Bizarre miniature landscapes.
Be sure to click through all of them. Very cool.
photoeye.com :: Lori Nix
Friday, September 30, 2005
When you're looking for something new to read
... stop by Boldtype for reading recommendations. Good stuff.
Boldtype :: October 2005 - Issue Twenty-Four
... stop by Boldtype for reading recommendations. Good stuff.
Boldtype :: October 2005 - Issue Twenty-Four
Indie music ringtones for your phone.
If I had a better cell phone, I'd probably download one of these. As it is, I'll just have to stick with my pseudo-midi default files.
Bliptones.com
If I had a better cell phone, I'd probably download one of these. As it is, I'll just have to stick with my pseudo-midi default files.
Bliptones.com
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Free tunes are ace.
Harvey Danger's got a new cd out, and they're offering the entire thing as a free download on their site. A bit Ben Folds-y. Quite a bit Jellyfish-y. All in all, pretty good. And free! Bless.
Harvey Danger Downloads
(via coudal.com)
Harvey Danger's got a new cd out, and they're offering the entire thing as a free download on their site. A bit Ben Folds-y. Quite a bit Jellyfish-y. All in all, pretty good. And free! Bless.
Harvey Danger Downloads
(via coudal.com)
Nicely designed rock memorabilia.
I didn't think such a thing existed. I'm impressed.
Mosley meets Wilcox meets Rock
I didn't think such a thing existed. I'm impressed.
Mosley meets Wilcox meets Rock
"The Shining" re-edited as a feel-good family film.
A new trailer for an old classic. Brilliant.
Waxy.org :: Shining Redux
(via yesbutnobutyes.com)
A new trailer for an old classic. Brilliant.
Waxy.org :: Shining Redux
(via yesbutnobutyes.com)
Yep, it's for real.
Bradley sent me this clip of an octopus camouflaging itself, and I naturally assumed it was fake. Until I found the site of the person who shot the video.
Daaamn.
Bradley sent me this clip of an octopus camouflaging itself, and I naturally assumed it was fake. Until I found the site of the person who shot the video.
Daaamn.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Czeltic Girl and I had a good laugh at this one yesterday. I nearly forgot about it.
Uncyclopedia :: RTFM
Uncyclopedia :: RTFM
One of the most confusing headlines I've seen in awhile.
Guardian Unlimited :: Five arrests in hunt for grave robbers linked to guinea pig protest
Guardian Unlimited :: Five arrests in hunt for grave robbers linked to guinea pig protest
Keep your day job, Father.
*fremps*
The poster, which is modeled after an advertisement for the movie 'The Matrix,' is the brainchild of Father Meyer. It features a priest in full cassock -- and the requisite Roman collar -- holding a cross in one hand and a rosary in the other. And he is wearing sunglasses.
Catholic Online :: A la 'Matrix,' vocations recruitment poster shows priest as hero
(via SFGate)
*fremps*
The poster, which is modeled after an advertisement for the movie 'The Matrix,' is the brainchild of Father Meyer. It features a priest in full cassock -- and the requisite Roman collar -- holding a cross in one hand and a rosary in the other. And he is wearing sunglasses.
Catholic Online :: A la 'Matrix,' vocations recruitment poster shows priest as hero
(via SFGate)
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Interesting wine trend – screw tops.
Hoping to separate their wine from the stereotypically stodgy, sommelier-approved wine culture, Virgin is marketing the wine with the tagline “Unscrew it, let’s do it”. With just two varieties (red Shiraz and white Chardonnay), the screw-top wine brand is hoping to make the wine purchasing process less intimidating to those lacking Sideways-level wine knowledge, while also offering something a few steps up from Boone’s Farm or even Charles Shaw (aka “Two Buck Chuck”). Jakes Fault is another new wine label targeting young wine drinkers with the screw tops and a Shiraz-exclusive selection. Both Virgin Vines and Jakes Fault reportedly have a price tag around 10 bucks. As the trend for domesticity continues, we expect these new labels to do well on the dinner party circuit.
- Trendcentral, 9.27.05
Hoping to separate their wine from the stereotypically stodgy, sommelier-approved wine culture, Virgin is marketing the wine with the tagline “Unscrew it, let’s do it”. With just two varieties (red Shiraz and white Chardonnay), the screw-top wine brand is hoping to make the wine purchasing process less intimidating to those lacking Sideways-level wine knowledge, while also offering something a few steps up from Boone’s Farm or even Charles Shaw (aka “Two Buck Chuck”). Jakes Fault is another new wine label targeting young wine drinkers with the screw tops and a Shiraz-exclusive selection. Both Virgin Vines and Jakes Fault reportedly have a price tag around 10 bucks. As the trend for domesticity continues, we expect these new labels to do well on the dinner party circuit.
