Saturday, June 30, 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

Wheelchair user taken on 50-mph ride


PAW PAW, Mich. - Ben Carpenter got the ride of a lifetime when his electric wheelchair became lodged in the grille of a semitrailer and was accidentally pushed down a highway for several miles at about 50 mph.His father, Donald Carpenter, was incredulous when police called to tell him his 21-year-old son was OK after the wild ride.

Wheelchair user taken on 50-mph ride - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

John Cage Water Walk

YouTube - John Cage Water Walk

My friend Mike sent me this link. you have to admire the guys sense of humor in showing this piece to an audience that doesn't understand it.

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

US Weekly Blacks Out Hilton Coverage

LOS ANGELES -- Paris Hilton gets out of jail on Tuesday and she won't be on the cover of US Weekly on Friday? How, short of the Apocalypse, is this possible?"When it came down to it, the staff and I felt what I believe a lot of people in America are feeling. Which is just enormous Paris fatigue," US Weekly Editor Janice Min told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

US Weekly Blacks Out Hilton Coverage - washingtonpost.com

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Fatone to Host NBC's `The Singing Bee'


NEW YORK — Joey Fatone's latest gig: hosting "The Singing Bee," a sing-along variety game show set to premiere July 10 on NBC.Fatone, one of the members of boy band 'N Sync, was a runner-up on the fourth season of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." The 30-year-old singer has appeared in several Broadway musicals, including "Little Shop of Horrors."Contestants on "The Singing Bee" will try to accurately sing the lyrics to the most popular songs of all time in a variety of karaoke-style competitions. If they mess up, they're out of the game.

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Picasa Web Becomes Location Aware


Google's photo sharing site lets you see photo albums on a map. For each photo that has latitude and longitude, Picasa Web shows a small map in the sidebar.You can enter a single location for an entire album or place each photo from an album to a map using drag and drop. The desktop client can also geolocate photos using Google Earth.

I spent 20 min. messing with this. It's pretty cool.

Picasa Web Becomes Location Aware

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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

See who links to your site.


Google was giving out fortune cookies containing search tips at ALA. This cookie tasted like fruit punch and explained how to use the "link:" operator.
search for link:yoursite.com (your site of course replaced with your website.)

Google fortune cookie on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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The Art of Jordan Crane

Red Ink like Blood

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Monday, June 25, 2007

Is John Krasinski Fletch?

John Krasinski as Jim Halpert in 'The Office'
THE OFFICE star John Krasinski is reported to be being considered for the role of Fletch in the proposed new movie, FLETCH WON. The actor, who plays Jim Halpert in the popular NBC series, spoke to MTV where he said that producers had already contacted him about the role, and that he has read the script.

Is John Krasinski Fletch?

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Paris Hilton’s Home Gets Vandalized

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Late last night someone tagged this message on the side of Paris Hilton's Hollywood house.

Meanwhile Paris plans to open a home for former female prisoners.

Hollywood Rag - Celebrity Ragazine | Paris Hilton’s Home Gets Vandalized

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GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones

GrandCentral: The New Way to Use Your Phones


not your typical phone company. And these aren't your typical features.


  • Check your messages by phone, email, or online
  • Keep all your messages online for eternity
  • Record and store your phone calls (just like voicemail)
  • Quickly (and secretly) block an annoying caller
  • Click-to-dial from your address book
  • Surprise your callers with a custom voicemail greeting
  • Turn your Mp3s into the ring tones your callers hear
  • Forward, download, and add notes to your messages

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

Hell Yeah! New Bad Brains June 26th!

www.myspace.com/badbrains

 They still Rule!

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Saturday, June 23, 2007

A Comicbook Orange: Daily Elf; Super Farmboys; Sports Racers

Your Daily... June 23, 2007

Ripley's June 23

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The Brady Bunch mistakes, goofs and bloopers

Welcome to moviemistakes.com - the BEST place on the web for movies, bloopers, goofs and trivia.
Revealing: When the Brady kids are practicing for the talent show, instead of saying, "Come on, Pete," Marcia says, "Come on Chris," which is the actor playing Peter's real name (Chris Knight).

The Brady Bunch mistakes, goofs and bloopers

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Big Daddy (What Really Happened to the Band of '59?)


enjoy this great album from Big Daddy!Here's the track list:

1. I Write the Songs
2. Bette Davis Eyes
3. Super Freak
4. Star Wars
5. Whip It
6. Ebony and Ivory
7. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
8. Hit Me With Your Best Shot
9. The Rose
10. Just What I Needed
11. Hotel California
12. Eye of the Tiger

Go to the site below to download the album.

Way Out Junk: Big Daddy (What Really Happened to the Band of '59?)

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Circus circus! The art of potato farm girl

potato farm girl

potato farm girl: Circus circus!

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True or False

disney
1) Crocodiles must eat every day to survive.
2) The largest crocodiles live in saltwater.
3) Crocodiles eat plants and animals.

Click the link to find the answers.

