Fun
Oktapodi
2008-08-18
Flight of the Conchords
2008-02-25
Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie make up Fight of the Conchords, a kind of parody folk group from New Zealand. Click the image above to see them sing Business Time live on stage. "It's Wednesday, and Wednesday night is the night we make luuurve... Conditions are perfect; there's nothing on TV". They are clearly having a ton of fun.
I prefer their live performances over the music videos. Be sure to watch The Humans Are Dead, Jenny, Albi The Racist Dragon, Bowie Song, Something for the Ladies, Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World, and Issues.
C4 Conference Video Posted
2008-02-07
Wolf Rentzsch has posted the first video from the C4 conference that took place in Chicago last year. It's entitled Indie Ethos, and talks about the place of independent Cocoa developers in the world.
Here is the complete list. One will be posted each week.
- Wolf Rentzsch: Indie Ethos
- Wil Shipley: Monster Marketing
- Daniel Jalkut: Application Acquisition
- Shawn Morel: Virtualization Vivisection
- Bob Ippolito: Exploring Erlang
- Adam Engst: Hacking The Press
- Tim Burks: RubyObjC & Nu
- Cabel Sasser: Coda Confidential
Update: Will Shipley's talk about hype is up now.
Microsoft Will Eat Yahoo, But...
2008-02-03
That's my take on the Yahoo/Microsoft takeover. The original image was stolen from The Fail Blog who claim to have stolen it from Fark.
Yes it will go through. Yes the Yahoos will hate it. Yes the results will not be pretty. It's a huge opportunity for all the other players in their respective spaces to welcome customers and their money with open arms and great products. Google still has the small issue of creating new products that generate income to deal with, but it will be good for them. Apple will keep focusing great products on the customer.
Fake Steve sums it up best.
Send Your Photos To The Fail Blog
2008-01-31
The Fail Blog consists of pictures of things gone wrong and the word FAIL added. Some are set up, some are likely fake (as above), but most are real situations that just ooze failure of one sort of another.
Macworld 2008
2008-01-17
I visited Macworld today. My immediate impression was that It was more crowded and larger than last year. Notably there were many companies selling storage solutions: clearly back up and media storage is now becoming mainstream in the Mac world.
This is a plastic missile launcher powered and controlled by USB. I was lucky enough to get the missile streaking out of the frame while the shutter was open.
Ever wanted to type with one hand? The FrogPad lets you do that. In the foreground are two pads, one for left-handed people and one for right-handed people. The common letters are on the keys and to get the less common letters you chord with another key. There is also a symbol and a shift lock key. It takes a little getting used to, but I was able to type a simple message without too much trouble.
These are relaxation pods. I didn't ask what went on inside them.
One use for an old iMac case: turn it into a trash can.
I got my hands on a MacBook Air after waiting in line for a while. It's very thin, very light, and it's a Mac. There's not much else to say about it. Performance seemed fine for the small amount of playing that I did with it. The case got warm, but definitely not hot. Since it is all aluminum and curved, it's much stiffer than you would think it would be. MacBook Pros look like huge ugly bricks next to this thing.
Apple was showing off very little this year. The only Macs apart from the MacBook Airs were Mac Pros with two big screens each. These were being used to show off some pro apps and also for general OS X demonstration to any interested parties. No sign of Aperture. No iMacs. No minis. There was a whole wall of Apple TVs and plenty of iPods and iPhones on display.
Eye-Fi was there with their orange wireless SD card. You plug it into your camera and it transmits your JPEG images via regular wifi to your computer. Their software then stores it or automatically uploads it to a photo sharing site.
I also saw people creating hideous creatures with Spore. The gaming area was small this year.
Need a cover for your laptop? I didn't think so.
This is a plastic missile launcher powered and controlled by USB. I was lucky enough to get the missile streaking out of the frame while the shutter was open.
Ever wanted to type with one hand? The FrogPad lets you do that. In the foreground are two pads, one for left-handed people and one for right-handed people. The common letters are on the keys and to get the less common letters you chord with another key. There is also a symbol and a shift lock key. It takes a little getting used to, but I was able to type a simple message without too much trouble.
These are relaxation pods. I didn't ask what went on inside them.
One use for an old iMac case: turn it into a trash can.
