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Pedro’s bike was up for sale on eBay. I bet the winner’s gonna take it off some sweet jumps.

Kingdom of Heaven. Looks really good, and maybe this one won’t disappoint like Troy did. What’s with Liam Neeson being in all these movies nowadays, I swore he announced he was going to retire way back.

I’ve been waiting all season for the opportunity to use that great Norm MacDonald quote. Surviving Christmas is available for purchase on DVD. This thing just came out in theaters on October 22nd!

Positive eBay ratings prove useful. People are using eBay ratings to show how reliable and trusworthy they are. Clever.

Giant robots in the backyard. I want a mecha.

City Lights Design Competition. 1st and 2nd place both look really good.

Firewheel Rubber Band Gun. This thing is so sweet.

On a related note, I really need to get around to redesigning my site, in particular to accomodate these daily links I always pop up that don’t necessariily warrant an entire post. Maybe before the New Year?

Home-Brew IPod Ad Opens Eyes.

Golden Globe Nominations. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind got nods in best musical or comedy, best actor, best actress, and best screenplay.

The international Batman Begins poster is far better than the domestic version.

Guinness “Surfer” commercial. They’ve got other good ones on this site as well.

Tool Time at Pixar. A special program was developed just for Brad Bird so that he could sketch over computer images and have them viewable over the intranet for the animators to work off of.

Ninjas killed my family. Way too funny. According to Boing Boing though, this sign has been spotted before.

Are you a good speller? I got an 18/23. A little rusty, I missed ones that I thought I knew for sure.

I chuckle everytime I see the new Jack in the Box Burger King commercials for the Sponegbob watches, playing off the old “I’m Spicy!” commercials. “What time is it!”

As Mr. Vassar kindly noted in my previous entry, I’m playing around with this new Konfabulator application, which inspired the Apple Dashboard.

It allows you to run several applets, and have them hidden away until a keystroke (in this case, F8) is pressed, bringing them all into view.

Konfabulator comes preinstalled with a picture frame widget, which conveniently points to the “My Pictures” folder and randomly rotates a photo every so often, and the “My Pictures” folder on my computer conveniently holds my unsorted babes collection. It’s like everytime I go to look at it, I get a new babe. Mandy Moore, Keira Knightley, Catherine Bell, Natalie Portman. It’s a surprise everytime! Desktop shot of Konfabulator in action for anyone interested.

Batman Begins Teaser Poster. I need this.

Project: The Game! Nice prank, but I don’t think it tops The Great Rose Bowl Hoax.

I’d better explain my absence for the past day or two. My computer crashed.

I did everything I could but it just went kaput on me for no reason. Wouldn’t boot up, couldn’t launch in safe mode, nothing. I ended up having to do a hard format on the baby to get it to come up again, and lost everything on it, including my nearly complete 50,000 word novel as a part of NaNo WriMo.

Alright, I lied. I didn’t even come close to reaching that 50,000 word goal. I think 50 words was more like it. Let’s not even talk about this or my lack of motivation.

On to happier thoughts - Links:

McRori One Man Live.

Fimoculous: Best of 2004. I believe I linked to this site last year as well, just a collection of year-end “best of” lists.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith trailer. Looks like a fun, pointless movie. Directed by Doug Liman, the same guy who did Bourne Identity, but not Bourne Supremacy. Stupid shaky cam.

Does the tango music/scene make anyone else think of True Lies?

Marijuana. Read the reviews.

A work that soars, and takes you with it. Clears your vision and leaves you hungry.

The weekend was rather uneventful, as was the Thanksgiving weekend in general. I blew a lot of money on stuff I don’t need (Yay consumerism) and played marathon sessions of Sid Meier’s Pirates! Sail around the Caribbean, plunder Spanish villages, duel Frenchmen, romance beautiful governer’s daughters, this game is so addicting. I’ll write more about it at another time.

Clips from The Life Aquatic Archives. Willem Dafoe is going to steal this movie. Everytime I see another clip it makes me want the soundtrack more and more.

The Criterion Collection Holiday 2004 Gift Set. It’s only $5,000.

Conan O’Brien: IT Tech Support in India. I was cracking up at the Bollywood part.

Waiter Rant: Se Habla Espanol. Brilliant.

Yuppies raised on a steady diet of Food Network bullshit want an opera singing food personality to reinforce their Williams Sonoma Catalog ideal of how the world should be. When it runs smack dab against the harsh world of restaurant economics and immigration it creates what my old sociology professor called “dissonance.”

Dissonance? I call it racist bullshit.

Cake, Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie on Stubbs soundtrack. Ben Kweller singing “Lollipop”? Death Cab singing “Earth Angel”? Wait a minute - these are all oldies! How sweet is this soundtrack going to be?

Michael Muller’s show “Superfamous” is at the Lo-Fi gallery through December 25th. I had no clue who he was, but a quick trip to his website will give a good idea. Love the Flash interface as well.

Colorstrology. Color theory applied to astrology. It’s always scary how “accurate” they can nail personalities. I’m Neptune Green, Pantome 14-6017

Chalk this one up under interesting new marketing ideas. Sony has put up billboards for their new portable, the PSP, in Tokyo subways, with actual working models of the PSP behind plexiglass. They’ve even got guards stationed to make sure nobody tries to steal them.

Recycline’s Preserve Toothbrush. 100% recyclable toothbrush. What’s neat is their subscription feature, allowing you to buy 4 at a time that can be delivered all at once or on a subscription base over 2, 3, 4 months at a time. I’m nerdy enough to consider getting this.

Craigslist has some great posts. Greatest. wanted. ad. ever.