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This morning coffee features tattoos, batman and profanity

August 24th, 2010 No comments

Do you teach young adults? Are you thinking of getting a tattoo? Go for it. It turns out that tattooed teachers make for more engaged students.


(Poison Heart Bear, by Bobby Chiu of Imaginism Studios, found at Abuzeedo.)

Planning to go into the superhero biz? Here are some instructions for creating your own Batarangs.

The following video contains the word “fuck”. It is sung repeatedly, and displayed repeatedly on the screen. If you are in an environment (perhaps a workplace) at which this would be frowned upon, we suggest that you do not click on the link. We do not want you to get fired. Actually, we don’t care if you get fired, we just don’t want it to be our fault.

On second thought, it would kind of be awesome if people were fired for reading the Big Bad Blog. So pump up the volume, and watch the video. Unless you’re at home — in that case, wait until you get in to work.

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The weekend coffee has bees. And ants. Zombie ants.

August 21st, 2010 2 comments
Have you ever wondered what happens if you put a jar over top of a hole in a beehive?

If the answer to that is “no”, you will be kicking yourself for not wondering about this sooner after seeing what happens.
Here at the Big Bad Blog, we love math jokes. This one is fantastic.
It would seem that the security features on touchscreen phones can be hacked using a ‘smudge attack’. This information will feature in an upcoming episode of Burn Notice, most probably.
Things you have always known but never bothered to test empirically: Women with larger breasts have an easier time hitchhiking.
Georgia Pacific, a maker of paper towel dispensers you find in restrooms, is suing for trademark infringement as people are using paper towels from other brands in their machines.
Everything you need to know about parasite powered zombie ants.
While creationism (and its variants) do not belong in the science classroom, not being science, do they belong elsewhere? Religion class? Philosophy? History? Albert Meyer argues not. Personally, I would like to see it as a subject to be tested in a class on Critical Thinking.
In case you do not know what a Rickroll is, there is now court testimony explaining it on record, thanks to hacker Christopher Poole.
Categories: Weekend Coffee

Links, featuring monsters, manifestos and radar ears

June 12th, 2010 No comments
“I am not a brand.”

Maureen Johnson wrote a manifesto … well, she wrote a blog post, and titled it manifesto. If Manifestos have a minimum length, I don’t think it qualifies. But it’s still pretty awesome.
When was the last time someone was sued for singing a famous song in school? The last time something more than a takedown notice was the legal consequence of the music on a YouTube video? Sure, YouTube itself is being sued, and individuals are suing in response to the takedown notices, but the answer is actually never.

The penalty faced by those many people who quite publicly acted out the Thriller video? Nothing.

These are just a few of the ways in which this much reblogged article regarding Glee and copyright fails to have its facts straight. Still, it is interesting stuff and the hyperbole does not entirely invalidate the article’s conclusions.
My Roomba is broke, and I need to order a part to fix it. So sad. In the meantime I am forced to stare sadly at its beautiful algorithms.
Do not forget to password protect your Internet in Germany — you can be fined 100 Euros. In related news, German courts make it illegal for those who are not tech savvy to have wireless internet.
Apple and Flash, part one:

Take what Steve Jobs says about Flash, and do a copy & paste.
Apple and Flash, part two:

To demonstrate how HTML5 (as an open standard) is better than Flash, Apple created a little demo page to show you. Of course, if you are not using an Apple’s Safari browser, Apple tells you that you need Safari. Even though Firefox, Chrome, and most other current browsers would work just fine.
I’m sure you heard this, but the Big Bad Blog would be remiss not to repeat it:

Saudi clerics have issued a fatwa … advocating that women should share their breast milk with the men in their life.
I love Clients From Hell. I’m not sure that most of it is not made up, and I particularly enjoy the rare posted exchange in which the designer is the asshole.

This particular entry goes above and beyond the norm, to the root of most customer problems.
Categories: Weekend Coffee

The morning coffee steals your identity and watches batporn

May 20th, 2010 No comments

Need your weekly fix of Batman porn parodies? You’re in luck — we’ve found you a trailer.


(Okunoin Graveyard by realbelgianwaffles)

Todd Davis is the CEO of a company called LifeLock. Their ads sport his Social Security Number, claiming that their service is so good that he can happily publish it without worrying about identity theft. The only problem is that the ads have been the source of multiple thefts of Mr. Davis’s identity. Oops.

Normally we stay away from current news here at the Morning Coffee — instead, we try to give you the stuff you might not see in your morning newspaper. But this announcement from Nick Clegg in the UK is too hard to resist. The British government is planning to repeal laws that restrict the freedoms of its citizens, and they are asking for your opinion regarding which laws should be scrapped. While we have no idea as to how you are expected to nominate laws to get rid of, we suggest that you begin with the Digital Economy Bill. Or is it now an act?

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