Greedo Never Fired

Gabba Gabba Che! The EveryT has arrived!

2011-07-29T15:50:00.005-04:00

In the synergistic spirit of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup™, the Clock-Radio and the Industrial Whaling Harpoon / Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine [patent pending, Dimco Industries] we proffer to you the EveryT!

Tired of choosing among your t-shirts as to whether you want folks to know you support:

1) a shuttered New York City punk music landmark

2) a band that helped make the former a cultural landmark, all the while wanting to be sedated.

3) an English proto-speed metal band whose proclivity for narcotic accelerants is matched only by their brain crushing volume and the renowned wartiness of their front man.

4) a Communist revolutionary guerrilla doctor who rode a motorbike all through South America, helped Castro oust Batista from Cuba and ended up having his hands cut off by the CIA for his trouble?

Well now you don’t have to choose!

If you were to buy all these shirts separately you could pay up to $845! (Although we suspect the folk at the Mall saw us coming.)

And then if you wore them all at once you’d have to constantly rotate the top one so everyone could see all of them (we’re guessing it would get kinda toasty too.)

Also, you would look like a jackass.

Now you can look clever, spiffy AND stylin’ all in one quality garment. Our internationally renowned team of talented textile beautifiers have whipped up some top-drawer graphical alchemy and combined four (FOUR!!!!) iconic tees into one über-tee to rule them all.*

*Your ability to rule may vary.

We know you’re gonna want to look your best when Greenpeace™ takes a video of you enjoying a chocolate / vanilla (see? synergy again!) swirl waffle cone with jimmies right after you fire an explosive harpoon into the side of (one of the few remaining) Balene whales.

The Dimco Industrial Whaling Harpoon / Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine, the only explosive harpoon and dessert delivery device you’ll need.

Err, rather:

EveryT, the only T you’ll ever need.

Ever.

(Buy two though, so you can wear one and wash one)

Synergy!

CHECK IT OUT HERE EveryT.com

Donate to Tornado Victims By Downloading WINNING from iTunes. (Currently there is no way to donate to victims of the track itself.)

2011-05-10T15:02:00.003-04:00

I donated to tornado victims by buying the Charlie Sheen/Snoop Dog single WINNING. The above photo shows how to properly file the track once you have downloaded it.

Less painful way to donate: Text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10

Der Tzitung Has Issued an Apology and it is Nonsense

2011-05-09T20:29:00.003-04:00

By now you probably heard about the ultra-Orthodox Hasidic newspaper, Der Tzitung, which "photoshopped" Hillary Clinton and Director of Counter-terrorism Audrey Tomason out of this now iconic situation room photo.

Well, Der Tzitung has issued their explanation/apology and it does not fly with me.

A portion of the apology goes as follows

"Also present in the Situation Room were various high-ranking government and military officials including Secretary of State, the honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton and another female participant.Our photo editor realizing the significance of this historic moment, published the picture, but in his haste, did not read the "fine print" that accompanied the picture, forbidding any changes and published a picture omitting the female participants in the room"

Here is the problem "omitting the female participants."

I use Photoshop all day in my work and I have OMITTED many people from photographs. When you are "omitting" or erasing a person you are left with nothing underneath. A white human shaped space where that person used to be.

Der Tzitung did something we all know as "doctoring" a photograph. Removing the women and replacing them with an approximation of what was behind them. This is NOT an attempt to adhere to a religious custom. This was an attempt to deceive the reader. When you OMIT the women from the photograph you erase ink. When you "Photoshop out" the women you erase history and progress and the representation of something you are obviously afraid of.

AVATAR Available On DVD April Second. Unobtanium Still Worst Name Ever.

2010-04-06T20:11:00.004-04:00

I think deep down we all know there is no way this new element would have been named Unobtanium. But it is easy to criticize when you don't also offer an alternative. And I dare say its fairly obvious... Colbertium. Duh.

Large Hadron Collider Sucess!

2010-03-30T11:39:00.001-04:00

Cause you gotta smash stuff together to see what it does. That is how we do.
Learn More about the LHC

The Blue Chirpy T-Shirt

2010-02-04T18:59:00.002-05:00

I have just finished The Blue Chirpy T-Shirt. A shirt which salutes those (sometimes regrettable) times when you exit a bar or a party and it is no longer night yet not quite morning.

Check it out, vote for it, or even buy it here at MySoti.com

What's On My Kindle? (or Pimpin' J.scottgrand.)

2009-11-15T19:44:00.007-05:00

I don't mind reading tech articles, and emails sitting at my computer, but reading that I could actually enjoy must be done in proper comfort. So 1.5 paragraphs into a bit of writing from j.scottgrand I knew what I had to do. Cut, paste, save as .doc and email to my Kindle. Now I can go curl up with (a fraction of) a very good book. Keep it coming j.scott and I will keep pirating it as best I can.

The story is View from the St. Mark's Hotel-1990

His entire unapologetic blog is right HERE

Ask and Ye Shall Recieve (App Management in iTunes)

2009-09-09T13:23:00.005-04:00

Apple has introduced a way to arrange apps within iTunes! App Managemet!. Scroll down 3 posts and you'll see where they got the idea. ;)

At At Boo Boo Shirt Shows Up in a Bing Ad Featuring Anthony Bourdain of No Reservations

2009-09-01T18:43:00.004-04:00

Looks Like the At At Boo Boo or (Boo Boo Walker) shirt has hit the Travel Channel. In the still above we see it is very visible in this strange, sort of embedded, ad for Bing.com in which Bourdain and his staff research locations using Microsoft's new Bing.com. You can buy the shirt at Go Ape Shirts by the way.

The Warriors / The Wonder Wheel: A New Tee By Me At MySoti

2009-07-27T10:39:00.006-04:00

My latest T-Shirt. Based on a still from the first 30 seconds of The warriors. Available for sale now at MySoti.com

An iPhone Function I Would LOVE To See (or Application Organization Application)

2009-07-15T18:31:00.009-04:00

Now that I am up to six pages of apps I honestly need a better way to organize them than doing it on the phone itself. Using the iPhone to organize it's apps is like sorting the contents of six boxes. But you can only uncover one box at a time. AND any item moved must pass through all boxes between it's current box and it's final box. Geeze! Even explaining it is frustrating. Why cant I just have a nice drag and drop method within iTunes... like I have mocked up in the above image (click for larger.)

