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Rhode Island's Finest Cutting A Rug

A great example of a law enforcement officer performing his duty while performing for an audience, and thus showing that he truly is Providence's finest.

If he was not already retired when this video was made, as some conflicting sites suggest, then he should be recognized, not disciplined: maybe given his own reality show! He keeps such a straight face through all the antics.

The only problem here is one of liability: if any mishap occurs at the intersection, his antics will be blamed by the accident and personal injury attorneys involved, and, if it is later discovered that the government of Providence was aware of the situation but did nothing, then the whole city becomes party to the defendant.

It kinda sucks, but I guess if someone tries to be silly while on the job, and that job involves public safety, then it probably has to be restrained, even if said silliness actually causes no increase in danger.

Regardless: you go guy!

Dr. Roizen's Inspired Antiaging Feature

Fun, informative widget on antiaging entitled Eating Younger.

Upbeat presentation, sensible suggestions, and state of the art Flash development in the guise of a middle of the road aesthetic: AOL does this so well!

Each section is different: video, prose, quizzes, and more, are present.

Useful and vanilla.

Pure Utility

UPS is pure utility, but their entire WorldShip site is bleeding edge Flash interactivity and integration, creating demand and awareness via its charm.

The casual dabbler of today will become the enterprise user of tomorrow.

The Family Guy on hulu

hulu may be the vanguard of online video, alongside similar sites, hosting full length programs, movies, and other media, interspersing only brief commercial interludes, and facing no copyright infringement lawsuits.

We at *impulse find ourselves returning to hulu repeatedly, despite the limited, but growing, catalog of media from which to choose.

In conclusion, we deem it cool, even though our repeated visits may be due to nothing more than habit, boredom, compulsion, and unwillingness to browse for more interesting content. As soon as the archive grows exponentially over the next year or so, we will return out of pure devotion.

Show: The Family Guy
Episode: Long John Peter

From Keats To Halo Chronicles, Bypassing Lincoln Center

As a lifelong devotee of art, music, and literature, some find it strange that the thought of Lincoln Center, SoHo, and dramatic black and white photo shoots, fills me with nausea, dark brooding cityscapes excepted.

They must be bypassed. Keats' Grecian Urn will dock with the Nanobot Mothership when a Flash-speckled, moon-flecked firmament shrieks at each star-tablet.

Pope's light militia of the lower sky will synergize with Augmented Reality.

Screencapture is from FlashFridge.com.

At The Brink Of Oblivion

Great modern power rock.

Artist: Creed
Title: One Last Breath

Web 2.0 And The New Demand Chain Meet Here

What is all this ado about social networking, user-generated content, and wikis? McCann Worldgroup may have caught onto something far deeper and more fundamental than any fad, or maybe they are just reaching for arbitrary novelty in their analyses to generate their own hype.

The space-time continuum will tell.

OK, that non-clever prose paradigm of overusing quasi-scientific jargon on our part is ending right here.

The real cliche: only time will tell!

Pro Vegan?

Purposefully nonsensical with an inherent, if unintended, pro-vegetarian sentiment that lasts until the end of the first verse. It never becomes anti-vegetarian thereafter, but rather makes some finer distinctions between various vegetables and fruit, and the occasional dairy product, and then goes off onto other meandering zaniness.

Song: I Like Bananas
Artist: The Hoosier Hot Shots

Tropical Iceland

Zany, catchy, and perfect for late summer.

Artist: The Fiery Furnaces
Song: Tropical Iceland

In My Big Invisible Balloon

This song is bound for greatness in the stars eternal, though the fates have decided that it will first wallow in obscurity for many years.

Did not know there was a video until today.

Artist: Midget
Song Title: Invisible Balloon

Windows Vista's Calming Teas

This ad has been out for a while, but we just caught it today. It speaks manuals in a multimedia alchemy of succinct tea titles and deadpan delivery.

Teas:

• Crashytime Chamomile
• Pomegranate Patience
• Raspberry Restart
• Missing Driver Mint

Quite clever. Quite useful. Watch.

