S and me went horseback riding this weekend - what an awesome time. We decided to go horseback riding after weeks of talking about it, and so we jumped on a couple of mares yesterday at 4pm - beautiful night, our great guide (Don - thank you), and some gorgeous woodland made it a pretty spectacular hour-long ride.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have teamed up with Google Earth to bring what has to be one of the coolest ways to help invigorate the world with freshly grown trees. For $5.50 you can have your very own tree planted on the island of Borneo, and once it’s been planted, watered, and logged, they send you confirmation of your purchase and get this - the actual Google Earth coordinates of your tree. I’m not quite sure if the resolution of Google Earth is up to par just yet to see much detail at that close range, but it’s a very nice idea. Visit mybabytree.org to find out more information.
I think I’ll buy me a wee tree of my own.
Quick premise - Jack Black is a nuclear activist, Mos Def a failing VHS rental store clerk. Jack is electrocuted at a power plant during an attempted sabotage, is asked to watch over the store one day, his magnetized body (from the accident) erases all the VHS tapes in the store - ridiculous, but it’s the set up for the rest of the movie - they both decide to remake each movie they lost on their own using their own video camera, and cheap special effects. They call the process “sweding”, touting the movies as having come from Sweden as an excuse for higher rental fees and longer wait times. Hence the term “sweding”, or “sweded” is born.
There have been some pretty good sweded movies around the internet lately, including a great sweded Star Wars, but my favorite is the sweded Tron above. I love how they used the original soundtrack from the movie and implemented it perfectly into their own sweded version. Genius. Here’s a movie clip of the original lightcycle scene from original Tron film.
Jamie and his magic fucking torch ruled when I was a kid.
Did you hear that? RULED!And here are the lyrics should you want to sing along:
Jamie! Jamie!
Jamie and the Magic Torch.
Down the helter skelter, faster and faster
towards Cuckoo Land.Wordsworth! Wordsworth!
Following hard behind.
Ready for adventure, always there to lend a paw or hand!Mr Boo and all the others too,
the strangest people you’ve ever seen.
And the torch with it’s magical beam -
If I hadn’t really been there
I’d think that I was dreaming!Jamie! Jamie!
No two nights are the same.
And life is one long glorious game
with Jamie.
Jamie and the Magic Torch!
(I don’t remember the dog being called Wordsworth though - perculiar)
To promote their latest shipping drive, the USPS have partnered with the Lucasfilm boys to bring us Star Wars themed stamps and what they’re calling “Jedi Shipping”. A Star Wars themed sweepstakes for a chance to win a trip for 4 to LA for a Star Wars IV celebration.
Anyway, the cool thing is that the USPS have transformed some mail boxes along the major streets in New York City into R2-D2 droids! This mailbox is right outside my office near the NewsCorp building.
Go Matt!
Walking through Grand Central late this afternoon, I meander through the grand concourse’s tiny shopping area by the main entrance at 42nd Street, and come across a cool little stall called Kee-Ka. Their website explains the idea behind Kee-Ka:
At Kee-Ka we create fun, unique, and meaningful gift experiences. We celebrate the timeless wonderment of self-expression and gift giving. Our products are packaged in award-winning little brown boxes that are self-sealable, ready to mail, and taking over the planet.We are locacted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from where we design our products that are available in retail stores across the globe from New York to New Zealand.
…and if you’re wondering Kee-Ka means baby talk in every language on this planet.
Needless to say, my wee nephew is about to be spoiled rotten.
The “Brief Safe” is an innovative diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you’re traveling. Items can be hidden right under their noses with these specially-designed briefs which contain a fly-accessed 4″ x 10″ secret compartment with Velcro closure and “special markings” on the lower rear portion. Leave the “Brief Safe” in plain view in your laundry basket or washing machine at home, or in your suitcase in a hotel room - even the most hardened burglar or most curious snoop will “skid” to a screeching halt as soon as they see them.
So, next time you go away on business, or take a trip to your in-laws, don’t forget to pack these puppies - could save you a shit load.
As if it couldn’t get any better, there’s also this:
One size. Color: white (and brown). To add realistic smell, check out “Doo Drops” on Page 65.
Who comes up with this shit?!
CNN announced today that Peter Mayhew of Chewbacca fame, will join 440 other people from 77 countries in becoming a naturalized American on Monday October 17th. Congrats Pete.
GGRGRGRGG GAGGGAGGRGRRRGRG GGGRRGRGRGGRGRRRRR!
In the lands of Middle Earth, legend tells of the dark lord Sauron and the ring that would give him the power to enslave the world. Lost for centuries, it has been sought by many, and has now fallen into the hands of the most unlikely person imaginable…
That of course comes from the fateful intro of one of the most amazing films ever made (in my humble opinion). The story of a strange little creature named Frodo who takes on the challenge to end all challenges - to carry the “one ring that rules them all” to the firy pit whence it came…
[tangent]
It’s almost Halloween and it’ll be time for Peeps - those sugar coated marshmallow little buggers that kids go nuts over.
