october

10.30.00

jason used to wear this great shirt all the time that simply had "corn palace" emblazoned on the front. anyone interested in a road trip to south dakota??

i'm not a day trader or anything, but i found this brief history of the nasdaq pretty interesting.

the cousin of cesar chavez starts her own social battle. can the get real girls kick barbie's ass? i sure hope so.

more scary creutzfeldt-jakob disease news. memo to self: avoid brain surgery.

10.26.00

my friend angela just gave a talk about prions and microscopy - now i've been obsessed about mad cow disease. feeding ground up cows to other cows doesn't just seem like a bad idea - it is a bad idea.

the vac n' blow is just what my cow needs. (via fade to black)

i love telling a good joke, but now i'm going to be replaced by robots! the random bar joke generator is good for all those drunk dadaists hanging out at their local bar. no radio, soap.

10.25.00

someday i'll have to tell the embarrassing story of the glow in the dark shoelaces. it's too touchy a subject for me to talk about now. instead, i'll just point you here.

peta sure knows how to throw a protest. when 22 year old kristie phelps protested barnum & bailey's circus wearing only pasties and panties, she was thrown into a cage of her own.

this is awesome. this guy spends a little bit too much time with lego people, but i can't help but be totally amused, especially with his matrix pictures. i have to admit that my favorite part is the cute japanese english writing ("it's the cool and smart! you must check it!") (via gmtplus9)

it's funny because it's true! maybe i should vote for george w. gore (he's so much better than al bush)

lately i've been wondering: who would win the battle: solid gold dancers or fly girls?

i just ordered my digital still camera! i can't wait to get it so i can post more pictures.

10.24.00

a little redesign here - let me know if anything blows up.

requiem for a dream was just released on the east coast. this new film by brian aronofsky (pi) and edited by jay rabinowitz has been getting good word of mouth and they have a pretty innovative flash site. what's even more intriguing is that requiem has no mpaa rating.

with a jet scooter, i could rule the universe! (via wired)

sometimes during high school, there would be a loud boom and the entire building would shake. our desks would tremble and we would think that it was an earthquake coming. then we'd remember that it was just the space shuttle landing over at edwards air force base. the space shuttle discovery returns from nasa's 100th shuttle mission.

meanwhile, the mir is coming down. (really)

10.23.00

i gotta tell ya, antz was probably my favorite movie to ever work on - now i'm super-excited that the bar scene is in 70mm imax 3d! check it out and the simpsons halloween 3d episode (both made by pacific data images) featured in cyberworld 3d!

note to self: when making up outrageous history about oneself - don't get reporters involved.

the sag/aftra commercial actor's strike has ended! now all we have to do is worry about the sag/wga strike for next year...

10.22.00

ad rock lays down beats to a ralph nader speech. check it out. we own the airwaves.

if you're not going to vote for bush, vote quimby.

10.20.00

the aswang was always one of those monsters that scared me to death when i was growing up. i knew that if i ever found her legs in the middle of the forest, i had to sprinkle ashes all over it so that the torso couldn't re-attach and the aswang would eventually die. yes, we filipinos have really cool monsters.

richard hatch vs. richard hatch

speaking of battlestar galactica - i don't care what anyone says, i'm gonna get me the female parachute tunic. you know... just in case.

thinking about how to clean up that grisly murder? well, fret no longer! cadaver, inc. is more than happy to help! (via memepool)

what's really creepy is that this business really exists. (from filmfatale archives)

10.18.00

i'm too embarrassed to admit how much time i've spent today playing these simpsons games.

i don't tend to receive any complaints about my driving, but this would still be a good thing to put in the back seat.

scientists reveal some interesting facts they uncovered in beethoven's hair.

10.17.00

the san francisco chronicle has a good comprehensive article about the art situation (or lack thereof?) in this fine town of ours.

working at the onion sounds like a dream job! who would have thought that there could be so much comedy coming from wisconsin?? (via obscure store)

these optical illusions will make your brain hurt. if you still want more after all that, check out the escher patterns.

