Category: Out there

I’m a card-carrying member.

Source: Tin Hat Novelties

What’s that fuel-efficient frying smell? … Throw your senses of scale and proportion out the window and succumb to the powers of 10 … SWAT team needed to contain dude screaming obscenities at his computer … What if it really is just turtles all the way down after all? … Learn how to write like a wanker … Appears the U.S. government has been using the Internet as a propaganda medium … You can help decide the fate of a college girl’s chest … Who would buy that? … More than you ever wanted to know about that scar on Tina Fey’s face … Read up on the endangered state of the modern banana … How beautiful, how depressing … You sure you want to sell that hard drive? … Apple’s new 17″ laptop is already being called the iSUV … The problem with metadata … You need a cigarette lighter for your PC … Here’s a woman who nursed puppies with her own breast milk … Fried tofu kamakazi and other incredible recipes … Nice 1st-person account by the dude who airbrushed the original Star Trek Enterprise … Don’t miss the Prime Number Shitting Bear … Webmasters, read the case against crawler918 … Forget mini-keyboards and soft rubber rollup keyboards — you need need a virtual keyboard forged of pure light … I believe there are some sounds worth saving … The design of the California quarter has not yet been decided upon — you can vote to help keep it from being some stupid Hollywood or Golden Gate emblem … If you don’t feel like implementing a full-blown web polling system, try setting up the inline Micropoll … Capitonyms controvert my earlier capitulation to the sensibility of the case-respecting but case insensitive filesystem (HFS+) … Seriously sad for the hermit sculptor killed by oil spill … Modern Drunkard Index offers these signs for when talking is impossible … Think you know Dr. Seuss? Check out his early advertising work …

My pop does some handy work for clients in the mountains, and came across this motorized surfboard at a client’s house. We think it’s a 1965 JetBoard.

There were apparently not too many of them made, and of the few that remain, only one has been restored to working condition. Much faster modern variants are still being manufactured. I’m trying to see whether I can help by taking it off the owner’s hands… at the very least, I’d like to pass it on to my old boss at Wavelengths Surf Shop in Morro Bay.

Taking the associative database concept one step further, Recommended Reading will examine your web site and recommend other sites you might like to watch … Did Bill Gates really say this? … Who can tell their arse from their elbow? … Careless use of fonts can lead to misunderstanding … Dancing Spidey renews my faith in the coolness of animated GIFs — and I’m not even a big Spidey fan … Was recently reminded that the wayback machine can be used to dig up truly ancient pages and sites – try visiting the site of an old employer or something – scary … Remember when the Incredible Hulk and friends were advertising Hostess cake products in the pages of your favorite comics? … Use Entourage rather than Mail.app (like me) and wish iPhoto’s “Mail” feature would export images to Entourage? You need the iPhoto mail patcher … The W3C has completely redesigned their site(s) with CSS, just as Wired did a while ago and I’m planning to do at the J-School this summer … This saucy vicar ruined Christmas for a bunch of kids, telling them that Santa would burn up from the friction of traveling so fast if he was real … A chair slips on a pile of spaghetti, which is great entertainment if your’re insane (nice Eno/Budd soundtrack though!) … Think the press is rightward-leaning? Right … America is having technical difficulties, please stand by … who is the single most influential media reporter in the world? … Swell rapping horsies (click on them sequentially) … A bar where the drinks are named after famous artists – I’ll take an Yves Tanguy, straight up – Nice Bosch sequence … Hunter S. Thompson: Dumbness deserves no sympathy (don’t settle for second hand hasish smoke) … You’ve never heard “YMCA” sung like this … One of the great things about moving from LiveJournal to Movable Type is that you get a lot more comments from nut-jobs.

A flag … flying free in a vacuum
Nixon sucks a dry martini
Ghosts of american astronauts
Stay with us in our dreams
      – The Mekons

Citibank billboard on College Ave. a few days ago read:

“Try making time instead of money for a while.”

With the application of a small horizontal stroke of black paint by the invisible samizdat now reads:

“Try making time instead of money for a white.”

Amazon is hawking a highly-effective looking title designed to help combat life’s dark clouds through a truly unique scientific approach. Is this the book that could put self-help on the map at last? Haven’t read it myself, but feel like I’ve been exploring its methodology all my life.

Dreamed that I woke up with a note from Amy pinned to my chest:

“Scot – ran out of breast milk for Miles and had to pump yours. Took every last drop, sorry.”

Today this amazing Flash cartoon / advertisement for Kikkoman soy sauce became the first cartoon Miles ever watched. Show Me / Show You / Kikkoman!

Spoiler: the “Souce” gets the girl.

Amy’s parents in town for a few days to meet Miles – we’re taking it slow, enjoying time together.

I’m not just making stuff up — foobar is a real word. … Flash doesn’t get much more Hi-Ho than this. … DecafBAD explains the Semantic Web. … The Guinness Book of World Records now discourages gluttony and foolhardiness. … Bummed that no one says “Hang ten!” anymore. … The ultimate hand-drawn digital clock. … Propaganda machine got you down? Try some remixed propaganda on for size. … From now on, any software or scripts I publish will be released under The Free Object-Oriented License. … Conclusion of this cutting edge analysis of contemporary advertising: Ads are stupid. … Don’t let your left hip know what your right hip is doing – learn the Black Bottom Dance. … These Burning Man pix are so good I regret missing it… for the 7th year running. … Bored of a Sunday afternoon? Don’t miss the Colossal Colon Tour. … How the Seattle waterfront has changed over the years. … The Best Page In the Universe. “This page is about me and why everything I like is great. If you disagree with anything you find on this page, you are wrong.” … Step-by-step instructions: how to be Electroclash. …

“Erase the vision which has trashed this planet.”
– Michael Brownstein

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Music: 13th Floor Elevators :: Slip Inside This House

Photographer Eric Meyer invites you to reassemble his photographs on the fly (not to be confused with on-the-fly eyeball distortion).

Coincidentally, I’m in the middle of reading O’Reilly’s Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, by a different Eric Meyer. The book is very thorough, but I can’t help but think it would actually be more useful in a more terse format. I want to hear everything he has to say, but I want him to do it with fewer words. But I know well how much harder it is to write something short than long.

“I have only made this [letter] longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”
– Blaise Pascal

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Music: Aimee Mann :: Momentum