August 2005

Wednesday 31 August

black people loot, white people find (15:39) - Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store... A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans... [via Philebrity] Update The originals: Looting... | 8 Comments
katrina (15:25) - Katrina Photo Pool on Flickr. Lost Casinos: Mississippi has a number of riverboat casinos, many of which have been obliterated by the hurricane, cast ashore, flipped over, you name it. ... | 0 Comments

"Please do not deficate in the pneumatic tubes. Thank you for your cooperation." (13:50) - The world of tomorrow we are creating for ourselves and our children will be one of traffic congestion, pollution, and an ever-dimmishing natural world being covered in asphalt. We need to change our transportation policies -- we all know this... | 7 Comments
Arrested for Virtual Mugging (13:25) - A man has been arrested in Japan on suspicion carrying out a virtual mugging spree by using software "bots" to beat up and rob characters in the online computer game Lineage II. The stolen virtual possessions were then exchanged for... | 0 Comments
Happy Birthday Disjointed! (11:49) - Somehow I missed this, but on August 7th Disjointed turned 2 years old! ... | 1 Comments

Philadelphia: The Next Borough (22:50) - The New York Times has a writeup about the transplant of New Yorkers to Philadelphia, touting the city as the new Brooklyn and "The Next Borough". While the article claims Philadelphians sometimes refer to themselves as the "sixth borough", I... | 4 Comments

Video Game History Totem Pole Tattoo (09:21) - as the native people in the pacific northwest (and other places) used totem poles to tell stories and keep family chronologies, my design was intended to tell a history of some of the important games that influenced me and... | 4 Comments

OSX for Intel has been cracked (13:49) - It took a bit longer than I expected. I still won't completely believe it until I have OSX booting on my PC at home. Video of OSX booting on a 1.6Ghz Pentium-M Laptop [bittorrent required] It boots fast as hell... | 2 Comments
Banksy Owns West Bank Barrier (13:29) - Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side. The nine paintings were created on the Palestinian side of the barrier. One depicts a hole in the wall with... | 1 Comments
Thumb Sucking Adults (13:06) - For all those years you thought you were the only person on the planet thumbsucking at your age. ... Fact is, there are probably millions of adults thumbsucking worldwide, mostly hiding their method of tension relief because of perceived and... | 2 Comments

Photog (22:26) - Mantisland: a cool series of Praying Mantis photos. Diego: Watch the Diego family age, 1976-2005. Trippy.... | 10 Comments
How far do you walk? (18:02) - The Gmap Pedometer is an excellent new tool created with the Google Maps API that allows you to calculate the walking distance of a course you define by dropping points along the map.... | 4 Comments
check out that tan! (15:04) - Looks like the Pres has been having another one of those hard working vacations of his. I read somewhere its his longest since 2001. Its not like anything important is going on anyway.. war, nuclear insanity, etc. ;)... | 3 Comments
Aeon Flux (12:54) - Back in the day, I was a big fan of Liquid Television. One feature that always intrigued me was Aeon Flux. On one hand, I like watching a hardass woman running around shooting up the place. However, it had a... | 5 Comments

Jeffrey Atkins or Curtis James Jackson III? (17:26) - Ok, I realize that I miss out on a lot of cultural things while living outside my country, but I had no idea what's bin droppin' tween these two from the same corner of an NYC block. So 'cause ain't... | 3 Comments

Simpson house (23:32) - The Simpson House is painted a vibrant yellow and baby blue -- both inside and out. Power orange, generator green, jazz age coral and pink flamingo colors adorn furniture, walls and floors inside. Even Bart's swing set and Homer's barbecue... | 1 Comments

Leave it to Bush (10:15) - Strange and funny Flash cartoons with W and friends. Episode 1 - with special guest Gary Busey Episode 2 - with special guest Bill Cosby Episode 3 - with Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Walken... | 1 Comments
The Finger (10:06) - Bush is a man's man!... | 5 Comments
Apple's Mighty Mouse (09:18) - It's about time, finally a two button mouse for the Mac. I've been using a Microsoft mouse on our iMac for nearly 2 years now as right click features have always been built in to OSX. The Apple mouse features... | 2 Comments

WWLDD (12:03) - I'm not a big fan of bumper stickers but I saw someone with this one in Boston and died laughing. You can find them on eBay.... | 7 Comments