Searching For Big Country: An Outsize Guide To The New NBA Jam

http://deadspin.com/5672597/searching-for-big-country-an-outsize-guide-to-the-new-nba-jam

Our Boy Tyler

All the haters have been proven correct so far, but I still believe he's going to be a good pro. Maybe not a great one, but I will be surprised if he doesn't make at least one all-star team in his career.

http://www.indystar.com/article/20101029/SPORTS04/10290363/1062/SPORTS04/Pacers-coach-keeps-Tyler-Hansbrough-sitting-on-bench

w4m - regular seeks regular

so i admit, i often cruise missed connections on craigslist.  strange, you say?  well, maybe not if you know me, and most of you do.

at any rate, i found this post on MC just now and got a kick out of it.....would have liked it better if i was, in the words of the great skeelo, "a little bit taller."

Max spotting, anyone?

Are You Ready for Tube-Free Toilet Paper?

On Monday, Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper will go on sale in Walmarts and Sam's Clubs across the Northeast United States. If it sells well, it'll expand nationally, and then globally. Meanwhile, I just don't know what to think anymore.

It's like up is down and down is up. Kimberly-Clark, the manufacturer of Scott's toilet paper, explains that while the cylinder in the center of the rolls won't be completely round, they'll still fit on existing toilet paper bars. Phew. And customers will get the added bonus of being able to use every square down to the last one, which will no longer be glued to the customary cardboard tube.

But what of that tube? There are 17 billion of them produced annually in the United States, accounting for 160 million pounds of trash (as well as countless pairs of makeshift binoculars). According to USA Today, Kimberly-Clark brand manager Doug Daniels "won't disclose the tubeless technology used but says it's a special winding process. A similar process is used on tissue the company sells to businesses but not to consumers." And if the tube-less toilet paper doesn't start a full-on revolution, Daniels says, the company may expand the technology to paper towel, too. That might be where I draw the line. [USA Today]

Send an email to Kyle VanHemert, the author of this post, at kvanhemert@gizmodo.com.

Music Transcends Race, Hombre

As the credits started to roll on the latest episode of Eastbound & Down to The Slits’ cover of “I Heard it Through the Grapevine” I thought to myself, “damn, this show has some really awesome music, I wonder if I can find a compilation of it anywhere.” And of course, some soul out there in the mire of Internet fandom had done just that, for the first season of the show anyhow. I’ve trimmed the 26 tracks in this dude’s torrent to the 15 tracks I have been listening to non-stop over the past couple of days, and if you’re so inclined you can download them yourself here. From the sweet confession “Pour Man” by, as Schroeder puts it, “Lee Mothafuckin Hazlewood,” to Chapel Hill’s own Dynamite Brothers’ jam “In Time”, it’s enough to make you want to throw on “Sky Pilot (Part 1)” and roll up to your local elementary school to trip all of the fire alarms.

Tracklist:

1) Going Down – Freddie King

2) Miss X – MC5

3) Let My Baby Ride – R.L. Burnside

4) Changed the Locks – Lucinda Williams

5) Could Have Been a Lady – April Wine

6) Your Touch – The Black Keys

7) Black Betty – Ram Jam

8) In Time – Dynamite Brothers

9) The Organist Entertains – Tindersticks

10) For the Rest of Your Life – Drug Rug

11) I Feel Like a Child – Devendra Banhart

12) Pour Man – Lee Hazlewood

13) Love Will Turn You Around – Kenny Rogers

14) Sky Pilot (Part 1) – Eric Burdon & The Animals

15) Kiss the Sky – Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra

HOT DOG WARS

Episode 4: My Weiner's Better than Yours

Hüsker Düdes

Macho Man coked out of his mind

Bitchin' Kitchin': Who likes dumplings?

I do. And here's a sweet recipe from Food & Wine magazine that my future in-laws got me a subscription to. I made mine with with Brinkley Farms pork from the Carrboro farmer's market and spinach from someone else at the farmer's market.


Here's what you'll need (ingredients):

• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour


• 1 cup water


• 1 pound ground pork


• Chopped spinach (a farmer's market bag-full)


• 2 Thai chile peppers, minced*


• 1 tbsp minced fresh ginger


• 1 large garlic, minced


• 1 large egg, slightly beaten


• 1 tsp kosher salt


• 1/4 cup vegetable oil

*If you can't get Thai chiles, use Serranos. If you can't find those, use Jalapenos.

Directions:
1)Put flour in a medium bowl. Add water in a steady stream, stirring until a raggy dough forms. Turn the dough out onto a work surface and knead until smooth, 5 minutes. Sprinkle the dough with flour, cover loosely with plastic wrap and let stand for 15 minutes.

2)Rinse the spinach and chop off the stems. Put it in a colander and pour about 2 cups of boiling water over it to cook it a little bit. Chop it up.

