The Ambassador of Aliens

After a sighting of alien life forms in the 90s, Jody Pendarvis built a giant 30-foot UFO in his front yard as a place to welcome aliens when they return. His story is a combination of childlike curiosity, crazy, and sad all rolled into one. If there is alien life out there that plans to visit Earth, I hope they drop in on Mr. Pendarvis first. Watch it here.


(via Mikey Livingston)

Where I wanna get my hair did

I love the name of this hair salon. I wonder if they have franchise opportunities?

Ooooh Girl

(via The Meta Picture)

A new show for people that like junk and inventions

JUNKies is a new television show on the Science Channel about Jimmy’s Junk, a junkyard on Long Island that specializes in unusual salvaged parts for projects by artists and inventors. (via Laughing Squid)

7 largest military budgets in 2010

7 largest military budgets in 2010 (source). Do you feel safer? (via this isn’t happiness)
7 largest military budgets in 2010

Say Something Nice

Improv Everywhere constructed a custom wooden lectern with a megaphone holster and an attached sign that read, “Say Something Nice.” The lectern was placed in public spaces around New York and then left alone. They wanted to see what would happen if New Yorkers were given the opportunity to amplify their voices to “say something nice.”

I wonder if Minnesotans would be too shy to do this.

Say Something Nice

Source: Improve Everywhere

High School

This reminds me of high school. This is called “American Classroom” by Catherine Wagner. It takes me back to a very memorable time in life. (via)

high school

Swimsuits for chicks into 80s Metal

Swimsuits for chicks into 80s Metal. Which one would you rock? (via 9GAG)

Swimsuits for chicks into 80's Metal

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Freshman Move-in Day at PSU

A message from all the college boys at Penn State Univ welcoming parents and their daughters. (via The Whatever)

Freshman Move-in Day at PSU

Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes talks about Katy Perry’s music

I’ve always admired Linda Perry’s honesty when it came to writing music. Simply put, she doesn’t care what people think about her or her music. She does what she wants and not what record companies want. That attitude may prevent her from ever becoming a super star, but it does allow her to sleep at night. She is probably more known (within the industry) for her song writing ability, but most of us unfortunately only know her for blessed/cursed song “What’s Up.”

So what does a woman who has written some awesome songs and produced starlets from Christina to Gwen to Pink have to say about music today? Well, she’s not a huge fan of Adele, although she’s glad that she exists (ooookay?). But of Katy Perry, yeah, she’s not that into it. In fact, Katy Perry is not “reinventing the wheel,” according to Linda Perry, which is sorta correct, if you consider that Katy Perry’s M.O. is basically, y’know, boobs. Lots of boobs. I do think Katy has some pretty catchy tunes though.

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John Stewart bashes the media over Ron Paul

John Stewart takes on the corporate media machine over their blatant exclusion of Ron Paul from news reports. Of course, this is nothing new. Ron Paul and his ideas for helping this country have been largely ignored by the left and right for years. They treat him like a crazy uncle and dismiss his ideas until the public steps up enough times to echo him. Then, and only then, do candidates jump on the bandwagon (like auditing the Fed) and claim the idea as their own.

The bottom line is this. You have no real say in who “wins” a GOP/DFL nomination for President. Ron Paul’s only chance now is to run as an Independent. What you can do as a voter is write in Ron Paul (or your favorite choice) on the ballot and hope that it sends a message that you know the Presidential elections are skillfully orchestrated. Or, you could decide not to participate in the vote at all, which is also within your right. This might send an even stronger message.