Everything has gone smoothly so far, except for one minor issue. All comments are now being mederated by MoveableType and I CAN’T TURN IT OFF!!!! If you post a comment to anything and don’t see it right away, it’s because I have not yet approved it. It’s all part of aggressive comment spam monitoring, but […]
91 year old, ex-FBI #2 guy, Mark Felt, revealed this week in Vanity Fair that he was Deep Throat, the mysterious informant/insider who was critical in breaking open the Watergate scandal during the Nixon Administration in 1974. The Washington post and Bob Woodward confirmed this fact earlier today, and Woodward (one of my favorite authors) […]
Gris Grimly is an absolutely AMAZING illustrator. He has a show at an NYC gallery called Animazing this month (actually it ended yesterday, but they assure me they’ll have his stuff up until Thursday). His style is a dark, macabre mix of fine pen and watercolor with such extraordinary detail and imagination. It looks as […]
Google announced a new program today called, the “Summer of Code.” In their neverending quest to outdo everyone, all the friggin time, Google will be offering $4500 awards to each student participant who successfully completes an open-source programming project with any one of the participating organizations. They’ll be accepting 200 students to start, I think, […]
Avatar, The Last Airbender is an unbelievably great new cartoon series on Nickelodeon, and the new number 1 Nick show for kids aged 5 - 11. New episodes are on each Friday night at 8pm est. Each episode reportedly costs $1 million, roughly double an episode of Spongebob and the quality in the writing, character […]
Guy Ritchie’s third major movie, Revolver is set to release this coming fall in the US. There’s some chatter about the script not being as strong as his first two masterpieces, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and Snatch. From the look of the new teaser trailer here on The Sun’s website, it is going […]
I mean really, really bad; Michael Jackson bad. Celine Dion sucks. She has retired about 7 times already. Why can’t she be gone, and stay gone. You MUST watch this video clip from an old concert of hers. I can barely believe this really exists. Seriously, doesn’t she have people to tell her this is […]
The folks at Got Used (which is normally a college textbook store - go figure) bring us this highly addictive bouncing ball game called POOM! It has now taken about an hour of my life and is likely to take more and more. Very clever game design, and very satisfying when you get on a […]
Soon we’ll all be making video games that completely suck. Thanks to a few new tools, homegrown games are getting closer to mainstream. It may be time for me to polish up some pixel art and get into the game.
The first is a brand new web-interfaces, PHP-based framework for creating a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online […]
This is the nerdiest thing I’ve posted in a LONG time. Anakin Skywalker discussing his switch to the dark side in a faux Macintosh switch ad format is so much funnier than you would think. I swear.
I just punched myself in the mouth.
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Pig Magazine is running a great interview with Nigo, the 32 year old founder/designer/promoter/DJ of ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive A Bathing Ape street-wear clothing line from Japan. NYC now has a SoHo store, where sneakers run about $500. Bape is a phenomenon in Japan, mostly because Nigo is a marketing and promotions genius. He’s now also a […]
I just found out there is something funnier than a pet lizard attacking a newscaster’s crotch. It is the moment when that newscaster freaks completely out like a 7 year old girl so hard, he falls on the floor. I laughed out loud. You will too. Trust me on this one. Watch this now.
[thanks rob. […]
The BBC Philharmonic will be performing all 9 of Beethoven’s symphonies and then BBC Radio will be posting the MP3s for everyone to download for free. That’s pretty great, and a fantastic opportunity to get acquainted with some of the best music ever composed. Symphonies 1 & 3 will be available Tuesday.
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Jason Kottke posted a series of great links last week following a back forth between some supposedly smart people discussion the merits of the theory of evolution. It starts on The Times Online, with Richard Dawkins article, Creationism: God’s gift to the ignorant, a discussion of the merits of scientific logic and the necessity of […]
Dave Devries is an artist with a great idea. He is taking monster drawings by young children, like the one below by Kimberly, and repainting them himself, in a really interesting, realistic way. Such a brilliant idea. Enjoy.
