May 31 2005
The Droplift Project:
The idea came suddenly. Manufacture our own CDs, go into chain stores, and leave them in the appropriate bins. Down among the established pop hits and top 40 product, these CDs await those curious few who take them to the counter.
Then what? Witness the confused faces of cashiers and customers alike when [...]
May 31 2005
English Cultural Differences Explained:
Americans: Seem to think that poverty & failure are morally suspect.
Canadians: Seem to believe that wealth and success are morally suspect.
Brits: Seem to believe that wealth, poverty, success and failure are inherited things.
Aussies: Seem to think that none of this matters after several beers.
I used to know nothing about Australia before reading [...]
May 30 2005
David Lynch provides the daily weather report from wherever he is (usually in L.A.). Weird.
(It opens directly to a Quicktime video, updated daily. Really.)
May 30 2005
CRAB = Currently Regarded as Able Bodied, a phrase used by disabled people to describe idiots in The Attack Survival Guide:
When a [person] with a disability speaks up about the was she feels when treated rudely, a Currently Regarded as Able Bodied (CRAB) person labels her feelings “wrong” and advises her to approach the rude [...]
May 30 2005
knitPro:
…a web application that translates digital images into knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch patterns. Just upload jpeg, gif or png images of whatever you wish — portraits, landscapes, logos… and it will generate the image pattern on a graph sizable for any fiber project.
The photo is of my daughter when she was one year old. [...]
May 30 2005
Guess the movie from an image displayed at Guess Which Movie. I got bored after five movies, but I’m sure it’ll be fun for a movie buff.
May 30 2005
Fun Chop - Chopstick Helper:
This uniquely designed Chopsticks “Clip” holds two separate pieces of chopsticks together to help users enjoy experience of dinning in an Asian cuisine. Its simple design endorses users of all ethnicity and age. This clips on very easy and holds firmly on variety of wooden and some plastic chopsticks.
I’d use them. [...]
May 30 2005
Jenny and I will be on the air at CKDU from 2:00 a.m. tonight until 7 o’clock tomorrow morning — five full hours of doing whatever we want. I plan to devote at least one of those hours to playing some of the best reggae music I own. I know Jenny’s going to do [...]
May 29 2005
How To Perform Strong Man Stunts:
Strength is the biggest hallmark of manhood. It demonstrates true he-man masculinity. Because this is true, it rouses a great desire in every manly heart to be able to do the great feats of strenth which hold people breathless when they are demonstrated to them.
Got that?! I like [...]
May 29 2005
Shot Glass Drinking Chess Set:
Each of the playing pieces is a shot glass with the likeness of the chess piece on the glass for identification.
Whenever you capture an opponent’s piece you have to drink it. The most valuable pieces have greater capacity so the advantage of being ahead in the game is offset by increased [...]
May 29 2005
Create a self-portraint in virtual Lego using the Flash application, Block Head Iconizer.
That site also offers The Mini-Mizer, where you can picture yourself in plastic.
(via lonita.links.log)
May 29 2005
Canadian Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Program Adverse Reaction Database:
…maintains a database of suspected adverse reactions to Canadian marketed health products that have been reported to the program voluntarily by health professionals and laypersons
A search for paxil returns 1731 hits, prozac has 634, coffee has 18, marijuana has 64.
They devised a clever method to access the [...]
May 29 2005
In Detroit high school opens its desktops, a school converted from using Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, saving lots of money and not requiring hardware upgrades.
OpenOffice.org is…
an office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute.
Pender and I have been using it at [...]
May 23 2005
I finally bought a new computer. I bought it in pieces from NCIX.com (I’ll post about them later), who are on the other side of Canada, but with shipping it was still cheaper than buying the equivalent pre-assembled PC. It arrived in less than a week. Here’s the important stuff:
AMD Athlon 64 [...]