I got my hands on a MacBook Air after waiting in line for a while. It's very thin, very light, and it's a Mac. There's not much else to say about it. Performance seemed fine for the small amount of playing that I did with it. The case got warm, but definitely not hot. Since it is all aluminum and curved, it's much stiffer than you would think it would be. MacBook Pros look like huge ugly bricks next to this thing.
Apple was showing off very little this year. The only Macs apart from the MacBook Airs were Mac Pros with two big screens each. These were being used to show off some pro apps and also for general OS X demonstration to any interested parties. No sign of Aperture. No iMacs. No minis. There was a whole wall of Apple TVs and plenty of iPods and iPhones on display.
Eye-Fi was there with their orange wireless SD card. You plug it into your camera and it transmits your JPEG images via regular wifi to your computer. Their software then stores it or automatically uploads it to a photo sharing site.
I also saw people creating hideous creatures with Spore. The gaming area was small this year.
Need a cover for your laptop? I didn't think so.
Predictions For MacWorld 2008
2008-01-14
The big surprise at Macworld last year was that the keynote was pretty much about about one product: the iPhone. This year there seem to be many things that are already known: a slim laptop, an update to the iPhone, a new Apple TV and movie rentals. So none of these is probably the big thing. And the banners saying "There's something in the air" have everyone talking about wireless technologies.
[Update: Less then 100% wrong this year. Home storage yes, but not attached. In fact very unattached: Time Capsule. Apple is moving the world slowly to computer appliances. We did get the rambling CEO again]
Last year my predictions were 100% wrong. Throwing caution to the wind, I present my probably all wrong predictions for Macworld 2008:
A Home Storage System
I keep putting this one up, and one day I will be right. Nobody does home storage right, particularly for Mac users, so there is a big market opportunity there. I think it will not be a networked box (NAS), but instead will be locally attached for performance. If you want to make the storage available on the network, plug it into an Airport or a Mac. Software does the bridging.
Wireless Data Service In Every Laptop
WiMax is a little new to the market, so if Apple has built it into anything, they have been doing an awful lot of work with chip vendors and software in secret. It's quite possible that Apple is putting WiMax into everything portable, but more likely is the addition of 3G or EDGE into the laptops.
No Shows
This is not the venue for for a new release of Aperture. PMA is much more likely. There will also be no new iLife of iWork: we already got those last year. The no-show I am hoping for is the "other CEO" who comes in at about minute 35 and rambles with notes until the audience winces. I really think that Steve puts these in so we can deal with the calls of nature.
A New Mac
I think a new desktop Mac is quite likely. Something that fits between the high-end of the Mac Pro and the low end of the iMac. It would be bigger than a mini, with at least two hard drive bays and at least one open slot for a PCI card. This would keep many people happy who need some expansion and flexibility but don't have the wallet for a full-blown Mac Pro. What makes it possible now is the low-power Intel chips and the subsequent option to package the electronics compactly.
Multi-User Mac Software
This is a long shot, but I think it will come one day. The Macs are already multi-user, but not with with multiple simultaneous screens. This software will allow a number of people to plug mice, keyboards, and screens into one mac and all use that one machine as though it were their own machine. That makes things much cheaper for schools and other high-density applications.
A Recording Device
Except for building it into Macs, Apple has avoided making audio and video recording equipment of any kind. Even the iPhone and iPod can't record video or sound. So there is a product gap for some sort of device that does one or both. You sync it with your Mac or PC just like an iPod and iTunes tracks it in its library. What Apple can better the market with are ease of use, recording quality, and capacity. With iTunes, Garageband, iMovie, YouTube, all the infrastructure is in place for personal event recording, editing, and publishing. We just need the gadget.
Make An Edible Flying Spaghetti Monster
2008-01-11
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have perfected edible googly eyes, so enabling them to create a 100% edible Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The Waiter, The Cheater, And The Zombie
2007-12-22
That is The Waiter. For The Cheater, The Zombie, and others, see this page on English Russia. Oh and there are also picked cell phones, bikes on top of cars, and more. Plenty of odd things and unusual photos if you dig around a little.
[self setNeedsDisplay:YES]; Cocoa Programmer Tee-Shirt
2007-12-07
Stand out in the crowd with a Cocoa tee-shirt. I've a few more ideas that I will convert into products when I get a chance.
You can buy this one from Zazzle. It has white lettering with the code [self setNeedsDisplay:YES]; on the front and the back. You can pick any dark color shirt you like. I get a cut of the proceeds.
