Alimentando macacos
Are these macaques manqué or is this normal monkey business? 😆
Posts Tagged ‘Open thread’
Funky Manqués
by 1389AD ( 90 Comments › )Filed under Humor, Open thread at February 11th, 2011 - 7:00 pm
Kinetic Necktie-Tying Sculpture
by 1389AD ( 90 Comments › )Filed under Art, Open thread, Satire, Technology at February 9th, 2011 - 9:00 pm
Why Knot? – A kinetic sculpture by Seth Goldstein
The YouTube description calls it “A kinetic sculpture that continually ties and unties a necktie.”
I am not sure whether this fits best into the category of “art”, “satire”, or “technology”. It is not a modern takeoff on Rube Goldberg, but rather, an experiment in robotics and perhaps topology.
Pointed Gestures
by 1389AD ( 109 Comments › )Filed under Barack Obama, Humor, Open thread at February 9th, 2011 - 4:30 pm
You’re disgusted with Obama’s nonsensical televised blatherings, you’re too frugal to hurl a well-deserved shoe through the screen, but you still need to express yourself?
Me too.
I will refrain from causing more annoyance by discussing Obozo’s latest helping of hogwash. Instead, I offer this:
Pleated Jeans: The Angry Traveler’s Guide to Obscene Gestures
Click to see the full-size illustration, plus the comments.
The same gesture means different things in different places!
How To Swear In American Sign Language
Taboo Words in American Sign Language v2.0
Note: I cannot personally vouch for the accuracy (or otherwise) of the signs shown above.
Also see:
- Foreign Fingers offers another illustrated take on rude gestures in foreign countries.
- Wikipedia’s list of gestures, while by no means exhaustive, covers benign as well as insulting gestures.
- Body Language gives an exhaustive, and very useful, treatment of body language, including hand gestures.
Super Bowl XLV Open Thread 1
by coldwarrior ( 229 Comments › )Filed under NFL, Open thread at February 6th, 2011 - 6:30 pm
**OPEN THREAD**
Here’s the drill, we don’t want to put up any serious threads tonight as they would not get the exposure our writers deserve.
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So, we are going Open Thread from now till tomorrow morning (with an OOT later). If ya got something interesting, bring it up. These do not have to be about football.
