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| Microsoft Straight Thuggin' |
| 10.29.04 (9:29 am) [edit] |
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| Eminem vs. Bush |
| 10.28.04 (2:24 pm) [edit] |
Thanks to the Dixie Chicks and Bruce Sprinsteen for voicing their opinions publicly and trying to cause awareness for the controversial issues going on today in America.
Eminem has stepped it up a notch with a new video of his own and a song that speaks out against Bush and his evil administration. It's full of creative and meaningful lyrics power-packed with his amazing backbeats and rythyms.
I hope [url=http://boss.streamos.com/qtim...]EMINEM'S ANTI-BUSH VIDEO[/url] sparks more talk and questioning about the upcoming election. Also, I'd love to hear anyone speak critical about this video (without getting to the ending).
[b]Vote November 2nd and be heard![/b]
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| Truth Detector Watch |
| 10.28.04 (11:04 am) [edit] |
You know what? This may sound kinda stupid, but for $12.99, I might actually buy one...I'm looking for a new watch, you know....
[url=http://www.smarthome.com/9512...]The Truth Detctor Watch[/url] has an advanced system that uses real lie detector technology to help you determine who's telling the truth.
But truth detection is just the tip of the iceberg! This multi-use Truth Detector Spy Watch also incorporates a 3-level secret message encoder (for the ultimate in security), a high-tech mission alarm and accurate time in 24 international travel destinations around the globe.
Sweet.
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| The New Batmobile |
| 10.28.04 (10:59 am) [edit] |
Apparently they built three different ones for the movie at a cost of just $1.7 million each. Feature-wise, though, it's got your standard issue supercar machine guns and grappling hook.
Supposedly, it's actually jet-powered...They haven't topped it out, but the creator projects it could hit 220 mph.
No timeframe yet for the actual movie release. Christian Bale will be the new Bruce Wayne.
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| Learn Zombie-Fighting Skills! |
| 10.27.04 (11:28 am) [edit] |
After seeing [b]Dawn of the Dead [/b]last summer, I realized that I am very much afraid of the zombies.
For Brooks, an acclaimed author and former "Saturday Night Live" writer, the threat of a zombie attack is a global problem for all humans, including University students.
"Zombies are a virus," Brooks said. "They multiply and expand and affect the host -- the entire human race."
He will teach students some basic moves of the Afro-Caribbean martial art Mkunga-Lalem, including how to get a zombie to cut its own head off.
He wrote [url=http://www.randomhouse.com/cr...] The Zombie Survival Guide[/url] as a guidebook for ordinary citizens. In the book, Brooks recommends his readers use a machete against zombies. "
You do not need to reload," he said. "It's light, compact and pretty much everything you need."
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| Bush Voted Movie Villain of the Year |
| 10.27.04 (11:19 am) [edit] |
In a poll for Total Film magazine, the U.S. leader fought off competition from such well-known baddies as atomic scientist Doctor Octopus from "Spider-Man 2" and fellow Texan Leatherface from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
In regards to seeing Fahrenheit 9/11, Total Film's editor Matt Mueller said, "He was absolutely terrifying in that film. The infamous scene where he's informed about the Twin Towers attack while visiting a school, and sits there absolutely paralysed, is enough to strike fear into anyone's heart."
...yet half of the country still looks up to this guy! Our country IS a joke, eh?
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| DON'T BREAK THE BOTTLE |
| 10.27.04 (11:17 am) [edit] |
This [url=http://firebox.com/index.html...]fiendish wooden puzzle[/url] is an ingenious gift that will amuse and infuriate - depending on whether you give or receive it. Simply lock the bottle of your choice in its seemingly impenetrable embrace and present it to your host/victim. Watch them try to unlock the bottle or pop the cork!
They'll probably hate you for the gift, but it does seem rather amusing.
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| 2D Fabrics On The Rise |
| 10.26.04 (12:09 pm) [edit] |
[i]This is taken right from [url=http://engadget.com/]Engadget.com's[/url] site, since I'm lazy
(actually, they summed it up nicely).[/i]
Researchers at The University of Manchester and Chernogolovka, Russia have created the first-ever single-atom-thick substance, a fabric they call “graphene”. The substance is stable, flexible, and highly conductive, and researchers believe it could be used to create computers made from a single molecule.
