Archive for December, 2007

Amazing Paper Airplane Flight Over NYC Video American Beauty’s plastic bag has nothing on this paper airplane. (tags: video) Comment is free: A man’s world Zoe is a writer that I completely agree with. Female sexuality needs to be more often defined by the female experience, pornography is a symptom rather than a cause of…

I don’t usually recap my weekends because, let’s face it, nothing happens. I usually wallow in my own filth and play Xbox for 48 hours straight. I am serious bachelor material. However, this weekend was great! A perfect way to cap off 2007. Sure, there’s still New Year’s Eve to look forward to but I’d…

Yadogg » Vinyl Sleeve Heads Photos with vinyl sleeves acting as heads. Some amateur and some are really convincing. My favorite might be Bowie. (tags: photo humor)

Club Thievey Mike’s working on his own little grass roots charity drive and its gaining momentum. Worthy cause. New Year’s Resolutions: “If I Am Sitting At My Computer But Not Logged Into IM, Do I Exist?” I feel the same way. My life is IM sadly. It was for the longest time and then it…

YouTube – jetBlue in-flight TV Programming Gone Very Wrong This is awesome. I wish I could loop this 45 seconds of footage to every video screen before take off. (tags: video funny)

I desperately want to write a sad post for the holidays to counteract all this good will and cheer that I’ve adopted in this season of giving. It’s like, I really really want to be happy and “fake it until you make it” has been my approach so far to this but it’s not working…

YouTube – Orangina Naturally Juicy English version If you do not know what a furry is, this ad for Orangina juice will help enlighten you. Weirdest thing ever. (tags: nsfw video) Old School [dive into mark] Sesame Steet from the 70′s was supposedly aimed at a very different audience. Looks like it has since moved…

So it’s Boxing Day except it’s not Boxing Day because this day is a public holiday that is only celebrated by the British Commonwealth. Americans have not understood that after the exhaustion that is Christmas, we need another day off. I should make it my life’s work to bring this glorious public holiday to this…

First example of Seurat Painting Photo on Flickr – Photo Sharing! This is stunning. (tags: art photo)

Everything you know about absinthe is wrong | Salon Life As it turns out, absinthe is nothing hallucinogenic or magical; it’s just another alcohol but distilled at 62% so don’t touch it until it’s been mixed. As for artistic inspiration? Well everything sounds like a good idea when you’re drunk. (tags: food)

9 year old beats through the fire and flames video (tags: games video)

11 “Don’t-Tell-the-Wife” Secrets All Men Keep (tags: love humor) Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies (tags: photo humor) whysoserious – The Dark Knight trailer Maggie Gyllenhaal looks hot and Heath Ledger looks just brilliant. They’ve set him up to be true arch-nemesis material. Looks like we could be in store for a Batman-Joker face-off…

Drive Someone Insane with Postcards – (eBay item 320196148761 end time Dec-23-07 10:03:28 PST) (tags: humor) Girl with a one-track mind Abby tells the very personal tale of being raped at 17 by a 24-year old that seems to have made a habit of forcing himself on women. Disturbing. (tags: women crime) PIPPARKAKAN_ENG Cookie cutters…

Director File ·· Ten Best Music Videos of 2007 Nothing kicks more ass than a good music video. (tags: music video) Best Buy Bodhisattva | Gamers With Jobs Some kid kicks ass at Guitar Hero 3. It might sound like a bunch of bs but this song is that hard and yeah you probably do…

Wow. What can I say about this movie? Well first of all, 9/10. Loved it. Right from the start, you’re treated to a gritty, hardboiled mystery. Who is on the other end of the phone? What are all these names? What’s with this strange slang they speak? Our protagonist is Brendan (played by the boy…

Is America Ready for a FLILF? | The Daily Show | Comedy Central The First Lady MILF. So funny. Safe for work too. (tags: video humor)

Jakob Lodwick – Happy Birthday, Lip Dubbing So this is how Jakob coined the term “lip dubbing”. So awesomes, I love it. (tags: music video) » eleven nails. Emergency Department How…?! How do you hammer 11 nails into your head and not die after the first one? This guy should be a brain surgeon. (tags:…

“If you would know how a man treats his wife and his children, see how he treats his books.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson How do I treat my books? Well for a while, like many people these days, I ignored books completely. I had TV and the internet and books never entered into the equation….

