Posted in crybaby, heads up, humor, sappy on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Estelle Getty, who played Momma on The Golden Girls, died Tuesday, a few days after her 85th birthday, from unspecified causes according to an LA Times article.
I really wasn’t a big fan of the show (especially because of Blanche.. ick), but Momma and the lady who kept recounting stories from back in St. Olaf held [...]
Posted in heads up, news, science, words on July 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Going officially online at the end of 2008, a new Medical wikipedia (edited by qualified persons, though, presumably) is set to provided a massive clearinghouse of information regarding oddles of medical topics. The site can be previewed starting today at Medpedia.com according to a FoxBusiness.com article.
Incidentally, Google (who is rumored to be in talks [...]
Posted in food, heads up on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
Leave it to Consumerist to come up with a running tally of all of the Starbucks that are up for the guillotine. There’s one listed for my city, even..
A Complete List of Starbucks Locations That Will Be Closing
Posted in artsy, books, downloadables, freebies, heads up, tagged american, american gods, ebook, fiction, free, freebies, gaiman, gods, harper collins, neil, neil gaiman, online on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
You can now read Neil Gaiman’s swiftly-selling book, American Gods, online here. You can’t download it (although I guess you could probably screenshot every page, perhaps), but it’s the entire thing, not just a preview chapter or whatever. Oh yeah.
Posted in advice, diy, forwards, freebies, heads up, life hacks, news, pwn, solutions, speed runs, travel, utter tragedy, video, youtube on July 14, 2008 | No Comments »
There are few things that simply explain the one thing Christians can all agree upon, and at the same time try to address how difficult the rest of the world makes it by refusing it even just consider the actual message instead of getting wrapped up in the side issues. YouTube to the rescue [...]
Posted in games, heads up, video games on July 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve stumbled across HaloTube.com that only hosts Halo-related videos, with a max upload of 200mb and just about any filetype permissible. I’m in the process of uploading a bunch of my collection to get a little more exposure for the site ^_^
The site looks largely like a YouTube clone, even down to the upload [...]
Posted in heads up, science, weird, words on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
When I woke up this morning to go to work (alarm clock set to 2:38am, but not randomly), this question came to mind, and so I looked it up. I found a really good article that questions the very idea that we’ve been taught in school that this was the case, and even offers [...]
Posted in cinema, heads up, video, youtube on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
It would appear there is a movie coming out about the animatronics engineer for Showbiz Pizza Place, the famous American restaurant chain that featured a “live” band made up of animatronic animals playing musical instruments and singing on stage, and is called Rock-afire Explosion. The restaurant often featured a ball pit, arcade and pinball [...]
Posted in grrrrr, heads up, ranty mcranterson, well you see officer, words, wtf on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I live in Texas and just learned this today — according to a few websites that interpret a recent bill passed by Texas lawmakers, if you fix someone else’s computer and you’re not a private investigator, you could be fined up to $4,000 and get a year in jail! And in order to become one, [...]
Posted in heads up, science, weird on June 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Boing Boing has a nice little article about the wacky affliction known as Uncombable Hair Syndrome where the clustering of the hair growth makes it appear like “spun glass” and the shapes of the hairs themselves are odd enough to prevent combing as one might normally. Weird.
Posted in heads up, news, wtf on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I was just driving home from work and heard a radio interview with George Carlin on NPR, and I was thinking it was live.
Apparently not! When I hear interviews on NPR now, I’ll have to doubt whether they are actually live or just re-caps or something. I did the identical thing [...]
Posted in heads up, pwn, utter tragedy, words on June 23, 2008 | No Comments »
This nice little article is worth a read — about a little old lady who died just recently, who made news by being a hold-out against the development of “progress”.. in that she kept her intent on staying where she lived and a big-box corp built their structure around her tiny house’s property, like, to [...]
Posted in heads up, wootoff day, words on June 19, 2008 | No Comments »
For any former Woot.com visitors who have been putting off visiting lately because of the hum-drum they’ve been offering lately, today’s a Woot-off.
For those unfamiliar with Woot.com and their woot-off.. Woot is one of a number of new website formats that offer one single product each day, and will sell that product (in how many [...]
Posted in commercials, flash, games, heads up, linerider, video, video games, wiki-ref, youtube on June 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Multiple sources seem to indicate that a new Line Rider video is, indeed, an actual McDonald’s commercial. The video below is a 30-second cut of the commercial. There is also a 10-second version. References one, two, three, four..
Line Rider is a fairly well-known website flash drawing “game” where you can experiment with making [...]
Posted in heads up, news, youtube on June 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This should make for an interesting change to my Oblivion videos — now I can add text to the video post after I’ve already uploaded it, instead of adding it during the video editing process. However, I still may make versions with text already in the video, such as for cases when I haven’t [...]
Posted in heads up, news on June 4, 2008 | No Comments »
The clock tower used in the Back To The Future movies has been damaged destroyed in a fire at Universal Studios, according to a CNN article.
A pressurized tank of some kind exploded and injured a handful of firefighters trying to put it out. A number of other sets were also destroyed, including sets [...]
Posted in debunking forwards, forwards, heads up, ranty mcranterson, words on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s an email forward that’s been circulating since at least 2003 that lists loads of statistical data about various accomplishments in Iraq now that Coalition forces have been present. I doubted that I could find verifications for all of the individual stats listed, and Snopes doesn’t bother to go that far either. One post [...]
