aha i linky yuo

[dnl2ba]

Batman New Times (http://www.daveschool.com/BATMAN/index.html) | mirror (http://homepage.mac.com/eyemae/Batman_Net.mov) - Batman made out of CG Legos.

Haha, I heard the "DOOM door opening" sound in there.

[dnl2ba]

And Lego Spider-Man movie (http://spiteyourface.com/spidey.html) while I'm at it. Heck, how about some Lego Star Wars the video game (http://www.legostarwarsthevideogame.com/)?

[Gump]

Wow, I'm impressed that they got Adam West and Mark Hamill for that. That's probably the first time Adam's played Batman seriously.

Here's something for writers: "Said is Dead"? (http://www.livejournal.com/users/gmth/163530.html).

[dnl2ba]

I used to be a fervent follower of the "said is dead" teaching, but have you ever read something that keeps using creative alternatives? It's really distracting. I settled on using "said" and occasionally sprinkling my work with alternatives.

You can also try not using any verb, e.g.:

"I don't think so," Mark said.

Sally looked dismayed. "Why's that?"

"Because I'm a total cock."

Edit: Interesting, there's a grace period for no "edited by" message. When it's up, further edits leave the message there.

[Gump]

I used to be a fervent follower of the "said is dead" teaching, but have you ever read something that keeps using creative alternatives?
No, and I'm glad I haven't. I pretty much use the same approach to my writing as you do.

I got the link from Neil Gaiman's journal (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2005/03/four-days.asp), in which he links to an older entry (http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/2003/12/good-morning-he-exclaimed-perceptively.asp) where he makes the following comment:

"Said's" are invisible. They vanish onto the page. The eye barely sees them -- they become one with the inverted commas that indicate that something is being said. They're the arrows on the speech balloons that show you who's saying what. Lots of authors, when they start out, remember from school that you shouldn't repeat words too much, and are careful to replace each "said" with "growled" "uttered" "yelped' "hissed" "exclaimed" "asseverated" "muttered" "affirmed" and so on, and cannot work out why people dismiss the writing as amateurish. Use them, but use them sparingly. It's like salt in a dish. Too much and it's all you taste.

[Ballz]

Wow, I'm impressed that they got Adam West and Mark Hamill for that. That's probably the first time Adam's played Batman seriously.



I'm pretty sure Adam's policy these days is "Will work for bourbon." And Mark Hamill whores his voice out whenever possible.

[dnl2ba]

Bwa haha. I just discovered Manolo's Shoe Blog (http://www.shoeblogs.com/).

[dnl2ba]

VR: computer renders interacting with real-time video (http://www.compfused.com/directlink/662)

I saw something like this in a forum at school a couple years ago (some researcher was teasing his poor infant son by having the kid watch his real-time video self covered in butterflies, or on fire, etc.), but this is far more advanced.

[dnl2ba]

Mobile mapping service with real-time traffic info for your cell phone (http://www.in-duce.net/archives/turn_left_after_the_yellow_tree.php)... well, if you're Japanese.

[dnl2ba]

Prick-ass monkey pwns tiger (http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/12072/)

Artsy furniture / lighting / gadgets (http://www.gnr8.biz/index.html) - one of my bosses was just amazing at guessing prices for these items. I like some of Rob Zinn's lighting, like Futura (http://www.gnr8.biz/futura.html). The other wall lights (http://www.gnr8.biz/wall.html) are tempting, too. I've been looking for a cool CD shelf (http://www.gnr8.biz/cdshelf.html). But WTF, fake lamp for $1100 (http://www.gnr8.biz/fake.html)? Colored plank for $79 (http://www.gnr8.biz/uu4.html)?

[dnl2ba]

Some guy's doing Cartoon Network / other cartoons fan manga (http://bleedman.deviantart.com/gallery/). I saw characters (http://www.deviantart.com/view/10727547/) from Invader Zim, Dexter's Lab, Grim & Evil or whatever (with the Grim Reaper and Mandy the bitch princess), Power Puff Girls, and more whose names I don't know.

[dnl2ba]

Latte art (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/sets/48921/)

fuck you min post length

[dnl2ba]

Maybe I just need to start a separate sexiness/lifestyle thread or something.

Moleskine Pocket Reporter notebook (http://store.yahoo.com/moleskine/reporter-pocket-ruled.html)

On the one hand, it's an $11.75 notebook. On the other hand, it's awfully sexy. Maybe if you could insert $0.50 pads into a nice sleeve and make it look convincing...

[dnl2ba]

I have lots of tech linkies every day, but you'd get a lot of them yourself if you just followed these blogs:


Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) for gadgets
Gizmodo (http://www.gizmodo.com/) for gadgets
We Make Money, Not Art (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/) for various tech geek fun
Waxy links miniblog
(http://www.waxy.org/links/)

If you use Firefox, you can just add the RSS feeds as bookmarks using the little orange "broadcast" icon at the bottom of the browser window. I'm considering getting an aggregator program-- my ideal UI would be a blog with interleaved entries from other blogs, like an LJ friends page.

[dnl2ba]

Yes Yes You (http://www.youyesyou.net/) (some illustrations NWS)

[dnl2ba]

A Waxy link entry today:

Snopes rejects (http://www.snopes.com/humor/question/requests.asp)

[dnl2ba]

Photos from the Funny Club Show (http://evilvince.com/index.php?s=Funny+Club+Show+&submit=go)

[dnl2ba]

Vader: The Wonder Years (http://www.slurpeekingdom.com/vader.html)

I'm 6 minutes in. FUNNAY.

[dnl2ba]

Okay, actually, the second half was just kinda more of same.

[dnl2ba]

Firebox (http://www.firebox.com/) has a lot of goofy toys, like the Plant Me Pet (http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=907) and CardBoy (http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=963).

Best Bulldog Idea On Whole Planet Surfaces (http://whytheluckystiff.net/2005/03/08.html)

New Zealand icon set for Mac (http://www.afterglow.ie/images/kiwiteaser.jpg)OS X and WinXP (http://www.afterglow.ie/images/kiwiteaser.jpg) on Afterglow (http://www.afterglow.ie/icons.html), complete with an icon of Peter Jackson and the One Ring. If only creative powers like this were applied to the world's great problems. Forum Faces (http://www.afterglow.ie/images/forumfaces800.jpg) and Forum Faces 2 (http://www.afterglow.ie/images/ff2teaser.jpg) are worth a look, too-- reminds me of the Flame Warriors (http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/).

[dnl2ba]

Cancontrollers (http://www.cancontrollers.net/index.htm) art (often public and unsolicited, if you get my drift)

[dnl2ba]

Play Stinkoman (http://www.homestarrunner.com/stinkogame/stinkogame.html) at HomestarRunner

[dnl2ba]

Japanese pop group watching The Ring. Hilarity ensues. (http://www.seanbonner.com/ring/) (QuickTime)

I'm not sure how much commentary I could possibly offer :)

[dnl2ba]

Remember that game where you defend the castle by picking guys up and dropping them? And buying archers and wizards and casting spells, and buying fortifications? No, because I'm the only one who played it when I linked it on MCBB?

:(

Well, here's Storm the House (http://www.webrats.com/castle2.php) anyway.

[Rhys]

I played the castle game until I didn't actually have to do anything to win levels and got bored.

[dnl2ba]

Well, I was trying to ignore it, but this transparent computer screen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/w00kie/sets/180637/) gag is really making the rounds. The question is, why are all the pics-- even the ones not by the gallery author-- of Macs? Is it because the PC users don't have a sense of humor, or because they have day jobs?

A9 driver (I assume) caught in pic (http://www.amazon.com/gp/yp/B0005U9M0Y/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3999141). I voted it as the best of the lot. :D

[dnl2ba]

hottie licking PSP (http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/psp/hot-girlonpsp-action-037297.php)

I thought you guys wouldn't want to miss this.