By the way No. 7 on this list helps the process, but not very much.

I for one DESPISE our ROBOT OVERLODS!

2009-06-21T15:28:00.009-04:00

Let's face it, our Robot overlords are going to be here soon enough. They will be massive and made of metal so all of us squishy, meat-bags will have to do what they say. But with this ANTI ROBOT CAPTCHA Tee you can at least proclaim your defiance to your fellow humans and the robots will never know.

VIEW IT/BUY IT

My iPhone 3.0 speaks Danish, Dansk, Denmark

2009-06-17T19:27:00.003-04:00

Is your iPhone language set to Danish now that you have updated to 3.0? There is a place in the Settings to change that, but if you don't seak Danish how do you get there? Here is how:

indstillinger>generelt>international>sprog>English

Easy peezy.

R2 DETROIT t-shirt is officially for sale at MYSOTI.com

2009-06-03T21:16:00.005-04:00

The only shirt badass enough to combine the discreetly badass droid + outright badass hockey team.
R2 D2 say hello to the Detroit Red Wings.
Click below for a closer look. (also, be a dear and sign up so you can vote for it, fenks)

Tattoogle (Fakest Tattoo Ever)

2009-05-17T23:52:00.005-04:00

Looks like my famous (vaguely popular google search result for best/worst tattoo) Tattoogle post wound up on reddit.com today. That got GNF about 5,000 hits tonight. As usual most of the discussion is REAL? or PHOTOSHOPPED? And I can tell you all it is indeed 'shopped.' The proof lies above.

Star Trek Movie? Sure Why Not.

2009-05-10T17:09:00.010-04:00

photo courtesy of trekcore.com

I am going to see the movie tonight or tomorrow. Just wanted to give props to some heroes before I did.

I do so with the above picture of Bill and Leonard (obviously NOT Kirk and Spock.) As well as the two Roddenberry quotes I most agree with:

"No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids—human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard."

"Why should a man give up the joy of ham and eggs if the technology will allow it?"

THUMBS UP. More action than I prefer in a sci-fi movie, but then most people like that.

Zombieville USA! GNF's Pick For Greatest iPhone Game Ever.

2009-04-16T23:56:00.006-04:00

If you have an iPhone you need this game. 15 weapons, great cartoon graphics, deceptively simple game play and all for $1.99. The ten dollar games should be this good. Set it on EASY and just go nuts. That's what I do. (above: I took the liberty of recreating the main character in higher res. Oh and naming him Zack.)
Video of game play and link to iTunes located HERE.
THE UPDATE HAS ARRIVED: HERE (iTunes Link.)

NEXT STOOOREEEEY! (BattleNation?) (Diggalactica?)

2009-03-15T14:53:00.011-04:00

DiggNation and Battlestar Galactica collide. (click image for larger.)

Yeah when Tigh and the old man sat down i raised one eyebrow. When I realized they both had a drink in their hands I raised the other. And when they both lifted the drinks... I leapt out of bed and got to work.
DIGG IT!.

Who's Watching The Watchmen? (That'd be me)

2009-03-06T11:55:00.001-05:00

Leaving now for opening day matinee.

Flickr Supports Video Now. (and wikked cool Nitinol wire)

2009-03-03T12:10:00.006-05:00

Thats right. This video is hosted on Flickr. Click off of a play button to see. Pretty sweet huh? The wire and the videos on Flickr. (Also, Pro users can upload HD.)

R2-D Batteries. (Feel free to write a better one)

2009-02-27T00:20:00.003-05:00

Since We are on a bit of a Star Wars streak here, let's just keep it going... From the flawlessly flawed mind of Bill McMullen comes another stroke of evil genius. See his work HERE.

Greedo Couldn't Have Fired (G is for Greedo)

2009-02-23T23:59:00.004-05:00

Cause he is just too damned adorable!

Joe Wight is the artist. I simply stumbled upon him in Google. His Gallery lives HERE.

And he has an adorable little Star Wars buddy for nearly every letter of the alphabet.

GREEDO NEVER FIRED (THE T-SHIRT)

2009-02-15T18:50:00.006-05:00

The GREEDO NEVER FIRED shirt is now available at Etsy.com.com. So wether you are a fan of the blog or just another Lucas hater, head over there and have a look.
(by the way its been available since long before HAN SHOT FIRST. Which is lame when you think about it... How could Han have shot FIRST if GREEDO NEVER FIRED!)
There's a few other gems there as well so poke around a bit.

At least we are thinking about eachother

2009-02-09T19:27:00.004-05:00

I don't know if there is a name for it, but people (people like me) have been using Google's predictive qualities to turn a mirror on society. Why do this? I don't know. "Why is google so..."
Try "is it a sin to", "why is britney" etc. Let me know if you've got a good one.

Yippy, Yappy, Yahoooooo E-Reader or... Print Is Dead or Amazon Kindle 2 Is Here

2009-02-07T19:44:00.010-05:00

Looks like Kindle 2 will be announced on Monday. Mine was ordered in November so I could not be more excited. BoyGeniusReport.com sums it up nicely with great pics (Man is it slim!), Price (Unchanged) and availability (24th of February.) I know I just told you everything but go to BoyGenius for the pretty pics.

Drink Your School! Stay In Milk!

2009-01-25T16:24:00.005-05:00

Easily the greatest item on Etsy.com to date. He is for sale, but does come with a warning... "Do not lock him in a warehouse with a torch, tires and scrap metal. He'll build a fully functioning tank and come get you ass."

Buy him here.

Also available at Etsy... 9x12 wee boba print.

Pixelated Building

2009-01-23T16:02:00.003-05:00

This is a building on the Lower East Side near Delancey and Orchard. Ain't it cool.

KHAAAAAAAN!

2009-01-14T17:53:00.004-05:00

Ricardo Montalban
1920 - 2009

The Love Mattress

2009-01-14T17:22:00.006-05:00

As If Being In Bed With Someone Wasn't Already Awesome Enough... Mehdi Mojtabvi, gives us the Love Mattress, the creation of a true romantic if there ever was one. And, if you click the link you'll see it is also handy for tucking in your ginormous feets.

The Google Search Engine is Officially Flawless

2008-12-02T19:24:00.003-05:00

Behold the predictive accuracy of the Google Toolbar
Get your own incredibly accurate Google Toolbar right here.

