Adult sheep finder
Forget adultfriendfinder or whatever the hell its called, the bane of web surfers everywhere, yes i KNOW there are sexy women in San Ramon, I'm banging one of them. Anyway, FINALLY, now there's a web site for the rest of the country that voted republican.
Have you ever thought of calling
Laughing girl
This girl is laughing at someone's laugh. It's even more ironic when you hear what hers sounds like. Cute clip.
Vader sessions
Here is some wonderful love advice from Darth Vader.
The quickest way to get a woman in bed is first to get her clothes off and get her to take a back, you know....Whether she needs it or not, that's romantic enough, you know, bubbles in your bathtub. [4:07]
Christmas footage
A couple years ago, my girlfriend spotted Santa Claus in the act. Here's the footage she managed to catch on tape.
Vodka
On Friday Feb 23, ten researches set out to discover, once and for all, the best tasting vodka sold. In a elaborate blind method devised by Nathan Wood, the researches sampled five vodkas without any knowledge of which vodka they were tasting. The vodkas included
Chopin,
Ketel One,
Grey Goose,
Black Sea and
Popov
Here are their results.
With results that is more anthropology than chemistry here is their findings. Names have been witheld to protect the innocent.
Survey1Chopin :4: Burning in mouth. Ketel One :1: Smoother finish. Grey Goose :3 Black Sea :2 Popov :5Survey2
Chopin :2: Strong. Not too smooth. Ketel One :1: Smoother than last, has a bite to it. Grey Goose :3: No. Black Sea :4: I'm not sure I like vodka. Popov :Survey3
Chopin :5: Rubbing alcohol. Burned all the way down. No distinct flavor. Ketel One :4: Strong but not as strong. Still burning. Smoother but only a step up (tortilla). Grey Goose :3: Much smoother. Not so burny. (Wheat thin) Black Sea :1: (Swiss) Good. Only burns in mouth. Smooth finish. Popov :2: 1st sip good, 2nd sip bad.Survey4
Chopin :3: Tasted inexpensive and harsh. Ketel One :2: Slight aniseed flavor, not quite smooth but better than A. Grey Goose :4: Yuck. Burney out my nosey! [sad face doodle] Black Sea :5: Meh! Got any scotch?! Boo! Popov :1: It could just be the booze talking but I think I like it.Survey5
Chopin :3: Hint of citrus but very harsh. Ketel One :5: Sweet [underlined]. Smooth. Kettle one? Grey Goose :4: Sweet. Slightly harsher. Grey Goose? Black Sea :2: Nathan tastes vanilla; I don't. It's harsh but without the redeeming quality of having citrus. Popov :1: Cheapest.Survey6
Chopin :2: No flavor but it burnt a hole in my lips. Ketel One :3: Still tastes like my gum... Grey Goose :4: Complete upper and lower lip burn plus top gums. Black Sea :1: I drank it, and thats saying something. Popov :5: Yikes!!!Survey7
Chopin :5: Harsh, burning. Ketel One :1: Smooth. Grey Goose :2: Tastes like D. Black Sea :3: Tingly, OK, vanilla-ish. Popov :4:Survey8
Chopin :1: Smooth / Quality / Sweet? Ketel One :4: Poor / Harsh Grey Goose :2: Smooth / Quality / Licorice / Anise Black Sea :3: Smooth / Alcohol-y Popov :5: UglySurvey9
Chopin :2: Tangy, citrus-y, spicy. Ketel One :1: Clean, sweet, Grey Goose :5: Harsh, spicy, bad aftertaste. Black Sea :4: Unrefined, grapefruit, vanilla. Popov :3: Harsh vodka-ey, no pls ok [?], perfume.Survey10
Chopin :4: Burned my chest. My head hurt. Ketel One :2: Very smooth. Lavender? Flowery flavor. Grey Goose :5: Very harsh, least favorite. Black Sea :1: I love it. Popov :3: This is so-so.
Dirty Dancing
This couple recreates the final dance scene from Dirty Dancing. This is not unlike the Thriller wedding I posted about earlier.
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Demotivation
You've probably all seen the
Motivational Posters prodced by Advantus.
Despair Inc has a whole like of
Demotivational posters. In fact they let you
roll your own.
Another company, bighugelabs.com, also has Demotivation poster generator along with a bunch of other cool image tools. Here are some others I've dug up on the net.
Sharing videos
With so many different video formats (wmv for Microsoft, mov for Apple, etc) it can sometimes be difficult to share videos between friends. Besides dealing with different formats, users must deal with transferring large files. Some videos are just too big to stuff in an email. Maybe that's why YouTube has become so popular.
Still, YouTube doesn't accept every media type. Increasingly, videos are being made available in yet another format, Macromedia's flash video format. So how does someone post a movie on YouTube when its in a format that YouTube doesn’t support. Here’s how.