- Trendcentral, 9.27.05
Monday, September 26, 2005
Beautiful.
Programmed in Applesoft II on a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM. Seriously. [...] An unsolicited music video for the band Grandaddy and their song of the same name off of the album The Sophtware Slump.
Bravo.
Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
Programmed in Applesoft II on a 1979 Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM. Seriously. [...] An unsolicited music video for the band Grandaddy and their song of the same name off of the album The Sophtware Slump.
Bravo.
Jed's Other Poem (Beautiful Ground)
Friday, September 23, 2005
I admit it. I'm intrigued by this.
Check out their flavors and kits. How bizarre.
Breath Palette
(via grow-a-brain)
Check out their flavors and kits. How bizarre.
Breath Palette
(via grow-a-brain)
Covering Katrina's aftermath.
An excellent first person account and incredible photography. The intro alone is worth the click.
[Dworzak's] work was published and entitled "Ghost Town" (TIME, September 19). We recorded Dworzak a day after his return to New York. Used to covering conflict zones in places such as Kosovo, Kabul and Baghdad, his first person account of the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina are keenly observed, honest and insightful.
Thomas Dworzak :: Ghost Town
(Posted to our intranet this morning by Jason Reimer. Thanks, J.)
An excellent first person account and incredible photography. The intro alone is worth the click.
[Dworzak's] work was published and entitled "Ghost Town" (TIME, September 19). We recorded Dworzak a day after his return to New York. Used to covering conflict zones in places such as Kosovo, Kabul and Baghdad, his first person account of the tragedies of Hurricane Katrina are keenly observed, honest and insightful.
Thomas Dworzak :: Ghost Town
(Posted to our intranet this morning by Jason Reimer. Thanks, J.)
Check it out - a moonwalkin' jungle bird.
"Manakins have weird, pretty extreme behavior," says Bostwick, an evolutionary ornithologist who makes a memorable appearance in the first episode of NATURE's DEEP JUNGLE. "They are very, very interesting birds."
(Be sure to turn on your sound.)
PBS :: NATURE - Watch a manakin moonwalk.
(Big props to PBS-watchin' Ol' Man Malcolm for the excellent tip.)
"Manakins have weird, pretty extreme behavior," says Bostwick, an evolutionary ornithologist who makes a memorable appearance in the first episode of NATURE's DEEP JUNGLE. "They are very, very interesting birds."
(Be sure to turn on your sound.)
PBS :: NATURE - Watch a manakin moonwalk.
(Big props to PBS-watchin' Ol' Man Malcolm for the excellent tip.)
Thursday, September 22, 2005
This home page rocks.
When you look at web sites all day, anything creative that catches your attention is pretty awesome.
VanBeater
When you look at web sites all day, anything creative that catches your attention is pretty awesome.
VanBeater
I do not like blue rice and ham...
When you spread the Diet Furikake, the rice is dyed in blue, and your brain will form a negative image of it. It is important that you continue sprinkling it on rice for 7 evenings (they say that for a diet to be effective, reducing the intake of carbohydrates in dinner is the key). If it doesn't work, you should continue for 3 weeks (!).
Odd things from Japan :: Blue diet
(via popgadget.net)
When you spread the Diet Furikake, the rice is dyed in blue, and your brain will form a negative image of it. It is important that you continue sprinkling it on rice for 7 evenings (they say that for a diet to be effective, reducing the intake of carbohydrates in dinner is the key). If it doesn't work, you should continue for 3 weeks (!).
Odd things from Japan :: Blue diet
(via popgadget.net)
"You lured me in just like Lisa Rinna seduced that guy in Another Woman's Husband."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency :: An Open Letter to Lifetime Television for Women.
I swear I was only going to watch you for half an hour. But that half-hour became an entire movie, and then another, and another, until I was as addicted to you as Meredith Baxter was to the drugs she was stealing from the methadone clinic in Darkness Before Dawn. Nothing mattered anymore—not working out, not clean socks and underwear, not even my friends. All I cared about was my next Lifetime Original fix. Each commercial for upcoming programming was like a miniature hit, a little taste, set to the tunes of Sarah McLachlan or to Peter Hyatt's "Have a Little Faith in Me."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency :: An Open Letter to Lifetime Television for Women.
