500lb Rubberband Ball vs Car
The car loses. [View vid.]
Add comment June 30th, 2006
Archive for June, 2006
I am not an Otaku.
I’ve been trying to figure at what anime series would be good to watch, so I’ve been cruising around anime otaku blogs and checking out all the blogrolls. It’s made me realize I’m still a totally normal person. I don’t understand half of what they’re talking about, I’m not ecchi or into loli, and I don’t own much anime related crap. Here’s a buncha links for your amusement and possibly your entry into the weird wacky world of Otaku:
General Anime Info Sites
Anime NFO
Anime Recommendations
Anime Blogs (discussing current series/stuff from Japan) :
Anime Nano - blog directory & forum & irc
Random Curiosity
Yummy Sushi Pajamas
Sea Slug Blog
Chotto Matte
basugasubakuhatsu
Loli? Moe? None for me thanks.
lolitron
lolicontrol
moetry
Figures are another sub-subculture:
figure reviews on Riuva
alter-web
goodsmile
maxfactory
kotobukiya
R U hook’d? Need to have more J-stuff?
Right Stuf
Anime Gamers
Wizzywig
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Utada Hikaru = Tetris Freak
Vids of Utada Hikaru kicking ass at Tetris. Apparantly, she’s doing some promotion with Nintendo where you can win the chance to play against her. funfun. Is it me, or does she look soooo different when she isn’t in her pop glam get-up? Read more at her blog. (But only if you can read Japanese. Which I can’t.)
1 comment June 30th, 2006
Bleep Labs Thingamagoop
Bleep Labs has a wonderful video clip of their new ‘thingamagoop’ synth-toy-robot. It is so cute and funny and bleepy - it had me rofl-ing .
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C’était un rendez-vous
C’était un rendez-vous is a 1978 cult short film by Claude Lelouch in which a ‘Ferrari’ races at high speed through the streets of Paris in the petit hours of the morning. While probably driven by a professional driver, this was not a closed course - but claims of of going over 100 mph are exaggerated, and the soundtrack with its gear changes and high pitch engine whine is also cleverly overdubbed. See the video. See the ‘making of’ video which features the much-less-glamorous-than-a-Ferrari Mercedes. Oh the wonderful illusion of filmmaking!
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Entire Book written at Apple Store
Homeless model writes 250 page book at the Manhattan Apple Store.
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google maps package tracking mash mash
Want to see where the hell your package is? Using isnoop.net’s universal package tracking or www.packagemapper.com (wasn’t working when I tried it) you can see the route your precious box has taken with any of the major shipping companies (except UPS has thrown lawyers at some of these mapping sites before, so UPS visualtracking may not be around for long…)
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Urban Etiquette
Nancy over at Cultured Girl blogged about a really fascinating article in New York Magazine called The Urban Etiquette Handbook. It details how one should act in certain modern circumstances where the rules of conduct might not yet have been cemented into the social guidelines of our society. Take with grain of salt.
Add comment June 28th, 2006
Flash 9
Flash 9 is now available. I’m really curious to see how this (and other macromedia products) evolve after being acquired by Adobe.
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The Gillette SIngularity
Are we heading towards an inevitable razor blade black hole that will suck in the entire universe and spit it out again, well shaven?
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prayer to the ups guy
5:16
dear opus
please deliver my package
from evil
and bless my new clothes
with a speedy delivery
and give me the courage to forgive ups
those a-holes
and bless the tires on the ups truck
and absolve the delivery man of his end-of-the-day-b.o.
and guide him, opus, guide him
to my door
let your undeniable radiance shine upon him
in the form of a map
a holy map
leading him to the salvation of the ultimate deliverance
the deliverance of
my package
forever and ever amen
Add comment June 27th, 2006
The Principality of Sealand
“Sealand was founded as a sovereign Principality in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The island fortress is conveniently situated from 65 to 100 miles from the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. The official language of Sealand is English and the Sealand Dollar has a fixed exchange rate of one U.S. dollar.” - so sayeth the Sealand website. Quite conveniently, the Sealand site lacks and photos of this glorious offshore data haven / pirate radio base- most likely because it looks like their precious ‘principality’ is just a tiny offshore platform! And now, it has been abandoned due to fire… Ha!
1 comment June 26th, 2006