August 2007
64 posts
ImJasonH: Twittering from Lauren’s Wii. Also, loving Wiider. (via Twitter / ImJasonH)
So I guess the title's a bit outdated...
The last few weeks have absolutely flown by, and now I’m back in Ohio, finished with my internship at Google. All good things must come to an end. I had full-time hire interviews at Google on Friday, flew out last night and started my final semester of college this morning (I’m in class right now, don’t tell anybody). I don’t really know what to say about it. Google, I...
Jason: Just fed all my worldly possessions to an x-ray machine. Goodbye New York… (via Twitter / Jason)
Chris Tucker To Focus Attention On Smaller, More...
NEW YORK—Wishing to evolve artistically beyond the blockbuster Rush Hour franchise that has made him famous, actor Chris Tucker… (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a...
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New Pixelated Glass Window in Cologne Cathedral
Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing reader Michael Shaughnessy says,
Greetings from Cologne, Germany. Yesterday the new Gerhard Richter glass window was unveiled at the Cologne Cathedral. It looks like a group of pixels and is stunning to look at. The line to get in was over an hour and even today, hundreds of passers by simply were staring at the window in amazement. It is great to see how a modern...
Burundi Beef Council: 'Please Send Beef'
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Jason: Every Dream Theater show should start with Thus Spake Zarathustra (via Twitter / Jason)
Jason: Wait, so not only is this theater an hour and a half away from NYC, but it also doesnt serve beer? LAME. (via Twitter / Jason)
Jason: I have found my life’s calling: Plinko, the drinking game (via Twitter / Jason)
CELEB: Bill Murray Can Do Whatever He Wants......
A few days ago reports surfaced that Bill Murray had been arrested in Sweden for drunk-driving a golf cart. I say, that’s EXACTLY the kind of shit he should be doing.
For far too long that recent variety of famous for nothing, layabout-type celebrity has gotten away with everything. From preferential treatment to all-star perks, they’ve cleaned up. For the simple act of being...
Hand Door Handles by Naomi Thellier
I would like my entire house to have door handles like this one designed by Naomi Thellier. Or, if that proved unaffordable, at least my toilet flusher, to congratulate me on a job well done.
Hand-le [Coroflot]
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Jason: Using Reader (and Twitter) from Mike’s Sidekick 3. I think I need a smartphone… (via Twitter / Jason)
New Decemberists - "The Perfect Crime (Junior Boys...
If reality TV has taught us anything (it hasn’t), it’s that you can in fact dance to Junior Boys. And the take home from our nights with Colin Meloy? You can dance to the Decemberists too! But apparently Mr. Meloy wants to make the danceability of his proggy chamber pop more evident (and without having to be present to lead in-the-flesh group-boogie exercises). So clear some hard drive...
Fabled Burger King Employee Places Single Onion...
MUNDELEIN, IL—A legendary Burger King employee, known across the land for the heroic and selfless deed of randomly inserting a single onion… (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Switch Off Colors in Google Logo
OK, please give this a try. Go to google.com, type the words …
… and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button. [By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]
[Advertisement] 55 Ways to Have Fun with Google (Book) [Advertise here] (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
[GEEKS!] Slightly Better Than a Daewoo
“Constructed using Lego’s Mindstorm Robots, this is an autonomous production line capable of building Lego cars. It can even select the color of the blocks used. Consider my little Lego geek mind blown.” Comments (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Portal Demonstration from Valve's EA Summer Media...
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Coca-cola: The choice for deaf -- er, blind --...
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New Bike
This kid’s been good lately
Author: derrickcomedy
Keywords: new bike derrick comedy derrickcomedy funny sketch father son gift mom action kill
Added: August 21, 2007
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Super Hero Social Network
My colleague, Mukund Narasimhan, pointed me to this paper by P. M. Gleiser on deriving the social networks of super heroes in the Marvel universe.
