Some kids have *cool* dads!

April 23rd, 2003

(via BoingBoing)

They build things like this.

My projects tend to look more like this.

When Escher and Lego meet…

April 23rd, 2003

This is what happens.

Ah, it was about time to update my old wallpaper anyway.

What does the cow say?

April 23rd, 2003

Apparently, ‘bú’ if it’s Hungarian.

Animal sounds by language

(I think I’m gonna need a category just for cow items.)

Look out, Homestar, it’s The Great Sasuke!

April 23rd, 2003

(via devnull)

Jesse Ventura has a rival.

Cog

April 23rd, 2003

(via devnull)
Honda’s amazing Accord ad apparently took 606 takes.

I don’t care. I’m still impressed.

Soylent Brown is turkeys! Turkeys!!!

April 16th, 2003

(via Metafilter)

If legit, this is really cool! Oil and gas from just about anything carbon-based.

Compaq answers the age-old question

April 10th, 2003

(sorry, lost the attribution)

Compaq finally lets you know where to find that darn key!

Elementally, my dear Watson!

April 10th, 2003

(via The Shifted Librarian)

Cute! A Flash animation of Tom Lehrer’s
Elements song.

Shock and Awe ™

April 10th, 2003

(via Lockergnome)

Sony has trademarked the term Shock and Awe

Bizarre! What next, “Bud Light ™ proudly presents the Fox ™ -Halliburton ™ America’s War on North Korea! Now with 10% more cluster bombs!”

EMI sells something, may be CDs

April 10th, 2003

(via Lockergnome)

EMI is selling copy-protected ‘CD’s that dont’ play in some CD players, like the XBox, since the ‘CD’s don’t comply with the standard for audio CDs developed by Philips and Sony.

Be careful when buying CDs, if they’re copy-protected, they may not play on all CD players.

Alas for us!

April 3rd, 2003

Ben’s old truck just dropped dead
Damon’s ankle broke
Granddad’s foot has just succumbed
to years of too much smoke.
Gabey has a fever
John Paul has a cold
Joanne’s ears ring from Meniere’s
I’m just getting old.

Soccer Tournament Pics

March 28th, 2003

Some pictures from the soccer tournament at Norteastern last weekend.
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I’m a (Time) Travelin’ Man

March 28th, 2003

Okay, this guy parlays $800 into $350 million in the stock market in two weeks.

How? Well, he’s from the year 2256. He just stopped by in his time machine to make a killing in stocks.

Oddly enough, the Feds don’t believe him, they figure he’s got insider information. At 126 companies.

Oh, and nobody can find any record of his existence before last December.

It’s on tv.yahoo.com, so it’s gotta be true!

I wonder why he didn’t just look up his arrest record before he came back?

Daniel Ellsberg Interview

March 28th, 2003

(from Busy, Busy, Busy via L.M.B.)

CNN’s Aaron Brown interviews Daniel Ellsberg

Remember him? Pentagon Papers? Well, he’s not crazy about this war, either.

New Old Toys

March 27th, 2003

(via MemePool)

A drawing toy? Kaleidoscope? You decide. Or just have fun.

This one’s a little easier to categorize: Etch-a-Sketch!

I wonder if you can go back and forth over one area to see the mechanism inside?

It’s backstabtastic!

March 27th, 2003

from Lisa Rein via boing boing

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on the Halliburton contract (9 Mb .mov file).

Looks like we got us a war

March 20th, 2003

The war has started. There’s not much I can add do what Dan Gillmor has already said.

Music to milk by…

March 19th, 2003

Increase milk production through music

Umm, this is about cows. Everyone else, you’re on your own.

Test your knowledge of goat anatomy

March 19th, 2003

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~pazzani/4H/Java/GoatPartsTest.html

(Poe|Chemis)try

March 19th, 2003

From the Home-Ed list

The Periodic Table of Haiku.