Indexed
2007-12-06
There are diagrams, pie charts, venn diagrams and more at Jessica Hagy's site, Indexed. They cover many topics: car accidents, television, Thanksgiving, and GPS, just for a start. Some of them are available on tee-shirts. And there's a widget too.
Still Life With Melting Chocolate Bunnies
2007-11-18
The Dutch are at it again. See chocolate bunnies melted in three different ways. Set to piano music of course. Needs Flash.
Introducing Hide-a-Pod
2007-07-15
From the Hide-a-pod site:
Looks like a terrific anti-theft device. It's compatible with the iPhone, and I could use it to stop people stealing my chocolate at work as well.You love your iPod. It’s a great product. You take it everywhere and you use it every day. But owning a device so desirable and fashionable as an iPod comes with one major drawback . . . the iPod has become a target for theft. So how can you take your iPod out of your home without fear?
Playing With Fire
2007-07-08
I spent a brief ten minutes playing with an iPhone in an Apple store this week -- and remembered that it was a phone only after I had left the store.
In conversations since with people who have only seen the marketing and not the real thing what struck me was their disbelief that it really is as easy to use and as responsive as it is made out to be. Apple still has a credibility gap, but with the iPhone that will be narrowed considerably more than has been achieved with the iPod. There are a ton of non-iPod people out there who are phone buyers and those people, even if they only drop by an Apple store to kick the tires (or just know someone who has), will have that gap closed considerably.
So just what is iPhone?
It's a new word, created for the world to absorb and enjoy.
That's all it is: a new word. iPhone is less a thing, or even a family of things, than it is a word to symbolize an experience. Apple did this already with the Mac. It's Welcome To Macintosh, not Welcome To The Macintosh. And with the iPod. Always iPod, never the iPod. It's the press and you and me that gets this wrong.
Here's a diagram I published in March 2006 in a posting entitled Possession, Function, Access, and Emotion.:
It was about the iPod at the time, but look how well it fits the iPhone. iPhone is all of these elements, as is the Mac. This is why Apple is so hard to beat in the marketplace. iPhone (the object of possession) will change. iPhone (the functionality) will change. iPhone (the emotional connection) will change. iPhone (the access it offers) will change. But iPhone as a whole will not because it is all of these expressed as one. iPhone is not just a glimpse of the future, it's a glimpse of the now.
Welcome To Macintosh
2007-07-03
It's a documentary about the Mac, and it's coming. That's about all the web site will say about it. There are two teasers posted.
Abject-Oriented Programming
2007-06-30
Tired of the object-oriented approach and looking for something new? Try Abject-Oriented Programming:
See the comments too. Lots of clueful input that adds to the effect and lots of clueless input that shows what is wrong with the state of computer science today.Abject-oriented programming is a set of practices for encouraging code reuse and making sure programmers are producing code that can be used in production for a long time. The number of lines of code in the application is a common measure of the importance of the application, and the number of lines a programmer can produce in a day, week, or month is a useful metric for project planning and resource allocation. Abject-oriented programming is one of the best ways to get the most lines of code in the shortest time.
abject: utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
Fake Steve Jobs Is On Form Tonight
2007-05-31
Fake Steve Jobs is a hilarious blog that is being written at a furious pace by an unknown writer even as D: All Things Digital is still going on. He's obviously spent considerable time in the UK and has a good knowledge of journalism and Silicon Valley. My money is on John Paczkowski, as proposed by Valley Wag.
He's a Mac. And He's a PC
2007-05-29
In February I fantasized that Steve Jobs and Bill Gates could have some fun together when they meet at D: All Things Digital on May 30th. That's tomorrow, so let's see what happens.
The Apple Product Lifecycle
2007-05-22
With the hype of the Apple iPhone in full swing and the stock reacting admirably, now is the time to recall the Apple Product Lifecycle. It all starts innocently enough:
An obscure component manufacturer somewhere in the Pacific Rim announces a major order for some bleeding-edge piece of technology that could conceivably become part of an expensive, digital-lifestyle-enhancing nerd toy.
Some hardware geek, the sort who actually reads press releases from obscure Pacific Rim component manufacturers, posts a link to the press release in a Mac Internet forum.
The Mac rumor sites spring into action. Liberally quoting “reliable” sources inside Cupertino, irrelevant “experts,” and each other, they quickly transform baseless speculation into widely accepted fact.
