Dangerous Species In The World: October 2006

Tuesday, 31 October 2006

Cute Puppies

Is this the cutest video ever? I certainly think it could be. :)

Boy Ate by Giant Crocodile

What your pet is thinking

Cute Animal Pictures

3-legged tortoise gets a wheel

Eek! I'm off

Spiders

A warning: If the thought of tens of millions of tiny spiders spinning a web 24 hectares - 60 acres - in size and crawling all over it scares the wits out of you, you might want to tread carefully over the following. Because that's exactly what happened last month on a farmer's field near McBride, about 220 kilometres east of Prince George.

Goliath birdeater. Biggest spider in the world. Video here Video: "World's Largest Spider" Stalks South American Jungles

Flippy's Cat Page - Catastrophes

Boy Ate by Giant Crocodile - Gory Photographs

I've just found this post lurking around in a dark and dusty corner of my PC and I'm not sure if I've published this before. A search of this site does'nt mention any of these links but I can't be sure as the search box at the top of the page does'nt always work well. :)

How to take a better photograph

How to photoshop any photo into a Roy Lichtenstein-style pop-art image (via)

Megapixels comparison and maximum print size charts

DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio

How To: DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio

How to Take Sharp Digital Images

How To Use Colour Effectively To Enhance Your Digital Photography

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Skeeter the Narcoleptic Poodle

Skeeter has narcolepsy (disorder characterised by sudden and uncontrollable, though often brief, attacks of deep sleep) which is triggered by excitement.

Kissing Prank

Girls think they are to participate in a blind test of lip balm by kissing two male models but when the girls are blindfolded the models are swapped for monkeys.

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Names of Large Numbers

"Hello" in many languages

More classic insults - Artists and writers being bitchy to each other

Transient Languages & Cultures

Mike Tyson Quotes

Information Nations Slang Linkdump

List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity - Wikipedia

Energy Slang (via)

Names of large numbers - Wikipedia. Do you know what a Septingentillion is?

1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters

Phonetic Alphabets (via)

More Languages and Words? Page 1 Page 2

The Spirit of Christmas

The Spirit of Christmas is the name of two different animated short films made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who would later become famous for creating the animated series South Park. To differentiate the two, they are often referred to as Jesus vs. Frosty and Jesus vs. Santa. Both these clips are NSFW

Jesus Vs. Frosty

In 1992, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, then students at the University of Colorado, made Jesus vs. Frosty, under the "Avenging Conscience Films" moniker. Parker and Stone animated the film using only construction paper, glue, and a very old 8 mm film camera, and premiered the film at the December 1992 student film screening. The movie features four kids who are very similiar of the four main characters of South Park, including a character resembling Cartman but called 'Kenny', as well as a hooded boy resembling Kenny and two other nameless boys resembling Stan and Kyle. The film also includes some classical South Park ingredients, like an absurd story-line, strong language, graphic violence and a 'moral' at the end.

Santa vs Jesus

In 1995, Fox executive Brian Graden paid Stone and Parker $2000 to make another animated short as a video Christmas card he could send to friends. In turn, the duo created Jesus vs. Santa. This version of The Spirit of Christmas featured an animation style very similiar to South Park, as well as more developed versions of Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny (and a cameo appearance of a girl looking exactly like Wendy Testaburger, sitting on Santa's lap). It largely established the characters as they would be used in South Park. The movie also contains elements which would re-occur in the series, like Kyle being Jewish, and rats eating Kenny's corpse. The film reportedly had a budget of $750, with Parker and Stone keeping the rest of their commission. The making of the short was parodied in the South Park episode "A Very Crappy Christmas".

Descriptions of the episodes have been harvested from Wikipedia.

See also South Park's rise to fame