Friday, September 30, 2005

ASCII-0-matic


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Neo-Rock Paper Scissors

Learn it.
rock paper scissors revised
(Click for larger image)

VOLTAIRE IS SNIFFIN

VOLTAIRE IS SNIFFIN my creatures fish!

Thursday, September 29, 2005

31 Really Bad Masturbation Techniques



31. With clove oil

One time I thought I saw something called "love oil" among my mom's various herbal remedies, essential oils, etc. She was busy elsewhere in the house, so I locked myself in the bathroom and tried it on my penis. I didn't even get to start masturbating, it stung so badly--turns out it was actually clove oil (quite a potent substance), and the "c" had worn off the bottle. As with the Tabasco story, the moral is, don't put weird shit on your dick.

Link

Update: This site is a treasuretrove of fun _ even if you're not a college student! Other articles include:

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Killer dolphin on the loose!

It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.

Link

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

mikewho's firefox extension of the moment.

Hot fucking shit. Double click a word and a little box pops up with the definition, via dictionary.com, freedictionary.com, and a host of others.

ctrl-shift-d also works, but keyboards are lame compared to my 108-button mouse.

Dictioanry Tooltip.

Anyone down for some kickball?



Tentative date is Saturday afternoon, 10/8 at Tamaques Park.

Email me or post a comment if you have any questions...

Monday, September 26, 2005

Awkward phrases simplified

katahara itai - the action of laughing so much that one side of your abdomen hurts

drachenfutter - literally translated as dragon fodder - are the peace offerings made by guilty husbands to their wives

and last but not least...

bakku-shan - a girl who appears pretty from behind but not from the front

link

Less than a week left . . .

until the beastly Creatures!!!



All you slackers (myself included) better get started on your monsters!

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Haiz.. dont noe

yo.. think tis is my new blog ba.. lols.. haiz.. sad lei.. i am confused at smth man... tat is whether i hav fallen in love wif a gal.. dont noe if its right anot.. haix.. how?? help me.. she is a good gal.. in fact a very good de... haiz...but i sincerely hope tat she cared for me not cos of other factors but true frm her heart.. haiz.. dont noe.. but smth i am sure tat i hav some competitors.. haiz... haiz.. dont noe why does i feel sad hearing tat.. and feel sad when i dont see her?? haiz.. sad!!! i hope tat i could carry her to wherever we go.. lols... i will not let her suffer de.. haiz...

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Saturday, September 24, 2005

any Seinfeld fans?



To think that this was just a thing in Seinfeld!

it's classic, chic, and provocative


umami, you taste like sushi

Fast Food Nation II by Eric Schlosser:

SCIENTISTS now believe that human beings acquired the sense of taste as a way to avoid being poisoned. Edible plants generally taste sweet, harmful ones bitter. The taste buds on our tongues can detect the presence of half a dozen or so basic tastes, including sweet, sour, bitter, salty, astringent, and umami, a taste discovered by Japanese researchers -- a rich and full sense of deliciousness triggered by amino acids in foods such as meat, shellfish, mushrooms, potatoes, and seaweed.

you mean there's a term for that tingly-guilty-dirty sex feeling I get after a meat-binge at Seabra's all you can eat grilled safari buffet??? who knew!

apparently the Japanese did.

Friday, September 23, 2005

the time has come for you to stop sucking

the best thing that ever happened to drag and drop since grow rpg:


Introducing The Beaterator, by rockstar games: Turning beatmaking and production into a joke rollickin' good time!

Also see: The Rhymerator

I'm Oscar Bluth, bitch!

For the Arrested Development fans – Oscar blogs from prison:

It’s been a week since my last entry. I can explain. Last Thursday, I was counting ants in the prison yard and it
was a scorcher but I remember, I started killing the ants with my feet, yelling “Die you little black bastards, die!”
I got stabbed – a whole lot.


I'm not Geroge Bluth Sr!

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Carol Channing: RAZZZZBERRIES!


cheack out this clip (quicktime).

via blairmag

Katamari Katrina



thanks mikeLove, who is too lazy to post.

via ytmnd

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

We <3 Panty-raid-amari



{From the King}
Hmm…there are not any cool underpants. The texture of Our underpants cannot be described in a picture. The brilliant radiance shines and the fragrance will miraculously entrance you. There are still many things for the Earth to learn.

Fan Art (with comments!) Rocks.

Amoebas

Just keep scrolling down to the bottom and click on 'next page' if you can't read and only understand pictures. They Are nice.

Breakdown:
Page 1 - Giant Amoebas.
Page 2 - Wow, watch them grab food!
Page 2, Again - They can shape-shift into stars for movement!
Page 3 - Spunky amoebas.
Page 4 - More nice ones, plus the elusive Condom-eba.