The Lazy Quantum Cup Rinse Paradox

   

Let's say I have two cups from the night before, one that contained soda and one that contained dry cereal, and I want to have soda and cereal again tonight, and, most importantly, I am lazy, so I do not feel like washing both cups.

So, I will wash, at most, one cup.

What should I do?

Solution below:

Wash the cereal cup and use it for soda.
Rinse the soda cup and use it for cereal.

Why? It is easier to wash the cereal cup, and, thus it will take less energy to clean and make ready for any usage, including a beverage, whereas the soda cup will take more energy to clean thoroughly, but, with just a rinse, it becomes usable for cereal, which does not absorb the cup's residue the same way that a beverage does.

There is something deep and universal here.
There is a law of nature that I do not see but feel. The inversion. The dreamstate.
Rods. Champ. Inner Earth Beings. Steve Wozniak.
The surreal holographic redundancy.

They make me walk along the moonlit path and look up at the stars in wonder, with carnival-adoring Whitman as my guide.

Soda: Cherry Coke Zero
Cereal: Honey Nut Cheerios

Record Labels Can't Remove Songs From YouTube

It is quite the negative feedback dilemma. If a smash video has been posted on YouTube  for some time in violation of copyright laws, then what is Columbia Records to do? Remove it and start anew, losing the stats showing millions of plays and huge popularity in the process? Or leave it and thus passively endorse copyright violation by inaction?

While some favor the seeming lack of popularity, as if it imparts a kind of underground or indie cred, most unconsciously think less of bands that are less popular, that is, at least until they learn enough about a particular band to form their own opinion.

I am a huge indie music lover and wholeheartedly admit to being greatly influenced by band popularity.

In fact, it disturbs me that the most popular Smashing Pumpkins video on YouTube (Tonight, Tonight) only has 3.5 million plays. I try to convince myself that it was previously removed several times due to copyright violation, and that it was recently re-posted by a persistent fan, but I sort of know better: Though still relevant alt-rock legends, they do not inspire the kind of fan frenzy that results in 54 million plays.

If YouTube could track the total number of plays of a particular song's video, independent of who posts it, possibly even including covers and Rock Band versions, I am sure that fans, bands, and record labels would be greatly appreciative.

Artist: Coheed & Cambria
Song: Devil In Jersey City

Hulk Vs. Hercules Battle Indecisive

Although many Hulk fans on various forums brag about how the Hulk easily won this brief When Titans Collide encounter, I finally got a chance to check it out. It is actually a flashback from an earlier comic book.

True, The Hulk got a few good shots in on an a surprised and unprepared Hercules, but as soon as Hercules got serious, he stopped the Hulk's assault with one fist.

Conclusion: Inconclusive.

Read more about it at Comic Vine.

Howcast.com On MySpace.tv On Money Blogging

For any interested bloggers out there: a video of common sense tips on how to make money with your blog. One day, I may implement at least ONE of the suggestions!

Axe Bodysprays Make Girls Go Wild

Coke Zero, Axe, Nivea, BMW, Amp Relaunch, Iced Venti Soy Chai, the iPhone, and the ImmInst, together, accessorize the modern man, the daring lycan, and the media darling.

From Amp Relaunch To Motley Bird

Such a range of imagery and outlook to contemplate. But, both are all about not brooding, so, *impulse wraps around both:

From waking up hungover in a strange bed to aligning the cosmos and pattering through daisy fields whilst flinging poesy into the far flung universe.

To dally in the darning needle haze or to jet invincibly through the gray urban night?

The Dreamster likes the hummingbirds, so we will flit through the capillary dew with them. But, when the sun dips itself into the brine, I will dash about the barren city scape seeking fast cars and glossy branding.

Amp and Motley Bird.

Even Spiders Are Getting Into This Vegetarian Thing

Bagheera kiplingi steal vegetarian food items, such as nubbins, from the ants that co-habitate acacia trees with them.

Read about it here.

