Chickernet/Interabbit

I can trust Murder to pump these posts out. He's all up to his knees in internet trends and chicken feces, though he much prefers the latter.

Are chickens the newest trend in internet…trends? Fucking apparently.

A while back I came across a live web feed of a bunch of chickens in someone's backyard in Massachusetts. It depicts a scummy yard filled with chicken crap, all day long, and once in a while a few chickens meander on and off screen like zombies.

"Fascinating," I said to myself.

So then today I was trying to find it again, so I googled "chicken cam" (editor, link to Google there so people know what it that means). Amazingly, about a hundred chicken cams from all over the world came up and in case you were wondering, chickens in France don't do much different than chickens in America, except they smoke cigarettes.

Eventually I found a chicken cam in Massachusetts that I loved so dear and repeatedly sent my friends hidden links to, and observed the chickens were nowhere to be seen. The ground was soaking wet and the sky in the distance gray and cloudy, and I took these to be the effects of the recent nor'easter. Did the storm kill the chickens? Suddenly I noticed the option to actually look inside the chicken coops, and sure enough, there they were, holed up in their little tenement avoiding the elements like maybe even people would.

"Fascinating," I said to myself.

Are chickens our greatest natural resource, our best and our brightest? Think about it, as the two in the video break up a fight between a Sunni rabbit and a Shiite rabbit.

[via Kottke]

Pros and Randos/Hos

This gem comes via Kottke. Its a fairly random gallery of random photos of random people with professional and collegiate basketball players. Its the kind of shit that we at Websides (now in .org flavor!) live for.


A response from devoted reader "noodle":

Those smiles [are] haunting... the look of pure self-satisfaction on the guys faces and the look of "tonight I'm fuck toy and proud of it" on the girls. They're all so happy to be where they are. NBA Ballers just spread self-love and good times whereever they go. and stds. and unwanted babies.

Tkid prefers the pictures with drunks, but my favorites are the ones in which the athletes look entirely out of place:



[via Stew Mac's Ballers via Kottke.org]

Hand-o-rama

New spot for VW's Phaeton. Kottke's calling it "professional-grade shadow puppetry" and I'm just calling it plain awesome. Seriously, look at the tag below... it says awesome.


[via Kottke.org]

Multi-Touch Orgasm

I first saw this multi-touch system via the ever savvy Kottke during his iPhone roundup post. Now FastCompany has written about it and provided this little video based on the work of Jeff Han. That is all.


[via Eyebeam reBlog via BoingBoing]

Surfboard Dwarfed By Denton's Head, Others Frightened

I'm not going to spend alot of time with this one. Firstly, its embarassing that I'm this big of a web troll, and secondly this is just weird. So I'll just lay out my path. Kottke links me to a bit of BuzzFeed press over at Oliver Ryan's CNN Money blog . Having never read this little gem I go ahead and google the authors and find myself to a flickr page and a seemingly defunct domain (among many other things.) I ended up here, at Nick Denton's head and I'm done now. Its weird. Seriously, look at it.

Buzzkill

Buzzfeed is an interesting, if not alltogether fresh, way to look at the collected opinions of the growing blogosphere. It resembles many of other recent endeavors in blog aggregation, but is geared specifically towards trend spotting. The effort here is to determine the level of chatter on the innernets that a specific topic is getting, and conequently, to bring all of the chatter to one place. Blah blah blah. It'll be interesting to see what trends pop up in the next coming months. From the about page:

We automatically detect new buzz by crawling 50,000 of the very best web sites, blogs, and news sources. Then our technology crunches the raw data from these sites to identify new buzz that’s just starting to spread. We developed the technology to find new things just when they start accelerating in popularity and provoking interesting conversations. Our technology is also supplemented by a network of human taste-makers and tips submitted by BuzzFeed readers. These savvy humans can spot subtle trends our robots might miss.

Its designed by Chris Johanesen (with help from Jason Kottke) and produced by Jonah Peretti and Kenneth Lerer

Borat Producers Got Him Drunk and He Said "Bring Back Slavery"

Surely he's a recognizable character, but what about a bunch of free booze and a couple of is niiiiiiice's later? Is this kid still to blame for saying some horrible stuff? Here's the account from one of his friends:

Last year, a guy came to my town claiming to be filming a documentary for Kazakhstan. He recruited my friend John to be in it. John signed the papers and everything- that's not the issue. However, the producers got John really drunk and he said some things he really regrets that made it to the final cut. John's terrified that everyone's going to see the movie and think he's an awful human being (which he's not). He's very distraught. He feels like he's disgraced his family, he wants to drop out of school, and feels like his life is ruined. How can I help him?

Here are more comments made by the guy's friend, later in the thread. The original statement (above) and the followups: here and here. Also, an article written about the fraternity brothers getting "duped."

Aries Spears is ALL BLACK PEOPLE

These are the most amazing impersonations ever witnessed. Evah, forevah evah.

Go forth and spread the word...

[via kottke]
[UPDATE: you may have to click on the white box above to load the video... vimeo isn't working properly]

Dude moves rocks with pebbles and beard

This was one of Youtube's "most viewed" last week.


The copy from the site...

Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft. What makes this so special is that he does it using only himself, gravity, and his incredible ingenuity.

Wally Wallington's Webbbside (...still having trouble with that name)

What Would Jesus Blog

Probably something about being sick of fish and bread and sandals and whatnot.
My cousin, Kottke, reveals that yes... Blogs are bigger than Jesus

[http://www.google.com/trends?q=blog%2C+jesus]