THIS VIDEO is just wroooong. A bunch of Texas guys trick one of their friends into thinking he'd just won untold millions in the Texas lottery. There's jumping, screaming, hugging and the eventual barrage of swearwords. This is the main reason why there are so many homicidal maniacs in Texas.

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

Here's an extra thought. Doesn't it make sense for Disney to buy Nintendo, or vice-versa? Can you imagine Mario World as a portion of Disney park? A giant Nintendo arcade, Mushroom Kingdom... The Japanese LOVE Mickey Mouse. Doesn't this make sense? Nintendo, send me a check.

I actually stole borrowed this idea from my friend Jimbeaux who sent me a screen capture of his sand sculpture. In order to keep this topic fresh (and also to show off how I wasted my own time) I decided to post the above image with a link back to the World Of Sand site.

On lunch break, I decided to drop into Books-A-Million and spend a gift card I got for Christmas. I got a really cool Tokyo City Guide, and Volume 2 and Volume 3 of the How To Draw Manga : Ultimate Manga Lessons series. Pretty cool stuff.

Everyone claims to have solved the JFK Assassination, not that it matters much anymore. While surfing I ran across a site that has the old Zapruder film (the most famous film footage of the assasination) and they have gone through the trouble of stabalizing the footage so that it's more clear than ever. That much is atleast interesting.

Back and to the left... back and to the left...

I've seen the word "sudoku" everywhere lately. Books-A-Million is made up of atleast half a million books on the topic. Sudoku is a simple puzzle game which requires no special skill of math. All you do (in most sudoku puzzles) is create a line in all directions (horizontal and vertical) that list all numbers 1 through 9. Simple? In concept, yes.. but it can also be very challenging. If you're not keen on numbers you can also find sudoku puzzles that use symbols, farm animals, letters - you name it.

If you're into puzzle games or tests of logic, check out Sudoku.

Stanley the robot-driven Volkswagon Toureg is better than the Terminator?? I think this list was rigged. It was nice to see Nintendo's R.O.B. The Robot on the list, even though I wouldn't have included it. Where is Rosie, the Jetson's maid? The robot from Lost In Space?

Nissan and Microsoft have teamed up to introduce a concept car with an integrated XBox 360. Not impressed? How about this : If you park the car, you can play the games (such as Project Gotham Racing 3) using the car's steering wheel and pedals. Schweet?

For anyone who cares (which should be just about everyone) Google Video has a new, 30-minute clip of in-game footage from The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess for Nintendo Gamecube. What's more, they recently announced that you would be able to play it using the new Revolution controller. Yummy!

Also, check out the Official Legend of Zelda Website.

I just thought this was cool. Sue me.

And no, the hamster doesn't pilot the thing.

Okay, it's not really a game and it doesn't really hunger for souls, but it is definately addictive and a good timekiller. It's called World of Sand, and this link is courtest of BoxRocker.

Here is a chance to have a pair of power lace sneakers (like those worn by Michael J. Fox in Back To The Future 2) created by Nike. An online petition has been assembled, asking Nike to create an actual working pair of these sci-fi shoes to be sold to the public. I don't know if the petition will work, but it's worth a shot signing the petition.

This animation smokes so much crack it's unbelieavable. Michael Jackson saves the entire Nintendo (actually, Japanese Famicom) world from Princess Toadstool piloting a ginormous Zangief of Street Fighter 2 fame.

Excuse me... what?

I saw this Gametap commercial on Cartoon Network the other night and died laughing. Then I arose from the dead and promptly forgot about it, until I just found it on a site called DevilDucky. I feel my pulse weakening.

Michael Vale, the "Duncan Donuts guy" (who was apparently called Fred) famous for bemoaning "time to make the donuts", has died at the age of 83 of - get this - diabetes. Ironic much? Time to make the donuts, but don't eat them!

Sorry, I'm not making light of his death or diabetes or jelly donuts.

I found an interesting blog that seems devoted to Japanese (toy) models, called Dannychoo.com. There seems to be a lot of content and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope digital images of details. There is a lot to see here.

The ingredients for DNA and Protein have been found swirling around a star's (IRS 46) terrestrial planet zone, a region where rocky planets such as Earth are thought to be born. Life soup anyone?

