Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Canada Day  Who knew?

The Guide to Harry Potter Name Etymology

CALIFORNIA POLICE CODES  "918" means "Person Screaming for Help."

"A collection of mannequins captured in a dimly lit Detroit warehouse. Unlike the frozen, lifeless mannequins of today, these European busts were posed for by flesh and blood women. Made with human hair, teeth made from denture material, glass eyes and realistic expressions, these figures possess a haunting, enigmatic aura." (via Presurfer)

The Matrix Reloaded in Tokyo  (Lot's of pics) More cosplay fun, which I maintain, has to be a whole lot of fun then watching it. (via Asobi)

Home built CD changer contraption  "There isn't much that I plan on using this gadget for.  I guess mostly its for bragging rights.  That, and I hadn't hooked up anything to a PC's printer port in ages.   If I wanted to, I could SSH log into it while at work, load a CD in the tray, burn it, and remove it all remotely.  Of course, the CD would still be in my basement, so the exercise would be somewhat pointless!"

Gothic Loita Bible  Spooky baby doll dresses and other such fashion sense.

Harry Potties and Other Silly Movie tie-ins (Worth 1000 photshop thread)

"We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles- anything that gives a glimpse into someone else's life."

Duct Tape Clothing, fashion, wallets, purses, and more!

The Realism of Georges de la Tour

Earglasses® Headset  Glasses for the ear.

Argonne National Laboratory's Rube Goldberg Machine Contest

"Hi, this site is all about sars ,REAL SARS.  This site is awesome. My name is Sean and I can't stop thinking about sars. This virus is cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet."

Harry Potter - Simpsons-style, One & Two.

Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Songfight.org posts a title, people make songs for that title, the songs are posted on this page, people decide which they like best, and vote for their favorite.  Also, Coverfight.

Human Descent  Evolutionary Hodage Podge Photshop Nonsense  (via Asobi)

The final irony  "'Isn't it ironic?' You hear it all the time - and, most of the time, actually no, it isn't. Hypocritical, cynical, lazy, coincidental, more likely. But what is irony and why did pundits think it would die two years ago, after September 11?"

Gapingvoid  "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards"

George W. Bush Approval Ratings  Gah...!

Key sub-atomic particle slips away again "The most elusive particle in physics has skipped even further out of reach. Pinning down the Higgs boson, or proving that it does not exist, would be a huge step towards understanding why our Universe has mass."

Shower

Walk on the Great Wall of China (Quicktime VR)

Mac Tattoos Apple fo'eva!  I like this one.

Harry Potter and the International Order of Copyright ..."in Russia, you can still meet Harry's Slavic twin: "Tanya Grotter," star of Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass . Tanya rides a double bass, sports a mole instead of a bolt of lightning, and attends the Tibidokhs School of Magic."

Thursday, July 3, 2003.

(via Amsterdam Kimolia Ganteriferous)

Anime Title Generator  Yeah, that sounds about right (via Alice).

I get mail sometimes, sometimes they ask questions. Someone explain it to him.

Giant blob baffles marine scientists  "The 12-metre-wide remains of a sea creature found by the Chilean navy are puzzling marine scientists, who think it may be a new species."

Kite Surfing "Watch the whole video to get the idea what this is about. Super sick!"

Online Fanarts Protection  Found this through the link sectio of  TKO radio, a neat little CG site.  They want to stop kids from reusing their fanart.  Funny.  It would be nice if everybody asked and junk, but since people chop up official art for their web sites and what not in the first place, why wouldn't they use fanart, which is already technically in copyright violation?  They use the word "steal" a lot too.  It's so cute, it's like a chibi-RIAA!

Kids, chop up everything, use anything.  Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

A skewed American pie "The gap between the rich and poor in America is fast growing into a chasm. Latest figures show that just 400 Americans collectively had an income of $70bn. According to America's Internal Revenue Service, in nine years the incomes of the top few hundred taxpayers increased at 15 times the rate of the bottom 90% of Americans."

"BREASTS"  by Charles Simic  A poem  (couple of NSFW images.  via Red Blooded Ronin)

"Your mission is to fly over Pearl Harbour and destroy as many ships as you can. Each ship represents a Hollywood blockbuster that spent a fortune on effects and not enough on plot or acting." (via Coolio)

Against TCPA.com "TCPA stands for Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. For the technology we will speak from TCP (The trusted computing platform). This plans that every computer will have a TPM (Trusted Platform Module), also known as Fritz-Chip, built-in. At later development stages, these functions will be directly included into CPUs, graphiccards, harddisks, soundcards, bios and so on."

How to Dance Gothic "All difficulties and Goth Ratings are on a scale of one (pathetically easy or ridiculously non-gothic) to five (tragically difficult or stylishly über-gothic)."

Max Sterling Mini-bust  Yes, the cartoon character from Robotech. Christ, what kind of dumb fucker would buy this shit?  At least wait for the Minmei one, you can jerk off to that one... might actually be useful.