30 December 2005
29 December 2005
28 December 2005
in a perfect world
crazy fuckers would be able to do whatever they want. apparently, this is a perfect world. you must at least read through the history section.
27 December 2005
25 December 2005
24 December 2005
Optical Illusion
I have no idea how this works but if you look at the image for about 5 minutes, you can see a ninja robot in the background.
22 December 2005
21 December 2005
18 December 2005
Howtoons help proto-geeks get their nerd on
Comic-style instructions for building and doing nerdy stuff...like counting to 1023 using only your 10 fingers.
another "OO" fad language
recent wikipedia featured article. not bad, though i think the article as structured will be confusing to non-specialists. seems they might have split it up into several articles, though i think they do a reasonable job of at least raising the many, many points that should be discussed in a comprehensive discourse on the language / platform / marketing machine that is java.
i didn't know that java was originally designed to run embedded in cable set-top boxes and microwaves, with the "web thing" being mostly a crime of opportunity.
14 December 2005
now, where was I?
MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY MONKEY
i want to go see the big CGI monkey. as if that weren't already cool, i've also heard that people get eaten by giant slugs. so, who's interested? i know that it's showing tonight.
POST-ENTERTAINMENT UPDATE
For the love of god, stop washing your baby or whatever and go see this thing. It's amazing.
13 December 2005
Hurra Torpedo is not back... or are they?
they are just getting paid for Ford commercials
link
i like them anyways
12 December 2005
11 December 2005
"They got him"
This clip is crying out for a caption contest. How about: "They told me I wasn't allowed to hit suspects with my nightstick anymore."
09 December 2005
Who thinks this is a good idea?
I have very vague recollections of sitting on Santa's lap. None too horrifying but at the same time none particularly happy. I mean really...
An oldie but a goodie
BIG FREAKING MONKEY
so there's this expensive MOVIE about MONKEYS and DINOSAURS on an ISLAND and they are PISSED OFF and EAT people. I want to SEE IT. anyone interested?
UPDATE: does not start LOCALLY until NEXT WEEK. will RESUME DISCUSSION then. DAMMIT.
06 December 2005
Apotheosis of shlock horror flick coming to fruition
Samuel L. Jackson will be appearing in a movie titled "Snakes on a Plane".
At some point, the film's working title was altered to Pacific Air Flight 121, to the consternation of many. Josh Friedman declined the script offer upon hearing the new title. In August 2005, a perturbed Samuel L. Jackson told an interviewer, "We're totally changing that back. That's the only reason I took the job: I read the title." The film has currently reverted back to the working title of Snakes on a Plane.
All I can say is, thank God.
Holy Tango of Literature
"THE QUESTION of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names is one that has been insufficiently studied in the past..."
For instance,
MULTICOLORED ARGYLE SEA
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he taketh lots of drugs,
And he thinks his beard is made of snakes
And his body crawls with bugs.
...
05 December 2005
04 December 2005
US Military planned gay bomb
The article says:
the researchers proposed that strong aphrodisiacs be dropped on enemy troops. The idea was that the deliriously loved-up men would unable to resist one another, but would be suffused with regret once the potion wore off.
Were they just going to lob extasy on Iraqi encampments?
03 December 2005
01 December 2005
30 November 2005
Indo Jew Bowl
I'm proud to be from this neck of the prairie (my piano lessons were in Skokie). Ordered me a "Jew Style Gold" shirt. Go football-playing Jews!
Epsilon!!!
We've made it to epsilon. Is it too early to wonder what happens when we run out of greek letters?
29 November 2005
28 November 2005
Well I'll be.
I distinctly remember back in like 1992 when I finally got my ole 386 25MHz box really humming, sorting out all the DOS 6.0 TCPIP stack issues and getting my newsreader, email, ftp, and I think even gopher client working smoothly, and I decided to start working with WinSock in Windows 2.0 and everything got fouled up again.
Relive DOS.