Kid Cartoonists » Blog Archive » True or False

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Dr. Feel-"Bad": Motley Crue Sues Manager for $20 Million

The CRUE
Claiming he manipulated drummer Tommy Lee and extorted the band, heavy metal icons Motley Crue this week in Los Angeles sued its manager Carl Stubner and his associates for more than $20 million for lost earnings and other damages. Ticketnews.com has obtained a copy of the lawsuit, which portrays Stubner as a virtual svengali who placed Lee in failing projects at the expense of Lee’s and the band’s reputation because Stubner profited from them.The band described a litany of lost tour and promotional opportunities it lost from 2005 to the present due to Stubner allegedly not making “Lee available on an exclusive basis” to the band for interviews, concert dates and recording sessions.

Dr. Feel-"Bad": Motley Crue Sues Manager for $20 Million | Ticket News

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'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' Singer Dies

NEW YORK — Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has died of lung cancer. He was 68.Medress died Monday at his Manhattan home, relatives said.He was a teenager at Brooklyn's Lincoln High School when he launched his vocal quartet in 1955 with Neil Sedaka, performing as the Linc-Tones. When Sedaka departed for a successful solo career, lead singer Jay Siegel joined brothers Mitch and Phil Margo and Medress to become the Tokens.

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Amarok 1.4.6 Released


Your very own Amarok team announces the immediate availability of the latest 1.4 series release, 1.4.6.So, what's new?
* Funky new icon set, featuring KDE4 Oxygen colors by Landy DeField; for 2.0 he will be working to ensure that Amarok has a complete Oxygen icon set.
* Default database backend is a lot faster due to a new SQLite version.
* A gigantic load of bug fixes, the main focus of this release.
* Introducing rockbox support for iPod. * Performance tuning.

Amarok 1.4.6 Released | Amarok - Rediscover your music

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In case you didn't know

Danger! Fire kills children
Safety Warnings

Fred Emmott's Web Site :: Blog

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Friday, June 22, 2007

Disney cracking down on "ganglike presence"

Disney cracking down on
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) - Walt Disney World is cracking down on rowdy teens and young adults at its Downtown Disney complex.Additional Orange County deputies have been assigned to patrol the area. Officials say they are trying to head off a "ganglike presence" at Downtown Disney.

Disney cracking down on "ganglike presence" | WINK-TV - Fort Myers, FL | Local & Florida

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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Friday, June 15, 2007

The Official Peanuts Website FAQ

Q. Who is the girl "with the naturally curly hair"?
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A. The girl "with the naturally curly hair" is known as Frieda.

Q. What about the Little Red-Haired Girl?

A. There are two different lines of thought about "the Little Red-Haired Girl."

1) If you purely follow the strip (which is the preferred interpretation of the story lines by most PEANUTS purists), the Little Red-Haired Girl is never given a name. Actually, she's never even seen in the strip.

2) The Little Red-Haired Girl did actually appear in one of the PEANUTS TV specials ("It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown," 1977), in which she was called "Heather." But in this instance, the creative decisions regarding her appearance were decided by the show's animators - not Mr. Schulz.

The Official Peanuts Website - Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Friends - Charles Schulz | FAQ/Contact Us

Whole lot of useless yet interesting facts found here.

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Rock on chat symbol

I've decided that this -


lml

equals this

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~kennedy/img/rock_hand.png

when chating with someone.

Rock on.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Blogger in Draft


Today we're announcing an exciting new feature, video upload, and an exciting new place to use it: Blogger in draft. We’re excited.You can think of draft as Blogger’s laboratory: it has features that we’re playing around with, trying out, and aren’t ready to “publish” to the main site.Our first drafted feature is video upload. We’ve added a new button to the post editor () that pops up a dialog you can use to upload a video right into your blog post.

Blogger in Draft

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Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3

BERLIN (Reuters) - An aggressive squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday.With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.

Squirrel goes on rampage, injures 3 | Oddly Enough | Reuters

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Why do people yell "Free Bird!" at rock concerts?

It happens at nearly every rock show. During a lull, while the band's in between tunes, someone in the audience requests Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird." It's meant as a joke, but it's never really funny. So how did the unfortunate tradition begin?

Why do people yell "Free Bird!" at rock concerts?

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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Knock to open


a James Bond-worthy concept: knock on the door in a certain fashion, and the door'll open automatically. The idea was perfect: no need to drill holes, sneaky enough so the landlord wouldn't accidentally trigger it, easy enough to remember.The implementation was a bit more difficult: We needed something mechanical to open the lock from the inside and something to detect the knocks themselves. The first of the two wasn't too hard: the lock has a 'knob' on the inside, so you can lock and unlock the room from the inside without having the key. The second probably could be solved with a microphone, a small amplifier and a microcontroller to detect the knocks and see if they're in the right order.

Sprites mods - Knock to open - Intro

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Halo's Todd McFarlane controllers and wireless headset


The controller art is done by Todd McFarlane (Spawn) and also comes with a Halo 3 figurine by McFarlane Toys. So, maybe, it will end up costing $60. We'll find out more closer to release and when these items become "official".

