Ever wonder what size of features are properly called “knockers”? The link below contains most everything you might want to know about knockers. It turns out the term is used in areas of mélange, a body of mixed rocks of all sizes.
RIP, but Not Who you Think
// March 31st, 2005
Today, Dan’s Horrendous Waste takes off its hat to the memory of Mitch Hedberg, one of the brightest lights in standup comedy since Bill Hicks, dead today at 37 from -an apparent drug overdose- a heart attack.
“I wrote a letter to my dad- I wrote, I really enjoy being here. But I accidently wrote rarely, instead of really. But I still wanted to use it, so I crossed it out and wrote I rarely drive steamboats, Dad. There’s a lot you don’t know about me. Quit trying to act like I’m a steamboat operator. This letter took a harsh turn right away.”
“I like rice. Rice is great if your hungry and want 2000 of something.”
“Y’know I order a club sandwhich all the time. And I’m not even a member. I don’t know how I get away with it. I like my sanwhiches witth three peices of bread. So do I. Lets form a club. Okay, but we’re gonna need more stickulation. Yes we do. Instead of cutting it once, lets cut it again. Yeah, four triangles. And we shall dump chips in the middle. Let me ask you something, how do you feel about frilly toothpicks? I’m for them.”
More Mitch Hedberg quotes here.
Comedy Central bio and tribute page.
Life in a TEXTAREA
// March 31st, 2005BRILLIANT rant on poor web-browser UI. Why isn’t this TEXTAREA box more like a word processor? After 15 years, shouldn’t browsers have developed beyond the brain-dead text entry field?
Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled: Life in a TEXTAREA
Update: When I put nice aerodynamic angle-brackets around the word “TEXTAREA” above, . Except it swallowed up all the rest of the content on the page into one big textarea field. Thereby neatly demonstrating Adam’s point.
Mahnamahna
// March 30th, 2005I’ll have this stuck in my head all day now. Very nice “Lullaby of Birdland” quote in the middle there, too!
Real Hybrid Animals
// March 29th, 2005
An amazing site with pictures and descriptions of all variety of cross-bred animals from the mundane to the exotic. The critter above, for instance, is a Zetland–a Zebra/Shetland Pony hybrid. Amazing, slightly creepy stuff. And who knew that whales and dolphins could interbreed?
Fading Ad Gallery
// March 28th, 2005
IKEA Walkthrough
// March 28th, 2005The Morning News presents the ultimate walkthrough guide to IKEA:
IKEA is a fully immersive, 3D environmental adventure that allows you to role-play the character of someone who gives a shit about home furnishings. In traversing IKEA, you will experience a meticulously detailed alternate reality filled with garish colors, clear-lacquered birch veneer, and a host of NON-PLAYER CHARACTERS (NPCs) with the glazed looks of the recently anesthetized.
The Morning News - The Non-Expert: IKEA
Flo Control 1
// March 28th, 2005
“Flo Control” is a project invoving facial recognition and realtime image analysis to prevent their cat Flo from walking back in the cat door with nearly-dead critters in her mouth.
Complete with a daily record of exit and entry.
Abandoned Bicycles of New York
// March 26th, 2005
I find this gallery surprisingly stirring. There’s something moving and sad about dead, forlorn machinery in such a vital, energetic place.
Abandoned Bicycles of New York
The Culture Jammer’s Encyclopedia
// March 25th, 2005Everything from imposters to literary forgeries, with brief stops at commerce jamming and hacktivism. A comprehensive must-read for culture jammers everywhere!
Remember when Abbie Hoffman showered $1 bills on the NY Stock Exchange trading floor?
sniggle.net: The Culture Jammer’s Encyclopedia
Brilliant Information Design and Fascinating Word Usage Information
// March 24th, 2005This site is an art project that presents 86800 of the most commonly used words, scaled in size by their relative frequency of use, and layed out in a histogram. It’s browseable (though slowly) and searchable.
The most common word? “The”, of course. The least common? I’ll let you find out.
WORDCOUNT / Tracking the Way We Use Language /
The Zen Garden
// March 24th, 2005UncommonGoods:
// March 23rd, 2005
I am a Japanese School Teacher
// March 23rd, 2005Brilliant, hysterical, cultural-barrier-shattering journals from a young black American man teaching English in Japanese junior high schools. Gaijin Smash!
It’s actually a little disturbing to think that my life now includes a little Japanese girl who will randomly teleport into a place, yell “breasts!” at me, then teleport out as quickly as she came.
Outpost Nine :: Editorials :: I am a Japanese School Teacher