[Gump]

The Bad Astronomy (http://www.badastronomy.com) guy has a blog (http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/) now.

[Gump]

"No, your eyes do not deceive you. That’s Jesus, ripping himself off the cross and tearing the Greek Gods a new ass."

Scroll down for an excerpt from The Godyssey (http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/rage/index1.htm), by Rob Liefeld and Ed Benes.

[dnl2ba]

More art. Interior decoration examples (http://www.deedee914.com/gallery.html) using Dee Adams' minimalist art. (I'd never heard of him/her before seeing a banner ad.)

I Love You Baby (http://www.iloveyoubaby.org/index_mustaches.html) art-- hit the drop-down in the lower right for teh artsies.

[Unregistered]

Not bad stuff. I like

[dnl2ba]

I do my best.

The Scientific American says Okay, We Give Up (http://www.sciamdigital.com/browse.cfm?ITEMIDCHAR=8E45B3E6-2B35-221B-6E9314D45FCAD2B2&methodnameCHAR=&interfacenameCHAR=browse.cfm&ISSUEID_CHAR=8E3EADFC-2B35-221B-6A8455DA45AE8B50&ArticleTypeSubInclude_BIT=0&sequencenameCHAR=itemP).

There's no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism, missile defense and global warming. We resisted their advice and pretended not to be stung by the accusations that the magazine should be renamed Unscientific American, or Scientific Unamerican, or even Unscientific Unamerican. But spring is in the air, and all of nature is turning over a new leaf, so there's no better time to say: you were right, and we were wrong.

In retrospect, this magazine's coverage of so-called evolution has been hideously one-sided. For decades, we published articles in every issue that endorsed the ideas of Charles Darwin and his cronies. True, the theory of common descent through natural selection has been called the unifying concept for all of biology and one of the greatest scientific ideas of all time, but that was no excuse to be fanatics about it. Where were the answering articles presenting the powerful case for scientific creationism? Why were we so unwilling to suggest that dinosaurs lived 6,000 years ago or that a cataclysmic flood carved the Grand Canyon? Blame the scientists. They dazzled us with their fancy fossils, their radiocarbon dating and their tens of thousands of peer-reviewed journal articles. As editors, we had no business being persuaded by mountains of evidence.

(hint: april issue)

[dnl2ba]

Oh no, is this the end of the links thread?

http://del.icio.us/undersaur (http://del.icio.us/undersaur)

I finally decided to try out Delicious (http://del.icio.us/), a free social (http://del.icio.us/undersaur/social_networking) bookmarking tool. You add bookmarks and others can see them. They can also subscribe to an RSS feed of your links, or look up related links that you or other people have submitted. Like Gmail, Flickr, and Technorati, it uses tags, arbitrary text you can use to categorize things. So an art blog like Drawn (http://www.drawn.ca/) might fall under both my blog (http://del.icio.us/undersaur/blog) and art (http://del.icio.us/undersaur/art).

It's easy to add links, too-- just add their bookmarklet to your bookmarks, and click it when you get to a page you want to add to your Delicious list.

I've actually stuck with LJ for my blogs just so others can see it in their friends pages, but I was thinking of writing an RSS aggregator that interleaves feed entries like an LJ friends page. Then people could just use that as their friends page and could use whatever blogging service they want, so long as it offers an RSS feed. There are other (http://www.baum.com.au/%7Ejiri/ae/blog/01094360755) projects (http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html) out there (http://kwc.org/site/siteinfo/feed_aggregator.html), but none looks ready for prime time.

I'm also thinking of getting into Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/), the photo blogging tool. What fun! Also see the Flickr Related Tag Browser (http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/).

Infopop offers RSS feeds on Ars Technica's Openforum (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x) now. Would you want to have new forum posts in your aggregation page? You might limit each feed to some number of entries so it doesn't flood your aggy page.

[Gump]

It's been a while since we've had a ludicrous, long, and ludicrously long flash video on here, so here goes:

SEGA Fantasy VI (http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-2.swf). It's the ending to Final Fantasy VI, in both Japanese and English, as performed by video game consoles.

[prodos]

An amazingly obscure, creepy, cheesy, informative flash animation from Hitachi about a particular piece of new storage technology.

Go Perpendicular (http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html)

[dnl2ba]

I love you all.

[dnl2ba]

I love The Manolo's captions.

http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/04/11/iceman/
http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/04/09/mean-widdle-kid/

[Gump]

You know, now that I think about it, we seem to be the only message board in existence without a caption thread.

Anyway, here's some muppets (http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/7452/), because muppets make me smile. Especially if they look like Birdo from SMB2.

[dnl2ba]

Wasn't there one with Rummy pics on the Ikonboard MCBB?

*sob*

[Gump]

I just remember a couple of posts where we remarked on how much he looks like Dracula.

Unless there were more from before I joined.

[dnl2ba]

Good enough for you guys, and not good enough for my Delicious links.

JSimpleton bot for Idle Thumbs message boards (http://forums.idlethumbs.net/showthread.php?t=2166) - play Zork through the BB?

[dnl2ba]

Idaho Legislature unanimously passed a bill commending the creators of Napoleon Dynamite (http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/HCR029.html)

[dnl2ba]

8Rhys is going to fucking love this if he hasn't seen it already.

Musipedia (http://www.musipedia.org/)

Search for melodies (mostly classical) by indicating the direction the melody takes-- just up or down. I searched for the 18th variation from Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini by entering "*DUUDDUUDUDDUUD" (start, down, up, up, down, down, etc. like the Konami code!) and it named the tune I wanted as the 3rd result. It got Debussy's Reverie (*DUUUDDUDUD) as the first result. Schubert's 8th Symphony, 1st movement ("Gargamel theme," *DDUUUDDUUU)? 7th result. Sweet.

However, while I'd describe the first movement of Schubert's 5th Symphony as a melodic piece, I guess there isn't really a good melody in there for humming. It didn't find that for "*DUDDD" (the opening notes) even when I helped it out by entering "schubert" as a keyword. Edit: Oops, it's on the 7th page. There's just a lot of stuff that matches short stretches like that.

They also have something for searching for a whistled tune, but I don't want to dig out my mic to test it.

[Rhys]

Hah, I stumped it with Poulenc's sonata for flute. That thing is badass though.

[dnl2ba]

I'm not sure why that post says 8Rhys. Maybe you're food, or maybe it's a smiley I haven't deciphered yet.

[schally]

http://del.icio.us/undersaur (http://del.icio.us/undersaur)


Me too.

http://del.icio.us/schallymystery

[dnl2ba]

Wait a minute! Is Rand a KOTOR name (http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Eeji/KoTOR2/attonwallpaper.jpg)? :mad:

[dnl2ba]

Cool things people have found/done with satellite images in Google Maps (http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/04/bird-view.html)

Edit: er... (http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001238.html)

[schally]

I'm sure it's nothing new to this crowd, but I found that Sega Fantasy (http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/frame1.html) rekindled the console fighting spirit within me.

[dnl2ba]

Uh-oh. You're gonna make Gump cry.

[Gump]

I'm a tougher nut to crack than that.

*sniff*

Anyway, this just gives me an excuse to link to Sega Fantasy IV (http://www.geocities.jp/sikamako2002/sf4.html). I just wish this one was in English.

[dnl2ba]

Guess the Google (http://grant.robinson.name/projects/guess-the-google/)

Shows you 20 images from Google Images at once, and you try and guess the search term that returned those images.

First try: 276 points (missed maybe 2 or 3 entirely); average of 3.2 guesses in 8 seconds

Second try: 358 points (got all of them); average of 3 guesses in 4 seconds. But I got 3 I got the first time, so that's like cheating.