A Black Man's Dream Realized!

2008-11-11T17:26:00.005-05:00

Makers of The Family Guy finally answer Cleveland's burning question... "When's it gonna be my turn?!"

Greedo Never Fired Refuses To Take Sides.

2008-11-03T17:29:00.003-05:00

So we simply wish both candidates good-luck.

My Insurance Company Is Going REALLY green!

2008-10-30T11:19:00.010-04:00

When I received a policy from my insurance company it was printed on both sides of 30 pages. With that in mind, I suppose, they also included information on how to "save trees" by signing up for an "ePolicy." So strong was their desire to "save trees" that they saw fit to reiterate it 17 times. (see below)
Now, lets not get all TheConsumerist.com about this. They would surely use the headline "Chubb Hates Trees. Includes 17 pamphlets with its policies." They love to portray isolated incidents as company policies. I am sure some kid was told he could call it quits for the day once he used up the pamphlets. And Voila. Still, I thought it was amusing enough to share... I mean LOOK AT ALL THOSE TREES! :)

Banksy? Is That You?

2008-10-19T22:07:00.000-04:00

Spotted this on Houston (NYC) this weekend. Looks like Banksy. But so big? I guess I will have answers soon enough.

And You Thought They Just Put The Soda On The Shelf

2008-10-18T22:51:00.000-04:00

This is a chart that lets the market know how and where to display the Coca-Cola products properly. (click the photo to enlarge)

Singapore Plans To Taunt Godzilla With 26 Storey Dagwood Sandwich

2008-10-17T17:00:00.003-04:00

The EDITT Tower (“Ecological Design In The Tropics”) will be built in Singapore and will undoubtedly lure monsters from around the world to feast on its inhabitants and the crispy lettuce that surrounds them.
Thanks Freshhome.com.

Were You Caught "Drunk In Penn"?

2008-09-23T17:49:00.003-04:00

These guys apparently troll Penn Station late night and early morning snagging covert photos of the bridge-and-tunnelers who were "smart" enough to ride the rails home. Drunk In Penn.

Benders Game. Ha! Get It? Bender's Game!

2008-09-17T19:21:00.003-04:00

A third Futurama DVD is on the way and it goes a little something like this...

Walk On The Pavements

2008-08-28T17:11:00.008-04:00

Every so often the above gem shows up on the internet and all the little angst ridden, revolutionary wanna-bees line up in the comments to say “sooo true” and “more so now than ever” and I get irate every time.
So this time it will be ME posting it and it will be ME who comments on it. You are welcome to comment as well, but I was first. This time.

GO TO WORK
While growing up discover something you enjoy doing and are good at and find someone who needs that something done and arrange for them to pay you to do it.

SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL
If you choose to have kids seek out the best way to fill their minds with useful information so they might have a fighting chance in a world where knowledge is power.

FOLLOW FASHION
Wear clothes because other wise you will die of exposure. Wear the clothes you find comfortable. Wear the clothes you find help represent who you are. Wear the clothes that make your girlfriend grab your ass. And if your choices do not follow fashion... fashion will likely follow you.

ACT NORMAL
And remember that society accepts a million definitions of normal. Act normal with some creativity and you could be as wildly popular as Marilyn Manson. Or just twirl about with reckless abandon. Some will call you an ass, others a free-spirit, most will adjust their path to avoid you and 1 or 2 may join you.

WALK ON PAVEMENTS
Walk wherever you like. Through fields, through puddles, through alleys, or god forbid on pavements. But best to walk where you wont be shot or run over.

WATCH TV
Watch Carl Sagan loving and explaining the never ending Cosmos. Watch how things are made. Watch leaders speak. Watch Jon Stewart lampoon them. And why not... laugh along with a laugh track now and then. Or even choose sides between Lauren and Heidi.

SAVE FOR YOUR OLD AGE
In a world where goods and services are mainly acquired monetarily consider setting aside some money or assets that can work for you when you are too old to work for yourself.

OBEY THE LAW
Do what you think is right and fair and just. If you are a decent person 90 percent of the time you will find you are obeying the law inadvertantly. As for the other 10 percent. Disobey loudly and proudly and with others who agree with you. You may one day change that law.

REPEAT AFTER ME: The message in the photo was shorter but perhaps only because the author only managed to steal one can of paint. (The writer may be free, but paint is not.)

Pluto Is Many Things To Many People, But It Aint No Planet

2008-08-10T16:14:00.009-04:00

Looks like the old debate has returned and astronomers are once again arguing over Pluto's planet status.

I personally would like to see Pluto remain in its "NOT A PLANET" status. But for a somewhat unorthodox reason. I often use the fact that Pluto is no longer considered a planet as a way to point out one of the important differences between science and religion. It is a great example of new technology... providing new information... that causes the scientific communty to admit fault in it's existing information. No adherence to tradition, no injured pride, no accusations of heresy and no excommunication. You just inform the world that billions of books, posters, documentaries and science fair models are WRONG. And when the world replies "COME ON!" Science replies "TOUGH SH*T" this is science.

And if you are thinking "Hey man Pluto should be a Planet, It always has been, its an accepted fact." Well then you have missed your calling. You should have been a church elder in the 1600s. You could have helped to stifle the work of Galileo Galilei. Tradition has no place in science.

And with that in mind, if you can cut Pluto some slack because of 70 years of planet status then what are you gonna do for the geocentric model of the solar system which held sway for SIX THOUSAND years.

But don't take it from me. Take it from The Chairman of the Board (of The Planetary Society) Neil deGrasse Tyson

Free iPhone iDial Wallpaper

2008-07-02T18:37:00.005-04:00

A wallpaper for your iPhone/iPod-Touch which combines the newness of Leopard and the oldness of the rotary dial. Click on the GreedoNever version pictured above or grab the BLANK VERSION. Customize it or use it as is. Enjoy.
design by davehorowitz.com

Hammond Of Texas. You Will Be Missed.

2008-07-02T14:23:00.005-04:00

Don S. Davis. Better know in my (tiny) circles as Base Commander, Major General George Hammond has passed away (on June 29, 2008.) He was 65 years old. Learn more HERE.

Crash Cab

2008-06-16T20:21:00.004-04:00

For some reason us geeks enjoy posting pictures of crashed computer screens "in the wild." Like THIS boot sequence in Time Square. So in the same spirit here is a "fatal application error" in a cab on Avenue A. If you must ask I guess the answer would be "because it's there."