We analyze a collaboration network based on the Marvel Universe comic books. First, we consider the system as a binary network, where two characters are connected if they appear in the same publication. The analysis of degree correlations reveals that,...
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Shai Avidan, Ariel Shamir. Original and larger version can be found here http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/IMRet-All.mov
Author: siimteller
Keywords: photoshop resize editing
Added: August 21, 2007
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Food: $2 Plastic Pocket Shots (of Booze)
Pocket shots are like those little gel packs that marathoners use to go the extra mile. Except instead of energy-giving sugar, these are filled with vodka, rum, and whiskey. [Wired, Thanks Rob] (via Jason’s shared items in Google Reader)
Make Love: The Bruce Campbell way
Title: Make Love: The Bruce Campbell way Author: Bruce Campbell Recommended by: Jason Hall (double indirectly) My buddy Jason works on google reader, and he got me using it, and I think it’s great. Anyway, one of his shared items on google reader was about Bruce Campbell, and it made me decide to check out any books Bruce Campbell had written. (Shared items are pretty great, if Jason reads...
Two Firefighters Killed at Ground Zero Fire
Two veteran firefighters were killed in a blaze at the abandoned Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty St. yesterday. The building was in the process of being dismantled after it was damaged beyond repair during the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001. The New York Times reports that the fire started on the 17th floor, allowing the blaze to mushroom out of control as it consumed...
The School of Martial Arts that you need to kick...
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Amazing liquid sculpture
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The best magic i have ever seen…honestly.
An amazing magic act on America’s Got Talent:
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CULTURE: Romance and Cigarettes: About Damn Time
All the ingredients seemed to be in place: a stellar talent at the helm (John Turturro), a hell of a cast (James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi, Mandy Moore, Christopher Walken, Aida Turturro, Kate Winslet, Mary-Louise Parker, Amy Sedaris, Eddie Izzard), and a marketable concept (an adult movie musical featuring pop songs by Elvis, Cyndi Lauper, Dusty Springfield, Janis Joplin, James...
Judd Apatow's Walk Hard Trailer
See, the rumor mill does churn up morsels of truth from time to time. Our first report was grasping at wisps and whispers, but later sources confirmed Jack White (of Cold Mountain/Coffee and Cigarettes fame) was set to play Elvis in Judd Apatow’s forthcoming music-biopic spoof Walk Hard. Big thanks to reader Mitchell for sending in the trailer which sees Walk The Line and Ray merrily...
Mandy Moore Covers Rihanna
“Umbrella” has been so inescapable this summer, topping charts from Canada to Croatia (seriously, Jim was just there and they play it constantly when they’re not losing your luggage). In this week’s Hills season premiere MTV strategically used Rihanna’s smash, as well as the sultry, acoustic take by YouTuber Mariè Digby (take that Heidi, you lying bitch.). But the...
New Andrew Bird Video - "Imitosis"
Maybe there’s some sorta male teacher trend in videos in response to Van Halen’s reunion and all those resurfacing memories of Waldo and classroom bikinis. Or maybe not. Whatever the case, “Imitosis,” directed by the bug-loving Britta Johnson, finds Andrew (nice socks, dude) chirping about palindromes in a student-free classroom with violin, glockenspiel, electrodes, and...
Why I Am The Way That I Am
We’ve been at this blog for a while now, so I think it’s time you all learned a little about us. Today, I’m going to Uncov myself.
I think it’s clear that I don’t have the sunshine-up-your-ass San Francisco world view. How did I get so cynical and just plain mean spirited? There was an event in my childhood that set the tone for my life so far. I’ve been to...
CULTURE: At Long Last, The Mighty Thor, on the Big...
It was recently announced that with Matthew Vaughn at the helm Marvel is officially making the “Thor” movie.
Thor was by far my favorite character when I was a kid. If you’d have told me then that someday, they’d make a big-budget Thor movie I’d have, well… better to show you.