[onward to the point of this topic]
*drum roll*… Middle Earth fans, lords and ladies, may I present, The Lord of the Peeps - Fellowship of the Peep. At last, someone with enough spare time on their hands to recreate a movie blockbuster using these fat-free denture destroyers! There are 9 chapters so far, all lovingly reproduced with colorful backdrops and costumes.
There’s something mildly amusing about a tomato shaped like a pear… nay, what’s fundamentally rip roaring is seeing a vegetable in the shape of a vagina.
Visit the MoFA (Museum of Food Anomolies) to check out other freaky veggies.
Ever wondered what to do with your used train tickets? Sure, you could throw them in the trash as usual, toss them in the bottom of your bag…
…but what about turning your hand to creating Star Wars spacecraft from your old tickets?
Some French guy called Hubert de Lartigue posted his creation and moreover, full instructions including pictures of the various stages of creation at www.cfsl.net.
Hubert asks:
Have you ever fiddled around with an old metro ticket between two stops ? I did it for six months (in 2004, magical year) while wondering how I could give it a cool shape.
I have to admit, I remember fashioning tiny paper planes from bus tickets between stops - great way to pass the time on what would be a typically event free commute.
I wonder if I could turn my MTA card into the Eiffel Tower…
Who better to invent the very latest technology geared towards beer, but the Germans. Just when you thought you’d be living a life full of trips to the bar when your glass is empty, think again. Along comes a new contraption that senses the weight of your glass, and determining whether a refill is needed - automatically notifies the bartender! At last, I can keep my arse firmly planted and not have to worry about those long arduous walks to the bar (phew!).
(CNN) — Two German students have created a device that will stop beer lovers having to get out of their seats for a refill.The “smart” beer mat, created by Matthias Hahnen and Robert Doerr from Saarland University in Saarbruecken, southwest Germany, can sense when a glass is nearly empty, sending an alert to a central computer behind the bar so waiters know there are thirsty customers.
Thank you guys, a great way for the beer drinking populous to add to their already existing colossal waists sizes, foregoing the necessity to use their legs ever again.
Now, if we can only come up with a way to not have to walk to the bathroom…
one of the very first things I encountered after joining the “iPod fraternity” was that I could certainly upload any music to my liking, but there wasn’t a method of transfering my music back from iPod to computer. Of course, Apple didn’t want you taking your iPod to your friend’s house and have your buddy transfer all your tunes to their own iPod for free (depending indeed if you’d actually bought your music - DISCLAIMER: which we all should be doing).
Alas, what happens if through some disturbingly unfortunate event you lose all your music from your computer? The only storage of said tunes is laiden inside your iPod, and then by an equally disturbingly unfortunate event you lose your beloved “pod”, or you accidentally reformat it and lose everything?! you’re completely shafted.
My saving grace came in the form of i Lounge, where they cover “All things iPod.” They have a phenomenal selection of iPod utilities and tools for download (most of then free) and a superlative discussion forum which covers topics from iPods to accessories, and pretty much everything else you can possibly imagine. So, there I am a couple of weekends ago looking for a solution to my aforementioned dilemma. It didn’t take me long to find (in my opinion) THE best utility to render my fears, a mute point. They have a link to a site that has created a completely free utility called Senuti - “Everything in Reverse”. Senuti is of course “iTunes” spelled backwards… ingenius.
This amazing, and FREE (you can certainly donate to the author) utility does everything:
if you own an iPod (ANY model) go and download this potential lifesaver - always good to back up your iPod, should the hands of fate nudge you into oncoming traffic, resulting in certain sorrow and nights of sobbage.
whiling away the morning I came across what I can only tout as the most comprehensive Space Ghost FAQ site dedicated to this classic superhero I’ve seen. It holds the definitive list of Ghost’s allies and enemies to an artist’s impression of what our powerband-wearing hero looks like without his mask.
you go SG!
There once was a time, long ago, when yours truly could manage to pull off the caterpillar (or popularly know in the US as the worm) and a watered down version of the flares. Alas, I was a mere blot on the canvass compared to these guys, especially the spaghetti-legged dude in the red pants.
About 2:18 into the movie clip, the latter of the two blows the competition away.
Come on ladies, come and get your fill of ‘Men of the Internet’. these pics were apparently taken from personal home pages.
I think I saw Keith Chegwin in there…
since moving into my new abode, here in the heart of brooklyn, I have come to the very recent conclusion that I live in a district of religious warmth, a community rife with compassion, forgiveness, and a profound love for humanity. I sit here as I type away, sporadically adding to the megabytes already stored by the thousands of servers at blogger.com HQs, and listen to the harmonious singing of people praising to a lord that protected those that lived through the terrible events of the gulf coast this week. indeed, they’re singing praise to god. I can’t quite make out all the words, but the commercial quality of the harmony, and the distinct sincerity in my neighbors’ voices, brings me to a place I seldom have the opportunity to visit.
I can’t quite pull myself away from the affecting emotion that these words tonight, hold special meaning to those lost, those that perished, and those that are without doubt, going through one of this world’s worst nightmares.
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