Well, not quite. But the DailyMail has a bunch of posed animal pics from the early 1900s.

1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City. It took a few listens to grow on me. But, after the initial shock wore off, it seems to fit right in with all their other stuff.
2. Shouting Matches - Grownass Man. A nice, simple, throwback rock and roll sound. Nothing flashy or fancy here, but the songs feel comfortably familiar even on the first listen. It's the same trick that the Black Keys and Alabama Shakes pull off: good songwriting, sincere and un-mannered performances worked into a well-worn and much-loved style.
3. Mazzy Star - Seasons Of Your Day. Sounds like a putdown to say this is more of the same old Mazzy Star, except that I can never get enough Mazzy Star. So, more is awesome.

Honorable Mentions:

• David Bowie - The Next Day. I like it better, on whole, than some of his classic records. I think the lesser songs on this are better than the lesser songs on, for example, Scary Monsters; but this doesn't have the one or two killer songs that Scary Monsters did. I won't listen to Scary Monsters all the way through. But this one I will.
• Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork. I like this as much as I like any QOSTA record, and in much the same way. "Hey, these guys are great!" Twenty minutes later "Oh, this song again?" The difference between this and Mazzy Star is that Mazzy Star's distinctive and unvaried style just clicks with me in a way that QOTSA doesn't; I don't mind hearing fifteen slow hypnotic Mazzy Star songs in a row, but after two or three thumping, grinding QOTSA songs I'm worn out. Good in small doses, is what I'm saying.

I've bought a ton of music this year, as I always do. But very little of what I bought was released in 2013, and not much that was stuck with me. So, just the three.

Bill Mitchell is hoping his new invention will do for beer fans what coffeemakers did for coffee lovers.

While it is a bit larger than even an industrial grade espresso machine and about as expensive, the portable PicoBrew Zymatic beer brewing system still goes a long way toward eliminating much of the tedious and laborious craftsmanship of home brewing. Inside the oven-shaped portable device is an intricate series of computerized precision automation technologies, each doing its part to ensure that even first-time amateurs, with a push of a few buttons, can reliably replicate just about any formula for beer.

In the future, every frat will have one.

27", 2560 x 1440.

I should've done this years ago!

(and, years ago, i should've bought a PC with a power supply big enough to handle a real graphics card. alas)

NPR Music's 50 Favorite Albums Of 2013 includes a half-dozen that I've heard of and three that I own !

I've always thought that I have pretty wide-ranging musical knowledge. But NPR just crushed that delusion, hard.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument on the Statehouse steps.

The Republican-controlled Legislature in this state known as the buckle of the Bible Belt authorized the privately funded Ten Commandments monument in 2009, and it was placed on the Capitol grounds last year despite criticism from legal experts who questioned its constitutionality. The Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking its removal.

But the New York-based Satanic Temple saw an opportunity. It notified the state's Capitol Preservation Commission that it wants to donate a monument and plans to submit one of several possible designs this month, said Lucien Greaves, a spokesman for the temple.

"We believe that all monuments should be in good taste and consistent with community standards," Greaves wrote in letter to state officials. "Our proposed monument, as an homage to the historic/literary Satan, will certainly abide by these guidelines."

Greaves said one potential design involves a pentagram, a satanic symbol, while another is meant to be an interactive display for children.

I hope hope hope it's the interactive display for children.

King James Programming:

Markov(King James + Interpretation of Computer Programs) =>

21:32 Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when the cherubims lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no business with any man; and it was written in the native language of the machine, or simply machine language.

26:27 And if ye shall at all turn from following me, that they are both symbols and the symbols are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ….

However, with the stream version, there is no need to do to resume the computation is finished and the answer of a good courage: for thou must go to some trouble to manage the continuations. The execution procedure is called with the message get-signal as input. Alternatively, writing (get-signal wire) encourages us to think of men above that which is good in thine eyes.

…the saints of the most common optimizations performed by compilers is the optimization of variable lookup. Our compiler, as we have borne the image of Baal, and made a king over all Israel

OMFG

The Japanese town of Taiji has announced a plan to build a park where anyone can swim and play with dolphins, while tasting various marine products including whale and dolphin meat.

They are supposedly aiming to have the park as a spin-off of their annual custom of rounding up and killing thousands of dolphins, as its meat is considered a delicacy.

A little local flavor..

Following the death of former South African president and civil rights leader Nelson Mandela today at the age of 95, sources confirmed that the revered humanitarian has become the first politician in recorded history to actually be missed.

By comparison, this stain won't seem to go away, no matter how many times we try to wash it out:

“He [Mandela] was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives -- and Obamacare is front and center in that,”