For the Pricess Bride fans - Inigo strikes again
| August 25th, 2007
Archive for August, 2007
Great Japanese Prank Video Compilation….made me laugh for a while
| August 25th, 2007Shakespeare Insult Kit
| August 25th, 2007
I thought this was great when I saw it and had to share. - Den
Shakespeare Insult Kit
Shakespeare Insult Kit
Combine one word from each of the three columns below, prefaced with "Thou":
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
artless base-court apple-john
bawdy bat-fowling baggage
beslubbering beef-witted barnacle
bootless beetle-headed bladder
churlish boil-brained boar-pig
cockered clapper-clawed bugbear
clouted clay-brained bum-bailey
craven common-kissing canker-blossom
currish crook-pated clack-dish
dankish dismal-dreaming clotpole
dissembling dizzy-eyed coxcomb
droning doghearted codpiece
errant dread-bolted death-token
fawning earth-vexing dewberry
fobbing elf-skinned flap-dragon
froward fat-kidneyed flax-wench
frothy fen-sucked flirt-gill
gleeking flap-mouthed foot-licker
goatish fly-bitten fustilarian
gorbellied folly-fallen giglet
impertinent fool-born gudgeon
infectious full-gorged haggard
jarring guts-griping harpy
loggerheaded half-faced hedge-pig
lumpish hasty-witted horn-beast
mammering hedge-born hugger-mugger
mangled hell-hated joithead
mewling idle-headed lewdster
paunchy ill-breeding lout
pribbling ill-nurtured maggot-pie
puking knotty-pated malt-worm
puny milk-livered mammet
qualling motley-minded measle
rank onion-eyed minnow
reeky plume-plucked miscreant
roguish pottle-deep moldwarp
ruttish pox-marked mumble-news
saucy reeling-ripe nut-hook
spleeny rough-hewn pigeon-egg
spongy rude-growing pignut
surly rump-fed puttock
tottering shard-borne pumpion
unmuzzled sheep-biting ratsbane
vain spur-galled scut
venomed swag-bellied skainsmate
villainous tardy-gaited strumpet
warped tickle-brained varlot
wayward toad-spotted vassal
weedy unchin-snouted whey-face
yeasty weather-bitten wagtail
A Train Ride in Mumbai
| August 25th, 2007
Outta Control...I wonder how often people lose their grip. Video
SpiralFrog.com
| August 23rd, 2007
Just a quick note about the cheapest LEGAL music downloading site out there right now.
It's well-known that I'm a faithful eMusic.com and LaLa.com user, but my latest resource is the not-yet-public SpiralFrog.com.
I think it's by invitation only at this point, but I've been checking it out for the last couple of days. User interface kinda sucks, it's definitely annoying to download albums because you have to sit there and initiate each download as it finishes, and there are many holes in their catalog, but...IT'S FREE!!
The company and the artist get paid through paid advertising on the site. That's why the interface makes sure you sit there and look at the screen during the downloads. An interesting concept, I wonder if it will remain vital. I doubt it, but maybe...
One more downside is that the downloaded files are WMA with Windows DRM protecting them. So for iPod users like me, you have to strip the DRM and convert to MP3 to make any use. Just a couple of extra steps, but worth noting.
Now you have to ask yourself, is it worth the time it takes to get these downloads for free or is your time more valuable?
Right now I'm listening to the excellently funky and beautiful Feist album,
Let It Die
. Downloaded from SpiralFrog of course :-)
Rock on
Ben
www.javboyrecords.com
It's well-known that I'm a faithful eMusic.com and LaLa.com user, but my latest resource is the not-yet-public SpiralFrog.com.
I think it's by invitation only at this point, but I've been checking it out for the last couple of days. User interface kinda sucks, it's definitely annoying to download albums because you have to sit there and initiate each download as it finishes, and there are many holes in their catalog, but...IT'S FREE!!
The company and the artist get paid through paid advertising on the site. That's why the interface makes sure you sit there and look at the screen during the downloads. An interesting concept, I wonder if it will remain vital. I doubt it, but maybe...