10.16.00

tetris is being used by harvard scientists to analyze dreams. i have distinct memories of dreaming about tetris, but i can't recall if the images came with that song.

the coffin twins aren't twins, but that shouldn't stop you from buying a coffin for ping-pong! (thanks to dave d. for the link!)

speaking of coffins, here's a chilling radio documentary by npr about death row employees in texas. very disturbing, but fascinating.

10.12.00

i'm escaping to boston for the weekend (and no, i will not be flying continental. )

if you're the person who hacked into the orange county register, i want to be president of your fan club.

did i tell you i have a thing for naked geeks?

rael, the founder of the raelian movement, had a press conference yesterday right here in san francisco so that he could promote clonaid. no, this is not a new comedy.

10.11.00

i suspect that i may be the only one who thinks that this is really weird, but i can't help but wonder what the hell this space chicken page is for.

why didn't anyone tell me that linda barry has a website?! if you check out the faq, there's a nice life in hell panel where matt groening writes about meeting her in college.

here's an interesting article on how sleep deprivation affects your overall health. i should show this to my boss.

graffiti artists get arrested at their own art show. great - they finally have a chance to go legitimate and the cops arrest them. no respect. no respect at all.

10.10.00

i'm not saying that i know everything about the intricacies and techniques of filmmaking, but auctioning off the positions in the cast and crew sounds like a bad way to make a movie. eh... what do i know?

the psychiatrist who invented the 'twinkie defense' was stabbed by his ex-wife in an argument - she then drove away and leapt off the golden gate bridge. maybe this psychiatrist isn't as good as everyone says.

is shouldn't be that big of a deal to learn that kim hong-bin climbed halfway up mount everest before giving up - except that he has no hands.

johnny cash live at folsom prison and san quentin is one of my all-time favorite albums. i'm glad to hear that his health is better but i'm sad that i'll never get to see him play live.

10.9.00

hey all you babes in the metro dc area - jesus needs a date. you should definitely check out his multimedia section and read all about showering with jesus. hahah... whoa... i think i need a glass of wine now...

ok, i admit that this is sort of weird, but for some reason i found this funny. i found this website where you can kill a guy.

10.6.00

it has been brought to my attention that you can also play dress-up dolamite. the power of the internet is certainly a wonderful place. (thanks to josh for the link)

once you've had enough fun with that, you can chill with the greatest rapper in the world - yo yo mc hawking. although it doesn't beat that simpsons episode where stephen hawking shows up in his helicopter wheelchair. now that's comedy.

wow! is there no end to the excitement? perpetual bubble wrap!

10.05.00

the moon landing was a hoax! those folks in hollywood are better than i thought!

actually, maybe those folks in hollywood aren't so smart after all. theater chains are declaring chapter 11 due to building too many multiplexes. uhhhh... can you say "lack of foresight?"

speaking of hollywood, i think this is one of the funniest things i've seen in years. it makes me think of the kids in the hall sketch where david foley slowly realizes that his inside voice has somehow become his outside voice.

10.03.00

i didn't realize the dead milkmen were still around until i stumbled upon the punk rock paper doll (note: this isn't quite as funny as dress-up jesus).

john lennon's death was probably the first celebrity death that i ever cared about. 20 years later, mark david chapman is denied parole. i think he's probably finished catcher in the rye by now.

my favorite hunk of junk (besides my car) goes up for parole again. russians debate whether it's time to take the mir down in a controlled crash. one official mentions that they barely have enough money to destroy the 14 year old space station, much less keep it in orbit.

wow... have there been 99 space shuttle launches already? nasa begins the countdown for launch 100.

10.02.00

interplanet janet is a galaxy girl! here's an incredibly extensive schoolhouse rock site. lyrics, quicktimes, audio and other nouns.

10.01.00

i'm not the biggest fan of sites that require plug-ins, but tim burton's stainboy is finally available at shockwave. his superpower is to... uhhh... make stains.

i know, i know, this requires you to have another plug-in, but it's the new trailer for crouching tiger, hidden dragon!!!!! ican'twaitican'twaitican'twaitican'twait. damn those people at cannes who already got to see it! they're not hong kong film fans - i'm a hong kong film fan!