3)In a large bowl, knead the pork with the spinach, chiles, ginger, garlic, egg, and salt.
















4)Line a baking sheet with wax paper and sprinkle with flour. Quarter the dough. On a floured work surface, roll each piece into a 12" rope.










Cut each rope into 12 pieces(cut each rope in half, half the halves, and cut each of the four ropes into 3 pieces) and roll into balls; sprinkle with flour.









Roll out 6 balls at a time to 3" rounds; brush off the excess flour. Spoon 1 tbsp of the filling onto the center of each round. Bring up the sides of the wrapper; press and pleat the edges to seal in the filling. Lift each dumpling by the pleated edge, transfer to the baking sheet and press lightly to flatten.



5)In a non-stick skillet heat 2 tbsp of the oil. Arrange dumplings in the skillet. Cook over med-high heat until the bottoms are lightly browned, 2 min. Add 1/2 cup of water, cover and cook until the filling is cooked through, 5 min. Uncover and cook for another minute and transfer to a plate. Freeze unused dumplings.

Feed them to your friends!




Photo creds: Rachel

4 blogs and 7 minutes ago.

Dearest Shirkers and Shirk Readers,

There is unrest in the Shirkian Peoples.  We have been torn apart by a thing called Format.  Yes!  The grand beast of Branding awakes in us the most visceral sensibilities and calls on us!  "Choose Sides!" it says, "Do not listen to your higher mind,  defect instead to your animal instincts, and choose one against the other!"

But I say you my friends, nay, my bothers and sisters in Shirk, do not let this Thing From The Depths Of Internet Hell, this devisive beast, stand in our way of the necessary action.  We must Shirk.  And we must shirk in unison!

With these words I take my leave of you, hoping for the best in the outcome of tomorrow eve's meeting.  But, before i say my final adieu, i leave you with a simple reminder of why we post in the first place.  I give you the infamous, the indisputable:

Billy Corgan and awkward children cover AC/DC, awkward children better, less awkward

First part of a new series on children rocking more than washed-up former rockers

Did Luke Skywalker Die a Virgin?

Inquiring minds want to know.

hey guyz.

so, i hear the blog might be moving to tumblr.  i would like you all to know that, even though i don't really post (ever), i want to vote against this.  we must stem the rising tide of brevity that the internet tries to convince us is worthwhile.  as the days get shorter, and i begin my winter hibernation, i will be here (on the blog) more often and i don't want it to tumbl (ha!) somewhere else.  

this doesn't mean i don't love you, willis.

at any rate, i propose a vote in the comments section of this thread.  in all fairness, i think that is the only right thing to do.

How 7 Iconic Movie Characters Would Do in a Zombie Attack

http://www.cracked.com/article/163_how-7-iconic-movie-characters-would-do-in-zombie-attack/

FIXED

Fuck yourself with a fist punch up your ass, today, at the present moment.

- Jane

Have you ever heard Guided by Voices?

Today I will go here and see them.
I blame it on Blaze McAwesome.

Watch this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C4PqyH6Ga4&feature=related

this is a LOLcat video

Trailer Park Boys... in Polish!

Shake that ass cuz fornication's the only way to make the next generation

Also there's this...

NPR Shakeups!

Is NPR just looking for drama to drum up money for the pledge drive?

I know what Juan WIlliams sounds like, but I can't recall any specific commentary of his; he always seems to be talking about New York schools or Hispanic children or something.

Apparently he's been busy gettin' fired up on FOX News though:

Juan Williams’s tendency “to speak one way on NPR and another on Fox,” as NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard once put it, has finally caught up with him.

Williams was unceremoniously relieved of his duty as an NPR contributor following an appearance on The O’Reilly Factor during which he confessed to being “worried” and “nervous” about getting on a plane with Muslims.

“His remarks on The O’Reilly Factor this past Monday were inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices,” NPR said in a statement, “and undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR.”

Williams was asked to comment but said he was not ready to do so yet.

[from thedailywh.at]

I have to admit, this story really does make me want to pledge a dollar a day to get the 4 CD set of smack-talkin', dirt scatterin' NPR First 40 Years drama. Does Nina Totenberg have a dark side?

But before we make any hasty decisions, let's roll playback:

I have to say that I think Juan Williams just knows his audience. He knows he will continue to make money on FOX News by saying inflammatory things in a heated debate context, and he knows he can make bank from NPR by presenting logical, cogent arguments. I disagree with Bill O'Reilly's pronunciation of "NPsnaRRRl," but I understand that he too knows what his audience expects of him and delivers.

This being said, I am now more convinced that FOX News is terrible and NPR actually does try to present discussions ahead of personalities. However, I do NPR caved to pressures on this one; they shouldn't have had to sever ties with Juan WIlliams for this. I bet Scott Simon is sad :(

People love to make too much out of everything; that's the basis of FOX News. It is a shame that that sort of pandemonium and chaos theory had to spill over to NPR in this instance.

