Archive for October, 2007

We don’t really celebrate Halloween in Australia, do we? Television networks celebrate it. They have to because all their American shows are suddenly doing Halloween specials and so they make black and orange promos and dredge up those old Stephen King tapes to make it look like it’s happening on purpose. Maybe young people in…

California kleptocrats auctioning airport confiscata on eBay – Boing Boing “So far, $16,281 has been made selling objects taken from passengers at Oakland and Sacramento airports.” So THIS is how the government benefits from keeping us at war. (tags: politics) Derek Powazek – Happy Sewer It is a really happy manhole cover. :D (tags: photo)…

Quicksilver Wallpaper by Sigalakos For those fans of the Mac’s most indispensible utility, Quicksilver, you’ll have noticed the site has been down for a few days. Rest assured, MacUpdate has a mirror of Beta 52, Build 3813. I can tell you that in Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), Quicksilver no longer incorrectly appears up in…

I am lost with what to do about my social life. All I can seem to do recently is blame myself. Cycles of self-destruction. It seems that I like balance. When I have absolutely nothing going on in my social calendar, I am fine with it as long as their is absolutely nothing going on…

Secret Halo 3 vehicle revealed! :: DESTRUCTOID A glitch in Halo 3 allows players to get into a dumpster and jump around until the dumpster becomes magically airborne. Then the dumpster flies around in the air. (tags: games video funny) Review: Eye-Fi Adds Wi-Fi to Almost Any Digital Camera Amazing. Set up this SD card…

Welcome back from the weekend! (Australians: Welcome to Tuesday. Not as glamourous but I’m sure you’ll all rise to the occasion.) I went paintballing for the first time ever on Saturday morning. I had to wake up at 6-ish, catch a bus at 7-ish to meet a friend at 8-ish. Then he drove us to…

japan-guide.com forum – how to go to Jackson Hole in Nana Sato Koichi! :D (tags: japan) YouTube – Star Wars Redo AHA!! Vader’s voice replaced by James Earl Jones’ lines from Coming to America. (tags: humor video)

YouTube – The New BackUp Commercial A shotgun rack for the bed. I do not want to live somewhere where it would be a good idea to keep a shotgun within reach of your sleeping position. (tags: america funny video) YouTube – iPod Touch Ad – Nick Haley Apple’s advertising guys saw a fan-made video…

This is a good idea, trust me. I want to buy an old cassette deck with a stereo audio-in port. Then I will make mix tapes of modern songs that never existed on tape and give them to people. Remember that I’m in my twenties and the only cassette players that my people have access…

What Would Neil Patrick Harris Do? 90s TV star atop a shiny unicorn. (tags: movies) D’s Bones – Reality Check I enjoy that I know more than my parents about things. All part of growing up, I guess. (tags: parenting) over my med body! » What’re You Scared Of, Baby? Recounting the first observed delivery…

curiousLee: Need it now! I need 428 now. (tags: funny photo) teendrama.com – fieldtrip to the lego skyscraper Huge Lego skyscrapers feature a reproduction of one of Banksy’s works on the side. So hawt. (tags: photo culture)

I’m going to Japan for two and a half weeks and blogging would be pretty sparse during that time. Ah, who am I kidding. I’ll probably run down to an internet cafe every night after dinner. In my currently hyper-connected life, I usually don’t spend more than 2 hours away from a web page. But…

Woke up (alone, mind you). Apartment is dusty, needs vacuuming. Brushed teeth and showered. Toilet was cleaned recently because a friend came over but bathroom mat is kinda hairy and gross. Also: need to buy more shampoo as this bottle has run out. Ate breakfast alone. Weather lady on TV says that today will probably…

Xbox 360 Plushie by *kickass-peanut on deviantART Complete with cutesy pikachu-style face, memory card and wired controller. (tags: games) “Ask a Tranny” (tags: culture)

best of craigslist : To The Stoner Who Works At Cottage Inn Pizza Ahh this is great. Drugs are awesome, kids. (tags: funny) 25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips. Currently the site is having problems but check it again when it is working. There are some very significant comic strips here. (tags: comic humor) Rowling…

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer Beta: Click to enlarge image. Installed the beta of Microsoft Windows Live Writer, gave it my blog URL, username and password and it automagically downloaded my theme. Very impressive. I recommend this to anyone who blogs but doesn’t like the technical stuff. Good things: Posts look exactly like they should Much…

Inkling Magazine – The Calculus of Saying “I Love You” (tags: love humor) the Official Hillary Nutcracker site – Hillary Nutcrackers On Sale Here! (tags: politics) Moleskine Project People drawing in moleskines. Probably NSFW. (tags: nsfw inspiration) » Radiohead: 01 and 10 :: Puddlegum :: Looks like the band is having fun with this. “Something…

Puddlegum suggests Radiohead intended a ‘01 and 10’ playlist I don’t know if it’s true but people are suggesting a sort of symmetry or continuity between Radiohead’s 10-year-old OK Computer and newly-released, download-only album: In Rainbows. What I do know is that this idea is really cool and a whole bunch of awkward, misunderstood people…

Do you think I’m running out of time to sound smart for my age? My thinking is that all through childhood and young adulthood, there’s a certain expectation of intelligence but after a certain age, you enter the “anything goes” zone. In this zone, you could be some hyper-elite intellectual or the guy at accidentally…