Look HERE for a site full of AIM and other animated GIF icons, based off of the new "instaclassic" SNL skit - Lazy Sunday.

Go here to read a review of the OQO Model 01+ portable, handheld computer. I've mentioned it before, before release and now it's out and ready for you to buy one for me.

A group of fans of the original Nintendo 64 classic - Goldeneye 007 - have put together a remake using the Half-life 2 engine and have just released the alpha version. It looks really smooth and my guess is that it's so good that it's totally eclipses the original and yet it is most likely nowhere near as fun.

Eggnog in Quantity
Adapted from "The Joy of Cooking"
serves approximately 20

12 eggs, separated
1 pound confectioner's sugar
4-6 cups bourbon (or rum)
2 quarts whipping cream
pinch of salt
freshly grated nutmeg

1. Strain the egg yolks through a sieve and beat until light in color. Gradually add the sugar. While continuing to beat, slowly add 2 cups of the bourbon. Cover the mixture and let stand for 1 hour to dispel the "eggy" taste.

2. Add 2-4 more cups of liquor and the cream, beating well. Cover and refrigerate the mixture for 3 hours.

3. Beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Fold them into the other ingredients. Grate nutmeg to taste into the eggnog and fold it in. Serve with an additional sprinkling of nutmeg over each serving.

Although I would almost always rather sit on the sofa playing a handheld or console game, I do give merit to PC games. I don't personally enjoy being hunched over a keyboard typing letters to perform actions and console joystick controls on the PC always end up feeling lacking.


Having said all this, I really like Logitech's new G15 Gaming Keyboard. I haven't actually used one, but it looks to be really techy looking and I'm sure - from what reviews I read - it works like a charm. I really like the blue, glowing keys, and the small LCD window attached to the keyboard sounds pretty handy as long as developers utilize it to display in-game information.

Having said all that, it's still a keyboard and you'd still be hunched over it, pressing letters. But it sure would jazz up other computer-related activities. Midnight blogging anyone?

On again, off again, fair-weather blogger Uheaux (better known to his fans as Jimbeaux) is at it again, with yet another new blog address, SeauxWhat. Choosing quality over quantity (very much the Anti-outernet) his posts are slim, but always well-crafted and meaningful. Check him out.... NOW.

Or is that Neauxw?

If you're a fan of Mega Man or Ghosts 'N' Goblins, you have to check out this awesome mashup of the two which finds Mega Man figting in the G'N'G world. This is truly awesome.

Megaman vs Ghosts 'n' Goblins

A couple kids do a drive-by of people huddled outside a Best Buy, showing off their new Xbox 360 and taunting them, when one of the idiots inside the car accidentally drops it out the window. Then someone grabs it up and runs away! Hilarity (and a chase) ensues...

We are now even one more step closer to annihilation. A new Japanese robot has become slightly self-aware. Doom!

Believe it or not, this bulky thing is a PC case. Looks nice, but if he really wanted to impress me, he should have made it smaller to sit on my desk. Click on the picture to see a step-by-step on how he did it.

No, not Michael J. Fox. Wendie Jo Sperber died November 29th, after battling breast cancer for 8 years. She was only 47 years old. Sad. She played Linda, Marty cranky older sister.

Check out British Gaming Blog, for new renders from the new Mega Man : Powered Up for the PSP.

I'm feeling a bit of rock nostalgia, so I thought I'd say a little something about Aerosmith. As a teen growing up, I was a huge fan of Aerosmith. They were rock badboys, but not so ... Warrant. It's awfully hard to identify with a band like Warrant who looked like Miami Vice extras thrown together to make something gimmicky. But Aerosmith was a little more accessable. They were one of the original hellion bands of the late 70's, early 80's, and have had unbelievable staying power even up to today.

I remember all their wild videos on MTV, and I literally melted a copy of Permanent Vacation while playing (and eventually beating) the original Metroid on my NES. I'd have to say that Vacation is my pick for all-time best Aerosmith album, with PUMP coming in second. I know the old-school Aerosmith fans will argue with older albums like Toys In The Attic, but I've always felt that old Aerosmith and new Aerosmith are almost two entirely different bands. Even Steven Tyler's voice sounds different on songs like Mia and Dream On, then they do on later hits.

