Rap has come a long way since it was first popularized by slam lyricists Shakespeare and Chaucer.
And with the release of Timbaland’s most recent single, “Give It To Me,” this hallowed tradition continues.
Which does a better job jabbing someone, Timberlake’s track or Furtado’s?
See also this parody of “My Humps,” which was recently lampooned by Will Ferrell in Blades of Glory, who notes that “no one knows what it means.” Oh, and pass on that movie, it is about a D-. While it has some great one liners (”remember when they were alive?”) it was formulaic and way too over the top.
My friend Ray sent me the original link to this flamboyant image.
While these elevators are still far off into the future, another engineering marvel is coming off the drawing board: wind farms.
I have mentioned a couple of ways firms are trying to harness wind energy to complement traditional generation sources (such as big kites).
This past week, The Economist details this nascent industry in an interesting article, including a San Diego firm that plans on placing the familiar wind turbines 10km up in the atmosphere.
And if you are in the mood I came across a critique of sci-fi economics and eschatalogy from physicist Gregory Benford, entitled The Real Future of Space; it also discusses some mega-scale feats such as mining asteroids.
The Onion has launched a new fake video news service that is just as good as its written counterpart.
I kind of like the premise of the illegal Mexican CEO skit. And the history of the network is laughable too.
See also this textual classic: World’s Scientists Admit They Just Don’t Like Mice — and don’t forget everything that can go wrong.
