(1) eat bunny
(2) potted meat
(3) octodog
(4) ham sculpture
(5) poutine
(6) meat shake
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). [Boing Boing]
(1) defacer
(2) stacey as britney
(3) fishyspoon
(4) impersonators
(5) b list
(6) celine dreams
(7) more than hucknall
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). [Boing Boing]
I’ve recently subscribed to three weblogs about books.
Bookslut [RSS]
h20boro lib [RSS]
the Literary Saloon [RSS]
Anyone know of any other good ones?
P.S. NetNewsWire tip: you can actually drag the RSS links above into your Subscriptions pane to subscribe. This works with any link to an RSS feed, and it often works with links to the home page of a site. [Inessential.com]
(via Making Light) [Boing Boing]
Stained Glass Photography is an enormous archive of beautiful photos of classical church-glass, organized by artist.
(Thanks, Neil!)
1. Dip into water until tampon expands.
2. Remove and tie at the top to create the angel's head.
3. Let hang (by handy dandy string) for several days until dry.
4. Paint face with peach or skin tone color, and draw small
black dots for eyes.
5. Add blush or pink paint to cheeks.
6. Paint "dress" with glimmer paint.
7. Criss-cross thin gold ribbon across chest (around neck) .
8. Add yellow doll hair to top of head as well as a gold
pipe cleaner for a halo.
9. For the grand finale...glue small gold angel wings to back.
(via Making Light) [Boing Boing]
There are two Elvises: pre-army and post-army. There are two Lucille Balls: one who starred in I Love Lucy, and the one who was in everything after that. There are also two Charles Shulz's: one that drew Snoopy as a quadriped, and the later one who drew him as a biped. In all three cases, I like the earlier versions better. That's why I was so excited to learn that Fantagraphics will be publishing a book of Shulz's very first Peanut strips from 1950-1952 in THE COMPLETE PEANUTS.
This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular fascination to PEANUTS aficionados worldwide: Although there have been literally hundreds of PEANUTS books published, many of the strips from the series’ first two or three years have never been collected before — in large part because they showed a young Schulz working out the kinks in his new strip and include some characterizations and designs that are quite different from the cast we’re all familiar with. (Among other things, three major cast members — Schroeder, Lucy, and Linus — initially show up as infants and only “grow” into their final “mature” selves as the months go by. Even Snoopy debuts as a puppy!) Thus THE COMPLETE PEANUTS offers a unique chance to see a master of the artform refine his skills and solidify his universe, day by day, week by week, month by month.
The book is being designed by Seth, creator of the fabulous comic, Palookaville. Many of the strips have never before been anthologized. Publication date is April 2004.
"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
"Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
ESC is the company created by the Wachowski brothers and John Gaeta to produce the complex work of visual effects in the Matrix series. Gaeta may well be the single most influential person in the last decade of visual effects, and right now he's talking to the audience of Spanish digital artists and tech developers here about the creative process behind the films, and what to expect in the forthcoming Matrix: Revolutions:
* "What will be different in Revolutions? It's the final, ultimate manifestation of Larry and Andy Wachowski's anime dream: to make am movie as close to an anime as possible. Take the best and coolest aspects of anime -- large scale robotics, entanglements between man anad machine -- and tranform it into a feature, live action film. You'll also see lots more bullets."* "Subconsciousness needs to be redefined with every generation. Matrix is a stylized sci-fi story, but the root of the idea that you can have imagery placed into your mind is a very possible scenario, and I think that's a universe that our generation was finally ready to start dealing with. I grew up on Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and many other filmmakers that triggered ideas inside my mind -- that's how evolution works. One generation speaking to another. Larry and Andy [Wachowski] are preoccupied with those ideas, too, but they're also pop culture junkies and they share an obsession we also have with darker sci-fi threads in films you see in films like Bladerunner. It's no accident that some of the scenes in the Matrix trilogy are reminiscent of Bladerunner, because we've been dying all our lives to do that kind of work. "
* "I want to make an electrochemical movie.