*Time Travel* Me- So, they’re making a Thor movie… Kid Me- WHO THE...
Hell hath no fury.
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How totally paralyzed people communicate
Mark Frauenfelder:
Mind Hacks has an interesting post about locked-in-syndrome, “where people are completely paralyzed despite having intact minds.”
Some people with locked-in-syndrome can communicate by blinking or moving their eyes. Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a book called The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by having someone sit next to him and slowly recite the alphabet. Bauby...
Video: Drinking A McDonald's
Would you ‘drink’ a McDonald’s?
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George Orwell on getting shot
Cory Doctorow:
George Orwell wrote “Wounded by a Fascist Sniper” after being shot in the throat in Spain. The essay starts, “The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think it is worth describing in detail.”
Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the center of an explosion. There seemed to be a loud bang and a blinding flash of...
For $13,000, You Too Can Own A 19th Century French...
A maverick Spanish inventor is selling a one-wheel velocipede that fully encloses the rider on eBay, based upon a French monocycle invented in 1873.
Boing Boing describes it as steampunk, but they have an unfortunate tendency of throwing the word “steampunk” in front of anything that is eccentrically vintage and brass etched. Granted, steampunk’s a cool word, but let’s not degrade it to refer...
Compiling
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Adidas Adicolor, Seven Short Films About Color
Last year the German athletic apparel company adidas created an innovative ad campaign for the revival of their Adicolor shoe line. They invited filmmakers to create seven short films, each representing a different color. “Pink” by Charlie White is by far my favorite of the series.
adidas creates a film series celebrating color, customization and personal expression. Each director was given a...
human-driven media facade
who needs fancy LED lights or an expensive projection installation to create a large-scale, dynamic “media facade”?
[links: improveverywhere.com & revver.com or youtube.com]
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The 10 Most Awesome Movies Hollywood Ever Killed
Ten movies that were tragically cut down before their time.
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Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister!!!
15,000 people have signed an online petition pledging their support for the man who recently drove to the North Pole in a Toyota 4×4 and beat an aeroplane on a race from the south of france to London driving a Bugatti Veyron…Jeremy Clarkson (of Top Gear fame) to become the new Prime Minister of Great Britain. Thats more support that the current PM so he may have a chance.
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Project Wonderful - Your ad here, right now, for as low as $0 August 13th 2007: Hey, TCAF is coming up this weekend! That’s the Toronto Comics Arts Festival, August 18th and 19th, and it is a great two-day celebration of comics right here in Toronto. There’s a ton of...
Mirrorboard: A one-handed keyboard layout for the...
Do you have a wearable computer? Are you interested in alternate keyboard layouts but too lazy to learn Dvorak? Do you masturbate at your desk? If you answered yes to any of these questions, I have a file you may be interested in.
I spend most of my desktop time in a web browser and the rest in terminals/messengers. So, like a gamer, I’m usually sitting with one hand on the keyboard and the...
New R. Kelly - Trapped In The Closet Chapter 13...
On Friday, we catered to your need for all things R. Kelly/Trapped with a premature evaluation of the latest installment of the crooner’s experiment in serialized absurdity (replete with the requisite “oh, shit”s), but now you can jump back into the saga with Chapter 13, playing in full over at ifc.com. The site’s running a Trapped-athon, premiering a chapter a day from now...
is the new word network
a network diagram which documents every instance of the phrase “is the new” encountered from various sources in 2005. it is intended to map the iterations of a peculiarly common marketing and literary device. (luckily, “awake is the new sleep”).
[link: thediagram.com|via TomC]
see also visuwords graphical dictionary & javascript visual wordnet
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Jason: Hopelessly addicted to Nethack, thanks to Alan. Playing it at 5:00am. What have I done? (via Twitter / Jason)
Stephen Colbert portrait in 768 mini Rubik's...
Xeni Jardin:
Link to explanatory blog post, here’s the photo set. (thanks, Ryan Russell)
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