Awesome! First one to melt off the tips of their fingers gets a nickel!
Nov 29, 2006
MBNA => Bank Of America
Gah, have you seen this? As if this merger didn't piss me off as it is, now they have to make my ears bleed too! Feel bad for the guy, though, he's just being a dork at a company thing, now he's a big internet joke!
Trans-Siberian Christmas Lights
So, this video is from last year, but I didn't have this LJ last year, so here it is again!
Nov 28, 2006
Charity
So, it's that time of year. All of us who have a bit extra lying around and don't really need that extra sweater/gadget/movie/night-out should do something about it, yeah? It's always hard to choose, which is "more important". genocide? starving people? people with cancer? endangered animals? endangered civil liberties? sick children? Hard to say, the good news is every answer is the right answer, I guess. So here's some ideas:
Darfur: Through Save Darfur or Doctors Without Borders.
Animals/Environment: Through the Wildlife Conservation Society, the World Wild Fund or the Sierra Club.
Digital Rights: Electronic Frontier Foundation
These are just some, I didn't even list any medical ones (cancer, aids, etc) because I just don't know what the good ones are. My favorite, however, which is somewhat selfish, is Child's Play. Now in it's 4th year, Child's Play was started by the guys who make Penny Arcade. They collect toys, games, video games, and money for various children's hospitals across the country and world (even, gasp, canada!). This is selfish because it is important to me that people understand that gamers and game companies gave $600,000 last year. We occasionally do good things too. Y'know, when we are tired of running over grandmothers and murdering hookers.
Anyway, post your personal favorites, or yell at me if I suggested a bad one :)
Abandonware is a go!
Librarian of Congress has made exemptions to the DMCA. Games that you can't buy or reasonably get ahold of anymore are now legal to steal. Yay! Maybe that NES site will stay up a little longer after all? Unfortunately, the Librarian did NOT exempt making copies of your own damn DVDs for your own damn portable devices cuz that's crazy.
Ex Libris Anonymous
This is a very neat service. Send them a hard cover book, they rip out the guts and put in journal paper, tada. 'Course, it requires the death of the original book, which is sorta sad, but it's still cool!
Pi Tattoo
I'm not convinced I'll like anything, even pi, for the rest of my life. Nonetheless, if yer gonna get something inked, this is pretty nerd-cool :)
Nov 27, 2006
USSRPosters
Propoganda, entertainment, some stuff I have no idea wtf it is. Either way, these are very cool.
Movie Reviews @ The Temple
Okay, so here's some stuff I saw recently:
Babel: Very good. Very tense. Not a popcorn movie. Also, it turns out, not a DATE movie. But still very good, I felt, smart in the ways it had to be, understated in the politics, but effective. I believe the other title they were kicking around for this movie was The World Is Fucked Up, subtitle: also, people speak different languages. Nonetheless, great movie, go watch, don't bring popcorn.
Borat: Shitty shitty movie! And not for the reasons I expected. We had a debate, the other day, about the validity of satire, if there's a "too far", when pranks are ok (on the Daily Show to Howie Mandel spectrum), etc. I expected to have to debate w/ myself after seeing Borat why I laughed and whether it was ok that I did. Trouble is, I barely laughed. It wasn't god damn funny! I don't mind offensive humor, I listen to Keith and the Girl! I obviously don't mind smart humor. Trouble is, this movie was neither smart, nor humorous. Bad movie.
Manderlay: Wtf? This is the weirdest effin' movie I've seen in a long time. I don't even know how to describe it. A white lady comes to a 70-years-post-emancipation plantation still with slaves and decides to free them and make them self sufficient. But it's done in a weird play-like way, the whole movie is on a white flat set that has a map drawn on it. Set pieces are like a play, i.e. instead of a whole house, there's just a window here, a door there, a bed here, and a book case there. Lit in such a way that you only see this circle of light where the important stuff is, and it's black beyond. Very cool looking, really. But super weird. I like it for what it was trying to do, it is certainly a different movie than most. But I think it failed in a few ways, chiefly in its heavy handed thesis. Still, worth seeing.
Akeelah and the Bee: Exactly what you would expect. If that's your bag of bricks, go see it.
The Boys of Baraka: Documentary on inner city Baltimore black jr. high age kids sent to school in Baraka, Kenya. Generally very interesting all around. Sad, as such things go. Inspiring, as such things go.
