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Yvon in Montreal May 16

YvonTripper — 2012-04-07T22:48:22-04:00

Dear all:

Please note in your calendars that I will be appearing at Montreal Improv on May 16 to provide you with my views on many important things.

Further details to follow.

Fight For Your Right...

registeredname — 2011-04-23T16:45:59-04:00

To make a movie starring everybody.

In Case You Missed It...

goodladd — 2011-04-01T12:13:20-04:00

(One of) Google's April Fools' gags this year:

Notoriety for That Thing We Play

goodladd — 2011-02-19T09:08:04-05:00

Seen in the Harvard Coop a few weeks ago... WTF?

The Force is Strong With This One

Gbrowdy — 2011-02-04T11:23:51-05:00

I Smell Lawsuit

vinny9 — 2011-01-23T23:10:29-05:00

http://www.beardowear.ca/

Because I Haven't Posted A YouTube Video In A Really Long Time

goodladd — 2011-01-20T17:00:43-05:00

Nice.

Alex — 2010-10-15T16:43:15-04:00

Frog levitator wins Nobel Prize

chrisdye — 2010-10-06T11:29:16-04:00

Andre Geim becomes first Ig-Nobel winner to Win Nobel Prize

If he can win, anybody can win.

Tropical paradise. Yep.

chrisdye — 2010-09-17T12:39:20-04:00

Massive hurricane bears down on Bermuda

Igor is a moster among hurricanes

Yup

vinny9 — 2010-09-03T00:12:59-04:00

Redacted, Redacted, ooh I wanna take you to Bermuda, Redacted, Come on pretty momma...

chrisdye — 2010-07-14T15:53:37-04:00

Handcuffed Defendant Flees From Court

YouTuxzzzzzBzbzzbzbbbzz

vinny9 — 2010-06-24T21:32:55-04:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4mYjc7g-so

Click the link.
Click the soccer ball in the scrubber (the bottom menu bar with the slider).

Song of the Bumblebee

vinny9 — 2010-06-17T11:08:20-04:00

Elementary

goodladd — 2010-06-15T00:26:41-04:00

Straatview

chrisdye — 2010-05-04T00:23:46-04:00

I previously wrote about Baarle-Hertog/Baarle-Nassau, a tiny town in Holland with a few dozen parcels of land belonging to Belgium. International borders run haphazardly through the town, dividing streets and buildings, like so:

View Larger Map

Well, it seems that Google maps has Streetviewed all of Holland and none of Belgium, resulting in Streetview stopping and starting at near-random intervals through Baarle-Nassau. My favourite part is that some of the Belgian parts have little parts inside them that belong to Holland. These tiny strips of Dutch land, some no bigger than a front yard, are streetviewed, while the Belgian parts are all cut off.

WHEN CAN I SEE THIS MOVIE?

goodladd — 2010-04-21T13:50:22-04:00

I hear 3-D Security Ribbon gives a superlative performance.

If Vinny Has Already Posted This, I Resign

goodladd — 2010-03-24T12:27:23-04:00

Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh.

Not your grandma's snow globes

registeredname — 2010-02-23T16:39:37-05:00

Check out more of them here.

24 Hours of Worldwide Airplane Flights

vinny9 — 2010-02-05T09:21:18-05:00

LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE!

goodladd — 2010-02-04T11:23:39-05:00

Couldn't Just Ask,

vinny9 — 2010-02-01T16:14:09-05:00

First interview with Bill Watterson in over 20 years.

It's actually a pretty pathetic interview but there is this money quote:

How soon after the U.S. Postal Service issues the Calvin stamp will you send a letter with one on the envelope?
"Immediately. I'm going to get in my horse and buggy and snail-mail a check for my newspaper subscription."

I'll See Josh, and Raise Him...

goodladd — 2010-01-01T06:50:18-05:00

This is also very VERY NSFW, and I've been debating posting it for a few days because it's kind of gross and scatological and misogynistic, especially towards the end. But it's a catchy tune and in any case I couldn't really live with myself in a world where Marc and Vinny haven't seen such a superb videogame send-up.

Is This One Okay, Vinny?

goodladd — 2009-12-19T13:59:46-05:00

The Oldest Trophy in the World

LePhil — 2009-12-19T12:29:18-05:00

I know you've all been wondering: "what's going on in the world of the America's Cup lately?"
Well, exciting things have been going on, that's what.

It all started at the end of the last challenge, when the Swiss team Alinghi (of Societe Nautique de Geneve) successfully defended the cup. Shortly after, Bertarelli (the billionaire owner of team Alinghi) declared that Club N�utico Espa�ol de Vela were the challengers of record for the next cup. A club, that only existed in paper, and which he controlled. The set of rules that came out of those "talks" were so controversial, that Larry Ellison (the billionaire owner of team BMW Oracle) took them to court.

As it has so many times in the past, the New York Supreme court sat and heard arguments, consulted the Deed of Gift, and precedence. Eventually they ruled in favour for Oracle and the Golden Gate Yacht Club, and the challenge was set. Of course, given that they each have tons of money, and many lawyers, there have been many, many suits since that time. Bertarelli (aka the cheating bastard) has lost nearly all of them

In the meantime the design specifications that Oracle put forth, rather than being a complicated set of rules and walking away from the old formula:

Was ridiculously straight forward, it had to fight in 90' by 90' box, essentially, a baseball diamond.

Well, this is how you advance the world of sailing, give two of the top 100 richest men on the planet, carte blanche to build a fast boat. Here are the results:

Team Alinghi built a catamaran, All carbon fiber, including the sails. In even light wind it manages to fly one of their hulls and go at least twice the speed of the wind, possibly more.

The official videos I can't embed, here's a link to their promo

More incredibly is team Oracle's Trimaran. Disaster seemed to strike when the 280 foot, 10 million dollar mast snapped while they were pushing the boat to it's limits one day. However, the next week they unveiled their new hard sail, the biggest wing ever built by man, and launched the boat once more:

and a little promo of the boat, both with it's soft and hard sails:

Scottie Pippen's Drumwork Is Underrated

goodladd — 2009-12-11T13:23:42-05:00

Grab mp3 from YouTube

vinny9 — 2009-12-08T23:50:50-05:00

Dirpy Studio

Best one of these I've ever found.

Heh-heh� heh-heh

goodladd — 2009-11-29T16:39:06-05:00

I Want You To Try Ass Effects

goodladd — 2009-11-22T23:31:05-05:00

I think the folks at Eisai pharmaceuticals may have wanted to try saying the name of their new drug out loud a few times before designing the marketing campaign. (Either that or they are marketing geniuses counting on the internet to spread it virally, and I am playing right into their hands.)

If you love the Berlin Wall so much, why don't you marry it?

chrisdye — 2009-11-09T17:12:25-05:00

The story of Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, wife of the Berlin Wall

Her website: http://www.berlinermauer.se/