Link

Super Mario's Fist of the North Star?



link

The answer to the burning question on everyone's mind...

"Do your pubes turn gray when you get old?"



Find out here!

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Is Tupac Really dead?



Come on you must all think about this, right? Am I the only one? Yet again I'm on my way home from work and a Tupac song comes on, and I'm thinking.... If he's really dead, how am I hearing him sing this song right now? I think it's worth looking into, and I think this website is a good start.

http://members.aol.com/subseven/tupac.html


It raises some interesting facts, such as:
  • He was pronounced dead on Friday September 13, 1996.
    Friday the 13th is a very suspicious day.
  • The second video to be released by the name Makaveli is "To Live and Die in L.A." But how could they shoot the second video when he is "dead". Do you really think the video was shot 4 months ago, back in August of '96? Think about it.
  • Tupac officially died at 4:03 PM. 4+3 = 7 Also he "died" at an age of 25 years. 2+5 = 7 It seems as if seven is Tupac's number.
  • The new Tupac album released on Nov. 5, and was originally supposed to be an EP of 6 songs, but was then extended to a full length album of 12 songs.
fishy. fishy as shit, i tell you.

Monday, September 19, 2005

Bill Gates vs. Napoleon Dynamite


Gosh.

link

Friday, September 16, 2005

The best UK Indie Cover's album in the world ever

1. Maximo Park - Shiver (Natalie Imbruglia) Link Updated
2. Graham Coxon - Time for heroes (The Libertines)
3. Reuben - Feel Good Inc. (Gorillaz )
4. Death Cab for Cutie - I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses)
5. The Killers - Why don't you find out for yourself (Morrissey)
6. Radiohead - Wonderwall (Oasis)
7. Razorlight - Hey Ya (Outkast)
8. The Cribs - Modern Way (Kaiser Cheifs)
9. Kaiser Chiefs - Another Number (The Cribs)
10. Supergrass - Some Girls are Bigger than Others (The Smiths)
11. >Mystery Jets - Pioneers (Bloc Party)
12. Coldplay - You only live twice ( Nancy Sinatra)
13. Franz Ferdinand - It Won't Be Long live (The Beatles)
14. Oasis - Help (acoustic) (The Beatles)
15. Muse - House of the Rising Sun (The Animals)
16. Adam Green What a Waster (The Libertines)
17. Hell is for heroes - Boy's dont Cry (The Cure)
18. Death From Above - Luno (Bloc Party)
19. Muse - Cant take me eye's off of you (Frankie Valli)
20. The Ordinary Boys - Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran)
21. Foo Fighters - Lyla (Oasis Cover)


All tracks are downloadable.

link

Happy Friday!

Pass the Dutchie ... to the Dutch government

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch government will begin tracking every citizen from cradle to grave in a single database, opening a personal electronic dossier for every child at birth with health and family data, and eventually adding school and police records.

The Health Ministry says the new database will begin Jan. 1, 2007.

As a privacy safeguard, no single person will be able to access someone's entire file. And each agency that contributes to the records will maintain its own files as well.

But organizations can raise "red flags" in the dossier to caution other agencies of potential problems with children, said ministry spokesman Jan Brouwer. Until now, schools and police have been unable to communicate with each other about truancy records and criminality, which are often linked.

"Child protection services will say: 'Hey, there's a warning flag from the police. There's another one from school. There's another one from the doctor. Something must be going on and it's time to call the parents in for a meeting,' " Brouwer said.

Currently, all Dutch births are registered with local authorities, and children receive tax ID numbers in the mail within several weeks of birth. But their health and other records are not available in a single file.

Now each child will get a Citizens Service Number, making it easier to keep track of children with problems even when their families move.

-- Toby Sterling, AP Writer

Source.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS



“This is the second time in a row that God has invoked a disaster shortly before lesbian Ellen Degeneres hosted the Emmy Awards,” Robertson explained to his approximately one million viewers. “America is waiting for her to apologize for the death and destruction that her sexual deviance has brought onto this great nation.”

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

I'll take a chocolate frosted . . . and a HAND

THAILAND BODY PART BAKER
Artist bakes edible 'body parts'

Associated Press
Sept. 12, 2005 07:15 AM

POTHARAM, Thailand - Inside a dark room, realistic-looking "human body parts" are stacked on shelves and hanging on meat hooks. The place looks like a mortuary or the lair of a serial killer, but in fact, it's a bakery.

What appears to be putrefying body parts are the bread sculptures of 28-year-old art student Kittiwat Unarrom.

"Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy," said the fine arts masters degree student. advertisement

He hopes his realistic artwork will make people ponder whether they are consuming food, or food is consuming them.

