January 2004

Saturday 31 January

  • In the news (01:19) - Pickled dragons are yummy as are human babies. Video of the aftermath of the bus bombing in Jerusalem, via littlegreenfootballs. It's very graphic. The RIAA is confiscating mix CDs from independent music stores. I wonder what percentage of the CDs'...

Thursday 29 January

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  • Nintendo Remixes (22:39) - Nintendo Cartoon Hour and Nintendo Bloopers [via albinoblacksheep]...
  • Sticker graffiti (01:34) - streetstickers.co.uk: fast, just hit enter to get the next page, some stencils mixed in. stickernation.net: 8859 photos worldwide and counting. There's a little sticker graffiti in the A2. Some is cute characters, some is interesting faces, and of course there's...
  • 1x1: Pixel Based Illustration & Design (00:50) - ...book of reference and show case for the most LO-FI of digital aesthetics, the pixel. Featuring many aspects of pixel culture from Space Invaders tiles to stitching to highrise pixels and more traditional things like typography, illustrations, and icons. It...

Wednesday 28 January

  • These days, anything might be a bomb (19:41) - Even a whale....
  • Go Tribe (18:19) - http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/baseball/mlb/01/27/indians.gay.porno.ap/index.html?cnn=yes...
  • Legend of the Red Dragon (13:51) - Legend of the Green Dragon is a web based version of my all time favorite door game, LoRD. 10 years ago there wasn't a day that I didn't play this at Metrodata. You can find a bunch of installations out...

Tuesday 27 January

  • Cuban Linx (02:49) - Report on who is buying our presidential candidates. It's also sad to know that presidential contributions in Ann Arbor for Bush were more than 10x as that for Gore in 2000. I'mNotSorry.net is a site where women can share their...

Monday 26 January

  • Grover (23:16) - This is my friend Ben's dog, Grover....
  • Offshoring (22:36) - Programmers, financial analysts, and now lawyers are the next profession to be outsourced to India, which is a bit of comic relief at last. These jobs are all knowledge processing jobs, where essentially only information is needed as input and...
  • Bill Gates, Knight Commander of the British Empire (14:00) - From the Seattle PI: Bill Gates will be knighted in recognition of his contribution to enterprise in Britain....

Sunday 25 January

  • Robot Entertainment (22:28) - Patrik Schellhaus thinks he is a robot. What can I say, Germany produces the funkiest human robots on the planet. He also does alright with the ladies. VixenLove, on the other hand, is a robot attempting to be human. It...

Saturday 24 January

  • Lyndon B. Johnson ordering pants (10:36) - This recording of LBJ ordering pants even tops the best of remarks from Bush. It seems he needs some pants with a little more room from "where your nuts hang" to your "bunghole". He also needs bigger pockets so his...

Friday 23 January


Thursday 22 January

  • Machines Need Love Too (23:20) - DFORM1's 2004 reel is sofa king hot even if it is basically one long commercial. Cuz machines need love too....
  • Actiongirls (23:12) - If you add guns to porn, is it still just porn? And watermelons and jumpropes? That seems to be the premise behind the Actiongirls movies. [Porn is usually nsfw.]...
  • The State Of The "Union" (22:21) - - Made daring move, potentially alienating his supporters, by advocating concept of "science" - Held up big map of Union, drew thick polarizing magic-marker line dividing it in two - Spoke about bipartisan support, which was applauded by half of...
  • Volvotron (22:14) - Neat Flash experience from Volvo Sweden. Scenery and cars and stuff. If you're into that sort of thing. Not as destructive as previous entry....
  • Nu Steppa (21:50) - Nu Steppa video [stills] by Salmonella Dub, a dub/dnb group hailing from New Zealand. Features reckless robot behaviour in black, white, and red. Ahh, the beauty of destruction. Video by ümeric. Made with Cinema 4D....
  • Breaker-up-u! (11:27) - If you are an attractive, socially-skilled man or woman, age 18-35, who would be interested in paid subterfuge and deliberately hurting other peoples' relationships, compensation may await you. An idea from Japan: Breaker-up-u, has arrived here in Seattle. Our clients...
  • acupuncture update (10:51) - I couldn't go to acupuncture for three weeks, because the school was on vacation. When I went last week, I was feeling really crappy. I felt better after the appointment and still feel good. I don't think that I'll have...

Wednesday 21 January

  • afu-philly (13:33) - afu-philly is a site dedicated to the history of graffiti art (1980s-present) in Philadelphia. There are lots of photos of work from various writers throughout the city....
  • Nintendo DS (dual-screen) (07:25) - According to this press release, Nintendo will be releasing a new portable gaming system with two 3" lcd screens and two processors. ... players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing...
  • Scumskullz (03:12) - Made out of pixels, LEGOs, and even tiles on the street. Found on walls, on blotter, and scored on pills of e. The genetic code is 25 bits of black or white on a 5x5 grid. Out of 12,209 viable...

