Meet Corey, the Starbucks homeless-nerd. Stephanie and I decided to interview him the other night to answer all of your probing questions. Armed with notepad and iMic’d iPod we approached him at his “office” in Starbucks. He was a friendly and personable, well-spoken, and witty. He charmed us instantly, and we spoke with him for […]
I’ve been seeing various blog posts all week about a new blog called postsecret. It sounded interesting, but I never went to check it out. Basically, they invite you to write down a secret on a postcard and send it to them in Maryland. They scan and post your postcard.
Well, I went to the […]
In 1989, I wore black, high waisted, Z. Cavaricci’s with 100 belt loops, pinched, tucked and rolled into a taper above my black Reebok hightops with the velcro strap stuck off to the side. I wore a white cotton turtle neck under a red champion sweatshirt, with a gold herringbone necklace on the outside, from […]
We all know that Pope John Paul II has passed away. I personally think it’s tragic the way he suffered, and barbaric the way his body is being displayed, out in the open with his little feet sticking out from under his gowns. It’s terrible. Wakes are horrible, even for the Pope.
What isn’t terrible is […]
I was recently complaining that Google hadn’t made their recently purchased Keyhole software available for Mac yet. Well, they responded by adding satellite imagery directly into Google Maps. It is incredible.
Keyhole is still pretty great, with fly-overs, terrain mapping, and angles and realtime zooming and stuff, but this satellite feature directly in the Google Maps […]
A guy named Danger just quit his job. Here is an excerpt from his farewell letter to the team. One of the best ever written:
” I want to take this moment to say what a pleasure it has been to work with you these last 2 years at Wunderman - but I would be lying. […]
CNN is reporting that Congress’ newly proposed energy bill calls for daylight savings time to last an extra 2 months, from beginning March until end of November. They expect the change will save the US the eqivalent of 10,000 barrels of oil per DAY (out of about 20 million barrels per day currently), simply by […]
This adorable little Indian girl is name Sandeep Kaur. When she was 9 years old, about the time when this photo was taken, she accidentally caught one of her braids in a “grass cutting machine.” It RIPPED HER FACE OFF. Yes, all the way off, like, in a sheet, on the floor, as if it […]
This video of skaters shooting baskets by DC Shoe Co. is incredible. Even though it’s heavily edited, you can’t help but be completely amazed by most of the shots in this video. [8.8MB Quicktime]. Worth it. Get it.
[via boingboing.]
I don’t know the story about how or when this Texas landmark came to be. I Googled it and came up short. I know nothing, except that this word, Luecke, who’s meaning I do not know, is enormous, and clearly visible from the Google maps satellite. Zoom around and see just how big this personalized […]
You can thank Matt for emailing me this MP3 from eBaum’s world or the best friggin phone prank ever. [2.3MB] So, so good. It’s borderline genius. I wish I thought of it.
[thanks Matt.]
Anyone who is an author on this website may have been having trouble logging in. I know a few of you complained. I think I solved the problem, so contact me right away if you still can’t login to post stuff. I’ll sort it out immediately.
Now, please START POSTING again. Everyone is tired of […]
There’s this concept art forum that I check every once in a while called conceptart.org. I haven’t been there in a while, and tonight, while clicking around, I discovered a great little contest thread.
Here’s the contest. Re-concept characters from popular 80’s cartoons. Such a great idea. Of course, these forums are filled with both the […]
Ever wonder how a hard drive in your pc or mp3 player really works? Well, so have I.
Lucky for us, Hitachi made this little flash animation to teach us how… well, sort of. School-House Rock for nerds. Enjoy.
[via kottke.]
Storyboard and concept artist, Dan Milligan, is phenomenally talented. He has a sketchbook online at conceptart.org in this thread, but his personal portfolio site is even better. I wish I could draw like this. Goddammit.