- Download and install VLC media player for free http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
- Start VLC media player and drop the flv file on the player.
- Select "File | Wizard", "Transcode/Save to file", Next
- Select "Existing playlist", Next
- Select "Transcode video", "Transcode audio", Next (leave everything else as defaults)
- Select "MPEG 1", Next
- Select Choose, give the new file a name with an mpeg extension, Next
VLC can transcode the video into a variety of formats. I ran some tests with different "Encapsulation formats" to see how YouTube would react. Here are the results for "070220-sword9p1.flv".
sword-mpeg1-mpeg1-partial.mpg : Rejected (length of video is too long sword-mpeg1-mpeg1.mpg : Live! sword-mpeg1-mpegps.mpg : Rejected (length of video is too long) sword-mpeg1-mpegts.mpg : Rejected (length of video is too long) sword-mpeg1-ogg.mpg : Failed (invalid file format) sword-mpeg1-raw.mpg : Failed (invalid file format)
Install everything
Sprout is presently running "Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)". I don't necessarily install every FC version as it comes out. When FC5 came out, they had removed the "Install everything" option. The FC6 release wasn't any better. I've been waiting for them to fix this problem, despite the lame arguments others have
proposed against it. The argument was rather lame, in my opinion, and showed no regard for people who didn't necessarily want to become intimately familiar with all the packages installed on their system. These people missed a simple truth: some people don't want to know about the details of an OS installation; that's for RedHat to worry about. That's their job. After all, if this isn't RedHat's job, then what is? I was under the impression that this, above all, WAS their job. I mean, it's why I joined their little club. Otherwise I would have just rolled my own distribution. I want to let them worry about the toils of building an OS, that's their job, let me focus on my job.
I followed the discussion when FC5 came out but grew tired of the debate. Anyway, FC7, which is due April 24 appears to have this issue resolved. Unfortunately, RHEL5 which is due Feb 28 will be based on FC6.
Visit the Wikipedia page for information on older versions of RedHat.
Porn and swords
Bret Stieghorst was watching a porn in his Oconomowoc apartment last week (Feb 12, 2007) when Van Iveren busts in on him with a
sword! This video is from
Fox Milwaukee. You can find more coverage on
Google.
UPDATE: The headline for KTVO channel 3 reads "Porn addict attacked with sword", wow, great journalism guys. Very impartial, and so true to the facts. Jamie Friar you're going to go far, at the Enquirer.
George Takei answer to Tim Hardaway
You may have heard about the controversy surrounding former NBA All Star Tim Hardaway where he said "I hate gay people. Let it be known. I don't like gay people. I'm homophobic." This is a response from George Takei who played Sulu in Star Trek.
Speaking of movies, did anyone know Top Gun was about being gay?
The secret
I watched The Secret yesterday.
Summarizing it wouldn't do it justice. I've heard people try to sum it up in one line. It makes sense after you've seen the movie. I'm sure it makes sense to them, but you have to see the movie to understand. So what can you say about this film. It's right. It's worth seeing.
Hillary and Bill
"Am I enthusiastic about my wife's campaign for president? You bet I am." That was the message I received in an email from Hillary Clinton's mailing list. I just love the picture of the two of them. Aww...
Bush spanked
Bernd Kammerer snapped this shot of George Bush being spanked by the Statue of Liberty. The float was part of the Rose Monday carnival in Mainz, Germany.
listpic
Some of you might know that I am addicted to the craigslist free section. Another website named listpic offers a thumbnails view of the items featured on craigslist.
Here's a short video from Friday night.
Japanese cannibalism
Nyotaimori which literally means "female body plate" is the term for serving sushi on a naked woman's body. These pictures show another way of eating where you operate on a body to get the food out.
This a funny video on the dangers of internet dating.
V-day vampire
23-year-old Arizona woman Tiffany Sutton is under arrest, accused of tying up her lover on Valentine's Day in order to drink his blood.
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Annual pillow fight
It's Valentine's day. That means it's time for the annual pillow fight at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco. The fight is planned for 6 PM. See the
laughingsquid.com article from last year for more info. To get there, take BART and get of at Embarcadero. Then you can treat your old lady to a walk along the water and a dinner at a romantic spot along the embarcadero.
Monochrom
Monochrom will be speaking at Dorkbot, 19 February 2007 7:30 PM PST.
Among their projects, monochrom has released a leftist retro-gaming project, established a one baud semaphore line through the streets of San Francisco, started an illegal space race through Los Angeles, buried people alive in Vancouver, and cracked the hierarchies of the art system with the Thomann Project. In Austria they ate blood sausages made from their own blood in order to criticize the grotesque neoliberal formation of the world economy. Sometimes they compose melancholic pop songs about dying media and they have hosted the first annual festival concerned with cocktail robotics. At the moment they're planning a conference about pornography as one of the driving forces of technological innovation. They also do international soul trade, propaganda camps, epic puppet theater, aesthetic pregnancy counseling, food catering, and - sorry to mention - modern dance.