27 November 2005
don't die without seeing Britannica Boy naked
as you can on his blog, hosted on blogger. not safe for work, i suppose. in addition to being naked, donavan himself is quite the porn aficionado.
to think that anchorbutt might be mere nanometers away from the hard disk storage of 80's reference shill Donavan Freberg's vanity blog(s)... it makes you wonder.
oh, apparently there was somebody with an EverQuest character named something-something Anchorbutt in 2004. he was an elf. and a cleric.
25 November 2005
23 November 2005
Brrr.
Some London students are in for a cold but secure winter: hoods and scarves are not allowed. What's next? Don't wear gloves so we can see your fingerprints?
21 November 2005
Already smelled greasy loot?
Boy, I wish I had this information 20 years ago. Here's the midi 4U2jam2.
Gaddammit!
As a former-at&t-wireless-subscriber-current-cingular-subscriber-soon-
to-be-at&t-wireless-subscriber, I think someone over there deserves a cock punch
20 November 2005
Ant-swering machine
Not for those easily disturbed by pictures of insect infestations of electronic devices.
point / counterpoint: influence
point
Britney Spears on her album "In The Zone", as interviewed by Newsweek and published Monday, Oct. 27, 2003:
When Spears talks about the South Asian musical influences on "In the Zone," she says she's "been into a lot of Indian spiritual religions." When asked if one of them is Hinduism, she says, "What's that? Is it like abbalah?"
counterpoint
Shakira, discussing her recent album "Oral Fixation, Vol. 2", in the New York Times, Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005:"I've always felt that I've been a very oral person. It's my biggest source of pleasure. From a psychoanalytical point of view, we start discovering the world through our mouths in the very first stage of our lives, when we're just born. The first album cover is more Freudian, and the second one more resembles Jung, because Eve is a universal archetype. I tried to keep a unity between the two album covers, and I chose to use some Renaissance iconography. Mother and child and original sin are recurrent concepts of the Renaissance period, and I wanted the historical character."
19 November 2005
gund to old retards: eat shit
noticed by FAQ enthusiast kyl. from the Gund Foundation FAQ:
"Are there specific fields in which the Foundation does
NOT fund?
The Foundation does not fund programs that provide services to the elderly or to individuals who are physically, mentally or developmentally disabled. Our grantmaking in the health field in limited to retinal degenerative disease research, community health and AIDS policy and services."
hey man, that's cool.
I placed in a famous Bad Poetry Contest
I haven't had much time for uselessness in the last few weeks. It all came tumbling out in one crazy night of bad poetry, in a contest named for Alfred Joyce Kilmer.
16 November 2005
Sunnis demand Iraq torture probe
We're torturing everyone with unintentionally funny headlines, too.
Negotiating Pattern Language
I was referred to a very handy NegotiatingPattternLanguage on the c2 wiki. You might like it, too.
15 November 2005
How's this for gross?
Ants eat away woman's eye in Indian hospital.
I would make a pun based on the fact that iatrogenic sounds like Eye-ant-rogenic, but nobody would get it, so I won't bother.
14 November 2005
How is possible
... that the only online references to the culinary cudgel that is the Spoto Burger seem to originate from Canadia?
Write-only DB
MySQL has a feature that allows you to send your data into a black hole, where it can never be retrieved again. (Turns out to be slightly more useful than it sounds.)
12 November 2005
10 November 2005
Screw you George Lucas
I finally gave up spending money on star wars toys 2 YEARS AGO!
But old George figured out how to make me spend more $$$.
How can I NOT buy these?
09 November 2005
Risk
High-tech Risk
At a book store recently I briefly pondering buying the Star Wars Risk, but then came to my senses.
08 November 2005
Some people don't spell "villian" right.
But these guys do!!! Don't skip the intro; it's the best part of the site.
Stumped by Trump
I have no idea what he's on about.
I would, however, like to say that kids today are weird.
07 November 2005
I only had O(1) drinks, occifer!
What do you guys think about the issue of using closed-source equipment to determine if somebody committed a crime? I can see slippery slopes on both sides of this issue.
06 November 2005
From the Department of 'Duh!'
So, it turns out that the Feds are abusing the Patriot Act. Hope they don't find Dewey's furry pron.
