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Scenes from the Roller Derby

June 1, 2009

Me and "Lunchbox” of the Gore Gore Rollergirls. Photo by Rannie “Photojunkie” Turingan.
The Anthem
I’d only seen roller derby on TV – hidden deep in UHF-land — and never in real life, so when I got an invitation from “Lunchbox” of the Gore Gore Rollergirls to play the national anthem at the start of the first [...]

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Muscle March: Weirdest Videogame of 2009

May 18, 2009

This article also appears in Global Nerdy.
I think we’ve got an early contender for the title of “Weirdest Videogame of 2009”: Muscle March for the Nintendo Wii. As if the game weren’t weird enough, the trailer below ramps up the weirdness by presenting it in that oh-so-Japanese style with epilepsy-inducing jump-cuts and a hyper-enthusiastic Japanese [...]

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A Game of “Guess Who?” with Samuel L. Jackson

May 11, 2009

It would probably go something like this:

Yes, you’ll need to have seen the Milton-Bradley boardgame “Guess Who?” and this scene from the Quentin Tarantino flick Pulp Fiction to be in on the joke:

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Chomsky Meets an Internet Meme

May 11, 2009

If you don’t get the joke, this image search may help you.
[Photo courtesy of Certified Bullshit Technician.]

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Star Trek vs. Street-Talkin’ Dracula

May 8, 2009

There’s a part of me that hopes that the new Star Trek movie premiering today takes its plot from this 1980s Star Trek comic in which the crew of the Enterprise takes on a vampire who sounds like Shaft:

(This fine bit of comic Photshoppery was created by Kevin Church.)

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“Yippie Ki Yay…”

May 6, 2009

In an earlier article, I wrote about the cleaned-for-TV version of Samuel Jackson’s famous in the movie Snakes on a Plane. Here’s an even better-known line – Bruce Willis’ battle cry from the Die Hard movie series – as edited for prime-time television audiences:

You have to keep in mind that there is no character [...]

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Those MUST be the Kid’s Biological Parents

May 3, 2009

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“See? I Told You to Eat More Fiber!”

May 1, 2009

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Photo of the Day

April 30, 2009

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Swingin’ on the BART

April 28, 2009

I don’t know what the backstory is, but a group of people decided to have a little fun on BART – that’s short for Bay Area Rapid Transit, the San Francisco-and-surroundign-areas commuter train – and set up some swings. The action was captured in this Flickr set, which includes the photo below:

Looking at these photos [...]

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Type Nesting

April 28, 2009

Type Nesting is a site that’s focused on a single topic: photos of birds nesting in the letters of signs. They really seem to like uppercase As and Rs.
[Found via Waxy.org]

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Bacon Pops!

April 28, 2009

Bacon Pops sound like a tasty hors d’ouevre: goat cheese lollipops, rolled in herbs, pecans and…bacon! I’ve gotta make these sometime.

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Toronto Developer Lunch Today

April 28, 2009

If you’re near Accordion City’s downtown Chinatown area, drop by Sky Dragon restaurant (top floor of Dragon City mall on the southwest corner of Spadina and Dundas) for Developer Lunch today! Kristan “Krispy” Uccelo has been organizing this series of lunches for the past year as a way for local developers to get together and [...]

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“Snakes on a Plane’s” Signature Line – The TV Edit

April 27, 2009

Snakes on a Plane, even when you take into account that it’s supposed to be a big dumb action movie aiming to be a cult film, wasn’t all that good. Apparently it’s been made worse through its bowdlerization for TV, where Samuel Jackson’s famous line has the profanity (and personality) drained from it:

“I have had [...]

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Endorsed by Dr. Gregory House

April 24, 2009

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