Archive for March, 2005
Humor
“What, you mean you put down your rock and I put down my sword and we beat each other to death like civilized people?”
1 year of blogging…
As of 11:19PM tonite I’ve been writing in this blog for one full year.
Hooray! Drop your pants and dance!
La Vida Robot
How four underdogs from the mean streets of Phoenix took on the best from M.I.T. in the national underwater bot championship.
I love a good underdog story…
(Link courtesy of Slashdot)
Dali and Gleason
It was the artistic collaboration of the century: television funnyman Jackie Gleason and renowned surrealist Salvador Dali. How this came to be, I’m not particularly sure. But it certainly made for some great album art, the most unique among Gleason’s many pop records.
(Link courtesy of Warren Ellis)
Chuck Lorre’s vanity cards
Chuck Lorre, creator of “Dharma & Greg” and co-creator of “Two and a Half Men” has been putting vanity cards with messages at the end of his episodes since the first Dharma & Greg. Since they’re on the screen only for one second at the end of the episode you’ve got to pause very precisely [...]
Added reviews for 3/29/05
Added review listings for The New West #1, Shaolin Cowboy #2, Elk’s Run #1, A Few Perfect Hours and added new reviews for 1000 Steps to World Domination, Daredevil #71 and Seven Soldiers: Guardian #1 over at Comic Book Review Machine.
Gang will target Minuteman vigil on Mexico border
Members of a violent Central America-based gang have been sent to Arizona to target Minuteman Project volunteers, who will begin a monthlong border vigil this weekend to find and report foreigner sneaking into the United States, project officials say.
(Link courtesy of Wonkette)
Device locks out Fox News…
It’s not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News. The creator of the “Fox Blocker” contends the channel is not news at all. Kimery figures he’s sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from [...]
File-Sharing Case Worries Indie Artists
Recording industry executive Andy Gershon sees opportunity in the online file-sharing networks that most of his rivals decry as havens for music pirates. As president of V2 Records, home to such established acts as The White Stripes and Moby, Gershon mines such Internet distribution channels for new fans and revenues.
Just one more thing about Schiavo
(Crap I just had to get myself going about this…)
From this AP article:
Jeb Bush and the state’s social services agency filed a petition in state court to take custody of Schiavo and, presumably, reconnect her feeding tube. It cites new allegations of neglect and challenges Schiavo’s diagnosis as being in a persistent vegetative state. The [...]
Isn’t it ironic?
Now I’ve bit my tongue on writing about the whole Schiavo controversy, and I know this is going to sound horrible….
But isn’t it ironic that a woman who supposedly is starving to “death” (in my honest opinion she’s been dead for several years now so the word “death” is in the loosest sense of the [...]
Simpsons meets Powers of Ten
From BoingBoing:
Simpsons episodes open with brilliant “couch gag” sequences where the family plunk down on the living-room sofa and trigger a surreal/funny animation. The best of these, hands down, is a riff on the Eameses’ classic movie “Powers of 10″ (a film where the camera zooms back in order of magnitude increments, going from cells [...]
Some more free Touch of Death Stuff
Wonder artist Erich Owen did a poster for Touch of Death way back when. Here’s the torrent for it:
Touch of Death Poster (PDF Format)
Whoo hoo!
It’s working!
Was playing with TorrentFlux last night, couldn’t get it working initially. It would attempt to load the torrent and just kind of sit there, but this forum entry (Torrent Start Freez, Version 1.5 / Freez / Javascript Error) got it all working!
For those of you who care, TorrentFlux is a php based system that [...]
New York Public Library Digital Gallery open to Public.
From Slashdot:
“The New York Public Library has digitized over 275,000 images from their colletions, and made them freely available available online. The ‘NYPL Digital Gallery provides access to over 275,000 images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare [...]
