September 2006
23 posts
Brooks dusts off "Spaceballs" for TV cartoon
Brooks dusts off “Spaceballs” for TV cartoon G4 has ordered 13 episodes to debut next fall. Insert funny Spaceballs quote here.
Frak Party
Frak Party
“Everyone we’ve ever met who’s into Battlestar is pretty frak’n cool. So we thought, why not get all these people together and have one big cool nationwide party when the new season Premieres on October 6th.” The party hats slay me. (via Boing Boing)
The Real World Ikea
“Five Strangers Who Were Picked To Live In Ikea And To Have Their Lives Taped… but they should have told Ikea.” (via Netscape)
Invisible Skateboards
(via Netscape)
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“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” “…a grammatically valid sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs.”
Banksy "Barely Legal"
Banksy has gotten a lot of press for his Paris Hilton CD stunt, but a lot of the works at this weekend’s “Barely Legal” show are far more interesting. (via Waxy.org)
10 Most Beautiful Cars of All Time
10 Most Beautiful Cars of All Time I’m not much of a car person, but… wow.
Violated by Bears Man
From Channel 101 and The Van Gogh-Goghs. PNSFW.
Widow Rented Rotary Phone for 42 Years
Widow Rented Rotary Phone for 42 Years
“A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone.” 750,000 people in the US are still leasing their phones from AT&T—-if they’re all paying the $29.10 Mrs. Strogen was, that’s more than $260 million a year for the phone company. (via...
Lonelygirl15: The Creators Revealed
Lonelygirl15: The Creators Revealed The LA Times has the scoop, for real this time. Bree and Daniel are the creations of “Miles Beckett, 28, a Web-obsessed medical school dropout, Mesh Flinders, 26, a screenwriter, and Greg Goodfried, a 27-year-old lawyer.” They haven’t officially revealed the identity of the actress who plays Bree, but internet stalkers sleuths discovered...
Keith Olbermann "Special Comment"
(via eclecticism)
Wikipedia: Mysterious people
Wikipedia: Mysterious people Including the Person from Porlock, Homer, Rasputin, Princess Caraboo, and, of course, lonelygirl15.
A new Nightmare soundtrack
A new Nightmare soundtrack Disney is giving Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween 2006 re-release, but what’s more interesting is that they’re producing a new soundtrack album featuring covers of the film’s original songs by Fall Out Boy, Marilyn Manson, Fiona Apple, Panic! At The Disco, and others. In stores October 24.
Lonelygirl15 is damn good TV
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m really getting into Lonelygirl15. Not the girl, but the saga or, if you prefer, the brand. At this point I have no doubt that it’s fiction, but what’s significant to me is that up until people started calling it a hoax, I didn’t really have any interest in it. Now that its “hoaxiness” seems a foregone conclusion (though I still...
R. Stevens interviewed
R Stevens interviewed The Diesel Sweeties creator recently inked a deal with United Feature Syndicate to put his brilliant comics in newspapers across the country, and now he’s doing the interview circuit. I am impressed more than surprised by his self-deprecating humbleness and obvious business (and media) savvy. He’ll be putting out seven strips a week, plus web-only stuff, and will...
Wil Wheaton reviews "The Naked Now"
Wil Wheaton reviews “The Naked Now” Over at TV Squad, Wesley Crusher himself takes on one of the most infamously bad episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Wonderfully snarky.
Kirk & Spock "Closer"
A brilliantly-edited Star Trek slash remix set to Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer.” PSFW. (via eclecticism)
Average Ninja
Since yesterday’s post I’ve spent a lot more time beating on my video averaging script. Actually, I rewrote the thing from scratch, and it’s looking pretty good. For my second proof-of-concept (above) I used all 28 Ask a Ninja videos available on Revver. Thanks to the fine folks in #ffmpeg on Freenode, I managed to really speed up the video capture portion of the script....
The Average Lonely Girl
I killed most of the afternoon writing a Ruby script that takes a directory full of video files, goes through them one at a time plucking out a frame every X seconds, and then averages the frames into a single image. My guinea pig? lonelygirl15. The YouTube-ingenue-who-might-be-a-hoax seemed like an easy target for some deep metaphor about synthetic art or art imitating life imitating art or...
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance The first of 10 webisodes leading up to Battlestar Galactica’s third season in October. See also Battlestar Galactica Season 3 Preview.
16 buildings demolished at once
Forgive me for linking to a Fox News clip, but this is very cool. (via Boing Boing)
Machoman - "Wookie Wookie"
Bubbling bubbling super beans
Splashing on my shirt and jeans
More and more baby give me more
Mixing trixing super drinks
I’ve got all the vitamins
More and more baby give me more
Machoman’s official web site is not to be missed, in particular Machoman Karaoke. You can buy the album on Amazon. (Thanks, Tom!)
Cleopatra Stratan - "Ghita"
In the words of my girlfriend, “How do you decide that your three-year-old daughter should have a music video?” English lyrics here. (Thanks, Cara!)