Speaking of later hits (or atleast later albums) I really enjoyed Nine Lives and Just Push Play, which had that classic Aerosmith sound tweaked with a little more headtrip, in an almost rave sort'a way.

Anyway, Aerosmith. I dig em, and I don't care who knows!

I do a LOT of surfing online. For that reason, I know hundreds and hundreds of links to sites all over the world and I am unfortunately plugged way into the daily happening of celebrities, helpless victims, tech geeks, outer space occurrances, and international incidents.

I post a lot of the stuff that I find online that I personally consider "cool", and in sifting through the neverending tidalwave of net news sites, I invariably pan up the same story or "cool" item, many MANY times.

Then I struck gold with The Cool Hunter. Oh. My. Gard. There is so much "cool" stuff there that it's a bit overwhelming at first glance. I found myself pulled in by just about everything, and not once did I think "Oh yeah, I saw that on random tech site. Somehow... and don't ask me how... they had completely fresh content.

Check out this post about some cool MIDI gloves. You can play air guitar and more!

Here is a new rap video that was featured on SNL, and looks a lot like a Lonely Island skit. I wonder if Jorma and Kiva are jealous that only Andy got to be on the show, because they really should have all been on there.

"Lazy Sunday"

Lazy Sunday, wake up in the late afternoon,
Call Parnell just to see how he's doing.
Hello? What up Parn? Yo, Samberg what's crackin'?
You thinking what I'm thinking? Narnia! Man, it's happening.
But first my hunger pains are sticking like duct tape,
Let's hit up Magnolia and mack on some cupcakes,
No doubt, that bakery's got all the bomb frostings,
I love those cupcakes like McAdams loves Gosling.

2, no 6, no 12 - baker's dozen.
I told that I'm crazy for these cupcakes, cousin.
Yo where's the movie playing? Upper West Side, dude,
Well, let's hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route.
I prefer Mapquest, that's a good one too,
Google Maps is the best, true dat, double true.
68 to Broadway, step on it sucker,
What you wanna do, Chris? Snack attack, mother!@%$#!

Hit the Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.
Yes the Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.
We love that Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.
Pass that Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.

Yo, stop at the deli, the theatre's overpriced,
You got the backpack, gonna pack it up nice.
Don't want security to get suspicious,
Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals crazy delicious,
Yo, reach in my pocket, pull out some dough,
Girl actin' like she never seen a ten before.
It's all about the Hamiltons, baby.
Throw the snacks in the bag and I'm ghost like Swayze.

Roll up to the theatre, ticket buying what we're handling,
You can call us Aaron Burr, from the way we're dropping Hamiltons.
Now parked in our seats, movie trivia's the illest.
What Friends alum starred in films with Bruce Willis?
We answer so fast it was scary,
Everyone stared in awe when we screamed Matthew Perry.
Now quiet in the theare or it's gonna get tragic.
We're bout to get taken to a dreamworld of magic.

Hit the Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.
Yes the Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.
We love that Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.
Pass that Chronic - WHAT - cles of Narnia.

And I don't care who knows it! Hitachi has a new HDTV-PC and I must have it. It will be mine - oh, yes - it will be mine.

Look! It's an arcade version of Mario Kart. I mentioned it before on the blog, but now you can actually go buy one! So break out the credit card and drop $18k on something that is only marginally better than the current console games.

No, I'm not talking about The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess... I'm talking about a complete redone version of Zelda 1, called The Legend of Zelda : Outlands. I don't know how much I could get back into playing Zelda 1 on an NES emulator, but I'm willing to give it a try. It does look very nice. More than moving items around, this is a complete new game with all new missions.


For my crafty-with-electronics friends, I'd pay mega bucks for anyone who could hack an original NES to include a USB port so I could plug in a memory card full of NES Roms (such as this game) and play it through the NES hardware. Anyone feel froggy? Also acceptable is hacking an NES cartridge to remove the internal ROM storage and hotwire in a memory card slot. Can it be done?

But what else is a blog for?


I have posted on ebay, a custom hand-made lightsaber that I built about 8 months ago. Go check it out, and if you're interested in Star Wars, feel free to place a bid!

