If you spend more than 10 minutes a week on your computer, you probably give a sh!t about your wallpaper.
And vacation photos are both lame and get old quick.
Here’s a list of some of the more spectacular (free) wallpapers (from left to right, top row first):
There is a great misconception that complex society breeds violence and that simpler societies live harmoniously.
Like Ewoks.
Next time you have to listen to some crunchy hippie going on about making with world a better place by living in a tee-pee, beat them over the head with this one:
Steven Pinker’s talk on “The Myth of Violence” (TED Talks, 2007):
JimmyR has got a collection of some of the greatest student exam answers I’ve seen in a long time. Study up, all you young Dillatites out there, or else this will be you! Click the image for more.
May 25 - The Neil Diamond cover band SuperDiamond plays Golden Gate Fields, Berkeley. May 25 - NASA’s Phoenix Lander will land near the north pole of Mars. May 25 - The Crucible in conjunction with NASA present a Mars-themed show “Fire and Ice,” Oakland, CA.
With the new Indiana Jones movie less than a month away (24 days left), it was only a matter of time until the marketing tie-ins cropped up.
M&Ms offers Indiana Jones M&M candies - like regular M&Ms, but with skulls, pyramids, compass roses, Indy hats, and Precolombian masks printed on them.
LEGO managed to produce cool Indiana Jones sets months ago (though I still can’t find them in stores).
[LINK to their nice LEGO Indiana Jones wallpapers].
Here are two photos from the Digg front page that were too irresistible to pass up. Say what you will about Microsoft, Apple, and the people who use them, but no one can argue that this is simply not smart business!
Blogadilla co-author Allison and I decided that we can make better “tiki bar” drinks than most Tiki Bar franchises. Here’s the first installment of what we’ve dubbed “The Boozadilla Project” - behold “Noah’s Ark”:
Noah’s Ark ingredients:
• 1 watermelon
• plastic animals
• 2 shots vodka
• 2 shots white rum
• 2 shots coconut rum
• 2 shots gin Get it? “Noah’s Ark” - 2 of everything
• 2 shots fruity-flavored schnapps
• 2 shots lime juice
• 2 shots grenadine
• 1 cup pineapple juice
• 1 cup grape soda or strawberry soda
• 1 tray of ice cubes
• 1 sharp knife
• 1 large spoon
• 2-4 straws
Step 1: Cut the top of the watermelon into the ‘ark’ shape above, remove the inside of the watermelon with the large spoon. Cut windows into the side (near the top) of the watermelon, place animals in the windows.
Step 2: Pour all of the ingredients into the hollowed-out watermelon. Garnish with tiny umbrellas.
Serves 2 to 4 people.
And when you’re done drinking, the watermelon also makes a great helmet!
What you will need:
• 1 can Dr. Pepper or a trashy Dr. Pepper clone.
• 4 pork chops (boneless or with bone)
• black pepper
• red pepper (leftover packet from pizza delivery is fine)
• 1 cigarette (not menthol)
• skillet
• cooking oil
• tongs or spatula or stick
• stove
• kitchen
Step 1: Put a little oil in the skillet, put the skillet on stovetop, turn stove on to medium setting. Place the 4 porkchops onto the skillet.
Step 2: Pour (or spit) about a mouthful of Dr. Pepper onto the porkchops when they begin sizzling. Dump Pizza Hut packet of red pepper onto the sizzling porkchops. Pour the same amount of black pepper onto the porkchops.
Step 3: Turn porkchops when necessary. You want the Dr. Pepper to reduce (boil down) to a thick sticky syrup, what we will call a demi-glace (borrowing a fancypants French term to sound like we know what we’re doing). As the Dr. Pepper becomes thicker, the sugar in it will caramelize and stick to the pork chops - this is your goal. This may take some time.
Step 4: Smoke the cigarette while you watch the meat cook. When the porkchops are cooked, cut off the fatty ends or fatty edges of the meat and leave them in the pan. Remove the porkchops, leave the fat in the pan.
Step 5: Pour the remainder of the Dr. Pepper into the pan with the fatty ends of the porkchops. Let them fry/boil until the remaining Dr. Pepper becomes thick. Remove the fatty chunks (and feed them to the dog), pour the Dr. Pepper sauce onto the pork chops.
Step 6: Eat in a trailer home.
Serving suggestion: On a bed of Cheetos, with lemonade or beer as a libation.
In terms of physical art, we’ve covered rail track art before, but never pixel art. Today Gothamist.com features cool pixel graffiti, seen on 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, here in NYC– check it out.
For more photos, check out the entire Flickr album.
[Note: this is a post from Rebecca, but she's too busy shepherding right now and asked me to post it for her.]
A birthday party last weekend.
The bakery was closed, but the deli was open = meat birthday cake.
Some vegetarians were offended.
That made it funnier.
Oh Heywood, you did beat me to it. But here’s the background that makes these early 80s clips worth watching: this video has only recently been released, and was shot by Juan Martin, who shot the footage for Spanish television. He has been holding onto it for years, and for MJ fans like myself (and Heywood), old video like this is digital gold!
• “HEY—the autograph Steve Irwin diving suit you sold me had BIG a hole in it!!!”
• “…the olfactorally CORRECT whoopie cushions are a RIOT!”
• “you’re right—This Beadazzler has saved me a FORTUNE in body piercing costs ALONE”
• “the hunchback shirt fit PERFECTLY—left-handed humps are SO HARD to find nowadays”
• “RANSOM RECIEVED—Timmy in locker#17, Port Authority, NYC—alive when last checked”
• “HUMAN head preserved inside a clear-lucite BOWLING ball—was this a relative?”
• “inflatable doll? Use helium? You, my friend, have revolutionized my sex-life!”
• “Q—if one were to’INSERT’ this adult Xmas tree ornament—and if it happend to break—would that person be entitled to a refund once they’re released from hospital?”
• “1ST RATE Earnest Borgnine-Ethel Merman erotic nudes!—DANG— Ethel was WAY hairier”
• “great seller—believes ANYTHING you tell him—accepts Monopoly money.”
• “roses are red-violets are blue-i steal stuff from Walmart-and sell it to you.”
Every Christmas, childrencollege students around the world write letters to Santa ClausChristopher Walken asking him for toys and treatsswift punishment for their enemies.
What the hell is “diet” water? You know, I’m actually quite glad I discovered this, because the water I’ve been drinking is so fattening…
For more craziness like this, check out the 10 weirdest Japanese Beverages and Soft Drinks, including such tasty treats as Pepsi Ice Cucumber soda, Coolpis Kimchee Drink, Mother’s Milk “Breast Milk” (in a carton!), and Water Salad Soda (from Coca Cola!). Bleghk!
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