Seattlest: Seattlest Pix 07Dec17 “Santa whizzing in an alley…” (tags: seattle funny)

During our last afternoon in Japan, Marlene and I were in one of the basement floors of the huge Daimaru department store in Osaka. We were shopping for food and managed to land in a group of about 10 or so stores that sold so much deep fried food that it would be better suited…

The Happy Hospitalist: Frequent Flyer Club A list of common visitors to the ER. Scares the shit out of me. Please don’t let me be one of those that just “don’t get it” and several thousand hospital dollars later, they’re dead. (tags: medical)

Frozen IPods: Ice Cream Company Gives Away 10,000 Frozen iPods Inside Popsicles Genius idea and I’m frankly amazed they saw it through to execution. A promotion code would be much easier to do. (tags: apple) OXO Wine Stopper and Pourer – Sur La Table (tags: wishlist) YouTube – Christmas Story-Fa ra ra Ahh, good old…

So I recently linked to a blog post detailing the art of the two-percenter, a joke that only 2% of your audience will get. The holy grail of comedy is, of course, a joke that feels like a 2% joke but actually hits at the majority of your audience. Anyway, case in point: last night’s…

Your Rights: How To Report Merchants For Requiring A Minimum Purchase Or Making You Show ID Supposedly, you can report merchants for asking for minimum purchase or showing ID. I like this. (tags: money) Seattlest: A S.L.U.T. Is Born The South Lake Union Trolley is now operational. Besides the smartasses, I wonder if anyone is…

I woke up this morning to find that a few bloggers have started writing letters to their 18-year-old selves. You can read about 18-year-old Peter, 18-year-old Clink and 18-year-old Molly. I’m telling you this because I’m going to join them. So here goes: Dear Jack of 2002, Honestly, it’s only been 5 or 6 years…

Henry Abbott at TrueHoop picked up on a policy that… (kottke.org) “Look, I have got a rule. As an intelligence officer, your responsibility is to tell me what you know. Tell me what you don’t know. Then you’re allowed to tell me what you think. But you always keep those three separated.” (tags: politics writing)…

YouTube – All About My Dog – Marimo If you want to cry about dogs, watch this movie. Seriously. Crying. About a dog. Watch the movie. (tags: video)

50 Things You Learn from K-Dramas « Sweet Simplicity of Vanilla Cherry Of course, these apply to a lot of other dramas too. I used to watch dramas with my mother and yell out the overused plot points like I was playing bingo. “Amnesia!” “Reverse amnesia!” “Divorce!” “Cancer hidden from family!” (tags: humor tv) Angels…

Guide to buying used panties in Tokyo : Japan Probe Dang, I missed out. (Warning: there might be sleazy ads on this site.) (tags: japan)

Right now? 9am on a Sunday morning. I’m trying to make sense of last night. I think I’m understanding this clubbing thing now. At least, I think I understand why some feel compelled to go practically every week to the same handful of clubs. I’ve started buying Jagerbombs. I used to buy beers all the…

Vector Art: Brushes Damn this is cool. I wish I knew how to use Photoshop/Illustrator. All I use it for is to crop down photos for my Facebook profile. (tags: photoshop reference webdesign) Slip, slop, crack: the vitamin D crisis – National – theage.com.au Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. I’m sure…

Kokoro God in heaven, Mike is just on a roll. So many of his entries have been absolute gold and this one is no different: after taking the coward’s way out of suicide, how is one supposed to justify or even frame their existence? (tags: advice inspiration) YouTube – Here Comes Another Bubble – The…

I need more of my friends on Twitter. It’s a (very) short messaging service that broadcasts to all your friends and it’s like setting your Facebook status except better because you don’t have to become a vampire. I have Daniel, Dennis and David but they don’t describe their dreams and deliberations daily. Not even weekly….

Gaming Steve: Convert Your World of Warcraft Character into a 3D Model These actually look pretty damn sweet. I wonder if I can get one of my old character. (tags: games) How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook — Facebook — InformationWeek “Imagine how creepy it would be to wander into a co-worker’s cubicle and…

Hugsmugglers “Tokyo” tee. I like it but is it ok to wear since I am Asian and I will be expected to know what it says? (tags: clothes)

apophenia: boyd’s law of social network sites “Adding more users to a social network [site] increases the probability that it will put you in an awkward social circumstance.” To wit, all my friends have pending friend requests because it would be rude/awkward to outright deny them. (tags: culture) Dilbert Comic Strip Archive – Dilbert.com Oh…

Japan has pretty sophisticated public transport. In Kyoto’s bus system, we enter via the rear door (stop giggling) and we take a ticket that proves which section/zone/whatever we boarded at. At the front of the bus, there is an electronic signboard that tells you how much you should pay depending on where you got on…

LiveLeak.com – (cooking) Japanese cook does a “‘spinning egg and cut” trick Looks like a teppanyaki place. I’ve heard of this trick but never seen it until now; very skillful. (tags: video food) China to stop arresting women for carrying condoms: state press Ridiculous that they were doing so in the first place because they’d…

ze’s page :: zefrank.com: Brylcreem’s Effortless TV Ad (tags: humor video) James Fallows (November 27, 2007) – “The” way vs “a” way (Japan v China dept) (tags: culture japan) blognation USA » Blog Archive » I’m Ready to Bail on Facebook – the New Face of Evil I’ve always said that the only way Facebook…

Here are Jack’s vacation photos. There are a lot of them. So, I have finished uploading all the photos that I took in Japan. After trimming all the blurry photos, I have about 450 photos left. Yes, that’s still a lot but it was a two-week trip so you’ll have to cut me some slack….