XKCD’s take on the craziness of Microsoft’s ability to analyse waiting time.
It’s much like calling the RACQ – which I had to do last week after leaving my headlights on for a day.
Guestimate
Graphical truth
GraphJam is awesome. And it appears that it has been overtaken by acerbic Christian wits and journalism graduates… such is the level of cynicism displayed by these posts…
A bunch of links – July 19, 2009
- Meeting cost ticker
- I#39;m here to interview you, who are you?
For an interview with Gerard Butler (aka the head Spartan in 300), Esquire sent Cal Fussman in cold. He was given an address and a first name and told to go get the story. - How to disappear
Frank Ahearn used to be a private investigator but now uses his PI experience to charge up to $30,000 to help people disappear. - 12 Essential Security Tips and Hacks for WordPress
- 10 Free High Res Coffee Stains Textures
- Your CPU came from sand…
- 8 Tips To Effectively Boost Your Wireless Router Signal
- Learn the Economical Art of Wet Shaving [Shaving]
Soul Music
This GraphJam assessment of Christian music (not church music the "commercial" part of Christian music that is an industry worth hundreds of millions of dollars per annum) reminded me of this classic South Park episode where Cartman starts a Christian band and writes songs by substituting "you" for "God" in classic songs… these may be offensive to Christian music fans…
Here’s John Safran’s classic segment on Christian music…
A bunch of links – July 18, 2009
- Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of em1984/em and emAnimal Farm/em
- Treat Negotiation as a Right to Overcome Haggling Hangups [Negotiation]
- From the Tips Box: Negotiation Tips, Lost Credit Cards, and Floating Stereo-Coolers [From The Tips Box]
- Assemble A Zero-Waste Dining Kit
- Processing Coffee: From Earth to Cup
- Knowing when to shut your trap
- Keeping Preaching Pure
- Rod Rosenbladt on Evangelicals and Assurance
- Media, the Arts, and preaching
- OMG U FAIL SO HARD
- blog commenters graph
For those who fold
Some are folders, some are scrunchers, some are readers…
Here’s one for the folders out there (via bookofjoe)…
And one for the readers (also from bookofjoe)
A horror novella printed on toilet paper… a few times over, so that you can pick up where you leave off…
Then there’s one for the “artistic”… from an Australian company called Crumpler… also via bookofjoe…
If none of these excite you you can always print your own (also from bookofjoe).
Plushman
Pacman memorabilia is a dime a dozen. But plush pacman toys that will run around your floor are all too rare. You can buy the yellow guy here…
You can get the ghosts too – and it doesn’t come down to your ability…
You can just purchase them here…
Dillingeresque
There’s a new movie (Public Enemies) coming out about John Dillinger – amongst other achievements the guy managed to escape from prison with just a painted wooden gun (another time he escaped using actual guns).
He sounds so cool that a band called themselves The Dillinger Escape Plan – they’re a mathcore band… heard of mathcore? No?
“Much like math rock, mathcore incorporates heavy usage of unusual time signatures, jarring tempo changes and unconventional song structure. The influence of metal and metalcore is what sets it apart from math rock.”
I hope that has cleared things up.
Prisons are hotbeds of ingenuity. Prisoners have endless time on their hands (particularly the lifers). Over time prison guards have confiscated various pieces of prison grown technology – like this crucifix/sword…
A guy named Marc Steinmetz has photographed a bunch of these prison creations. They’re pretty interesting. Take this shotgun for instance…
SHOTGUN
made from iron bedposts; charge
made of pieces of lead from
curtain tape and match-heads,
to be ignited by AA batteries and
a broken light bulb.
On May 21, 1984 two inmates of
a prison in Celle, Germany, took
a jailer as a hostage, showed off
their fire power by letting go at
a pane of bullet-proof glass, and
escaped by car.
Fail to a T
FailBlog is mostly funny. Sometimes it’s not. This time it’s Mr T awesome.
Horrorble Shirt
Zombies are scary. They eat brains. According to Shaun of the Dead they can’t be killed by your old record collection – even if you play them U2/
Resident Evil is a computer game series (and movie series too). It’s about zombies.
Right, we’re on the same page… here’s a new (and awesome) Resident Evil t-shirt.
It’s free for people playing a demo of a game at a comic convention – that’s so many combinations of nerdness that it’s barely worth it. But the shirt is clever.
(potential) shirt of the day
Glennz.com is running a reader poll on the next shirt they may or may not produce… there are some crackers (though they’re always a little obscure without the caption)… like this one called – it’s a coffee serving robot from the future.
There’s also this Tetris Airdrop…
And these kung fu sumos…
Pyramid of Geezer
So, I have a proposition I’d like to make publicly to Ben (of Vanishing Point fame)…
The title of this post would make a good shirt wouldn’t it? A cool cartoon about grumpy old men… something like this media pyramid but about growing old and dividing your time between telling stories about the good old days, complaining about the youth of today, etc, etc…
I reckon Ben could draw something awesome… something in this vein…
But I digress, this pyramid was really the reason for this post. It’s from Wired.
Lightbulb Moment
You may not realise it, but that picture is probably the cleverest reading lamp ever.
Book goes on, lamp goes off… beautiful. Designed by a team of four designers – found at the home of Jun Yasumoto – via DVICE.
Bummer
Yes, this is what the world needs. The iBum. A chair that photocopies your bum. From this Japanese designer – Tomomi Sayuda – who says:
"The arse is the window of the soul."
Honestly? What’s wrong with sitting on the photocopier? Back in my day if you wanted a picture of your bum you sat in front of one of those charcoal drawers at the markets – now it’s all new fangled camera phones and mirrors, or chairs that take all the hard work out of things…
Sensible Reading
As mentioned this morning – you can now get Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters the book… here’s the cover – and here’s where you can buy it (when it’s in stock).
