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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Mario Desktop

Mario Desktop - This is pretty sweet, a javascript-based animated desktop made from the first level of Super Mario 3

The Last Ones Standing

The Last Ones Standing - profile of the last four Shakers.

Nerds Sync Up Back To The Future and Sequel on One Screen

Nerds Sync Up Back To The Future and Sequel on One Screen - nerds are so great.

Arrested Development in Internet Syndication

Arrested Development in Internet Syndication

Innocent People Placed On ‘Watch List’ To Meet Quota

Innocent People Placed On ‘Watch List’ To Meet Quota - I feel so much safer.
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they’re required to submit at least one report a month. If they don’t, there’s no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
“Innocent passengers are being entered into an [...]

Effective Graphic Speaks Fewer Words More Eloquently

(via kottke)

Dinosaur Comics Writes Fine Children’s Literature

Dinosaur Comics Writes Fine Children’s Literature - I find this comic hit or miss, but this one is great.

comparing apples to oranges and oranges to racecars

comparing apples to oranges and oranges to racecars - Decide what the Best Thing is. For example:
Which is better?
Cartoons or Peeling off a price tag without leaving any residue
Good time-waster, and some of the juxtapositions are really funny.

Video Killed the Video Star

Video Killed the Video Star
Remember that one guy who got famous making funny faces while lip-syncing? Remember those two guys who got famous doing the same thing? Remember the 10,000 people who fired up the webcam and did it too? There’s a word we use when thousands of sad people imitate each other in a [...]

Quote of the Day

I mean, alcohol is like ketchup; it just goes with everything.” - Lilly

The Big Lebowski - F*cking Short Version

The Big Lebowski - F*cking Short Version

Ringtone Adults Can’t Hear

Ringtone Adults Can’t Hear - I guess this means I’m not an adult yet, because it’s piercing.
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Keep Your God Away From My Drugs

Keep Your God Away From My Drugs
…exercising your religious beliefs has made you incompetent as a nurse. Kindly resign your medical post and seek employment from God. The clinic will be happy to give you a sterling referral.

Spiderman on X-Men Set

Spiderman on X-Men Set -

Four Steps to a Awesome, Profitable Weekend

Go on awesome camping trip with a bunch of friends. Eat a ton, hike a little, raft in the ocean.
Get back, shower, eat dinner, and immediately do see Sonic Youth open for Pearl Jam
???
Profit!

The show was great, I’m still riding an emotional high 12 hours later. Matt and Jim can attest to the [...]

Amazing Etch-A-Sketch Drawings

Amazing Etch-A-Sketch Drawings - I love when people have lots of time and strange obsessions.

Odious

The power of the executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
~~Winston Churchill
(found on William Gibson’s blog)

Best Legal Opinion Ever

Judge castigates inept lawyers. Ah, to be a federal judge. I’ve reformatted the opinion to be a little more browser-friendly.

United States District Court,S.D. Texas,Galveston Division.
John W. BRADSHAW, Plaintiff,
v.
UNITY MARINE CORPORATION, INC.; Coronado, in rem; and Phillips Petroleum Company, Defendants.
No. CIV. A. G-00-558.
June 27, 2001.

Harold Joseph Eisenman, Attorney at Law, Houston, TX, [...]

Mmmm…summertime

Originally uploaded by merlinmann.

How to Make iTunes for Windows Stop Skipping

How to Make iTunes for Windows Stop Skipping - worked for me just now. Every once in a while, iTunes would start skipping, and wouldn’t stop until I restarted.