Play This :: Sonic

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Spider Test

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Giving Credit Where Credit's Due

Wow, this is impressive. I confess, I don't know what a Modest Mouse is (I think he was on the Garden State soundtrack and/or may have committed suicide) but this fan-video is really well done.

Max Tyrie's Hand Made Modest Mouse Video [Wooster Collective]

"Myself and a couple have friends have entered the above into the Modest Mouse video competition. Using green screen footage provided by the band we cut a simple music video. We then degraded the images and printed out each frame sequentially. (all 4133 of them) We then nailed each "shot" of 50-100 posters to various structures and posts. Then using a digital SLR camera with a long exposure we frame by frame shot each poster. Oh, and theres a little video projection (again, frame by frame on the SLR) just to mix it up. There is no compositing, no shortcuts, just lots of blood, sweat and tears, and a huge Kinkos bill!".... Max

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I Still Have Batman Neck

Still.

Haha, remember this?

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I Want One: Hang

[via reddit.com]
Ladies and gentermen, I present to you, the hang:

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Then Work in a Bank

Celebrities Flipping the Bird [It's Knutz]

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Choices, part 4

Click image to view full size

from xkcd.com

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Untitled

Through a circuitous set of circumstances (a sole Google return), I came to suspect that an old friend and ex may have died last year. She was my girlfriend throughout High School and someone I kept in high regard despite not having had contact since then. It literally took the wind out of me when I saw the Social Security death entry. To be honest, I suspect that the kickback from this revelation will slowly register and manifest itself. I do hope I am wrong in my sleuthing. If this all reads as somewhat clinical or robotic, it's cause I'm actually..freaked out.

On a lighter note, here's the track by Swan Island that I've abused. Enjoy. And again, don't say that Daddy never gave you nothing.




And play nice together out there kids. Let's not take each other for granted.

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WWJD?

CNN: Buy without guilt using new 'Vatican credit card' [video]
Haha, don't leave Rome without it!! That's hil-AIR-ious!
I'm not 100% clear on how it allows one to 'buy without guilt' though.

Seriously, can I just bypass the shopping part and pay the Vatican to absolve me of my guilt?

Oh wait.

-Note: This might have something to do with it.

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I Have Batman Neck

due to some horrendously strained muscle(s) that run down the left side of my neck and mid back vertebrae. (Hot, I know.) Hey, on a Batman tip, the viral marketing campaign for whatever number we're up to -- the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker -- launched today. Don't waste your time. It was a bit too thinly veiled. Interesting aesthetic though, I see it as Leatherface meets Saw sort of.

Let's see.. Been a slow news week so far...Something about Helen Mirren meeting (and being starstruck by) David Beckham, people are still killing each other, etc. [my apologies for the trashy becks link, i couldn't find the original one that enlightened me to this earth-shattering factoid]

I finished and deployed a couple websites for a 'client' who actually paid me which is always nice and I'm waiting to hear from a wife of a colleague of a friend about an possible interactive producer gig (freelance, natch) which is also cool.

In Wii news, I gots me some 'Wii Play' and WarioWare but have yet to get deep into 'em.

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AVP, Wii Games, Chinese Foot Binding

• This is nasty and oddly intriguing. Chinese Foot Binding[via Reddit]
• On the Edge of Blade Runner [Google video]
• AVP in Hermosa Beach
• Smooth Moves from WarioWare
• I hate my DVR cause it never records the Office for me. Punk Bitch.
  

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Again, Yay!

Sorry. Not.

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Best Worst

from reddit my new boyfriend

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Death Stuff, America

Did you know that if you are a soldier buried in Arlington National Cemetery there is a list of 'approved' engravings to indicate the religious affiliation of the fallen soldier?

Me neither.

But wait, it gets even more interesting. This is the "Humanist emblem for spirit":

More about secular ethics and humanism here.

Apparently, it was only recently that the pentacle became accepted to denote soldiers of the Wiccan faith.

Haha, I learn this the same day that Falwell bit it. Who says the terrorists have won?

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Light Criticism

This is wonderful and makes me homesick.

[via The Anti-Advertising Agency]

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Yay!

Shane: Jerry Falwell is dead.
Co-worker: Didn't she just have a baby?
Shane: That's Geri Halliwell.
Shane |05.15.07 - 2:09 pm |
-comment at joe.my.god

Seriously, this news, and the ensuing commentaries (here or here or here) have brought me a sort of joy that I didn't know I was capable of feeling.

*Before anyone gets up in my grill for being..'evil' - I merely aim to illuminate the moral of the story: Be an unintelligent, hateful gasbag who amasses a fortune from hateful misguided pseudo-religious dabblings in politics, and people will dance on your grave when you die.

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Fascinating

Debate on Amputee Sprinter: Is He Disabled or Too-Abled?

This is a very interesting question - and one that will be asked more and more as technology progresses. The fact that a person born with such a (what not long ago would have been considered) 'handicap' is now considered a threat to competition freaks me out. It's like exciting and scary at the same time.

I'm interested to see how this guy's case develops.

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aSTEROIDS

This is a bumping little timesuck. I recommend it. Don't ignore the thrust and go for the power-ups.

Haha, that's what he said.

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Bear With Me

I'm trying to figure out this new google-jacked scene.
I think the banner above will be changing often at least.

PS The pope is in Brazil. Poor Brazil.

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Last Night in New York

This dude's a badass but a wonderful host