Lost America is Troy Paiva’s gallery of “night photography of the abandoned roadside west”. The work is so incredible. None of it is edited in photoshop, it’s all straight from the camera, which is hard to believe at times. Most of it is shot at night. So, so great.
Looking at these photos gives me the […]

I LOVE the photography of Piotr Zastrozny. He shoots with everything - pinhole cameras, polaroids, a holga, a lomo lc-a. All the work is beautiful. I stumbled across the site through link to some pinhole camera nudes which are beautiful, but once I started clicking around, I saw how good the rest is. I even […]

The NTSA confiscates tons of pocketknives, leathermen, scissors, and toenail clippers every day since 9-11 from people carry-on luggage. I always wondered how they would destroy these dangerous weapons after confiscation. It turns out that they don’t destroy them at all. They auction them off on eBay in very large 50lb lots, or sets of […]

37 Signals, the brilliant web development company that brought us Basecamp, the phenomenal web-based project management software (my team at work is currently evaluating for our needs), just introduced what looks like a fantastic new web-based PIM application called Backpack. You can basically use it for any kind of personal organization: add text, to-dos, […]

93 year old German former nurse, Erna Flegel, claims to have been Adolf Hitler’s personal nurse and in the room when he blew his own brains out. If true, and I have no idea how you verify, this is an awesome story and incredible missing piece of history.
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The Shield on FX is the best show on TV (well, second best to the Daily Show). I am so fucking addicted. If I had a time machine with only one trip left in it, I would use it to go ahead to next week (actually two weeks, because they are skipping a week for […]

Am I the only person who is thoroughly UNIMPRESSED with the newly redesigned Target prescription drug bottle. New York magazine ran the article a few weeks ago, and a bunch of designy blogs picket up the story. The article is good, the writeup is thorough. The pill bottle looks revolutionary on the surface, and even […]

Jonathan from Brown Cardigan interviewed me last night via email, mostly for shits and giggles. He’s a really funny guy, and I thought the questions were so bizarre, I had to answer. He posted the interview tonight. It’s a funny read I guess, so you should check it out.
1. I once ate so much ravioli […]

Google just never stops. It’s incredible. They just released a broadband web accelerator component for IE and Firefox, WebAccelerator. It’s basically a proxy cache to intercept and deliver pages way faster than the originating host. It will most likely mess up web stats and ad serving just like other proxy servers do (since the real […]

Steadycam setups usually cost hundreds of dollars. This guy made his own, for $14. It’s super simple, about an hour of work, and probably 85% as effective as a $700 professional version. So good. I don’t have a friggin video camera, but when I get one, I am definitely building this.

[via witold.]

This game, De-Animator, couldn’t be more fun. Seriously. So simple and so addictive. Reminds me of the feeling I had when I played Bowman for the first time.

[via screenhead.]

Bill Maher interviewed Jeff Gannon on “Real Time” the other night, and the interview is available online. It is really pretty awesome. It may be one of Gannon’s first interview’s since all the information got uncovered about him.
If you don’t remember this guy, he was the reporting in the White House briefings, from some silly […]

A guy called Wiedmaier put up a brilliant photoset on Flickr of the 7 Deadly Sins as acted out by Gummy Bears. He calls it “The Seven Gummie Sins,” but I like “7 Deadly Gummies” better. “Envy” pictured below is my favorite. Enjoy.

Roger Ebert has a brilliant revelation in back and forth letters with actor/comedian/little person, Daniel Woodburn (from Seinfeld) about the word “midget” being a politically incorrect term for dwarves or little people. It’s actually quite a great conversation, and I am glad they both decided to post it in its entirety online. I do find […]

Sweet. Maybe there’s something to look forward to after all. A UK critic, after a recent pre-screening of the upcoming Star Wars Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith, called it “a bloodbath” in this statement:
“Young Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) completes his transformation into black-hearted villain Darth Vader with a bloodbath against old allies”

It’s […]

This article tells the long, but brilliant story of an online bookie (online betting site owner actually) who hired an ex-surfer computer genius to fend off a series of DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks to his website in a failed online extortion effort. This type of extortion is becoming common practice, and is the […]

Michael Ian Black, from I Love the 80’s fame, wrote a hilarious article on McSweeney’s today. “WHAT I WOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IF I WERE BILLY JOEL DRIVING TOWARD A HOLIDAY PARTY WHERE I KNEW THERE WAS GOING TO BE A PIANO” is one of the better things I have read in a long time. […]

