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If only they were trying to find real-life spongmonkeys of Quiznos. I'd have that modelling contract in no time.

Why worry about the money? After all, we like the moon!

Or see the http://www.rathergood.com/punk_kittens/ version with cats

In case anyone is interested, the Japanese ambassador to the U.N. has issued a statement about why Japan wants a moon base.

Well, aside from the fact that there's no p in hamster...

I think it'd be best determined by Joel Veitch of Rathergood.com

I think it'd actually turn out to be the Ineffable Crab of Wisdom who'd come out on top in a Battle of the Animals.

but not as much as a spoon..

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

Proof conclusive.

Because it is close to us.

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

There are some studies that link brain lateralization to personality in birds and mamals, which provides an explanation of the survival benefits of having both left and right handed members in a species: http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1139554.ht m/ (Ask yourself - who do the marmosets remind you of??) Someone else did a game theory analysis of how predation could lead to lateral specialisation in prey as a survival strategy, but I don't have the link. For the profoundly right lateralized(~LH), you might appreciate these marmosets also: http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

Now if you'd like to license it, here are the terms (pdf).

Note: By looking at the moon(tm), using it as a source of nocturnal illumination, or using its gravitational field for any purpose (e.g. use of tides and tidal forces) then you agree to the terms in the EULA.

I was going to post those exact three points, but since you already did it, I just can say that We like da Moon.

I like da moon already, and this helium will also be useful in dirigibles and zeppelins and lightbulbs!

http://www.rathergood.com/ Have been on TV for a while now. They make flashs to music and feature on channel 4 in the UK. Recently Weebl and Bob have also started to do many adverts (for anchor butter). Not to mention Rather good also doing some adverts.

Flash is a very stylish art form, when done right it's fantastic to watch. But when it's done wrong it's like a 4 year old drawing.

As soon as people catch on to this, everyone and their dog will attempt to do these because "Hey it can get me rich!"

That one's pretty good, but I think this one says it all.

I for one look welcome our new soviet kitten masters.

Soviet Kitten Masters? Here they are!

(Don't actually know what this sounds like; I haven't got the soundcard set up, unfortunately).

http://www.rathergood.com/independent_woman/

(Flash required)

One of my favorite sites !

To find out why they chose the moon, follow this link.

Not to mention many other reasons to like the moon, here and here...

We like dee moon!

I'll be the guy with a pirate hat, bad teeth and fur singing i love the quizno suub. they have a pepper bar. the quizno sub is tasty sub....

We like the moon!

We should go "coz it is close to us" - moon song rathergood.com

Another site with silly Flash cartoons worth looking at is http://www.rathergood.com/. I like the one where they turn Destiny's child into a bunch of kittens from Northern England.

>What the *hell* is wrong with the human psyche?
>Maybe it's just an exhaustion with polished, glitzy, perfect, tweaked-by-marketroids stuff.

The nature of the Internet means that it's possible for people to publish things themselves without any interference from the cultural equivalent of the powers that be. When writing a book, TV programme or a film, the authour does not have the means to get it out into the world, and they do that through publishers/producers. These publishers are very picky about what goes out, and if they don't see mass appeal, they reject the submission. This has the result that they also end up dictating culture, because we're so used to seeing what does not get rejected that we end up thinking of it as normal, and in extreme circumstances, we actually like this mass-produced entertainment.

When publishing a web-page, all you have to do is upload your material to a web-server, and spread the URL around. There is nobody to dictate what can or cannot be published. All of a sudden, authours get into te habit of going straight from brain to output without the interference of the cultural police. This results in things that look very un-orthodox, but appeal to some people in ways that mainstream culture could not possibly appeal. As the Internet grows, people's minds will be expanded by the greater variety of art out there, and finally be free, and who knows, these free minds may someday overthrow our cultural overlords.

Another site with silly Flash cartoons worth looking at is http://www.rathergood.com/. I like the one where they turn Destiny's child into a bunch of kittens from Northern England.

>What the *hell* is wrong with the human psyche?
>Maybe it's just an exhaustion with polished, glitzy, perfect, tweaked-by-marketroids stuff.

The nature of the Internet means that it's possible for people to publish things themselves without any interference from the cultural equivalent of the powers that be. When writing a book, TV programme or a film, the authour does not have the means to get it out into the world, and they do that through publishers/producers. These publishers are very picky about what goes out, and if they don't see mass appeal, they reject the submission. This has the result that they also end up dictating culture, because we're so used to seeing what does not get rejected that we end up thinking of it as normal, and in extreme circumstances, we actually like this mass-produced entertainment.

When publishing a web-page, all you have to do is upload your material to a web-server, and spread the URL around. There is nobody to dictate what can or cannot be published. All of a sudden, authours get into te habit of going straight from brain to output without the interference of the cultural police. This results in things that look very un-orthodox, but appeal to some people in ways that mainstream culture could not possibly appeal. As the Internet grows, people's minds will be expanded by the greater variety of art out there, and finally be free, and who knows, these free minds may someday overthrow our cultural overlords.

