CRIKEY! Sad, sad news this morning from Australia. Steve Erwin, everyone’s favorite crocodile hunting, animal planet hosting, deadly venom avoiding, alligator tail snatching, great white shark swimming Australian maniac was killed tragically this morning “by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest” while he was filming an underwater documentary in the waters off the […]
Everyone’s talking about Zinedine Zidane’s World Cup Final headbutt of Marco Materazzi. I have no opinion of the World Cup, of violence in sports, of international politics, or of France. I can only say that this is the single greatest headbutt I have ever seen…
And the world holds its breath to find out what the […]
For the dozen of you that don’t know what “net neutrality” is or the ridiculous debate currently going on in Congress, let me sum it up for you. Big telecoms and cable companies want the ability to charge more money to big companies to provide more bandwidth for them to deliver bigger and bigger files […]
BBC News 24 made an awesome mistake earlier this week. They planned to interview Guy Kewney, IT expert and editor of newswireless.net, about the recent decision in the court case of Apple Computer vs. Apple Music. While Guy waited in the greenroom, producers accidentally grabbed his cab driver who spoke very poor English, and who […]
Popurls.com is a brilliantly useful new site that aggregates the most popular links, videos, photos, etc, from ALL of the major aggregation sites. It’s a beautifully designed aggregator of aggregators.
When I say all, I mean ALL. On one page, they manage to squeeze, in a very organized way, the most popular links from DIGG, […]
It looks like Khoi Vin’s capable hands have already had a major impact at NY Times.com. The homepage is redone - looks a little like The Onion, and interior pages are fantastic.
For those of you who DON’T know, Khoi is a brilliant designer and founder of Behavior. They recently redesigned The Onion to […]
Jason McElwing is a Special Education student at Greece Athena High School in Rochester, NY.
He is the basketball team’s manager, and is loved by all that know him.
Jason’s been on the team for two years, and helps out the coach and players in any way he is able to.
For the last game of the season […]
Chris has talked about how stupid the RIAA is in a previous post (One of my all time favorite posts).
I, too, hate the RIAA (The Recording Industry Association of America), and I find a small degree of justification for my music thievery every time they turn up in the news with some new stupid thing […]
What do you do with 45 foot long, 8 ton, stinking, dead whale carcass that washes up on the beach in your small town in Oregon in 1976? Cut it up? Bury it? Burn it?
How about blow it up with 20 cases (a half ton) of dynamite? At the time, it seemed like a good […]
What a fantastic article. Popular Mechanics, a little pissed off at all the bullshit conspiracy theories about the September 11th terrorist attacks, went ahead and contacted EXPERTS and WITNESSES and debunked, theory by theory, all the bullshit conspiracy bullshit. From military missiles to demolition explosives, they do a significant job in explaining all the false […]
In 1957 or ‘58, black astronauts, or “blackstronauts” if you will, formed their own space agency, the Negro American Space Society of Astronauts [NASSA], after being locked out of the official NASA by racism and bigotry. Follow their story in this stunning documentary, not by Ken Burns, The Old Negro Space Program, and learn about […]
Somebody used rudimentary image stabilization techniques on the Zapruder JFK assassination video with striking results. I wonder why nobody ever did this before. It’s truly incredible. Be warned, the head wound is not pleasant to watch, and appears far more gory in this crystal clear video.
Somebody else did a quick stabilization of the famous Patterson-Gimlin […]