Casiello Family Weblog

If you’ve ever seen a Roadrunner cartoon, you remember all the gizmos Wile E. Coyote (Super-Genius) ordered from the ACME company. Well, here’s their catalog.

An especially popular item.

It’s just like the Iditarod, with a few minor differences.

Like, people instead of dogs, shopping carts instead of dogsleds, and New York City instead of Alaska.

Otherwise, it’s pretty much identical.

Check out the third story. The lineup for Reno Galena High’s starting lineup:

Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin, and Kaitlin

Kaitlin?! There’s always a wise guy!

Try this – go to MSN Maps

Enter these values
Start:
Address in: norway
City: haugesund
End:
Address in: norway
City: trondheim

Click “Get Directions”

That’s one heck of a detour!

From Norway to Norway, via the UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden.

(via devnull)

It turns out modern pro wrestling may be more like Roman gladiators than we thought.

– New theory says Gladiators were pampered stars not abused slaves
– Gladiators earned so much from sport that Emperor capped their salaries

(via Metafilter)
It’s Mordor. With a |

Folks have been grabbing screenshots from the Lord of the Rings movies and making animated gifs out of them. Like

Catapult

Boromir’s Invisible Phone

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Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles scanned and put online into the public domain!

The Angry Chicken – a pretty funny ad for running shoes, demonstrating the sport of parkour – or free-running. Apparently, the shoes being advertised are not particularly good for parkour, but when has that stopped advertisers?

(via MetaFilter)

U.S. Wraps Up Search for Banned Weapons in Iraq

Now maybe those guys can help OJ find the real killer.

A vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, discovered in October of 2004 has been upgraded to ‘extremely critical’, since it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website.
it allows an attacker to put and run programs on your computer even if you just visit a (malicious) website.

More here.

And here.

Microsoft has released patches – if you’re not set up to automatically download critical updates, here’s how to make sure you’re updated.

Of course, if you’re not running IE, you’re all set – this one can’t touch you.

(via ACM TechNews)

Japanese roboticists claim that robots will win the soccer World Cup by 2050 UNLESS ANAKIN CAN DESTROY THE ORBITING CONTROL SHIP IN TIME!

It’ll probably take a little longer to program the robotic hooligans to destroy the stadium afterward.

These guys are building some pretty snazzy shelters out of sandbags.

…since I haven’t posted in so long.

If you live in a blue state, check out DUBYA – The Movie.

A non-photorealistic camera uses multiple flashes to analyze shape.

The definitive guide to the rules of calling ‘Shotgun’, including the Delaware and Massachusetts amendments.

Oh, and why not a dancing car, while we’re at it.

Start looking up at 9:14! (But come in to watch the game every once in a while!)

An EZ-Bake oven that fits in a drive bay.

Geek-a-licious!

Paper. Remember that stuff? You know, the stuff you write on when you can’t find the stylus to you Palm Pilot. The stuff printouts come on. Well, if you need graph paper, there’s a pretty good chance you can print some out from here.

If you need music paper, you can download it here, or if they don’t have exactly what you need, just design your own.

WOO-HOO! GO SOX! YEAH!

and Johnny Damon came through when we needed him most!

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Check out Dilbert Ultimate House – I’d move there in a second! My favorite feature (besides the home theater) – the kids’ bathroom, watertight with a drain in the floor. You just hose it down.

A total lunar eclipse Wednesday night, October 27, will likely make the moon look blood red.

It’ll start around 9:14 PM EST, totality will last from 10:23 to 11:45, and the whole show will be over at 12:54 AM.