04 November 2005
To the moon, Alice!
Your wife decides to go out with her friends drinking and dancing....
You're okay with it, because you get to watch sports all night....
You hear her stumble into bed around 4 and laugh knowing she's going to have a monster hangover....
You wake up next morning and go outside to the family Volvo, which she used last night....
You sigh in relief because it's all in one piece....
You circle the car looking for dents and find none....but wait a minute.
http://kommgroup.onlinestoragesolution.com/Wifes-volvo.jpg
03 November 2005
01 November 2005
31 October 2005
I want some Mo**** Fu**** Chocolate Milk!!!
Playing video games on Xbox Live is all well and good. Arguing with your mom about chocolate milk? Sometimes OK. But if you're going to do both, remember to turn off your headset, lest you become an internet meme.
Audio NSFW.
Side Effects of the Smoking Ban
Anti-smoking campaigners believed that the ban would improve health and stop people smoking. But many young Dubliners admit that they have increased their consumption of cigarettes because of the social benefits.
30 October 2005
28 October 2005
I imagine it would go something like this:
"Trick or Tree....... gee zuss effin kuh ryst, sicko! I'm calling Homeland Security on you!"
27 October 2005
Truist, do you have this guy beat?
FLOMATON, Ala. -- Edmond Knowles started out saving pennies in a 5-gallon can. Thirty-eight years later, he was storing them in four 55-gallon drums and three 20-gallon drums - nearly 1.4 million in all. Knowles, who runs a gas station, cashed them in Wednesday, pocketing $13,804.59 after they were counted at a bank. "It's just something that happened," he said. "I started so long ago that I don't even remember why." He got some help along the way from customers at Ed's Service Station. "Customers would come by and say: 'Ed, throw these in your drum,'" he said. Coinstar Inc., a company that maintains coin-counting machines in banks and supermarkets, said Knowles' 1,380,459 pennies breaks the record of 1,048,013 held by Eugene J. Sukie of Barberton, Ohio.
26 October 2005
25 October 2005
Today's NAZI link brought to you by...
the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement. Their fashion page is very Heidi-esque.
24 October 2005
Top 10 Unusual Things Women Look For In A Man
Your strange grandfather is a great source of female attractiveness. Only because it makes for some interesting entertainment. You'll be telling stories. Like how grandpa got drunk once, and decided to make love to the right sub-woofer of your stereo.
Also, check out the freakish arms on the guy in number six.
22 October 2005
You mean back on May 19, 2003?
i was drunk googling trying to find that insane site Mani found years ago with the terrifying dog outfits.
Dcass,
When drunk, please search the Minimalist Weblog (yes, I'm bracing for a cockpunch) for the object of your desire.
In this case, it would have taken you to a dead link, but they did leave a forwarding address. It's not quite how I remember it, but you know what they say: you can't step into the same river twice.
21 October 2005
Continuing with the infanticide theme...
12 uses for a dead baby. Truly disgusting, repulsive, and immature.
This Friday's blast from the past
Anyone else remember Fat Chicks in Party Hats? (Questionable for work, including some ads that are pretty racy.)
...bravest little hobbit of them all...
yeric wanted more Nimoy music vids....I remind you of The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins.
Where do babies come from?
Children's book, in german, with highly amusing pictures.
I would classify this link as NSFW.
20 October 2005
19 October 2005
Ladies' Fingers
via J-Walkblog, I found this recipe.
I know somebody who made these a couple years ago, and let me tell you -- they looked really creepy.
'The Simpsons' Exported to Middle East -- Minus Bacon, Beer
WTF does that leave? Four minutes of Homer saying "D'Oh"?
18 October 2005
To balance the beer post...
some lit-rit-chur.
I've read only 17. I've started some others (Gravity's Rainbow, Sound And The Fury, Naked Lunch, White Teeth), prolly own over half, have had one on my bedside table for the last year (Atonement), and my bookclub is reading another next (Under The Net).
Would it be considered a waste of time to have read one more than once (Infinite Jest)?