Aqua Teen Hunger Force : Volume 4 - Ignignokt 12:6 - The Fourth Coming. Here at last! BUY IT NOW!

We'll get you, Jor-El!!
If Sally Struthers could roll over and if she was dead, she'd definately be trying to do it in her grave. I thought for pennies a day we could feed these hungry third-world kids, and now they need $100 laptops?? Boy, kids grow up quick, don't they? Maybe if they're spending their time playing Flash games, shopping on ebay, reading web comics, or looking at internet porn, or flirting with 50-year-old guys who say they're Asian cheerleaders, they won't realize how hungry they are.

Okay, take a few minutes to click on the above links for a little hilarity to ensue. Big bonus points if the picture caption actually makes sense to you.

Here is neat little time waster. It's a simple game where you motorbike through a level of ramps and almost Sonic-esque worlds, trying to keep yourself on your bike and not crushing yourself into tiny fragments with bone-crunching crashes. Check it out and you may get hooked on it.

Here is an interesting IM chat service called IMVU Beta. You can create a 3D avatar, meet up in different locations and interact with text and pre-built animations. People with 3D skill can even create their own items. Now can someone tell me does IMVU stand for "IM-View" or is it a jacked-up way to say "I Envy You"?

Women... Are you tired of having to sit down on dirty public toilets to do your business? Well now you can step up with the boys and deposit your liquid waste while standing on your own two feet!

Introducing... P-Mate! When I first saw this, I laughed so hard I didn't need a P-Mate.

I found this awesome new tech news site called Gizmag, that I think most of you will appreciate. There is a ton of really cool stuff here, and it's not a lot of the repeated stuff you see on other tech news sites.

For instance, check out this article about a new technology that let's you jump out of a plane (oh and LAND SAFELY) without a parachute.

Check out this video. God only knows what the game is about.

Okay, for all my fellow geeks out there, here is a pointless debate :
Who is hotter - Mario's girlfriend Peach, or Luigi's girlfriend Daisy? Click the picture above for a larger desktop version.

HERE is a cool blog. I love this old artwork from the 50's and 60's. Total retro coolness.

For you fans of IGN.com, they have just released (maybe yesterday) an IGN channel devoted entirely to Nintendo Revolution. Go check it out!

I never knew this catalog existed or I would been ALL OVER IT.

Also, check out this game t-shirt shop called Joystick Junkies. Those models DO NOT, nor have they EVER played videogames.

Wowee!! Lookee HERE! It's an 8gb flash drive! Wow, can you imagine? Keeping over 8gb of files in your pocket? Technology sure is grand!

This site lets you upload an image of a font and it will tell you the name of the font. A very handy tool!

Apparently some strange things were afoot during Hurricane Katrina, including many unexplained deaths. My favorite part of this article was when they said Forensics uses a crockpot to cook the meat off a homicide victim's ribs. Puuuuuke.

New Honda robot, Asimo can now act as a cute manservant, fetching you coffee, tea or napalm for that chemical flesh peel you've been wanting. Mankind, your days are numbered.

EA has posted up the original "classic" version of SimCity, that you can actually play online! I played a lot of this back in the day! Brings back lots of memories just to see it.

You should be totally bowled over by this enourmous cache of TTF fonts. 6500 free fonts for you to get your greedy little mits on.

There appears to be some giant nuts in Kecksburg. They believe they saw a flying saucer, but check it out. Something seems squirrely there.

Check out The Instructables. It's a cool DIY (Do It Yourself) website that chronicles cool projects for you to build (such as the Marshmallow Gun), which you can do on your own or as a collaborative effort. You can upload your own projects, so long as they are interesting and well-documented. This is from the creators of Make Magazine.

A while back I blogged about an Excel program that let you play music from the spreadsheet program. Well it turns out there is now an Excel Drum Machine. Go get it, check it out and rock the beat, ya'll.

Click HERE for an interesting new Nintendo DS blog, covering all the latest news for Nintendo's handheld. I went to check it out and spent quite a while reading all the information on their site.

One thing I found interesting there is the NEO Flash, a flash ROM cartridge for Nintendo DS, and another for Sony PSP. I can't believe things like that are even legal.