[dnl2ba]

Colorama (http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/colorama/)

I found it getting hard around 150 points. I ran out of time on the 180 point one (well, 180 points assuming that's the first one where you screw up) and stopped playing.

I'd be interested in an analysis of search strategies. I figured that if you just try and compare 1 color between the two shapes and do it well (100% accuracy), you have a 2/3 chance of finding the difference.

[Gump]

Ran out of time twice at 230 and 280, and I quit there, with a final score of 270.

[dnl2ba]

Harry Potter cast, manga-style (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/14382027/)

[Gump]

I used to have a whole bunch of Japanese Harry Potter sites bookmarked on my old computer, but that HD got kinda effed up, which is the whole reason I have this computer now. I wish I knew how to find them again.

But man, I do not like that pic. Harry looks too much like the redhead from W.I.T.C.H. (http://www.laughingplace.com/files/stories/20040323/witch_72.jpg)

[dnl2ba]

Darth Vader's blog (http://darthside.blogspot.com/)

[dnl2ba]

"PS2 (http://oyan.jugem.jp/?day=20040807)"

[Ballz]

The hell is that?

[schally]

Too bad none of us speak ñ¤*¤¿¤«¤Ã¤¿¤Î¤Ç¤¹¤¬¡¢¤â¤¦Ç¯¤ÇÂÎÎϤâ²÷Ä´¤Ç¤Ï¤Ê¤¤¤Î¤ ǽñ¤*¤¿¤¤¥Í¥¿¤ò¥É¥É¥ó¤È¥Ï¥Ê¥Æ¥ó¡Ä¤¤¤äÊü½Ð(´ØÀ¾¤Ë½» ¤ó¤Ç¤¤¤ë¿Í¤Ë¤È¤Ã¤Æ¤Ï£Ã£Í¤Î¤»¤¤¤â¤¢¤ê¤.

[Rhys]

It looked like a PS2 shaped clock to me.

[dnl2ba]

Too bad none of us speak ñ¤*¤¿¤«¤Ã¤¿¤Î¤Ç¤¹¤¬¡¢¤â¤¦Ç¯¤ÇÂÎÎϤâ²÷Ä´¤Ç¤Ï¤Ê¤¤¤Î¤ ǽñ¤*¤¿¤¤¥Í¥¿¤ò¥É¥É¥ó¤È¥Ï¥Ê¥Æ¥ó¡Ä¤¤¤äÊü½Ð(´ØÀ¾¤Ë½» ¤ó¤Ç¤¤¤ë¿Í¤Ë¤È¤Ã¤Æ¤Ï£Ã£Í¤Î¤»¤¤¤â¤¢¤ê¤.

You make these dumb comments every few months when you could just install Asian font support. You just need your XP CD. Go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options, hit the Languages tab, and check Install files for East Asian languages.

Of course, you don't read Japanese either... but it sure looks prettier than whatever you're seeing.

[dnl2ba]

Les Mis fighting game (http://armjoe.hp.infoseek.co.jp/ArmJoe.htm)

[dnl2ba]

Acurabot (http://www.gspr.com/blau/acurabot_photos.html)

[dnl2ba]

Running around a fountain in the Embarcadero in SF (http://homepage.mac.com/jadespace/.Public/fountain.mov) (500KB QT), from this Jade thread on Ars Technica (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=34709834&m=391008113731&r=771009113731)

[Gump]

MIT's having a Time Traveler's Convention (http://web.mit.edu/adorai/timetraveler/) this weekend, so if you have a time machine, be sure to come.

[dnl2ba]

Bob Saget is a dirty bastard (http://observer.com/pages/frontpage8.asp)


“Saget is the dirtiest motherfucking cocksucker that ever walked the face of the earth!” said Mr. Jillette. “Doing those little bullshit family shows, playing the retarded fucking squeaky dickless dad—that’s not Saget! That’s a joke. You go to a restaurant with Saget and before he orders food, he’ll be talking to the waitress about fucking his daughters in the ass.”


In comedy circles, there’s a famous Saget story about the night his first daughter was born. After a very difficult birth, during which Sherri Saget and her baby almost died, a friend showed up to find Mr. Saget looking utterly destroyed, unshaven, unrecognizable, but holding his newborn.

“Oh my God, Bob, she’s beautiful,” the friend said.

“For a dollar, you can finger her,” Mr. Saget replied.

“This story continually comes back to me,” he said, groaning. “Oh boy, I was a wreck, and I was just operating on whatever sick mode I’m always in anyway. I don’t remember, but I don’t think a dollar is enough money for something that crosses the line that much. I would have said $5. The option for me was to go, ‘Oh my God, we just went through the worst thing, it was horrific, it was terrible.’ I said all that stuff. And then I capped it with that. But there’s no way this is going to play properly, and pretty much I would say my life is doomed and they’ll be taking me away.”

[ohvermie]

I thought this was common knowledge that Saget is a perv in comedy club circles. At least I knew, but that's cuz I know EVERYTHING about Full House.

[dnl2ba]

Russell Peters (http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/000481.html) - hi-larious Indian stand-up comic (Realmedia / BitTorrent)

[dnl2ba]

Bad design strikes: Institute of Eastern Studies (http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/%7Eoriente/)

[dnl2ba]

Haha, they took it down. Glad I saved the logo.

[dnl2ba]

HySpace (http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/hyspace/) - Hyrule social network

[dnl2ba]

Nintendo themes a capella (http://gprime.net/video.php/nintendothemesacappella)

omfg.

[dnl2ba]

Bird moonwalking :eek:
(http://www.snabbstart.com/film/manakin-moonwalk.aspx)

[dnl2ba]

Stick people (http://schnecke.bombcar.com/random/stickpeople.html)

[dnl2ba]

It's right here, Ray. It's... looking at me.

Omnivisu (http://www.designberuehrtherz.de/movie.php?stud=22&proj=3&lang=en) - project your eyes onto a building and be really creepy

[dnl2ba]

Everyone's seen the Google Maps UFOs (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44276669@N00/13645955/), right? I didn't get interested till I read a discussion thread (http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/05/12/ufo/) and saw that they noticed the sighting points were arranged in a grid. Either something condensed on a lens, a weather balloon beneath the aircraft, or Vogon ships lining up.

[dnl2ba]

page on speed cubing (http://www.ws.binghamton.edu/fridrich/cube.html) - this woman has an average Rubik's Cube-solving time of about 17 seconds. There are explanations of her algorithms and there are videos.

This guy does 7 moves in 0.7 seconds (http://www.lar5.com/cube/speed.html) in a maneuver he calls Sune.

I've never actually completed one, IIRC. Maybe when I was young.

[dnl2ba]

Chicago crime database + Google Maps (http://www.chicagocrime.org) is useful for two reasons: You can see what areas are dangerous, and you can see where to find hookers (http://www.chicagocrime.org/types/prostitution/112/).

[dnl2ba]

KittenWar: HotOrNot for kittens (http://kittenwar.com/)

[dnl2ba]

Morse code vs. text messaging: which is faster? (http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/05/video_morse_cod.html) on Jay Leno (video)

[dnl2ba]

Romance novel titles (http://www.worldoflongmire.com/features/romance_novels/)
Lenticular mammatus (http://www.ksntv.com/news/coolwxpics/) (cool clouds)

Both from BoingBoing.

[dnl2ba]

What's the worst web application you've ever seen? (http://www.doughughes.net/index.cfm/page-blogLink/entryId-110)

That is pretty bad.

[dnl2ba]

Stealth bomber on Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Plant+42+in+Palmdale,+California&ll=34.637382,-118.082020&spn=0.005397,0.007832&t=k&hl=en) - from Google Blogoscoped (http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-05-26-html#n74).