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I am going to suffer tomorrow, but I am wide awake, and there are dozens of good things to post. So, I guess, I am going to stay up and post them, at least for a little while. Oh boy. Tomorrow is really going to suck.
…because I’ve been leaning towards the nerdy lately. Thank god for The Superficial - I get all of my good hot girl gossip and nipple slips from one convenient location. For example:
It appears many sources have now confirmed that Jessica Simpson had sex with Bam Margera. It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Bam […]
Saturday afternoon, a guy who was helping move a friend of mine into his new house, was telling me about a gun made of magnets and metal spheres. He described a gun that could fire a metal ball fast enough to shatter windows and even kill a person, made out of simple magnets. I went […]
After months of waiting, staring at Jessica Simpson’s daisy duked ass (she’s really friggin hot in those), and listening to the rumors of her anal activity with Johnny Knoxville, and Bam, we finally get to see the trailer for what will surely prove to be the greatest worst movie of all time. I can’t wait […]
So much talk of movies lately, especially comic book adaptations, but let me indulge in some more for a little while longer. Some of you may not know that production on Superman Returns is finally underway, and Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men, X2) is directing. After so much past speculation and rumors, the choice […]
In case you haven’t been following this for the past week. Many rumors and confirmations last week that led up to this morning’s WWDC (WorldWide Developer’s Conference) when Steve Jobs officially announced that all Apple machines would be using Intel x486 chips by 2007! Yes, hell is now frozen over. Engadget and MacObserver have minute […]
Nina Gordon founded Veruca Salt, and was the lead singer for all the songs you might remember from the early 90’s, including “Seether.” Veruca Salt is still around, but she’s not in it anymore. She recently released an album, Tonight And The Rest of My Life, on Warner Bros. My good friend Kathlene in LA […]
This is Gregory Depres. He’s 22 years old. On April 25th, he came over the US-Canadian border in Maine carrying, and I shit you not, “homemade sword, a hatchet, a knife, brass knuckles and a chain saw stained with what appeared to be blood.”
US Customs officers confiscated the weapons, and then LET HIM INTO THE […]
I have had enough comment SPAM. I am done. I think about murder all day long when I check my email and find comment SPAM from this fucking website. I am up late tonight trying to cleanse this thing yet again. If I ever meet a comment spammer, or someone who jokingly pretends to be […]
by Brian Danger Murphy
i left you on the sidewalk last night with a blue stickie on your face that said “free tv - it works too!”.
this morning, you were gone.
i left you last night with the guilt a mother feels when leaving her baby behind in a basket at the door of a stranger. no […]
You wanna know how to win a DJ contest? DJ Scratch bastard knows. (I’m not sure if that’s really his DJ name..) Just use the turntables to scratch out the Imperial March music from Star Wars…
Sick.
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I just got an email with a PDF attachment of a scan of a 4 page handwritten complaint to the customer service department of Continental Airlines, written by a man sitting in seat 29E, right next to the toilet on a flight to Houston in December. As you can imagine, the sights and sounds of […]
I am in the middle of moving to a new server. It’s not easy. So much to transfer and reconfigure. I am going to stop posting anything for the next 2 or 3 days so I don’t have to duplicate stuff. If everything goes well, I’ll be transfering the DNS information tomorrow. Sometime between today […]
Fuck MovableType. I am DONE. Ordering my $100 refund for MT Pro. I am now switched, but barely so, to Wordpress. Free, easy, PHP-based, flexible, dynamic, smart - basically everything I want and need.
As you can see, I was forced to just go with a standard, unfinished template. I will be workign hard to sort […]
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, Pixar CEO, god of all things innovative and good, gave the commencement speech for Stanford University last week. It got some press becuase he told a story about how dropping out of college was the best thing he ever did. But those stories really sold the speech short. It is an […]
It looks like Penelope Cruz is getting naked in some new Italian film called Don’t Move, or Non Ti Muovere. Luckily The Sun found a still shot of her topless for us to gawk at. I don’t have much more to say about this. Hubba-hubba.