40 Year Old Virgin: I've actually seen this before, but I saw it again, and it's even funnier than I remember. Everyone should see it! Then I watched it again with commentary. Then I watched it again. So, yeah, it's funny.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada: Very good. You should probably see it.
Nov 25, 2006
Nov 24, 2006
Pirates of the Saskatchewan
So I guess the Arrogant Worms are another folky canadian band, but with a little bit more of a weird al streak to them. I don't really know, this is the only song I've heard so far, but it's pretty funny, and someone machinimating it is funnier still.
Nov 22, 2006
Nov 20, 2006
More McCain Bullshit
Remember when I said McCain had fallen from grace? Turns out he's discovered a whole sub-basment level to "not grace" I didn't know existed. Now he wants to over turn Roe vs. Wade.
Nov 19, 2006
Edited Music
This is sorta cool, dude makes music by editing together him playing individual notes/beats, thanks D!
Casino Royale
Wow, I totally liked the new James Bond movie. I've never really been into Bond, probably cuz I've only been around for the Brosnan era, whom I don't particularly like. And all the old stuff is so old and i'm a young punk, so I don't appreciate any of it. But I love Daniel Craig in the role, I've thought he was cool ever since Layer Cake. I think almost everyone is happy with the idea of bond being a little less fancy than Brosnan too, I certainly am. The poker thing bothered me a little, it seems very mid-oughts, what with texas hold em being all the rage, but oh well. Anyway, ya'll should go see it.
Only other bad thing was I was sitting next to a freaking mouth breather the whole movie. and I don't mean that as a critique of his intelligence, I mean he was literally a mouth breather. I was sitting next to darth god damn vader the whole effin' movie! And he was grunting and burping and got up halfway through to go get MORE candy and soda and jesus christ it was gross. But still a great movie.
Oh, also, Century Theaters has turned to the dark(er) side and put the most ridiculous fake-reality bullcrap Coke ad in front of the movie. Sigh.
Nov 18, 2006
Prop 107 Post Portem
So, I still can't believe AZ of all states is the one to reject the gay ban, I'm convinced it was a very good selling job by the cons, who never even mentioned gays when they said to vote it down. Anyway, Andrew Sullivan, of whom I'm not the hugest fan, comments on the exit polls. Educated people are smart, no surprise. Very sad to see blacks so against it, I know it's a big cultural thing, not to mention the education, but propogation of prejudice sorta sucks.
Nov 17, 2006
McCain Quote
"Hypocrisy, my friends, is the most obvious of political sins -- and the people will punish it. We were elected to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. We increased the size of government in the false hope that we could bribe the public into keeping us in office. We lost our principles and our majority. And there is no way to recover our majority without recovering our principles first."
-- Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by the New York Times.
Too little, too late. Can't increasingly cowtow to all those political sinners for the past 6 years and all of a sudden act like you were yelling iceberg. You sold your principles to the far right base so you can get the nomination in 2 years, which you very well might, so good job. But you also got rid of the "mediocre democrat vs. outstanding republican" debate I was maybe going to have to have with myself in two novembers, good job there as well.
Nov 16, 2006
The Office: Dwight's Faxes
The Office is so good this year, if for no other reason than Jim's pranks on Dwight, this is the best one of all!
Cartoon Communists
Well, this is kinda interesting. Some Karl Marx text read (in an unbelievably boring manner) on top of a bunch of old cartoons which "support" the text.
Nov 15, 2006
Politics Roundup
Bad, Fox! That's a bad bad news agency.
An exact tie in Montana. Wow, how dumb does that Kerns' cousin who forgot to vote feel? :)
Wth? *couassholegh*
I don't understand the internal fighting w/ the Dems, it took like 12 hours, jesus. Plus all this Murtha business. Btw, I had no idea that the house majority leader wasn't automatically the same as the speaker of the house. So, yeah, might not wanna come to me for your politics anymore.
EDIT: Olbermann on the Fox memo.
Murtha lost.
Physics Games
A whole list of physics games?? Just for me?? yaaaaaaaay. Actually, I wanted to be super happy about this, but there's a lot of download-only pay-for-me games, I just want quick'n'easy flash games. But I recognize a couple good games on the list, I'll have to go through it sometime and find some more.
Simpsons Trailer
Some things are funny. Not all that funny, acutally, but I had a theme going there, man.
Delivery
Some things are sorta beautiful, in their way. I know I saw this a long time ago, I dunno if my blogger existed then, certainly my LJ didn't, so here it is.
Kiwi!
Okay, I've been away from my feeds for 5 days, here comes a bumrush of links. I'm supposed to be studying! First up, the sweetest/saddest animation I've ever seen.
