I haven't figured out how to (if I can) move the old posts over, but I have given up on this busted blogger. I have found something much MUCH better.

http://hyperbacon.wordpress.com

http://hurtyelbow.typepad.com/hurtyelbow/2006/09/slimming_photos.html

The paparazzi has been exploiting this slimming feature and other HP image effects for months on their photos of Kate Moss (Cocaine Residue Effect), Pete Doherty (Random Syringe Effect), and Kate Bosworth (Nipple Slip Effect).

This is a real thing... though the picture is faked.

As if the "product that would change the world" hasn't had enough problems (like a $5000 price tag), today Segway announced that all 23,500 of it's scooters sold to date are being recalled, because they "Unexpectedly reverse torque and can cause the rider to fall"

This guy "selectively cleans" dirt off walls to form graffiti. The legality of it is in question... the city still has to pay money to remove the graffiti, but shouldn't it have done that anyway to remove the dirt?
Neatorama » Blog Archive » Soap Not Spray Can: Reverse Graffiti Art.

Am just checking in with the good ol' blog. Katie's group name etymology is interesting: whatever website that is that said Zeus "came upon" Leda in the form of a swan was being delicate. Or maybe "came upon" was meant literally. Either way, it was pretty embarrasing to see an original work of art from ancient Greece depicting this mythological sexual encounter while on vacation with my family, only to have Eddie Marritz point it out and take a close up picture of it. Honestly. This was what the Marritz family saw: http://www.vroma.org/images/mcmanus_images/leda.jpg And don't forget the dirty Yeats poem detailing the same encounter: http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/865/ I think my name takes the embarrasment cake. (To mix metaphors.)

This guy made a rubber band gun out of lego that shoots at 11 rounds per second.

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http://www.duggmirror.com/gadgets/ULTIMATE_Lego_Rubberband_Chaingun/

Gothamist: Extell Corporation Buys East Village

from good old craigslist... mah name iz kara 19/f 5'4, 110, brown hair n eyez 'n i love all mah friendz n stuff. plz check out mah sitez for mah pix, book "the never ending pigeon saga" (about mah sexcapadez), diary, bulletin board (bulletin board iz the place to tawk) www.pigeonsaga.com

	Carry-on	Checked
Box Cutters	No	Yes
Ice Axes/Ice Picks	No	Yes
Knives - except for plastic or round bladed butter knives	No	Yes
Meat Cleavers	No	Yes
Razor-Type Blades - such as box cutters, utility knives, razor blades not in a cartridge, but excluding safety razors.	No	Yes
Sabers	No	Yes
Scissors - metal with pointed tips and blades shorter than four inches	Yes	Yes
Swords	No	Yes

So just as a reminder, please dont bring your Ice Axe, Meat Cleaver, Saber, or Sword in your carry on luggage. Also on the same page: please don't bring your Spear Gun, Cattle Prod, Tear Gas or Grenades in your carry on luggage. However, a 7 inch wrench or screwdriver is ok. But don't even THINK of wearing your Dr. Scholls: Gel shoe inserts - Gel shoe inserts are not permitted, but shoes constructed with gel heels are allowed and must be removed and screened.

And other priceless moments from this, your moment of Stewart.

Funniest Shit Ever.

After looking up these sizes of maps, I learned there is another game that will soon eclipse the previous one I mentioned in world size. It's an MMO called Dark and Light. At this point, is it even fun anymore? I mean, driving this map would take what... 4 or 5 hours? All I know is, I want to be the dark lord of Rhode Island.

Why do I ask you ask? Well then you didn't read my gaming post below. The answer: about 400 square miles, 20 miles/side. To give people an idea of just how BIG an area that is to fuck around in, here are some equivalent areas in the real world (they are slightly bigger, but close): That means it is possible, if you are on foot and had no vehicles, to have 8 hours of walking, or 3-4 hours of running. Driving: 20 minutes, assuming you obey the speed limit and are on a highway (unlikely). Still 10 minutes of driving if you can maintain a 120 miles/hr average... all to get from one point in the game to another.

