So Paris Hilton is running around naked down the street, no big suprise, but all you have is your pesky cell phone camera! Have no fear, someone has been thinking about you. Brando has more crap cool stuff than you can shake a usb powered stick at. Including the telescope attachment for the Motorola razr. But wait, do I hear timbotron crying? WAAA what about Sony Ericsson! Well dude they got ya covered too!
It’s hard to find music boxes that play “Punk Rock Girl” or “Iron Man.”
So . . . make your own.
The “Make Your Own Music Box” kit comes with hole punch and blank music strips.
$15.
From The Afternoon.
[This is the first of a weekly series.]
The eyes of the Japanese Daruma doll are left intentionally blank when made. The owner will then make a wish while painting-in the pupil of one eye (typically the right eye). When the wish has been fulfilled, the owner will paint-in the remaining pupil. The Daruma doll is typically displayed in a high visible location in the home or workplace - as a reminder of a goal or wish unfulfilled. The doll’s low center of gravity makes it naturally self-righting when toppled - supporting its association with persistence and optimism.
The Daruma doll - with grim countenance, moustace and beard, and absence of limbs - is based upon the historical figure BodhiDharma: the 6th century founder of Zen Buddhism (the Japanese name Daruma comes from Dharma). According to legend, BodhiDharma meditated for nine years while staring at a cave wall - he lost the use of his arms and legs to atrophy (thus the absence of arms and legs on the Daruma doll). He is known for his distinctive beard and moustache, and a harsh temper.
In recent culture: this figure was a design inspiration for Japanese Unazukin (”yes-no”) dolls and an evil cyborg Daruma appears in the action miniseries <kick-ass>”Afro Samurai“</kick-ass> (note: instead of using an Apple laptop, he appears to be using an “Eggplant”).
BERLIN - A wheelchair-bound German stunned police when they pulled him over for using the road and found he was 10 times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers.
Police said that because the man was technically traveling as a pedestrian, he could not be charged with a driving offense. “It’s not like we can impound his wheelchair,” the spokesman for police in the northeastern city of Schwerin said Tuesday. “But he is facing some sort of punishment. It’s just not clear yet what exactly that will be.”
(story via Reuters)
Becoming a pirate has always been a personal aspiration for me… while it seems unlikely I’ll be able to actually accomplish that goal, at least I now know where to go to find some good grog and peglegs! Justin over at Galing.com has put together a list of the top 5 pirate hangouts - here they are in no particular order:
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An art professor at Rutger’s, Hasan Elahi was stopped after arriving back in the US on a flight from the Netherlands. The FBI told him he was a suspected terrorist - his response? Prove them wrong by tracking his every movement via pictures and GPS on his website, trackingtransience.net. “I’ve discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away,” he says. “It’s economics, I flood the market.”
This LOL Cat stuff is haunting. Galleries upon galleries of cat photos with quotes that are a combination of haxor vocabulary with the grammar of Bizarro Superman. For six months I’ve been torn between thinking they’re funny and wanting to hate them. Someone has already gone off the map and created a LOL Star Trek episode. I wanted to do an experiment: to use this for good (or at least something cooler than kittens and Klingons) and to see if an entire movie could be re-written this way. Here are the results.
Here is my LOLebowski.
Entitled “Teh Big Lebowksi.”
[click on image for gigantor size]
(this is what happens when you have a wife who hogs the TV for 3 hours a night - pathetic art projects emerge)
I love Lily Allen. I know, I’m kind of late on the Lily Allen train, but here’s why I love her music and you should too. A shit-talking British accent, blown out dance hall beats, horns (in case you miss the Specials), Holly-Golightly-meets-Pink ensembles, and she has the most annoying background ever on MySpace.
Anyone who’s not a rapper and says fuc$ing in the first stanza, on the first song, of their first album, is my new best friend. Who doesn’t want to sic a bunch of British dirt bags on their ex-boyfriend and then “Smile” about it? She’s vicious and adorable. Oh, and who doesn’t love that “old school” cd loading sound that seems to be so popular now.
Here’s the downside. Listening to her gives me hopeful chicken skin just like Liz Phair used to. Ah, I loved Liz Phair. Scary loved. Liz Phair had those two excellent albums and then, she got happy, or married, or whatever, and started to SUCK. I was lost. Whenever a new, talented, smart-mouthed, female artist comes along I fall in love all over again, BUT now, I can’t help but think, “Just don’t disappoint me bitch.”
Anywho, there are some cool little mp3’s at the bottom of this Pitchfork interview where you can also read more about how supremely awesome she is.
Not only can you kill little birds, you can look like you’ve got a rocking case of constipation.
