Chap hop!

I am just the biggest fan of this Elemental chap (and I do mean chap), and his tea-based rapping. Check out "Cup of Brown Joy" below:



When I say herbal, you say no thanks!

- Mr. Ed

You just gotta fill that little space...

Something that Chives might appriciate more than most other ponies.



Ya know?

Colin

The front fell off

Self-explanatory, really.

- Mr. Ed

Via Teh Sully.

Could it be true!?!

A Pavement reunion? For realz yo!?! Apparently so... In celebration of such joyous news, here's Shady Lane:



- Mr. Ed

Via teh Yglesias

More Mattoy!

Here's OUB - another installment from the rare and previously unreleased "Rue de Spa Sessions" by Mattoy. I think you'll agree - it's is pointy little number with a swagger several pints wide. The footage, as you all bloody well know, is from a certain past New Year's Eve party. There's a Simon clip in there too, but then it wouldn't be a Zvayam video if it didn't feature Simon. You can click here for a larger version, or watch it below:



- Mr. Ed

How bad options help us make choices

I stumbled on this the other day and it occurred to me it was pretty damn Pony worthy. By the way, there are lots of other really good TED talks out there on the intertubes to watch too...



- Mr. Ed

Solar Powered?

Well the P Club finally went global. Recorded and edited literally a quarter of the world apart, here is "Kramfundstum" by Mattoy, with some half-arsed video provided by Zvayam.



Bon Chance mes amis,

Mr. Ed, for Chives Eclair and SqueEZy jUPiter

Happy Birthday Bluecupboard

We love you and miss you.

- Mr. Ed

Stand by me

Haven't felt much like posting things lately, but Beigey just played this for me, and it took me back to a long, long time ago when Blue Cupboard and I were foals.


- Dr. Ed

A message...

from the American Institute for the Destruction of Tooth Fairy Science.


Via Hell's News Stand.

- Mr. Ed

Inescapable future of humanity...

I pass this dude about five times a day at work, I never knew what research he did though...


Rumour has it that Mr. Colbert will give the commencement address at MUSC on May 15th. Stay tuned for more updates...

- Mr. Ed

Change?

Oh you better fucking believe it...


- Mr. Ed

P.S.
You can watch (most) of the town-hall meeting here - just click on the link at the right-hand side for the next part.

P.P.S.
You really really should watch the whole speach I linked above, it's just marvelous. If you need any more incentive, here's a little nugget of joy from "prt2":

"As it was in the darkest days after World War II, when a continent lay in ruins and an atomic cloud had settled over the world, we must make the journey together.

We know that transformational change is possible...

for all our differences, there are certain values that bind us together and reveal our common humanity: the universal longing to live a life free from fear, and free from want; a life marked by dignity and respect and simple justice.

Our two republics were founded in service of these ideals. In America, it is written into our founding documents as "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." In France: "Liberté" -- (applause) -- absolutely -- "egalité, fraternité." (Applause.) Our moral authority is derived from the fact that generations of our citizens have fought and bled to uphold these values in our nations and others.

And that's why we can never sacrifice them for expedience's sake.

That's why I've ordered the closing of the detention center in Guantanamo Bay. (Applause.)

That's why I can stand here today and say without equivocation or exception that the United States of America does not and will not torture. (Applause.)"

A-fuckin'-men.

The lost tribes of NYC

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

Via teh Sully.

- Mr. Ed

(not really) Star Wars

See also Star Wars according to a three year-old.

- Mr. Ed

Jon Stewart Shakes His Fist At Twitter

Philip - Via @doctorow

Baboon Metaphysics?

Excrement in the Late Middle Ages? Curbside Consultation of the Colon? Yes ponies. This week saw the shortlisting take place for the Oddest Book Title of the Year Award. Baboon Metaphysics is up top and almost over the crest as the bookie's favourite (apparently the bipeds gamble on all manner of things as well as our sprint n'leap activities) but this nag has a sneeking feeling that The Large Sieve and its Applications could be the title to push it all the way.

While we wait in barely containable containers for the result, it would be good to loll a while amongst some of the previous titles to lift the award. In 1980? The Joy of Chickens. 1992? How to Avoid Huge Ships. 2002? Living With Crazy Buttocks.

But in 2004 a tome with an altogether more sensible subject at its core lifted the title and this correspondent for one adds a winny of approval to its doing so - Bombproof Your Horse.

Yours
Chives

Change you can believe in...

might just have been an election slogan but this is even better - change that might fund our research! From the Science section of the New York Times (probably the best thing about Tuesdays):

The law gives the National Science Foundation $2 billion in stimulus financing for research grants, and the foundation also has until September 2010 to spend the money. But the foundation will act much faster, pushing nearly all of that money out to scientists within 120 days, said Jeffrey Nesbit, an N.S.F. spokesman. (Last year, the science foundation’s $6.1 billion budget included $4.8 billion for research grants; Congress has not finished work on the budget for the current fiscal year.)

The spending increase comes after six years of nearly flat research budgets at the N.I.H., the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and other agencies, and growing desperation at research universities, which depend on the agencies to underwrite much of their scientific faculty and laboratory infrastructure.

To speed the process, the science foundation will not put out any new calls for proposals from researchers, but will instead use the money to finance a higher fraction of proposals already under review and to finance old ones that were judged meritorious last year but were rejected for lack of funds.

So, that proposal we submitted in January might really pay off!

Hooves crossed,

- Mr. Ed

The Simpsons Goes HD + New Start

- Philip ummmmmmmm snout.

Wow! He's one Big Fella

photo by way of The Guardian

Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger has won the Ebbsfleet Landmark project with a proposal for a 50m high horse. We here at the P-Club, purveyors of all things equine, like to be right on these matters. Jonathan Jones loves the idea, while, in a rundown of the other proposals, Adrian Searle is less than convinced, smelling an Essex boy's joke at the expense of his Kentish neighbours. Who knows... with a human standing below the horse's hoof, a red letter day for horsekind at least...

-yours in a small way, Bluecupboard...

It never ends, this shit.

Sony Releases New Stupid Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Fucking Work

- philip

Via Daring Fireball