July 31, 2006
July 30, 2006
The "Snakes on a Plane" Problem
interesting points, but cultural elitism is such a nice thing, no?
The Sandhog Project: photos of the workers of Local 147 at the New York City Water Tunnel No. 3 (via)
Recycling Spam email: Spam Architecture and Spam Plants (via)
interesting, using random data as inputs has been done before, but using spam is quite clever
July 29, 2006
Hours of fun: Photos tagged with Comic Con
som quick favorites: Klingon resting on a Rascal, Stormtrooper Elvis, Slave Leias, Cantina Band, Kang (could have been better), Row of Stormtroopers (seen at every Con with more than 4 Stormtrooper present) - there are so many, just check out the tag or check out these 1000 photos from a Leia Cos-Player or this one if you don't have the time
July 28, 2006
The 12 Differences Between Super Mario Bros. 2 and Doki Doki Panic (via)
The 100 Top Brands 2006 compiled by BusinessWeek
July 26, 2006
photos of purports to be the biggest hole in the world Later - looks like the site is now spam heavy, and installs spyware when you use IE, sorry! Use Firefox!
525m deep is pretty deep
July 25, 2006
City Income Doughnut - testing the idea that a city will create concentric rings of wealth and poverty
July 24, 2006
MotherLoad (via - damn you kottke!)
War on Foolishness: You could be in a government database for taking photos on in-flight airplanes
crap - I always have my camera out when I fly, and take tons of photos; it would be nice if the 5th estate would get someone on record about this
Martin Dugard sums up his Tour de France experince by running down the Champs Elysees and his final wrap-up
July 23, 2006
Bravo! American, Floyd Landis wins first Tour de France
Dean Karnazes is training to run 50 consecutive Marathons - and he has a blog
the insanity of this is chilling - another blogging running-crazies is Ben Hammerslry, who competes in ultra-marathons
July 22, 2006
Dave Zabriskie interviews Floyd Landis
these guys crack me up
July 21, 2006
July 20, 2006
"Digging Deep into the Suitcase of Courage" and other Liggettisms
Climbing the L'Alpe d'Huez on the Étape du Tour: The Tour de France almost killed me. Quote:
And I realize that I've made a terrible mistake. The race needed to end right there.
July 18, 2006
Metropolis Magazine vs Shake Shack: What’s Wrong with the Shake Shack?
inspired: Stop-Motion Human Space Invaders
July 17, 2006
Cool photo project: The Brooklynites - be sure to check out all the photos
Good rundown on what is happening in the Middle East: Hizbullah aims to shift power balance (via)
July 16, 2006
Video: Stanford Prison Experiment
scary and fascinating, read more about the experiment
July 14, 2006
Stabbed in the Back! - the history of the Republican myth
July 13, 2006
The Maximilian's Schell just won an AIA LA Design Award
I've noticed this too: The Summer Uniform: Short, Sweet and Cool, not that I'm complaining
July 11, 2006
What's inside your laptop? Engineer finds keylogger inside his almost new Dell 600m laptop and DHS won't tell him why it's there
A group of National Design Award finalists and winners recently declined to be honored at the White House breakfast in their honor
July 10, 2006
Adam Carolla hangs up on Ann Coulter
she was 1 1/2 hours late calling in, remarked she was
tight on time
, so Adam hung up on her (awesome!) later: Adam's "apologizes" (not really)On Floyd Landis: What He's Been Pedaling - I thought this guy had cajones, but this is insane:
Landis is slow. He walks with a limp. He sits as often as possible and cannot cross his right leg over his left. He takes elevators instead of stairs, valet-parks at the shopping mall and sometimes has difficulty sleeping. Running is out of the question.
July 9, 2006
Death trap: how we are losing Afghanistan to the Taliban
July 8, 2006
Guy successfully trades paperclip for house
freakin' awesome!
July 7, 2006
In-depth look at the layout of books: Making Castoff (via)
Excellent advocacy commercial: Permission
July 6, 2006
On the NYPD's Aviation Unit: Instead of Walking a Beat, Flying One (via)
Advocates push for simpler 'spelling' (via)
this is, by far, the most idiotic idea (ever), I'm glad that other, more pressing, problems are dealt with already
July 5, 2006
The Evolution of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" including mp3's of source material and alternate takes of "Crazy" - am I the last person to know that they dressed up in Star Wars costumes @ the MTV Movie Awards? (via)
July 4, 2006
Not to be ZeFrankFilter on you, Ze Frank of The Show is currently playing Fabuloso Chess, pitting himself versus the combined intellect of his viewers.
His viewers vote on the best countermove, and the one with the most votes becomes the Fabuloso's chess move, Ze Frank in his next episode of The Show, broadcasts his move. If Ze Frank loses, he has to give a 10 minute The Show: Unplugged signing performance
July 3, 2006
July 2, 2006
July 1, 2006
Why "The Big Lebowski" is about our empty modern world (via)
FoxNews versus Phelps crazy Church
This is the perfect storm of crazy vs. insane!