Look HERE for an interesting read about a possible addition to the Nintendo Revolution... Displacement mapping! Imagine the possibilities if they went back and added this feature to older N64 games... The possibilities are endless.

I just added a song called "Fett's Vette" by MC Chris to the music mix, which is gonna offend some with language. Parental discression is advised.

A phrase attributed to Richard Pryor, which is - as of today - no longer true. Richard Pryor is one of the first comedians I ever looked up to as a kid. He was more than some slicked-up yukster in a cheap suit doing "Take my wife, please" jokes. He was cutting edge in a day before cutting edge was a pre-defined term.

I remember as a kid I would sneak to watch Richard Pryor - Live On The Sunset Strip on my stepfather's Betamax player (I'm not explaining what that is, so Google it yourself). It was the ultimate taboo to hear this hilarious black man talking about adult topics that I knew nothing about. In spite of this, he was one of the funniest men I'd ever laid eyes on, and even the black comedians of today that I like (Chris Rock and Martin Lawrence come to mind) they owe everything to Pryor. Their style, their presentation and delivery, it's all thanks to Pryor.

Richard Pryor had a very hard life, punctuated too often with harshness greater than most of us will ever know. I know that towards the end he had turned his life around and found peace, even as he battled Multiple Sclerosis. I hope that wherever he is now, he's still laughing and sharing it with those around him.

Wow. You've got to check this game out. It's called Samorost 2 and it's very strange and lots of fun. It's basically a puzzle / adventure game along the lines of Myst, but very odd. Try to play it for 5 minutes and I guarantee you won't be able to quit.

Warning! This game requires broadband internet service to get the full effect. Even then you'll see a black screen a lot, but you'll know it's time to play once the music starts.

I am about iSick of all the iPod accessories and iKnockoffs, but the iDog is kind'a neat.

Wow. Go to ebay and check out this utlimate Nintendo collection.

I can't say it any better than the official website.

Many sleepers experience that after they turn off the alarm clock they go on sleeping. One thing that sometimes wakes you up at night and prevents you from sleeping is the mosquito or blowfly when flying around your room. You can't and don't want to fall asleep again until you've caught it. These produces adrenalin and requires movements. The alarm clock blowfly works like a "blowfly" that at the desire time it escapes from a cage in your room. It starts moving and producing sound around you - to turn it off you should catch it and put it back in the cage.

Designer: Ena Macana

I want need one!

Niiice.. That's one slick-looking slider phone. Information on the phone's release can be found HERE or by clicking the photo above.

Remember those number 2 pencils you used to use in highschool? Well turns out that now there is a game that can be played called "Battle Pencils", that allows you to roll the pencil until it lands on one of its edges, where you are given various results - kind'a like playing dice.

We used to play Battle Pencils in highschool, but it was basically just whacking each other with pencils until someone yelled stop.

From the previous post about PodNova, I ganked (ghetto for "stole") a bit of nifty Flash code that lets my blog now stream mp3s while you read. Will you like my mp3 selection? Most likely not. If you grow tired of it (or would like to peruse the oddities I fill my playlist with) you can go to the bottom to adjust the volume, change the track, or stop it entirely. Enjoy! (or not)

Now playing :

Tori Amos - With A Little Help From My Friends
Tom Petty - Yer So Bad

Here is another interesting podcasting website called PodNova. They have a ton of content too. Check em out and you'll be listening for weeks.

HERE is a weird story about deer who jumped from the fifth floor of a parking garage. This is mostly noteworthy for the last sentence, which I thought was funny.

Check out Yahoo! Answers. Ask a question and have other users solve your problems or find your information. Seems like a pretty cool trump to Ask Jeeves.

I'm a geek. I can face that.

Look HERE to find out what I'm drooling over now.

Remember yesterday when I said that mankind was doomed to be conquered by robots that we keep making smarter and smarter? I mentioned that the only piece of the puzzle missing was an A.I. brain that hates humans?

Witness your destruction!!

Watch in amazement as Christmas lights dance and sway rhythmically to the music. This Christmas display is too much love. It was just announced that the light show had to be turned off after many complaints and traffic accidents. Come on people! Where's your holiday spirit?

