The Somewhat Ambitious

A reader has drawn my attention to a group called Rednecks for Obama, a group which… well, I’ll let you read this statement from the Co-Founder, Tony Veissman.
“I don’t care about his beer, I care about his intelligence.”
“We’ve had many democratic presidents, and we will still have our guns.”
“He is brilliant. And he’s not [...]

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Blizzard promised several world-spanning “world events” which would lead up to the Wrath of the Lich King, and last night, the first of several kicked off. Zombies! Suspicious looking crates appeared in capital cities, which when used, will infect you with a ten minute disease. If you let it gestate (and don’t get it looked [...]

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If you’re a kid, thank the gods that you didn’t grow up when Stonehenge was alive and kicking. Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have found the worlds “oldest child’s toy” near Stonehenge, and whilst experts can’t agree on whether it looks more like a pig or a hedgehog, one look at the above picture [...]

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So this week on The Somewhat Ambitious’ totally awesome mixtape-themed radio show, we decided to surrender all control of our music preferences to the loosely understood powers that be our iTunes shuffle function. Whatever the first 9 tracks that this capricious beast shat out, we had to play on air. As two relatively demanding music [...]

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Good GOD. If anyone can find a way to buy these steampunk goggles for my Christmas, I will take them on a date. On my jetpack, to my zeppelin-powered restaurant hovering above London. Why? Because these brass goggles have the leather bolted with tiny precision-engineered rivets to the eyeglasses (which I believe are perscription). The [...]

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Is it wrong for me to pine for Bollywood in space? The implications zero-g will have on coreography are mind-boggling*. The launch was delayed for several days due to bad weather (on earth, not in space, obviously), but the Indian Space Research Organisation is feeling optimistic. My favourite part? The craft, named “Chandrayaan-1″, will orbit [...]

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In case you missed Tuesday the 21st’s episode of Nerds of a Feather on the Triple J Breakfast Show, the podcast can be streamed here. Also, Luke and I did a special episode of The Somewhat Ambitious on Tuesday, only playing songs that our iTunes shuffle whipped out. Stay tuned for those playlists. Bring airsick [...]

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If you want to treat yourself to some truly avant garge, fucked-up porcelain sculptures (and lets face it, you do), the latest work by Hayashi Shigeki will likely melt your butter. Using traditional Japanese ceramic techniques, Shigeki has created several sprawling works, largely (ok, entirely) made up of babies in robot suits. To be truthful, [...]

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Dutch designer Pieke Bergmans has created a series of “light blubs”, bizarre creations which apparently satirise the incandescent light bulb, which, let’s be honest, had it coming. What were they thinking, lighting our bathrooms and operating theatres?* Bergmans posits that a “light blub” is:
“…a light bulb that has gone way out of line. Infected [...]

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Mighty God King’s photoshopped classic sf/f book-covers are vomit-inducingly funny. It helps, I’ll admit, if you’re vaguely familiar with the novels in question, but either way it works. Incidentally, Thomas Covenant is a total douchebag. There. I said it.
(Link via Boing boing)
/Paul

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