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Saturday, May 21, 2005 Hello Kitty guitar with built in speaker. Oh wow is this thing ever ugly. I thought the hello kitty brand relied on being unbelievably cute. This guitar must be from the ugly-sister division of Sanrio. That division is also responsible for the hello kitty vibrator, errr back massager.
See also: Sanrio's other characters. @ 02:49 PM CST [Link] Naperville to use fingerprints for net access. This is just ridiculous and a bad precedent. They claim that once a fingerprint is taken it cannot be extracted from the machine, so it must be doing some very simple checks and discarding that data, but I certainly do not want to get in the habit of handing out my fingerprints for something as trivial as net access all in the name of library security. This brought to you mostly by the biometrics industry and the patriot act. Now there's two tastes that do not go great together. See also: Economist article on biometrics. @ 02:41 PM CST [Link] List of plane crashes with only one survivor. According to this its only happened 11 times. Its like winning the lottery. A really bad lottery that is. Or is would it be a pyrrhic lottery? Why are most of the survivors children? Less mass to throw about? See also: Odds of being killed in plane are 1 in 11 million, in a car 1 in 5,000. Enjoy your monday morning commute! @ 02:26 PM CST [Link] Friday, May 20, 2005 Contrary to what I posted a couple weeks ago, it does look like Stephen Malkmus is coming to Chicago to promote his new album. See also: Reviews are positive. Album supposed to be very weird.
@ 06:35 PM CST [Link] List of fictional curse words. Krunk this felgercarb! Reminds me of the invisible library, a list of books that only exist in other books. See also: Invisible Library website. @ 06:24 PM CST [Link] Embarassing gallery of 70's unisex hairstyles. Today we laugh at them. Tomorrow they will be laughing at us. @ 06:22 PM CST [Link] What to expect on the Ep III DVD, or the mystery of General Grevious. Okay, I saw the movie last night and, yes, its the action-packed lightsaber porn-fest every star wars fan is going to love, but there's definitely some missing footage, if not an entire missing backstory surrounding the droid general, Grievous. As not to spoil anything, click on "Link to this entry" below for the entire entry. [more] @ 05:44 PM CST [Link] Wednesday, May 18, 2005 Worth1000 does Star Wars. I guess it was only a matter of time. There's some clever work in this gallery, not to mention a satisfying death of jarjar piece.
See also: Nice mecha gallery. Don't miss the bidet-bot. Yes, the bidet-bot. See also: Other uses for lightsabers. See also: Episode III screener/tester/thingy already available for download over at the pirate bay. @ 08:42 PM CST [Link] Russian villagers make a living off Soyuz debris. Sounds a bit fishy, but if true makes me wonder where all that space junk ends up. Maybe all Hondas sold this year were .001% Soyuz, which would make for some interesting ads. See also: The real problem of space junk. @ 08:36 PM CST [Link] The drug war has gone surreal with NORML's softball team trying to get a game in with the feds. A Machivellian gold star to the drug czar spokesman who managed to get the "gateway drug" talking point into something as trivial as this: "I wouldn't think we would play any team that promotes drug use," Riley said, adding, "that includes teams that promote smoking meth or smoking crack." @ 08:25 PM CST [Link] Mr Wiggles asks an age old question. Reminds of me of most very famous people. They decry the lowest common denominator, but only really live to serve them. Sometimes I wonder if the paparazzi and psycho fans are part of some sort of karmic balance. @ 08:20 PM CST [Link] Tuesday, May 17, 2005 Mr. Smith goes to Washington, err Mr. Galloway that is. The Senate gets a big fat dose of reality. Reading this puts a big, big smile on my face. Love the Rumsfeld part. Wonder how they're goingto spin this on the news tonight. "Crazed anti-American pinko Englishman attacks clearthinking patriotic godly Senator!" As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns and to give him maps the better to target those guns. I met him to try and bring about an end to sanctions, suffering and war, and on the second of the two occasions, I met him to try and persuade him to let Dr Hans Blix and the United Nations weapons inspectors back into the country - a rather better use of two meetings with Saddam Hussein than your own Secretary of State for Defence made of his.See also: Full transcript here. @ 01:38 PM CST [Link] Cheap Seats is the sports equivalant of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Well, it was, until this season which added a live studio audience and a lot more poorly written skits. Its a shame really, the show had this great wacky and dry humor appeal until they went the more mainstream route. Fortunately, you can watch some clips online and get whole episodes from season 2 from P2P/bitorrent sites. Unfortunately, btefnet.net was shut down due to recent legal action. How am supposed to get my Doctor Who fix now? Don't miss the "Creative Breaking Championships/K-1 Fighting" clip which has a cameo from the MST3K gang. @ 03:13 AM CST [Link] The great synth hoax of 2000. This is such a great story. A 3D artist decided to tease the synth community by coming up with this monster of a synth and occasionally leaking information about it, including a fake magazine ad.
@ 02:35 AM CST [Link] Interesting bionic arm breakthrough. The big jump here is the use of multiple micro-stimulators which should allow for better control over these newer bionic arms. See also: Dr Burridge's homepage. See also: Guardian UK article.
@ 02:30 AM CST [Link] Monday, May 16, 2005 Adblocker updated today. I finally got around to blocking those annoying ads over at myspace.com. What's with the "punch the monkey" type ads? Is it 1996 all over again? Should I purchase a pair of baggy button fly jeans? @ 01:04 AM CST [Link] Sunday, May 15, 2005 What traveling at the speed of light might look like. This is a fun little simulation, but where's the blue shift?
See also: Good but technical wikipedia entry on the speed of light. @ 11:58 PM CST [Link] Dare you take the dead pixels test? I expect a lot of angry support calls to Dell, HP, Apple, Compaq, and Gateway in the next few days. Most manufacturers won't replace a screen with a few dead pixels anyway. I don't have any stuck pixels on my laptop, just this dark half-inch strip in the middle. I like to pretend that's where all my lost data goes, kinda like a Bermuda triangle for your lap. See also: While you're at it, see if your broadband provider is really giving you the speed you're paying for with dslreport's speed test tool. @ 11:53 PM CST [Link] Nice gallery of surreal retro sci-fi art. Odd eye candy never really hurt anyone. Kinda. Then again, they did shoot Andy Warhol.
See also: Worth1000 chimerea pshops. Don't miss this great take on the old "Kitty hanging from a wire" poster. Kinda how the poster would be if Aleister Crowley took the photo. @ 11:47 PM CST [Link] [Archives] Search entries: |
