An advertising watchdog group today warned that many well-established ice cream companies target young boys who wish their penis would grow monstrously large. this concept (tho not the pics or commentary) was blatantly stolen from the Best Page in the Universe. – c
MPR – another reason to love MN
For those of us fed up with commercial radio, commercial music and the general lack of imagination that currently makes up the majority of the “artistic world”, there is relief: click the logo to check out the Minnewiki! Explore articles about Minnesota music – many are waiting for you to add what you know about:…
For the monkey who has everything…
for some reason, i find this to be fascinating in a sick, ironically unsound way: how does it make you feel? – c
Pup joins Rebel Alliance
Can you guess which one is my lil sister’s new pup? Click on him to view his gallery! : ) – c
Terry Gilliam
Filmography Storytime (1968) And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) also actor The Miracle of Flight (1974) also actor Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) also actor Jabberwocky (1977) also actor Time Bandits (1981) Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) segment “The Crimson Permanent Assurance”; also actor Brazil (1985) also actor The Adventures…
OpenSource Games! (for Windows)
check ’em out here! – c
Film critics, take note.
It turns out that predicting a movie’s success or failure at the Sundance Film Festival isn’t so complicated that a computer can’t do it. Unspam Technologies, an anti-spam consulting firm based in Park City, Utah, programmed a computer to sort through 32 contenders in the drama and documentary categories at this year’s festival in search…
Robodeer stops poachers in their tracks!
If you’re planning on doing any illegal deer hunting on public land in Northwest Indiana, be warned: robodeer is out there waiting. The robotic buck, now being used by conservation officials in the region, has a swiveling head and is typically positioned at the side of a road, while officials wait nearby with a remote….
Tough call, Google
from the get-off-of-our-lawn dept… Hitokiri writes “Now that Google News is out of beta the newspaper publishers are starting to take notice. It’s important to note that no legal action has taken place yet, but still, there seems to be a battle on the horizon.” From the article: “‘They’re building a new medium on the…
Stanley
Few filmmakers’ work is so instantly recognizable as that of Stanley Kubrick. Beautiful, precise composition. Elaborate tracking shots. Powerful acting. Deep, thought-provoking themes. Kubrick put his unique stamp and vision on every film he made. Despite his relatively small output, probably no other director made great films in so many different genres, from science fiction…
Images of Alaska
The University of Washington has a great collection of images up that portray the early days in Alaska. Check them out here if you likey! – c
PC virus celebrates 20th birthday
Today is the 20th anniversary of the appearance of the first PC virus. Brain, a boot sector virus, was let loose in January 1986. Brain spread via infected floppy disks and was a relatively innocuous nuisance in contrast with modern Trojan, rootkits and other malware. The appearance of the first Windows malware nonetheless set in…
Ordained? Me?
that’s right, folks! silly me is ordained enough to marry some of our dear pals in Seattle this summer! what the gods must think… check it out here — you heathens, too, can reach a higher religious order in just 5 minutes flat! – c
Do you stumble?
The other day my friend, David, asked me this. I went on and on about how i did and what i liked to use to do it, and oh how i used to spend more time doing it but…on and on. what would you think it means, i ask you? Turns out, what David meant…
Happy 100th Birthday, Albert!!!
Today in the NYT is a fascinating interview with the father of LSD: Albert Hoffman, who turned 100 this week. Albert’s work on ergot produced several important drugs, including a compound still in use to prevent hemorrhaging after childbirth. However, it was the 25th compound that he synthesized, lysergic acid diethylamide, that was to have…
Google Video
What’s great about it? BANDWIDTH, baby, lots of it. What sucks? All the vids are encoded using Google’s own .gvp codec, which requires users to download and install the “Google Video Player.” What happened to standards-based computing? Must’ve been buried under a Detroit expressway next to Jimmy Hoffa? Still, video is coming! Exciting! Hurry I2!!!…
They was just misunderstood…
Them boys in “Deliverance“, yep, they was just misunderstood is all… These folks here understood ’em, tho! YeeeeeeHAAAAAA!!! – c
Greatest Band in the WORLD
from the City Pages: “it sucks to be you if you’re in a band and that band is not called the White Stripes.” he may want to call himself by new names and write jingles for Coca-Cola but the White Stripes still kick fucking ass. want proof? watch this. (be patient, tho, it’s a rather…
Aurora Forecast for Saturday, January 7, 2006
Auroral activity will be active today. Weather permitting, active displays will be visible directly overhead from Barrow to as far south as Talkeetna and visible low on the horizon as far south as Bethel, Soldotna and southeast Alaska.
welcome to the neighborhood
some stills from around and about in our new neighborhood. click on the image or click here, – c