I swear I was only going to watch you for half an hour. But that half-hour became an entire movie, and then another, and another, until I was as addicted to you as Meredith Baxter was to the drugs she was stealing from the methadone clinic in Darkness Before Dawn. Nothing mattered anymore—not working out, not clean socks and underwear, not even my friends. All I cared about was my next Lifetime Original fix. Each commercial for upcoming programming was like a miniature hit, a little taste, set to the tunes of Sarah McLachlan or to Peter Hyatt's "Have a Little Faith in Me."
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Contemporary art @ Galerie Loevenbruck
I particularly love this piece.
galerie loevenbruck online :: bruno peinado
(If you have a few minutes, browse through the full gallery. Well worth it.)
I particularly love this piece.
galerie loevenbruck online :: bruno peinado
(If you have a few minutes, browse through the full gallery. Well worth it.)
Imagine designing an entire city. Wow.
Arup, the London-based consultancy, was last week chosen as master planner of the first phase of the multi-billion pound Dongtan “eco-city”, which is being developed by the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation, the Hong Kong-quoted investment arm of the Shanghai city government. The new city will be built on the eastern end of Chongming, a large island that sits in the mouth of the Yangtze river delta a few miles northeast of the city centre, and close to Shanghai’s new airport.
Sunday Times Online :: British firm designs Chinese Manhattan
Arup, the London-based consultancy, was last week chosen as master planner of the first phase of the multi-billion pound Dongtan “eco-city”, which is being developed by the Shanghai Industrial Investment Corporation, the Hong Kong-quoted investment arm of the Shanghai city government. The new city will be built on the eastern end of Chongming, a large island that sits in the mouth of the Yangtze river delta a few miles northeast of the city centre, and close to Shanghai’s new airport.
Sunday Times Online :: British firm designs Chinese Manhattan
This makes me love the interweb. And the New Yorker. All over again.
Day No. 3:
“Just to make everyone happy,” said the Lord God, “today I’m thinking oceans, for contrast.”
“It’s wet, it’s deep, yet it’s frothy; it’s design without dogma,” said Buddha, approvingly.
“Now, there’s movement,” agreed Allah. “It’s not just ‘Hi, I’m a planet—no splashing.’ ”
“But are those ice caps?” inquired Thor. “Is this a coherent vision, or a highball?”
“I can do ice caps if I want to,” sniffed the Lord God.
“It’s about a mood,” said the Angel Moroni, supportively.
“Thank you,” said the Lord God.
The New Yorker :: Intellligent Design
(thank you again, Czeltic Girl, for having such fabulous clickety-clack web-surfy fingers and uncovering this gem.)
Day No. 3:
“Just to make everyone happy,” said the Lord God, “today I’m thinking oceans, for contrast.”
“It’s wet, it’s deep, yet it’s frothy; it’s design without dogma,” said Buddha, approvingly.
“Now, there’s movement,” agreed Allah. “It’s not just ‘Hi, I’m a planet—no splashing.’ ”
“But are those ice caps?” inquired Thor. “Is this a coherent vision, or a highball?”
“I can do ice caps if I want to,” sniffed the Lord God.
“It’s about a mood,” said the Angel Moroni, supportively.
“Thank you,” said the Lord God.
The New Yorker :: Intellligent Design
(thank you again, Czeltic Girl, for having such fabulous clickety-clack web-surfy fingers and uncovering this gem.)
I'm blown away by Pandora.
It takes something that's been done for years -- i.e., selecting the types of music you like and creating a radio station for yourself -- but does it BRILLIANTLY.
A fantastic interface. A great selection of music. Excellent logic to extrapolate what you like. If you listen to music at work, check this out.
Pandora :: Discover Music
(via coudal.com)
It takes something that's been done for years -- i.e., selecting the types of music you like and creating a radio station for yourself -- but does it BRILLIANTLY.
A fantastic interface. A great selection of music. Excellent logic to extrapolate what you like. If you listen to music at work, check this out.
Pandora :: Discover Music
(via coudal.com)
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Tips on how to nod off, or, how to stay awake and lower your self-esteem.
The Morning News :: The Non-Expert - How to Fall Asleep
The Morning News :: The Non-Expert - How to Fall Asleep
There truly is a web site for everything.
FeralChildren.com :: Feral Children - isolated, confined wild and wolf children
FeralChildren.com :: Feral Children - isolated, confined wild and wolf children
Ananova :: Artists erect giant pink bunny on mountain
(Won't it get kind of disgusting after a few months outdoors?)
(Won't it get kind of disgusting after a few months outdoors?)
Monday, September 19, 2005
Anna Wintour hates fat people.
Talley's remarks [on the Oprah Winfrey Show] immediately drew heavy fire from Sandy Schaffer of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
What's shocking here is that there's an association to advance fat acceptance. Oy.
