Archive for May, 2007

YouTube – Australia says no to apearing in Gov. adds Here is The Chaser’s take on the “Violence Against Women – Australia Says No” ad campaign. This was one of their earlier sketches on the show and it’s what got me hooked. (tags: humor video) home · LOLCODE This is kind of painful to read….

I just bought a new Xbox 360. There are lots of things to do with it. Add me to your friends list! I am KleptoJack and I need fellow newbies to compete against. Send me a message so I know how you found me. :) My sad gamerscore :( 1. Stop Spending I know, I…

YouTube – Father Returns Home Father surprises his son and returns home from the war. It’s kinda sappy and it’s obvious the person that uploaded this probably just finished watching their “House – Season 1″ DVD but the sentiment is still there. War is hell. (tags: video war) Intel’s Think Thin Laptop This laptop is…

meetuplex Job advertisement for meetup.com comparing the company to Google. They make Google sound dangerously homogenous and meetup sounds fun! (tags: geek meetup fun) Crazy Ladybugs by Unknown This game is hilariously fun just for the child’s voice alone. Hold down your mouse button and try to make the ladybugs run into one another. (tags:…

Patient advocacy: a baby’s life is saved – Blogs – Revolution Health A baby’s vomiting is dismissed as something trivial but the mother keeps bugging the hospital to look at her. Had the mother listened to the hospital staff and not spoken up, her baby would be dead. And you wonder why parents are so…

Well blog, here’s what I have to say for today: the guy who writes my horoscope is a smug bastard. Today you might need to practice more patience, Jack. You’ve been working hard to make your social life come together. Things might be improving only very slowly, and you could feel a little frustrated. Try…

YouTube – The Muppet Show – Mahna Mahna Classic muppets. Bastardised by Banana Boat sunscreen. (tags: youtube funny) Top Gear – My big fat green wreckling Top Gear got a hold of the biodiesel-powered Koenigsegg CCXR only to have a Koenigsegg engineer crash it into a traffic cone. This biodiesel version is actually more powerful…

Blogging isn’t helping at the moment. Something is wrong with my blogging.

YouTube – Night Drive for VW Brilliantly captures some of the spirit of driving. The monologue is just so poignant and everything is so beautifully restrained. It feels exactly like driving through the beautiful quiet of dark streets. (tags: car youtube) johnaugust.com » Hello, Residuals That iPhone commercial? There’s a short clip of Cameron Diaz…

Death by Veganism – New York Times Science is politically incorrect again. (tags: food health diet)

I give this movie two stars. At most. It sucked. This whole post is filled with spoilers but its a bad movie so I’m sure you don’t mind. Photo by idealterna The Good Stuff I’m going to start by listing what I liked. I liked the symettry of some of the shots; little nods to…

Waiting in line at a hot dog stand in Belltown at 1am on a Friday night, I spied two cute and drunk Asian girls. One leaned back into the embrace of the other, writhing provocatively and clutching at her hips. The other doing her best to keep her balance and hold up her drunk friend,…

Neopoleon : Oopsies… Word. Rory talks about the start and (hopefully) end of his morphine addiction. An amazing sense of honesty here. (tags: drugs)

I Chat, Therefore I Am… | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine It’s like a conversation between well-spoken 5-year-olds. Really cute. (tags: ai chat fun) VW Golf GTI W12 – First Official Pictures – Carmagazine.co.uk Read that headline carefully… W12. In a 2-door hatch. Twin turbo and mid-engined. Gets to 100km/h in 3.7 seconds. WHY DID NOONE…

You know what is the best thing coming out of Apple right now? It’s not the iPod. It’s not the newly bumped-up MacBooks; it’s not the mighty MacBook Pro; not the iPod shuffle; not the 8-core Mac Pro and not that little teevee box they done have. It’s not even Steve Jobs and his turtleneck…

I M Fat Shirt – I M Fat T-Shirt (tags: clothes humor) dooce: Only in Utah The traffic reporter on the local radio show, Kirsty Snow, seems to be a little absent-minded today. It seems she’s on auto-pilot and prayer is like second nature to her. (tags: audio funny)

Ruby Learning Test #1 – Mike Clark’s Weblog Teaching yourself Ruby and then tracking your knowledge by writing a set of unit tests. It’s a great idea. It might also teach me something about unit testing, heh. (tags: ruby programming testing) 5 Cool Things You Can Do With Your DNA — Eye on DNA “Bonus…