Eager Mac-heads fan the flames by flooding the Mac discussion forums with more groundless conjecture. Threads pop up around feature wish lists, favorite colors, and likely retail price points. In a matter of days, a third-hand, unsubstantiated rumor blossoms into a hand-held device that can do everything except find a girlfriend for a fat, smelly nerd...
Some hardware geek, the sort who actually reads press releases from obscure Pacific Rim component manufacturers, posts a link to the press release in a Mac Internet forum.
The Mac rumor sites spring into action. Liberally quoting “reliable” sources inside Cupertino, irrelevant “experts,” and each other, they quickly transform baseless speculation into widely accepted fact.
Eager Mac-heads fan the flames by flooding the Mac discussion forums with more groundless conjecture. Threads pop up around feature wish lists, favorite colors, and likely retail price points. In a matter of days, a third-hand, unsubstantiated rumor blossoms into a hand-held device that can do everything except find a girlfriend for a fat, smelly nerd...
Purple and Brown
2007-05-16
Thirty-two Purple and Brown shorts in about 16 minutes. If the style reminds you of Aardman Studios, that's because it is Aardman Studios.
The Cookie Monster From 1967
2007-04-30
Known then as "Arnold The Munching Monster", the Cookie Monster meets (and eats, of course), a talking machine. From an IBM training video, apparently.
Villain Chair
2007-03-23
I want one of those. It would go well with my grey cat. Many other hard-to-find items at Suck UK. I also like the egg timer and the pen holder.
Hair Care or Digital Audio?
2007-02-10
You be the decider. Ridiculous Fish challenges the reader to match the logo with the product type. Not as easy as it sounds. Ridiculous Fish also hosts Hex Fiend, a fiendishly good hex editor.
Kevin Smith Protests Dogma
2007-02-06
Kevin Smith, Director of Dogma, wanted to know a little more about the rumored demonstration by 1500 people outside a theatre showing his movie. Here he tells the story of how he and a friend went along to join the crowd.
How To Tell When A Relationship Is Over
2007-01-29
DepicT is a short film competition. Short here means ninety seconds or less. Above is one of the entries from 2003: How To Tell When A Relationship Is Over. You have until Monday September 3rd to send in entries for the 2007 competition.
I'd Like To Buy A Copy Of Windows Vista
2007-01-28
A Pictorial Guide To Teh Internets
2006-11-06
Burning Man
2006-10-27
NK Guy has a web site with some amazing pictures of Burning Man. There are eight previous years too.
Finger Food
2006-10-25
Color Zoom
2006-10-08
Interact 10 Ways has a fascinating piece of Flash animation that turns pixels into images and then images into pixels.
Knithrify
2006-10-04
According to WordGizmo, knithrify is a verb, meaning to encase a person of noble standing in armor. Actually according to me, that is what knithrify means because I created and submitted the definition. At WordGizmo you define the meaning of pseudowords the page throws at you.
You can Google them too. Knithrify is on the Best Of page along with such gems as brib, bambage, mnempe, and gemblime for size. Resolve to use them in casual conversation.
You can Google them too. Knithrify is on the Best Of page along with such gems as brib, bambage, mnempe, and gemblime for size. Resolve to use them in casual conversation.
The Yip Yip Martians Discover a Phone
2006-09-13
Devil Ducky has a video of the Yip Yip Martians from Sesame Street finding a phone and trying to communicate with it.
Multiplayer Game of the Year
2006-09-03
Cabel's Blog has an article about the Multiplayer Game of the Year. It's not what you think it might be. It's running. Real running on two legs.
What makes it multiplayer is that he's using iPod+Nike and competing against people on line. And that is where it gets interesting. He's writing about the social and emotional attachment that iPod+Nike has given him through running. This is where Apple is earning its new long-term business: technological support for emotional and social experiences.
What makes it multiplayer is that he's using iPod+Nike and competing against people on line. And that is where it gets interesting. He's writing about the social and emotional attachment that iPod+Nike has given him through running. This is where Apple is earning its new long-term business: technological support for emotional and social experiences.
Skeletons of Cartoon Characters
2006-09-01
Forty-Seven Minutes with Rowan Atkinson
2006-08-15
Posted on PistolWimp, 47 minutes of Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) from 1992 as the devil, a headmaster, and others. Classic material from that era.