Starbucks decided not to carry Bruce Springstein’s new Devils and Dust CD citing explicit lyrics. Here are the lyrics for Reno, the song they cited. It looks like they might have a point:
She took off her stockings
I held ‘em to my face
She had your ankles
I felt filled with grace
Two hundred dollars straight in
Two-fifty up the […]

The MTA is now offering service changes and interruptions notifications via email. It’s sort of in beta stating today, and only available to the first 10,000 people. I signed up first thing this morning, the second I heard about it on NY1. You choose which subway lines you want to get emails about, after you […]

Danger Murphy saw a billboard this morning for a sweet anti-PETA website called petakillsanimals.com. We both checked it out. It’s filled with awesome ammunition against those fantical retards, including this great PDF about how they are targeting children. Allegedly, PETA distributes this “comic book” to kids on the street (or at least has done so […]

I don’t know if this is real, and I’m so grossed out by flies that I’ll never be able to try it. But, here are instructions to make a model airplane out of a matchstick and then have it powered by flies. If anybody out there with a strong stomach wants to validate this technique, […]

This fantastic article on fortune.com explains exactly why Bill Gates and Microsoft are terrified of Google. It’s a good, long, insightful read. Enjoy.

Bunny Suicides is a work of pure morbid genius. I used to sit at work and fantasize about ways to kill myself using only readily available office supplies. Some of my invented methods were quite imaginative, but they are nothing when compared to the suicidal creativity of these bunnies. I laughed out loud from some […]

Barbarian Bob is an awesome, cute, addictive flash game with great music that you should play now. There’s not much more I can say about it. Enjoy.

[via screenhead.]

Wanda Productions’ Wilfred Brimo directed this fantastic 3 1/2 minute animated PSA for French TV, titled “Aides.” It features good humor, a great song, frank depictions of situations requiring condoms, and semi-explicit animated sex that never feels perverted or wrong. This is an extraordinary animation.

[via screenhead.]

A very nice Simpson’s fan website called Homerize.com has every single original Simpson’s shorts from the Tracy Ulman show . Unfortunately they are in Real media format, but they are worth watching nonetheless. It’s amazing where this series started, as compared to where it is now. It will go down in history as one of […]

Irish Grandfather
A little boy asks his Grandfather for $5. “What is the money is for?” the Grandfather asks. The boy tells him that he wants to get a guinnea pig. The Grandfather hands him $10 and tells him, “Here, go get yourself a nice Irish girl.”
[via rick via collegehumor.com]

This is pretty cool. It would have been a better story if they found the kid 5 years later…

I wrote about the long tail of some online businesses after reading a great article by Joe Kraus (Excite founder) back in March. Since then, Wired did a nice piece on the same subject, and most recently, last week, The Economist caught on. It’s interesting how fast this is become cliche. According to the article, […]

I always knew deep down inside that Bigfoot was real. Now, there is FINALLY hardcore evidence. Check out this clear-as-a-bell photograph of the man himself: Bigfoot “The Abominable Snowman” the Yeti.

Or, it’s a redneck in a bear costume. Whatever.
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The geniuses over at tokyoplastic have created another masterpiece animation. This one is for Aiwa TV (I don’t know what that is).It’s called Music Box, and it’s incredible.

[via screenhead.]

Sorry for the lack of posting the last few days. I’ve been spending all of my free time, what little there is of it, backing up my digital life and upgrading to OS X Tiger on my Powerbook. Things are going well, so far, thanks for asking. This is my first post using the latest […]

Total bullshit. They cancelled the smartest guy on tv’s show. Now my ONLY source of news will be John Stewart. Good luck Dennis, wherever you land.
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According to MSNBC, “Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle has checked himself into a mental health facility in South Africa, the magazine Entertainment Weekly reported on Wednesday…” in South Africa?! What the fuck?! You get $50 million, and it drives you that mad?! I don’t understand. Give me the money. I’m Rick James, bitch!
Another TV tragedy. […]

The Times Online has a fascinating excerpt from the new book, Sinatra: The Life by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan. It’s a pretty long piece with some great detail about Old Blue Eyes’ love life, his many marriages, and many affairs. It appears that the 50’s were WAY better than Happy Days and American Graffiti […]

The newly released teaser trailer for Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe looks pretty fantastic. I was a big fan of the C.S. Lewis books, and this movie looks like it might live up to the legacy. I hope so.

[via whatdoiknow.]

This video for Emiliana Torrini’s song, Heartstopper, by director David Lea, is a fantastic. She sings while she directs a complex marionette puppet show that acts out the death of her father (or maybe it’s her husband). This is really worth watching.

[via screenhead.]

