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The Shining, Redux:
A post-production house organized a competition where assistant editors ‘re-cut’ trailers for famous movies to try and make them seem like different movies . . . . this is the one that won…
This nicely edited trailer is a minute and 20 seconds in length, and about 9 MBs in size.
(via Waxy.org Links)

Corrective surgery set for Glooscap:
Some motorists travelling Highway 104 toward Truro claim the statue looks like it has an appendage not intended by its sculptor emerging from its midriff.
Ribald humour and giggling 10-year-olds aside, the illusion is being taken seriously.
“We may have to take the arm off and get it bent up a little bit [...]

Legal Revenge Against Spam Snail-Mailers:
…here’s a completely LEGAL way to fight back against idiots like MCI. You can mail their junk back to them for FREE using their own postage-paid envelopes. The only catch is that it will be attached to 50 lbs of additional junk you’ve gathered from around your house (rocks, bricks, old [...]

Cassini spots huge “spear” on Saturn moon:
The first close-up images of Saturn’s moon Tethys have been sent to Earth from the Cassini spacecraft, which flew past the moon on Saturday. As well as the expected craters and chasms, one image reveals a peculiar, spear-shaped feature.
Looks like a relic alien spacecraft to me.

Don’t forget: The World Beard and Moustache Championships are being held October 1, 2005 in Berlin, Germany.
The American team have their own blog. I couldn’t find a Canadian team.
Phillip ought to grow his beard back.

How It Should Have Ended creates animated alternative endings to movies, usually with a much better ending than the original. Their Seven remake was predictable but funny.
They offer their movies in .wmv format and as torrent files. The best torrent client I’ve used is Azureus; it’s highly customizable and, more importantly, easy to [...]

Holy Bibble, a cartoon version of The Bible. From their FAQ page:
2. You are incorrect about blah blah blah in the bible.
No, see, you’re incorrect. We are God’s prophets, sent down from heaven to retranslate the bible into something that actually makes some semblance of sense. Therefore, we can say whatever we want because [...]

NerdTV:
NerdTV is… a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the world of technology. Guests like Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy or Apple computer inventor Steve Wozniak are household names if your household is nerdy enough, but as historical figures and geniuses in their own right, they have plenty to say to ALL of [...]

FUCK this website:
I don’t know, just had the idea one day and thought it would be funny. So I printed out stickers [with the word "FUCK"] in a bunch of different sizes, took them everywhere with me, and started taking photos. It quickly turned into an obsession, and now here we are. Now it’s your [...]

I smoked for six months due to peer pressure when I was 13 or 14. I don’t remember why I quit; probably because I figured out it was stupid.

It’s almost 11 o’clock. I’m too tired to write this myself, so I’m stealing it from J-Walk who writes:

Regular Whole Wheat Radio listeners know that Jim Kloss normally does his daily “Rant and Rave” show at 11:00 am Alaska time [4:00pm Atlantic time]. But, for some reason, he’s thinking about doing it later in the [...]

As I noted previously, my old PC’s hard-drive failed, the drive that contained the operating system (Windows 2000). The computer is only used by my wife for basic tasks: email, browsing the net, and word processing. I figured this was a perfect excuse to test Linux’s usability. The main criteria was:

Easy to [...]

“Writing allows mediocre people who are patient
and industrious to revise their stupidity,
to edit themselves into intelligence.”
—Kurt Vonnegut

I was just checking out the Google Print project, whatever it’s called. They’re scanning books and putting them online. So I do a search for Harlan Ellison because I know how much he hates it when people reproduce his work without his permission. I haven’t come across any of his actual works yet, but I [...]

SnowAtHome.com offers snow makers you can buy and instructions on how to build your own (from scratch). The SG4-LED costs $498.00 American or $398.00 for the kit that includes everything to build your own. Unfortunately, the machine is dependent on the weather; it needs to be below freezing for the most part to [...]