In the year 2099 I'll be 130 years old, but I think around 2063 I'm going to have my brain taken out and have it inserted into a clone who's about 21 years old. Maybe some bionic augmentation upgrades, too. In about 40 years, I'm thinking some sort of military-industrial-supercomplex-international-intelligensia supergroup will figure out how to export imagery to people's brains. If you can see it in your head while you're dreaming -- well, that image is created somehow. Someday, someone will figure out how to place that image into your brain. It'll be some combination of electricity and drugs, and they'll call it Rosebud.
A billion people will attend the first electrochemical movie premiere. Everyone in the audience will experience love again for the first time, and we'll become gazillionaires. I don't know how we'll make our electrochemical movie into a DVD, though. And distribution is definitely going to be a problem."* "The most difficult thing about creating effects for the trilogy? Designing choreography that could never be actualized by human beings."
Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Galadriel is a character in the Middle-Earth universe. You can read more about her at the Galadriel Worshippers Army.
Like Gus Mueller, I ended up as Jean-Luc Picard in the “Which Fantasy/SciFi Character are You?” test.
If I hadn’t ended up as Picard, I probably wouldn’t have admitted taking the test. If you ever want to or need to flatter a geek, call him Jean-Luc. Geeks are so easy. [Inessential.com]
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
I don’t usually like to descend to the level of taking potshots (or participating in Mac versus PC debates), but I just can’t resist mentioning Bill Gates’s official “home page” (thanks to my brother Bobby for turning me on to this, by the way). The site, which collects a number of Chairman Bill’s most vital essays and speeches, is a revealing glimpse into what passes for deep thought in Redmond these days.
The tone is immediately set by a photo of our hero, hand clenched at his breast, staring off into the distance, the mildly smug expression of a man who “gets it” on his face. And what does he get? Well, just take a look at the witty anecdote emblazoned in big bold letters beneath his portrait:
“My daughter and I were walking down the street and I said, ‘Let’s go to the record store,’ and she said, ‘What’s a record?’”
How insightful! Truly, he is a man with his finger on the pulse of technology and youth culture!
What’s that—you’re not convinced? Then scroll down the page a little further and marvel at the profundity of his Wall Street Journal op-ed/marketing piece, provocatively titled “Why I Hate Spam!” Only a truly bold leader would be willing to take such a controversial stand on something so near and dear to the hearts of email users everywhere. Obviously, Bill has an almost preternatural ability to home in on and analyze the important issues of the day (Spam == Bad)!
All of this sarcasm may sound a bit snotty, considering I’m picking on targets as easy as Bill Gates and the notoriously wooden Microsoft marketing machine, but it gets at an annoyance I’ve had for a long time: the tendency of average people to think of Bill Gates as some sort of all-knowing technological oracle whose every utterance is a glimpse into the future (witness, for example, the late night TV ads that offer a quote from Bill Gates as evidence of the growing market for public access Internet terminals). Let’s get this straight people: Bill’s record as a businessman is stellar, but when it comes to bleeding edge technology, most of the better webloggers out there are a lot more savvy!
(Update: Here, for the benefit of posterity, is a PDF of the Gates home page as it stands today.)
[Sci-Fi Hi-Fi]"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
weezer sumo
hangman
catch a fly
beat the quilters
internet tennis
bubble trouble
monkey moon lander
diner
office space
web zen home, web zen store, (Thanks, Frank). [Boing Boing]
Someone at the door? Click your remote and send His Robot to check it out. His Robot's voice circuitry can deliver your greeting, and His on-board video camera gives you a view of the visitor, who can hop onto His platform and be delivered to you in the den. Need some help getting the groceries into the house? Her Robot is happy to help. Need to leave a message for the spouse or kids? Tell it to Her Robot, and she'll spread the word. In fact, His Robot is designed to respond empathetically to us humans and features programmable technology. Our exclusive package includes much more, like preprogrammed messages and sequences of movements, and training for the humans.