Bacon Bloody Mary (at the Double Down Saloon)

2008-05-01T22:11:00.004-04:00

The Bacon Bloody Mary (and Bacon Martini) of the famous Double Down Saloon (NYC & Vegas)
Poster by: DaveHimself

The Rick Roller Ball (obnoxious goes real-time)

2008-04-25T15:53:00.007-04:00

Just set the timer and Rick Roll this 12 sided 80s pop landmine into the vicinity of some unsuspecting noobs and as soon as one of them is naïve enough to pick it up... BLAMMO they get RICK ROLLED!
That’s right. All the obnoxious fun of Rick Rolling in a real-world format guaranteed to amuse you and annoy them for hours... Well at least three minutes and thirty seconds.

Now with FOUR fun settings: Landmine, Hot Potato, Alarm Clock & STEALTH MODE!

CLICK HERE TO ORDER NOW!

Digg this story.

iPod ad + boredom + Photoshop© = iPow!

2008-04-24T14:00:00.003-04:00

I don't hate iPods. But I do hate every individual represented in every iPod ad.
Digg this.

B is for BANTHA

2008-04-01T10:07:00.007-04:00

We don't do cute here at GNF. It just ain't dignified. But wait till you see Admiral Ackbar representin' for the letter 'A' in this Star Wars ABCs series. I mean... he's just so...

Arthur C. Clarke

2008-03-19T17:01:00.002-04:00

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

Eliot Spitzer Jersey

2008-03-12T18:06:00.007-04:00

GNF reader BG recommended I create this T-Shirt in honor of Elliot Spitzer. They are 4 grand each... and for goodness sake PAY CASH!

9EVxI0uGzeY is the the new eBGIQ7ZuuiU

2008-02-24T12:44:00.003-05:00

Actually, it isn’t but it should be. IMHO the Optimum Online Spanish friendly, beach rap commercial is the most terrifying song to get stuck in your head of all time. “what the hell is he talking about” you say? I refer, of course, to the insidious Rick Roll. If you just clicked on that link you sort of got “Rick Rolled.” The way it really works is someone provides you a link to something you really want to see and BAM you are hit with the elctro-tom intro of Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley instead. To be led to that video against your will is to be Rick Rolled. I firmly believe the I/O Digital Cable song could do more damage.

On a completely unrelated note: Lindsay Lohan did it with by a pirate, a ninja, and a monkey... video here.

My ReplayTV (Tivo) Completes Me

2008-02-14T12:06:00.006-05:00

My ReplayTV DVR knows what TV I watch, and how much TV I watch, so it also knows I wont be getting any Valentines Day cards. With that in mind, on this loneliest of the Hallmark holidays, it slips me a little reminder that if nothing else my TV loves me.

Expensive Java... Now With Free Java Script.

2008-02-11T16:43:00.000-05:00

Starbucks announced today that they are switching from T-Mobile to AT&T and providing free WiFi to their customers for 2 hours a day. Wont be long before we are skipping the line by ordering with our iPhones... Maybe something like THIS!
Okay, pretty lame post, but I had that great Laughing Man style screen grab I just had to use.

WE ARE ANONYMOUS (And So Can You)

2008-02-10T18:29:00.001-05:00

Unless you spent the last month in a sequestered jury hotel room you probably know that a large and growing group of anonymous “hackers”/internet users/concerned citizens have been waging war against The “Church” of Scientology. They call themselves Anonymous. They are making life miserable for the greedy group of nut jobs through various methods. Some small... like faxing and re-faxing sheets of black paper to all Scientology fax numbers. Some Large... Like protests outside of various Scientology headquarters.

So if you plan to organize or join a protest in your area, why not do so with hacker-chic stylish anonymity. Just click on the 2 halves above and print them out, over lap em, mount em and cut off the excess. The result is a replica of the digital mask worn by the ultimate hacker with a cause.... The Laughing Man of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Fame. I have replaced The Laughing Man’s J.D. Salinger quote “"I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes." with one borrowed from the original Anonymous message... “We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.” Enjoy.

UPDATE: CUT EYE HOLES PEOPLE! We have already had some accidents!

Fax From Your iPhone! For FREE! (Well, For 30 Days)

2008-01-23T22:10:00.000-05:00

Faxing from your iPhone is now as easy as 1, 2, 3!

A little company called eFax.com exists to help you receive and send faxes from your computer/laptop. The beauty is they have a way to send faxes from your iPhone as well. And it comes in a FREE 30 day trial.

1. Create the text you wish to fax in an email
2. Send that email to the phone number you wish to fax plus @efaxsend.com (ex. 555-555-1212@efaxsend.com)

Hmm, I guess its actually as easy as 1, 2.

Let me also say that I know damn well this will work on any phone/PDA that can send an email, but I’ll be damned if I am gonna give up all that tasty iPhone traffic.

On a side note, a nifty little fax prank that GNF does not condone goes as follows. Get yourself a sheet of black paper. Fax it to someone. They run out of ink. Mean right? So do not do it!

On an entirely different subject, if you are interested in Scientology you can contact them at this number (727) 441-8849. Oh, wait never mind. That's their fax number.

Another Monkey On The Run

2008-01-05T20:46:00.000-05:00

GNF fan 'Sunshine' spotted this ever so cute/sad sign on Irving (in NYC) and beamed over a pic. I blurred the numbers 'cause teh innernets am rufless. So if you've seen Fluffy contact me in the comments.

Plea To Gizmodo: Please change the color of your search button. I am trying to quit. Thanks.

2007-12-28T13:48:00.001-05:00

Visit Gizmodo Here

Greenpeace: "Mister Splashy Pants the whale - you named him, now save him"

2007-12-11T18:27:00.000-05:00

Looks like the 'whale name' Mr. Splashy Pants won! Greenpeace is now encouraging us to save him.

To learn how to save a whale named Mr. Splashy Pants...
go HERE!