Halo's Todd McFarlane controllers and wireless headset - Joystiq

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Boy-Band Mogul's Memorabilia Auctioned


Platinum and gold records, autographed posters and even a key to the city all went "Bye Bye Bye" at an auction as creditors liquidated the assets of boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman.Hundreds of bidders packed a downtown building Tuesday for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy sale. The auction was populated mostly by middle-aged men, not the screaming young girls who drove Pearlman's bands to multi-platinum success.

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RealPlayer 11 Lets You Download Videos from the Web


The much-hated RealPlayer will get an upgrade that adds an easy way to download videos from the web, a slicker interface and a friendlier relationship with your computer. "The new RealPlayer gives consumers more control of Internet video than was ever possible before. By floating a download this video button next to video seen on thousands of Web sites, RealPlayer makes it one-click simple," said Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of Real in a press release.

Google Operating System: RealPlayer 11 Lets You Download Videos from the Web

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Toilet Water Cleaner Than Fountain

Middle School student Kyleray Katherman had a hunch something was amiss with the school's drinking fountain water. And right he was.For an English assignment, he tested the bacteria content at four water fountains and one toilet to challenge a ban on students from bringing bottled water to class. It seems some were using it to sneak in alcohol.Guess which was cleaner? It wasn't the water fountains.

Teen: Toilet Water Cleaner Than Fountain, Oregon Student Finds School's Toilet Water Cleaner Than Fountain Water - CBS News

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Monday, June 11, 2007

Safari 3 for windows

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Apple Safari 3 will be available on not just Mac… Windows users will finally get another decent alternative to IE!!!!! Beta now available for both Mac and PC at http://www.apple.com/safari/ (Windows XP and Vista compatible)

FaganBlog

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Friday, June 08, 2007

The Art of Steve Simpson


Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson

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flickr upload plugin for picasa

Screenshot
picasa2flickr: A simple "plugin" that allows picasa users to upload their photos to flickr.

picasa2flickr - flickr upload plugin for picasa

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Scientists create robot toddler

The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, looks at Shuhei Ikemoto, an Osaka University student, when its hand is clasped by him during a demonstration of the toddler robot at a lab of the university in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, June 8, 2007. CB2, 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) tall and weighing 33 kilograms (73 pounds), developed by JST ERATO Asada Synergistic Intelligence Project, changes facial expressions and can rock back and forth. The robot's movements are smooth as it is fitted with 56 actuators in lieu of muscle. It has 197 sensors for touch, small cameras working as eyes, and an audio sensor. CB2 can also speak using an artificial vocal cord. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)
OSAKA - A group of scientists in Japan have developed a humanoid that acts like a toddler to better understand child development.ADVERTISEMENTClick Here!The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, was developed by a team of researchers at Osaka University in western Japan and is designed to move just like a real child aged between one and three years old.

Scientists create robot toddler - Yahoo! News

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Thursday, June 07, 2007

The First Email turns 34

The First Email: "first messages were sent in late 1971. The next release of TENEX went out in early 1972 and included the version of SNDMSG with network mail capabilities. The CPYNET protocol was soon replaced with a real file transfer protocol having specific mail handling features. Later, a number of more general mail protocols were developed."

Official Google Blog: Spice up your schedule with the Google Calendar gallery

Official Google Blog: Spice up your schedule with the Google Calendar gallery: "Don't you think that calendars should be more than lists of appointments and meetings? Well, we think an online calendar should be filled with what interests you most, which is why we just unveiled the Google Calendar gallery. Those of you with Google accounts and your friends (who might not have one) can create, share and save your favorite upcoming events directly in Google Calendar."

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Google Toolbar

Bookmark frequently visited pages and access them from anywhere
Search smarter with instant suggestionsas you type in the search box
Share web pages with friends via blog, email, or SMS.

Google Toolbar for Firefox

I'm happy to see the google bookmarks addition, I just wish Flock would add this to it's browser. That and Picasa web albums.

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Monday, June 04, 2007

Fingerjig Typing Game

Fingerjig is a 6 minute game that tests your typing prowess. Words are randomly chosen from a dictionary of over 70,000. You must try to type them as quickly and accurately as you can!

Jonathan Miles: Fingerjig Typing Game

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Chuck Norris Facts

Chuck Norris Facts

Want to add your own chuck norris fact to a shirt?
Use the "Text" tab in the top right hand corner of the shirt designer

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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Friday, June 01, 2007

Jim Smith Ren and Stimpy Layout Drawings For Sale


Jim Smith is one of the most talented artists I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Jim heard that the Archive was doing a fundraising drive, so he dug in his closet to find drawings for us to sell for him. A portion of the proceeds from these auctions will be going to support the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive. The opening bid is low, so you've got no excuse but to bid. Here's your chance to own a great drawing from the original Ren & Stimpy Show and help the Archive at the same time! Thanks Jim!

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Auction: Jim Smith Ren and Stimpy Layout Drawings

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Crapola Web Translator

a script to translate web pages into a particular vernacular you specify. The outcome is often funny.

here's a translation of this site if written by smurfs

Crapola Web Translator

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