What do you think?

The 10 Greatest Sci-Fi Films Never Made

Dork out for a while.

Dead weight

Dudes.

We need to invite more people into the blog because more than half of our members never post or visit.

Suggestions?

Incredible Clock Tower Tribute in Prague

Watch all of this. Czech projector tech is far beyond our own.

The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.

I hate white people.

From WRAL regarding early voting, dominated by white republican men.

"I think we're going to do good," said Charles Rhodes, a Republican who cast his vote Monday at the Wake County Board of Elections office. "We've lost touch with reality – the white male. We kind of take care of everybody, (and) we just don't like what's going on."

Also, in totally obvious news: the democrats are fucked and have no one to blame but themselves.

Teacher to student: I had a wet dream about you

On a Cross-Posting Roll Today

Win one for the yiffer

Cocktoberfest

Cute Animation + Lecture

= An 10+ minute Internet Video that I am willing to sit through. Amazing!

Goats are kind of Awesome

Bong Bear Hosed Again by Uncle Sam

This network does our news better than our news

Werner Hertzog and your Chicken McNugget

I'm so sorry

Shooting for the Sun

From the Atlantic

From his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art Super Soaker squirt gun, Johnson believes he now holds the key to affordable solar power.

By Logan Ward

Tortoise having sex with a shoe, squeaking.

Giant Tortoises having fun

Confucius say...

If you have ten problems rolling down the street toward you, just wait. Nine of them will roll into the ditch before they ever reach you.

HOLY SHIT JEW VIRUS

If I can't smoke and swear, I'm fucked

Will Graves kicked off team

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- North Carolina has dismissed fifth-year senior Will Graves from the team.

Coach Roy Williams said Thursday that Graves didn't comply with team rules, though he says in a statement from the school that it had nothing to do with "any NCAA matters on campus."

"I hate this for Will," Williams said in the statement. "He worked extremely hard this summer to get himself physically in the best shape he's been in years, but he did not do everything he needed to do to be a part of our basketball program."

The NCAA is investigating the football program for improper benefits and possible academic misconduct involving a tutor. The school has said that tutor didn't work with any men's basketball players.

Graves was the team's third-leading scorer with about 10 points per game and was the team's top 3-point shooting threat.

Two seasons ago, Williams suspended Graves at midseason for not complying with team standards, sidelining him during the run to the 2009 national championship.

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Thursday afternoon, North Carolina coach Roy Williams announced that senior forward Will Graves was dismissed from the Tar Heels. This was a bit of a surprise, and not only because a dismissal is, at least in most cases, inherently surprising.

Graves had played in 92 games for UNC over the past three seasons. He averaged 9.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game in 2009-10. He was one of two Tar Heels (the other being Larry Drew II) capable of shooting the ball with any consistency from beyond, oh, 15 feet. And, in what would have been his fifth year, Graves was one of the few veterans on what will be another very young Tar Heels team.

In other words, North Carolina could have used Will Graves. So why the dismissal? His coach didn't make that clear. But Williams did want to make sure everyone got one thing straight:

"This is 100 percent not related to any NCAA matters on campus," said Williams. "I hate this for Will. He worked extremely hard this summer to get himself physically in the best shape he's been in years, but he did not do everything he needed to do to be a part of our basketball program. This is a huge blow to our team, but an even bigger blow for Will. Playing for the Tar Heels meant so much to him."


Apparently, not enough to do ... well, whatever it was Graves was supposed to do. The real reason for Graves' dismissal is probably best left to the fluorescent rumor-filled din of message boards. No point in taking a guess.

But even as they wave farewell to a solid role player, UNC fans can take solace in knowing that Graves had nothing to do with the ongoing investigation into possible academic misconduct that may or may not be sinking UNC's football program even as we speak. That much we know. So, hey, you guys! Good news!

Jesus was a bad carpenter

Right-Wing Radio Duck

Sage advice from Uncle Frank

Robot Unicorn Attack! Dreams Unlocked!

I don't know how this happened, who did it, why or how long it will be around, but I have to say: the Mormons are pretty crafty.
First they have this motorized couch idea, then this Old Spice parody comes along (or the other way around maybe).
Now, someone has changed the boring BYU Physics & Astronomy website into the most magical and full of joy and joyness place ever!
Now, in order to have your dreams unlocked you must:
1) go to physics.byu.edu/
2) enter the "Konami" code, which I was unfamiliar with until today (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a)
3)be blissful

Best quote ever

From a Deadspin.com commenter regarding the Duke "Fuck List" scandal:

If you're going to think with your dick, don't be surprised when you fuck yourself with it.

http://deadspin.com/5652280/the-full-duke-university-fuck-list-thesis-from-a-former-female-student/gallery/?skyline=true&s=i

http://deadspin.com/5653205/duke-players-incensed-paranoid--over-fuck-list