Tuesday 20 January

  • Sidewalk Chalk Art (07:44) - This LJ post features some excellent sidewalk chalk art. The use of perspective and the mix of real life objects with some of the artwork makes for some cool illusions....
  • News (03:43) - I thought this story about three 13/14-year old prostitutes in Ypsi was fucked shit. But I think this next one takes it for the day. ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A 6-year-old girl was found dead in a motel room with...
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  • Neighborhoodie (00:36) - German Village, Columbus, Ohio is Neighborhoodie of the Week...

Monday 19 January

  • Ramen Jiro (23:36) - Ramen Jiro is a ramen shop in Tokyo, where the wait for a bowl of noodles is typically 40 minutes and eating a bowl can turn one into a legend if not a god. Courage, shame, suspense, camaraderie, it's all...
  • The Bush Conspiracy Theory Generator (18:22) - Want to come up with your own conspiracy theory about Bush? Don't let Al Franken, Michael Moore, and MoveOn.org have all the fun! Use this handy George W. Bush Conspiracy Theory Generator to come up with your own conspiracy theory!...
  • Year in (p)review (12:21) - Every year my friend, Randy, sends an email out to all of his friends listing the things he did last year and the things he plans to do in the upcoming year. Many of his friends hit reply all and...

Sunday 18 January

  • Some videos (19:13) - Some funny ads and short video clips from Al Lowe's video humor page....
  • The Rock Steady Effect (03:11) - You can often see old men in Japan breakdancing in the street. It is a common scene. I think they learned it from Mr. Wiggles....
  • Airboard 2000 (02:12) - Fuck a Segway! Hoverboards are way cooler.. in theory. In practice, there is the Airboard 2000 [video], brought to you by a company named Arbortech in the Australia. The device itself looks cool albeit it's not the size of a...
  • Ponies and cats living together! Mass hysteria! (01:46) -

Saturday 17 January

  • disjointed's first celebrity appearance (11:43) - Jason Dahmer stopped by. Sorry about the slightly balding comment buddy. ; )...
  • Jack Chick (Darque Dungeon remix) (04:02) - One of Chick's comics gets the remix treatment in Darque Dungeon. GOTHICK 4 LIFE, BITCH! No one deserves to die because they don't appreciate the artistic value of Merzbow records, right?...
  • Censored (03:27) - The Cato Institute, a non-profit public policy think tank is calling out this government's tries at censoring opposition to the Drug War. The first example is the Change The Climate provision but next up our government is supporting measures in...
  • WAPAK (00:46) - It's pretty funny just how little The Man understands kids involved in criminal behaviour. A good example is this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles anti-drug video from 1991. But also interesting is this news article from Wapakoneta, OH: "Tonight we're going...

Friday 16 January

  • RealDoll Meets Roomba (23:50) - Android World has announced the tentative sale of its first two Valeries. The $59,000 female android speaks English and cleans dishes and clothes among other things. However, the website states that she won't be a willing sex partner because of...
  • Build your own Segway (23:02) - This is great. A self balancing scooter like the Segway, built from off the shelf parts, programmed in C. Video here....
  • I can't stop watching it! (19:51) - It's just so beautiful....

Thursday 15 January

  • Advice from the US Military (02:39) - ''Aim towards the Enemy.'' -Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher ''When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend. -U.S. Marine Corps If the enemy is in range, so are you.'' -Infantry Journal ''It is generally inadvisable to...
  • Bad Restaurant Conversions (01:52) - Something I noticed a lot of when I first moved to Michigan: a lot of local restaurants dwelling in the obvious former shells of chain restaurants. Now there's a site for such bad conversions and the very first on deck...

Wednesday 14 January

  • The Messiah (01:55) - The Messiah has made a web page in homage to his long lost separated at birth twin sister Madonna. It is interesting....

Tuesday 13 January

  • Ass Matrix (23:23) - "Unfortunately, no one can be told exactly what the ASS MATRIX is. You'll have to see it for yourself!" It's true. All I can say is to prepare for an eye-opening education on the mechanics of ghetto booty. This is...
  • After the Oil Climax (02:05) - One more eschatological scenario to fear: the coming Oil Crash, when we surpass peak oil production and further oil production rapidly escalates in cost. As everything in our lives depends on oil (from growing food far away to buying it...

Monday 12 January

  • Abandoned Bikes (16:16) - Stripped, destroyed, and abandoned. You see these bikes locked up and forgotten on the street, often near colleges. Was it destroyed because it couldn't be stolen, abandoned because it was stripped or destroyed? Sometimes bikes in their entirety, slightly rotted,...
  • The Mars Underground (02:40) - In the sleepy late 70s after we had failed to find evidence of life on Mars a grassroots effort lead by graduate students at the University of Colorado in Boulder set about on a mission of Mars exploration and possible...

