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Saturday, July 12, 2003
When Peter Pan Goes Bad
NPR's This American Life is kind of like a blog that just happens to be on the radio instead of on your computer. Hosted each week by Ira Glass, the show is divided into several acts, all revolving around the chosen theme that week. One of their most popular shows was the April 25th, 1997 show entitled "Fiasco!".
If you don't have the time to listen to the entire show (your loss), at least check out Act One. Host Ira Glass began laughing so hard he actually had to turn off his microphone during portions of the interview because of the snorting sounds he was making. (RealPlayer required)
Act One: Opening Night. Writer and TAL Contributing Editor Jack Hitt tells the story of a small town production of Peter Pan in which the flying apparatus smacks the actors into the furniture, in which Captain Hook's hook flies off his arm and hits an old woman in the stomach. By the end of the evening, firemen have arrived and all the normal boundaries between audience and actors have completely dissolved.
Friday, July 11, 2003
It's the Shipping & Handling charges that are gonna kill ya
Extraterrestrial Gift Giving Ideas:
Good
Better
Best Value for your dollar!
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Mosquito-proof Cell Phone
No, you don't swat 'em with it!
Now customers of South Korea's SK Telecom can download a service to their cell phones which generates soundwaves that are undetectable to us two-leggers, but really annoy (as in repel) the skeeters. Cost: 3000 won ($1.36) per download.
(via Boing Boing)
Tuesday, July 08, 2003
Baby Ink
Okay, I'm picking my jaw up off the floor now...
There is a chain of tattoo shops in the Pacific Northwest that specializes in tattooing your child. They will tattoo children as young as 6 months when provided with a parent or guardian's consent form. How hard do you think it's gonna be trying to explain to your date why you have a Tinky-Winky tat on your butt at age 30?
(via Weird Links)
UPDATE: Whoops! Looks like the crack(-smoking) investigative journalism team at Information Nation was duped. Snopes has the straight dope here.
Looks boring
But it's not, it's actually hilarious. Trust me, just wait a bit. Home English Home.
(via What The Heck)
Dare to be stupid
Think you did bad on your SAT exams? Relax! You can rest assured you did better than this guy, currently holding the record for the lowest ever Raw Score on the SAT.
Colin Fahey may not be the first 33-year old Ivy League educated Masters degree-holder to retake his SATs, but his goal may be unique: To answer every question incorrectly! Could his future get any brighter??
(via cardhouse)
Leggo My Legos
You can visit the official website of M. C. Escher (not to be confused with this) and take a 3-D virtual ride through some of his best-known drawings: "Waterfall", "Belvedere" and "Ascending and Descending". Video clips vary in size from 2.92 MB to 4.38 MB.
Virtual rides a little too "virtual" for you? You'll be happy to know that someone has created the same Eschers in actual 3-D space... with Legos.
Lego "Waterfall", "Belvedere" and "Ascending and Descending", plus a clever Lego rendition of "Relativity" as well.
(via kottke.org)
Monday, July 07, 2003
Get off my back!
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman. I fell on some ice and later got thawed out by some of your scientists.
Your world frightens and confuses me! Sometimes the honking horns of your traffic make me want to get out of my BMW.. and run off into the hills, or wherever..
Sometimes when I get a message on my fax machine, I wonder: 'Did little demons get inside and type it?' I don't know! My primitive mind can't grasp these concepts. But there is one thing I do know - when a man like my client slips and falls on a sidewalk in front of a public library, then he is entitled to no less than two million in compensatory damages, and two million in punitive damages. Thank you."
Phil Hartman as The Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer - Saturday Night Live
Excerpts from Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer's Day Planner:
1. Remember to download cool new game
2. Pick up a movie or two from Blockbuster
3! IMPORTANT! Find wife, then enter contest.
(thanks to Lou "Cave Goddess" Campbell)
Meet George Jetsam
Hundreds of tons of litter are washed up on the shores of the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, each year - mostly plastic waste from marine industries. The Gulf Stream crosses the North Atlantic Ocean depositing flotsam from all around the globe on the 160 miles of Hebridean shore, mostly beautiful, and otherwise unspoilt, sandy beaches.
www.flotsam.org features a gallery of VR images of marine litter. You are encouraged to help identify flotsam sources, get involved in local beach clean-ups and campaign for responsible disposal of waste by marine industries.
(via Boing Boing)
Thursday, July 03, 2003
Supafly
"Words are heavy like rocks...they weigh you down. If birds could talk, they wouldn't be able to fly."
— Marilyn, from the TV show 'Northern Exposure.'
We'd have more luck playing pick-up sticks with our butt-cheeks than we will getting a flight out of here before daybreak.
— Del Griffith (John Candy), in the 1987 movie 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.'
"Every time I fly and am forced to remove my shoes, I'm grateful Richard Reid is not known as the Underwear Bomber."
— Douglas Manuel, aerospace executive regards airport security. Reported in USA Today, 13 March 2003.
(via Sublimate)
Tuesday, July 01, 2003
Just throw your hands in the air/ And print like you
just don't care
A Swedish company has come up with a cool new way to print called PrintBrush. The little hand-held printer (about the size of a mobile phone) prints as you move it randomly around on the paper. It can sense and compensate for changes in direction and speed on the fly.
(via Boing Boing)
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