Two of the Internet's most hated
Unfortunately, the world is filled with people who demonstrate the lowest of human qualities. They do it for all sorts of misguided reasons. Here are just a couple of them. I should warn you, the video below will make you want to yell at your monitor. I know at least one person out there is going to want to lump these guys in with "the left". Trust me, we hate them more than you do.
Social griefer Michael Crook is one of those people. But please don't refer to him as someone from the left. We hate him more than you do. This is just ONE of his sins against us. You can read more about him at
10zenmonkeys.com.
Cyber-sociopath Jason Fortuny have added him to the list.
You can read more about him at
boingboing.net.
The book
Tech support never really changes I suppose. The following video shows what it was like in medieval times.
A10n : i18n, l10n, m12n, etc
What are these crazy letter/number combinations? They're not 1337, if that's what you're wondering. In fact they are the shortened forms of the words internationalization, localization and modularization respectively. The words are made by taking the first and last letter and sandwitching the number of letttes in between. They're used through out computer science and is believed to have been started at Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s or 1980s. If we were to do this to my name, for example, we would compress the "atric" to 5 and sandwich it with the "p" and the "k" yielding p5k.
I actually just made up the a10n to stand for abbreviation, although I see I'm not the only one to think of it. Why is abbreviate such a LONG word anyway? If I were to coin that word I'd have it mean an abbreviation of the type I just mentioned, a special abbreviation in which you took the first and last letter with the middle letters replaced by the letter count.
a·ten·n [ey-ten-en]
-noun
1. A shortened form of a word used to represent the assembled by replacing the all but the first and letter with the count of the letters replaced.
Googling people
Jell-o in the bath
A company in the UK is selling this product called gelli baff that turns your bath water into goo! Finally that fantasy of being in a bath full of Jell-o can come to fruition. You can also buy a whole pound of the active incredient (sodium polyacrylate) from Steve Spangler's site for $20.
Check out boingboing.net for more on this story.
Reactable
This is another really cool example of the multitouch technology mentioned in my previous post.
Installing crystals
Nothing spices up a video game better than a little ass play. Wait to you get to the section on "Installing crystals" and you'll see what I mean. The whole clip is riddled with sexual innuendo but here's some of the dialog.
Girl: Insert it into my back.
Boy: I got it, here goes.
Girl: Ouch. It's OK, push it all the way.
Boy: I'm sorry it must have been painful.
Girl: It's OK as long as its you I can take the pain.
It looks like this trailer came out Feb 01.
You can download the original flv from the site's website. For more information on the game, visit the Wikipedia site.
Here's another video in the war of Mac vs PC.
This is a clever spoof on 24 that recalls the recent
Ukrainian practical joke
These Ukrainians come up with this elaborate scan to fit someone in an oven. People come into the kitchen looking for food and freak out (of course) when they see his head in the pot.
Rocket skateboard
This guy actually builds a rocket propelled skate board. He puts the small kid on it and records it's maiden voyage.
Extra action marching band
This Saturday (Feb 10) The Extra Action Marching band is playing at 12 Galaxies. The cost is $10 at the door. Directions are available online.
The last time I saw them was a couple years ago at burning man. For more information on their ship La Contessa, you might want to read Eric Davis' recent article on it.
The object above is from the Extra Action Marching band's very own website. YOu may also want to read my article on Frank Chu. You can also visit the non-flash section of their site. Here are just some of their videos on youtube.com.
This is a really cool video from burning man 2007.
This is a cool film showing what you can do with silhouettes.
Jeff Han and Multitouch
Did you watch the iPhone demo? This is the same technology used in the phone. So if your friend next to you was tripping out when they introduced the technology, this is why. For more information, visit Jeff Han's website.
UPDATE: It looks like Jeff is marketing this technology through perceptive pixel and there's another video available.
Saudi Arabs road skating
I found this film some time back but have been surprised that more people haven't seen it. These guys are skating on asphalt, on the freeway, with other cars around. If they make one wrong move, it's over. There are several copies of this floating around but most of them don't have any sound (except for the annoying squawk at the beginning).
Another version has "Forgot About Dre" as the audio.
IE inline-block for Firefox
The inline-block value for display works in IE. In firefox, not so much. You could use two styles together, one for Firefox and one for IE but that would generate an error in Firefox. Instead, use CSS conditional comments to limit the IE specific style.
<style type="text/css">
.selector { display:table; }
</style>
<!--[if IE]>
<style type="text/css">
.selector { display: inline-block; }
</style>
<![endif]-->