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March 31, 2006
Once again proving their usefulness,
Once again proving their usefulness, the astronauts currently riding the Space Station captured what a total eclipse of the sun looks like...from orbit. Kinda looks like that scene in the film 2010, when Jupiter is being consumed from within by hoards of black monoliths.
Bad Day on the TTC - at Google Video.
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March 30, 2006
An interesting look at the
Fredericks' of Hollywood's catalog for 1977. Oh, so good.
And another collection of curious antiquated illustrations...
An interesting look at the films of James Cameron (Titanic, The Abyss, Aliens, Terminator 2).
Google Idol - 'unearthing the world's talent' - unearthing is right. Some of these should be buried right back where they found them! But some are really good.
Here's a handy and attractive way to keep track of coalition casualties in the Iraq conflict.
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March 24, 2006
Wesley gets promoted to Ensign
If there's a record to be set for the most buildup for a movie that might not even make it to theatres, it's being set by Snakes on a Plane, a thiller starring Samuel Jackson. Anyone who knows Jackson's work understands the passion that he brings to even the most horrid b-movies he's paid to perform in. Anyway, the fan fervor preceding the dubiously titled "Snakes on a Plane" (producers had considered that a working title and tried to change it but Jackson himself is rumoured to have put his foot down in support of the title) is such that there is even a website for suggesting lines for inclusion in the film, just because it would be so cool to hear Jackson say them.
Demonstration for Cutaway Technical Illustrations using Adobe Illustrator, and a Cruise Ship as the subject. SOOOO cool. Wow! His student section is totally informative.
Davis Monthan AFB is home to the world's 3rd largest air force, and all of the planes are mothballed.
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March 21, 2006
Explaining the faux Irish Pub
Explaining the faux Irish Pub 'revolution'. It explains it but there's still no excuse.
Tom's Hardware has a good bit up on the Story of Tron.
The Falling Sand Game is really neat. (wikipedia article explains how to play it)
Back to Iraq is an awesome blog 'on the ground' in that embattled country.
Sacks10 had a competition for reinterpretations of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.
Intellectual Property Run Amok (from Mother Jones) I have come to accept that the whole concept of 'intellectual property' was created by and for the benefit of the legal profession.
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March 16, 2006
Dm Argt Mr Rbt
More putting of the robo-comic Garfield to better use.. "An interesting thing...if you remove Garfield's thought balloons, it goes from an unfunny comic to a rather sad, poignant story about a lonely man who has wasted his life talking to his cat." Link.
A very good, extensive interview of Alan Moore, writer of graphic novels such as The Watchmen, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta.
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March 15, 2006
Get ready for Iranian New Years!
Ian's Shoelace Site includes 16 Different Ways to Tie Shoelaces. Growing up I had a hard enough time figuring out the basic method.
Ars technica is reporting on a class action suit filed against the music industry.
"The suit also alleges that the record labels sought to shut down online music pioneer Napster at the same time they were introducing their own joint ventures to sell online music. MusicNet and pressplay "were not serious commercial ventures, but rather attempts to occupy the market with frustrating and ineffectual services in order to head off viable Online Music competitors from forming and gaining popularity after Napster's demise," according to the suit."
A great collection of computer marketing photos from the 60's and 70's.
Something truly Canadian we can all be proud of - the National Mitten Registry.
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March 14, 2006
Swiftly Drifting
popurls.com is a collection of the most popular links each day. A good starting point.
Someone want to do one for the Toronto Transit Commission?
Poynter Online presents the Best of Television Photojournalism 2006 - the Judge's choice is an amazing (and graphic) piece on Chechnya by CBC reporter Greg Kelly.
Drift racing is relatively new to the R/C car scene. (WMV video file) There have been some developements of late, namely using gyro stabilizers like the ones found in R/C helicopters, that make it a little easier on the drivers.
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March 13, 2006
More Remixed Transit System Maps
This fellow is having similar difficulties with the London Underground people that I blogged John Martz was having with the Toronto Transit Commission. The Tubers want buddy to take down his map remixes, so I'm hosting them here as a show of solidarity.
Here's a mirror of his (disputed) website: HERE.
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March 10, 2006
Free A Warmer Soupy Butt
(from ttcrider.ca) "On February 22, 2006, John Martz created a hilarious TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) Subway Map with each station's name as an anagram. The map, inspired by a similar anagram map of London's Tube, was an instant hit among Toronto's online community. Within a few days though, a TTC lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to John citing intellectual property laws and threatening legal action if he didn't pull it from his website.Angered and frustrated by the TTC's ability to almost instantaneously flush all this goodwill down the toilet, we at ttcrider.ca have put the original map back online and written an open letter to TTC Chair Howard Moscoe requesting the map be allowed to exist. Moscoe has a good track record of promoting free speech (he led the charge to reinstate NOW Magazine after former North York mayor Mel Lastman banned it from City Hall over its personal ads). We view the TTC as belonging to the Toronto public and feel that celebrating the TTC through projects like the anagram map should be encouraged, not quashed."
I am hosting the map as well, here (600k pdf)
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Some fun videos:
A really neat-o funwow demo video for Spore, a new video game from the creator of The Sims and SimCity. COOOL!
This guy makes juggling look too easy.
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March 07, 2006
Ali Farka Toure dead at 67.
I had been wondering why there weren't any quackery patents coming through in the past while, until I saw this: "Conscience-enhancing malice-weakening gas" "This invention is a mixture of neuroactive substances in the form of gases, liquid aerosols, and/or solid aerosols, which act synergistically to increase the ratio of strength between the desire to do right, called conscience, and the desire to do wrong, called malice."
Yesterday, I noticed that booshwah photographer Michael Reichmann was extolling the virtues of the Funkycam, a $20 1 megapixel digicam that produces weird photos that are amusing and fun, much like the Lomo camera. Then, I read today that some fellow is trying to make a digital Lomo by Frankensteining a Lomo lens onto an Epson RD-1 rangefinder digicam.
I love stories like this, and I imagine news editors all over the world like them too, if only because they get to use headlines like "GIANT SQUID GRABS LONDON AUDIENCE"..
FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD do not click on this link.
MSNBC, always on the forefront of spectacular newsmaking, has the Forbes 2006 list of Most Expensive Private Islands.
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March 03, 2006
USA Today has a good
USA Today has a good article on the beginnings of Flickr, the photo-sharing network that seems to have really taken off over the past year.
Cris Rose makes wonderful images of monsters out of photographs of buildings.
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March 01, 2006
Pamela Anderson Hosts Junos. Ratings Bounce
If you're considering ordering from an online retailer, you could do worse than to check up on the seller through Resellerratings.com. Comprehensive customer surveys produce ratings of sellers customers would otherwise have no recourse to finding out more about them.
Ordering pizza in the year 2010. Actually, it could be next week for all we know.
Something Awful had a photoshop contest for covers of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books.
The Case for Impeachment - from Harper's.
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