Coke Zero Glitch

This game is so cool that I have played it enough times to notice silly little occasional glitches. The Flash loads fast, but not flash-fast enough to avert this harmless glitch.

Spot it?

L'Oreal Men's Expert

The packaging is kind of feminine, but who cares?!
Actually, it reminds me of Curel.

Check it out at drugstore.com.

Methuselasaurus

111 Year Old Super-Centenarian Tuatara

Read more at CBS News.

Photo by Lindsay Hazley.

Top 10 Movie Monsters From Spike.com's CineMassacre

 

CineMassacre - Top 10 - Top 10 Giant Monsters | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

Great list and one error:
The Kraken is from Scandanavian, not Greek, mythology.

Complete fantasy indulgence.

Put Godzilla And Chai Tea Together

And you have an instant fan= me!

My childhood monster hero and my current vice, spanning the decades in a URL and scanning the moment in a variety blog.

My only problem is that the blogger has a bit too much humility. A bit more hubris is necessary to really shake things up. A bit of bombast. Also, the side panel is cluttered. A few items could be safely removed without harming the overall tone. Other than that: very nice, very current.

Check out Reflections Of Time, aka godzillachai.

Led Zeppelin Borrows But Still Rocks

The likenesses revealed here are undeniable, but so be it. I was aware of most of them except the Taurus-Stairway likeness. I learned of that one via this video, today. Wow. And, I have been a Zeppelin fanatic since 1986!

And, there are still so many unbelievably awesome Zeppelin songs that are wholly original that these influenced numbers should be seen more as tribute to the blues and folk artists they admired, for once Page and Plant found their convolved voice, it was nothing but pure novelty. The fact that they took credit for songs they did not write is pretty shameful, but does not diminish their greatness by one scintilla in my eyes.

In The Light, Ten Years Gone, Kashmir, The Rain Song, The Rover, The Song Remains The Same, Down By The Seaside, Dancing Days, The Immigrant Song: completely original and enough to send them to metal gods Valhalla ten times over.

Monet's Waterlilies Drift Nearby

Pure light, pure color, delightful, gleaming orbs, dewy sculptures, luminous knotty contraptions: otherworldly light painting.

Raucous Vines Minimasterpiece

This band has lost so much momentum and credibility lately, which is good, because their sound will go into psychic-archetypal incubation and re-emerge as masterful legendary classic alt rock in 10 years.

Artist: The Vines
Song: Outtathaway

The American Anti-Aging Association Is A Pure Marketing Site

It is with great regret that I must inform all that the The American Anti-Aging Association is nothing more than a marketing site. If I am outside the loop and this ruse is already common knowledge to those in the know, then I will shamelessly appear clueless for the moment and meander onward across the vast heath.

Peanut Butter To Die For

This stuff is so good, it whisks me to the brink of dietary control. Yet it is so lipid-healthy, it burst-furthers my youthful radiance.

I glob it on Keebler Chips Deluxe for Chocolate Lovers: just had 3 PB-ungainly cookies. Then I took a spoon and ate some more, straight from the jar.

Try it out: Peanut Butter & Co.'s Dark Chocolate Dreams.

Who Is This *impulse Doppleganger?

There is another impulse in town. A knockoff. A cheap imitation. They are brash upstarts trying to infringe on *impulse turf, sort of like Richie on Fonzie's Falcon turf at Arnold's.

Let's all tell them that there is only one *impulse and they aint it.

What Do Wagner, Ravel, and Stravinsky Have In Common?

None of them had perfect pitch, that coveted, abstruse, and rare ability many musicians both secretly and openly desire. So, if you are an aspiring songwriter, musician, or composer, these three names might be enough to convince you to forget about absolute pitch. Some of the greatest composers in history changed the world without it. It is far more important to develop your talent and optimize that much more crucial, powerful and world shattering attribute: imagination.

Wagner did pretty well with it.

For put perfect pitch and imagination side by side and one the other will contain.
Same goes for perfect pitch's wicked stepsister, synesthesia.

Good luck to all aspiring composers and performers.

