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I Heart Don Hertzfeldt

registeredname — 2010-12-18T18:37:43-05:00

From the creator of "rejected" and "Billy's Balloon" comes Wisdom Teeth:

more info here:
http://www.geekosystem.com/new-don-hertzfeldt-cartoon/

Castle Vox - Axis vs Allies Game Trailer

dustin — 2010-12-10T17:10:40-05:00

Here's the second trailer for my new game Castle Vox. It's a combination of Risk with Diplomacy with Axis & Allies. Available to download now for PC, Mac, and Linux.

Thunder Busters

registeredname — 2010-09-26T23:48:09-04:00

This blew my mind:

The Ghosts of World War II

vinny9 — 2010-08-04T01:08:36-04:00

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/the-ghosts-of-world-war-iis

The 17 Minute Epic: ICP Gathering of the Juggalos

vinny9 — 2010-07-17T23:20:04-04:00

Go Spos!

chrisdye — 2010-06-24T09:48:15-04:00

Twenty years ago today, I went to my first baseball game. The Expos had the NL East lead, a half-game up on the Pirates, and it was half-price ticket day for under 16s, so I convinced my parents to drive all the way to the Big O with the family.

The Meech Lake Accord had failed the day before and it was St-Jean-Baptiste Day, so for the first (but not last) time in Expos history, many in the large (for the Expos) crowd of 25,000 booed Canada's national anthem. Anytime the Expos played at home on St-Jean-Baptise Day after that, they played the anthems during the warmup so that no one would be there to boo.

We sat in the first row of the upper deck, right behind home plate. Dennis Martinez had a solid start, but the relief was weak and the Pirates won the game, retaking the NL East lead (which they kept for the rest of the year). Disappointing, but I'll never forget how awesome it was to eat peanuts and ice cream and watch the Expos in the Big O on a hot summer day, during that brief time when the retractable roof actually worked.

Thank you, Adobe Photoshop

Alex — 2010-06-22T12:29:24-04:00

Sum purty pitchers.

This Is The Kind Of Stuff You Need To Share With Me

vinny9 — 2010-03-15T22:57:55-04:00

Pretty Slick

vinny9 — 2010-02-08T23:59:58-05:00

Series of posters for the planets (and Pluto)

Petra's Call flash webcomic

dustin — 2010-01-26T06:57:37-05:00

Petra's Call is an innovative flash-based webcomic from Ninja Robot Dinosaur that you should definitely check out. There are 15 episodes currently, all available through the embedded flash app above.

I met the creator Shane Neville years ago in Vancouver. He since moved out to the Maritimes, but looks like he's back in Lotusland in 2010. Exciting!

Extratar!

vinny9 — 2010-01-25T14:27:25-05:00

Better webseries than the Bitter End?

Percentages

vinny9 — 2010-01-23T21:28:12-05:00

I think this was going around awhile ago but it's still pretty slick.

The Real Meaning of Flags

I Will Use This Knowledge For Evil

vinny9 — 2010-01-22T16:05:50-05:00

Power of Profile pictures

I need a proper headshot so I think I'll be using some of this info...

MOM! Jeffy told me that God is Dead!

Alex — 2009-12-14T01:38:12-05:00

I can't stop refreshing this page:

http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/

Posterrific

vinny9 — 2009-11-03T09:51:10-05:00

Just in case some of you aren't already into xkcd:
Epic poster covering character movement in geek movies

Chris, I'm sure you'll appreciate the Primer one...

My Halloween Costume 2009

registeredname — 2009-11-03T00:34:06-05:00

I am...

Bryan — 2009-10-22T10:59:13-04:00

via Marvel comic creator

I can't believe people fall for this!

registeredname — 2009-10-05T09:03:47-04:00

Actual e-mail I received this morning:

Microsoft Award Team
20 Craven Park, Harlesden
London NW10, United Kingdom.
Batch number: 12/25/0340
Ref number: MSN-L/200-26937
Winning number: GQ-88790-D

Attention: Lottery Winner,

This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of NINE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND POUND (�950,000.00) for the New Edition 2009 Lottery promotion which is organized by YAHOO LOTTERY INC & WINDOWS LIVE in conjunction with a few other internet providers.