Okay, all kidding aside to actually save him go Here

Oh, and that neat button is available here: http://www.cafepress.com/greenpeace

Vote Mister Splashy Pants in '08

2007-11-27T15:10:00.000-05:00

Greenpeace is having a whale naming competition. "More than 11,000 possible whale names were submitted but we are now down to the last 30 possible whale names..."
No signing up, no nuthin', just ROCK THE VOTE! It would be wrong for me to influence your decision, but, er... um... COME ON! "VOTE"

Thank You Science For What We Are About To Receive

2007-11-15T04:18:00.000-05:00

In promoting their “How It’s Made Marathon” The Science Channel recommends the following...

“This Thanksgiving, when you’re doling out the gratitude, don’t forget to thank science for everything on the table.”

You heard what the man said and thats The Science Channel talking. Finally, some rational thinking. Thank God. DAMMIT!
Way Ahead Of You Science Channel. I am SO volunteering to say grace this year. :)
Marathon begins 7pm on Thanksgiving.

When Attenborough Says So... it IS so.

2007-11-05T17:36:00.000-05:00

An Ad That Resonates With This Viewer (or My Ad's On Vibrate For You)

2007-11-01T19:20:00.000-04:00

There’s this company called Marathon Oil Corporation and they’ve been running an ad like crazy. It’s standard stuff following in the foot steps of British Petroleum. Female employee says “I’m proud of what we are doing here in Garyville, LA... cleanest, safest, newest...” You know the drill. I understand softening the image of an oil corporation and have no comment on the tactic.

But I brought up the ad for some damn reason right? Right. About seven seconds into the ad there is a note that seems a little out of place in the pretty little background melody. It’s sort of a low tone. What is so cool about this tone is how well it mimics the sound of a cell phone vibrating in a jacket pocket somewhere. Every time the commercial plays I look up and wonder where my phone is and why the ringer isn’t on. Then I realize “its that damn Marathon commercial again.” Nice Job Marathon/whomever made your ad. It is a total attention grabber. I wish I could play the ad for you folks here, but alas I cannot find it and it might not come across as well on your computers audio.

I guess I am mainly curious if anyone else has noticed the phenomenon. If ya have leave a comment. Thanks.

UPDATE: Turns out Marathon has always been a forerunner in television advertising... "1963 Marathon Ad"

The New Honda Fit Ads Stink

2007-10-17T16:16:00.000-04:00

Is Honda serious with this ad? THE SUPER GAS-PASSER? I mean isn’t that the guy who used to fart God Save The Queen on the Howard Stern Show.
Well, we are either looking at one of those hilarious car company blunders like poor sales of the Chevy Nova in Spain where No-Va translates to No Go. (never really happened)... Or this is an attempt to go viral and get unsuspecting, sucker bloggers to draw attention to Honda's new Fit...
DAMMIT!

Expect A Lot More Mac-Ups

2007-09-26T21:20:00.000-04:00

It looks like one of the things I adore about Apple products has come back to bite me in the arse. Simplicity of design. The iPhone is the epitome of simplicity. Turn it off and you’ve got an onyx slab with a chrome rim. This simplicity of design has made it possible for every Tom, Dick and Harry (with Photoshop, "The Gimp" or MS Paint) to be able to do a “mock-up” of an Apple product with little to no effort. With that in mind I have done a “Mac-Up” of the iSwitch.

Boston Continues To Mistake LEDs for WMDs

2007-09-21T17:22:00.000-04:00

Boston is at it again. An MIT student wearing a home made LED T-Shirt (NOT pictured above. thats just my take) has been arrested at gunpoint and faces "bomb hoax" charges.
It is however unfair to be exclusively angry with the city of Boston. In Google News countless headlines proclaim things like "Woman arrested at Logan Airport with fake bomb strapped to chest." Here is a link to a much more accurate headline "MIT Sophomore Arrested at Logan For Wearing LED Device."

Digg On The Word

2007-09-20T02:10:00.000-04:00

If I haven't already mentioned it. Digg.com is site I use to find many of the precious nuggets of whale vomit the Internet has to offer. Tonight Digg.com was given the distinction of being mentioned on the left sided, left side of "The Word" on the Colbert Report. Sure it was used to call out the users of Digg.com as lazy, armchair activists, but we aint proud. \o/ digg.com \o/

Is Amex Protected From Unexpected Problems. or Bashing The Tina Fey Amex Ad. or Get A Job Dave You're Scaring Us.

2007-09-16T18:43:00.000-04:00

Tina Fey AmEx commercial
Uploaded by nycspitters

Did you ever see an ad on television and it just doesn't get its message across. Maybe I just watch too much TV... No, I definitely watch too much TV, but these problems in ads always catch my attention. Sometimes an important line is hard to understand or the message is lost in bad editing, but most times I see the ad again a few days later and its been repaired and I think “nice, they noticed it too.”

Well, Amex’s new Tina Fey ad is chock full of these errors and yet it keeps running as is. I am amazed at how faulty this ad is and just had to run through the list of what needs to be fixed.

“Change the bear to a shark.” This line is mumbled quickly and I doubt most are catching what it is on the first listen.
“These are my divorce papers.” Beside the line being swallowed. The joke is that the papers were not handed to Tina, but she has grabbed them out of habit and comments on how funny they are, but the poor cut in which she takes the papers does not illustrate well that they were not intended for her review. We might piece together the joke better if the closing line “they’re hilarious” was more comprehendible.
“Miss Fey, the snake wrangler got bit again.” Another line delivered quickly and clumsily.
“Which flute too den a moopie sketch.” After ten attempts I am still unsure what this guy is saying. Obviously “which flute” is all that matters, but I cant help wonder what comes between those words and “sketch.”
Finally, Amex calls to ask Tina if she used the card to purchase 14,000 racquet balls. Ok, nice of them to call, but are we supposed to be impressed at their ability to catch such an outlandish charge? More racquet balls than Tina could use in her lifetime? (at 5 balls a weekend for the next 50 years)

Yes, this is all nitpicking, but I love Amex. (I will love them even more when they get me back 200 bucks back for my iPhone purchase) I expect more from them. I also love Tina Fey. She deserves better. Amex's Ellen Degeneres ad was flawless and even won an Emmy. Pull it together guys. This kind of shoddy work makes me think you may be slipping.

T-Shirts And Stuff

2007-09-13T14:48:00.001-04:00

“A long time ago... You ran out of clean shirts. Let your geek flag fly with these awesome nerdy tees.”

