Picked solely for their names, but the colors are lovely, too. Sidenote: the Spanish names of the colors in the photos are adorable as well. Osito cafesito, anyone?
5. Laser Lemon
4. Banana Mania
3. Fuzzy Wuzzy
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Best 5 Incredibly Odd/Disturbing Uses for Human Hair
Yeah, it just got all weird up in here. Although frankly, it was never all that normal up in here to begin with...
5. Creating statues of President Obama
If you ever get the craving to make some sort of monument to the president, this is certainly an option for the construction material. An hair stylist in Beijing made this flattering statue in about seven days (with about 4 kg of hair), and it certainly is… Wow.Friday, March 11, 2011
Best 5 Bollywood Movies According to My Other Indian Friend Achyut
So my choice of the indisputably best Bollywood movies ever a few days ago generated a veritable firestorm of controversy amongst the Indian community. And by that I mean my other Indian friend Achyut disagreed. So, to be fair, I've created a list of the Bollywood films he thinks are the best.
5. Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
So when Achyut provided this as one of his selections, all he gave me was a link to one of the movie’s songs. And seriously, I don’t know what to make of it. The video seems at times awesome, and at others ridiculous. As I’m not a Bollywood connoisseur, I couldn’t really tell you which one it’s supposed to be. Judge for yourself:
Anyway, the movie is a comedy about a love triangle between two guys and a girl. At the end of the film (SPOILER!) one the guys gets the girl, but the two dudes are still friends, so it’s chill.
4. Munna Bhai MBBS
Achyut calls this film “3 Idiots before 3 Idiots.” It’s about a man who is a mobster but tells his parents that he is a doctor. When they find out that he’s been lying, he decides to go to med school to regain their love and respect. Along the way to his degree, he clashes with a strict administrator who opposes his radical, almost holistic approach to medicine, and falls in love with said administrator’s daughter. The result, according to Achyut, is awesomesauce.
This movie, says Achyut, is one of those films that is so ridiculously bad that it’s good. With “songs that are borderline sexual harassment, terrible production quality, and hilarious jokes,” this movie is about two slackers who try to marry an heiress so they’ll never have to work. The heiress’s secretary also becomes involved, as well as her father (who the two guys try to kidnap in a misguided attempt to impress her) and the father’s evil twin. Even Achyut’s mom calls this one stupid, and when Achyut’s mom says something’s stupid, it is most definitely stupid.
2. Kal Ho Naa Ho
Shah Rukh Khan was Achyut’s boyhood idol, so it’s no surprise that he loves this one. Starring Khan, Preity Zinta, and Saif Ali Khan (who, incidentally, is dating Butterface) this film takes place in New York, and boy do they ever show it. Once Achyut told me about this movie, I actually watched it (and realized for the first time what a time commitment a Bollywood movie is) and I have to say I have never seen so many American flags in my life. And in keeping with the whole American thing, they actually obtained a license to use the song “Pretty Woman,” which is almost never done in Bollywood. Oh, and like Kabhie Kushi Kabhie Gham for Buj, this one made Achyut cry.  |
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1. Dhoom 2
This is my blog, Achyut! I made a mistake last time, allowing Buj’s #1 to remain that way, even though I knew Dhoom 2 was superior to all Bollywood movies. Well no more. Hrithik will not be contained!
Best 5 Pictures of Skin Conditions That Turn Your Epidermis All the Colors of the Rainbow (But Actually Just Blue and Orange)
Ok, so this isn't so much a Best 5 post so much as an outlet for my fascination with argyria. I threw in some pictures of carotenosis for some variety. So here goes.
Argyria is a skin disease caused by prolonged exposure to elemental silver and silver compounds. A lot of the people who get it nowadays either used it topically, causing localized blueness, or ingested it for medicinal purposes, causing generalized Smurftasticness. Now, to be fair, ingesting silver is not completely crazy, since the element is known to be an antiseptic. This is because bacteria that come into contact with silver absorb
its atoms, which mess with their metabolism, causing them to die. Even so, with so many antibacterial medications out there, it is a little crazy to risk being blue (PERMANENTLY) by ingesting silver. But I guess the silver lining of the whole matter is that silver has fairly low toxicity, so besides the blueness, there's no real medical harm in the condition.
Probably the most famous sufferer of argyria out there is Stan Jones, a man who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and 2006. In 1995, Jones had become concerned about the Y2K crisis, and, fearing there would be no more antibiotics after the apocalypse, began drinking huge amounts of colloidal silver. As a result of this four and a half years of silver intake, Jones became the first blue Senatorial candidate. And he defends his choice to this day, saying that in the event that there was a biological attack in the future, he'd take the silver again, because "being alive is more important than turning purple."
Also there's this disease called carotenosis, which turns the skin orange. Most common in vegetarians and young children it's caused by excessive intake of carotenoids, which are found in carrots and other foods like apples, butter and parsley (quite an assortment, isn't it?) Because of their light skin, it's easy to spot in gingers. But luckily for the gingers of the world and vegetarians, the condition is benign and can be cured by not eating so many carotenoids.
Here's a picture of the condition on a baby:
Not going to lie, though, I can't really see much of the orange in that picture, so to give you an idea of what an orange person might look like, I generated a picture of the imagined offspring of Snooki and John Boehner using morphthing.com. Although, between you and me, I don't think those guys have carotenosis..
Argyria is a skin disease caused by prolonged exposure to elemental silver and silver compounds. A lot of the people who get it nowadays either used it topically, causing localized blueness, or ingested it for medicinal purposes, causing generalized Smurftasticness. Now, to be fair, ingesting silver is not completely crazy, since the element is known to be an antiseptic. This is because bacteria that come into contact with silver absorbits atoms, which mess with their metabolism, causing them to die. Even so, with so many antibacterial medications out there, it is a little crazy to risk being blue (PERMANENTLY) by ingesting silver. But I guess the silver lining of the whole matter is that silver has fairly low toxicity, so besides the blueness, there's no real medical harm in the condition.
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| Stan Jones |
Probably the most famous sufferer of argyria out there is Stan Jones, a man who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and 2006. In 1995, Jones had become concerned about the Y2K crisis, and, fearing there would be no more antibiotics after the apocalypse, began drinking huge amounts of colloidal silver. As a result of this four and a half years of silver intake, Jones became the first blue Senatorial candidate. And he defends his choice to this day, saying that in the event that there was a biological attack in the future, he'd take the silver again, because "being alive is more important than turning purple."
Also there's this disease called carotenosis, which turns the skin orange. Most common in vegetarians and young children it's caused by excessive intake of carotenoids, which are found in carrots and other foods like apples, butter and parsley (quite an assortment, isn't it?) Because of their light skin, it's easy to spot in gingers. But luckily for the gingers of the world and vegetarians, the condition is benign and can be cured by not eating so many carotenoids.
Here's a picture of the condition on a baby:
Not going to lie, though, I can't really see much of the orange in that picture, so to give you an idea of what an orange person might look like, I generated a picture of the imagined offspring of Snooki and John Boehner using morphthing.com. Although, between you and me, I don't think those guys have carotenosis..
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