NEC just recently announced a flexible battery which can be recharged in 30 seconds. Boy, technology of the future is going to be really cool. I can think of dozens of cool tech this could be integrated into.

Here are a couple interesting pieces of Nintendo Revolution news...

First of all, look HERE for a demonstration video of how the Revolution controller would work in a first-person shooter setting. It seems pretty accurate to the way gyro technology would work.

Also, check out THIS ARTICLE at IGN.com, to use a virtual Revolution controller, as well as gain a little more insight into its function.

I'm starting to get excited!

Click the image above to read more about a custom Altoids LED Flashlight.

Mega-Vaporware of the Century, Duke Nukem Taking Forever has been bumped again. It was originally slated to be released in October 04 January 05 June 05 April 05 December 05, but now it's looking more like it's never coming April 06. When it does actually release there's no feakin' way on this Earth that it can ever meet up to the amount of hype and delay it's built.

Top 20 Worse Game Box Art Covers Ever! Boy there are some stinkers here.

Check out Kedora, the free Internet TV site. Lots of content here, including feeds from G4's Attack of the Show.

Protopage is a really nifty personal homepage service that allows you to design a custom homepage full of RSS feeds, sticky notes, links, etc. There are several of these services out there, but this one seems slick and simple. Check it out!

Keep a look out for a Target ad in your Sunday papers. Apparently they are advertising the Nintendo DS system for $99. Most electronics stores have a policy where they have to honor any competitor's printed ads. A $99 Nintendo DS would be sweet!

Despite all the sci-fi / horror of robots, killer A.I., evil cyborgs, supercomputers and Arnold Schwartzeneggar, we just keep on improving the exact same technology that will one day serve as our masters. Witness Live Paintball! A site that lets you control a paintball gun via the internet to hunt actual humans (or static targets).

Okay, now advance that tech 10 years, replace paintball gun with machine gun and hook it to a wifi-enabled net-controlled sentry robot, and yo ass is grass.

Object tracking ... check
Wifi technology ... check
mobile robotics ... check
computer controlled weapons ... check
A.I. that hates humans ... pending

Click the picture above to check out an old candy distributor's catalog from 1949. It's funny to see that some of this candy hasn't changed it's packaging in almost 60 years.

This looks like a Terry Gilliam cartoon, and it's very interesting in it's not-so-subtle weirdness.

Here is a neat little USB Dongle / keychain that contains all 66 books of the Bible. It's good to see tech applied to a non-evil purpose on occassion.

At one point I wanted to open my own Shaved Ice stand. Not that I think the Shaved Ice life is fabulous or glamorous, but I wanted to have access to all the frozen treats I could eat.


Well, not I don't have to open my own stand. Here is a site that will let you buy Shaved Ice equipment for your own home! Just like the "pros" use! Joy!

Not sure about how sanitary this is, or whether the bowls are dishwasher safe, but it sure looks cool.

Phone, camera, television... Drool.

For anyone looking to break into "da business", HERE is a link to an auction on ebay (which may or may not be over by the time you read this) for an entire porno business. Complete with "actor contact information", studio, cameras, computers with editing software, etc. all for the meager starting bid of $100,000. Note that it has an apparent annual income of around $750,000, however the current owners are questioning the "moral" issues involved in peddling adult smut, so want out.

I'd give $100,000 just for a studio in California, not to mention Jenna Jameson's home number. haha.

Here is an interesting article about destroying the Earth. Don't worry, it's much harder than you'd imagine.

Here is a link to print your own Monopoly money in case you need more to replace the cash your dog ate. One of my most traumatic childhood memories is the time I dropped a Monopoly game at my grandmother's house and the play money blew all over the neighborhood. I've been chasing money ever since.

Then there's the time a dog ran away with one of my kittens...

I know with the holidays coming up you are prolly all stressed. It's okay, people. I'll make it real easy for you and post up a link to my Froogle Wishlist. Froogle is a search site that lets you search deals and auctions online to find the products you're looking for. I'm not building this wishlist so that you have to buy the products from the site linked to. Rather, it is an over-all catalog of Rush's wants at this moment in time.

If you have a Froogle list, lemme check it out! Leave the link in your comment. Who knows, I might just buy you something too.