New York Daily News :: Vogue editor rouses the fat & the furious
Talley's remarks [on the Oprah Winfrey Show] immediately drew heavy fire from Sandy Schaffer of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance.
What's shocking here is that there's an association to advance fat acceptance. Oy.
New York Daily News :: Vogue editor rouses the fat & the furious
Two things that are bugging me in fluffy celebrity news.
1) Has anyone noticed that Jennifer Garner's been pregnant for about 3 years now?
2) When did "X" suddenly become the substitute for "criss" instead of "cross?" In the past few months substituting "X" for the name Chris (e.g., Xtina) has become all the rage...
1) Has anyone noticed that Jennifer Garner's been pregnant for about 3 years now?
2) When did "X" suddenly become the substitute for "criss" instead of "cross?" In the past few months substituting "X" for the name Chris (e.g., Xtina) has become all the rage...
How to apply for the Oscars.
Yes, I know. It's a bit early for me to geek out on the Oscars, but I just saw this and had to share.
(Yes, I'm applying. I wear my flaming Oscar dork-ness with pride.)
78th Academy Awards Bleacher Seat Registration
Yes, I know. It's a bit early for me to geek out on the Oscars, but I just saw this and had to share.
(Yes, I'm applying. I wear my flaming Oscar dork-ness with pride.)
78th Academy Awards Bleacher Seat Registration
Friday, September 16, 2005
For my metrosexual "a tad queer" guy pals.
If I was a boy, I'd buy stuff from this place. They even have free samples. (Well, they charge for shipping.) Nice.
Baxter of California :: Men's skincare and shaving
If I was a boy, I'd buy stuff from this place. They even have free samples. (Well, they charge for shipping.) Nice.
Baxter of California :: Men's skincare and shaving
Points for an excellent book title.
Former BBDO Chairman Phil Dusenberry, the guy that worked on the Reagan campaign and the famous Michael Jackson Pepsi spot, has written a book called, "Then We Set His Hair on Fire" ...
Adrants :: Phil Dusenberry Tells It Like It Was, And Still Is
Former BBDO Chairman Phil Dusenberry, the guy that worked on the Reagan campaign and the famous Michael Jackson Pepsi spot, has written a book called, "Then We Set His Hair on Fire" ...
Adrants :: Phil Dusenberry Tells It Like It Was, And Still Is
Czeltic Girl. A menace to productivity.
Damn you, woman, for linking to this on your blog today. I cannot stop reading it.
5ives :: Merlin's Lists of Five Things
Damn you, woman, for linking to this on your blog today. I cannot stop reading it.
5ives :: Merlin's Lists of Five Things
The Onion predicts the future of shaving right here, back in early 2004. Brilliant.
I'm telling them to stick two more blades in there. I don't care how. Make the blades so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth blade in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!
(via yesbutnobutyes.)
I'm telling them to stick two more blades in there. I don't care how. Make the blades so thin they're invisible. Put some on the handle. I don't care if they have to cram the fifth blade in perpendicular to the other four, just do it!
(via yesbutnobutyes.)
Ugly baby.
I got this link from Lorraine who drives past a billboard with this graphic every day. YIKES. (Thanks, L-dawg!)
Surplus Sales, Inc. :: Hudson, FL
I got this link from Lorraine who drives past a billboard with this graphic every day. YIKES. (Thanks, L-dawg!)
Surplus Sales, Inc. :: Hudson, FL
Thursday, September 15, 2005
This new One.org poster by Milton Glaser actually makes me ANGRY.
An obvious, lame idea executed grotesquely, if you ask me. Too tired to finish your pro bono work properly, MG? Pawn it off on a high school intern?
miltonglaserposters.com :: We Are All African
An obvious, lame idea executed grotesquely, if you ask me. Too tired to finish your pro bono work properly, MG? Pawn it off on a high school intern?
miltonglaserposters.com :: We Are All African
The headline caught my eye.
Big Sheep Mocks BB
CROATIA - Big Sheep is challenging Big Brother as a viewing favourite for Croatians.
Artist Sinisa Labrovic's sheep are living, eating and sleeping - and even have writers reading them their works - in a ruined factory building in the capital of Zagreb, part of an arts festival.
Two of the seven sheep have already been eliminated from the show, which is broadcast online, and put out to grass.
Labrovic says the show is a satire, to 'show that people are being made into sheep by others, especially those who participate in reality shows'.
The winner, to be selected by viewers on Saturday, will get a lifetime's loving care and avoid the butcher's chop.
news24.com :: Big Sheep mocks BB
(You can check out the live sheep-cam here)
Big Sheep Mocks BB
CROATIA - Big Sheep is challenging Big Brother as a viewing favourite for Croatians.