There are other great sketchbook threads at conceptart.org that are pretty great too. It’s definitely worth it to hunt around. Like […]
Joseph Jaffe, of jaffejuice.com, and hosts of others think this should be Nike’s next commercial. Jaffe even went so far as to cut his own last night. Yesterday afternoon, Tiger Woods made an impossible chip shot birdie on the 16th hole of the final round of the Master’s. He was hoping to leave himself a […]
Encology M. Records sent me this insightful email this afternoon:
Subject: Japaneese Teeen Hoot Fucked
Cute Bodlne Chcik Stripping
white hnoey having black dick rodoe
sexy lil milf peep stripping
Busty Hairy Asian Teen Fucked With Vibrator
Ccok spears huge titted folozys cinnamon ring
Nude Hairy Japanese Cleloge Socholgirl
Can somebody please explain to me how both Yahoo and Google can’t figure out […]
I’m not going to pretend that I was a huge fan of Frank Miller’s Sin City comic before the movie was released. I had heard of it - I checked out a few fan sites, but really thats about it.
Still, I could tell that many of the scenes were shot to emulate the comic […]
So I got this creepy, too personal email yesterday. I’m not easily freaked out, but I soliceted some advice from co-workers before I reacted.
Hey chris,You don’t know me, but I want to get to know you a whole lot better. I saw you hanging out with your friend jason at mermaids. And, you’re cute. No, […]
I think Kirsten Dunst has a great body, but head that looks like a snaggle-toothed jack-o-lantern. I posted a great nipple shot one time that you might want to look at. But, thanks to The Superficial, we have even more photographic evidence of Kirsten’s messiness.
Just so you know ahead of time… THIS IS NOT HOT.
[via […]
Vida Guerra is one of the hottest “real girls” on the planet. FHM discovered her in 2002 when she sent her pictures in and was invited to do a photoshoot of regular women in sexy lingerie. By day, she’s a loan officer in NJ. By night, well, now she’s in the top ten most googled […]
Do you know what these are…
Dirty Sanchez?
Blumpkin?
Donkey Punch?
New York Style Taco?
Flying Camel?
The Bismarck?
Buckin Bronco?
Tuna Melt?
Some but not all? Well, you should know them all and be prepared to laugh hysterically when you hear them again. A comprehensive glossary has been created, and you need to see it right now. Please note, this is filthy, and […]
and the guitar, the bongo, nunchucks, white trash, and an obvious hotdog or two.
Todd Weeks, obviously a black belt in karate (even though he sort of wears sweatpants without any belt at all), demonstrates his multifaceted skill in this series of sample videos for his “Freestyle Self Defense Videos, Volumes 1 - 5.” He’s looking […]
My good friend is the drummer for Mindless Self Indulgence. They call her Kitty but I know the truth. She’s also my good friend and colleague Gil’s girlfriend. Gil works with me from time to time.
Today on Screenhead I noticed a post about MSI’s latest video, You’ll Rebel To Anything, directed (?) by isoprophlex. I […]
It’s an IQ test. It’s cute. It’s fun. It’s funny as hell when the Dad hits the daughters. Play the IQ Rafting game straight from Japan, and see if you are as smart as me. It took me a few minutes, but I did it. the screenshot below is the whole family safely across the […]
I just finished watching Napoleon Dynamite for the 4th time. I fricken love that movie, gosh. There are so many memorable quotes from that movie I can’t even remember them all.
Deb: What are you drawing?
Napoleon Dynamite: A liger.
Deb: What’s a liger?
Napoleon Dynamite: It’s pretty much my favorite animal. It’s like a lion and a tiger […]
This short, animated, student film called “Snow-bo” is AWESOME. It is only available as a torrent file, downloadable using a BitTorrent client. If you don’t know what that is, now is as perfect a time as any to learn.