See Everything With Todos
2006-08-05
This utility shows you all your applications with a single key combination. Pick the one you want and it will launch it. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger required.
Microsoft Feels Your Pain
2006-07-27
Aperture Viewer Tricks
2006-07-26
Can your viewer do this?
The movie above shows nine images in the Aperture viewer chasing around in a square. I'll show you how it is done.
In the thumbnail viewer (grid) make sure you have at least twenty images. Make the viewer visible and set the viewer into Multi mode (option U). Scroll to the top of the thumbnails and mentally label the first nine images from 1 to 9.
Click on the first image (number 1), then command click on eight more in the order 2 3 8 9 4 7 6 5. Once you have done that you will have nine images in the viewer.
Now hit command right-arrow a few times. Images appear in the middle and disappear on the left! Command left-arrow will do the opposite. Command arrow is the Slide function. By clicking on the images in that special order you defined how they slide on the screen.
Here are some things you can do with four images (click image to download movie):
To slide two images up together, click in the order 1 2 3 4 and hit command-right twice in quick succession. To do a double down, the order is 4 3 2 1 and command-right twice. A double left is 1 3 2 4, and a double right is 4 2 3 1. So expressed in shorthand this is:
1 2 3 4 RR slides up
4 3 2 1 RR slides down
1 3 2 4 RR slides left
4 2 3 1 RR slides right
You can make four images rotate too. Try these. This time they use a single command-right key:
1 4 2 3 R clockwise, enter top right
3 2 4 1 R clockwise, enter bottom left
2 3 1 4 R counter, enter bottom right
4 3 1 2 R clockwise enter top left
This next one I call "the rocket" (click image to download movie):
Notice that you have to use seven images for this one.
1 4 5 7 R Rocket to top right
1 7 5 2 R Rocket to top left
It works with six images too, but this is different. Depending on the shape of the viewer six images can be arranged in either two rows or two columns. Here is a six image rotate for two rows (click image to download movie):
For two columns, these patterns work:
1 2 3 4 5 6 RR Double slide up
1 4 3 6 5 2 R Kisses, new middle right
The last one I call "kisses" because all the images kiss in the middle. With two rows you can do these:
1 3 5 2 4 6 RR Double slide left
1 3 5 4 6 2 R Kisses, new bottom middle
1 2 3 6 5 4 R Counter clockwise, bottom left
And here are some tricks with nine images. First a kiss (click image to download movie):
1 2 3 8 9 4 7 6 5 R Rotate counterclockwise new in the middle
1 3 5 8 9 7 6 4 2 R Kiss
The last one, another rocket, needs more than 18 images to work (click image to download movie):
1 4 8 5 9 12 16 13 18 R Rocket to top right
Now it's your turn.
The movie above shows nine images in the Aperture viewer chasing around in a square. I'll show you how it is done.
In the thumbnail viewer (grid) make sure you have at least twenty images. Make the viewer visible and set the viewer into Multi mode (option U). Scroll to the top of the thumbnails and mentally label the first nine images from 1 to 9.
Click on the first image (number 1), then command click on eight more in the order 2 3 8 9 4 7 6 5. Once you have done that you will have nine images in the viewer.
Now hit command right-arrow a few times. Images appear in the middle and disappear on the left! Command left-arrow will do the opposite. Command arrow is the Slide function. By clicking on the images in that special order you defined how they slide on the screen.
Here are some things you can do with four images (click image to download movie):
To slide two images up together, click in the order 1 2 3 4 and hit command-right twice in quick succession. To do a double down, the order is 4 3 2 1 and command-right twice. A double left is 1 3 2 4, and a double right is 4 2 3 1. So expressed in shorthand this is:
1 2 3 4 RR slides up
4 3 2 1 RR slides down
1 3 2 4 RR slides left
4 2 3 1 RR slides right
You can make four images rotate too. Try these. This time they use a single command-right key:
1 4 2 3 R clockwise, enter top right
3 2 4 1 R clockwise, enter bottom left
2 3 1 4 R counter, enter bottom right
4 3 1 2 R clockwise enter top left
This next one I call "the rocket" (click image to download movie):
Notice that you have to use seven images for this one.