Artist Sinisa Labrovic's sheep are living, eating and sleeping - and even have writers reading them their works - in a ruined factory building in the capital of Zagreb, part of an arts festival.
Two of the seven sheep have already been eliminated from the show, which is broadcast online, and put out to grass.
Labrovic says the show is a satire, to 'show that people are being made into sheep by others, especially those who participate in reality shows'.
The winner, to be selected by viewers on Saturday, will get a lifetime's loving care and avoid the butcher's chop.
news24.com :: Big Sheep mocks BB
(You can check out the live sheep-cam here)
Jellyfish are Swiss.
Think of a jellyfish, bobbing along happily off the shore of Lake Geneva, about to take its first steps towards the advancement of the species, and the birth of chocolate fondue. The first question would naturally be 'Why bother coming inland? What is there that could possibly make you want to explore Switzerland in any detail whatsoever? The streets may be clean, but the price of living is ludicrous, especially if you don't have any pockets' But even if you had been there and had asked that question at that vital moment in history, the jellyfish would not have heard you. Why? Because unlike voles and llamas, jellyfish do not have any ears. And anyway it was a Swiss German jellyfish.
Animal Reviews :: The Jellyfish
Think of a jellyfish, bobbing along happily off the shore of Lake Geneva, about to take its first steps towards the advancement of the species, and the birth of chocolate fondue. The first question would naturally be 'Why bother coming inland? What is there that could possibly make you want to explore Switzerland in any detail whatsoever? The streets may be clean, but the price of living is ludicrous, especially if you don't have any pockets' But even if you had been there and had asked that question at that vital moment in history, the jellyfish would not have heard you. Why? Because unlike voles and llamas, jellyfish do not have any ears. And anyway it was a Swiss German jellyfish.
Animal Reviews :: The Jellyfish
Free 9/29 Brewers tickets.
MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers today announced plans to offer all fans complimentary tickets to the season's final home game on Thursday, September 29 at 1:05 p.m. in appreciation for their support of the team this year.
Milwaukee Brewers :: Press Release - Brewers show appreciation with "All Fans Free" game at Miller Park
MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers today announced plans to offer all fans complimentary tickets to the season's final home game on Thursday, September 29 at 1:05 p.m. in appreciation for their support of the team this year.
Milwaukee Brewers :: Press Release - Brewers show appreciation with "All Fans Free" game at Miller Park
More prefab-ulousness.
Inhabitat :: Dwell Magazine launches prefab collection
Inhabitat :: Turbulence House
Inhabitat :: Bachkit (my personal fave - it's like a dojo)
Inhabitat :: Dwell Magazine launches prefab collection
Inhabitat :: Turbulence House
Inhabitat :: Bachkit (my personal fave - it's like a dojo)
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Sadly, the pop star and her houseboy husband have not decided to name the child Federletus, but are reportedly leaning towards dubbing the seedling Preston Michael Spears Federline. Because names like Preston help to gloss over the hard reality of a baby born wearing a wifebeater.
Gawker :: BREAKING - Britney Spears Has Baby Boy
Gawker :: BREAKING - Britney Spears Has Baby Boy
Love it.
Apply to become a United States Supreme Court Justice.
Accolo is supporting the effort to fill this job as part of our civic duty in an unofficial capacity. Americans value choice and opportunity, so this is your chance to be considered even if you are not currently part of the President's inner circle. Serious candidates will be forwarded to President Bush and select members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Accolo :: Application Process
Apply to become a United States Supreme Court Justice.
Accolo is supporting the effort to fill this job as part of our civic duty in an unofficial capacity. Americans value choice and opportunity, so this is your chance to be considered even if you are not currently part of the President's inner circle. Serious candidates will be forwarded to President Bush and select members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Accolo :: Application Process
I think I'll use some of these
...the next time I'm asked to proofread anything.
Geist :: Comix
(via grow-a-brain)
...the next time I'm asked to proofread anything.
Geist :: Comix
(via grow-a-brain)
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Beautiful & fascinating Chinese propaganda posters.
Maopost.com :: Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters
Maopost.com :: Vintage Chinese Propaganda Posters
Monday, September 12, 2005
The ultimate lo-fi, no frills hotel.
DasParkHotel is a series of single-occupancy rooms in Linz, Austria, site of the Ars Electronica festival. Tourists can book the rooms online, and pay whatever amount they can. As the hotel has no facilities beyond sleeping rooms, guests should plan to use facilites like nearby showers in the public pool, and bathrooms in museums (the web site has a map of local facilities).