[dnl2ba]

Fictitious ("fictitional") curse words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_curse_words)

I don't know what they're talking about. Those words are perfectly cromulent.

[dnl2ba]

The Sith Sense (http://sithsense.com/) (Flash guessing game)

[dnl2ba]

Amazon reviews by Smith T. Ames (http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1SLANQAIQWU21/ref=cm_cr_auth/104-7891796-0253562?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

[dnl2ba]

I searched for you on Friendster, and found herpes (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/31/i_searched_for_you_o.html) (BoingBoing)

[dnl2ba]

These Firefly quotes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/quotes) make me hunger for the movie. Of course, I need to finish the series first... JAMES WHERE ARE YOU

[dnl2ba]

i am a bear hello (http://www.thefriendsociety.com/anim.php?id=bearhello&w=400&h=300) (Flash movie; turn on your sound) - from MetaFilter

[dnl2ba]

goat.cx strikes again (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/42488)

[ohvermie]

Just not going to click that for fear of goat.cx retribution...

[dnl2ba]

dude jumps out of a plane and lights his fucking parachute on fire with a flare (http://www.big-boys.com/articles/parafire.html)

[dnl2ba]

wrong message, wrong person (http://b3ta.com/questions/onoseconds/) - the first few had me rolling on the floor.

[Gump]

In the future, everyone will be Hitler for 15 minutes. (http://beautifulatrocities.com/archives/2005/06/in_the_future_e.html)

[dnl2ba]

Post Secret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/)

[dnl2ba]

Post Secret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/)

Some of these are stunningly sad (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/#111791321170726773), some are sweet (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/#111549376317500506), some are about people just ashamed that they don't feel the way everyone says they're supposed to (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/#111428473613065921). Others (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/#111791354873391511), well, I'm not sure I can tell for sure whether they're legitimate outpourings or just an "Oh yeah? I'm sad too!"

[dnl2ba]

Rapid coloured afterimage (http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_rapidAfterimage/index.html) - from Waxy

omg my mind is moving

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robot ballroom dancers (http://www.bakutoday.net/afps/english/shared/hightech//050605203654.u99362cu.html)

Maybe I'll eventually learn to dance after all. I've got another friend's wedding coming up this coming weekend and another in July, and I basically just frump around when there's any dancing that's more complicated than what Will Smith taught fatty in Hitch.

[dnl2ba]

The Monster Engine (http://www.themonsterengine.com/art.html) - Dave Devries paints based on children's art

I'm not sure whether I think he's making fun of them or giving them too much credit.

[dnl2ba]

I think I already posted this, but I just read more strips and I um... had to post it again!

Alien Loves Predator (http://alienlovespredator.com/)

[dnl2ba]

Bzzzpeek (http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/html/bzzzpeek.html)

[Rhys]

The Adventures of Pee Wee and Jesus (http://www.pee-weeandjesus.com)
That's a friend's page, and she's very amusing, so it deserves a plug.

[dnl2ba]

frickin awesome LEGO prototypes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124312001@N01/)

Nazi sex doll (http://www.fleshbot.com/sex/straight/text/nazi-sex-dolls-107182.php)

MC Escher photoshops (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3447)

[deevan]

Jimmy Buffet got Paris Hiltoned. (http://www.palmbeachpost.com/celebrities/content/entertainment/celebrities/lambiet/0608jose.html)

[schally]

American Jedi (http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/489408?htv=12)

[dnl2ba]

^^ I couldn't get it to play.

i harth darth (http://www.livejournal.com/users/iharthdarth/)

[deevan]

OMG being on the dark side r0x0rs!

[dnl2ba]

Tough Customer at 1up.com (http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141356&did=1)


We sent our spy, posing as a clueless girlfriend shopping for her gamer beau, on a quest for flimflam advice at four major game retailers.


Toys 'R' Us

Spy: My boyfriend says more polygons are better. What are those?

Clerk: Let me ask about that. [Asks a coworker, who also doesn't know. Calls "Mike" on intercom. D'oh. Mike doesn't know, either.] I don't know what that is. I know megabytes! I know the PS2 has more.

[dnl2ba]

art: Vader vs. Dr. Doom (http://www.comicartcommunity.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=5619&mode=search)

They must've just started fighting, because Doom wouldn't last, oh, 6 seconds.

[dnl2ba]

GIRLS ARE PRETTY (http://girlsarepretty.com/) short stories

[dnl2ba]

very well done, but I have no idea what they're saying (http://www.wohnbausparen.at/utopiatoday/) (Flash video)

Edit: Okay, what just happened? Did he just mack on his robot maid? Is she supposed to be the same person he was tele-dating? What would've happened if I didn't totally whiff on 2 of my strokes (golf you pervs) and maxed out on SYMPATHIE?
(http://www.wohnbausparen.at/utopiatoday/)

[dnl2ba]

Can you tell programmers from serial killers? (http://www.malevole.com/mv/misc/killerquiz/) I got a mere 7/10 because I didn't follow my gut. They're all pretty obvious if you don't second-guess yourself.

[dnl2ba]

42 Below offers their thanks to Britain (http://www.42below.com/flashad/britain/index.html)

[dnl2ba]

Ural 13 Dictators' The Name of the Game (http://www.lobo.cx/site/ural320.html) (QuickTime) - Andy "Waxy" Baio notes that it's sort of reminiscent of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet (http://www.veer.com/ideas/move/).

Tokyo Times (http://www.tokyotimes.org/) - blog about Japanese culture

[dnl2ba]

History Channel: The worst jobs in history (http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/W/worstjobs/)

[deevan]

The first known industrial disease – 'chimney sweep's cancer' – appears in the testicles from the constant irritation of the soot on naked skin

Ouch.

[dnl2ba]

i am lonely will anyone speak to me (http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/2420p1.html)

From Waxy. Apparently, lonely souls typing "i am lonely (http://www.google.com/search?q=i+am+lonely)" into Google find this thread and they start forming and ad-hoc community of, uh, lonely people. I tried just now and it comes up as result #5. Man, those search results are depressing.

[dnl2ba]

Zombies on the web (http://consc.net/zombies.html)

From MetaFilter.

[dnl2ba]

MTV's Mad Mike shows Intel CEO Craig Barrett how to trick out a Chrysler (http://news.com.com/1606-2-5594850.html?tag=st.rb) with Intel technology (Real Video)

[dnl2ba]

Wikipedia on Scientology's Xenu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu)

[dnl2ba]

Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet (http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html)

Not something you might expect from Adams. Rather than witty satire, it's an insightful analysis of what's going on with the our culture and this Internet thingy. Not all novel material-- well, maybe it was, in 1999-- but it's well-written.

[dnl2ba]

Judge chastises plaintiff for not using Google (http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2005/06/even_the_courts.html)


One of the issues in the recent Indiana case of Munster v. Groce was whether the plaintiff had exercised due diligence in locating the missing defendant. In concluding that the plaintiff hadn't done his part, the court noted that the plaintiff had neither conducted a public records search nor hired a skip-trace service.

Moreover (and perhaps more shockingly), the plaintiff hadn't even done a Google search. The court seemed to chastise this failure: "[W]e discovered, upon entering "Joe Groce Indiana" into the Google search engine, an address for Groce that differed from either address used in this case, as well as an apparent obituary for Groce's mother that listed numerous surviving relatives who might have known his whereabouts."

[dnl2ba]

A new stuffed animal every day (http://www.fujichia.com/stuffed/)

Before you get to the bottom, you have to guess whether a guy or girl is responsible, and decide if that has any bearing on your judgment of this artist.