Professor Andre Geim at The University of Manchester was able to extract a single plane of graphite crystal, resulting in the new fabric. The hope is that the fabric will be used in the future to create nanotubes, transistors for microscopic computers, that could result in some seriously small electronic gadgetry.
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| New iPods Galore! |
| 10.26.04 (10:38 am) [edit] |
Huge news for the iPod community! Apple has released 2 new versions of the iPod - a special U2 version of the original music player (except it's a cool black with ugly red scroll wheel) with the band's signatures laser-engraved on the back, and a photo viewing iPod as well.
These both are sweet products, but I'm just disappointed that they didn't make the U2 iPod ALL BLACK. Why an ugly red scroll wheel? Why?
 
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| For The Ladies! (or the fashion-sensed bully) |
| 10.26.04 (10:23 am) [edit] |
[url=http://www.redstartdesign.com...]Subtle Safety[/url] has a line of fashionable self-defense and killing tools for the young, abused women of today.
Their newest line of jewelery is this ring-thing that can be worn as one ring or across three fingers like brass knuckles...
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| Xray Camera Phones! |
| 10.25.04 (4:05 pm) [edit] |
A NEW mobile phone gadget has raised fears it will be a perverts' dream. The £100 add-on will turn camera phones into X-ray specs which can see through clothes.
It is said to be particularly effective on dark bikinis.
Originally designed for taking pictures at night, it has quickly been exploited by voyeurs. In particular, Vodafone's V602-SH handset, not yet available in the UK, is being used with the new gadget.
Vodafone say they are deeply unhappy about the device. It is not illegal in itself - but using it to film people's naked bodies would be.
The cameras effectively give users night vision by picking up on heat to create outline pictures. Because bodies are hotter than clothes, the pictures produce an image of the body without the clothes.
[i]Sorry, no photos as of yet![/i]
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| Inappropriate Postcard of the Week |
| 10.22.04 (3:38 pm) [edit] |
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| Celebrity Death Pool |
| 10.22.04 (3:26 pm) [edit] |
You thought that it was just a hype, eh? Well, think again! I have found a way to update the[url=http://www.geocities.com/matt...]Celebrity Death Pool[/url] link for those of you who participated.
My compatriot and friend, [b]Hugo Fortnight[/b], started up a Celebrity Death Pool for no apparent reason. But people were interested, so it continued on. Just click the link on the left column of this page any time you want to view the updated list of doom.
Now you can enjoy both at the same time!
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| Web Site of the Day |
| 10.22.04 (9:59 am) [edit] |
You may have seen Burger King's new commercial, starring 2 chickens (people in chicken suits) battling each other as the ultimate champion. Champion of what? Well, 2 different types of chicken sandwiches I guess...
Anyway, [url=http://www.subservientchicken...]Subservientchicken.com[/url] is another piece of this marketing ploy where you can type in anything you want, and the chicken will do it right before your eyes... He'll sit down, drink a beer, whatever!
It's stupid, but fun...and the commercials are exactly the same. That's why I love it.
[i]Not too subservient, huh?[/i]
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| Cool-Looking Egg Fridge |
| 10.21.04 (5:16 pm) [edit] |
Fridges just don't get any cooler than this. Well, maybe they do...
It's not like I search exclusively for cool-looking fridges.
Anyway, I introduce to you, the [url=http://www.firebox.com/index....]Chilli Egg Fridge[/url] .
Egg-shaped, with funky blue LED panels and the ability to cool (and warm) anything placed inside. You can even stick it in your car and run it from the cigarette lighter.
 
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| UN Predicts Robotic Sales To Soar |
| 10.21.04 (5:01 pm) [edit] |
The report, issued Wednesday by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe and the International Federation of Robotics, says 607,000 automated domestic helpers were in use at the end of 2003, two thirds of them purchased last year.
By the end of 2007, some 4.1 million domestic robots will likely be in use. Vacuum cleaners will still make up the majority, but sales of window-washing and pool-cleaning robots are also set to take off, it predicts.
I'm still lookin' for a robot to get me beers and pick up my cigarette ashes off of the floor.
Oh- wait! I found it last month!
Hooray for the [url=http://www.firebox.com/index....]Party Bot[/url] !
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| Red Sox Cheat To Beat Yankees |
| 10.21.04 (3:13 pm) [edit] |
Well, we all knew it was too good to be true - the Red Sox beating the Yankees. And here's how - they used a "Frankenstein-like Method" to create the ultimate baseball pitcher. Otherwise known as cheating.
