For a long time I have wondered where the stipple artwork/portraits in the Wall Street Journal come from. I imagined they might have software that creates the illustrations from photos. But, I am pretty sure these existed before software was around to do the heavy lifting. Well, it turns out that this brilliant artist, Noli […]

David LaPuma, a Rutgers graduate student photoblogged the removal of his own brain tumor on Flickr. His calm, humorous description of what we’re looking at in each photo is extraordinary.
Some of you might know why this subject is pretty emotional for me. For everyone else, it’s a long story for another night. In any case, […]

I’ll acknowledge right now, that I am POSITIVE all these movies will be total shit. BUT, it is nice to see the things I loved as a child being important enough to spend millions of dollars to bring to life in my adulthood.
Alldumb.com has nerd handicam footage of the upcoming CG Transformers movie (IMDB), directed […]

Many of you have asked or written me privately asking how the Open Letter to Mindy Raf turned out. Well, the simple answer is, not good. I enjoyed writing the letter, and all of your interest. Even Mindy pretty quickly responded, on her blog, and in an email. It’s been long enough that I think […]

I have a couple of confessions to make. I have made it a habit to make a fool of myself on the website time and time again, so right now should not be unexpected.
Confession #1: I LIKE reality TV. Ever since I first saw Cops, The Real World, and America’s Funniest Home Videos, I have […]

Flickr Explore is a fantastic, brand new use for Flickr. Cheers to nice, homegrown added-value.
The idea is simple. Magically, by analyzing tags and image popularity and other attributes, Flickr creates a calendar of every day of every month and “hand picks” images based on “interestingness.” The result is a spectacular selection of photos that invariably […]

Owen Winkler is an awesome Wordpress plugin author. I downloaded and installed his new “flash filter” audio player plugin tonight. This is both a test post, and another shout out to my favorite new music artist of the year, Regina Spektor. I have a ton of her music and adore every bit of it. That […]

For years and years and years, people, including Mac fans, have bitched about Steve Jobs’ insistence on the single-button mouse. CTRL-click has been around on Mac for too long to not simply add another button to handle the context sensitive functions. Then the scroll wheel came along and Apple mice really started looking bad, even […]

Sam, The World’s Ugliest Dog, now has his own website, with refrigerator magnets, and t-shirts that are “coming soon”. You might remember I mentioned him a few weeks back. Well, um, he’s even uglier than we thought. How does his owner even touch this thing. Jesus.

[thanks danger.]

I recently noticed some extraordinary usage statistics for this website. It’s not what you would expect. Since all the publicity from the Altoids Tin and the homeless Corey interview, the number of visitors here has been on a steady decline. I still get a decent number from what I can tell (actually, it’s kind of […]

Here’s a fantastic new flash game. In PeekaBoom, two online players are randomly paired together to take turns playing both sides of this visual hangman game. One player slowly reveals an image to the other player and gives a hot/cold evaluation to their guesses. The other player sees the image slowly revealed and guesses objects […]

Cats are very agile creatures. They cannot be contained to a single room in the house by a little wooden gate. This video proves it. And will also make you pee your pants.
This is sure to eat up some of my bandwidth, but I don’t know where my roommate found this video. Now I am […]

I have been quietly complaining about the Space Shuttle program for years. As is often the case, I don’t do all my homework, and my opinions are based on little more than bullshit soundbites from various mainstream sources. In the case of the shuttle, common sense seems to ask some simple questions.
Why the fuck […]

I wish I would have had the little “planned parenthood” video when I was a kid. I might not have all the illegitimate children if I’d paid attention to “The G Spot“.

[via littlefuckingrayofsunshine.]

Mr. T has always fucking rocked. Since the day I saw him first utter the words “Grrrrrrrr!” and “Sucka!” in Rocky III, I have loved him. Later on, well after he graced our livingrooms as Bad Attitude Baracus, we learned that Mr. T was actually quite a nice guy, and not so mean spirited after […]

The art of Brandon Bird, which deftly combines pop-culture with fine art in a not-so-subtle way, truly touches a nerve in me. There is something heartwarming about Bo and Luke Duke battling demons in the sky, John Tesh in skater gear, and this rendition of Jerry Orbach as Det. Lennie Briscoe titled, “Vultureman.” So, so […]

Been here. Done this.
This is the most fun I’ve had playing a flash game in a long-assed time. Use your mouse to direct your guy’s eyes at this girl’s breasts. I can’t tell you how many times I played. Brought to you by Milwaukees Best, “The Beast” as we called it in college. My record […]

This is an amazing example of Parkour-style freerunning. You may have seen this type of super-athletic formless jumping before, like in this video, or in this Nike commercial, “The Angry Chicken” where the chicken is chasing this Parkour jumping dude.
Remember, no special effects. This stuff is simply fascinating to watch.