One more downside is that the downloaded files are WMA with Windows DRM protecting them. So for iPod users like me, you have to strip the DRM and convert to MP3 to make any use. Just a couple of extra steps, but worth noting.
Now you have to ask yourself, is it worth the time it takes to get these downloads for free or is your time more valuable?
Right now I'm listening to the excellently funky and beautiful Feist album,
Let It Die
. Downloaded from SpiralFrog of course :-)Rock on
Ben
www.javboyrecords.com
Electric Sheep Rocks
| August 22nd, 2007Ok so you all are aware of distributed 'grid' computing, as well as, peer to peer file sharing.....and everybody loves 'smoke and lightning' screen savers. Electric Sheep takes all of this to the next level as far as I am concerned. Ok so it is a kick ass screensaver that allows you to vote as a new scene (or as they call them sheep) comes on the screen with a gladiator style thumbs up or thumbs down. In the background it is 1) registering your vote and 2) using bittorrent to download new highly rated sheep to your PC. Basically guaranteeing a constantly refreshing batch of killer screensaver scenes. Please check this one out, you won't be disappointed.
From electricsheep.org:
Electric Sheep realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers
from all over the internet. It's a distributed screen-saver that
harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of
animating and evolving artificial life-forms.
All the software is open source and users may participate in the
network freely and anonymously. Anyone can download and install it.
When their computer is idle and goes to sleep, the sheep animations
appear, and in parallel the computer goes to work creating new sheep
and sharing its results with all other users.
Each sheep is about 4 seconds long. Its shape, motion, and color are
specified by a genetic code, a long string of numbers. If a user sees
a sheep they like, they may press the up arrow key to vote for it.
Sheep that receive more votes live longer and are more likely to
reproduce. These votes form a fitness function for the esthetic
evolution of the flock. Users can also download software to manually
design genomes and post them to the server where they join the flock.
I believe the free flow of code is an increasingly important social
and artistic force. The proliferation of powerful computers with
high-bandwidth network connections forms the substrate of an expanding
universe. The electric sheep and we their shepherds are colonizing
this new frontier.
From electricsheep.org:
Electric Sheep realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers
from all over the internet. It's a distributed screen-saver that
harnesses idle computers into a render farm with the purpose of
animating and evolving artificial life-forms.
All the software is open source and users may participate in the
network freely and anonymously. Anyone can download and install it.
When their computer is idle and goes to sleep, the sheep animations
appear, and in parallel the computer goes to work creating new sheep
and sharing its results with all other users.
Each sheep is about 4 seconds long. Its shape, motion, and color are
specified by a genetic code, a long string of numbers. If a user sees
a sheep they like, they may press the up arrow key to vote for it.
Sheep that receive more votes live longer and are more likely to
reproduce. These votes form a fitness function for the esthetic
evolution of the flock. Users can also download software to manually
design genomes and post them to the server where they join the flock.
I believe the free flow of code is an increasingly important social
and artistic force. The proliferation of powerful computers with
high-bandwidth network connections forms the substrate of an expanding
universe. The electric sheep and we their shepherds are colonizing
this new frontier.
Yearbook Photos of the Famous
| August 19th, 2007This stuff cracks me up see the originals at freelulu
Letterman
Gene Simmons
Kurt Vonnegut
Slash
Barack ObamaMy new Numark TTUSB - Schweeeet!
| August 10th, 2007
Ok....Yes I love my new Numark
turntable. Not too mention the kick ass lot of 80 Jazz albums I won on eBay which has me super hooked on Ramsey Lewis (highly recommend for anyone who hasn't listened. If you want one yourself her you go. Every night since the acquistion we have had 'Dinner Dance Party' with my wife and son at our house....its been a blast, highly recommended.Orange Erving
| August 10th, 2007I used to love making these as a kid........
* 1 can (6 oz size) frozen orange juice
* 1 cup water
* 1 cup milk
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 12 ice cubes
Directions:
1. Mix together in blender at high speed for 30 seconds. Serve
immediately.
Makes: 2 servings
Kid Zeppelin - kind of crazy….
| August 5th, 2007A very young kid playing stairway to heaven, albeit the playing isn't great, but given his age its still impressive, particularly the solo.