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• Hurricane Katrina From Above. Surreal. Make sure to check out the other pics in the set.

  Tuesday August 30, 2005

They played The Frug!

• eBay: DELL SUPER COMPUTER EIGHT 20″ FLAT SCREENS. Mmmmmmmm…

  Friday August 26, 2005

Entertaining, but just a little too dumb for me. This movie had so many clichés that I finally gave out a really loud sigh in the theater when one of the most obvious plot points were revealed. Rachel McAdams is a hottie though.

• Memoirs of a Geisha - Trailer. This trailer makes the movie look really boring.

  Thursday August 25, 2005

Excalibur is certainly not one of the trendiest casinos in Las Vegas. Neighboring casino Luxor has a night club, Ra, that is considered very popular and exclusive. New York New York and MGM Grand, both across the street, are much newer and usually draw much larger crowds. So why were there so many hot girls walking around the casino floor of Excalibur?

After playing as much roulette and Spanish 21 (It’s the same as Blackjack, just without the face cards) as our wallets could take, we decided to walk over to Luxor to see if anything there was worth checking out. We headed upstairs, past the foodcourt to the walkway connecting the two casinos, and passed by the theater. With a large croud of women standing outside. Beautiful women. And no men with them.

We slowed down our pace, eventually stopping. All of us stood there and stared. Confused. “Why are there so many hot girls here,” we said.

Richard and Basil walked towards them to find out, and the rest of us trailed behind. All of a sudden Richard turned around and started waving us back with his hands. “Go back! Go back!”

“Why? What is it?”

“I saw a poster for ‘Thunder From Down Under‘”

• A List Apart 4.0. This is one sweet design. Layout by Jason Santa Maria? CSS by Eric Meyer? Could you get any more clout behind this thing?

  Wednesday August 24, 2005

After much speculation and anticipation, Google Talk has been released. I’m finding it to be a very natural extension of Gmail, with the built-in email button and how a gmail account doubles as a Google Talk account. The interface has some nifty features — Click the titlebar of a chat to “windowshade” it; If another window is active and a IM arrives, it automatically displays in the bottom right like a notification. Windows dock together as well, although tabbing might work better.

It’ll be interesting to see how this fares against AIM and MSN Messenger.

• Piano Man goes home. Follow up to the earlier story.

  Monday August 22, 2005

• The 17th Annual China Harbin Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Fair

  Monday August 22, 2005

• Boing Boing’s $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $750K). “We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.” Brilliant. Make sure to check out the graph of average global temperature vs. number of pirates.

  Friday August 19, 2005

I’d been given enough warning from friends who already saw Tim Burton’s take on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory that it would be weird. And creepy. And not as good as the original. I agree on all points.

Continue reading “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”

“Greg, I think we need to follow him.”

It’s shortly after the three-lane highway becomes a two-lane highway that we see the PT Cruiser cut across the dirt and bushes and through a hole in the barbed wire fence.

“Wait, let’s see if he makes it. Oh look, he’s slowing at the hole.”

We watch as he approaches the hole in the fence, and then the entire car bobs up, struggles for a moment, and then back over again to join the dirt road running parallel to the highway.

“That’s it. Follow!”

Continue reading “Dirt Road”

• In Next Incarnation, Just Call Him Diddy. “We had to move the P. We had to simplify it. Diddy is more personal. We are entering into the age of Diddy. It’s a new era.”

  Thursday August 18, 2005

• Fantastic Roger Ebert Quote about Deuce Bigalow. READ THIS!.

  Tuesday August 16, 2005

• Arms.

  Tuesday August 16, 2005

• MONDAY AFTERNOON INSPIRATION: Random 50s Design. I really like the drawings of the knight.

  Tuesday August 16, 2005

• Man forgets wife at Italy petrol station for 6 hrs.

  Friday August 12, 2005

Very cute and fun documentary. The movie focuses more on the mating and birth of Emperor Penguins rather than going for a broader view. There, I think that’s long enough of a review to justify posting the photo of the penguins. Make sure to check this one out.

• Titles Designed by Saul Bass. I remember thinking the titles for North by Northwest were sweet as hell.

  Thursday August 11, 2005