Hip Hop Isn’t Dying, It Just Sucks — The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics When most people tell me they like hip hop, I know what they really mean is they like the popular manufactured shit that makes them feel like a thug in their car and makes the girls shake their tits on…

LiveScience.com: Americans and Japanese Read Faces Differently Science may have an answer to why Japanese people use emoticons like ^_^ (tags: culture social science) Y.T.M.N.D – What Is Love? at Kontraband These are all parodies of the Night at the Roxbury skit (specifically, the one with Jim Carrey). Some of these are pretty darn funny….

So over at xkcd, the author is saying: We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus. This is not the algorithm. This is close. There’s no secret to this. I think he’s…

Wonder Woman and the Phallic Menace Freud would have a field day with this. Obviously the comic book artists hate their mothers. (tags: comics)

My Milkshake Bringeth All Ye Gentlefolk to the Yard No-one listens to the song anymore but I still think it’s some really funny lyrics in the right context. The movie, Dodgeball, used it to great effect. (tags: image humor)

So, I’m in the cafeteria today and I’ve been invited to the table full of Chinese co-workers. I can’t help but think to myself in a gruff cowboy voice, “Boy howdy, I sure wish they’d stop speakin’ all that asian-ese so I can understand ‘em.” Chinese New Year at Crown – 2006 They are, of…

A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks – New York Times How to stock your kitchen for the minimum amount of cash. Good advice really and it forces you into the business of cooking rather than thinking your kitchen isn’t “ready” for serious cooking yet. (tags: kitchen) HolyJuan: 10 Attributes of Really Lazy People (tags: humor lazy)…

So Mark writes about not wanting TV anymore even though he is sick. He also points to a Reddit discussion about giving up TV. I, too, have been struggling with the big black box in the living room. My third parent. My main source of general knowledge and Americana prior to the discovery that the…

NY Emergency Medicine: Goodbye, from Poland (tags: medical) Not Yours (tags: photo humor)

J!NX – CAPS LOCK T-Shirt I don’t know if the bash quote came first or if this shirt came first. It’s funny but I think the font is a little too camp. (tags: shirt funny geek) The Moo – Appledefects There is a known defect with some MacBooks and MacBook Pros where the fan tries…

Editor Finds Care, Chaos On the Night Nursing Shift John quit his job as an editor at The Wall Street Journal for a nursing job in a burn unit with about half the pay. His experiences are remarkable and you can’t help but think why nurses are treated like war heroes. (tags: medical) Dereliction of…

Fay cried the night before I left. We sat in the middle of the living room like every other night spent in front of my TV. It is one of the significant moments I remember about leaving Melbourne. She said that once I arrive in Seattle, I would be too busy to miss everyone. So…

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komoo: 你在做什么？ Chinese rip-off of Twitter, written in ASP.NET. (tags: twitter) Cynical-C Blog – » GOP Debate – Who Doesn’t Believe in Evolution Sen. Sam Brownback, Gov. Mike Huckabee and Rep. Tom Tancredo. Pandering or fundamentalist? (tags: politics creationism) Your Daily Awesome » Ira Glass on Storytelling Ira Glass is the host of This American…

Shashank’s Musings: Smart Keywords for Google Maps in Firefox How to add Smart Keywords (aka Quick Search) to Firefox with just a few clicks. I’ve been doing this forever but I had no idea you could just right click to do it. If you have firefox, DO THIS NOW and turn off that stupid search…

Business Perspective by Brapke I guess it’s time to write another blog post. Umm, let’s see. It’s about 2pm and I am only just start to eat lunch. I am feeling a little light-headed as a result. The terrible thing is that since I am hungry, I will eat lunch very quickly and this will…

Digg the Blog » Blog Archive » Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 Kevin Rose tries to silence his users to keep Digg running. His users don’t want to be silenced and now he’s joined the pack. Inspiring. Can’t wait to see how this pans out. (tags: digg drm technology)

true mom confessions “Motherhood is hard. Admit it.” – This is could be exactly the kind of thing that motherhood needs right now. If you think standards for women’s beauty is high, have a look at the perfection we expect from mothers. (tags: parenting confession hugs) SUPERCARS.NET – 2007 Gumball 3000 This woman is in…