Nov 12, 2006
One of those "meme" things
So, I'm in San Fransisco (or just outside it) and away from all my rss feeds and have nothing good to post. So here's one of those questionairre things I got from my parents instead:
1. FIRST NAME?... Daithin... close enough!
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?..... Nope
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?.... Last time I was sad about girls, prolly!
4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?... I suppose not
5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE LUNCH MEAT?..... N/A
6. KIDS... no
7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?....Sure hope so
8. JOURNAL?...Does this count?
9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?.... Yup
10. STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?.... Yeah
11 WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP... Already have!
12WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CEREAL?... I dunno, Life?
13 DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF.... Yeah
14 DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG...I guess the whole point of this one is to determine your frame of reference?
15. FAVOURITE ICE CREAM........ Minty
16 WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE.... Lately? if she's cute ;)
17: Red or Pink.... I dunno, neither? Oh fine, red I guess.
18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF...too antisocial!
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?... oh that's too embarassing
20. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES YOU ARE WEARING?.... grey and none.
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW... Keith and the Girl!!
22 IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?... blue, prolly. or silver
23. FAVOURITE SMELLS: yummy food?
24. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?.....both of em, yup
FAVOURITE DRINK?.... mudslide!!
FAVOURITE SPORT TO WATCH.... football? basketball? I dunno
26. EYE CLOUR... one of those pretty green/brown/blues
27. FAVOURITE FOOD?.... tofu
28. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING?... whichever is interesting
29. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?.... last worthy of mention = the departed
30. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?... grey also
31. SUMMER OR WINTER?...... summer
32. HUGS OR KISSES?.....Kisses.
33. FAVOURITE DESSERT?...... pudding
34. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?..... What?
35. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?.... God & Psychotherapy
36. WHAT DID YOU WATCH ON TV LAST NIGHT?... Wasn't around a TV last night
37. FAVOURITE SOUNDS? oh sheesh, good music I guess
38. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES?.. paint it black, 's all I got
39. THE FURTHEST YOU BEEN FROM HOME?... South Pole. Yeah, don't even try to top that.
40. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I can use any GUI ever :oP
41 WHEN WERE YOU BORN?.... 6:23 pm?
42 WHERE WERE YOU BORN?... Mesa, AZ
One of those "meme" things
So, I'm in San Fransisco (or just outside it) and away from all my rss feeds and have nothing good to post. So here's one of those questionairre things I got from my parents instead:
1. FIRST NAME?... Daithin... close enough!
2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?..... Nope
3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY?.... Last time I was sad about girls, prolly!
4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING?... I suppose not
5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE LUNCH MEAT?..... N/A
6. KIDS... no
7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU?....Sure hope so
8. JOURNAL?...Does this count?
9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT?.... Yup
10. STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS?.... Yeah
11 WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP... Already have!
12WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE CEREAL?... I dunno, Life?
13 DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF.... Yeah
14 DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG...I guess the whole point of this one is to determine your frame of reference?
15. FAVOURITE ICE CREAM........ Minty
16 WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE.... Lately? if she's cute ;)
17: Red or Pink.... I dunno, neither? Oh fine, red I guess.
18. WHAT IS THE LEAST FAVOURITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF...too antisocial!
19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST?... oh that's too embarassing
20. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES YOU ARE WEARING?.... grey and none.
21. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW... Keith and the Girl!!
22 IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE?... blue, prolly. or silver
23. FAVOURITE SMELLS: yummy food?
24. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?.....both of em, yup
FAVOURITE DRINK?.... mudslide!!
FAVOURITE SPORT TO WATCH.... football? basketball? I dunno
26. EYE CLOUR... one of those pretty green/brown/blues
27. FAVOURITE FOOD?.... tofu
28. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING?... whichever is interesting
29. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED?.... last worthy of mention = the departed
30. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING?... grey also
31. SUMMER OR WINTER?...... summer
Nov 10, 2006
Bush lied.... so?
I don't get it, whytf are people up in arms about this? Yeah... he lied, this is the smallest lie he's ever told ever, and this is what gets your panties in a bunch? He lied 2 days before an election about something he thought, I imagine, could hurt his party, whotf cares?! I am eager to yell at bush for nearly anything, but jesus christ, he's not going to tell you every internal discussion of who's getting fired when he's 48 hours out of getting his ass handed to him. Is it because he was caught on tape lying? SOOO??! What are we, republicans in 1998? Pay the fuck attention, he's done actual bad things, his achilles heel is not in the HR Hiring department!