PARKHOTEL
(via core 77)
DasParkHotel is a series of single-occupancy rooms in Linz, Austria, site of the Ars Electronica festival. Tourists can book the rooms online, and pay whatever amount they can. As the hotel has no facilities beyond sleeping rooms, guests should plan to use facilites like nearby showers in the public pool, and bathrooms in museums (the web site has a map of local facilities).
PARKHOTEL
(via core 77)
Wackywacky home accessories don't normally appeal to me
...but I thought this was funny.
Baron Bob :: Doormat
...but I thought this was funny.
Baron Bob :: Doormat
Check out the fantastic informational graphics
...in the Schematics section of this online magazine.
DIAGRAM :: 5.4
...in the Schematics section of this online magazine.
DIAGRAM :: 5.4
Berlin train stations Grunewald and Westhafen used to serve the Nazi-Regime as stations from where jews and others were deported to ghettos and concentration camps. Both now have memorial sites (Gleis 17/Grunewald 1, Gleis 17/Grunewald 2)(Westhafen), though those don't have the importance in Berlin they should have, since they are located rather far away from the city center. Only interested people will eventually become aware of and will visit those sites. Our aim is to create sensational moments in order to evoke a concioussnes for the history of deportations and for the existant memorial sites.
Universität der Künste Berlin :: Digital media installation
Universität der Künste Berlin :: Digital media installation
Asian furniture made from reclaimed wood.
If I could afford it, I'd probably furnish my whole apartment via this web site.
Greentea Design
If I could afford it, I'd probably furnish my whole apartment via this web site.
Greentea Design
I wonder if my building owners would mind
...if I added an extra bedroom to my apartment?
Galerie Ulrich Fiedler ::Rucksack House::
...if I added an extra bedroom to my apartment?
Galerie Ulrich Fiedler ::Rucksack House::
Friday, September 9, 2005
Helpful cheat sheet to get a live operator.
Very cool. I hate punching in all my account information, only to get a live operator who asks me for all the same information.
Intuit Quickbase :: Find-A-Human
(via yesbutnobutyes)
Very cool. I hate punching in all my account information, only to get a live operator who asks me for all the same information.
Intuit Quickbase :: Find-A-Human
(via yesbutnobutyes)
PSA from B3TA
SATANISTS! This weekend is your last chance
to conceive if you want a He Who Walks Backwards'
child born on 6/6/6. Any later and to be out then
he'd be premature and perhaps a bit weedy. Go
go Beelzebaby action.
B3TA : NEWSLETTER : ISSUE 196
SATANISTS! This weekend is your last chance
to conceive if you want a He Who Walks Backwards'
child born on 6/6/6. Any later and to be out then
he'd be premature and perhaps a bit weedy. Go
go Beelzebaby action.
B3TA : NEWSLETTER : ISSUE 196
Thursday, September 8, 2005
If you have 5 minutes, you have to watch this trainwreck.
I'm speechless.
IFILM :: R. Kelly at the VMAs
I'm speechless.
IFILM :: R. Kelly at the VMAs
My somnambular bad AM radio station
...chose this as my wake up song this morning.
Michael Jackson's "Rock With You"
...chose this as my wake up song this morning.
Michael Jackson's "Rock With You"
Ducktastic! The Musical
As always with their work, the plot is not straightforward, but it is inspired by the Las Vegas illusionists Siegfried and Roy, only on a more modest scale, using ducks instead of Siberian tigers. In Ducktastic!, world famous illusionist Christopher Ursula Sassoon who, after an accident with an emu, loses his license to perform in Las Vegas. He teams up with Roy de La Rue, a pet shop proprietor from Portsmouth, to form Sassoon and Roy and put on a new West End show. Directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by David Pugh.
London Theatre Guide :: Ducktastic!
As always with their work, the plot is not straightforward, but it is inspired by the Las Vegas illusionists Siegfried and Roy, only on a more modest scale, using ducks instead of Siberian tigers. In Ducktastic!, world famous illusionist Christopher Ursula Sassoon who, after an accident with an emu, loses his license to perform in Las Vegas. He teams up with Roy de La Rue, a pet shop proprietor from Portsmouth, to form Sassoon and Roy and put on a new West End show. Directed by Kenneth Branagh and produced by David Pugh.
London Theatre Guide :: Ducktastic!
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Aww. It's cute.
I'd love something like this for camping. (It might even make me want to go more than once a year.) But $4000? Uh, not gonna happen.
uncrate :: Little Guy Camper/Trailer
More pix here
I'd love something like this for camping. (It might even make me want to go more than once a year.) But $4000? Uh, not gonna happen.
uncrate :: Little Guy Camper/Trailer
More pix here
A surprisingly interesting article about Leonard Cohen going bankrupt.
