10.31.2007
10.27.2007
- The Superest - Players take turns inventing superheroes with powers that cancel out those of the previous hero.
10.26.2007
- FEMA stages a press conference with FEMA staff posing as reporters - This country just keeps getting scarier.
- Comic: The New Gay Stereotype
- "Remember-the-time-we-did-that-wacky-thing?" "It was even more exciting than the film it was a shot-by-shot homage to!" - Instructions on how to make Dave's brain turn off: Start talking about how funny you think Family Guy is.
- Memo to myself: Keep an eye on cumul.us for future web 2.0 weather reporting/prediction. More here.
- Insane South Korean subway decoration - That's it, lets form a guerilla decoration team and glam up the L. Who's with me???
10.25.2007
Trying out Snap Shots
I am trying out this service called Snap Shots. When you hover your mouse over a link, you will notice that it brings up a screenshot of the site to which it leads. Please tell me if you think this is useful or annoying.
Your pal,
Dave
My favorite readers have spoken, and they didn't like it. Neither did I. Removed.
-Dave
10.24.2007
- Dumbledore Pride t-shirts - In case you haven't heard, he's out of the closet.
10.19.2007
10.18.2007
- Dave Eggers and Spike Jonze have written a screenplay version of Where the Wild Things Are. Here's a review.
10.17.2007
- Half Life 2: Episode 2 Gnome Achievement - Playing through an awesome game with a really stupid, pointless goal.
- Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with a Cluster of 8 Playstation 3s - Well, I guess they've gotta be good for something.
10.16.2007
- Video: They Might Be Giants - "I'm Impressed" - Stopmotion papercraft robots fighting to the death for the amusement of a mechanical Caesar. Now that's a music video.
- "Love and sex with robots are inevitable." - This is the creepiest thing I've read all week.
10.15.2007
- Stephen Colbert steps into Maureen Dowd's shoes and writes an NYT column - I am enjoying his book quite a bit.
- Video: North Korean Mass Games - Terrifying choreography. South Korea's got some moves, but there's really no contest.
- Video: Devo tells us about the new Pioneer Laserdisc... for 32 minutes - Do not miss the part with Ray Charles
10.14.2007
- Have Optimus Prime call your friends - Not as funny as the Snakes on a Plane one, but hey, it's Optimus.
10.13.2007
- Quantum Suicide/Immortality - The thing I love about hypothetical quantum experiments is that they always seem to take place in boxes.
Haunted House at the Ditka Sports Dome
Last night, I accompanied some friends (Tina, Therese, and Ryan) on a visit to a Haunted House at the Ditka Sports Dome in Bolingbrook. The entrance fee of $15 seemed steep at first, but the production value was there. They immediately delivered on their promise of "lasers, fog machines, and movie projectors with music all under one giant roof," which is more than I can say for certain other events that have let me down in the past. Inside the dome, actors in ghoulish makeup skulked around us as we made our way down a path (which I assume was haunted) to the haunted house, and it is a credit to their professionalism that they stayed in character despite our mocking cries of "Aaah! It's Mike Ditka!" There was some kind of story typed up on big boards along the way to the entrance, which I assume would have provided insight as to how and why a sports dome had suddenly become haunted if we had dared to wade through its morass of grammatical errors. We decided that any flimsy pretext they had cooked up was pretty much irrelevant to our enjoyment, so we forged ahead into the house.
Once inside, we found ourselves stumbling through black painted plywood corridors, pushing through doors into eerily lit rooms furnished with about ten seasonal halloween stores' worth of rubber props, animatronic beasts, and masked spooks unexpectedly popping out of dark corners rattling chains and screaming bloody murder. Normally, I'm not one to be easily scared or surprised, but the whole haunted house atmosphere is greatly intensified when you've got a couple of trembling girls clinging to you, and you are the de facto guide leading the way with only the blue light of a cell phone extended out front. When a bloody clown face materializes inches from your face in near-complete darkness and everyone behind you starts shrieking and pulling at your arms, you can really start to get into it.
All the ghoulies did a great job with their parts, except for one who thought using the word "fuck" a lot would be really scary (it wasn't), and the evil dungeon master who was met with howls of laughter when he growled to Tina, "Your stench detests me!" Hilariously bad English aside (Did your high school English teacher kill you? Is that how you died?), all the actors were clearly having a ball with their parts, and my hat goes off to their enthusiasm. The construction of the house was inspired as well, and the ambiance of the whole experience really stuck with me, even after we left. I have to admit that I felt a little rush of fear descending the dark stairs to my basement last night, and I almost peed my pants when I opened the refrigerator and was met with the grisly face of Mike Ditka himself (in a sombrero, no less) staring out from a bottle of Ditka's Kick-Ass Salsa. Truly a terrifying night.
Once inside, we found ourselves stumbling through black painted plywood corridors, pushing through doors into eerily lit rooms furnished with about ten seasonal halloween stores' worth of rubber props, animatronic beasts, and masked spooks unexpectedly popping out of dark corners rattling chains and screaming bloody murder. Normally, I'm not one to be easily scared or surprised, but the whole haunted house atmosphere is greatly intensified when you've got a couple of trembling girls clinging to you, and you are the de facto guide leading the way with only the blue light of a cell phone extended out front. When a bloody clown face materializes inches from your face in near-complete darkness and everyone behind you starts shrieking and pulling at your arms, you can really start to get into it.
All the ghoulies did a great job with their parts, except for one who thought using the word "fuck" a lot would be really scary (it wasn't), and the evil dungeon master who was met with howls of laughter when he growled to Tina, "Your stench detests me!" Hilariously bad English aside (Did your high school English teacher kill you? Is that how you died?), all the actors were clearly having a ball with their parts, and my hat goes off to their enthusiasm. The construction of the house was inspired as well, and the ambiance of the whole experience really stuck with me, even after we left. I have to admit that I felt a little rush of fear descending the dark stairs to my basement last night, and I almost peed my pants when I opened the refrigerator and was met with the grisly face of Mike Ditka himself (in a sombrero, no less) staring out from a bottle of Ditka's Kick-Ass Salsa. Truly a terrifying night.
10.12.2007
- I can't remember if I've posted it before, but just in case: Will It Blend?
- How to make crystal clear ice cubes - This will be useful for making ice lenses for starting fires, like on that one episode of Mythbusters.
- Cool Flickr photoset: Nakagin Capsule Tower Building - Yeah, I'm doing some surfing of the "Japan" tag on flickr today. (Wikipedia has some more info on the building)
- I thought the Colonel breakdancing was weird, but clearly Japan's got some interesting ideas for him as well...
- Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? RIGHT THERE!
- Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) is going to play Scotty in the new Star Trek movie! - So... fat suit? (update: Here's a lineup of the cast for the new movie)
- Teen invents easy-fill sportsbottle - *smacks forehead*
- IN THE YEAR 2000 - Old pictures of the future that never was
- The World's Most Expensive and Useless Things - I would argue that the gold Gameboy and USB memory stick are perfectly useful (if they still work).
- Faceball: your face, our balls - From the Flickr people. I am still looking for someone who will play this with me.
- Magical headphones - A man can dream.
- Apparently Al Gore got half a Nobel Peace Prize - Good for him.
10.11.2007
- Buzeta House by Chilean architects Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido - add to the pile of inspiration for my someday dream house.
Pizzawaffles
A quick google search reveals that my pizzawaffle idea wasn't all that original, but all that really proves is that crazy is measured on a sliding scale (especially on the internet). Nevertheless, here are some photos from my culinary disaster.
Back by popular demand
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