December 2004

Tuesday 28 December

Agencies Accepting Aid Dollars (08:53) - I got this list of "agencies accepting contributions for aid to people affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Asia" from the New York Times. Thus far, the death toll is at 40,000 and expected to rise. I'm sure that...

FatBoy Slim Joker Video (10:40) - FatBoy Slim couldn't land Christopher Walken for the new video, so kittens had to do....

Nintendo DS bleeds UHF (14:55) - For some strange reason the Nintendo DS seems to interfere with some older television sets, broadcasting a faint image of the screen to the television. Engadget reported on this a couple weeks ago. I found some better photos here....
Not Pron (13:43) - Not Pron is a puzzle. It has nothing to do with porn so don't be afraid to give it a click at work. There are 81 levels -- the object is to get to the next screen. According to the...

Chris Christmas Rodriguez (19:13) - This dude kicks more ass than I do. Watch out!...

A Whole Note (19:22) - awholenote.com is a place to send singing emails to people. Check out the beta site, complete with a sample. Update: Dan told me to emphasize that it's in beta. Beta beta beta!...
School distributes satanic sex calendar (13:14) - Local school officials in a suburb of Houston, Texas, are investigating how it was possible that a school police officer handed out calendars to students that featured explicit details on satanic and sexual rituals for every day of the month."September...

LEGO Logic Gates (17:22) - LEGO Logic Gates is like the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Giant mechanical impractical computers....
Metropolitan Rail Maps of the World (13:28) - At urbanrail.net you can find subway/lightrail maps for just about every city that has one in the world....
Japanese Jesus (12:55) - The village of Shingo nestles in a mountainous patch of pine forests, rice paddies and apple trees a six-hour drive from Tokyo. Known for its garlic ice-cream, and the unusually rapid flight of its young to nearby cities, it seems...

Personally, I blame the players (20:59) - We are moving ever closer to losing an entire season of NHL hockey. I for one blame the players. Many of them have gone over to Europe to play for next to nothing, rather than to agree to a salary...
Christmas: The Deadliest Day of the Year (01:02) - WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Christmas is the deadliest day of the year for Americans with 12.4 percent more deaths than normal, researchers said on Monday.More Americans die from heart attacks and other natural causes on Christmas, the day after and on...
EA is the Devil (00:49) - First they overworked their employees. Now they have put a 5 year stranglehold on the football videogame market by striking up a 5 year exclusive contract with the NFL. Sega/ESPN and 989 will not be able to use NFL team...

World's tallest building will not be in New York (20:11) - The construction of what will be the world's tallest building is set to begin in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The building is going to be roughly 2600ft tall and house 160 stories....
Who will be in Columbus around the Holidays? (13:44) - Many of us come from Columbus, so I was curious who might be in town in between the holidays. Some of you I haven't seen in a while, some of you I don't know if I've ever met. I think...

Liberty Rail Jam (19:31) - Friday was the finale to the first annual Liberty Rail Jam outside of city hall in Philadelphia. They trucked in 30 tons of snow and built a hill from a scaffold with two ramps and rails at the bottom. Unfortunately...

Vulgar Display of Power (00:22) - COLUMBUS, Ohio Dec 9, 2004 � It looked like something out of a macabre heavy-metal video: The lights dimmed in the smoke-filled nightclub, the rock band Damageplan launched into its first thunderous riffs, and then a man in a hooded...

Bag of Coke found in ODB's stomach (01:09) - During Ol' Dirty Bastard's autopsy, a double wrapped plastic bag filled with white powder was found in his stomach. Unfortunately, the bag had sprung a leak. The toxicology tests have not come back yet, but I doubt the results will...

Crosswalk Hacking (12:11) - I spotted these in New York the other weekend. ...
Eric Conveys an Emotion (01:33) - At Eric Conveys an Emotion you can submit an emotion for Eric to act out. The example below is the emotion of "taking candy from a baby." ...

New York Changing (12:19) - At newyorkchanging.com you will find juxtaposed photographs of scenes in New York City from the 30s vs. modern day New York. New York Changing, the current body of work by New York City photographer Douglas Levere, is a photographic record...

United Church of Christ TV ads (23:31) - The united church of christ is hoping to run TV ads expressing the idea that people should not be turned away from the church based on their race, sexual orientation, age, or marital status. Personally Im glad part of the...
Duchamp's Fountain named most influential modern art work of all time (13:54) - Marcel Duchamp's Fountain came top of a poll of 500 art experts in the run-up to this year's Turner Prize which takes place on Monday.Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) was second, with Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych from 1962 coming third.Duchamp...