That’s the headline? Really? “A long time ago... You ran out of clean shirts?” No wonder this is their last issue.
According to the right-hand corner of the October issue of STUFF Magazine they are calling it quits... But not before FEATURING my At-At Boo Boo (or as its legally called Boo Boo Walker) smack dab in the middle of their STAR WEARS piece. Sweet action! (Sweet Action, now that was a mag. Where the hell did they go?)

The Star Wars based Boo Boo Walker t-shirt is available in the form of tees, and hoodies at Go Ape Shirts.

CBGB Founder, Hilly Kristal Dies at Age 75

2007-08-29T15:51:00.000-04:00

"Hilly was a father to so many of us whacky punk rockers.

We'll all miss him very, very much. Thanks for everything Hilly.

A private memorial service is planned. A public memorial will be held
at a later date. Contributions in Hilly's honor may be made in his
name to the American Cancer Society or to the Hilly Kristal Foundation for
Musicians and Artists (168 Second Avenue, PMB 207, New York, NY 10003)."

Post stolen verbatim from Richard Bucchus' Bicycle Diaries.

The Peter Griffin Emoticon

2007-08-28T12:15:00.000-04:00

Just when you thought there were no more possible emoticons I give you The Peter Grifficon!
8u)3
The discovery took place when I attempted to put a beard on a smiley using the number sign and neglected to hit the shift key.

StrasseWaffe (or Google Street View Troop Surge)

2007-07-17T16:11:00.001-04:00

You know Google Street View means business when you see them amassing a fleet 30 strong. This is merely the squadron of CCCCs (Chevy Cobalt Camera Cars) that happened to get spotted and reported to Gizmodo.com. Who knows what armies are being amassed by Google in the dark corners of the globe. My advice to you all is to remember to look left then right and left again to check for CCCCs before you... Exit porn shops and strip joints, pay drug dealers and hookers or even scratch/pick your nose for that matter.

Walking On Water (Environmental Infraction From Ralph Lauren)

2007-06-25T20:08:00.001-04:00

The Manhattan Ralph Lauren Rugby store (why the word rugby even enters into it is beyond me) has got a whole lot of nerve when it comes to dressing their stores windows. I enjoy the convenience of bottled water and buy it often, but at this point it is fairly common knowledge that imported bottled water has a terrible impact on the environment. So who could possibly think it is reasonable to use 256 bottles of the stuff as window dressing for their pretentious store? I guess the same folks who think a window with 24 box fans running all day every day is also a great idea.

Get Over Yourself (Pale Blue Film)

2007-06-06T14:03:00.000-04:00

Carl Sagan’s words. Clips from 64 films. Music by Mogwai. And a single photo of a “pale blue dot” taken by Voyager I from 4 billion miles away. These things combine to provide us with perhaps more perspective than we can possibly bare.

Thank you Pale Blue Films.

GOOGLE MAPS STREET VIEW! (Or The Google Has Landed!)

2007-05-29T14:21:00.000-04:00

My friend RR and I always talked about driving around Manhattan with a camera on our roof, crisscrossing every street snapping photos until we had a virtual, walk-thru map of the city. Now, nearly 10 years later BEHOLD Google Maps STREET VIEW. Just go to maps.google.com. Click on STREET VIEW, zoom in enough to pick a street outlined in blue and BLAMMO you are on that street. And once you have planted your virtual feet on the virtual street you can choose a direction and start walking. I don't know what cities are completed but Manhattan, New York is and Portland, Maine is not. Oh my science this is cool!
By the way that’s the NYC Hell’s Angels Club House up there on the right. (click pic for larger)

At At Boo Boo Doing It On The Paper (Happy 30th Star Wars) FREE WALLPAPERS

2007-05-25T03:47:00.000-04:00

Hey 30 years of Star Wars! Holy crap I am ancient. But I am cool too. So I am blogging about the 30 years of Star Wars. Okay, I’m not cool either. Regardless I would like to do my part and give something back. The links below will take you to the Free At At Boo Boo Walker Wallpapers. My own design which was converted into a T-shirt by GoApeShirts.com. There are no ads or logos on these wallpapers so just download and enjoy on me.

2 Styles available in 2560x1600, 1280x1024 and 1600x1200.
Art Style 1280x1024
Art Style 1600x1200
Art Style 2560x1600
Real Style 1280x1024
Real Style 1600x1200
Real Style 2560x1600

Tattoogle (Best/Worst Tattoo Ever)

2007-05-24T11:35:00.000-04:00

Oh my dear, dear friend. What have you done? I said get something Geek Chic not Geek FREAK! I wonder where she will put Yahoo!

Make it. Print it. Pack it. F#@k it.

2007-05-21T13:08:00.000-04:00

I have decided to post this picture in lieu of an elaborate shooting spree I was planning. If you’ve ever been to a Kinko’s you know the feeling.

Dave Chappelle knows what I’m talking about... Here (skip ahead a bit)

"So Close, So Close, Yet So Far Away"

2007-04-24T17:40:00.000-04:00

Everybody is so excited about Gliese 581! The headlines say things like... “Scientists find most Earth-like planet yet!”
And they go on to say things like... "this planet will most probably be a very important target of future space missions."

Really? Future space missions? Maybe EXTREMELY distant future space missions. Do the people writing this crap have any notion how far away this planet is? First keep this in mind: so far our record for traveling in space is 1.3 billion miles. (And that's in orbit.) Now look, a light year is about 6 trillion miles. So we are talking about a planet 120 Trillion miles away. A distance I regrettably believe we will never ever come close to traveling. And yet 120 Trillion miles is a laughably short distance to travel and expect to find the incredible combinations of factors that can produce life. Looking to Gliese 581 for life is akin to looking for the holy grail in your pockets.

Don't get me wrong. I say keep looking, keep reaching, dreaming, spending whatever it takes. But I just want to remind everyone that our sun is like a grain of sand on an inconceivably large beach and we haven't made it a mentionable fraction of the distance to even our neighboring grain of sand.

Read about it at World-Science.net

Best Description Of War Ever

2007-04-12T02:16:00.000-04:00

The following is an exerpt from Slaugherhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut who has died at age 84. The book is about a guy named Billy Pilgram who has become dissjointed in time and does not experience time linearly as we do. At some point Billy watches a WWII film on the TV in reverse... From end to beginning with this simple yet wonderful description. I had to share it. (again)

American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.

When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

What's Another Word For Thesaurus?