With the team's future increasingly dependent on Curt Schilling's right leg, doctors decided to try an apparently unprecedented procedure to keep a tendon from slipping around in his ankle.
So they used a cadaver. The Red Sox training staff thought of various ways to keep the tendon in place. Special high-top shoes didn't work, and they hit upon the idea of sewing skin in Schilling's leg to the tissue underneath, creating a wall that would keep the tendon in place.
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| Children and Alien Abductions |
| 10.21.04 (3:03 pm) [edit] |
"This website features a series of drawings made by [url=http://aliensandchildren .org/...]children who were abducted by aliens[/url] for the alien purpose of creating a new race of alien/human hybrids. The drawings show different aspects of the alien abduction phenomenon and include cruel medical procedures performed on children, children boarding alien spacecraft with other aliens, children playing with alien/hybrid children so the alien/hybrids can learn how to be human, and children being taken by aliens against their will, and the types of aliens encountered by the abducted children."
The scary thing? I think this web site is being serious!
They even show you how to make a Thought Screen hat that will prevent aliens from controlling your mind. Thank god...
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| World Gets To Vote For US President |
| 10.20.04 (2:06 pm) [edit] |
Even non-Americans can cast a vote in the upcoming U.S. presidential election thanks to a website tracking world opinion on the race for the White House.
Surfers clicking on globalvote2004.org can tick a virtual ballot for President George W. Bush, Democratic challenger John Kerry, or one of five other candidates fighting to win the real vote on November 2.
Voters are asked to register which country they're from, creating a non-official tally of who the rest of the world would choose to lead the planet's most powerful country. These votes will be tallied and made public 48 hours before the real election.
[b]It has no real say in our election, but will be able to track how the rest of the world feels during this important time in global politics.[/b]
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| Watch Out, Anna! |
| 10.20.04 (1:54 pm) [edit] |
A troupe of models streamed on to the court of the Madrid Masters tennis tournament on Monday -- and into the center of a controversy about whether they were trivializing the competition.
The 19 to 28-year-olds were drafted in as ball-girls to replace the young fans who usually run around picking up stray balls and handing towels to players and will work in most of the televised matches at the tournament.
The arrival of the models, who wear skirts and tight tops emblazoned with the name of a sponsor, had already stirred up controversy over whether they were trivializing the game.
Seriously, is this a problem?
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| Mind Control Is Possible |
| 10.20.04 (1:49 pm) [edit] |
Controlling objects with your mind is now possible!
Many paralysed people control computers with their eyes or tongue. But muscle function limits these techniques, and they require a lot of training. For over a decade researchers have been trying to find a way to tap directly into thoughts.
A new device, called the [url=http://www.nature.com/news/20...]BrainGate[/url] , was developed by the company Cyberkinetics, based in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Each electrode taps into a neuron in the patient's brain. The pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a time, and is the most sophisticated such implant tested in humans so far.
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| Design Your Own Mosaic Image |
| 10.19.04 (3:57 pm) [edit] |
Some guy has offered up a relatively easy way to [url=http://andreaplanet.com/andre...]design your own mosaic image[/url] . I haven't tried it yet, but it looks kinda cool. I'm not sure how much flexiblitly you have over all of the photos used either - but if you're not quite sure what I'm talking about, look below:
This is a Bush mosaic created by using photos of US soldiers that have died in Iraq for his evil, oil-hungry agenda.
Yours doesn't have to be so political - a bunch of naked girls that make up a profile of your face would be just as cool!
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| Robotic Mind Readers |
| 10.19.04 (10:21 am) [edit] |
Supposedly this thing is legit, but the deal is you ask it 20 questions and it'll guess what you are thinking about. Basically, [url=http://www.firebox.com/index....]20Q[/url] is an electronic version of the traditional 'animal, vegetable, mineral?' guessing game that everyone has played at some point. The difference is, 20Q nearly always guesses the correct answer.
I'll believe it when I see it, yo. Until then, I'm going to get drunk and wet myself.
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| Mathmos Magic Air Lamp |
| 10.19.04 (10:18 am) [edit] |
Scientists worldwide have confirmed, due to this lamp, that magic does exist...
or doesn't - I forget which.
