The Cyborg Name Generator. Simple. Cute. Waste of ten seconds. [via pinkBeltRage]

TNT-Audio, known for their unbiased and honest reviews of hi-fi music equipment, among others, are absolutely raving about a $40 mini-amplifier that now has everybody talking. I have absolutely no musical talent at all, so I can’t use this thing, but I know for a fact that some of you do, and I really think [...]

I have to admit that I’ve been intellectually lazy with this website for too long. My linkblogging is fun and all, and certainly easier for me than writing anything of substance about politics or hurricanes or technology or science, but there is way more that I’d like to talk about but never seem to find [...]

Caution: This article is for people who care about web development, advertising, publishing, and design. All others will probably find it too long, too boring, and too nerdy to be worth their time. I’ve been writing far too many presentations lately about the way the web has changed over the last year or two. Applications [...]

I just mentioned it quickly in the previous article, by 37 Signals just launched their collaborative, web-based text editor, Writeboard, that plays well with the rest of their fine applications. Another fine addition to their suite of beautiful Web 2.0 applications.

I LOVE GMail and use it as my ONLY email client now, except for work email where I am forced to use Outlook. I forward all my email from my old Yahoo account and my domain accounts ([at]chrisdiclerico.com) directly to GMail. I love some of the unique features, like conversation organization, fast searching, and labels [...]

I still haven’t seen Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, but I plan on finding the time this week. I just found out that it was shot completely on a Canon digital SLR camera, sort of like mine, and edited using Apple’s Final Cut Pro. Absolutely incredible. Here is an excellent article and interview with the editor, [...]

Yankee fans must read this article by Jedediah Palmer on 3 Quarks Daily today. This fantastically written piece simply NAILS why this season is special for New York. We love our heroes, but we love them even more when they’re tarnished. This season is one about redemption – redemption of a team with one of [...]

A quoi ça sert l’amour? is a brilliant animation by French animation company Cube. It dialoguelessly follows a young stick figure couple through the ups and downs of a relationship set to a beautiful duet by Edith Piaf and Theo Sarapo. The song and the animation are both incredible. [via drawn.]

In what has to be the best news story of the week, an Army Sergeant based in Tuscon, AZ attempted to rob a bank by duct-taping his own mouth shut and passing a note to the teller that said there was a bomb in there. Sweet, sweet plan. Police officers saw something was amiss, and [...]

Wonderbra has a new model, for the “plunging neckline.” It’s innovation is a small skin colored, flat strap connecting the two cups. It allows the neckline to go well below the cleavage with only a tiny little visible line. It is the epitome of false advertising. Maybe those rubber chicken cutlets they make to stuff [...]

ABC News is reporting that a marine with top secret clearance assigned to Dick Cheney’s staff has been caught and admitted to sending more than 100 classified documents, mostly via email, to the Philippines. The FBI and CIA are calling it the first case of espionage in the White House in modern history. Leandro Aragoncillo, [...]

In the Florida Everglades, it’s kill or be killed, or kill and be killed, or try to kill and be killed then kill. Nobody really knows for sure. Many pet pythons have been released into the wild in the past few years. Biologists believed that local gators could “deal with the problem,” but this amazing [...]

Instead of celebrating their No. 1 box office opening weekend for Wallace and Gromit: “Curse of the Were-Rabbit”, Nick Park and his talented band of clay-animators at Aardman studios are lamenting the loss of “their entire history” while looking at the charred remains of their Victorian studio. That’s right, this morning, the whole studio burned [...]

Time for another good idea. Mologogo. A good friend of mine put a little application that combines GPS or faux-GPS coordinate data sent from any location sensitive cellphone to a Google Map. That means if you have basically any Nextel phone with Java and GPS built in, you can download a little pice of software [...]

Not sure if there’s anything quite as good as Survivor Toyland. He-Man banging Pizzazz after downing a bottle of Jim Beam is a highlight. [via screenhead.]

CG Society.org has a fantastic forum/gallery of photorealistic, brilliant, computer-generated artwork, mostly done with 3D software (with some photoshop tweaking in some cases), that will blow your mind. I LOVE this hitman chimpanzee. [via drawn.]

The small Himilayan kingdom of Bhutan measures its economic success with “Gross National Happiness (GNH)” instead of GDP, and the rest of the world is now considering similar indicators. In 1972, concerned about the problems afflicting other developing countries that focused only on economic growth, Bhutan’s newly crowned leader, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, decided to [...]

Virtually all of the rumors were correct. Apple has revved the iPod, adding video and other goodness, which I will be ordering today. The new iPod has a 2.5″, 320 x 240, 260K color screen, supports playback of MPEG4 and H.264 video (with TV-out!) as well as the standard audio and photo playback of its [...]

Stewie Griffin tears into Eminem and 50 Cent in this hilarious clip from Family Guy. This is exactly why Family Guy surpassed The Simpsons as the funniest animation on TV. No holds barred. By the way, the new DVD, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, is FANTASTIC. [via skoopy.]

Journalist and editor A.J. Jacobs decided to outsource most of his daily life to India after reading Thomas Freidman’s The World is Flat. His account of the experience in Esquire Magazine is extrardinarily written, hilarious, and is inspiring me to outsource my own life. You HAVE to read this. Enjoy. [via kottke.]

I haven’t had this much fun with a flash app in a very long time. Muglets are little animated characters whose style, dance moves, music, and faces are under your control. I can’t describe the joy it brought me to insert images of the faces of my friends, rotate and crop them, and transform them [...]

