Every now and then, you run across things on the Internet that make you say "Wow, this is really cool!" For example, the fake trailer for Greg Bear's Eon (via Tobias Buckell). I haven't read the book in years, but that trailer looks amazing.
And, of course, every now and then, you encounter something that leaves you twitching and mumbling "The horror... the horror..." Such as, for example, Sad Kermit singing depressing songs (via bassfingers).
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This morning we discussed mosquito-borne disease in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But arboviruses are not the only potential hazard faced by displaced hurricane residents.
It's OK for storm victims to live in them, but don't let your employees enter them: FEMA. Who else?
It's official. Living in one of the 120,000 trailers FEMA supplied after Hurrican Katrina is bad for you:
On yesterday's episode of Mythbusters they tested the myth that birds in a trailer decrease the weight of the trailer when the birds take flight.
That EON trailer makes me want to reread Eon...man, that some impressive CG and editing work.
Sad Kermit is...more explicit than I'd expected. Wakka, wakka.
That Sad Kermit video is one of the wronger and funnier things I've seen online.
That Sad Kermit stuff is just magic....
As Skwid says, the trailer makes me want to go reread Eon, which I haven't done in quite a few years!