1 4 5 7 R Rocket to top right
1 7 5 2 R Rocket to top left
It works with six images too, but this is different. Depending on the shape of the viewer six images can be arranged in either two rows or two columns. Here is a six image rotate for two rows (click image to download movie):
For two columns, these patterns work:
1 2 3 4 5 6 RR Double slide up
1 4 3 6 5 2 R Kisses, new middle right
The last one I call "kisses" because all the images kiss in the middle. With two rows you can do these:
1 3 5 2 4 6 RR Double slide left
1 3 5 4 6 2 R Kisses, new bottom middle
1 2 3 6 5 4 R Counter clockwise, bottom left
And here are some tricks with nine images. First a kiss (click image to download movie):
1 2 3 8 9 4 7 6 5 R Rotate counterclockwise new in the middle
1 3 5 8 9 7 6 4 2 R Kiss
The last one, another rocket, needs more than 18 images to work (click image to download movie):
1 4 8 5 9 12 16 13 18 R Rocket to top right
Now it's your turn.
So That's What A Thagomizer Is
2006-07-19
Thagomizer is the name given to the arrangement of spikes on a dinosaur's tail. Just in case it comes up in casual conversation.
Hotheaded Naked Ice Borers and Other Fools
2006-07-09
The Museum Of Hoaxes has a list of the top 100 April Fools. At number nine are the hotheaded naked ice borers (a great name for a band, incidentally):
"In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds."
"In its April 1995 issue Discover Magazine announced that the highly respected wildlife biologist Dr. Aprile Pazzo had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. These fascinating creatures had bony plates on their heads that, fed by numerous blood vessels, could become burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speeds."
Do NOT Press The Big Red Button
2006-07-06
Acts of Gord
2006-07-04
Gord owns a video game store. This means that in the normal course of business he has to deal with people every day.
[ring]
Ah sweet! That's the same last name as the crazy lady… Unleash the dogs of war!
"Good Afternoon, Government's Agents Office. How may I direct your call?"
"Yes, I'd like to make a complaint about Gamer's Edge. I need to talk to… [pause]… the bureau, the bureau of… the bureau of video games and uhm…"
"The Bureau of Video Games and Customer Relations? One moment please. I'll transfer your call."
Gord presses the 5 key on the phone and says:
"Bureau of Video Games and Customer Relations. How may I be of assistance?"
"Yes, I'd like to file a complaint about Gamer's Edge in Penticton! For no reason they were rude to me and refused to rent to me!"
"Wait a minute, aren't you that crazy lady that was down there earlier today? We're heard about you! You slammed your door on your kid. So what, are you retarded by birth or just been beat around the head too much?"
"WHAT?!?!?"
Acts of Gord chronicles his dealings with the public. That snippet was from The Book Of Victory, Chapter 2.
[ring]
Ah sweet! That's the same last name as the crazy lady… Unleash the dogs of war!
"Good Afternoon, Government's Agents Office. How may I direct your call?"
"Yes, I'd like to make a complaint about Gamer's Edge. I need to talk to… [pause]… the bureau, the bureau of… the bureau of video games and uhm…"
"The Bureau of Video Games and Customer Relations? One moment please. I'll transfer your call."
Gord presses the 5 key on the phone and says:
"Bureau of Video Games and Customer Relations. How may I be of assistance?"
"Yes, I'd like to file a complaint about Gamer's Edge in Penticton! For no reason they were rude to me and refused to rent to me!"
"Wait a minute, aren't you that crazy lady that was down there earlier today? We're heard about you! You slammed your door on your kid. So what, are you retarded by birth or just been beat around the head too much?"
"WHAT?!?!?"
Acts of Gord chronicles his dealings with the public. That snippet was from The Book Of Victory, Chapter 2.
Just How Big Is Big, Anyway?
2006-07-02
Planet Earth is pretty big. Or maybe not once you start comparing it to the other planets or the sun, or other suns. That link is very slow. Give it a minute or so.
Welcome To The World Of Scambaiting
2006-06-29
The 419 Eater web site features Nigerian online scams, but not the usual ones. On this site the scammers themselves are scammed, often hilariously. For a sample try the shrinking artwork, the church of the red breast, and the hitchhiker's guide to handwriting. Try not to neglect your children and pets as you work your way through the many letters.
Fantazy Land
2006-06-14
Theme Park Review has a scathing look at Fantazy Land in Alexandria, Egypt. It's more of an abandoned building site than a theme park, and much, much worse than Jim Bakker's attempt.
The Bagelturf site welcomes Donations of any size