[dnl2ba]

Slashdot commenter on how nerds are better lovers (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152187&cid=12770441) (from Waxy)

[dnl2ba]

You know that Softmax artist I admire so much? I found a fairly comprehensive fansite. I didn't even know his name before.

Hyung-tae Kim (http://hyung-taekim.org/)

Awesome colors, good lighting, interesting poses, creative costume and prop design. And women with huge, heaving breastesses.

crazy costumes (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=0) | 2 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=10) | 3 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=random&cat=17&pos=-470) | 4 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=17) | 5 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=31) | 6 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=27) | 7 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=24&pos=35) | 8 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=19&pos=9) | 9 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=12) | 10 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=15&pos=18) | 11 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=18&pos=6) | 12 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=18&pos=5) | 13 (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=18&pos=8)
hotties (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=10)
lighting example (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=20&pos=3)
Asuka Soryu Langley (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=19&pos=1)
somehow, he made it obvious this woman is a scholarly wallflower while giving her a revealing and beautiful costume (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=18&pos=15)

Photo of Hyung-tae (http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=22&pos=7)

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the Magna Carta and War of Genesis series galleries. Those have some of his most polished art and best costume design (which, in case you can't tell, I can't get over). War of Genesis part 2, ep. 4 character profile set (http://hyung-taekim.org/thumbnails.php?album=11) and Magna Carta: Phantom of Avalanche character profile set (http://hyung-taekim.org/thumbnails.php?album=15) are my faves.

Sheri! Our job: create fucking extravagant costumes like these for the denizens of Primea. Of course, this's for nobility and heroes... peasants wear burlap sacks.

[ohvermie]

That last one (the wallflower) screams of Quistis from FFVIII. God I'd bang her into next week if she weren't just a buncha ones and zeroes....

[dnl2ba]

Crying, While Eating (http://slate.msn.com/id/2121384) - guy discusses his experience making a site with the express intent of getting it forwarded around.

[dnl2ba]

SMW soundtrack cover (http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=opensource_audio&collectionid=xoc_SMW) - Yeah, the whole soundtrack. This is actually pretty good! Available in several formats (MP3 download in a few sizes, MP3 stream, Ogg Vorbis download). MySpace page (http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=6934169&blogID=30774632).

[ohvermie]

Hehe and on the day I brought headphones to work. SCORE!

EDIT: Track 10 totally reminds me of something that Frank Zappa would've cooked up in a drug addled rage.

[dnl2ba]

Start off with Tom Cruise's heterosexual death grip (http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/06/22/yet-more-of-the-death-grip-of-super-masculinity/) | 2 (http://www.shoeblogs.com/wordpress/2005/06/22/the-death-grip-of-super-masculinity-redux/). Now that you've seen that, you can see Tom Cruise kills Oprah (http://www.zippyvideos.com/153109597471325.html).

[dnl2ba]

vote for the world's sexiest vegetarians (http://www.peta.org/feat/sexyveg05/)

[dnl2ba]

In case the world hasn't had enough AYB yet.

All Your Base Rhapsody (http://www.pwned.nl/ayb/)

[dnl2ba]

Make Mine Shoebox (http://chrisharding.net/animation/shoebox/) - Hallmark internal satire cartoon (5 minutes, Quicktime)

[dnl2ba]

Michael Quest (http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/mq.swf) (Flash)

[dnl2ba]

Writings I don't have time to read at this moment.

The Folklore of Our Times (http://books.guardian.co.uk/originalfiction/story/0,13773,1010545,00.html) (Haruki Murakami for The Guardian, 8/2/03)

Supposedly another Murakami story in the July 2005 Harper's, which I don't get. The latest thing only is May.

David Foster Wallace gives a commencement speech at Kenyon (http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html) (5/21/05)

Steve Jobs gives a commencement speech at Stanford (http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html) (6/12/05)

[dnl2ba]

Street Fighter II-themed salsa dancing in Korea (http://ncity.net/seokjooseongmi.wmv) (WMV)

[dnl2ba]

MOST TERRIFYING AWFUL DISGUSTING THING EVER DO NOT CLICK NSFW REPEAT DO NOT CLICK NSFW (http://www.livejournal.com/users/drtenge/180046.html#cutid1)

[dnl2ba]

From the same LJ... Zombie pr0n (http://www.livejournal.com/users/drtenge/141857.html#cutid1) (obviously NSFW)

Browsing that LJ has been a real trip. Oy.

[dnl2ba]

To make up for that... cute girl with fat bunny (http://www.livejournal.com/users/drtenge/133533.html) (same LJ, but actually safe for work. Though some of the seemingly innocuous pictures turn out to have cocks hanging out of skirts and so on...)

[deevan]

http://amazing1.com/electric-guns.htm

A freaking railgun is for sale.

[dnl2ba]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/normallife/38188.html

This one's going on my friends list.

[dnl2ba]

Flash physics engine (http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/tetka.html) - chick endlessly falling on bubbles

[dnl2ba]

World's ugliest dog (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/34709834/m/474000614731)

[dnl2ba]

Sparkler fun (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexiaabegg/sets/513854/)

[dnl2ba]

Cutesy comic book character pixel art (http://www.lilithvonsilver.com/dolls/micro/heroes/index.html) - beware of rampant nipples

[dnl2ba]

What the fuck? Thong socks (http://www.alexblake.com/hue6754.html)?

[dnl2ba]

Slate - History of the vibrator (http://www.slate.com/id/2121835/?nav=ais). The pop-up slide show is a real gas.

[Gump]

Highlights from a Chinese Episode III bootleg (http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html). Or as it's called in the subtitles, "Star War: The Backstroke of the West."

[dnl2ba]

^^ ROFLcopter

[dnl2ba]

Aunt May is hot! (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/20260021/)

[deevan]

Worst... idea... EVAR (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000560049494/)

[deevan]

Hobo Porn Film Name Generator - Mildly Amusing (http://www.mikecade.com/gen_hobo.php?Submit=Generate+Another+Hobo-Porn+Title)

[dnl2ba]

really frickin detailed pirate chick painting (http://www.deviantart.com/view/4606919/)

[dnl2ba]

stuff on my cat (http://www.stuffonmycat.com/)

[dnl2ba]

Bad leg! My bone! (http://x6.putfile.com/videos/b5-18223471196.wmv) (WMV)

[dnl2ba]

[23:50] Kwan, Keith: http://www.lovethosekids.com/illusions/iqtest.htm
[23:51] dnl2ba: it's not a fair fight when javascript programming has already melted my brain tonight

[dnl2ba]

The commentary (http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/nokia/nokia-spy-phones-111843.php) is the real reason why I read Gizmodo.

[dnl2ba]

International Registry of Backward Names (http://nadmoolb.blogspot.com/)

Alucard was obvious, but Artanis... wasn't there a Protoss named Artanis? It never occurred to me!

--

Korean resort offers 10% discount to women wearing bikinis at their beach (http://japundit.com/archives/2005/07/08/846/)

--

You guys remember that Princeton grad student who snipped locks of hair from Asian women, carried around a vial of his bodily fluids, and confessed to spraying said fluids on more Asian women and dumped the fluids in their drinks (http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_040505_campusscandal.html)?

He's not going to jail, going on probation, or anything like that (http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/05/26/news/13021.shtml). He's paying a $125 fine and going to counseling.

WTF? Now, I can understand arguments that it might be better for both the perp and society if the person really can be rehabilitated rather than turned into a bitter, hardened criminal. And of course, it's not like he raped or killed anyone (though dumping fluids is potentially hazardous, not to mention fucking disgusting). But $125 is, IIRC, about half of what I paid for going 47 in a 35 my freshman year.

