December 30, 2005
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Please now imagine a flushing noise as I clean out my to be blogged list for your enjoyment.
Patricia Waller Plushies for Sickos. Alas, art and not actual toys.
McSweeneys: Giant Squid Takes “US Weekly” to Task. I didn’t know the Giant Squid was dating Neve Campbell.
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful. Its kind of a geek thing. By Eric Meyer (genuflect, genuflect).
Cat Cable Clips, Set of 3. LOOK! LOOK! EEEEE!!!!
Get to Work: My favourite item from despair.com.
Hello Kitty Bad Breath Analyzer. You blow into it and it gives you helpful advice (“your tongue has grown moss”). But I wonder what sort of an authority is Hello Kitty on bad breath anyhow? Hello Kitty HAS NO MOUTH.
Is it OK to Fetishize Cookware? Yes, it is OK to fetishize cookware. But this guy gets a little carried away (“I’ll only stick the asparagus in for just a minute…”)
Apple Support Calls: A whole bunch of MP3s of apparent actual recorded calls to Apple Tech Support. It is just horrible. I want to send a very large fruit basket to this guy. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for not being me.
Cute Overload. Nuff said.
James Bond’s Aston Martin up for sale. The DB-5 from Goldfinger and Thunderball (well, one of four) goes up for auction January 20. It includes extending wheel tire-slashers, passenger ejector seats, oil slick squirters, revolving number plates, and of course, front firing .30 caliber Browning machine guns. The car is expected to go for $1.5 to $2.5 million.
The Chronic- what? -cles of Narnia Rap, aka Lazy Sunday from SNL. This has been madly making the rounds but if you haven’t seen it yet you need to. Its way neat. Lyrics here.
December 30, 2005
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Pack of Chihuahuas Attack Fremont Cop
(12-30) 10:30 a.m. PST FREMONT — A police officer escorting a teenager home from a traffic stop Thursday morning was attacked by a pack of Chihuahuas at the front door of the boy’s home.
The officer suffered bite wounds to his ankles, was treated at Washington Hospital and returned to work within two hours, Fremont police Detective Bill Veteran said.
I’ve had this damn post sitting in my To Be Blogged list for months now, and I haven’t blogged it for no good reason at all. Its a post from stevenf’s blog entitled “weirdest moments in popular music history.”
It is really really funny, eg:
3. ‘Space Oddity’ by David Bowie
A nice little noodley, spacey bridge begins at approximately 2:43, but concludes abruptly when an apparently drunken tuba player barges into the studio 17 seconds later, and farts out four of the most incongruous notes in recorded history just before, I can only presume, collapsing onto the floor. Only Bowie knows for certain what really happened that fateful day.
And you know, I didn’t remember this farting tuba player so I had to go queue up Space Oddity on iTunes and swing the pointer over to 2:43. Now I’m never going to be able to listen to the song without giggling madly. Curse you, stevenf.
(I got it from ~stevenf.)
December 12, 2005
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Nabaztag: The first smart rabbit. I can’t quite figure out if this is a really cute gadget or the dumbest thing ever. Given that it’s 95 euro I’m leaning toward dumb.
December 6, 2005
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Panexa (acidachrome promanganate)
No matter what you do or where you go, you’re always going to be yourself. And Panexa knows this. Your lifestyle is one of the biggest factors in choosing how to live. Why trust it to anything less? Panexa is proven to provide more medication to those who take it than any other comparable solution. Panexa is the right choice, the safe choice. The only choice.
Jet passed along the web site for Panexa a while back but I didn’t get a chance to look at it until now. And its a good thing because right now I’m relaxed and comfortable here on the couch; any other time and I might have really badly injured myself laughing so hard. As it was I nearly had a seizure and choked on my tongue.