YAHOO & MICROSOFT WINDOWS, collects all the email addresses of the people that are active online, among the millions that subscribed to Yahoo and Hotmail we only select five people every Month as our winners through electronic balloting System without the winner applying, we congratulate you for being one of the people selected.

TO RECEIVE AND CLAIM YOUR PAYMENT OF PRIZE
You are therefore advised to send the following information to the claims agent(Mr. Andre Bach) to facilitate the remittance of your winning prize to you at once.

1. Full name............
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Congratulations!! once again.

Please contact Mr. Bach for all necessary proceeds in receiving your prize.
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(VERIFICATION DEPARTMENT MANAGER)

Think it's real??!

I wish I had that for motivation at work...

registeredname — 2009-06-12T00:12:03-04:00

Watch Cool Post-it Animation and more funny videos on CollegeHumor

Apple WWDCgasm

goodladd — 2009-06-08T14:30:16-04:00

I don't own an iPhone, but this is a pretty sweet new feature:

There's a new feature [in iPhone OS 3.0] called Find My iPhone. . . . it will allow you to see on a map where your phone is. . . . You can send an alert tone to your phone that will play, announcing it's lost. It will play even if you left your phone in silent mode. . . . If your phone is really lost, there's a remote kill switch to wipe your phone of all your data.

I'm also super-stoked to discover that Leopard users will be able to upgrade to Snow Leopard for a measly $29. Hello, new iMac!

Saurian Brandy

vinny9 — 2009-05-13T08:49:30-04:00

Narrated photo log about Trek Conventions in the 70s

I love presentations like this. The CBC Radio3 mag was doing this ages ago. I still miss it.

Sometimes People Are Smart

vinny9 — 2009-04-24T12:01:44-04:00

I like this idea.

The gist is that self-organized molecules (ie: life) will build themselves in a single chirality (organic molecules can exist in two mirror images, chirality is the term to distinguish them; think your right and left hands). Light that reflects from organics will contain a tell-tale signature (polarization) depending on the chirality. This could be used to detect evidence of "life" on other planets. Clever.

Low-Hanging Fruit

vinny9 — 2009-04-21T11:19:43-04:00

http://www.pixelmator.com/

A Mac specific, pic editing tool priced at 60$ US. F'ing smart move.

Website Bidness

vinny9 — 2009-02-04T10:48:00-05:00

If you're looking for a low-cost web hosting solution, so far this has been working like a charm:

www.nearlyfreespeech.net

They charge pennies for storage and bandwidth usage. And that's it. You can do the whole thing for about 10$ US per year, 9$ of which is the domain registration. The catch is that you'll need to be fairly handy with websites. If you know what you're doing and your project isn't too large, I'd definitely check it out.

I just figured out how to use google apps to get email service as well (instead of forwarding).

When a service is exactly what I want, I have no problems being a corporate shill. I hope I didn't just jinx it!

Band Montage!

goodladd — 2009-01-30T11:54:38-05:00

Speaking of revolutionising music, has anyone else seen these awesome "literal" music videos? The "Take On Me" one is the original (and best, I think), but "Under The Bridge" is also pretty hilarious.

Take on Me: Literal Video Version - watch more funny videos

Microsoft Revolutionizes Music

Alex — 2009-01-29T19:36:03-05:00

First, check out the commercial for songsmith:

then see what happens when people got the bright idea to put the vocal tracks from pop songs into the program. Here's an example:

Magic.

A guy with cat and glasses

Mirzipan — 2009-01-12T18:45:51-05:00

Jamie Lidell - Yougotmeup (Warp Records) from Konx-om-Pax on Vimeo.

Shallanj!

Alex — 2009-01-08T13:51:18-05:00

Classic:

The Mother Lode

vinny9 — 2008-12-22T23:03:54-05:00

Everything is Terrible

Pick any video. Each one is a treasure.

Minority Report OS fo' realz

vinny9 — 2008-11-21T12:31:39-05:00