The article says he "remains barred from campus and is no longer enrolled," but they don't exactly say he was kicked out (he might've had the option of taking classes remotely and unenrolled himself?). Anyway, that's probably the worst of this for him, if you don't count that he's been publicly humiliated.


Main stressed that had Lohman's case been taken up at trial — and had he been convicted — he would likely have not faced jail time. "Essentially, he would have been looking at probation," Main said. "By no means do I mean to minimize the seriousness of what happened, but these were fourth-degree crimes. Fourth-degree is as low as you can go."

[deevan]

The commentary (http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/nokia/nokia-spy-phones-111843.php) is the real reason why I read Gizmodo.

Hmm... I partial to engadget, but I'll keep an eye on this one.

[Rhys]

Zelda (http://www.retrojunk.com/media/17/) commercials (http://www.retrojunk.com/media/18/)

[dnl2ba]

Lovechess (http://www.lovechess.nl/en/archives/screens/index.php) (NSFW)

What the fuck?

[dnl2ba]

Frankly, my friends page (http://www.livejournal.com/users/dnl2ba/friends) isn't much better right now, even though the octopus/squid fetish community hasn't posted anything today. Maybe it'll be okay by the time you click it. Can you believe "jwz" worked on Netscape (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski)? James and I went to his DNA Lounge in SF once. I haven't been since, but it wasn't that great anyway.

[dnl2ba]

The diversity of the nude American female (http://www.flickr.com/photos/63023268@N00/sets/573061/) (NSFW) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/63023268@N00/sets/573061/)


150 photographs of 150 different women, all standing in series starting fully clothed then striking various nude profiles.

I would've appreciated more racial diversity (and notes on where everyone's from, ethnically). Something I can't do very well is place people (e.g. what part of Europe) based on facial characteristics, and it'd be interesting to see if you could do that by other body parts too. I suppose the human brain will always be most sensitive to faces, though.

Notes on age would've been nice too.

You'll probably never get a good, representative sample just because there'll be self-selection of volunteers willing to take it all off for public photos. Plus, I'm sure they're all local to the photographer. (Incidentally, I didn't recognize anyone.)

Discussion on MetaFilter (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/43395)


And as for the 'diversity', other than the various races there's little different about those bodies: all 20-30 years old, all slender/fit bodies, all dressed up (or down) in the finest early 90's fashions.

[dnl2ba]

Chaos Theory (http://www.2flashgames.com/f/f-1211.htm) - Flash game

[dnl2ba]

Chocolypse Now (http://www.likelystories.com/choc/choc01.htm) - Charlie floats up the chocolate river one last time on a mission to kill Wonka.

[dnl2ba]

Chocolate roses (http://chocolaterosesbylisa.spymac.com/) - image (http://chocolaterosesbylisa.spymac.com/ChoirOfAngles800by600.jpg) | 2 (http://chocolaterosesbylisa.spymac.com/ArrangementCrop800by742.jpg)

WTF. That's chocolate?

[ohvermie]

I've seen people do some pretty crazy shit with chocolate on Food Network. That's not too far stretched especially if she is marzapan as the core of the rose. It's just really really wafer thin. What I want to know is who the hell would want her to personally deliver those things. She's kinda scary looking...

[dnl2ba]

Ever seen fruit carving (http://images.google.com/images?q=fruit%20carving)? That shit they do with watermelon "flowers" is crazy. example (http://www.thaiembassy.jp/activities/act2004/pacificflora/sep15/image/17.jpg) | more (http://takashi64.hp.infoseek.co.jp/page019.html)
(http://www.thaiembassy.jp/activities/act2004/pacificflora/sep15/image/17.jpg)

[dnl2ba]

Good Experience Games (http://www.goodexperience.com/games/)

[dnl2ba]

Eyvind Earle art (http://www.gallery21.com/)

linked from Drawn! (http://drawn.ca)

[dnl2ba]

Opportunities abound for scantily clad Asian women (http://facepalm.blogspot.com/2005/07/opportunities-abound.html)

[schally]

Spray-on mud for SUV drivers (http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,67794,00.html) who want to look more rugged than they actually are.

[dnl2ba]

Reminder about live-action Transformer (http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/wire/sns-ap-transformers,0,5684963.story?coll=sns-ap-movie-headlines), in case you'd forgotten about it or blocked it out.

[dnl2ba]

40 Things That Only Happen in Movies (http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/features/20moviethings.htm)

Though the page title says 20 for some reason.

[dnl2ba]

Remember that last series of really crazy cloud photos?

Mammatus clouds over Hastings, NE (http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html)

What does mammatus mean? "Boob"? Those are boob clouds?

While I'm at it, noctilucent clouds on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/noctilucent/) | Google Image Search (http://images.google.com/images?q=noctilucent&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi).

[dnl2ba]

Thinking Machines 4 (http://turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html) - see the computer considering its chess moves. Makes me really nervous, especially when I see I did something really dumb and then it deliberates for 15 seconds about whether to do the obvious thing and take advantage (which it eventually does). I know the basic rules, but I never got into chess.


Why is the computer so [easy/hard] to beat?
The chess playing engine is designed to be at the same level as the average viewer of the piece. If you're a tournament chess player, you would clobber most casual players--and you'll clobber Thinking Machine 4 too. If you barely remember the rules of the game, the artwork may clobber you instead. The chess engine we built is simple and uses only basic algorithms from the 50s (alpha-beta pruning and quiescence search). The program's unconventional initial moves may raise eyebrows among experts: we did not give it an "opening book" of standard lines since we wanted it to think through every position.

[dnl2ba]

Opportunities abound for scantily clad Asian women (http://facepalm.blogspot.com/2005/07/opportunities-abound.html)

This is the fucking best Hong Kong / China blog ever.

Credit card ratings (http://facepalm.blogspot.com/2005/07/credit-card-ratings.html)

[deevan]

Edit: wrong thread, DOH!

[dnl2ba]

resuscitation mannequin with extra working parts (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7531961194&category=100012&rd=1) (NSFW / Ebay)

[dnl2ba]

TNG, yo (http://www.ggcmedia.com/index.php?display=tngyo)

[dnl2ba]

Drive-by spoiler (http://gprime.net/video.php/pottercrash) (WARNING teh HP: HBP spoilar!!) / WMV

[dnl2ba]

Online generators (http://uzful.org/generators_online/on_line_generators.php) (via Metafilter (http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/43566))

The dungeon generator (http://www.aarg.net/~minam/dungeon.cgi?width=16&roomcnt=many&height=30&minroomw=2&maxroomw=5&sparse=some&minroomh=8&maxroomh=10&random=40&secret=5&deadends=30&concealed=35&level=12&resolution=20&seed=) is awesome.

[dnl2ba]

Tetris: The Movie (http://videos.somethingawful.com/mega64/tetris.mpg) (via Ars (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=39309975&m=445000144731&r=157006144731)) / MPEG

Also, a MGS vid (http://videos.somethingawful.com/mega64/mgs.mpg) from the same guys (Mega 64 (http://www.mega64.com/)).

[dnl2ba]

"The insurgents don't stand a chance, when even their monkeys are unsafe. I challenge you to find an image that better illustrates current US foreign policy." (http://ohmygodohmygod.blogspot.com/2005/07/raz-doing-his-thing.html)

[dnl2ba]

Shit shit shit! Corel is selling Painter 9 for $229 boxed, $179 download (http://store.corel.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&currency=USD&jspStoreDir=CorelUS&partNumber=OL_PF09&catalogId=10103&ddkey=SetCurrencyPreference), same as upgrade prices. I paid $320 for a boxed copy from a discount e-store and almost didn't get a key (http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/34709834/m/701003430731).

[dnl2ba]

Okay, this isn't a link because it was in my inbox, but uh... it feels like a linky!