Time Magazine flew out to South Africa to meet Dave Chapelle and dispel all the rumors. They spent 90 minutes interviewing him at his friend’s house, not a mental institution, and it appears that he is more than fine, and just needed a break from all the bloodsuckers out there. You can imagine the […]

Sophie Marceau had a quick but spectacular “wardrobe malfunction” at Cannes a few weeks back, exposing her whole beautiful left breast, and the whole thing got videotaped. The screenshot below tells most of the story, but you have to see how cute she is in the video. I love her now. It’s all such a […]

The Ariel Atom is a tiny, two-seater, 500kg, 4-wheeled, open-aired, windshield-less and radio-less “car” that costs under 30K (pounds) and outperforms a $500K Porsche Carerra GT. It uses a Honda Civic VTEC engine fitted with a supercharger to produce 300HP: that equals 0-60 in 2.9 seconds, if “you can shift fast enough.” And it’s gorgeous […]

The Color Test game is wayyy harder than you think. Read carefully. Have fun. This is sure to kill a few minutes of your already busy day. Enjoy.
[from phil.]

Patricia Piccinini is the most talented, most fucked up girl you’ve never heard of. Her sculptures are so bizarre, so beautiful, and so well done, that photos of them have cause near-conspiracy theories of secret man-beast genetic mutations. Like the one below, called, The Young Family, which appears to be a very convincing woman/pig mutation, […]

Laleh Seddigh is a beautiful, 28 year old, Iranian woman, who, just last year, petitioned her way into the all-male national auto racing federation and got permission to compete against men. “..she became not only the first woman in Iran to race cars against the opposite sex, but also the first woman since the Islamic […]

David Kanham is a phenomenal illustrator. I have all of his desktop backgrounds on my laptop, and rotate through them constantly. I love everything about his style, and try to learn better Adobe Illustrator skills so I can render like him. His icons, backgrounds, sketches, animations, everythings, are really great. I wish he did prints […]

Welcome to the Crimson Room. The lure of escape and mega-IQ exclusivity will keep you playing for hours.
The only instructions you need are…
There are 13 items hidden in this room that you’ll need in order to get out.
If you found:
0-6 items, your IQ is very low, total idiot
6-8 items, Low IQ, u r an […]

Sony unveiled the next-gen PlayStation 3 at E3 today in LA, and it is absolutely stunning. There is coverage basically everywhere: Gamespot, NY Times, Joystiq, Gamespy, oh, if that’s not enough, just Google it.

The design is fantastic, and makes the new XBox 360 look like a toy (even though it’s not) and the tech specs […]

‘Boards has a series of 3 fantastic ads for the new Star Wars Revenge of the Sith video game. In honor of today’s release of the film, I’d thought I’d share these nerd fantasies. Enjoy Dodgeball, Paperboy and Pigeons.

Also enjoy these radio ads for the original Star Wars Episode 4 in ‘77. So good.
[via screenhead.]

You might remember that I posted about a great flash game called Hapland that wound up sucking hours of my life away with its clever little puzzles. If you don’t you can play it here.
Well, finally, the creator has made a sequel, which is just as cool, and about 10x as difficult. I really love […]

Contrary to popular belief, including my own, Google doesn’t get everything exactly right. After the release of Google Web Accelerator, even I raved about how they were continuing to change the world. Well, it turned out that Google Web Accelerator causes many problems, probably more than it’s worth. Basically, it trolls through every site you […]

Harry McCracken from PC World had the opportunity yesterday, along with a bunch of other people, to go to a Google Factory Tour to listen to a bunch of senior people from Google talk about their business, their future, and their humor. He writes up some of the top ten things he learned here. Some […]

The music industry is fucked up and failing. It’s in a downward spiral, and I have no sympathy whatsoever. Let it collapse, with no government bailout, no subsidy, no fucking fanfare. Goodbye because WE DON’T NEED YOU. We don’t need to be told how and where and when to consume music. We don’t need to […]

I hated Star Wars Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith with a passion. But I feel like I am the only one. It’s me against most of the world with the exception of a small minority. People keep asking me why I hated it so much, and I am tired of saying the same thing […]

So I have no idea how or why this 10 minute edited clip of Batman Begins even exists. All I know is that I see a WB 11 watermark in the lower-right corner, and this video made me so excited for this new movie I don’t even know where to start. My hopes were already […]

Here’s a great video of a Russian bodybuilder doing his posedown as a poplocking robot. It’s as retarded as it is awesome, so I can’t figure out what to say.

[via screenhead.]

This could be the cutest, saddest thing I have ever seen. These goats “faint” when startled. Actually they kind of stiffen up and lose their balance and roll over with their 4 hoofs straight up in the air. I laughed so hard when I saw this I nearly fell out of the chair. Enjoy.

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