Monthly Archives: May 2007
May
17
2007
Inventing the Future
“Perhaps someday in the future, people will exchange punch cards of their favourite bikini girl printouts. And maybe, if computers get advanced enough, pictures of cats with humourous captions.”
Click the photo to see it at full size.
May
17
2007
The Joys of United Airlines’ "Economy Minus" Seats
After being cooped up in United’s “Economy Minus” class for about five hours, I’ve finally arrived in Portland, where I’ll be attending RailsConf for the rest of the week. Nice-lookin’ city you folks have here, by the way.
Not an actual photo of my seat, but a reasonable approximation I found with Google Image Search.
I pity [...]
May
16
2007
A Creepy Ad from the Seventies
Believe it or not, the ad below comes from an issue of Tiger Beat, circa 1976. It’s creepy in a way that only a Texas children’s beauty pageant meets the Disco Era photo can be:
Click the picture to see it at full size. Magazine scan courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
May
16
2007
Check Out “Global Nerdy” for RailsConf News!
If you’re going to RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon or just interested in what’s happening there, let Yours Truly be your reporter! I’ll be posting reports at my technical blog, Global Nerdy.
I’ll be covering the premier Ruby on Rails conference from all angles, technical and social, from the all-day Rails Guidebook tutorial sessions on Thursday [...]
May
15
2007
You’ll Only See This on the Director’s Cut
Damn you, Photoshop! Damn you all to hell!!!
Click the picture to see it at full size. Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
May
14
2007
Book of the Week: Identifying Wood
“Yup,” says the guy on the cover of Identifying Wood, “that’s wood, all right.”
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
May
14
2007
More “MacGruber”
A little while back, I posted three YouTube videos of Saturday Night Live’s parody of MacGyver, titled MacGruber, featuring Will Forte in the title role. In that series, MacGruber’s improvised gadgets made of ordinary household items are undone because one component is too gross to handle.
Last Saturday, SNL aired a new series of MacGruber shorts, [...]
May
14
2007
Song of the Week: Jonathan Coulton’s “Code Monkey”
I remember being introduced to Jonathan Coulton’s music while staying at Ethan Zuckerman’s and Rachel Barenblat’s place in the Berkshires back in the early summer of 2005. Wendy and I were visting to work out the details of our wedding ceremony (Rachel was one of the officiants). While having a very delicious dinner, Ethan and [...]
May
10
2007
When Wikipedia Rules the World
David Malki hit the nail on the head in his Wondermark! comic on Wikipedia:
Click to see the full comic on its original page.
May
10
2007
We Need More Signs Like This
And while we’re at it, one for furries too!
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
May
10
2007
Tony Blair to Step Down June 27th
In case you haven’t yet checked today’s news, Tony Blair has announced that he’ll step down on June 27th. Expect lively chatter from the punditry in 5…4…3…
Here’s some reading to get you started: Mary Ann Sieghart’s article in the Times, I’ll give Blair six and a half out of ten, in which she compares him [...]
May
10
2007
Pillow Fight Toronto This Saturday!
Kevin Bracken from newmindspace — they think of themselves as “interactive public art, creative cultural interventions and urban bliss dissemination”; I just say they help make Accordion City a little more interesting — asked me if I could spread the word about Saturday’s pillow fight. I told him I’d be happy to! Here’s the official [...]
May
10
2007
Paris Hilton Reading Sun Tzu’s "The Art of War"
All I can say is “Yeah. Right.”:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele. Click to see a larger version.
I find the photo below — in which a cute young woman is about to immanentize the eschaton — far more plausible:
This photo originally appeared in this entry.
May
10
2007
Flash Video Game Design Contest
Mark Harvey dropped me a line asking if I would announce a Flash video game design contest; I told him I’d by happy to oblige. It’s a chance for you to show off your game development chops and win a cool ten grand. Here are the details:
Calling All Video Game Designers -
Win [...]
May
09
2007
MySpace Band of the Week: Necromancer
If you can sing and there’s a fifteen-year-old inside you touchin’ himself to Boris Vallejo posters [warning: might not be safe for work], you might want to audition for Necromancer, as the poster below indicates.
Nuthin’ says “hardcore” like a cheesy hand-drawn logo and bats.
Go visit their MySpace page, check out the song Raw Meat and [...]