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

I've always wondered why the only popular uses of Flash that spread via word-of-mouth are horrifically awful.

Badger, Badger, Mushroom.

All Your Base.

Hamster Dance.

Singing Rats

Strong Bad is marginally better quality, but it's still hardly on par with a lot of good animation out there.

What the *hell* is wrong with the human psyche?

Maybe it's just an exhaustion with polished, glitzy, perfect, tweaked-by-marketroids stuff. Adult Swim has to do so well for *some* reason...

Were you expecting the meaning of life?

Since we now know that once Mars had liquid water in significant amounts, and now we've found evidence of methane gas, there can only be one conclusion:

There were cows on Mars.

But what happened to the cows on Mars, you say?

Well, that's simple. As any reputably zoology dragon will tell you cows have infinite density. As Dr. Joel and Alex Veitch discovered in the Jaunuary 2004 issue of The Annals of Completely Fraudulent Research:

Cows have a very high surface tension. Surface tension can be seen in water, in the way pond-skaters are able to skim across the surface of a body of liquid without sinking, and also in the way drops of water always tend towards spherical shape. In cows (and meat in general) the surface tension forces them to tend toward the shape of a cube. The forces at work in the cow are finely balanced, just allowing it to maintain cow-shape. However, if 2 cows should be allowed to touch each other, the surface tension will immediately force them to merge. This larger body of meat is unable to maintain its cow form against the surface tension forces now at work, and so will form a Cow Cube, or Cowube, pronounced "COWUUUUBE" with the mass of 2 cows.

The seriousness of the implications of this phenomenon for the dairy industry, and the future of humanity, should not be underestimated. This Cowube, with its 2-cow mass, exerts enough gravitational force to suck in nearby cows of lower mass. As they touch the Cowube, they merge immediately with it, forming a Cowube of ever-increasing mass, exerting ever-increasing gravitational force on cows.

Eventually, this vast and ever-growing cube of meat will implode under its own gravitational force, forming a singularity. This is why, as every astronomer knows, the surface of every black hole is always a cow.

Obviously this means that all of Mars' water was not evaporated by a thinning atmosphere, but carried off by a massive cow-based singularity.

In order to prevent such a catastrophe from occuring on this planet it is clear that we must begin a systematic effort to minimize the cow population. Preferably using barbeque sauce...

Thank you and a fork isnt very useful for that
unless it has got many vegetables
and then you might be better off with a
chop-stick
unlike the moon
it is up in the sky
its up there very high
but not as high
as maybe
digibles or zeppelins
or lightbulbs
and maybe clouds
and puffins also I think maybe
they go quite high too
maybe not as high as the moon
coz the moon is very high
we like the moon
the moon is very useful everyone
everybody like the moon
because it light up the sky at night
and it lovely
and it makes the tide go and we like it
but not as much as cheese
we really like cheese
we like zeppelins
we really like them
and we like kelp and we like moose
and we like deer and we like marmots
and we like all the fluffy animals
we really like the moon

Thanks to Leo's Lyrics and Joel and Alex Veitch

This is a find which has again inspired me to put up with the moon song

It looks like the folks at Quizno's have already setup a web page to pay homage to this new "moon" of ours.

We like the quasi-mooooon.

Seems to be up now

This guy is quite a happy florist.

Nonsense.

We like the moon.

Cuz it is close to us.

We like the MOOOOOOOOOON!

But not as much as a spoon.

George W Bush's scientific advisors have been urging him to go to the Moon first, as a stepping-stone to Mars. The politics are only just hotting up. More soon.

While I applaud any efforts to get more software running natively on Linux, I have to ask: why Flash?

-calyxa

WRONG! Flash is for..
Remixing songs
Music videos
Hitting penguins
Reading emails

In case you haven't got enough of them, here's the original rat song, "We like the moon"!

http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/

These guys?

I like to eat pumpkin pie

The Moon? But I thought we love the Moon!

Their first title "We like the moon", is already a hit :
We like the moon

The Buffy Swearing keyboard
http://www.rathergood.com/buffy/

imagen weeble , Joel Veitch or Mata
doing shockwave presentations for meetings,
i think im onto somethign hear..

Speaking of Quizno's adverts, they've had an online flash ad involving these characters from rathergood.com. Seriously.

We like the moon!

We like the moon!

A more pressing concern would be to conceal themselves from hostile Moon-men and Martians wielding Islamic weapons of Mass Destruction. Also, if you are hidden under the surface, Hitler and the Queen Mother in their Jewish 12-foot-blood-drinking lizard form can not see you and the Freemasons will also be confused. And to quote a previous slashdot fan, the moon is a really cool thing because it is close to us. Prince Charles has absolutely nothing to do with it this time.