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Dumb Ways to Die is by far and away one of the best videos promoting safety I’ve seen. It was created for the Melbourne Metro. The original has since amassed 170 million hits on YouTube and has spawned a bunch of spinoff clips, including a version from Cinesaurus about the Curiosity Rover. Also, there’s a motherfucking Karaoke version available on YouTube and iTunes. It’s a ridiculously chipper song about dumb ways to die. ...

Cyrille Humen and Kyle…er… something posted this video a while back and I remember being incredibly impressed with it and amused at its completely light-hearted approach to performance. Whereas many other videos that people post are serious and polished and a real “performance”, this has more of a “hey we got to playing around – check out what we did!” feel! All in all, a lovely piece of contact juggling! ...

This is my first foray into writing about polyamorous Things. In this post, I’m attempting to collate all of the wisdom I’ve collected so far – none of this should be taken as gospel. Some of it might fit you like a glove. Other bits, not so much. Feedback in either case would be awesome.  What’s happening in your life? So you’re with your partner and feel that it’s time to take your relationship to a new level of openness and trust? ...

Vihart’s videos on Youtube are an endearing mix of maths, silliness, drawing and, in this case, snakes. I’m especially fond of how unabashedly excited she is about geometry, pi, snakes, numbers and mathematical quirkery. Anyway, SNAKESNAKESNAKESNAKESNAKESNAKE

The latest instalment of Solitude’s ambient dubstep delightfulness has been out in the big wide world for a while. I’ve finally got round to listening to it and there are some real gems in here! This one, in particular, is my favourite! So’s this:

I don’t really have a preamble to this… Just watch it. It’s badass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkLM-IlwwPk

Another little mini-mix thrown together by the unforgettable (or entirely forgettable, if your brain sucks at fractals) J-One. Really sharp, relaxed and doesn’t stray from the ‘chillstep’ theme too much, like other mixes are prone to doing!

MrSuicideSheep collaborated with the great Aaron Static and between them, somehow, they cooked up a mix. Mostly, I suspect, it was Aaron. In any event, it’s a wonderful piece of aural porn. For some reason, the key that a lot of these tunes are in appeals rather a lot! This one in particular leapt out at me:

Pretty Lights’ new track, “I Know The Truth” has just the right mix of ground-shaking bass, huge drops and wonderfully suspense-filled buildups! Check this out!

A friend and fellow blogger, Villiljós, linked a disturbing post about how terrible an organisation PETA actually is. Read it here. The thing that shocked me, upon cursory examination of a fraction of their publicity is just how openly misogynistic and abusive to women it is! In all of the footage I’ve seen, women are routinely abused or are shown as looking like victims of abuse. Why is it specifically women that are portrayed as standing in for all the animals that are ‘abused’? ...

The European Union’s panel of talking heads that are responsible for Science, I guess, have knocked some rocks together, made fire and rightly deduced that there aren’t enough lady scientists in the place. Clearly, something needed to be done! Lady-scientists are important to humanity! They’ve got boobs that will improve the performance of all the boy-scientists in the Europe Joint Sciencing Facilities. Right? Anyway, the clever bods at the PR department released this gem. ...

**[Update 27-06-2012 courtesy of Ars Technica] ** The astonishingly tenacious Arizona attorney Charles Carreon, apparently not satisfied with his original filing last week, has now amended his case against Matthew Inman et al. to now include California State Attorney General Kamala Harris. Read the full story here [Update #2 27-06-2012 courtesy of Ars Technica] FunnyJunk lawyer’s wife wades into fray, calls critics “nazi scumbags” Meanwhile, husband Charles pens angry poems defending his mom. ...

Welcome to the life of more or less ever designer/front-ender/developer/creative ever. These guys truly are clients from hell. Via clientsfromhell.net

I have one of these Galaxy S3 things now. The phone is a technological marvel and is honestly one of the greatest pieces of Android kit I’ve used and I’ve gone through: Google G1 HTC Hero HTC Desire Motorola Atrix …so I’ve run the gamut of Android handsets, and have sampled one from pretty much each generation and watched Android develop.There are plenty of reviews on the internet that will go into technical details more than me but here are some important facts. ...

A couple of weeks ago, I installed the Varnish Cache daemon on the server this blog runs on to see if it’d speed it up any. The answer is, emphatically, yes. Images and pages load in seconds, as they’re being served from the static cache. The number of hits to Apache has decreased dramatically, which is fantastic! The tradeoff was that Piwik, my analytics package that produces pretty graphs and charts like these… ...

I never thought I’d post anything Hello Kitty-related, but these cakes are kinda awesome so I’m willing to lift my Hello Kitty embargo just this once!

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so here’s a quick rundown of various chill dubstep/2-step tunes I’ve been listening to that are well worth checking out! Above & Beyond delivering more ethereal vocals combined with epic drops! It sounds like it could be a standard trance track they’d blast out in clubs, but it’s wonderfully surprising! This one came from a contact juggling video by Cyrille & Kyle. ...

I came across this lovely drinking game on thoughtcatalog.com and feel I should share it! The Overthinking Persons’ Drinking Game When you experience a vague sense of inequity or deprivation but don’t have a template for whether your expectations are fair, drink. When you aren’t sure whether the lingering sensation that you aren’t liked enough is a rational response to unfair circumstances or is in fact symptomatic of your tendency to blame your environment for your own failure to self-actualize, drink. ...