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In a cartoonish turn of events, a poorly thought out marketing-promotion went completely awry yesterday in Union Square. Snapple tried to break the Guinness Book of World Records’ record for the world’s largest popsicle. Yes, popsicle. As you can imagine, after the truck ride from New Jersey, the 24 foot tall, 17 1/2 ton popsicle, […]
A British man found a community of tiny little people living in his backyard complete with tiny little outfits, briefcases, backpacks, etc. This is clearly an amazing, groundbreaking, theory of evolution changing discovery. I hope they interview the tiny people soon, and hopefully do a special episode of tiny Cribs on MTV. So sweet.
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Durex condoms has a brilliant new marketing website. At Dickerations.com, the world’s #1 source for penis outfits, you can print and cut out decorations for your, um, dick. Capes, championship belts, bodybuilder chests… This is so fucking good I can’t believe it.
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Ragdoll physics in flash, with a bikini clad, unconscious woman, is WAY too much fun. Way, way too much fun. The russian programmer of this “game”, Tekta, has some issues - the kind of issues that I enjoy very much. I wish this was a screensaver.
Enjoy.
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Dear Mindy,
I have the biggest crush on you. There, I said it. That was harder than it seemed. I debated how to contact you, but nothing seemed quite right. Sending a random email seemed like the wrong approach because I am sure you are buried under email from weirdo 19 year old fanboys. And I’d […]
The trailer for Peter Jackson’s latest movie, King Kong, is finally up on the official website, kingkongmovie.com. I was not excited about this until this very moment. Jackson’s production website for King King is pretty great too. Jackson is really good about releasing goodies early for the fanboys to chew on - production notes, screenshots, […]
Here’s a nice bit of flash programming and marketing. Frusion Smoothies created this flash game that looks and feels and acts just like old-school Punch-Out for Nintendo (one of my all-time favorites) where you fight traditional breakfasts in the ring, powered by Fruit Frusion Smoothies. The Frusion Breakfast Brawl is fantastic fun.
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Amazon.com currently has 1GB Memory Stick Duos from Sandisk (with memory stick adapter) for $104 with free shipping. Normally this would not be news, but for those of you with Sony Playstation Portables (PSPs) you might know that these little buggers have been nearly impossible to find for months, and have costed at least […]
The art, illustrations, and paintings of James Jean are fantastic. He has a wonderful range of styles, from his surreal paintings to comic book illustrations, it all bursts with imagination and talent. A fan also put together a really nice collection of sketches and unfinished work, with James’ permission, on jjeanius.net.
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Here’s a nice bit of Indistrial Design for you to consider. The Bronze winner in the Consumer Products segment of the IDEA awards this year was this clever product from Rubbermaid. Designed by Beyond Design, Inc. and Rubbermaid’s internal design team, the Paint Buddy is a touchup paint storage and application unit that changes the […]
CuriousJorge.com has a fantastic page of photos of Asian couples caught in the act of making love in their cars. There is no description of how or why or when these photos were taken, but that doens’t make them any less hilarious. I strongly encourage you to go look at these photos. Caution, some are […]
This could be the cutest thing I have ever seen in my life. Turns out that CuriousJorge is good for more than just candid asian sex pictures - their Pictures of the Day are fantastic.
Duel is a great little CG animated short film by Anzovin Studios. The animation is smooth and well choreographed. It’s cell shaded rendering and looks pretty great. It could easily be a videogame.
[via screenhead.]
This could be the greatest new blog of the year.
“If You Are Reading This, You Had Better Fucking Hate Horses!!! Look, this is a website about horses and how much we hate them. They are gross and stupid and disgusting and smell like shit. There are flies all over them and they make dumb noises. […]