Welcome back to the working week!
For today, the last Monday of the month, some Monday-related entertainment. First, here are some scans from The Executive Coloring Book. It may seem mildly amusing today, but it must’ve been downright subversive to some when it was first released in 1961 (here’s a review from Time magazine, dated Frdiay, [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Mar
26
2007
Executive Coloring Book / Song of the Week (“Push th’ Little Daisies”, 1992)
Mar
23
2007
Leonidas Gives Good Head (or: Photoshoppable Leondias Images!)
Click to download the full-size version [945K PNG image].
For your Photoshopping pleasure, here’s a file of Leonidas heads on a transparent background [945K PNG image], ready to cut and paste into photos to hilarious effect. It’s useful for all sorts of things, including animations like the one shown below…
Mar
23
2007
I Knew This Pic of Cory in Goggles Would Come in Handy (Or: ‘xkcd’ Name-Drops Cory Doctorow)
If you’re a regular reader of BoingBoing or the geek-friendly comic xkcd, you’ve probably already seen the strip in which Cory Doctorow gets name-dropped:
Mar
23
2007
Insane Clown Posse (or, Cracking Wise About the News Corp./NBC UIniversal Online Video Partnership)
If you haven’t been following the tech news in the past 24 hours, you might not be aware of News Corporation and NBC Universal’s joint project to create a “YouTube killer” online video service where they will showcase their programming. The announcement seems like so much bluster and so little substance, especially when they haven’t [...]
Mar
22
2007
Global Nerdy Update
Yes, Global Nerdy remains an ongoing concern. We’ve posted 4 new articles today. Here are the most recent ones…
HotelChatter’s “Best Geek Hotels in the World” List. An interesting list; I don’t agree with all the choices.
16 Ways the Media Can Make Use of Blogs. Yeah, this should be screamingly obvious to longtime blogosphere denizens, whether [...]
Mar
22
2007
Grand-dad’s Sweet Ride
Last night, Mom sent me a collection of photos taken by my uncle in 1967. The photos are of Mom, Dad and my grandparents at my grandparent’s place in San Juan, a neighbourhood smack in the dead center of Manila, where I lived from 1972 to 1975. A couple of the photos showed Grand-dad’s sweet [...]
Mar
22
2007
You Say “Sharia”, I Say “Kafkaesque and Evil”
From the Washington Post:
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two Sudanese women have been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery after a trial in which they had no lawyer and which used Arabic, not their first language, the rights group Amnesty International said.
Sadia Idriss Fadul was sentenced on February 13 and Amouna Abdallah Daldoum on March 6 [...]
Mar
22
2007
You Can Get a Master’s Degree for This?!
You may not remember the technology, but before the World Wide Web that we know and love today, there was Gopher, its spiritual predecessor. Gopher became available in the late spring of 1991 and was a system that let you read text files on other computers on the internet. Unlike the web, where you click [...]
Mar
22
2007
Bum Rush the Charts and Send a Message to the RIAA
Today is Bum Rush the Charts day, a day on which we’re supposed to send a message to the RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) by voting with our dollars. I’ll leave it to the folks at the Bum Rush the Charts site to explain:
People are sick of the watered-down, cookie-cutter content that networks and [...]
Mar
22
2007
Where to Get the “Level 1 Human” Baby Outfit
I’ve been getting a number of emails asking me where one can buy the baby outfit I showed in the article For the Baby Whose Parents Play “Dungeons and Dragons”. I did a little poking around the ‘Net and found a couple of places:
This CafePress shop sells a white one for US$14.99.
J!NX, an online [...]