[url=http://www.firebox.com/index....]The Air Switch[/url] is an incredible innovation in the world of weird and wonderful lamps because it is controlled via a mere wave of the hand. For some unfathomable reason, waving your hand just above the rim of the Air Switch turns this sucker on. And hopefully will "turn on" your impressed date as well - yowza.
A neat party trick. Great for stoners or people with no lives.
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| Panic Room |
| 10.19.04 (9:48 am) [edit] |
Yamaha's new Room Within A Room appears to be intended for shutting out the outside world so that you can work, study, watch DVDs, and so forth.
$4,000 or so gets you a 1.3 x 1.7 m space in which to do whatever you feel like, with a range of interior options and phone, ethernet and TV connections should you require them.
 
[b]DOCTOR THALAMO'S BONUS FACETIOUS REMARK[/b]
I hope the whole thing is made of wood and you can't stretch your legs out! Because that sounds just dandy!
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| How To Diaper A Monkey |
| 10.18.04 (10:23 am) [edit] |
We can all learn a little something from this web site that teaches us [url=http://www.primatecare.com/ct...]the correct way to diaper a monkey[/url] . I beleive the lesson learned is that people are fuckin' weird, man. This must be a German thing.
There is something very unwholesome about all of this...
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| London Bridge is Rolling Up |
| 10.13.04 (11:44 am) [edit] |
Paddington Development Corporation has just unveiled, or rather unrolled, a startling [url=http://www.newspad.co.uk/Go/N...]new pedestrian bridge[/url] which crosses an inlet from the Basin in front of the new Marks and Spencer headquarters.
It's all done by a fiendishly clever system of hydraulic rams inside the handrail. So, it can be rolled up when M&S want to bring a hospitality boat into the inlet.
Check out the website to see more photos of it in action...pretty sweet!
  
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| It's Dyno-Mite! |
| 10.13.04 (11:39 am) [edit] |
[url=http://www.spymall.com/catalo...]The Dynamite Clock[/url] is only $125 and could potentially get you into shitloads of trouble.
However, it's a great conversation-starter and I'm sure any potential girlfriends wouldn't be scared of you and you're psychopathic ways.
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| Creative Zen Micro |
| 10.13.04 (11:11 am) [edit] |
Finally, a worthy competitor to the iPod mini...
(still haven't found one yet for the regular iPod).
[url=http://us.creative.com/produc...]CreativeLabs' Zen Micro[/url] is ready to take on that role. It's 3.3" high and has a 5GB harddrive. Also, it comes in 10 colors, with easy-to-read buttons, and has a 12-hour battery life. Not bad...did I mention that it has a built-in FM radio and voice recorder?
No pricing as of yet. But then again, what do I care? I got a 20GB iPod for FREE! ha.
[b]DOCTOR THALAMO'S BIT-O-TRIVIA[/b]
92% of all hard-drived based mp3 players are iPods. Coming up secord and third were Creative Technology players (3.7%) and Digital Networks North America’s Rio (3.2%).
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| Is Bush Wired? |
| 10.12.04 (10:37 am) [edit] |
The biggest rumors flying around these days are that Bush was wired for his first Presidential debate with Karl Rove...check out [url=http://www.isbushwired.com/][b]isbushwired.com[/b][/url] for photos and more information.
The image shows a large solid object between Bush's shoulder blades as he leans over the lectern and faces moderator Jim Lehrer.
Someone here told me that it was supposed to be a bullet-proof vest, but I haven't heard any evidence of either as of yet - just the photographs on the linked site.
Well, this photo shows something that looks more like an earpiece than a kevlar vest.
...not that an earpiece helped Bush at all...
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| Friday's Photo of the Day! |
| 10.08.04 (4:54 pm) [edit] |
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| Pentagon and 9-11 Conspiracy |
| 10.08.04 (4:51 pm) [edit] |
All right you conspiracy buffs!
Was the plane crashing into the Pentagon on 9-11 a cover up to something else?
Somebody created this 5 minute long FLASH web site going over the events that took place on September 11, 2001...did a plane actually hit the Pentagon that day? Or was it a missle? Uncover the truth with the eye-opening, and truly bizarre consipracy theory!
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| Free iPods Legit |
| 10.07.04 (2:26 pm) [edit] |
Just fyi...
I did receive my free iPod from [url=http://www.freeipods.com/Defa...]freeipods.com[/url] ...