The suit paints an almost preposterous picture of Cohen as an artist who led a lavish celebrity lifestyle and then turned bitter and vindictive when he discovered the money had run out. For example, the suit quotes Lynch describing how Cohen demanded she discuss business matters while he soaked in a bubble bath, and how later he was somehow involved in calling a SWAT team to her home, where she was handcuffed and forcibly taken to a psychiatric ward while in her bathing suit.
Macleans.ca :: A 'devastated' Leonard Cohen
The suit paints an almost preposterous picture of Cohen as an artist who led a lavish celebrity lifestyle and then turned bitter and vindictive when he discovered the money had run out. For example, the suit quotes Lynch describing how Cohen demanded she discuss business matters while he soaked in a bubble bath, and how later he was somehow involved in calling a SWAT team to her home, where she was handcuffed and forcibly taken to a psychiatric ward while in her bathing suit.
Macleans.ca :: A 'devastated' Leonard Cohen
There are simply no words for this.
...except maybe "Don't skip the intro." (It's well worth it.)
K&K Mime Ministries
(via the steeliest buddha around)
...except maybe "Don't skip the intro." (It's well worth it.)
K&K Mime Ministries
(via the steeliest buddha around)
Eat Hufu - The Healthy Human Flesh Alternative!
HufuTM was originally conceived of as a product for students of anthropology hungry for the experience of cannibalism but deterred by the legal and logistical obstacles. However, our preliminary market research revealed the existence of a larger segment of the public that was interested in the availability of a legal and healthy human flesh substitute, as well as vegetarians and vegans. We also found that HufuTM is a great product for cannibals who want to quit. HufuTM is also a great cannibal convenience food -- no more Friday night hunting raids! Stay at home and enjoy the flavorful, convenient human flesh alternative.
HufuTM was originally conceived of as a product for students of anthropology hungry for the experience of cannibalism but deterred by the legal and logistical obstacles. However, our preliminary market research revealed the existence of a larger segment of the public that was interested in the availability of a legal and healthy human flesh substitute, as well as vegetarians and vegans. We also found that HufuTM is a great product for cannibals who want to quit. HufuTM is also a great cannibal convenience food -- no more Friday night hunting raids! Stay at home and enjoy the flavorful, convenient human flesh alternative.
A Dutch treat.
Disturbed Lamp and The Elsjes are fantastic. But she had me at her intro screen.
Judith van den Boom
Disturbed Lamp and The Elsjes are fantastic. But she had me at her intro screen.
Judith van den Boom
Crap TV alert – Celebrities On Ice.
After the show’s Olympic-quality judges offer their assessments, the remaining contestants, desperate for survival and broken from a series of horrific tumbles following ill-advised attempts at Triple Axels, will devour that week’s low scorer, hoping to absorb their fallen comrade’s stores of fame from their fatty tissue.
Defamer :: Desperation on Ice
After the show’s Olympic-quality judges offer their assessments, the remaining contestants, desperate for survival and broken from a series of horrific tumbles following ill-advised attempts at Triple Axels, will devour that week’s low scorer, hoping to absorb their fallen comrade’s stores of fame from their fatty tissue.
Defamer :: Desperation on Ice
The bad AM radio station in my head.
Many of my friends already know that I'm convinced I have a really bad AM radio station that plays in my head while I'm asleep. I wake up with the most bizarre music riffing through my grey matter.
Today's wake-up song: Sheila E's "The Glamorous Life"
Many of my friends already know that I'm convinced I have a really bad AM radio station that plays in my head while I'm asleep. I wake up with the most bizarre music riffing through my grey matter.
Today's wake-up song: Sheila E's "The Glamorous Life"
McSweeney's Internet Tendency :: Rejected Submissions for Starbucks' "The Way I See It."
The way I see it, Lloyd is crazy. Not just short-pants-in-winter kinda crazy but batshit kinda crazy. Wears-a-velvet-cape-to-get-the-mail kinda crazy. Eats-imaginary-ice-cream-cone-while-talking-to-the-ghost-of-his-long-dead-Aunt-Hettie kinda crazy. Doesn't mean he shouldn't be allowed to drive a bus, though. It's just the way I see it.
Interesting related story:
The Seattle Times :: Tempest brews over quotes on Starbucks cups
The way I see it, Lloyd is crazy. Not just short-pants-in-winter kinda crazy but batshit kinda crazy. Wears-a-velvet-cape-to-get-the-mail kinda crazy. Eats-imaginary-ice-cream-cone-while-talking-to-the-ghost-of-his-long-dead-Aunt-Hettie kinda crazy. Doesn't mean he shouldn't be allowed to drive a bus, though. It's just the way I see it.
