Jan
30
2005
Star Wars Episode III: A Lost Hope [Revenge of the Sith parody]:
This project took about three months to complete. I’ll have to say that it was one of the hardest to bring to life. I originally planned on this being a simple project to cut my teeth on greenscreen with, but I soon realized that [...]
Jan
29
2005
A review of websites from guys named Keith (in no particular order):
Welcome to Keith’s Homepage: I think this Keith may have been drunk when he created his site. He writes: “Thankyou for stopping by to take a look at my website. Enjoy the Visist!!!!”, and one of his hobbies is “Getting my eats on”. [...]
Jan
29
2005
The man who swears by breast milk:
A 59-year-old American has been drinking breast milk for the past four years in a bid to fight cancer.
He found a milk donor through an ex-colleague. “His wife was nursing an eight month old, and she herself was a cancer survivor. She agreed to pump her breast milk for [...]
Jan
29
2005
Dr. Unheimlich’s Disease Registry offers…
a full diagnosis and registration service, by which your current (or imminent) ailment can be archived in your name, in perpetuity.
For example:
Steel white tableitis:
Cause: self-abuse
Symptoms: vague appetite changes, being able to fire webs from wrists, extreme tiredness
Cure: none
Jan
29
2005
Court OKs masturbation at home:
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that masturbating at home is not an offence, even if the activity can be seen by peeking neighbours…
“A person has the freedom in his or her own living room to do whatever they choose to do and is not caught by the criminal law [...]
Jan
29
2005
Parastone Mouseion collection:
With the greatest respect for the original works of art the designers of the Paratsone studios in The Netherlands have brought to live famous paintings by lifting images out of the flat surface.
The sculpture on the left is from HiĆ«ronymus Bosch’s The Last Judgement.
I couldn’t find any information about their cost, [...]
Jan
29
2005
Vanishing Point: How to disappear in America without a trace:
There are many good reasons to want to disappear from society. There are many bad reasons to want to. There are many good ways to disappear from society and there are many bad ways to disappear. While I won’t delve too deeply into the whys [...]
Jan
25
2005
The Keepers Of Lists:
The original Keepers of Lists were members of a humble order who took as their calling the grand responsibility of maintaining “the lists”. Lists were submitted by apostles all over the world. The Keepers allowed the apostles to vote on list items & submit new lists in order to develop better lists.
The [...]
Jan
25
2005
Central Florida News 13 posted a link to my site about The Drunk “Dancer”.
It’s almost like being slashdotted, for my little site.
Jan
25
2005
I read the Academy Award nominations today (yeah, I know, big whoop). Having seen 13 of the 23 movies up for major awards, I decided to vote for who I thought should win. Then I checked out the voting results. Seems like I voted for all the losers.
The Aviator, which has the most nominations with [...]
Jan
24
2005
The Emperor’s Court:
One of the unnecessary changes to the Star Wars is the Greedo shoots first change. Aside from who shoots first and what does that to the character, the main problem to the scene is that it looks lame. Unfortunately the 2004 Edition of the movie doesn’t resolve this and the best looking solution [...]
Jan
24
2005
As you may have noticed, I’ve been experimenting with some slideshow software for the past few days — and creating some pretty lame slideshows. But I promise this is the last one (until I come up with one that might actually be interesting). Again, this is another narrated slideshow, but this time Jenny and I [...]
Jan
24
2005
The Book Of Cool:
Learn from the wisdom of 35 of the world’s most talented sportsmen & performers as they teach you to master over 250 of their ‘coolest’ tricks, skills and moves.
Some of the “cool” skills taught:
Scooter tricks
Golf tricks
Gun tricks
Street soccer
Their definition of “cool” differs from mine; and their site is done completely in Flash, [...]
Jan
24
2005
This is interesting: Real World is re-issuing VINYL editions of Peter Gabriel’s albums, including excellent write-ups of them. From his third album:
Generally regarded as Peter Gabriel’s finest record, his third eponymous album finds him crafting an album that’s artier, stronger, more song oriented than before…. Each aspect of the album works, feeding off each [...]