BBC NEWS | Health | Fast food salt levels ‘shocking’ Blah blah, junk food will kill you. I just love the name of the lobby group: Consensus Action on Salt and Health. “Oh, just make your donation out to our acronym: CASH. We’ll see that it goes towards a healthier future for us and our…

Last weekend, there was a brief moment where I thought about how tragic it would be if I died. I know that sounds weird and just brain-crushingly morbid but, to me, it was kind of reassuring because I felt really strongly that I had a place in this world. Way back in high school, I…

defective yeti: Local News: Blows! Yep. This is the last time I listen to Seattlites. (tags: funny seattle) YouTube – The Wilhelm Scream Compilation Supposedly some sort of inside joke amongst sound editors, they keep using this scream sound in various movies over and over. (tags: funny video)

YouTube – Verstehen Sie Spass? – Unsichtbar / Invisible Fake bathroom mirror + identical twins = a hidden camera gag that isn’t unbearable to watch. (tags: humor video) The Daily Show – Stephen Colbert Loses It Reporting on the allegations of homosexuality against Prince Charles, Colbert loses his usually rock-solid composure. (tags: humor video funny)

So over on Kottke, he’s linked to a post in the NY Times (free registration required) about why we should smother our pasta in sauce: …it’s widely agreed that highly refined grains — a group that includes the semolina flour from which the best-tasting dry pasta is made — do us little nutritional good. From…

Last.fm – the Blog · Spot the difference It’s an unfair comparison obviously because Radiohead didn’t sell the new album through traditional channels. The only way to tell what people are listening to is if you had some magical device that could monitor them in their homes. (tags: music) Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned…

From Serious Eats: Mario Batali on the saucing of pasta You probably saw this link posted earlier today but really it deserves mention on its own. There is nothing I like more than properly cooked pasta with a delicate amount of sauce. I wish more people would learn this. I know, I know: tastes are…

YouTube – World of Warcraft …wha huh? Four wheels of fury! Oh yeah. I think someone said that this is a corporate commercial or something so keep your enjoyment on the down-low. (tags: video humor) Movin’ Meat: George W. Burns If you’re wondering why everyone kicked up a stink over the recent veto of a…

YouTube – PUNCHED SNL DIGITAL SHORT NBC OCTOBER 13 2007 ANDY SAMBERG (tags: humor video) lolsecretz Holy shit, this is the find of the month. Post Secret + LOLcats. That warm tingling across your neck and shoulders? That is sweet internet love. (tags: cats humor) Bus Tunnel HDR on Flickr – Photo Sharing! Beautiful HDR…

Ok it’s Monday. I want to start blogging daily again because that would be a nice change to this crazy repressive thing I do. I woke up, showered quickly, skipped breakfast and started to walk out the door when I realised I hadn’t done my hair. Hair needs to be done because otherwise I walk…

A Brief Message: Arrogance and Humility “Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity.” Clay Shirky is my hero. (tags: design inspiration) MIMIJUDE – Home These shirts? Just so perfectly cute. Too bad they’re like $28 each. (tags: clothes)

    Compare the pair. Left: Pacific Ocean near Australia and right: Seattle-Tacoma Airport Hey, let’s go to another country! Let’s fly across the a gigantic ocean in a big noisy can of sardines for umpteen hours. At any other time in the past, this idea would be insane to me. Friends always suggested vacations to…

Heading East: Late Last Night… *sigh* All these stories make New York sound so romantic. (tags: newyork) Edmonton Swastikas 1916 A hockey team from 1916. It was really confronting to see this image until my jetlagged brain figured out that the 1930′s happened AFTER the 1910′s. (tags: photo) ver.st – anti-piracy information Very cool little…

50 MYTHS ABOUT MONEY – Telegraph It’s British but the majority of the myths are good ones. I don’t think the answers are as black and white as they make it out to be but it’s worth questioning your assumptions before tying up your money in something you’re not sure about. (tags: money advice) On…

One month. Then I’m off to Japan for two and a bit weeks. I was so obsessed with planning my surprise trip back to Australia that I totally forgot. Here’s the outline: Nov 09: Fly United Airlines from SEA to SFO, then United again to KIX (in Osaka) Nov 26: Fly US Airways from KIX…

Speak Up › The Powerbook! The Powerbook! The Powerbook’s on Fire! G4 Powerbook burst into flames and this guy loves Apple even more. Weeeeak. I wonder if he participated in the free battery exchange that happened for the Powerbook’s Sony-manufactured batteries. (tags: apple)

dooce: Vroom! Vroom! Oh Chuckles, the adventures you must have everyday. (tags: photo) Radiohead’s New Honor System | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “This will do for the music industry what I have done for the handjob industry. I do not recommend it, by the way.” My sides have split. (tags: humor) Top…

Ergh, so many things I want to blog but I can’t really gather my thoughts for the 10 minutes it would take. The flight back to Seattle was easier. I slept for half of it, then I watched Die Hard 4.0, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Evan Almighty. The action scenes…

The Shock Doctrine Short Film Confirming what you already knew but it’s crazy to think it has been wielded as a doctrine. (tags: video politics book) Giuliani To Run For President Of 9/11 | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source (tags: politics humor)

No blogging. I flew in secretly to Melbourne on Sunday morning. I left on Seattle’s Friday night, spent 17 hours and 45 minutes in the air and I’m in Australia now. I’ll be back in Seattle on Sunday morning (October 7th). It’s a quick trip but its enough to catch up with family and uber-friends….