I’ve posted my ‘Alphabet Killer’ design as a desktop wallpaper, created using ASCII characters and simple human figures. The desktop wallpaper is available in widescreen and standard monitor sizes.
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“Na na na na na na na na, where the hooooood at? where’s the hoooood… aaatttt” This ad from Sprint / Nextel is insanely irritating. The worst part of it is that it gets stuck in your head and at some random point on your day you’ll start singing DMX to the tune of Karma Chameleon. Whoever thought this up is either a genius or an idiot. This ad is almost as irritating as the noise those Nextel phones make right before their owner’s talk way too loudly into them.
By the way, that’s eight ‘na’s in case you were wondering.
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Is it me, or does the king from Le Roi et L’Oiseau (The King and the Mockingbird) look a helluva lot like the dude from Katamari that vomits a rainbow (he’s got some serious eating disorder issues). Actually, it’s probabl y the other way round. Anyhoo, this animation looks like a great piece of animation history, and supposedly is supposed to have influenced great Japanese animators such as Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame. Put together by renowned animator Paul Grimault and based on a story by Hans Christian Anderson, it sounds amazing. I haven’t seen it yet, and unfortunately isn’t on Netflix. IMDB has got in it the DB, and further research suggests the French DVD doesn’t seem to have English subtitles.
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Every morning I get up and make myself brush my teeth. Most of those mornings I contemplate what the hell goes on with that toothbrush the rest of the day - bacteria from my mouth having a little party in the bristles and multiplying like crazy. Thoughts of getting sick and germ-induced toilet visits loom like that annoying guy at the office that you forget about once he’s gone. Though in the end, the crap on the brush is the same crap already in your mouth (Adam from the Mythbusters had more bacteria on his tongue than a dog)- and you ain’t getting sick from your own mouth (unless you’re busy playing DIY fear factor food challenges) The mouth is full of hard core enzymes and good stuff that can kick bacteria’s butt - and if they don’t do the trick, the good old stomach acid most likely will. This doesn’t change the horrible fact that somehow fecal matter gets on your toothbrush while you’re not looking. (Blame the Mythbusters again for that research)
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Electric guitars took the idea of sound waves and acoustic properties and mostly threw them in the trash. An electric guitar is ‘electric’ because the vibration of the metal strings create an electrical signal through the use of sensitive magnetic pickups. This didn’t change much since their inception in the 1930s - but in 2002 Gibson produced a digital guitar that converted the signal from analog to digital internally, which was then piped out through an ethernet cable. Not quite your instrument for just having a jam session at a friend’s house. What about taking that concept and fitting out the guitar with high speed wireless - digital and untethered. Rock on.
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Blogger’s block? Blogstipation? I think getting slashdotted introduced something unfriendly to my blog’s immune system and I lot my feed appetite. But now the blogorrhea must come out! Of course, after a few days of not posting, there’s waaaaay too much backlog of news to catch up on. Perhaps it’s time for a “mark all as read” remedy. Then a margarita and some CSI.
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