[mostly via screenhead.]

Dont mess with us men when were done, the last thing we want to do is cuddle. Check this out.

You MUST watch this short film, Between You and Me, by Patryk Rebisz. He shot the whole thing using only a Canon 20D digital STILL camera. That camera has impressive burst mode that was clearly employed here to create an absolutely beautiful effect.

[via kevin rose.]

I’ve never been what you’d call a ‘fan’ of the news and current events.
I hardly ever know what’s going on in the world unless someone points it out to me.
I’ll hardly ever be involved in a discussion about politics, current events, the war or anything that has anything to do with the government.
But there was […]

The Nut Bra “contains patented ball-hoisting technology” for the sort of support old balls need. too fucking funny.

[via alldumb.]

There’s really not much to say about the Body Bouncer.
It’s your basic technologically advanced sex toy.
Years of research and study have gone into this product to ensure your lazy ass that it won’t have to put any effort into sex at all.

That’s right, you selfish, lazy bastard.
Just lay there.
Weeeee…
[via Deviant Clip]

The Pixel gallery is now back up and running. It was not easy. Unfortunately, I haven’t actually created any new pixel pieces. But now that I have a forum, I’ll be spending a little more time clicking away at these tiny little illustrations. I hope you like them.
About the technology: I ended up using the […]

I guess this might happen all the time, but you have to see this animated GIF “video footage” of a passenger plane being hit by lightning. This is scary shit.

[via fark.]

The “Strip Generator” is an awesome piece of Flash fun. They provide the characters, the objects, the backgrounds, and the talk bubbles. You provide the rest of the imagination and humor. My first one was titled “enos” but, somehow, the email with the permanent link never actually made it to me. Maybe I’ll make a […]

Bryan “Danger” Murphy has been sending me great links for over a year now. He is funny as hell in real life, and was the author of the greatest farewell letter ever written, AND the open letter to his own TV. He’s a designer by trade, though you couldn’t tell from the look of his […]

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I have never been, nor want to be, a “star fucker.” I don’t read the tabloids, or buy the Post, or watch Entertainment Tonight or True Hollywood Stories. I simply don’t care. (I have to admit I read US Weekly, but only when I’m in LA on Kathlene and Kevin’s couch.)
But I do love, love, […]

I didn’t even know this was possible, but here’s a picture from National Geographic showing a young Chinese boy riding away from the scene of the crime. Dangling from the back of his bike is a floating plastic bag filled with natural gas. It can’t be safe, but it sure is clever.

[via boingboing.]

I absolutely love these tiny acrylic paintings by animation designer and cartoonist, Andrew King. They are all for sale at very reasonable prices. I am actually thinking about purchasing the one below, titled “Another Bad Day at the Office” for my office. So good.

[via drawn.]

You know I haven’t been writing enough when I passed on yesterday’s news about the riot caused by Henrico County’s educational iBook sell-off. They made the mistake of charging a mere $50 for each of the 1000 4 year old iBooks. I appears the more than 1000 people showed up for the sale, some waiting […]

I needed a new hobby, and I found a fantastic price for a new Canon 350D (EOS Rebel XT) digital SLR camera, and fucking bought it! It shipped today, from BuyDig.com (god knows where that is), and should be here soon. I couldn’t be more psyched about this purchase. The XT gets fantastic reviews all […]

I came across a post in a forum awhile back about a Google knockoff that translates pretty much any website and websearch into Snoop Dogg styled ebonics.
It’s called Gizoogle.
It’s pretty useless for anything other than a quick chuckle, and the reaffirmation of how smart people sometimes totally waste their skills.
If you happen to have a […]

Before I learned to drive, I learned to fly model airplanes with my father. For a good couple of years before I was able to get any girls, my dad and I would spend every weekend at a field gassing up, taking off, landing, looping, rolling and crashing. After a while, I got pretty good […]