On a Sears hairdryer -- Do not use while sleeping.
(That's the only time I have to work on my hair.)



On a bag of Fritos -- You could be a winner!? No
purchase necessary.? Details inside.
(the shoplifter special?



On a bar of Dial soap -- "Directions: Use like
regular soap."
(and that would be???....)




On some Swanson frozen dinners -- "Serving
suggestion: Defrost."
(but, it's just a suggestion.)




On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert (printed on bottom) --
"Do not turn upside down."
(well...duh, a bit late, huh!)




On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding -- "Product will be
hot after heating."
(...and you thought????...)




On packaging for a Rowenta iron -- "Do not iron
clothes on body."
(but wouldn't this save me time?)




On Boot's Children Cough Medicine -- "Do not drive a
car or operate machinery after taking this
medication."
(We could do a lot to reduce the rate of
construction accidents if we could just get those 5
year-olds with head-colds off those bulldozers.)




On Nytol Sleep Aid -- "Warning: May cause
drowsiness."
(...I'm taking this because???....)





On most brands of Christmas lights -- "For indoor or
outdoor use only."
(as opposed to what?)




On a Japanese food processor -- "Not to be used for
the other use."
(now, somebody out there, help me on this. I'm a bit
curious.)




On Sainsbury's peanuts -- "Warning: contains nuts."
(talk about a news flash)




On an American Airlines packet of nuts --
"Instructions: Open packet, eat nuts."
(Step 3: say what?)




On a child's Superman costume -- "Wearing of this
garment does not enable you to fly."
(I don't blame the company. I blame the parents for
this one.)




On a Swedish chainsaw -- "Do not attempt to stop
chain with your hands or genitals."
(Oh my God..was there a lot of this happening
somewhere?)

[dnl2ba]

How to make a 13 lb gummy bear (http://homepage.mac.com/vasu42/PhotoAlbum5.html)

[dnl2ba]

AIM Fight (http://www.aimfight.com/)

I'm apparently one of the least popular people I know, at least in the IM world. Of course, if someone were really unpopular, I obviously wouldn't know who he is, right?

[dnl2ba]

I was just playing with HotOrNot + Google Maps (http://apps.hotornot.com/jeff/) and someone caught my eye. This is a tranny (http://meetme.hotornot.com/r/?emid=NEREBLE&sid=OQ)!??! Dude, I best be fuckin careful!

[ohvermie]

On a Swedish chainsaw -- "Do not attempt to stop
chain with your hands or genitals."
(Oh my God..was there a lot of this happening
somewhere?)

But that must mean its OK to stop it with my torso or legs... Or even better, someone else's hands or genitals!

[dnl2ba]

Thing is, probably a lot or all of those warning labels are due to some actual awful occurrence (and subsequent lawsuit) somewhere. That's what makes them doubly funny, or maybe just terrifying.

[dnl2ba]

Peter Griffin (http://www.livejournal.com/users/misnomeruk/58379.html)

[deevan]

Anti Piracy Funnie. (http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/21/garbage_pail_kids_mo.html)


The release of the Garbage Pail Kids movie on DVD marks an exciting new anti-piracy technique from our friends in Hollywood: releasing DVDs of unwatchably bad movies that you'd be hard pressed to find a reason to download.

[dnl2ba]

"Doc Brown wishes he hadn't traded his DeLorean." (http://www.deviantart.com/view/20852615/) (artwork)

[dnl2ba]

Gridlock (http://www.corwin.ca/gridlock/) (Flash game)

As usual, I don't have the patience to play once I hit tougher levels.

Edit: oh, levels 4 and 5 were way easier than 3. But now I want to go draw pictures!

[dnl2ba]

I didn't go draw pictures. I played Proximity (http://www.koreus.com/files/200501/proximity.html), which is awesome. I wish you could play 2P. Edit: OH WAIT YOU CAN THIS IS SO RAD

Now I will go draw pictures.

Edit: I actually just went and played more Proximity.

[deevan]

Proximity is teh R0X0R

[prodos]

Is it just me or is proximity a lot like the card games from later FF games?

[dnl2ba]

Avoider (http://www.onemorelevel.com/games/avoider.html)

I wish it didn't zero your score as soon as you lose.

[dnl2ba]

Grow RPG (http://www.eyezmaze.com/grow/RPG/index.html)

Lay down structures in the right order. When you lay one down, it'll buff related structures, so you have to put them down in the right order. I think you need to get everything to max to win.

I can't get the purple dragon past 3 hearts. Some wisdom for newcomers:


Whenever you lay down water (AFTER the first turn), it will stop more land from being shattered.
If you don't lay down water before turn 4, your tower will be toast.
All the buildings seem to buff other buildings. Rocks buff buildings too.
Natural things seem to buff other natural things.
If your castle isn't maxed by start of the 8th turn / end of 7th turn, it's toast.
The only thing that levels your dungeon is your maxed castle after turn 7, so it seems okay to place the dungeon last or second-to-last.
I'm not entirely clear what brings the later shop level-ups and what they're good for. The dock seems to be dependent on having exactly 2 earth-shatterings before laying down water, and the lumber one obviously requires a level 2 forest (but I'm not sure what else).
I've never maxed out the forest (only level 2) or the shop (level 5).

I'm not really clear what makes the treasure + rocks formation grow, nor has my guy ever lived long enough to make use of it. I played a few times and usually started reading an article or playing in another window before that happened.

--

Flash game blog where I found it (http://www.rit.edu/%7Ejhb4598/jblog/)

[dnl2ba]

Ah, got it on the next try. Whew.

[prodos]

Beat it.

Hint: it is not necessarily a bad thing if your forest gets split in two.

[dnl2ba]

Yeah, that had me for a while too, but then I noticed that it was still level 2 after being split.

[dnl2ba]

Moongirl preview (http://www.laika.com/entertainment/) (QuickTime)

[deevan]

From little-gamers:

[dnl2ba]

Heli Attack 3 (http://www.miniclip.com/heliattack3.htm)

I'm stuck on something like 4-3, where it's all big choppers all the time and you have to destroy 8. Thing is, when you first get to a level, you carry over your cool weapons. But if you die, you're stuck with your shitty weapons (pistol, grenades, bow & arrow, knife).

Favorite weapons: grenade launcher, (auto) laser rifle, rocket shotgun, taser. I'm a simple man.

[dnl2ba]

LEGO church (http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/index.html)

Capable, devout, and bored. It was this or become a suicide bomber.

[dnl2ba]

Comic book heroes from around the world (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4738515) (NPR)

[schally]

Asshole spoils Harry Potter ending for fans standing in line outside bookstore (http://gprime.net/video.php/pottercrash)

The video's actually pretty crappy. It's hard to see and really boring except for a part at the end where a girl yells, "Noooo! You bitch!" as the guy is driving off. The guy doesn't really have the cojones to stick around long enough to record their reactions, he just drives by, yells the spoiler a few times, and gets the hell out of dodge. Pussy.

[dnl2ba]

Yeah, I saw. The whole thing's pretty lame.

[dnl2ba]

I first played Cursor Catcher (http://www.compfused.com/directlink/844/) a few nights ago, but now I'm obligated to post it because it's showing up in every blog and forum I read. Edit: Damn, I did post it, but it had a different name. I swear last time, it only had the jumping and bombs, not the pipe and teleportation and Super Saiiyan.

[dnl2ba]

10,000 super balls unleashed on San Francisco
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503155830@N01/29489510/in/set-658997/)

[dnl2ba]

WorldProcessor Catalog (http://worldprocessor.com/catalog/world/)

[dnl2ba]

Alien Loves Predator / first date 4 (http://alienlovespredator.com/index.php?id=138)

Been there, done that.