2007-03-29T17:45:00.000-04:00

Turns out the Dictionary/Thesaurus widget on my Mac is a bit opinionated. I love it.
Check out the Thesaurus' sample sentence.

Reality Virtualy

2007-03-15T21:07:00.000-04:00

What the? Is this some unfinished CGI? Nope. Wonder woman’s car? Nope, it’s a 1:1 scale Subaru Impreza wire frame sculpture by British artist Benedict Radcliffe and in no uncertain terms it freakin’ rules! More pics HERE.

“Not Bird, Nor Plane, Nor Even Frog... No Wait It IS A FROG!"

2007-03-05T15:04:00.000-05:00

Looks like Go Ape Shirts has another winning t-shirt on its hands. Superfrog Found! is a tee by Blair Sayer and Graye Smith. I have already ordered mine. I suggest you do the same. And for those of you who don’t get the headline here is the full original quote:

"Not bird, nor plane, nor even frog, it's just little 'ole me, Underdog!"

GE Uses DVRs To Make Commercials LONGER!

2007-02-25T16:39:00.000-05:00

During SNL last night there was a GE commercial. It was a sort of nauseating, CGI, 'super frog's eye view' journey through how GE makes life better for everyone. At the very end a half a dozen frames went by so fast that their content was imperceptible. So of course my ReplayTV (Tivo like DVR that actually came first) is put into action and viewing the portion frame by frame I was treated to the story of The Frog Prince as told by the frog or The Ugly Princess. More interestingly GE has decided to say “So you’ve got a device that can skip commercials... Bet we can make you watch our commercial even longer.” My hat is off to GE. I had been waiting for some DVR countering innovation. As I mentioned HEREover a year ago. Oh, and GE has details here HERE

Gimme Some Credit

2007-02-08T14:13:00.000-05:00

You know you did a good job parodying a genre when a song you wrote for an imaginary band which would eventually become an imaginary super band gets picked up for an actual American Express commercial. Gimme Some Money is a song by The Thamesmen, a band that never existed and went on to never actually be Spinal Tap. Sweet.

Thamesmen performing Gimme Some Money on GoogleVideo

Why Didn’t I Think Of That? OH WAIT I DID! The Upside Down Cell phone

2007-02-05T23:58:00.000-05:00

I had a bad feeling as soon as I saw the words “Irish inventor patents upside down cell phone” on Digg.com. I clicked the link and just as I suspected the picture at Core77.com showed me what I came up with almost 3 years ago. Oh well at least I have a record of it... Dammit! Now that I look at Blogger and Flickr (where I uploaded my picture to) I see that the dates are editable in both cases. Oh well you will have to take my word on it.
Where I wrote about it on GNF.
Where I posted a picture on flickr.com

Come Together. Right Now.

2007-02-05T16:32:00.000-05:00

Looks like Apple Computer (as in Apple Inc., as in Macs) and Apple Corps as in (Where advertisers go for Beatles songs that sell cars and sneakers) have settled their pesky trademark dispute. You can read about it HERE at BusinessWeek.com. But if you are clicking that link to see if you can finally download Revolver off of iTunes don’t bother. The two Apples may have kissed, but they have not made-up. How 'Bout Them Apples!

Aqua Teen Terror Force

2007-01-31T17:33:00.000-05:00

Ha! Look at that. Now that is effective marketing! Way too effective perhaps. Adult Swim of Cartoon Network scared the crap out of Boston today. Some simple "Light Brite style" boards were scattered around half a dozen cities to promote Aqua Teen Hunger Force (more likley their upcoming movie.) The boards laid undisturbed in Boston for 3 weeks and then suddenly the calls started coming in. My guess is either someone decided to help "blow up" the campaign. Or someone who didn't like the campaign was hoping to make trouble for the company responsible. The story is here at The Bostonist

UPDATE: Innocent victims of uneccesary bomb scare lose all of my respect by portraying themselves as complete asses at press confrence. See it here.

SIRRY LABBITS

2007-01-29T15:00:00.000-05:00

I could not help but go for the evil bunny trifecta today. With that in mind I present to you Japanese musical mad-scientists...

DEATH RABBITS! WARNING: Direct link to fairly harmless MySpace Page.

If you dare sample a track I recommend Kichiku Hitsugi Etsuhari COMPLEX. It is awesome... or horrible... I am not sure. We can only hope that they are sponsored by a army of hair care companies. This concludes my pointless Death Rabbit series. Good night and good humor.

More Death Rabbits

2007-01-26T15:09:00.000-05:00

Witness the lapin carnage that is ODE TO JOY!!!!!!

Brought to you by Project K

Cute And Deadly

2007-01-25T23:48:00.000-05:00

Frisky Dingo is the best thing from Adult Swim (Cartoon Network) since Venture Brothers. All 13 episodes are available on iTunes. Two bucks each or buy the season for 14.99.

Direct iTunes Link

Be All That You Can Be

2007-01-22T17:56:00.000-05:00

I am a graphic designer so I can print up a believable business card for any purpose nearly as fast as Jim Rockford. And yet I have never had a good reason to do so, but if you are shadier than me and find yourself needing to come across as an official in the fields of... Corrections, Highway Patrol, Homeland Security, Police, Security Private, or Sheriff. This site seems ready to oblige.

gfx.ecardbuilder.com (CAUTION: link goes directly to official cards.)

Am I going to order any? Hell no! I am probably already looking at an unsettling visit from guys with actual business cards just for posting this story.

Why Daddy Why?!

2007-01-19T14:50:00.000-05:00

I was under the impression that geeks and nerds were really hitting their stride in the public eye. Terms like “Geek-Chic,” celebrities like Jack Black and Demetri Martin all had me thinking we were getting some respect. Then I get a slap in the face from GoDaddy.com. In a place where a geek should feel safe and in his element (a domain registry website) I was brutally attacked.

GoDaddy.com (as well as other companies) makes suggestions when the URL you are trying to snag is already taken. You try HobbitFans.com and they reply “HobbitFans.com is already taken. How about HobbitHome.com or HobbitSite.com?. It’s a helpful feature I suppose, but when you search GeekNerd.com and get DorkLoser.com as a suggested alternate well that’s just hurtful. >sniff<

Verizon... Free At Last, Free At Last...

