Douglas Bowman of Stopdesign recently made all the template files from his beautiful personal weblog photo gallery available for free download and use. They are intended to be used with MovableType version 3 and higher, and it seems that they would be super-diffuclit to adapt to Wordpress or any other CMS. Since I’m not using […]
I have no idea how I missed this magnificent piece of art-engineering last year when it first made its rounds through the blogs. (Engadget ran it in September of 2004…) Sorry for being late to the party, but Wired is in the same boat, because they featured it this month as well.
The Animaris Rhinoceros Transport […]
“N” is one of the best flash games I have ever played. You control a featureless silhouette of a character through a series of jumps, bumps, and dodges in order to open the next door to get to each next level. Collecting “coins” adds to your time limit. You can be killed by falling too […]
Sorry. Shit’s crazy. I haven’t had any time to write at all. I’ve barely been surfing. Between watching the news, working my ass off, and enjoying my Labor Day weekend, I’ve not had any time for this website. I am headed to Cincinnati tomorrow (today) and coming back Thursday. I’ll have plenty of stuff to […]
Okay Chris, I’ll give it a go.
I spend alot of time alone working from home. I fancy myself a bit of a loner, plugging away in this little studio on Crescent Street. But even a loner gets lonely sometimes. To keep myself company and to keep in touch with the planet, I listen to alot of public radio. A whole lot.
I remember being over at my friend Won Jun’s house back in my early years of High School looking at the new Sony Mini Component Stereo he had just gotten with speakers that had flat, square drivers. They were pretty loud for their size, and I wanted one. But it was hella expensive […]
Cubeoban is a brilliant little puzzle game that I am wasting far too much time with. Slide the blocks in any direction and they go until they hit into something else. Find a way to cover all the colored dots with the right colored block. It’s really, really addictive. I got to level 12 (you […]
But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a […]
Peter Chung’s Aeon Flux from MTV’s Liquid Television in the early 90’s is now a live action movie starring Charlize Theron. I was a huge fan of the original animated series. The trailer for the new movie is now up on Apple.com, and believe me, this movie is going to SUCK ASS. Sorry to break […]
Apple stock was up $1.10 after very favorable reviews to the newest iPod, the nano, revealed yesterday by Steve Jobs. It replaces the hard-drive-based Mini, and is now offered in 2GB and 4GB flash memory-based versions, in black (yes black) and white! Black is already far outselling white on Amazon.com which is not a big […]
News Corp is now buying IGN, Internet Games Network, for $650 million, adding to its growing power on the web. They bought Intermix, creators of MySpace.com, a few months ago for $580 million.
[0 comments]Opniyama is one of the weirdest, cutest, strangest, confusingest, funniest, best-soundtracked flash games of all time. It’s from a designer in Japan, and there are no English instructions. I have no idea what the goal is, but it couldn’t be more fun to grappling hook your way around the massive board, planting seeds that grow […]
Rolling Stone magazine published Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide note written a few days before he put his polished .45 in his mouth and pulled the trigger.
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. […]
Five Days with Katrina is a fantastic photographic account of the first 5 days of the Katrina storm and aftermath. The photographer/author is a Nicaraguan guy named Alvaro, who lives in New Orleans. It is amazing to follow along with him as he slowly uncovers how bad the damage and flooding really are, and eventually […]
Microsoft, in yet another example of marketing genius, will be releasing the next version of Windows, Windows Vista (formerly Longhorn) with seven, yes seven (7), separate editions. You heard that right. In order to “personalize” and allow you to choose the version that’s “right for you”, you will need to figure out which of these […]
Blogger, designer, and my good friend, Bryan “Danger” Murphy, got smashed over the head with a baseball-bat-like tree branch and mugged of all his pocketed possessions on Saturday in Central Park. His account of the attack, and the pedestrian and police response is harrowing and fascinating. He’s lucky to be alive and he knows it. […]
eBay (you know, online auctions) is buying Skype (PC-based voice over IP (VoIP) for $2.6 billion (up to $4.1 billion is Skype continues exceeding certain perfomance milestones) half cash/half stock, catapulting eBay into a market that few people thought they were right for. Will we have to bid for price per minute? Hmmm.
Rumors suggest eBay […]
Patrick Plannigan is the sickest skeet shooter on earth. He’s an exibition shooter that uses a shotgun to blow self tossed clay targets (as well as other smaller objects) apart with seemingly little or no effort. Sideways, upside down, behind his back. He broke the world record for most hand thrown clay […]
Bosnia hasn’t been in the news in awhile. It’s either that or the fact that I don’t watch the news enough (not at all).
Unless Jon Stewart tells me what’s going on, I generally don’t have a clue about the world and the happenings within.
Maybe this was bound to happen in the eyes of the […]
Time.com has a great article about what went on behind the scenes during the development of the iPod nano and the decision to lose the Mini entirely.
[0 comments]Big ideas come from big pencils. The shockingly good flash website for the Leo Burnett ad agency.
[0 comments]This fictional letter describes the “Origins of The American Military Coup of 2012,” but was not meant to be a prediction back in 1993 when it was written, but doesn’t seem all that far fetched when reading it now.
