A Festival of Light and Sound!

No...

Not, really, this is actually going to be a post of things that haven't quite made it into my blog. Some of these I've had for a while... now I'm just going to regurgitate them.


A Protective Force Field for your PS3!

Apparently, dust is evil, as is cigarette smoke! Now, they've made a dust/smoke shield for the PS3. At first blush, I thought this seemed silly, but, after thinking about it, it's actually a pretty brilliant idea.

I've actually cracked open my XBox and Gamecubes, as well as my old PSX and every Nintendo system I've ever owned at some point or another and cleaned out the dust at some point. If I'd had something like this, it would have saved me the trouble. Of course, being the geek that I am, I actually really enjoy taking things apart and putting them back together, so, perhaps I would have lost out in that.

Anyway, it's kind of neat, and only $20 or so with shipping. Although, it doesn't release until April, so, you'll have to try and hold out until then. There's a ton of silly add-ons for your PS3, XBox 360, and Wii all over the interwebs.


Snoughnuts?

This is not something I would call news... but, it's interesting anyway. Apparently this is more common that you'd think. It's much like a snowball, but, more doughnut like. The Seattle Times website has a surprisingly long article all about them.

"This is no joke. We did not build it," said Mike Stanford, an avalanche-control expert with the state Department of Transportation (WSDOT). "They are a natural occurrence in nature."

Talking Urinal Cakes? Minnesota is a splendid place to live!



The Star Tribune, Minneapolis' premiere newspaper, has a special recording of new speaking urinal cakes on their site. Apparently it's an effort from MNDoPS, they distributed out about 100 them to various venues for St. Patrick's Day. A woman's voice speaks to you, while you deluge the cake with urine, saying, "Hey there, big guy!" She urges you to get a ride if you've been drinking, and then reminds you that "...you're future is in your hand."

My penis?

Huh.


Mozilla Desktop Environment

So, the folks over at the mozilla.dev.planning list have been discussing a building a Mozilla based Desktop Environment for Linux, similar to KDE or Gnome, but based around the Mozilla Project, the great people that have brought us FireFox and Thunderbird. They would have a lot of work to do, such as implementing a file browser in FireFox, but, I can imagine that this would be wildly successful if implemented correctly.

The beauty of this would be the fact that they could package it as a distribution, being able to pick whatever kernel they'd like. They've already got a great programming language: XUL, which is the XML User Interface Language.

I'm going to be keeping an eye on this, I hope they can pull it off!


Rear Window v.5


Disturbia, a new movie starring no one of interest, and directed by no one of interest, seems to be taking liberty, yet again, with Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. Of course, it's been updated to reflect our current world. Instead of the great Jimmy Stewart sitting in his apartment with a broken leg and a pair of binoculars who witnesses a crime. It's a handsome teenager under house arrest with a pair of binoculars who witnesses a crime.

Congratulations, whoever you are, you just plagiarized a great man! Genius! No one will notice!


Old, but funny list!

From the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational, circa 2005.

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
consuming only things that are good for you.

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

There's a slew of great comment entries on that page, too, well worth checking out.


Stupid Funny: Tilted Room!




Another Oddly Addiction Game

It's called Boomshine. It's very simplistic, but a lot of fun. Basically, you have to 'ignite' colored dots, causing them to explode, and take out as many other dots as possible. You have a goal in each level to get a certain number of the total. So far my best score is 284, which I though was pretty darned good... until I saw the high score list, where there are people with numbers that don't even seem possible.

Enjoy!


Stan Lee Media Sues Marvel: $5B

This is the kind of story that just sickens me. Stan Lee Media, a defunct dot com from the 90's, which was originally found by Stan Lee and Marvel as a web presence for their heroes, died many many years ago. Since then, apparently, one man has brought it back from the dead, and is trying to make good on a contract agreement that gives them the rights of co-ownership of the main Marvel heroes pantheon. Now, they are suing Marvel for $5 BILLION.

It's twisted, it probably won' work, but it if it does... it's genius.

Stan Lee is upset about the whole thing too. Even though his name's on the company, he hasn't got a damn thing to do with it anymore.

Read the whole article here.


Run Vista legally without Activation?

It was reported about a month ago that you could skip the activation feature in Windows Vista up to 3 times using the SkipRearm method. When you install Windows Vista, you are given 30 days to activate, if you use the SkipRearm method, it will give you another 30 days. If you do this three times, you will get 120 days worth of activation free use. This is a feature that was included in Windows to help businesses and customers that were not in a position to activate their copy of Windows.

Now, it seems that the same people have discovered that you can actually use this method for at least a year... possibly indefinitely.

Microsoft is upset, calling it a "hack", and an "exploit." This is hilarious because it's a documented feature they've included.

Nerdery abounds.


NSFW Photo Spread...

Yep, this is a page filled with Bikinis that are as small as possible... I doubt anyone could get away with wearing them in public... but, I'll be damned if the photos aren't fap worthy...


Energy Fiend

A website filled with ridiculously detailed information about caffeine related food and drink... I was most intrigued by the "Kill Me" button on this page, at least, how easily I was willing to click on anything that says, "Kill Me".



THAT'S IT!

And, hopefully it's enough for today...

Lata!