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If The Dove Doesn’t Fit…

By Devin
September 8, 2010 //
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Our Internet seclusion this weekend led to us missing out on the first few news cycles of this unbelievably inane and vulgar Qur’an burning business. Kind of just makes you want to leave it off. But every once in a blue moon, the Internet makes good on its promise as a democratizing news and entertainment source— or at least points you towards a pretty hilarious and offensive video:

It seems to me that if Bertrand Russell were alive today, he wouldn’t have to use “devastating…cold logic” in Why I Am Not A Christian so much as just make it a scrapbook of Current Events.

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Yeast Extract Is In Everything That Ever Is

By Devin
August 21, 2010 //
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…or at least it’s starting to feel that way. I swear it crops up in at least half the products I’ve obnoxiously checked since being tipped off by Mom. I did a little research on how they manufacture it; in some versions, yeast cells are exposed to a sodium chloride (salt) bath, which causes the poor little things to start pushing out all their water in a sort of extreme reverse osmosis. They blow themselves out— it’s called plasmoysis and looks a little like this:

I really hoped there’d be a decent informational yeast extract piece I could link to, but I got really disheartened from searching when the top thing on YouTube was a toast speed-painter’s tribute to Vegemite.

I sure do hate the Internet sometimes.

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On Being A Criminal

By Devin
August 15, 2010 //
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It was with great humor, a few months ago, that I received my first official ban from a government. It was for this iPhoto slideshow I made “for” a friend of mine three years ago:

I think I made it as a joke on how ubiquitous his name was on the Internet. It hasn’t kept him from getting any jobs at any rate (that I’m aware of).

Anyway, I noticed earlier this year, via YouTube, that the presence of Tina Turner had gotten the clip banned in Germany— copyright WMG, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Chappell, and Warner Chappell, apparently. The Volcano Syzygy video I put up yesterday had an Aphex Twin clip in the background and it seems they move faster these days; I got an email within an hour letting me know the audio would be muted to the public.

I just re-uploaded it with me whamming on the old CTK-515 instead so, hey, at least the Copyright Cops tricked me into spending my time creatively. Now if only I could keep a beat on my smartphone drum pad…

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I was obviously born in the wrong decade.

By Sam
July 29, 2010 //
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And if you are wondering what is going on at our house when I am home alone:

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Lobsters

By Sam
July 29, 2010 //
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And this one:

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If your husband is out in the woods….

By Sam
July 29, 2010 //
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and has no internet connection, what do you do? Post lots of videos to your family blog. Like this one:

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Renegade Camp

By Devin
May 17, 2010 //
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Sam and I had a great time camping this weekend— after a fair amount of misadventure. We did, though, find this great spot for our next, fee-free camping adventure.

Sorry I screwed the quote up, Milhouse. “Perfectly level flying is the supreme challenge of the scale-model pilot!”

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