rotosketch
very cool app to sketch on top of a movie, something i have wanted to do for a long time. ill be playing with this over the course of the week.

United States Patent: 5,920,923
penn jillette's 1999 patent for a spa-based sex toy

worst (best?) concept art ever
i like bad movies. im excited for 'snakes on a plane'. but im not sure im prepared for this movie, even with my limited 13 year old mind. and yeah, my version also had ninjas. (im not kidding — this actually looks like a drawing i have by felix gill

gnarls barkley's 'crazy' video
one of the nicest, coolest videos ive seen recently

youtube postmodernness
im sure the idea of videoblogging celebrities on youtube surprises very few people, but it does raise some real questions and thoughts in real life (as opposed to the theories i put forward in my thesis)

why?
gladwell reviewing why? by charles tilly, going into the different reasons we tell stories and how we explain things

superman isnt the only dick
his friends are pretty awful to him too.

another example of how evil lois lane is
i mean, really — with friends like these….

tom cruise to eat placenta
keren, im looking right at you.

how to trade
the guy started with a red paperclip on craigslist and has traded up to a years rent in phoenix.

15 best skylines in the world
andrea wins, chicago is #2. nyc is #4. and san francisco didnt even make the list. out of the 15, ive been to 5.

the science of 'girls gone wild'

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feds pounce on student 'ninja'

neat things about la
i cant believe how many of these i didnt hit while i was there. i knew most of them, but i feel like i missed out somehow.

judas asked to betray jesus
you do a favor for a friend and this is how history ends up treating you…i wonder if we will reach a point with the historical knowledge we have where we have to reevaluate the christian belief system?

the movie timeline
syncing up movies into one historical timeline. pure nerd.

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the birds are doing well. they are learning to fly and keep hitting the windows, which makes me laugh every time. (and before you protest, they arent flying fast or hard; no harm done.) i took some pictures last night, ill try to throw them up tonight or tomorrow.

last night, r and i went to the container store. we wanted to get a wall hanging pantry rack thing for the kitchen. target didnt have it, so we drove to san jose to hit the container store, which did have it.

and, by goodness, if i ever have to step foot in that store again, ill poke my eyes out.

it was the single most frustrating experience ive almost ever had shopping in a store.

see, i expect stores to help me. youre called the container store, right? so i expect you to actually help me organize my life and present to me solutions. but what do you do? you sell way overpriced boxes that no one other than bored housewives with no actual belongings would buy.

there was a row for 'media'. great! i have a bunch o dvds. i want to put them on the wall somehow — some sort of shelving. yet the container store offers no solutions for this, save for a few shelving 'systems' that would cost me about 150 dollars to install. just to put some dvds on the wall. everything else that have comes down to boxes to put dvds in. yeah fine, those are containers. but it sure isnt making my life any more organized.

most of the store is made up of products no one could use in everyday life. its made up of overpriced, complex 'systems' of boxes and shelving that only make sense if the actual containers are all you own.

i feel my blood pressure actually rising as im typing this, so im going to stop.

but while im on the subject — does anyone have any cheap (sub $50) solutions to shelving for dvds? id like to wall mount over a bookshelf. thoughts?