Ryan vs. Dorkman
Any time these two guys pose or anything, it's laughable, but the choreography and effects are pretty great for just a couple of random dudes. And hey, slick ending.
Playstation Pornable
What's funnier, that the square adults are surprised that you can put porn on any internet enabled device? Or that they think you need a credit card to get a hold of hardcore porn? And who the hell uses a PSP to be a perv? It would take half an hour just to type "what're you wearing" Stupid local news sweeps.
Spiderman 3 Trailer
It looks super cool, but there's an awful lot going on here. Unless the movie is 5 hours long, I dunno how they are going to do it all satisfyingly.
Nov 9, 2006
Political Videos
Couple things today:
Maher on Larry King. Direct link. Nothing too interesting here, I hope Bill doesn't fall too hard here, he's always steered away from personal things, including Bush's daughters and his drug history. I'm sure his argument is that if you bash gays, you open yourself to outting. I don't disagree, but gots to be careful.
Pelosi & Bush. Direct link. So here we go, friendly friendly, everyone nice, work together, bipartisan. Who will be the first to take their toys and go home? Will some dems push for impeachment? Will bush refuse to budge on iraq?
O'Rielly in denial. Direct link. Seriiously, dude, crazy ass American Heritage Foundation people even think you are blind. Who is on your side??
Also, Ed Bradley, old black guy from 60 Minutes, died :(
Retail Me Not
Bugmenot has come out w/ a new thing, for coupon codes! Cool! No more googling for random codes of the month.
Nov 8, 2006
AP calls it for Webb
And NBC, Reuters, CBS, and ABC are agreeing. 7k is a lot of votes to make up with a recount. Democratic senate, woo! Now go do something useful! Don't be lame!
Orbit Game
I'm almost postive I've posted this or something much like it before, but wadaya gonna do, I love physics games! I especially like how the coders don't think the universe is open, closed, OR flat. They think the edges are bouncy. :)
Far Cry on the Wii
Granted, they are a couple years late to the Far Cry party, but this could be a very fun control scheme.
Rumsfeld Gets The Boot
Hmm.... chastened much? Good thing Rumsfeld has been such a "superb leader", though, otherwise we might be in a "shitstorm of trouble" in Iraq, eh?
Election Review
So, I know no one comes to the Temple for their up-to-the-minute political coverage, but I wanted to summarize anyway, especially the local things.
As everyone knows, dems got the house, by a good 30 seats. No big surprise here, even for the staunchest republican. First female speaker of the house ever, 3rd in line to president. Welcome, sort of, to Israel in 1969, England in 1979, Canada in 1993, Ireland in 1997, and all the others I'm sure I don't know about (after all, I had to look up the dates even for those 4).
Senate is much closer, but things are looking good. We needed 6 seats, w/o losing NJ or Maryland, which we didn't (I was afraid those dirty gays would hurt us in NJ, but it was ok, if close). Ohio, Penn (haha, buh bye rick santorum), and Rhode Island came fairly easily. Missouri was called for McKaskill shortly before I fell asleep watching CNN last night. Looks this morning like Montana will flip to blue, though it's pretty close. Tennessee was a lost cause cuz they are a bunch of racist assholes. Sooo, Virginia. Sigh. It looks like Webb won, there will be a recount, and it will take weeks. Odds are on Webb coming out on top, but who knows. So we are either tied or have a 1 vote majority. Yikes.
Oh, also, Lieberman won. No surprise, but god dammit, I hate him.
Okay, local stuff. Pederson lost, of course. All us liberals down in Pima tried to pretend he had a chance, much like we tried to pretend we might vote Kerry 2 years ago, but we were just faking it. Grijalva won of course, and Giffords as well, our one contribution to the national scene. Napolitano was reelected of course.
Props I find interesting:
107 - Define Marriage - No - Yikes, we barrrrely got that one, I didn't think it'd be so close from polls.
204 - Don't Mistreat Farm Animals - Yes - By quite a bit, yay.
205 - Vote By Mail - No - I wasn't totally for this, I don't like it being ONLY one option, but I'm not so opposed either, those hippies up in oregon seem to like it. Maybe a dual option will come along next time.
200 - $1mil lottery for voting - No - Phew, the whole country won't be laughing at us.
202 - Raise Minimum Wage to 6.50 - Yes - How great is this?