Great Homemade Facial Scrub Recipe And More For Men

Not a bad bunch of tips, especially the homemade sugar-honey-applecidervinegar scrub.

Starbucks' Recent Marketing Whizzes

They used Venti Peppermint Mocha as their analogical example instead of Iced Venti Soy Chai, but these upstarts have such a delightful web presence that they are fully pardoned and my astral legions are still flitting about the pixellated halls of their Flash-substrate home.

Check out Communicator World.

Mega Zune Gadget Has Honalee-style Promotion Site

four realms to find them all
four realms to amuse them
four realms to integrate
and in cyberspace, refuse them

We have seen many recent examples of this type of sprouty, fidgety, dappled, impulse power, 3D Flash illustration and animation, most notably the Adobe Creative License My Space Cherry Coke  site, a kind of more animated version of the My Space Cherry Coke site.

But, after a brief moment of contemplation, we have concluded that this site outshines with sheer overwhelming volume of rainbows, yellow submarines, and sesame street splashes to the point that 80 gigabyte media players (the sites branding raison d'etre) barely hold their own.

Site: Zune Journey.

The Hairpin Turn At The Analemma

Now, we are accelerating in our vessel, our silent, slow, velocity-ridden sphere, as it spreads ungainly wings across firmament gales and vast penlight fixtures that spot the vault, and August shrieks into balloons.

This chart plots stinging and uplifting points into a smooth convolution for heliophobic perusal. Perhaps a logo might be devised from the typical daily semi-circular solar path and this highest-point annual path: a merging of the two.

Kickin' Summer Screamo

Artist: Thursday
Song: Cross Out The Eyes

Song And Flash Merged By Skillful Alchemy

'Gothic' and 'web noire' are probably not tags or keywords used by the developers of this creepy-cool, interactive music video site, but, in its subtle artistry, it is more gothic and noire than any more overt example.

Anyway, I have a new respect for The Arcade Fire now.

Artist: The Arcade Fire
Site: The Arcade Fire presents though I guess you could call it by its anagrammed URL, beonlineb, as well.
Song: Neon Bible
Director and ActionScript Developer: Vincent Morisset

If Nanotechnology And Anti-Inflammatory Are Your Buzz Words

Then try the men's skin care line from PerriconeMD Cosmeceuticals.

Nanotech because Fullerenes deliver some of the active ingredients in these products. Anti-inflammatory because Dr. Perricone is the self-described 'Father of Inflammation Theory'.

Welcome To Vegetarian Blog Carnival #19

Recipes, restaurants, how-to-guides, emote-ful posts and more, aggregate and cohere, resulting in this 19th Blog Carnival's verdant resonation.

Organized by VeggieChic.

splendid

100 Food Blogs to Inspire Your Healthy Eating posted at Nursing School Search Blog.

We love blogs with lists of more blogs.
They are so recursive.

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Sufi Jack is back with another pre assemblage cookout posted at The Foundation Anniversary Blog: Things I Never Knew I 'd Know, saying, "This is the fake report of a group of political spiritualists as they attempt to bring about a peaceful end to civilization."

Not sure if this upcoming August 15th gathering is genuine or not.
Regardless, from the few blog posts referencing this date and the Lux, it appears to be quite a large, merry, and peaceful, gathering.

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The Guaranteed Easiest Way to Make Your Own Pickles posted at Wise Bread.

Wow! This is really cool and practical. My beloved Dreamster is a major pickle-head, as am I. And, I cannot help but think of The Jerky Boys when reading this.
"You called here and I said 'hello', right?"
"No, you said  'This is Frank's Pickle Barrel Ass, can I slip you a pickle?'"
"I didn't say that!!"

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dining out

Restaurants for vegetarians posted at Ayurwhat?.

Argh! We wanted a list of vegetarian restaurants.
You can never have enough lists.
This is an emote and opine about the lack of sophisticated fare at vegetarian restaurants.
Not bad, but we wanted a list.