Little Scotty Stapp has always had a credibility problem. His struggles with lameness and a bunch of Creed songs about Jesus diminished his status as a rock-n-roller in the eyes of millions of right-thinking Americans. His latest run-ins with the law in Florida haven’t helped. Authorities recently charged him with aggravated assault for attacking his wife.
Well, now, that sounds hard core, doesn’t it? But… lo! Just what, exactly, did Stapperson do to earn a trip in the back of a sheriff’s car? Oh, he threw an Orangina bottle at a wall. An Orangina bottle. Cheese-on-crackers, dude, you are so much less than a man.
Judge Cory J. Ciklin thinks so, too. He reduced the charge to a misdemeanor. And then laughed his ass off at the continued sorry state of Scott Aloisius Stapp.
Pussy.
(AP Photo/ Palm Beach County Sheriff)
The “favicon” is the small icon in the browser address window next to the web address. Given that we’ve just started Blogadilla, the question has come up:
“What should be the Blogadilla favicon?”
Two candidates have arisen:
•A chili
•A woman with a donkey
We need you, the reader (all 10 of you), to please tell us which you prefer in the comment space below. If you have an even better favicon idea, let us know. We will post (and use) the results in one week.
Here are the sales-pitches for each favicon:
The Chili:
•Simple
•Will make people hunger for baby-back ribs
•Colorful
•Follows the Tijuana theme
The Woman with the Donkey
•Deviant
•Subversive
•Colorful
•May help Blogadilla set a record for “tiniest interspecies erotica on the internet”
•Follows the Tijuana theme
May 19th-20th (last weekend) was the 2007 Make: Magazine “Maker Faire”. It was a spectacular event: steam-powered robots, battery-powered motorcycles, tinfoil hats, human-powered carnival rides, a life-sized version of the game “mouse trap,” and lots of explosions.
Below is a video I put together for Blogadilla, and below below are some nice shots of the event by our own Blogadilla photographer, Garry. [click on photos to enlarge]
Copyright and fair use on the internet are subjects of much debate and confusion for alot of people… thankfully this cleverly made video clears everything up…
(via slashdot.org)
No doubt the top-selling Xbox game this week is “Crackdown.” The game itself is nothing special . . . other than with the purchase comes the free beta download of the eagerly awaited “HALO 3“. Last night I got the chance to play.
Mother of God. It is beautiful.
Unfortunately, the beta is limited to online multiplayer matches. And they are fun. Very, very fun. Apparently “campaign” play won’t be available until the full release in Sept. “Full release” being the operative term.
I give “HALO 3″ five stars out of five: *****
The pros of HALO 3:
•New loud weapons - alien rifles, missile launchers, landmines, and the Spartan Laser (a.k.a. - the “Freud Cannon”).
•New portable objects such as “gravity boost” personnel launchers, “bubble shields,” and shield-depleting bombs.
The downside of HALO 3:
•Getting schooled online by a 13-year-old named “/ILuvSlutz666/”
Georgia O’Keefe had her paintings. Jack Davis has his crocheted penises. 
C’mon, ladies. What would you rather see when you walk into a guy’s bedroom: a Nagel print or a crocheted penis?(I just love hyperlinking that phrase.)
Triva about the crocheted penises, from the artist:
A team of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers were able to generate an image of dark matter (right image) based on how the galaxy cluster ZwCl0024+1652 (nicknamed “Clumpy McDarkmatter”) gravitationally “lenses” the light from galaxies behind it (notice the rings of faint blue smudges around the galaxy cluster in the left image). Dark matter is a subject of great interest for astrophysicists - it is matter that contributes to a large percentage of the mass/gravity of the universe, yet does not interact with electromagnetic phenomena (light, etc.) (outside of gravitational lensing, etc.).
Link.
Police officer.
Confiscated marijuana.
Pot brownies made.
Cop and wife ate too much.
A stoned 911 call.
(via Neatorama, via Wired: Danger Room)
Temporary tattoos for the elderly, available at PerpetualKid.com.
A fansite is not necessarily measured by subject matter, but by depth and enthusiasm. Perhaps one of the most impressive fansites is this - a site dedicated to the 70’s gameshow “Match Game.” “Match Game” was the meat and potatoes of the gameshow world from 1973 to 1979. Contestants were challenged to match the answers of celebrity panelists such as Betty White, Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers, and Charles Nelson Reilly.
This impressive site offers a cornucopia of wallpapers, trivia, video clips, and even the hypnotic gameshow background (funk) music. Even if you aren’t old enough to remember this show, take a moment to:
•See what smoking on a gameshow looks like.
•See a time when feathered hair ruled television.
•And learn some words of wisdom from host Gene Rayburn.
(via [adult swim])
