Archive for June, 2008

  1. How Not To Prevent Suicide

    A hilarious video about how not to prevent suicide. It presents itself as a serious video, but you’ll have to decide that for yourself. It starts to get pretty damn funny once they reach the forest.

  2. Skyscrapers That Move And Make Their Own Energy

    I’ve been predicting it for some time — skyscrapers will eventually become sentient and take over humans. That includes time travel to serve their deadly purpose. In my book, “Skyscrapers Will Fuck You Up,” I outlined how skyscrapers would evolve, with number fourteen being that they would be able to morph their shape to disarm [...]

  3. Another Reason I Use Mac

    Todd Bishop published this priceless email from Bill Gates to his crew about how awful his experience was trying to do the most basic things with the Microsoft website and Windows XP.
    —- Original Message —-
    From: Bill Gates
    Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
    To: Jim Allchin
    Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole; [...]

  4. Noise Pollution

    Katharine Mieszkowski over at Salon does a nice job of reporting on noise pollution. She discusses the health effects of noise pollution and finds some interesting people along her way. Including Henry Bean, the director of Noise, a movie about noise pollution in New York, starring Tim Robbins.

  5. Phone Sex Operators (The Real Ones)

    The Morning News did a series on the voices behind phone sex operators. Included in their expose was a series of pictures that portrayed the real people on the other end of the line. Apparently, they don’t all look like the women in the commercials. I know, I was just as surprised as you were.

  6. Office Worker Going Crazy A Fake

    Call it viral, call obscure or just call it funny — the video of an office worker losing his shit was actually staged. The creator of the video, Timur Bekmambetov said it was supposed to be a viral video to help promote his new movie. However, it was so obscure that nobody made the connection, [...]

  7. Bumper Sticker President

    A bumper sticker for a better president. Instead of a person, elect a song. This is actually a sticker for the song, “If a Song Could be President” by the band Over the Rhine — Bergquist & Detweiler being the two main band members. It’s easily one of the most clever songs I’ve ever listened [...]

  9. Magnolia Blooms

    Summer is now upon us. The Magnolia tree in my back yard is in full bloom, which can be seen with this photo I took with my iPhone.

  10. An iTunes Alternative

    Songbird is an open source music player project — utilizing Mozilla Layout Engine (MLE) as its rendering base — that looks to unseat or at least give iTunes a run for its money. Although it doesn’t have anything close to the iTunes Music Store, it does have something that iTunes doesn’t have — a built [...]