If you're a fan of Wacky Packages too, you have to check out this collection on a site called Coverpop. It has scans of most of the full collection, which you can scroll through and click to enlarge.

Also, check out this mind-blowing Photomosaic site.

Spurred on by the fact that I've posted about many great things and had the person or people responsible post comments, I'd like to say a little about Jeff Lynne.

As far as musicians go, Jeff Lynne has to be my all-time favorite songwriter, musician, producer, etc. I can't believe that after all these years, he's stayed so far in the background. He pretty much discovered (or at the very least pioneered) Tom Petty, and has been the backbone of many great Beatles projects (both solo projects for Paul McCartney and George Harrison, as was as combined efforts on Free As A Bird and Real Love) and was even the producer (and best friend) turned to for George Harrison's last solo album, Brainwashed.

Of course, for those of you who are asking "Jeff who?", I might need only mention three letters : ELO. Jeff Lynne was the mastermind behind The Electric Light Orchestra and totally exploded their popularity after being asked to join by (and subsequently replacing as frontman) Roy Wood. He's written a veritable slew of hits and many catchy songs you've sung on the classic rock stations, such as Evil Woman, Don't Bring Me Down, Can't Get It Out Of My Head, and many others. Despite this, not many people know who they are.

I would give anything to meet Jeff Lynne. If anyone within the sound of my voice knows how to get in touch with him, or should Jeff Google himself and end up here, please I'd give anything to meet you. I'd fly to California in a heartbeat just to have lunch with him, turn around and come home. It may sound fanboyish, but I really think just to spend ten minutes with him would be awesome. There's so much I'd like to ask him and much more I'd just like to say.

So anyway, blogs are public and I've now publically bowed down before a hero and I hope there are others out there who know what I mean and - what's more - what his music and influence means to me. Jeff, you're alright in my book.

If you happen to be a fan of ELO, here is a Free ELO Screensaver that came from the official ELO website.

On the way to work on Friday I happened to catch a radio interview with the famous cartoon voice, Billy West. This guy is super talented way beyond what you might recognize him from. First of all, he's the voice of Ren and Stimpy. That enough is impressive. As an interesting sidenote, he mentioned that the voice of Stimpy is a sped-up version of his Larry Fine (think Three Stooges Larry) which I have to say is amazing. It's so spot-on that it sounds prerecorded.

Besides Ren and Stimpy, he is also the voice of Doug (Nickelodeon cartoon) as well as Doug bully nemesis. He was the voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck in the Spacejam movie. He is also several voices on Futurama, including Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan and Richard Nixon's head. He has also been the voice of Popeye. Those, folks, are some serious Mel Blanc-level cartoon voice chops. He is definately the cartoon voice legend of our generation.

Those are words I never thought I'd say. Apparently Rick Moranis ("Dark Helmet" from Spaceballs, Barney Rubble from the Flintstones movie... The little possessed nerdy guy from Ghostbusters) has released an album of songs. And they're not comedy songs either, but real live serious songs and from what I've read, they're not too bad. He, of course, sang in the 1980's musical, Little Shop of Horrors, but that was done in a corny Brooklyn-esque accent. It sounds like his new album, The Agoraphobic Cowboy, might be worth a listen.

Toru Iwatani is the father of a small, disembodied yellow head known as Pac-man. At this year's DIEC (Digital Interactive Entertainment Conference), he announced five things about Pac-man you may or may not know.

1. The idea of the game came from "eating."
2. The original purpose was to attract female gamers.
3. Iwatani-san said that the ghosts as actually "monsters."
4. The logarithm (code that decides how the monster moves) for only the orange ghost is "random."
5. Even a monkey can play the game, and Iwatani-san brought a video clip to prove it.

Uhhh.. wait. That monkey comment bothers me.

Random pictures are cool.

This is an interesting project. It's called Neon Racer and it's a simple space racing game where players pilot space ships around space tracks. The difference is that it plays on a special interactive tabletop. Items places on the surface of the table acts as obstacles. So if you set your Mountain Dew and a plate of chili cheese fries on the table, your ships will explode if it flies into it. Yes, really. Sounds really cool.

