What's a prom without booty poppin'?
Posted: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:26 PM by Will Femia
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"Booty pop" is "any variation of dancing that approximates the following: A (male or female) bent over at the waist with the pelvis of another individual (male or female) pressed against their buttocks while holding (or not holding onto) the bent over student’s waist or hips." This article gave me the chuckles all the way through. I love how the kids are so dismayed that they won't be permitted to simulate sex acts on the dance floor at the prom. "'It makes me not look forward to my senior prom,' said Crystal Lucas." Yeah, what's a prom without booty poppin'? Actually, this prom is apparently also without "‘grinding,’ ‘bumping,’ ‘humping,’ ‘hunching,’ ‘goosing,’ or sexually explicit dancing such as ‘freaking’ or ‘dirty dancing.’" I mean really, what's left?
Speaking of what the kids are into these days, I had always thought of the lolcats phenomenon as the digital equivalent of the old "Hang in there" kitten poster, but from what I've read recently I don't think that's quite correct. Anil Dash gives a thorough accounting of what it's all about.
This guy defines mastery. In this case, of the yo-yo. The yo-yo obeys him, does his bidding. I also think it's funny that there might be such a thing as yo-yo gloves. I followed the yoyoguy.com link on the poster behind him and it goes to a store full of yo-yo equipment.
This company lip sync video is fun but what makes me include it here is the t-shirt one guy is wearing (I recognize him as Zach Klein of CollegeHumor.com) that says SILF.
Speaking of ascribing uncomfortable human compulsions to food, "The Suicide Food blog rounds up pictures of food advertisements in which the animal that's about to be eaten is shown cavorting in anticipation of this happy moment."
Speaking of fresh food, I guess sea food doesn't get and fresher than this. I'm a little thankful the clip ends when the chop sticks enter the picture. I mean no offense to Koreans when I say this, but that dish looks seriously Klingon.
Speaking of Asian culture, my colleague John sent me the Weng Weng rap (NOTE: Has a couple curses in it). He's like Shaft meets Tattoo - Weng Weng is, not John. (Sorry John, you're not very much like Shaft or Tattoo.)
Smoke ring machine
Commuter Click: A failure in generalship - Microscopic type. I don't know much about what generalship is, so I'm going to give this one a read on paper this weekend.
Pi as a piano solo (to 1000 places, which is past my annoyance threshold).
"If you're not familiar with the issues facing webcasters right now, it's a great place to start." "It" being this overview.
I was surprised at first to spot this old MSNBC.com story floating among the "most linked" but then I saw it's about Curt Schilling's sock. In case you haven't seen the story, some local sports guy suggested the blood on his famous World Series sock was in fact paint and the whole thing was a stunt. Naturally, the baseball bloggers are in an uproar. (see also) For our purposes, Schilling's response on his own blog is the most relevant click.
Bruce Schneier makes the case for expertise in security screening and does a great job fleshing it out with links.
Yet another article on a new cheap kind of solar power. At the rate these are turning up I'm getting the feeling that they're all going to hit the market at once.
Pose maniacs - This is in Japanese but if you're at all familiar with figure drawing you'll recognize its function right away. I'm not sure how great an idea it is to practice figure drawing with a 2D model, but if you need a reference it's not bad.
Flickr is planning a 24 hours of Flickr event in early May. I guess the idea is to photoblog yourself all day long. I wonder if this has anything to do with Twitter and the newly rejuvenated idea of logging every little bit of one's life.
Speaking of trendy new apps, Meshly lets you keep track of links the way you would on Del.icio.us but it's IM based. It's interesting to see the comments about it because it shows how people have different habits when it comes to sharing links. I hope it catches on because it generates another nice "most popular" list.
We've seen a lot of examples of commercial advertising manipulating images to make people look more beautiful (and strangely also less natural) but what happens as a greater number of regular people do the same? I guess to some degree we already accept some fakeness in personal photos when we force smiles.
Moving Your Eyes Improves Memory, Study Suggests - They're talking specifically about "recognition memory" and false memories. We've seen advice about changing your focal distance while you work to keep from burning out on the monitor, but I wonder, reading this, if horizontal eye exercise might help process the information on the screen better.
Vote Petrelli
Speaking of politics, here's an interesting word count analysis of the recent Democratic debate.
Still speaking of politics, to make up for the lame elephant/donkey game, try Last Stand. (Slow to load, so give it a click and come back in a bit.) I also played Snowball from the same company. It has that maddening quality of making your say, "Oh wait, I can do better, one more try" and then it's dark outside and you have a beard you don't remember growing.
Speaking of Braaaains!, the five biggest neuroscience developments of the year.
Speaking of neuroscience, this piece about using an MRI to gain insight into how the brain processes morality is interesting and not too dense.
Anti-Americanism: Your questions answered - This is a chat Q&A with the BBC's Washington correspondent who has done a multi-part series on the subject. See the right margin for links to his stories.
For at least a month I've been reading about a Bill Moyers special that was supposed to be a real indictment of the media's coverage of the lead-up to the war in Iraq. I haven't posted any links because "gonna happen" doesn't really mean anything to me. Now that it actually has happened, the transcript is seeing a lot of online mileage.
A study showing that male lab mice prefer to mate with females who are less frequently available may not be all that surprising but I do like that title: Sluts and vermin. Anyone struggling to find a good name for a band?
The summer meter - Makes me start to feel a little panicky if I watch too long.
