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Graduation Cap Hack.

powerdraw. He did it all in mspaint!

Moment of absurd Star Wars ad zen.

The natives get restless when I don’t post worthless links.

Worldwide response to ‘Piano Man’. From Basil.

When staff at the Medway Maritime Hospital gave him a pen and paper in the hope he would write his name, he drew a grand piano.

A preview of the…preview of Batman Begins that is going to be shown on Smallville tonight. This movie is going to rule.

Tips for improving your handwriting. This is going to help a lot with my scribbles.

Batman Begins international trailer. It continues to climb in the buenoness meter.
Not Bueno llllllllllllllllllll Bueno

Free Frostys at Wendy’s.

Bitty Browser

Experimental Gameplay. Fun little flash games.

Early Reviews Of New ‘Star Wars’ Are Positive. Hope continues to build…

Natalie Portman Is Bald. Yet still hot.

Obscure facts about Disneyland.

Scientology Losing Ground To New Fictionology. Haven’t had an Onion post in a while. This one is gold.

“Scientology is rooted in strict scientific principles, such as the measurement of engrams in the brain by the E-Meter,” Kurz said. “Scientology uses strictly scientific methodologies to undo the damage done 75 million years ago by the Galactic Confederation’s evil warlord Xenu—we offer our preclear followers procedures to erase overts in the reactive mind. Conversely, Fictionology is essentially just a bunch of make-believe nonsense.”

Self-Referential Aptitude Test. Something only true nerds will appreciate.

Han Solo in Carbonite. I wonder how long this took him to make.

Site was down earlier for unknown reasons. I should probably look into getting a backup of this site.

Serenity Trailer on Tuesday.

Fire - Can of Coke and a Chocolate Bar. Next time I have an hour to burn ( Heh heh. I made a pun.) I can try this.

Looks Like Batman Can Beat Up Superman. This guy says exactly what I was saying to everyone else after the latest photo of Superman in costume was released. On a related note, yet another Batman Begins poster has been released. I think this could be the best one yet.

Penguins in Airport Security. How cute.

Pac-Man Hat. How cool is this? Imagine if they had another version as a motorcycle helmet. I’d be drivin’ all over the divider lines gobbling them up.

Movie Gadget Friday: The Machine from Contact. Contact has to to be one of my favorite movies. Not exactly ground-breaking or innovative in any particular sense, but all around it’s a very solid film. I’m linking to this entry to point out comment #5, which brings up some interesting points in comparing the book (which I haven’t read) to the movie. Reading what the commenter says has me wanting to read the book.

The motivation wasn’t just “hi, how’s you doin’ time to go back now” - they want to know “God” and they thought our race has some special connection so they want to examine us to find out. They �have faith� in a greater being, and after the trip, so does Ellie (her major character arch in the book � from not believing in God because He took her Dad away from her when she was young to �if these super advanced aliens believe in something greater than themselves, what am I doing not believing�)

Follow-up on a previous post, looks like Schrader’s version of Exorcist: The Beginning will be getting a theatrical release after all. Shame I’ve never seen the original or I might be more excited about this.

Saved by the Bell History. That’s right, you know you want to read it. Lark Voorhies was quite the hottie.

Tango DropBox. Could be handy.

Real-Life Streetfighter. How creative.

How to Shuffle Cards.

Volume two of Flight is out soon. I previous mentioned the first volume in an earlier post, but never got around to getting it. Maybe I’ll get off my lazy butt and actually check it out this time. They’re also having a gallery show at Nucleus, some gallery I didn’t even know existed in Alhambra on Main St.

The new Nokia 8800 is sexy. I want.

Superman Teaser Poster. There’s too many posters I need to get now.

Pictures of Pennies.

State-of-the-art interactivity? Attacking the entrants of an interactive design competition, he makes some points that I whole-heartedly agree with.

A Coder in Courierland. A report from an ex-coder turned messenger.

How to really confuse your party guests.

Tricks of the Trade. Even though a lot of them don’t apply, they’re all still very clever.

Annie Leibovitz - “American Music”. These are some incredible photos. Digging the Ryan Adams, White Stripes, and Norah Jones portraits.

New Batman Begins Poster Revealed. I didn’t think they could top the teaser poster.

Lexon Sound Gum. Really digging the magnetic headphones idea. The Lexon site is very cool as well. The artsy design nerd in me wants to just buy everything they have.

Disgusting doggie poo on a computer. Ew.

Johansen Creates DRM-Free Interface to iTunes. Amazing that someone could actually make this, but I doubt it’s gonna stick around for long.

Will Wright Presents Spore… and a New Way to Think About Games. This is just amazing. The game sounds like everything Peter Molyneux has been attempting.

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I’m such a nerd that I looked up “poached eggs“. I don’t think I’ve ever actually had any poached eggs. I always get either scrambled or over-easy.

I wasn’t aware of this before, but apparently Exorcist: The Beginning went through some very drastic changes during production. The movie was originally directed by Paul Schrader, had been completely done and cut. Yet when it was viewed by the studio, they didn’t like it at all and hired Renny Harlin to completely reshoot the movie. Bloody News has an exclusive review of the Schrader version. I’m really interested on getting my hands on both to get a good comparison of two directors working with the same script.