It’s too bad Dubai imprisons you mercilessly if you ever get caught with weed. Their fountains sure are cool.
Tracking A ‘Sisterhood’ Of Traveling Ants
Perfect for: Geeking Out
To Be Used: For Research When Writing Aliens 7
If you don’t think ants are interesting, you might change your mind. In Mark Moffett’s new book, you learn that ant colonies developed coordinated labor forces and cultivated their own food millions of years before we did.
So began an excellent hour of really mind-blowing stuff about ants. You know, I’ve never really given a shit about bugs, but I was sitting on the bus listening to this thing and the whole time, I just kept being like, holy fuckin’ Jesus!
Thank God these creatures are smaller than my thumb, because if they were even as big as, say, cats, we’d be in a lot trouble.
Case in point: they talked about a war—an ant fucking war—that’s been waging between two different colony-nations, the front lines of which extends the entire length of California. Apparently, millions upon millions of sentinels are sacrificing their lives every day as they battle for territory.
If you like alien movies, you’ll definitely like hearing about the exploits and savagery of these lil fuckers.
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This American Life - 443 Amusement Park
Perfect for: Nostalgic Stoners
To Be Used: En Route to the Job You Hate.
I’m fond of telling people that at one time in my life, I was a professional actor. It’s true, but not in the cool way. When I was 15, I worked at an amusement park. Three times a day, we would don this terrible 60’s beachwear, hooked up to a pair of terrible speakers, and perform this retro beach variety show ala Frankie and Annette.
If history was rewritten, I’d say it was the summer of my life. I’d say I got laid a lot and spent the time between our shows getting stoned and going down the water slides. But, unfortunately, it wasn’t anywhere near that cool.
This week’s This American Life brought me right back to those glory days of youth. The whole episode takes place at an amusement and listening to the stories of young people and immature managers who fucking love their jobs is really awesome.
This American Life - 443 Amusement Parks
Perfect for: Nostalgic Stoners
To Be Used: En Route to the Job You Hate.
Photo by Todd Klassy.
You should do this with your roommates.
Wheel of Whitney turns a mesmerizing, digital mobile into a musical instrument with a lot of different scales and combinations.
You should, fellow stoners, click the “view this variation on a page by itself” link at the bottom of the animations. In so doing, you get rid of all the distracting choices and words— not to mention the reading that those words can’t help but encourage.
This awesome music video combines the glory of Sigur Ros with the trippy 70’s film Fantastic Planet. If you haven’t seen Fantastic Planet, I would highly recommend it. It’s really something and pretty easy to track down online. I could do all that work for you, but I’m too lazy.
And they’re both awesome in an old-school, slave-song sort of way.
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We already saw Björk driving a car whilst listening to her forthcoming single Crystalline, but here is that new song. The single should be out later this month (June 30, apparently).
Björk reclaims whatever throne she used to have.
Want to download this song? Here’s how…
“All that I want is keeping it easy.”
You may know Röyksopp from that caveman commercial, but their music is consistently awesome and the lyrics to this song are particularly relevant.
Stoners love creating stop-motion music videos by taking over entire cities and animating other people’s windows.
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Paul McCartney was dead. We all knew it. After all, the Beatles had been burying clues in their music ever since The White Album…
Have you ever actually listened to the haunted backwards voices allegedly hidden in Beatles tracks? You should. They’re creepy as hell and there’s a nice collection here.