Here is an interesting project dreamed up by a college student, which turns a standard cuckoo clock into Cuckoo IP. The clock has its own voicemail number you can call from anywhere and leave a message. After your message, you designate a time of delivery and when a message arrives, the clock retrieves it and plays it back at that designated time. Of course it does this in standard cuckoo style. Out pops bird, which opens his beak and says "Hi, give me a call at work. Bye!"

These people are going straight to hell in a flaming basket of molten lava. No, I'm not being judgemental... Read it for yourself.

Yes, the Japanese are weird and sex-obsessed to almost a creepy level... but this has to take the cake.


It's an all-girl fighting game where any damage inflicted will heal over time... unless you snap an upskirt photo when your opponent's skirt flies up. Makes you wonder why girls are snapping upskirt photos of other girls. Blackmail, maybe?

[MK Fatality music plays]
Victimize Her!
[Snap! Snap! Click!]
Suzi Takamoto wins... Humiliation!

For all you tech / graphics / web geeks out there... Adobe Systems Incorporated has acquired Macromedia. Lord only knows how this will all turn out. I imagine Photoshop and Flash each staying pretty much the same. If they go for a unified style, I hope they keep Macromedia's look in favor of Adobe's

Why bookmark your sites in Internet Explorer at home and also at work when you can use something like LookLater to store them online where they can be accessed at any time from any internet-capable computer? Create an account, add bookmarks... it couldn't be easier. It even organizes them and makes them searchable. Nice.

As a kid, one of my favorite Topps series was Wacky Packages. I remember getting a sticker collector's album and I tried in vain to get every single sticker. I even mailed off for stickers that I was missing and I never got the whole set.

Later, when ebay took off big, I ordered a brand new collector sticker album (circa 1980's) since my old one was worn out, dog-eared and held together with Scotch tape. I was introduced to Wacky Packages through the 1980's series, but I later found out that the series has been going on for decades, having started some time in the late 50's. Through my ebay obsession, I ended up purchasing several complete sets of Wacky Packages stickers from various series.

Anyway, all this to say that they just released Wacky Packages, Series 2. They're calling it Series 2 because they just recently released a new set, after nearly a decade and decided for some reason to start the count over, when actually that set would have been somewhere closer to Series 15 and this current set would be Series 16. ANYWAY, the new series is cool with art very reminiscent of the older cards from my youth. Bring back a lot of fond memories.

I picked up several packs of the latest series at Wal-mart (they are, like, a dollar a pack) and they even released a cool miniature sticker album to hold the whole series. Joyyy. I guess I'll always be a kid at heart. (Read : loser)

Okay, Jimbeaux. 'Fess up.

42nd Street Puppets

For fans of this classic stop-motion Christmas special, here is an interesting read, including information on lost footage and how the original ending was changed by a letter-writing campaign.

The Scifi Channel shows reruns of Quantum Leap in order (despite the fact that with a leap in and out on each episode they could be played in almost any order) and night-before-last they showed the series finale. I always loved Quantum Leap, but I have to say that it's finale has to be the most disappointing finale of all televisiondome. Please PLEASE Mr. Bellisario... put right what once went wrong! You gotta have a reunion show or an update or a new series or SOMETHING. The episode was surreal and made no real sense, there was hardly any Al (Dean Stockwell) in it, and it ended with Sam being lost in time. WTF?!?

Come on! Scott Backula is done with Enterprise now, so he needs a new gig. How about a new show where a new leaper is bouncing through time looking for Sam Beckett, to put right what ultimately went wrong with the Quantum Leap finale?

My current Combloggerator™ rank is 66.6%. I'm scared of that. Atleast it's not 11.34%. har har.

What a bad day to pack a fruit bat sandwich in my lunch. Scientists have discovered that the African fruit bat is the most likely origin of the ebola virus. Thank God! That means that Ace Ventura is most likely dead by now.

See Ace Ventura 2 : When Nature Calls, to get this joke. Shikaka!

6 Foot Tall And Bulletproo - ... Uh, Nevermind

This guy goes around claiming to be bulletproof and some acquaintances decided to put him to the test. They shot him once and "superman" pretended to not be hurt.

In case any of you were wondering, I'm actually completely impervious to Japanese cheerleaders.