Apple to recall 1.8 million Sony-made batteries - Engadget

They looked to be playing 2fort5, one of the greatest TF maps ever. Unfortunately, none of the readers of this blog played much TF, but it was an amazing multiplayer game. Even though the tech of the game is getting pretty long in the tooth, I still fire it up every so often. This new version looks like it is going to kick a lot of ass. I just creamed my keyboard here at work watching this video. In other gaming news (so I don't have to post 2 game posts in a row) the Just Cause demo comes to Xbox Live and PC tomorrow. It's a war game that is also a sandbox type, but puts the focus on exploration (250,000 acres) and stunts, such as buggy riding, grappling hooking, and hang gliding. It drops at 9AM EST Friday, but somehow I want to get it on my Xbox before I go to Maine. Also, black DS's may be coming to the US next month. Booyarh.

It is 9 inches wide.

Via USB

Having a help system in a MS Windows application (or any application) is critical. No matter how intuitive your software is, somone will not understand it. Additionally, some software is just too complex to access all of it's features without a help system. This is why, in most Windows applications you use, the F1 key brings up the help menu. Sometimes, this help is related to what you are doing... which is pretty cool, as the answer to your question is then usually just a click or two away. This is all well and good... in theory. In practice, however, the help system in MANY Microsoft apps is fundamentally flawed. The user smacks the F1 key, whether mistakenly or on purpose, and here is what they see. For the next 5+ minutes, the application that they were working in becomes unusable as this process does it's job. It's preposterous to think that the user WANTS to sit there waiting for this, especially when they are asking for a little help with the application. If you had asked the user, before pushing F1, if they wanted to waste the next 5 minutes staring at their computer screen before (possibly) being provided with their answer, I guarantee most would say no. The fact is, the help system isn't WORTH this hell. For some reason, MS didn't make this seemingly unnecssary task run in the background. If they had said "We are preparing your help system. It will be ready in a few minutes. You can continue working while this process goes on", it would have still been fairly unacceptable, but at least it wouldn't interrupt your work. Even worse is when a user presses the F1 key by mistake (as I did before taking this screen shot). It amazes me that there can be a key on the keyboard that, with a single press, can make your work stop for 5 minutes. It should be called the "Fuck Yourself" button... because it is essentially what it accomplishes.

Get ready to rock. November 7th.

• Stone Temple Pilots' "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
• Anthrax's "Madhouse"
• Mötley Crüe's "Shout at the Devil"
• Reverend Horton Heat's "Psychobilly Freakout"
• KISS' "Strutter"
• Black Sabbath's "War Pigs"
• Butthole Surfers' "Who Was in My Room Last Night?"
• The Kink's "You Really Got Me" as performed by Van Halen
• Rush's "YYZ"
• Primus' "John the Fisherman"
• Drist "Arterial Black"
• Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name Of" (maybe)
• and ... Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine"

NERD ALERT Anyone remember this shit?

Riding the Entire Subway in Record Time (and Other Lessons in Defying Reality) - Gawker

While many in New York City show a casual interest in riding the subway, these two men will take it to another level, spending a steamy August day and night trapped in the sweltering subway, subsisting only on beef jerky and water, riding the rails until they have passed through every single station. It is unclear why two men would voluntarily submit themselves to such a harrowing ordeal; it probably has something to do with a need for attention or perhaps blunt head trauma sustained at a young age.

CONFLICT IN IRAQ / 'We're not leaving, so long as I'm president,' emphatic Bush says

'We're not leaving, so long as I'm president,' emphatic Bush says

So... forget an exit date, Bush is planning on leaving the exit strategy for his war (started in 2003) for the next president (who will be elected in 2009). "If we withdraw before the job is done, the enemy will follow us here'' To make sure he made his point, Bush also said it would be "wrong,'' "a disaster,'' "a big mistake,'' a move that would "embolden extremists,'' "embolden Iran,'' "send a terrible signal,'' send "a wrong signal,'' "create a more dangerous world'' and threaten the United States.

Alex Stancioff

Tim Conkling

Dave Norcott

Dave Argue

Katie Earle

Tim Messler

Chris Treat

Kai Rasmussen

Ilana Goldfarb

Brett Spigelman

This is looking to be one hell of a party. Nearly everyone on the list is confirmed as coming.