I'm just bursting with pride

- Mr. Ed

Via boingboing

A chance discussion...

... with one of the Museum's zoologists put me onto this wonder of safari warfare. See the carnage unfold here:



- Chives

Probability

It's a funny old world, and one of the most profound challenges we (few?) sentient beings face, is making sense of it. Of the many constructs we use to help us with that task, probability is perhaps one of the most ubiquitous. From the likelihood of our death (1 in 5 for heart disease, 1 in 246 for falling down, 1 in 60,000 by tornado) to our understanding of the elementary particles that make up the universe (quantum mechanics predicts only the likelihood of a given particle's position or velocity) probability seems to be everywhere.

By knowing the risks, our reasoning goes, we can make decisions that avoid certain fates, and the estimation of risk is the essence of that highly profitable industry, insurance. And yet, we are constantly confronted with the occurrence of what - seem to us at least - to be highly unlikely events. So how do we reconcile our experience with the seemingly all powerful 'gods of odds'?

Einstein famously remarked, "I am convinced that God does not play dice". Perhaps Einstein was missing the point though - maybe life is just God's hobby. According to Oxford professor Nick Bostrom, the likelihood that we - all human life on earth - are simply part of a big computer simulation stand at around 1 in 5. Returning to dice, that's just better odds than rolling a six on your first try. For more on this fascinating, if slightly disconcerting, idea read on here.

- Mr. Ed

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Stiffrook, Via No 1 Fan.

Ridiculous Behaviour

This is probably one of the silliest nay ballsiest feats of man vs mother nature. N'er before has anyone been so totally focussed....and the whole thing is fucking roaring man! Stoked? I should say so. Gnarly aint da word.





-Scout

Cling-on luggage

In another resounding success for airport security, a man travelled from Lima, Peru to New York City, with a small monkey under his hat.

"During the flight, people around the man noticed that the marmoset, which normally lives in forests and eats fruit and insects, had emerged from underneath his hat, Russell said.

“Other passengers asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him,” she said.

The monkey spent the remainder of the flight in the man's seat and behaved well..."

More from the AP.

- Mr. Ed

Dog Days

It's rather hot here. Here's what I woke up to at 7:30am:


And here's the forecast:


This week, I will be mostly sweating.

- Mr. Ed

Really, really, really...

High. This instant classic has been doing the rounds for a while now, but I couldn't resist.


- Mr. Ed

Europony

Yes fellow show-ponies, the time has come for roaming. The pastures of youth are drying and the stable girls have all but grown out of any signs they once had of purity (sigh/neh). My saddlebags are a-packed now and I leave these fields for more foreign oats. My road leads to Europe where I will endeavor to post back to you stories of each country's musical past or present. I write to you now from France where back in the 60s and 70s Serge Gainsbourg reigned. Although known most famously for 'Je T'aime.....Mais non plus' he actually penned some of the finest grooves of the time and can now mostly be heard as samples used in must french hip-hop or Beck songs. Here he is in a state of the art video singing 'Ballade de Melode Nelson'



.....known also for horsing around with Brigette Bardot for a while even recording in one of her more sexual excited states and using in one of his records. Here he is with her in a video of 'Bonnie and Clyde'



...and finally in one of his finest moments showing that all those Gaulloise don't help you mime.



That's all for now, next stop Luxembourg.

Colin

The sky is beginning to bruise.............

A posting on behalf of our very own Prague Pony.



but also this, now with full stereo german adaptation of.....................
yup, you guessed it equineates, Billy Joel's horsey hit - We didn't start the fire.



Why thanks Otto

Colin

Musical Handbag vol.6

Chives has been playing the Youtube name association game. Round 1 then - searching "O'Hare". Well box a dog, its Mulligan & O'Hare's 'Tittybiscuits'......



Play me.

- Chives

Magic helmet, magic helmet, magic helmet!!!

I've been wanting to post this for absolutely horsing ages, but finally, here it is in its full Wagnerian glory...



-Bluecupboard

Do you have a flag?

The age of empires is long gone, but try telling that to the Russians. They've just tried to claim the north pole by putting a flag on the seabed beneath it. Now that's just silly, and besides, haven't we heard that somewhere before...


- Mr. Ed

Moody goods

So is it just me, or did Guy Richie copy (lock, stock, and barrel you might say) the opening of this episode of Only Fools and Horses? Have a little look, and see what you reckon...


Lovely jubbly,
- Mr. Ed