Interesting related story:
The Seattle Times :: Tempest brews over quotes on Starbucks cups
In February of 2005 the Neistat Brothers were hired to make a film about the 2005 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Honorees.
When we found out who'd we'd be working with we took the job.
We also thought it would be funny to try to get the LMCC president fired.
This is what happens when you try to work with artists.
Neistat Brothers :: LMCC Movie (6 min)
When we found out who'd we'd be working with we took the job.
We also thought it would be funny to try to get the LMCC president fired.
This is what happens when you try to work with artists.
Neistat Brothers :: LMCC Movie (6 min)
You can't convince people via IM that you're not a bot.
What happens to a normal guy's identity when his name is added to two AIM lists.
...Then, something strange started happening. As my career as an artificial celebrity started to take off, I began to receive some strange IMs from a whole new class of random people. These new admirers were convinced I was a robot... and it suddenly became clear to me that something was very wrong.
BlogCadre :: How I failed the Turing test
What happens to a normal guy's identity when his name is added to two AIM lists.
...Then, something strange started happening. As my career as an artificial celebrity started to take off, I began to receive some strange IMs from a whole new class of random people. These new admirers were convinced I was a robot... and it suddenly became clear to me that something was very wrong.
BlogCadre :: How I failed the Turing test
From the just-plain-weird files... Jack Kerouac in the military.
A decade before 'On the Road' was published, Jack Kerouac evinced 'strong schizoid trends' that led military officials to declare him unfit for service. Details of Kerouac's 1943 honorable discharge--after just ten days of active duty--are contained in the late writer's official U.S. Naval Reserve file...
The Smoking Gun: Hit The Road, Jack
A decade before 'On the Road' was published, Jack Kerouac evinced 'strong schizoid trends' that led military officials to declare him unfit for service. Details of Kerouac's 1943 honorable discharge--after just ten days of active duty--are contained in the late writer's official U.S. Naval Reserve file...
The Smoking Gun: Hit The Road, Jack
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Scary.
42% (of survey respondents) say that living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.
Summary of Findings: Religion A Strength And Weakness For Both Parties:
42% (of survey respondents) say that living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time.
Summary of Findings: Religion A Strength And Weakness For Both Parties:
"It's pretty amazing how I've changed over the years."
Yes. I'm sure it is. Eww.
ETonline.com Celebrities: Plastic Surgery Obsession: Meet the Real-Life 'Ken' Doll
(via growabrain)
Yes. I'm sure it is. Eww.
ETonline.com Celebrities: Plastic Surgery Obsession: Meet the Real-Life 'Ken' Doll
(via growabrain)
Friday, September 2, 2005
Consumers Can Find a Great Fit in a Pair of Jeans in 10 Seconds
When a fully clothed person steps into the cylindrical glass booth, the Levi's Fit Experience will scan the person in approximately 10 seconds and print out recommended sizes and styles of Levi's Jeans cross referenced with his or her measurements.
When a fully clothed person steps into the cylindrical glass booth, the Levi's Fit Experience will scan the person in approximately 10 seconds and print out recommended sizes and styles of Levi's Jeans cross referenced with his or her measurements.
World's Largest Things :: What's Large Where in the US
(Wisconsin has a pretty impressive list, thank you very much.)
(Wisconsin has a pretty impressive list, thank you very much.)
YES!!!
A Mac OSX screen capture tool that captures full-screen images at the click of a button - including scrolling pages. I can't TELL you how hard I've been looking for an OSX app that does this.
Best of all - it's free!
Paparazzi!
A Mac OSX screen capture tool that captures full-screen images at the click of a button - including scrolling pages. I can't TELL you how hard I've been looking for an OSX app that does this.
Best of all - it's free!
Paparazzi!
Oh. Um, okay.
As long as there was a reason for it.
"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. "From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. From the devastation may a city full of righteousness emerge," he continued.
REPENT AMERICA :: Hurricane Katrina destroys New Orleans days before "Southern Decadence"
As long as there was a reason for it.
"Although the loss of lives is deeply saddening, this act of God destroyed a wicked city," stated Repent America director Michael Marcavage. "From 'Girls Gone Wild' to 'Southern Decadence,' New Orleans was a city that had its doors wide open to the public celebration of sin. From the devastation may a city full of righteousness emerge," he continued.
REPENT AMERICA :: Hurricane Katrina destroys New Orleans days before "Southern Decadence"
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