sinfestfeed

http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2012-06-02&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

bruce_schneier

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/friday_squid_bl_329.html

Interesting:

Cephalopods - squid, cuttlefish and octopuses - change colour by using tiny muscles in their skins to stretch out small sacs of black colouration.

These sacs are located in the animal's skin cells, and when a cell is ready to change colour, the brain sends a signal to the muscles and they contract.

This makes the sacs expand and creates the optical effect which makes the animal look like it is changing colour.

[...]

To mimic these natural mechanisms, the team used "smart" electro-active polymeric materials, connected to an electric circuit.

When a voltage was applied, the materials contracted; they returned to their original shape when they were short-circuited.

"These artificial muscles can replicate the [natural] muscular action… and can have strong visual effects," said Dr Rossiter.

"These materials, and this approach, is ideal for making smart colour-changing skins or soft devices in which fluid is pumped from one place to another.

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered.

pennyarcaderss

http://penny-arcade.com/2012/06/01/turnaround

bestweekever

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/neutral-milk-hotel-hip-hop-mashup/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140233

8-Bit Radiohead albums, meet “Neutral Bling Hotel” – all the songs from Neutral Milk Hotel’s iconic album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea mashed up with various hip-hop songs. It’s as predictably awesome as it is predictable that someone on the internet would eventually do this. Keep up the good work, boys dot com!

Here’s the first track, “King of Ante Up, Pt. 1″:

You can download the entire album “In My G4 Over Da Sea” here on a pay-as-you-want basis. Personally, I’m fanning bills onto the album not unlike the lady in the album cover.

(via AV Club)

bestweekever

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/facebook-news-perfectly-summed-up-in-one-gif/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140224

This needs no explanation, it’s perfect:

(@kevinroose, via @jimbecile)

bestweekever

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/the-two-most-amazing-panels-in-spider-man-history/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140213

The Spider-Man daily newspaper comic still exists and is new every day (I assumed they’d just been rerunning old panels since 1969), and our friend @natekushner drew our attention to yesterday’s actual Spider-Man newspaper comic, which features the creation of a new terrifying supervillain who’s certain to be a HUGE HIT.

This is the entire comic for the day, and may be the greatest two panels in the history of Marvel:

CLOWN NINE! Because he’s on Cloud Nine when he wears a clown suit! That is both Amazing and Spectacular (to put it in pun-terms that Clown Nine would appreciate).

Aaaand sure enough, here’s today’s pun-tastic follow-up comic. Needless to say, I will be continuing to read the Spider-Man newspaper comic every day until Clown Nine is defeated, or until Clown Nine defeats Spider-Man and takes over the comic and renames it “Clown Ten” because he’s even more on Cloud Nine. Tim Curry movie pending.

(via Van Full Of Werewolves)

bestweekever

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/krispy-kremes-best-friends-video-is-pretty-much-friendship-101/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140200

I looked at the sky and cried one tear when I saw there was a new Krispy Kreme video. It was of joy. Then I cried one more tear when I saw Krispy Kreme’s best friend Money Maker Mike had been kidnapped by a 17-year-old drug lord named James. It was of sadness. Then I cried some more tears when I remembered that Krispy Kreme would probably get shot 500 times and use his infinity knives to defend his buddy. Oh, and also it occurred to me that:

• Putting Money Maker Mike in a hood is really unnecessary when James is clearly just taking him back to his mom’s house.
• That burned-out house behind Krispy Kreme is probably where he lives, right? For cred?
• The lines “I knocked him out with one punch/yup, yup, he had a knuckle sandwich for lunch” are just adorable.
• It’s okay for an adult to nearly tear up at these goofy bros making videos and being buddies, right? Right? I’m going to say yes.

Rest in peace, Tupac Shakur. You missed some great stuff being gone, but mainly this video.

(Videogum)

bestweekever

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/green-lantern-comes-out-of-the-closet-earth-not-immediately-hurled-off-axis-into-space/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140191

Unless they’re going to make Ryan Reynolds‘ Green Lantern gay in the next movie and have him make out with…oh, I don’t know. Who’s the male version of Blake Lively? Armie Hammer? Okay, yeah, if they made Green Lantern makes out with Armie Hammer in next movie, then maybe the earth will spiral out into the Milky Way. As for now…good luck picking up the pieces of your shatter world, select group of nerds! Said Earth 2 writer James Robinson, who suggested the superhero’s orientation change as part of DC’s universe-wise reboot:

“The original version of Alan Scott was an older man, and he had a superpowered son, Obsidian, who was gay. The fact that Scott was young now [thanks to a universe-wide reboot] meant Obsidian no longer existed. I thought it was a shame that DC was losing such a positive gay character. I said, ‘Why not make Alan Scott gay?’ To Dan DiDio’s credit, when I suggested it to him, there wasn’t a moment’s hesitation.”

You mean he didn’t immediately throw his computer on the ground and quit and set fire to the building? No, I kid. Big ups to Dan DiDio and James Robinson and everyone else who recognized that gay people, just like straight people, can save the earth from lanterns. Or whatever all he does; I only read comics that come wrapped around gum.

(Buzzfeed)

bruce_schneier

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/06/obamas_role_in.html

Really interesting article.