November, 2010

The folks over at Geeks Are Sexy took two wonderful renditions of Homer Simpson’s barbershop quartet The Be Sharp’s “Baby On Board” and synced them up into this 8-part multi-track super cover.

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5 Famous Scientists Dismissed As Morons In Their Time – [Cracked]

The 10 Sexiest Cooking Videos Of All Time – [Manofest]

World’s First Rock-And-Roll Song Identified – [Discovery]

Pitchfork Gives Kanye West’s MBDTF A Rare Perfect 10 – [Pitchfork]

Subterranean Secrets: 10 Tunnels For Smuggling & War – [Web Urbanist]

10 US States That Will Get Murdered If China Slows Its Imports – [Business Insider]

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For your guessing amusement.  Click to enlarge.

Fabian Glez | Previously: 64 Star Wars Icons, 100 Movie Icons, Band Names In Icon Form

Cheat sheet after the jump, cheater.

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Funny because it’s true.

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Royce had his way with this one.

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In honor of the release of Tangled, Disney’s 50th animated feature, The Fine Brothers are going to ruin all of them for you in chronological order.

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Every Black Friday Deal On One Site – [Black Friday 2010] (via)

Stonehenge Builders Used Ball Bearings To Move Slabs – [Daily Mail]

The 100 Best Innovations Of The Past Year – [Popular Science]

11 Gloriously Funny TV Sports Graphics – [11 Points]

Pranksters The Yes Men Target Apple, Advertise “Conflict-Free” iPhone – [Fast Company]

You Park Like An Asshole – [YPLAA] (via)

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Chris Drew’s amazing fan edit of the original Tron trailer, starring a young Jeff Bridges (the non-digitized version).

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After 20 years of stumping the world’s best code crackers, “Kryptos” creator Jim Sanborn has revealed part of the infamous 4th panel of his sculpture, which sits in one of the courtyards of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia.  From The New York Times:

So now, after 20 years, Mr. Sanborn is nudging the process along. He has provided The New York Times with the answers to six letters in the sculpture’s final passage. The characters that are the 64th through 69th in the final series on the sculpture read NYPVTT. When deciphered, they read BERLIN.

The first three passages have been solved, but the fourth has proven difficult for a couple of reasons:

One reason the fourth puzzle has proved so difficult is because, with just 97 characters, it is shorter than the others. Longer chunks of text are easier to crack because there is more information to study for patterns.

The messages form the two left-hand panels of the sculpture’s wall of text; the other two panels on the right side provide the key to cracking some of the text. Each is encrypted in a different way from the others.

Sanborn has also launched Kryptos Clue to provide an automated way for people to submit what they think the first 10 characters are.  If you’ve been trying to solve this thing for 20 years, you’ve got 10 characters to get creative with your rage.