2007-01-16T15:50:00.000-05:00

Let’s say you find yourself trying to get out of your Verizon contract. Why? I don’t know. Let’s say you want to switch to a cooler phone that doesn’t work on their network. What phone? I don’t Know. Let’s say the Apple iPhone ... Which in fact only works on Cingular (soon to be called AT&T.)

If you break your contract early they will cry like infants, but more importantly they will fine you big bucks. But you knew that. What you may not have known is that if they change your service cost, in any way, it constitutes a breach on their end and you are no longer legally bound to them. That is why they will hate me for showing you THIS. .

It is a quiet little announcement that they are raising the cost of text messaging by a nickel. Not a big increase, but enough for you to break-up with them guilt (and cost) free. The folks at digg.com (where I discovered this) recommend that you really stick to your guns when using this loophole... Verizon will fight you on it.

UPDATE: From The Consumerist

Hey, Leave That Robot Alone!

2007-01-08T21:14:00.000-05:00

Above is my favorite Robot to date. The Big Dog from Boston Dynamics The reason I am so excited about this particular robot is that it isn’t being remotely operated or following a pre-determined script of moves like some kind of over thought Big Trak.This robot is dealing with life on the fly... To the point that when its handlers cruelly try to kick it over its response is eerily lifelike.

Best Description Of War Ever

2007-01-03T17:41:00.000-05:00

I am currently reading Slaughterhouse - Five. Maybe the best stocking stuffer I have received. The book is about a guy named Billy Pilgram who has become dissjointed in time and does not experience time linearly as we do. At some point Billy watches a WWII film on the TV in reverse... From end to beginning with this simple yet wonderful description. I had to share it.

American planes, full of holes and wounded men and corpses took off backwards from an airfield in England. Over France, a few German fighter planes flew at them backwards, sucked bullets and shell fragments from some of the planes and crewmen. They did the same for wrecked American bombers on the ground, and those planes flew up backwards to join the formation.

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks. The Germans below had miraculous devices of their own, which were long steel tubes. They used them to suck more fragments from the crewmen and planes. But there were still a few wounded Americans, though, and some of the bombers were in bad repair. Over France, though, German fighters came up again, made everything and everybody as good as new.

When the bombers got back to their base, the steel cylinders were taken from the racks and shipped back to the United States of America, where factories were operating night and day, dismantling the cylinders, separating the dangerous contents into minerals. Touchingly, it was mainly women who did this work. The minerals were then shipped to specialists in remote areas. It was their business to put them into the ground, to hide them cleverly, so they would never hurt anybody ever again.

More Talk, Less Music (See What I Did There?)

2006-12-29T01:36:00.000-05:00

It appears that my last post quickly went from gold mine to land mine as many of the videos were quickly removed from youtube.com or set to only play on youtube and not as embedded videos. IMO (that’s “in my opinion”) even with the dead links and matchbox 20 section it is still pretty cool.

However, here is some undeniable gold. Literature! The written word... Only spoken. Oculture.com or Open Culture has compiled a kick ass list of free books on tape style audio files for your listening pleasure. Machiavelli ‘s The Prince, HG Wells’ War Of The Worlds, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley faithful to its original text. Aesop, Chaucer, Dostoyevsky. Not every reading is a grand performance, but many are... Check Patrick Horgan reading War of the Worlds. Put a chapter on your iPod each day or pack it full and head out on the open road. LINKAGE

Less Talk, More Music.

2006-12-27T20:28:00.000-05:00

What’s better than stumbling upon the occasional cool video on YouTube? How about stumbling upon 20,000 music videos all on one page with a player that follows you down the page as you browse. Somewhere between the At The Drive In, Opeth and Slayer and the Bee Gees, Steely Dan and Wham has got to be something you can dig on. In fact this post is a futile effort to drag myself from the quicksand that is Twenty Thousand Music Videos in one place. Enjoy.

Attractive Jewelry (Get It? Attractive.)

2006-12-21T13:26:00.000-05:00

Geeks dig magnets and chicks dig jewelry ergo geeks should give chicks magnetic jewelry. No? Would it help if they knew the jewelry is made of “rare earth magnets?” No? Silver, gold, platinum and diamonds are our only choice? Damn! Ok still these barcelets are wicked cool. I spoke to the creator of Dynomighty today and he is everything you hope for in a young entrepenuer. He is excited about his products to the point where you don’t even need to ask him questions to hear all about them. Well I am off to the Moss Design Store (146 Greene between Houston and Prince) to get one of these for a girl. Don’t worry she is a total geek. (uh oh, Hope she doesn’t read this.) Dynomighty

Fully Stoked Internet Radio

2006-12-20T19:29:00.000-05:00

If you are like me... you are incredibly old... But you also used to lay back and listen to the radio at night. For me the DJs were Scott Muni at WNEW, Donna Donna at WLIR and Carol Miller over at WPLJ. Now a days you couldn’t pay me to listen to the radio. Well sort of... The Engine Room is not radio but an incredible simulation. The DJ is a rock photographer friend of mine who just slides ever so comfortably into his radio way off to the side project. Go have a listen. And if you are traveling for the holidays download the whole Christmas show. You’ll arrive at your location yuled up and ready to go.

The Engine Room

(Photo stolen from VeryBadPreacher.blogspot.com. Where he stole it from I do not know. Perhaps Honcho's "Old Timey Men of Steel Edition."

You've Come A Long Way Baby! (Google Circa 1960)

2006-12-18T17:37:00.000-05:00

Here is something simple that popped up on Fury.com and though many blogs pointed out how funny it is I feel few bothered to mention how thought provoking it is. It is completely reasonable that a research company would have had a piece of paper like this in 1960 and perhaps later. Can you imagine all that would have to happen upon receipt of a particular search term? Imagine the hours put in by an army of researchers pouring over books, magazines, newspapers legal documents. Imagine the stack of paper listing relative articles, court cases, literature etc. Imagine the expense of it all. This simple, black and white photo of a photocopy speaks volumes about the impact of the internet. Just take a moment to think about it.

We’re Bigger Than Dawkin’s (Or Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me & My Monkey)

2006-12-12T19:50:00.000-05:00

Go Ape Shirts is truly living up to its name with this one. EVOLVER is great art, great apes and great comedy. Tell me this doesn’t make a great gift for one of those aged Beatles fans you know. I already gave one to a longhaired hippy dad type friend of mine. Order yours now at GoApeShirts.com.