Chris wrote about this movie awhile back.
Many are eagerly awaiting its release (June ‘06), but I hardly ever get excited about movies before I watch them.
One thing that isn’t super exciting is that the writing team of Superman Returns was the team that wrote the straight-to-DVD movie ‘Urban Legends 2′.
Cross your fingers, nerds.
Here’s some ComiCon […]

I had a serious conversation on Saturday, about steroids and dishonor in baseball. I am not a serious sports fan anymore. I enjoy watching, but I don’t have the time or mental energy for the numbers. I have nothing but respect for those people, lifelong fans and numbers enthusiasts, with strong opinions on the subject, […]

Sandwiched between Kazakhstan and Uzbekestan is another little-known former Soviet Union country that is about to become a household name. Nukehavistan most likely has nuclear weapons and is not afraid to use them, a recent report suggests.
The report cited several factors that aroused the DIA’s suspicion, including the recent ratification of the Nukehavistan Nuclear Pro-Proliferation […]

There is has been MUCH talk over the last few months and weeks about whether or not Google is launching its own Instant Messaging client. Recently, many folk have theorized that Google would adopt the Jabber IM protocol as the standard. I didn’t care very much either way, but still am guessing that their IM […]

I am not totally cutting edge because, clearly, it takes MTV or HBO to alert me to the things “all the kids are listening to,” but I figure I am still ahead of the curve in front of the rest of you white people. So here goes.
I am a big fan of Entourage on HBO. […]

i regularly visit Best Flash Animation Site to take a gander at the weekly list of the top 6 sites that use Flash. They’re usually pretty up and up on the good and the bad.
I like the top site for this week: elisasassi.com.

If you take a look at the ‘work’ she does, it’s pretty […]

Phitar’s Flickr Photos are absolutely incredible.

[via squidfingers.]

Seriously, I can’t think of a better little end to my hectic day than a trip back to my childhood on Saturday mornings. This archive on melaman2.com(?) of Saturday mornning cartoon theme songs is simply brilliant. There’s a bunch in there I never even heard, but I am most psyched about the ones that I […]

I got this from my friend Matt tonight. Not good for all you Internet Explorer users. Switch to Firefox right away!
**Please pay close attention to this email since your online security is at risk:**
If you’ve ever copied a PIN, password, or other sensitive information to your Windows clipboard, it’s fairly simple for a web site […]

I didn’t expect Chad from CNN to flip out like he did, but honestly, what would you have done? You should watch this video of Chad getting a bit annoyed with Camille’s interruptions on CNN.
“Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad.” Seriously Camille, shut the fuck up already! I can only image what […]

This Flickr photoset could not be more fun. Korean artist, Komusin, created this hilarious and genius “illustration augmented photos” of candy, pills, and gim-bap.

[via boingboing.]

I’m not sure that there is anything funnier than this.
Ali G, aka Sasha Cohen, as Kazakhstani journalist Borat Sagdiyev SWAM up to a Malibu Beach wedding celebration for Pamela Anderson’s DOGS wearing, what I think, is a leather motorcycle jacket, motorcycle boots, and near-speedo running shorts. Paparazzi, or somebody, got sweet, sweet pictures of the […]

You all should know by now that I love the site, The Superficial, mostly because I love when celebs make total asses of themselves, or get naked. The writing there is so funny, so rude, so irreverant, that I wish I cared about celebrities more. Recently, I started reading IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com, which has a similarly hilarious […]

This Schaschlik knife block by Martin Robitsch is genius as far as I’m concerned. It’s a wooden box 12″ x 8.5″ x 6″, filled with bamboo skewers! Knives slide in, perfectly safely, in any direction. It’s $110 that I will not be spending. But… I will be building one of these this weekend at my […]

The Onion just got completely redesigned (oddly appears to be DOWN right now…) from the ground up by Khoi Vinh’s NYC design shop, Behavior. Khoi’s account of the experience can be found here, on his very nicely designed personal site, Subtraction.com. Behavior also overhauled the AV Club a few weeks ago. Both designs are getting […]

Check out these really nice messenger bags by Bumbakpaks. They have a number of really nice features, including multiple pockets in and out, waterproof lining, quick access zippers, and multiple side pockets. But the really sweet innovation is the convertible shoulder strap that turns the messenger into a backpack. It hangs low against the ass […]