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Current Topic: Recreation

Dinosaur Kingdom, Natural Bridge, Virginia
Topic: Recreation 8:21 am EDT, May 20, 2009

Roadside America:

Dinosaur Kingdom is a twist on the biblical Creationist view that people and dinosaurs lived together. Here, people live with dinosaurs -- but only until the dinosaurs eat them.

As the tour begins, visitors are asked to imagine themselves in 1863. A family of Virginia paleontologists has accidentally dug a mine shaft into a hidden valley of living dinosaurs. Unfortunately, the Union Army has tagged along, hoping to kidnap the big lizards and use them as "weapons of mass destruction" against the South.

What you see along the path of Dinosaur Kingdom is a series of tableaus depicting the aftermath of this ill-advised military strategy.

Donald Rumsfeld:

Building a new nation is never a straight, steady climb upward. Today can sometimes look worse than yesterday -- or even two months ago. What matters is the overall trajectory: Where do things stand today when compared to what they were five years ago?

Kurt Schwenk, via Carl Zimmer:

I guarantee that if you had a 10-foot lizard jump out of the bushes and rip your guts out, you’d be somewhat still and quiet for a bit, at least until you keeled over from shock and blood loss owing to the fact that your intestines were spread out on the ground in front of you.

From the archive:

Pablo Escobar purchased the 8.4 sq mile Napoles Estate, about 200 miles from Bogota, in 1978.

He turned it into a fantasy land with concrete dinosaurs, a bullfighting ring and a private zoo that would have made Michael Jackson jealous, with giraffes, elephants, kangaroos and hippopotamuses.

To keep them company, he built a herd of concrete dinosaurs.

Finally:

Rewilding: the process of creating a lifestyle that is independent of the domestication of civilization.

Dinosaur Kingdom, Natural Bridge, Virginia


World of Goo
Topic: Recreation 7:09 am EST, Nov 24, 2008

World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls who live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious.

From the archive:

"We are on the cusp of perfection of extreme evil -- an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond weapons of mass destruction," Joy warned recently in Wired magazine.

You must learn to love the Goo, for it loves you.

I wait in eager anticipation of Grey Goo Graffiti.

Only you can prevent Gray Goo

World of Goo


In Parkour, Climbing Walls Because They’re There
Topic: Recreation 8:06 am EDT, Oct 17, 2008

“What’s cool about the sport is, it’s all about confronting yourself and seeing what you’re capable of,” she said. “That’s very instructive in life. So, as far as my injuries go, it’s a little like the catcalls I get. I may not like it all that much, but it’s not going to stop me.”

From the archive:

Spread the word: This delirious import is the most (maybe the only) fun action movie of the summer—swift, funny, filled with actual stunts instead of digitized mayhem, and primed at a moment's notice for megaton ass-kicking.

When a body plummets down a stairwell or is hurled against a slot machine, it does so with conviction.

The spread of parkour into the woods of Georgia and the deserts of Arizona occurred almost entirely through the boundlessness of Internet message boards.

In Parkour, Climbing Walls Because They’re There


Parenting Tip #234: Katamari Damacy
Topic: Recreation 7:26 am EDT, Aug 12, 2008

Once when I needed to entertain my daughter while we were driving somewhere, I said, "Let's pretend that, rolling along outside the window, there was a little ball that would pick up trash and boxes and trash cans, and that as it collected items it got bigger and bigger, until it was picking up houses and buildings, and that there was happy music playing that sounded like this (I hummed a bit), while hundreds of citizens called out for help that would never come."

Her little eyes got really wide.

She was very quiet for the rest of the ride.

From the archive:

Oh! I feel it. I feel the cosmos!

"As a friend of mine said, it takes half a second for a baby to throw up all over your sweater. It takes hours to get it clean."

Parenting Tip #234: Katamari Damacy


Cambridge Nightclimbing
Topic: Recreation 7:12 am EDT, Aug 11, 2008

Cambridge has a lot to offer the student. The academic demands are neither stringent nor time consuming. One is not compelled to go to lectures or forced to produce essays, though such activities are actively encouraged. Consequently, most students have time on their hands, The river is attractive and relaxing, the backs are inviting, punting is a novelty, parties abound, coffee is liberal: what a way to spend one's days.

I came to Cambridge in 1963 and rapidly became bored. Everything seemed so artificial and stultifying. It was a green-house existence with little possibility of escape. My depression grew by the day: I had to break out of it in some way.

Cambridge Nightclimbing


The Arrival of the Fittest
Topic: Recreation 7:20 am EDT, Jul 29, 2008

In full automatic mode, the 2009 Nissan GT-R shifts as if it had been programmed by Ed Begley Jr.

The Arrival of the Fittest


Angola, it's not like they said. - ADVrider
Topic: Recreation 8:15 am EDT, Jun  6, 2008

This trip was going to be different.

I for one, have never updated my will before any other trip. And I wasn't alone. Out of the five of us that were going, three updated their wills and/or life insurance policies in the weeks before we left.

Where were we going?

Angola

An epic bike journey through Africa.

Angola, it's not like they said. - ADVrider


Urban Terror
Topic: Recreation 7:42 am EST, Jan 18, 2008

This is the official website for the free multiplayer first person shooter: Urban Terror. Unlike older versions, Urban Terror no longer requires you to have Quake3; anyone can download and play it for free. Urban Terror is available for windows, linux and macintosh. The current version of Urban Terror is 4.1. We are currently working on 4.2 (no release date yet).

Urban Terror could best be described as a Hollywood tactical shooter; it is realism based to a certain extent (environments/weapons/player models), but also goes by the motto "fun over realism" (fast gameplay and lots of action). This combination of reality and action results in a very unique, enjoyable and addictive game.

Urban Terror


Hipster Olympics
Topic: Recreation 10:48 am EDT, Sep 23, 2007

The internet video that used to be funny, until it sold out and got featured on Youtube.

Hipster Olympics


Pole Dancing Parties Catch On in Book Club Country
Topic: Recreation 4:45 pm EST, Feb 24, 2007

Johnna Cottam was showing a group of her girlfriends how to do a move called the Fireman.

... a pink “Got Pole?” tank top ...

... poles — spring-loaded and adjustable from 8 to 10 feet — for sale ...

The removable nature of our product offers the flexibility of only having it in place when you want to use it.

... Every so often, she wiped the accumulated hand lotion from the pole with Windex.

Pole dancing! It's not just for children any more.

Pole Dancing Parties Catch On in Book Club Country


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