[deevan]

MPEG Link. Mega64's real life paperboy game. (http://www.mega64.com/paperboy.mpg)

Real life solid snake and tetris? Bah!

[dnl2ba]

Video game lookalikes (http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/a-m.html)

[ohvermie]

MPEG Link. Mega64's real life paperboy game. (http://www.mega64.com/paperboy.mpg)

Real life solid snake and tetris? Bah!

I rather enjoyed mega64's real life Splinter Cell. Is that all these guys do?

[deevan]

Yay! Poo on a stick! (http://www.creativematch.co.uk/viewnews/?91254)

[dnl2ba]

The Daily Show's take on Scientology (http://www.commonbits.org/dailyshowscientology) (WMV / BitTorrent download)

[dnl2ba]

Art Lad (http://artlad.blogspot.com/) - 6-year-old's new art blog

[ohvermie]

Awwww how cute!

[ohvermie]

why does my man boobies have the nips? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8798141)

[dnl2ba]

Flickr Girl Watchers Club (http://www.flickr.com/groups/girlwatchers)


Rule #2: Images must be made in public. No peeping tom pictures through your neighbors window or hidden cameras in bathrooms please.
Nudity on public beaches and women walking up stairs in skirts are OK!

Creepy.

[Rhys]

Creepy.
Concurred.

[ohvermie]

I fear for my life and I swear if I find my mom on this someone will pay with their spleen.

[dnl2ba]

Gabe from Penny Arcade is spurting some crazy talk about a PA CCG (http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-08-08). The Sabertooth link won't load for me, but... c'mon now. Honestly.

Edit: Okay, it loaded for me. Is this FOR OMG SERIOUS?

I think we could have a decent MCBB CCG, like MCBB RPG until Sheri killed it with some lady grub monster talk. It frankly sounded much more appealing when it was less innovative and had standard monster battles instead of arguing with nitwits in your dorm.

[schally]

nobody fucking appreciates me

[ohvermie]

I guess not. Here, have a cookie.

[dnl2ba]

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

[dnl2ba]

WTFDSJD (http://alienlovespredator.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=11)

[dnl2ba]

web comic generator (http://www.thirdframestudios.com/adgame/stripgen/) - Flash

[dnl2ba]

Japanese take on Star Trek doors (http://www.e-taf.co.jp/cgi-bin/e-taf/sitemaker.cgi?mode=page&page=page2&category=0) - video (http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/wbs/2004/09/30/movie/tt.ram) (RealPlayer)

[dnl2ba]

Neurotica series (http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/ml.html) - Black & white & creepy all over (Flash)

[dnl2ba]

1947project (http://1947project.blogspot.com/) - blog written as if it were from 1947

[Rhys]

Crazy Japanese technology (http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/movies/tile2.mpg)

[dnl2ba]

Whoa.

The "hyperdragging" at the end looked even cooler, IMO. With the transparent disks, it's just not clear how much is actually coming from the disks and how much is just smoke and mirrors.

And also, when someone comes digging through this thread looking for your link 8 months from now, good luck to them finding what they want based on the info available in that post. Of course, this is assuming I back up the BB before the next time it gets hax0red...

[Rhys]

I'd fix it, but the edit button seems to be MIA.

edit: Though it shows up on this post. WTF?

[deevan]

8-O

I want one. Now.

[dnl2ba]

DJ Lizard is come and kill us now! (http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com/game/cbg.htm)

You got points, this many!

Chemical Brothers Flash game promoting their new album.

[dnl2ba]

I love The Onion.

U.S. Intelligence: Nukehavistan may have nuclear weapons (http://theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=1)
Iraqi Cop Moonlighting As Terrorist Just To Make Ends Meet (http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=3)
Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory (http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4133&n=2)

[Rhys]

That last one kind of upsets me. I mean I know there's no unified theory for how everything works, but presenting "God can do whatever he wants" as scientific evidence doesn't exactly work either. I need to show that to my friend Shannon, just so I can listen to her scream.

[dnl2ba]

You know what The Onion is, right?

[Rhys]

I missed that actually. School has deadened my brain.

[dnl2ba]

Part of what makes it funny is that gravity is often used as an example of something we don't understand very well, yet people don't question it (the way they question evolution).

Someone on Ars Technica noted in a debate that while evolution isn't as easy to observe (natural selection and mutation can be observed daily, but speciation is much rarer), the mechanics proposed to be behind it make good sense. In contrast, while gravity is easily observed, the mechanics behind it are a total mystery.

[Rhys]

I think the funniest thing about the article is how I totally fell for it. I've gotten into enough arguments that people insisting gravity is something we take on faith makes me a little twitchy.

[dnl2ba]

I think I've posted PostSecret (http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) before.

Some sound like wah wah wah (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/994/593/1600/listen.jpg).

Some are just dumb (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/994/593/1600/asian.jpg). Is that even really a secret?

Some are sad (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/994/593/1600/sorry1.jpg) because they're so personal. This one too (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/296/2612/1024/dad.jpg).

I think I already linked this one (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/296/2612/1024/ticket.jpg) cuz it's funny.

I hope this isn't a real Risperdal ad (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/296/2612/1024/taking1.jpg). GAH! D: I did a GIS. They appear to be real (http://www.epica-awards.com/epica/2004/winners/cat17.htm). That's fucking terrible!

The guy who maintains it mentioned once mentioned that some come through damaged. I guess this must be one (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/994/593/1600/love.jpg).

Some are long-buried personal secrets (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/296/2612/1024/son.jpg) that might not even make a big deal to other parties involved, but obviously mean a great lot to the person writing the postcard.

Trashed parents' house to make Mom think (s)he has friends (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/994/593/1600/party.jpg). Reminds me of this one (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/296/2612/1024/encounters.jpg).

Old ones get removed, sadly, and there are no plans for an archive. He said he doesn't show them all (I'm sure he gets a ton), so I wonder if he just filters for the most touching / sad / amusing / artistic.


The question I am asked most often is, "which secret is your favorite?" My favorite postcard is one I have never seen. In fact, it was never mailed to me. I learned about it recently from an email I received.

"...I was very excited because I too had a secret I wanted to post. I thought long and hard about how I wanted to word my secret and I searched for the perfect postcard to display it on. After I had created my postcard I stepped back to admire my handiwork. Instead of feeling relieved that I had finally got my secret out, I felt terrible instead. It was right then that I decided that I didn't want to be the person with that secret any longer. I ripped up my postcard and I decided to start making some changes in my life..."

If someday I find an envelope in my mailbox with the pieces of that ripped-up secret, I will be sure to share it here.
-Frank

[ohvermie]

Postsecret is used on the newest All American Rejects video. I am saddened by the selling out.

Episode 3: Backstroke of the West (http://www.winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html#ha)
Translation from Asian bootleg of ROTS. :)

[deevan]

I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to hear multiple viewpoints so they can choose for themselves the theory that makes the most sense to them. I am concerned, however, that students will only hear one theory of Intelligent Design.

Let us remember that there are multiple theories of Intelligent Design. I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster. It was He who created all that we see and all that we feel. We feel strongly that the overwhelming scientific evidence pointing towards evolutionary processes is nothing but a coincidence, put in place by Him.



You gotta admit, this is a riveting argument.

Link: Open Letter (http://www.venganza.org/index.htm)

[dnl2ba]

Postsecret is used on the newest All American Rejects video. I am saddened by the selling out.

Episode 3: Backstroke of the West (http://www.winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html#ha)
Translation from Asian bootleg of ROTS. :)

HARRO AND WELCOME TO 5 WEEKS AGO (http://mostlycloudy.net/forum/showthread.php?p=2211&highlight=backstroke#post2211)

And the blog entry itself is from a month even before that.

[ohvermie]

Oh dear, I've been "olded"