[1 comment]Yesterday afternoon, chrisdiclerico.com went down completely for a few hours, along with every other one of the 60,000 sites hosted by Dreamhost, and Dreamhost.com itself, due to the LA blackouts, which might seem unusual given all of their “backup generators” but apparently it was quite a debacle out there in LA. Dreamhost has been blogging […]
Paragraph is a great new business that just opened up in Union Square. For a monthly fee of $113 - $130 (depending on commitment) writers get 24×7 access to 2500 sq. ft. of quiet, clean, stylish work and lounge space, including 38 partitioned work areas, a kitchen, livingroom, wi-fi access, and access to a library […]
Seems like everyone is telling the same fucking joke today…
Q: What is President Bush’s position on Roe vs. Wade?
I am pretty sure that this is the absolute best historical photo taken of any president of any time, ever. And it’s only a piece of his hand. I don’t think this is embarrassing for President Bush in any way. I think this is phenomenal. President Bush passing a note to Condi Rice asking if […]
Nintendo finally revealed the newly designed, much speculated about, controller for the upcoming next gen console, the Nintendo Revolution. As you can see from the photo below, it is certainly unconventional. The majority of initial public reaction is bad, but I wholeheartedly disagree. I think it’s the best thing to happen to console gaming interface […]
In recent years, Saturday Night Live has been doing brilliant, brilliant parodies of Jeopardy, with Will Ferrell as Alex Trebek, and Darrell Hammond consistently playing Sean Connery, along with tons of other great celebrity impersonations. Here’s a collection of videos of all 13 segments! So, so fucking funny.
“Sean Connery: Suck on it Trebek. Suck it […]
I guess it was bound to happen. With nip slips and crotch shots being all the rage these days, it was only a matter of time before the coveted breasts of Jessica Biel (previously only shown in ‘tasteful’ no-nipple photographs) came out to play with the stars.
Some of you might remember a few weeks back when I posted about this genius knife block design by Martin Robitsch. The Schaschlik knife block costs $110, and my knives are just not worth it. But for a simple little DIY test of skills, it seemed like a great project. So, as promised, I built […]
My Secret Life by Walter (The Sex Diary of a Victorian Gentleman) is an unbelievably explicit and filthy 11 volume memoir of a guy who lived in the late 19th century. Seriously, this is really, really dirty, debauched, and not safe for work. The author uses words that even I never heard of. And he […]
I wrote about the new Nintendo Revolution controller the other day, and since then, there has been a flurry of opinion from all over. I still contend that the controller is, well, revolutionary, and the gameplay possibiliites are near limitless. First-person shooters were the application I was excited about, but this teaser trailer for the […]
Steve Jobs basically called the RIAA greedy today, and refused to increase the price of iTunes tracks. Fuck the RIAA. Steve Jobs is king.
The labels make more money from selling tracks on iTunes than when they sell a CD. There are no marketing costs for them. We are competing with piracy, so it needs to […]
I am currently lusting after Jason Shiga’s illustrated book, “Hello World”, the first “interactive” comic book. I know I am late to the party, but thanks to Adam Kempa, I am now very in-the-know. The book is basically split in half horizontally. The top half is a clever choose your own adventure storyline about a […]
I just ordered Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer from the Aperture Foundation for the very reasonable price of $32. Vik is my absolute favorite contemporary artist. I missed his book signing last week because of work. This doesn’t quite make up for that, but it’s pretty cool. Thanks to Witold for pointing this out and […]
Some of you might know that I had a serious World of Warcraft addiction when it first came out that lasted for a number of months. Ultimately, I had to stop playing so I could have a life, but I continue to pay my monthly $16 because I refuse to part with my hard-earned characters. […]
The funniest, loudest, drunkest, nerdiest guy I know is Jonathan Clarke. He’s a writer and a musician and a toy collector and a dvd addict and and all around retard. And now he’s a blogger. If you have high tolerance for comic books and fantasy figurines, Jon’s blog, notinmybook, is for you.
I can remember a time as a young teenage when McDonald’s was a destination, and a regular possibility for lunch. I remember it as a treat, back when they had served 3 billion, before they served billions and billions. I remember enjoying myself a Big Mac, or some Chicken McNuggets.
I stopped eating fast food a […]
You should read this short but fascinating interview with Sydney Frank, the guy who brought Jagermeister to the US, invented the Jägerettes (basically, shot girls), and started Grey Goose Vodka, which he recently sold to Bacardi for over $2 billion. Now, at 85, he owns a Bentley, and 2 big Maybachs, and donated $100 million to Brown University. Cool guy.
[3 comments]In a story that sounds more like the plot to a terrible Sci-Fi channel B-movie, Hurrican Rita appears to have freed 36 bottlenose dolphins from a Navy training facility in Louisiana. These dolphins, part of the Navy’s cetacean training program, had been trained to patrol Trident submarines on the lookout for terrorists. The dolphins, normally […]
This giant pink bunny was created by a Viennese art group called Gelatin. It’s 200 feet long and will lie on the side of the Colletto Fava mountain in Italy for the next 20 years. No shit. This is really a giant plush toy, “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool,” and the […]
This software on my Treo 650 is called plogit, and I won’t lie to you, it has some problems. Its pretty buggy, has not categories, crashes my phone sometimes, and doesn’t REALLY support Wordpress. BUT, when it works, it is pretty great to post right from the phone.
These two ads for the Utah State Fair featuring Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro are fantastic, even if you didn’t like Napoleon Dynamite. (I think.) [via]
[1 comment]This video remix of The Shining trailer is absolutely brilliant, and a perfect demonstration of whatyouseeisNOTwhatyouget when it comes to movie trailers. Enjoy. [via]