I projected it and copied it onto my dorm room wall with magic marker, so I broke up with her. I was like that back then. With that in mind, let’s have an Overnight Open Thread.