301 - No probation for meth heads - Yes - Sigh, gotta keep fighting that oh-so-effective war on drugs, apparently.
Unfortunately couple of the "we don't trust them fer'ners" props went through. No bail , no public programs, no punitive damages. I don't care so much about english as the main language, I'm sort of fine with that in theory, except for the anti-immigrant passion fueling the idea.
All in all, a good day, assuming this recount comes up blue. What next? I have no idea, my money is on bush redefining the senate as a 49 member body and he "randomly" picks who gets in. :)
Also, all these moderate dems, man, I dunno what we're gonna do w/ em. This wasn't exactly a huge liberal progressive pelosi/dean/clinton-loving landslide. We got anti-abortion folks, anti-civil union folks, heavily military and religious folks. It's a somewhat different party we liberal-leaning independents are relying on today.
Nov 7, 2006
Votin'
So I voted and I learned something. My standard response to "that's an interesting name", which is "yeah, it's made up", doesn't work so well at a polling place, hahaha. The point is my mom made it up, from a couple names. But polling place people don't like to hear that your name is made up :) Nothing happened, just a funny look before I tacked on the mom part of the story, but it was still weird!
BTW, I studied only the in-the-mail literature for about 30 min before rushing to vote so I could be only an hour late to work, sigh. I really intended to do a better job, bad timing this year!
Dirty Tricks
What the hell? What won't they try?! 1-888-DEM-VOTE if you notice any funny business at the polls!
Nov 6, 2006
Vote!
!! All my news feeds, all my favorite sites, not a single interesting thing to post all day?? Oh wait, here's something! Clinton being awesome.
Also, go vote tomorrow. Unless you are a dirty fer'ner. Then you can't. That'll teach you to be fer'n.
Nov 5, 2006
Gone Daddy Gone
I guess this is yet another "the new thing" Gnarles Barkley video, 's what's them youngsters are listening to these days. Gotta stay hip, y'know. Towards the end is sorta gross though, eh?
Nov 4, 2006
How To Make A Bomb 101
Wow, have you seen this? These guys really can't do anything right, can they? They've been posting a lot of documents to the web for a while, as I understand it. I guess under the idea that the more people that look at it, the better? Unfortunately, one thing is apparently how to make a nuke. In Arabic. Oops.
I'm not sure what I think about it. On the surface, disclosure isn't a horrible idea, nor is using mass-resources, the so called 101st Fighting Keyboarders (since obviouslly they can't hire arabic translators, especially if they are, god forbid, gay). But not knowing at all what's in there and putting in the net.... that seems dumb. On the other hand, I can't read arabic either, I don't know what those documents said. Are people freaking out just to get Bush in more trouble? Maybe it's the type of thing that is useless to anyone who has no real means to make a bomb (Random McTerrorist), and totally basic to someone who actually might (Iran). Supposedly, experts have been asked, and they've said it's stuff that shouldn't be out, but dunno for sure.
Nov 2, 2006
The Secret Letter from Iraq
This is very interesting. But I think people are latching on to it a bit too much. Reading Wired's story on milblogs, it seems a good deal of people over there are pretty gungho. And that's this guys thesis, in the end, in a way. So I wouldn't go too far off on a tangent about the poor unheard soldier who is screaming for Bush's head, I'm not sure that's as universal as we'd like it to be.
Slow Motion Bullets
I think I've thought of another "the world is made up of 3 kinds of people"
People who see this and say:
1) Stuff exploding is cool!
2) Guns are bad!
3) I love physics!
Sour Death Balls
So busy! So here comes a bunch of links in a row. First up, Sour Death Balls! 's pretty funny, I especially like when the kids try to scrape the sour out of their mouths :)
Halloween 2006!
I'm really getting sick of this double-posting thing. You blogger folks are at risk of being forced to read the LJ instead! As such, it is too hard to remake this post in blogger, I already spent way too long on it in LJ, so go here to read about halloween!
Nov 1, 2006
Pandora Radio
I keep meaning to explore this more before I link it, but I keep not doing that, so I might as well. Via brainysmurf, it's an internet radio thing, but you put in a favorite song/artist and it does voodoo and suggests stuff it thinks you will like in return. Some of the suggestions are really great (HOW did it know I like pink martini?!), some of it's sorta goofy. Reading why it suggested something can be entertaining too.
Married To The Sea
Funny comic site K pointed me to, sort of snotty/sarcastic one panel cartoons. I haven't had time to look at much yet, but this is my fav so far. Haha, this one too!
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