It wasn't a scam and now I am the happy owner of a new 20GB iPod.
You get spam mail for a week or so, but you can unsubscribe to the emails. So I haven't gotten any spam in several months...also the wait was 1 month from when I completed my order - one month for a free iPod...not bad at all. Also it is laser-engraved with "freeipods.com" on the back which I actually think is fine - it reminds me, and everyone else, that I received a legit 20GB Apple iPod for FREE!
Unbelievable...I'll save all of the bragging that most of the playa haters deserve - because I know that me having one causes you enough pain, so I don't need to rub it in.
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| A Rose By Any Other Name... |
| 10.07.04 (2:15 pm) [edit] |
Visitors to Sydney's Botanical Gardens have described the scent of the Titan Arum, also known as Amorphophallus titanum, as like a room full of smelly socks, fish rotting, wet carpet, or a rotten banana. Alistair Hay, director of the Botanical Gardens Trust, had another opinion.
"It smelled exactly like overripe Camembert cheese on a bed of roadkill," he said. These flowers have been known to grow to nearly 10 feet high in their native rainforests of western Sumatra in Indonesia and come into bloom every two or three years in the wild.
This is the first time the plant has flowered in the garden on the banks of Sydney Harbor since it was planted as a seed in 1993.
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| This Gives Me the Pills |
| 10.07.04 (10:14 am) [edit] |
Researchers from Italy and South Korea are developing a prototype capsule designed to crawl through a patient's stomach, enabling doctors to view and even treat an internal ailment remotely.
Once swallowed the multi-legged capsule protective coating dissolves and locomotion would begin. The prototype capsule is 25 millimetres long and 10 mm in diameter.
I can only imagine something this horrid would happen to me...
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| Friends Forever? |
| 10.05.04 (5:13 pm) [edit] |
Elton John and Madonna are friends no more...that's according to my assumptions upon hearing the vulgar verbal attack that Sir Elton John laid down upon Madonna the other day...
[i]"Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds ($134) to see them should be shot. Madonna, best fucking live act? Fuck off. Since when has lip-synching been live? That's me off her fucking Christmas card list but do I give a toss? No." [/i]
Damn, yo. That's harsh. I like the phrase "give a toss" - I'm going to have to remember to use that one. Here's a lovely photo for us all to remember "the good times" these two superstars once had:
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| Cell Phone Costumes |
| 10.05.04 (5:07 pm) [edit] |
[url=http://www.anniescostumes.com...]Cell phone costumes[/url] are cute and cuddly, like a french poodle wearing a Gucci sweater. That's why I hate them both with a passion.
 
But I have to admit that I'd use the dog one...but only if it was given to me as a gift! I swear...
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| Antimatter Weapons Matter to the Military |
| 10.05.04 (5:02 pm) [edit] |
The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source - antimatter, the eerie "mirror" of ordinary matter - in future weapons. The most powerful potential energy source presently thought to be available to humanity...
Moreover, 1 gram of antimatter would equal "23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy. One millionth of a gram of positrons contain as much energy as 37.8 kilograms (83 pounds) of TNT.
Unlike regular nuclear bombs, positron bombs wouldn't eject plumes of radioactive debris. When large numbers of positrons and antielectrons collide, the primary product is an invisible but extremely dangerous burst of gamma radiation - a so-called "clean" superbomb that could kill large numbers of soldiers without ejecting radioactive contaminants over the countryside.
(The reason for The Strokes album cover is b/c that's the universal illustration that represents antimatter - just a little knowledge bomb dropped on you guys)
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| Photo of the Day |
| 10.04.04 (2:21 pm) [edit] |
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| Excalibur 467 Coffee Master |
| 10.04.04 (10:58 am) [edit] |
Oh man - the moment I saw this thing, I started salivating... but then I realized it was kinda stupid. Now I think the idea of having an LCD screen on my coffe mug is kinda cool looking, but the fact still remains that all it informs you of is coffee/tea-related information...
I am referring, of course, to the [url=http://www.thebuzzelectronics...]Excalibur Coffee Master[/url] Get 250 recipes for popular coffee-drinks from around the world, from American coffee to Irish coffee to cappuccino and coffee mocha. And you'll love trying the 250 delicious desserts - complete with recipes - that go so well with that cup of coffee or tea after dinner.
I'm still buying one...
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