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informative, and inspiring

Did You Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables Today? posted at Highlight HEALTH, saying, "Did you eat your fruits and vegetables today? While the answer seems simple enough, a recent study found that many people respond in a manner consistent with expected norms, tainting consumption data collected by the health community."

This post is for the few still outside the fold.

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Vegetarian Food Guide (Vegan Food Pyramid) posted at World Cuisines.

Splendid vegan food pyramid, though the post does endorse sun exposure to obtain adequate vitamin D levels.
We love the post and the blog overall, but disagree with the sun recommendation.

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Interview With Singer Missy Higgins: She Really Digs Her Monster Wraps posted at vegoftheweek, saying, "Missy Higgins is a vegan and discussing some of her reasons for doing so, her favorite veg dishes, and how she helps stay green on her tour. She's a big fan of raw food as well."

We like her go-green attitude, but dislike her music.

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Health Blogger presents My Plan To Get Rid Of My Excess Stomach and Lose The Pot Belly Fat posted at Health and Fitness Blog.

This is a blog of hope.

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more happy posts, more happy happy posts

Moni presents Get your leftovers signed up with the Witness Protection Program! posted at vegetarian on the cheap.
Hmmm...interesting post on re-branding, leftover-style.

axel presents Health And Food posted at axel g.
Sound dietary advice wrapped in buzz words and zen.

Lane Wright presents Milk And Cereal The Vegan Way | Vegan Bits posted at Vegan Bits.
WestSoy swayed these teetering vegetarians to veganism. Bravo!

Lane Wright presents Food Shortages and Vegan Eating posted at Vegan Bits.
Veganism, en masse, could somewhat alleviate energy crises and food shortages.

David Goldbeck presents We Must Help The Kids posted at HEALTHY HIGHWAYS.
Cool reversal of expectations to kick this post off: "Vegetarianism is about protein."
Otherwise, efforts to preach-lessly reach the younger generations are admirable.

Barbara Schreiber presents Summer of Salmonella posted at Britannica Blog, saying, "Intriguing blog about the problem of Salmonella in tomatoes."
We were all unsettled by the recent scares.

Mansi Desai presents An Introduction to Vegetarianism posted at The Daily Tiffin.
Just as you can never have enough lists, you can also never have enough summaries!
The efforts of this sylvan summarizer are appreciated.

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everyone of these recipes is worth trying out

Mitchell Surface presents Dale’s P*ssed Off Pasta posted at Surface Tensions, saying, "Recipe for pasta and sauce with onions, peppers, mushrooms and olives"

Amarnath Prabhakar presents How to make South Indian Filter Coffee? posted at World Cuisines, saying, "How to make filter coffee, South Indian style!"

Lisa presents Chickpea Flour Pancakes (Pudla) with Crushed Peas, Ginger, Chilies and Cilantro posted at Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen.

Angelawd presents angelawd: the writer gets the last word » Walnut and Basil Pesto posted at angelawd, saying, "This recipe for pesto could substitute non-dairy parmesan for real parmesan, for those who don't eat dairy."

Bobby presents Pineapple Salsa Recipe posted at Free Online Recipes | Free Recipes, saying, "A great recipe for pineapple salsa!"

Alex G presents Authentic Self Discovery. Become who you want to be. Quality LifeStyle Design. Building Confidence, Character and Self-Respect. posted at Authentic Self Discovery. Becoming Who You Want To Be..

Vince presents Pizza Margherita posted at Bitter Cup of Joe.

Mansi Desai presents Sprouted Bean & Lentil Salad posted at Fun and Food.

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horticulture

Chris presents 3 Steps to the Perfect Vegetable Garden (Part Two) posted at Smith Family Garden.

Fiona Lohrenz presents Going Organic…Why We Should! posted at Child Care Only.

Sally Thompson presents Greener Thumb: 100 Resources to Grow Your Own Organic Fruits and Vegetables posted at Organicasm.

For those who thrust their hoes into the mellow ground.
For those who sit on a granary floor with their soft hair lifted by the winnowing wind.