I don’t think I have to tell anyone here that Mini (you know, the cars) consistently have the BEST marketing and viral marketing campaigns I have ever seen. I hope I don’t have to remind you about the whole Counterfeit Mini commercials and DVDs. In any case, their new online effort is fantastic in so [...]

The parodies and spinoffs of the Budweiser “Wazzzup” ads were always better than the original. It’s good to see somebody still keeping that tradition alive. 5 year-olds drinking milk are even funnier than hasidic jews. [from mike.]

Clay Wiedemann, “senior analyst” at frog design, NY has a new regular feature on Gizmodo called, “frog Design Mind.” This week he discussed the secondary market of good design, the use and re-use of a product, beyond its intended purpose – like the Altoids tin. He’s right, the DIY culture is a new big deal. [...]

The reviews of Shadow of the Colossus for PS2 are outstanding, calling it the best gaming experience of the year, and an absolute must-play. I adored ICO, the first game from the same developer, and have very high hopes for this one. Just watch some of these videos. I’ll be buying it tomorrow and giving [...]

I just got back from Atlanta where I was helping my company, Wunderman, set up, moderate, motivate, and mitigate a blog for the DMA conference (Direct Marketing Association) in conjunction with the DM News. I also took some photos that went up on the blog, and into the DM News’ Flickr account. The rest of [...]

My new black iPod, 60GB, video and photo capable, it on it’s way, ahead of schedule. Sweet.

The iPod video arrived today!!!. It shipped yesterday, but it’s here today. Holy sweet Fed Ex. I took a bunch of pictures of the opening and unveiling and put them up on a flickr set. I only had my crappy pocket camera, so the picts aren’t that great. Also, unfortunately, I don’t sync my iPod [...]

Ever wonder what would happen if a sensitive, likely-gay, “animal sympathetic”, card-carrying PETA member encountered a rat monster in an animal research facility? VH1′s Scare tactics wondered the same exact thing. They found out the answer: hilarious hysteria. A clip of the show is up on Google Video, and I can’t tell you how funny [...]

Enjoy this sweet home video of the Notorious B.I.G. freestyling on a street corner in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn when he was only 17 years old. He was seriously fat, and seriously incredible. It’s a shame that Puff Daddy (Sean Puffy, P. Diddy, Combs) killed him in his prime. [via alldumb.]

Robot Chicken is one of the better shows on Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Jay wrote about it once before. I was instantly hooked after seeing my first episode, but it wasn’t until I saw Volton get served that I knew how great the show really was. Now the clip is up on alldumb.com, [...]

These Chinese boys lipsyncing N’Sync’s “I want it that way” make me laugh so hard. I don’t know what is funnier, the lip vibrations on the reverb parts, or the third kid playing Quake in the background. It kind of reminds me of these two shirtless Korean kids lipsyncing from back-in-the-day. Ha! Orientals loves them [...]

OK, so this is not for everyone (you’ve been warned), but for all the professional and amateur web developers that come here, if you haven’t read about AMASS in the last few days, you are out of the loop. AMASS is a technique to provide 100KB of client-side data storage to an AJAX web application [...]

If you don’t already know about it, Flock is a pretty brilliant new web browser, based on Mozilla (so it should be as fast, accurate, and stable as Firefox), with many Web 2.0-style features built right in. Bookmarks are completely integrated with del.icio.us, and a blogging interface is built right in, meaning starting a new [...]

I’m up super-late on a Saturday night playing Shadow of the Colussus, and updating this website. Shadow has received critical acclaim, and as it turns out, deserves every word of it. It is truly awe-inspiring. As for this site, well, I cleaned a few things up in the various sidebars (capitalization, link presentation, etc.), removed [...]

OK, so the new iPod is incredible. I don’t know exactly why they dropped firewire support entirely, but the USB 2 seems to be working fine. One important thing to note that I have not read anywhere else: the new iPod is power rated from 5 – 30 volts. The old iPod from 8 – [...]

As usual, I debated until the last minute whether or not I would have this party. Thanks to the dozen phone calls from old friends asking when it was, I decided to keep the wilding tradition alive. So, I bring you “Halloween Debacle IV, Mardi Gras style”. That’s right, in the wake of the destruction [...]

[This is my new craigslist ad for a bartender for the party.] I am throwing a pretty big annual Halloween party on Saturday, 10/29. I’d like to find an attractive female bartender to mix and serve drinks from around 8pm until 3am. I expect 50 to 75 guests. I promise the party will be fun [...]

The Germans have it all figured out. Well, except for music and a handful of other things. They certainly have this “birds and the bees” thing nailed. In fact, the skipped right past the birds and the bees and jumped right to penis and vagina. This children’s book, Where babies Come From, is entirely in [...]

I arrived near my office today at 10:25am to discover that Madison Avenue was cordoned off from 39th to 42nd St., and 41st from 5th to halfway between Madison and Park, because of a “suspicious package” outside of the Starbucks on the corner. I stood on 41st, right at the Do Not Cross tape, looking [...]

I wish I had the courage to write this letter. If I win the mega-millions, I promise I will. I promise. [thank you slob.] UPDATE: Craigslist took it down, but I KNEW that would happen, so I saved the letter myself. Here it is:

I just got the following email from a very old, very good friend of mine. I laughed so hard snot came out of my nose. I don’t know if this is funny to anyone who doesn’t know the people he’s talking about. Enjoy. i haven’t slept in a week. i don’t know why. i am [...]