Sunday 11 January

  • Comment Spam (22:15) - On the blogging on blogging tip.. Anybody else gotten comment spams? There were two penis enlargement spams on this old post (one edited, the other for the same site deleted). Why that old post? Anyways, this is an interesting glimpse...
  • Weather Porn (17:04) - Traditional porn (naked people, having sex) and weather porn (tornadoes and other storms doing their thing) have much in common:Dialogue and plot are largely irrelevant; just give me better focus on that close-up shot, please. If there's a boring bit,...
  • Build-A-Face (16:18) - National Geographic has a cool build your own face application. My face didn't end up looking like me, but its still fun to play with....
  • Some Sunday distractions (14:34) - Drum Machine, from the Rockstar Games Upload III competition Domo-kun Smashfest, a remix of video game history with some Powerpuff Girls mixed in and a Street Fighter II scene. Marble Mayhem, a non-violent game and physics demonstration tool....

Saturday 10 January

  • blogging (20:18) - The New York times has a seven page article about the blogging craze. It mainly follows the blogging scene for highschool aged kids -- the social groups that form from this, etc etc. Its kind of interesting....
  • The GM Hot Button (19:51) - Maybe you have seen the GM commercials for the Hot Button contest. Basically you go to a GM dealership showroom, hop in a car and press the OnStar button to see if you win. Over the next few months they...
  • Paper Pinhole Cameras (02:53) - Add this to the list of things robot folders could possibly make for us one day: Dirkon, the paper pinhole camera. Fold the camera out of photo-paper itself and you get these trippy effects. But rather than folding, printing is...
  • Fried chicken later estimated at $10 (01:47) - BLUFFTON -- A 36-year old Ridgeland man was arrested Saturday night after he entered a home in Bluffton and ate the resident's fried chicken, according to a Beaufort County Sheriff's Office report. Read the rest....

Friday 9 January

  • Jason Dahmer (00:33) - Jason Dahmer was on The Tonight Show tonight to demonstrate his abilities as the world's fastest bra unlatcher. This may not seem all that interesting but he is a Columbus native who works as a computer programmer for a "very...

Thursday 8 January

  • Switch to Linux (15:26) - Another parody of Apple's switch commercials. Ubergeek has some other pretty funny geek-humored things as well....
  • Site Suggestions (15:17) - This site has been fairly busy as of late. December pulled in about 7000 unique visitors. I was curious what everyone might want to see on the site in the future. Any ideas for enhancement and whatnot? One thing that...
  • Black Clown College (14:47) - My friend Frank wrote this....

Wednesday 7 January

  • Lotek Porn Revisited (23:16) - Awhile ago I mentioned some highly pixelated porn paintings and I ran across it again. Here! They're almost sold out, although I think the reason this one hasn't is that it's a control meant to see how deep into the...
  • Latest News: Thats my face on someones ass (22:30) - my friend todd got three punk ass hi school drop outs to get a tattoo of his face on their ass as he was drivin thru north carolina...
  • An American in North Korea (15:07) - Journey to Kimland is an addictive and edifying read....

Tuesday 6 January

  • Detroit Writers Index (01:50) - Great gallery of Detroit graffiti. Simple yet effective site navigation. From Motosoul, the Detroit Hip-Hop Collective. Big up the D....
  • Powa Glove (01:37) - "I love the power glove... It's so BAAAAAD."...
  • alligator don't want none of dat bitch (00:13) - (23:59:04) moss: that is my own artwork (00:00:20) moss: see, the girl is pinching the alligator's ass, trying to get his attention... but he doesn't even want her cuz he's like "nah bitch, i got ice cream"...

Monday 5 January

  • Like Bruce Lee (23:43) - [video]...
  • Win Valuable Prizes! (22:27) - We can't tell you his name but we can show you his face! [more]...
  • Republican Turns New Leaf (00:55) - State Rep. Gregg Underheim's fight against prostate cancer got him thinking about whether those suffering from cancer should be allowed to use marijuana to cope with the pain. Wisconsin Republican Rep. Gregg Underheim has decided to go against the party...

Sunday 4 January

  • D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 25 (02:34) - Nine successive drawings done at various stages of LSD influence, from 20 minutes to 8 hours after ingestion. Conclusion: tripping may not result in your best work. Other reports (not first-hand, of course) say that it's best to come down...

Saturday 3 January

  • Important Training Videos (15:18) - Demonstration [quicktime] of heavy toolery for Benny Benassi's satisfaction. Forklift Driver Klaus [wmv] learns why warehouse safety is important....

Friday 2 January

  • Super Sea Monkeys (22:14) - I was paging through some of my old comic books the other day when I remembered how much I love the advertisements. I always wanted to buy all the little gadgets. I did order a pair of x-ray glasses once.....
  • Towers are the players (03:50) - Gollum emcee on the microphone. [shizzockwave]...

Thursday 1 January

  • Mummers Parade (23:23) - Unless you live in Philly you probobly have never heard of the Mummers. On New Years day about 15,000 mummers participate in a day-long parade / competition. Had I not been nursing a hangover for most of the day I...