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That concludes this edition.  Submit your blog article to the next edition of vegetarian carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Technorati tags: vegetarian carnival, blog carnival.

Vegetarian Carnival Sidebar Widget As A Blog Post

CityScape 3D Flash Animation Template

The FlashDen has templates that do absolutely nothing, but which are soooo nice to look at. This is why we browse.

Straight from the CityScape designer, majd_abdul: "Simple CityScape animation, for use in 'under construction' pages. All vector, contained within a single MovieClip, Animated simple tweens. Logo is easy to replace."

Vampire Happenings And Trends

With graphic novels, comic books, glittering websites, and pixelated films, GGI'd to the max, forming torrential currents that inform cinematic and visual culture, the underwater streams, moonlit trends, and tertiary darkness of vampires, continue to inspire and drive the murky, turbid brooks coursing through back alleys and gargoyle-tormented parapets.

The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and the so-called Dark Knight, would be wise to avoid the skulking bloodsuckers, for all three, and their cliquish brethren, would be severely outmatched by Nosferatu, and his brethren. Plainly put, superheroes are not primordial enough to battle folk legends and mythological beasts.

For instance, The Hulk would not stand a chance against Ajax. Supposed stats notwithstanding, the primordial power is not there. Smaug would have no chance against a serpent plucked from a medieval bestiary. And, perhaps the most fitting past-present match-up, Dungeons and Dragons Tiamat would be feckless against ancient Tiamat.

These age old concoctions and constructs are too vast, too shrill, and too fearsome for any chromatic pop culture hero or villain.

Our newest category, Vampires, will contain random and non-systematic commentary and review of bleeding edge vampiric presence in film, graphic novel, video game, artwork, poetry, novel, tale, and, if so inspired, even board game and puzzle.

Check out Breaking Dawn: Book Four in the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer and upcoming HBO series True Blood.

We Are Almost Sold On Topical Vitamin C

Surprisingly, Anthony Logistics has a no-frills web presence, kind of like that of a startup eCommerce site. And, as is often the case with simplicity, this is not necessarily a bad or negative thing.

The evidence is contestable and studies conflict, but the aggregation of support in favor of the efficacy of topical vitamin C application is swaying our opinion here at *impulse.
Thus, we have browsed websites and forums in search of a good vitamin C facial serum and came up with Anthony Logistics' Vitamin C Serum. It looks good, though we have yet to try it.

Product: Anthony Logistics For Men Vitamin C Serum.

Remember 'Love Fool' by The Cardigans?

Well, this song is cooler. You can tell it's the same band, but it is as if they passed through a time machine to the freshness of the 21st century when they conjured this ditty.

Not particularly summery, but not particularly not either.

Artist: The Cardigans
Song: For What It's Worth

Flowers For Flowers' Sake

This site's banner is quite the curvilinear flowery delight, though we do not agree whether it effectively promotes treatments for cellulite and skin improvement. It is like an amped-up template from an old print program was arbitrarily selected and used as the branding for a new eCommerce site, with little consideration given to consistency and relevance.

But, it is a pleasant site to browse, and we always appreciate that here: no alarms and no surprises.

Ten Chinese Cities

Perhaps in anticipation of the 2008 Summer Olympics, perhaps because they are growing so quickly and so anonymously, or perhaps because askmen.com brainstormed on top 10 list ideas and this came up, I am now learning a little bit of background on Wuhan, Dongtan and 8 other up and coming urban centers.

This is an informative feature that any renaissance man, globetrotter, global village inhabitant, multiculturalist, or cyber-villager should browse.

Askmen.com's Top 10: Crazy Chinese Cities.

J.G. Wentworth Ad Looks Like Wagner, Sounds Like Handel

'Messiah' meets 'Gotterdammerung', and, I believe, George Lucas claims influence from both.

Amusing ad, but the original CASH-NOW ads were better when J.G. Wentworth himself asked: "Do you need caaash now?"

This Site Doesn't Do Much, But It Is Pleasing And Serene

Site: Prismgirl.