"Everyone's life is rushed nowadays, even when it comes to eating," he said. "When we eat, we don't think about our health or safety, we only think of our taste buds."

As an undergraduate art student, Kittiwat started painting portraits. He then moved to mixed media and finally dough - a natural medium for him since his family runs a bakery.

Along with edible human heads crafted from dough, chocolate, raisins and cashews, Kittiwat makes human arms, feet, and chicken and pig parts. He uses anatomy books and his vivid memories of visiting a forensics museum to create the human parts.

He now is receiving regular orders from the curious and from pranksters who want to surprise their friends or colleagues, but that's a minor sideline.

By the end of the year, Kittiwat's confectionary slaughterhouse will go on display at Bangkok's Silpakorn University. It's his final dissertation, and he hopes it will secure him a master of arts degree.

"When people see the bread, they don't want to eat it. But when they taste it, it's just normal bread," he said. "The lesson is 'don't judge just by outer appearances.'"

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Friday, September 09, 2005

obligatory post-katrina post



In other affairs, Yahoo!news regales us with more stories of the skullnumbing obvious: Barbara Bush, mother of God, is a dumb cunt.

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster



http://www.venganza.org/

While you're there, be sure to guide the Flying Spaghetti Monster and convert the people to Pastafarians so they may enjoy a beer volcano and a stripper factory in heaven.

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Happy Friday!

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Merkin's Song of the Moment

updated ever on time.

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Wheat, "Don't I Hold You"

NAPSTER, circa 2000 – I found this gem, "Don't I hold you" by a then-unknown band called Wheat, and threw it in a mix along with Onelinedrawing, Cursive, Jacob Golden, Denison Whitmer...something or other (He sounded like a precursor to Sufjan Stevens, if that makes sense), Rainer Maria, and a bunch of others. It was pure acoustic indie-emo bliss. The best mix (to kill yourself to) ever.

Today I find a blog by a guy named Matt Dentler talking about this song , bringing back a deluge of memories. Apparently this song, which i've always thought will simply vaporize into the ether, will be on the OST for Elizabethtown, a Cameron Crowe film, due October 14.
Glad to hear some people share the same sentiment (and hope the film doesn't suck).

If you want to hear the song, hit me up.

Welcome to DELSEA DRIVE-IN





Admission: $6 for Adults
Box office opens at 7:00 p.m. _FM radio required.

The also have a full menu.




Link

nice ad.


for smokers on OS 8x.
more cool ads here.

warning: the following ads lay on the guilt thicker than your mom lays ... it.

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Work Well With Others

I can't explain this, and I don't remember how I found it. It was in my bookmarks & I like the illustrations.

Link

Monday, September 05, 2005

America in Color, 1939-43



The Library of Congress is exhibitng 70 depression-era color photographs, opening Thursday. Check out the Times link for a slideshow of a few.

There also a book, 'Bound for Glory', which includes 175 images.


Red, White, Blue and Kodachrome - New York Times

NPR has some too

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Craigslist: SEX CULT SEEKS SUBMISSIVE FEMALES



GURU SEEKS SUBMISSIVE FEMALES, HEIGHT WEIGHT PROPORTIONAL, TO JOIN NEW AGE SEX CULT. NO MEN WELCOME. MUST BE DRUG AND DISEASE FREE AND HAVE AN OPEN MIND AND LIKE BONDAGE, ROLE PLAY AND EXLPLORATION. ALL WOMEN SHOULD SENT PHOTO, WE ARE FORMING A HUGE FEMALE SEX CULT PLEASE RESPOND ASAP.

Link to Craigslist post



Do you have tits? Good. Vagina? great! Avid COPS LOCK user? PERFECT.

"I would like to do something that makes people happy"

Two articles revolving around Keita Takahashi, creator of Katamari Damacy.

"What do Grannies like?"

He introduced the design of his new controller specifically tailored for the Granny, and a picture of a cat appeared on the screen to great amusement. He explained, "the shape of the cat and the heat waves that it gives out really gets the old ladies going as they get quite cold. They like the cat shape. The cat is designed to be rested on the old ladies knees." The cat controller was met with rapture from the audience as Takahashi went on to explain the gameplay concept.
[thank you boingboing for bringing this to my attention]


Katamari Damacy designer analyzes self, industry, and games in general.

"I often wonder whether [artists] are contributing anything to society." He expressed his fear that artists are only relevant to themselves and remarked that the thought "never sat well with me."
[thank you me, for using google search to bring this to my attention]


Why does September 20th seem like it's FOREVER away?

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Sit back, relax, (turn on your audio), and prepare yourself for...

The Old Negro Space Program