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!
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