Anyway, Snow-bo is cute, funny, sick, ironic, and brilliant. This is an excellent achievement for a student […]
When I was in college, my multimedia/director professor was a great guy named Steve Kurtz. One time he showed us a videotape of a short animated student film by some graduates of RIT. It was called “Shadow Puppets” and it was absolutely incredible. If have searched everywhere, Googled a hundred times, and looked for any […]
I drew a pig with my mouse on this website that claims to examine your personality based on what you draw (actually they ask you questions about what you drew after you draw it). Go to drawapig.desktopcreatures.com to see for yourself.There are more than 99,000 pigs in the public gallery (to be completely accurate: […]
Holy shit. Adobe just bought Macromedia for $3.4 billion. Mostly they just bought Flash, but it’s still pretty crazy. I wonder what’s to become of Director…
Ha. And it looks like Slashdot brought adobe.com down. I’m sure they’ll sort it out soon. For now, the whole site seems to be giving the error “The document you […]
New York Magazine’s Shana Liebman explores the hip hopes of one young cool(?) Rabbi opening a synagogue in the heart of coolville, SoHo.
“Can a Shul Be Cool?: How the new SoHo Synagogue hopes to bring Orthodox Judaism to the velvet-rope set.” is a must-read article for all my Jewish readers.
Enjoy. No anti-semetism in the comments […]
I finished up dinner with my girlfriend at a little restaurant on 13th and 8th. We hadn’t decided how we were getting home yet, so we walked around the block, onto 14th, and towards the Square. It was a beautiful night. We walked for a block or two, between 7th and 8th, where the block […]
Quietly released, from a small independent production company, Panic Struck Productions, the 40 minute fan film (I guess you can call it that) Star Wars Revelations is hitting the web by storm. Many of you probably haven’t heard about it yet, but you will. It’s really quite good.
Here’s the deal. It’s a small story about […]
New York Newsday ran a short story about the Altoids Battery packs today, along with a bunch of other stories about recycled products and creativity. It’s a nice piece. Actually, I think the write-up is better than everything else that has been written. I have to thank Joe Amodio, for being so nice, for making […]
White smoke is coming out of the top of the Vatican. Either somebody fell asleep with a cigarette in their mouth again, or the Cardinals elected a new Pope.
78 year old Joseph Alois Ratzinger (born April 16, 1927) was just elected pope and has taken the name Benedict XVI.
UPDATES:
In the last few hours there […]
I am out and hammered and singing karaoke at the top of my lungs and I just had an epiphany.
it takes the good. It takes the bad…
Bottom line, either you like Blair or you like Joe, and that’s it. I liked Joe. When you are dating a girl, decide which she is. If she’s […]
It’s been a really long weekend. I have been drunk, basically, since Thursday. Not for any particular reason, celebration, holiday, or anniversary, but very drunk, each day, since Thursday. Now I am tired.
I haven’t posted anything during this time either. I haven’t had anything to say, and haven’t seen anything interesting worth telling you all […]
A misguided, retarded nerd “get’s into it” hacker-style on this german nerd forum. His threats of hacking his enemy seem credible for a while, until things don’t go quite right. You have got to be a nerd yourself to enjoy this, but it is worth the read if you are. If not, just go on […]
Maybe everyone already knows about this show, but Robot Chicken on the Cartoon Network is some of the funniest shit I have seen in a while. Seth Green is the mastermind behind this “action figure” cartoon. If you haven’t seen it, please DVR or TiVO it. You won’t be disappointed.
Sopranos 2006 - “Baa Faan Gool”
This baby porcupine from the national Zoo looks EXACTLY like a great uncle of mine on my father’s side.
And this baby mangabey monkey looks EXACTLY like his wife.
I come from a long line of ridiculously, ridiculously good looking people.
[via fark.]
I just searched, and can’t find a old post about the art show in LA called “I am 8-bit.” Maybe I meant to write about it but never did. That happens sometimes. Anyway, the show is a bunch of fantastic paintings and sculptures inspired by 8-bit Nintendo games like Mario Bros. and Metroid. Here’s the […]
I stumbled upon this great compilation of links for developers and designers - CSS, PHP, HTML, code snippets, color wheels, tutorials, cheat sheets, the works. If you are developing anything, this list is probably going to help you out in some way. For me, I am starting down the path of redesign/reprogramming this site, so […]
Todd Levin is one of the funniest motherfuckers on the planet. His blog, tremble.com is consistently one of the best things I read each week (he doesn’t post often enough). He’s also a creative and artistic genius. His often immitated, never duplicated, “Sharktopuss” was created in the 1st grade. It’s scary, the talent in this […]
Here’s a great step-by-step how-to for how to search using Google to find stuff laying around open directories on the web. You can find everything from prom photos to MP3s, porn videos, and paris hilton. You need this information.
Enjoy.
I wrote a post a while back about “Why Germans Suck” which was really only a criticism of their taste in music, ala Hasslehoff and Schnappi, the singing/sucking dragon. Today, I got an awesomely hateful and broken english comment from an irate German (or maybe fake German) reader. I thought I should share.
“i fuck hate […]
This week marks the 25th birthday of the Post-It Note from 3M, sometimes referred to as “Stickies”. Rakemag has a whole history of the Post-It if you care to read it. It is very long, and I am too lazy.
For the last few months, in order to concentrate in meetings, I have been drawing single […]
This would be the nerdiest thing ever, except the guy writing this blog as Darth Vader is seriously funny.
“Big day. Storming the rebel ice fortress. Took a nap first so I would be peppy. Leg feels pretty good. Admiral Ozzol took the fleet out of hyerspace too close to Hoth, and the Rebel Alliance were […]
Xyle Scope is sweet, sweet new Mac utility for developers. This very beta software requires Safari 1.3 which you can only get with the latest update of OS 10.3.9. What it does is lookup URLs and display all of there CSS attributes in well organized fields. Clicking page elements reveals that element’s attributes. It is […]
Huh? is a brand new, fake web consulting agency. They do stuff. Some clever copy, and a few stock photos, and voila, instant agency tossing around marketing bullshit just like the pros. For all of us in the business to all of you lucky enough to be in a different business, trust us, this is […]
This animated gif version of the Kama Sutra is kind of like Hamsterdance, only very, very dirty. Take a look at this page called “Sex” if you are over 18, and NOT at work, and want to laugh. Sorry, but I can’t even post a small picture of this.
[via kottke.]
Here’s an amazing story about a St. Louis auto mechanic who was born a Shiite in Iraq, driven from his homeland - only to comeback and help the US forces discover the whereabouts of Saddam.
I really hope this is all true.
According to his account, he was so overcome with rage upon finding […]
The full length, official trailer for Batman Begins is finally out on apple.com. I looks incredible, but I’m too tired to talk too much about it. Christian Bale looks like the best Brice Wayne yet, and Michael Caine is a perfect choice for Alfred. I love Katie Holmes even though she is now dating Tom […]
Regular reader and fellow Staten Island native, Charlie, sent me an email today about anew music artist who I think you’ll like. Matisyahu is the real deal. He’s really a Hasidic Jew, and he’s really a good Raggae singer. You really will not believe how good this guy is. His new CD is out and […]
Witold sent this over. I don’t know what it’s called, or what it’s for. All I know is that no matter how long I watch it, I keep laughing. Trust me, take 2 minutes and watch this.
[thanks Wit.]
Some nerds made a sweet video of a scene from Napolean Dynamite using characters in the game Halo 2. Basically, they act out the scene using their players in the game and record and edit a video of the whole thing. It’s actually pretty funny.
[thanks Matt.]
This is completely fucked up. This new search engine, Zaba Search, can find personal information about individuals that I did not know was even public. Search your own name and get ready to shit your pants. Address, birthday, state, zip, oh boy. Is this legal?
[from Matt.]
You can make a dope looking 35 mm pinhole camera out of paper if you have the plans and the patience. Here are the plans. Good luck. This is really pretty fricken sweet.
In 1979, a Czechoslovakian magazine published the plans for the Dirkon Paper Pinhole Camera.
“Its creators, Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolář and Richard Vyškovský, came […]
Yuri Lane shows off his original beatbox harmonica skills, which is like human beatboxing at the same time as you blow into (or out of) a real harmonica, in this little video. It is so dope, it’s hard to even talk about about. God, I wish I had any sort of musical talent. Any, seriously. […]
