Come on – you know you can’t resist just popping a few bubbles. Click to pop, or enable manic mode to pop with a simple mouse-over.
[tags]Pop the bubbles, Virtual bubble wrap to pop[/tags]
Category: Useless knowledge
Information you have no need for. Ever. Usually about me, but possibly about other trivial crap in the world.
On the PS3 delay
I’m pretty sure I said earlier in the year that the PlayStation 3 wouldn’t come out on time. Of course, I’m too lazy to even go search my own site to find out when I said that. With the latest news that the Europe launch will be delayed (damn near half a year, if I recall correctly) and that instead of the 4 million at launch Sony predicted, they will be short about 1 million and only ship 1.5 to 2 million (still not sure how that’s 1 million short, but them thar be Sony’s words), this comic seems to properly capture the nature of the launch.
[tags]Latest on the PS3 delay, Humor on the PlayStation delay[/tags]
Those damned magicians
MSNBC.com has this tragic tale to tell us. A Nigerian man was slaughtering a goat. Sometime during or shortly after the slaughter, the goat turned into his brother. Naturally, such an even can only occur when magic is involed.
A Nigerian murder suspect accused of killing his brother with an ax told police investigators he actually attacked a goat, which was only later magically transformed into his sibling’s corpse, officials said Thursday.
The man, whose name wasn’t released, offered police his explanation after his arrest Tuesday in the death of his brother the previous day at Isseluku village in southern Nigeria.
“He said that the goats were on his farm and he tried to chase them away. When one wouldn’t move, he attacked it with an ax. He said it then turned into his brother,” Police Commissioner Udom Ekpoudom told the Associated Press.
I totally understand. I have often seen the dragons that roam my street magically turn in to cars when the sun comes up.
[tags]Man kills goat which turns into brother, Magic makes mad mockery – murderer mauled mountainous mammal[/tags]
Happy Birthday, General Lee
You people with your misunderstanding. Not the General Lee from the Dukes of Hazzard. The real General Lee – the confederate general. We’re talking real history here…
Yes, September 16th 2006 is General Custis Lee’s 174th birthday. So hats off to a man who played a large part in the civil war. Oh, and note this little bit:
The eldest son and the second of seven children, Custis Lee, as his family called him, followed his father’s footsteps to West Point. At age 16, Custis had been denied entry into the military academy, but his father wrote an appeal to General Winfield Scott and so he was admitted the following year. Though he had needed his father’s influence to gain admission, once in West Point Lee made the most of his opportunity. He graduated first in his class of 46 in 1854. For the last two years of his studies, his father was superintendent of the academy.
Like so many children of the rich these days, it appears he couldn’t make the cut on his own, so he got Daddy to fix things and let him get where he wanted to be. Not that he didn’t do well after this, but he couldn’t even get into the military academy on his own. Think how history might have changed had daddy not written that letter.
[tags]Happy Birthday, General Lee’s birthday[/tags]
Dealing with death (video humor)
Here’s a short animation (<90 seconds, I'd guess, but didn't time it) showing how to handle death.
[tags]How to cope with death, Dealing with death animation[/tags]
Dominoes on a pool table
This is a fun little video to watch.
[tags]Dominoes on a pool table[/tags]
Dog arrested for extradition to Mexico
No, not A dog. This is about THE Dog. Yes, Dog the bounty hunter has been arrested by US authorities for extradition to Mexico. And if you still don’t know Dog, you should watch a little of his show on A&E to find out who he is.
Rita Cosby of MSNBC has reported that Duane Dog Chapman and two members of his bounty hunting team (one being his son, Tim & Leland Chapman) have been arrested by US officials. The arrest in in connection with the three year old case of “The Dog” going to Mexico and retrieving Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster. The Mexican authorities want them extradited. This is just absolutely insane. This is just plain wrong.
. . .
Cosby is reporting that Mexican government officials wanted the three men sent back there in relation to a three-year-old case.
In 2003, Chapman traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico to retrieve Max Factor cosmetics heir Andrew Luster, who was wanted in the U.S. on rape charges. Luster is now in jail, serving a 124-year term. The Chapman’s were jailed in Mexico for a brief time for the incident three years ago. Bounty hunting is considered a crime in Mexico.
Curious that they’ve already served time for their crime and are now, 3 years later, being sought for their crime. I’ll be interested to see how this turns out.
[tags]Dog the bounty hunter arrested for extradition to Mexico[/tags]
Drag the dot
It sounds simple. It plays simply. It is a strangely addictive simple game. Drag the dot.
Goldberg would be proud
This is the kind of device you build when you have a job with not enough work to do.
[tags]Goldberg-style office device[/tags]
Hogwarts made from matchsticks
(via Neatorama)
This is just incredible. I’m always amazed at the work done by folks with the skill, determination, patience, and vision to do things like this. I’d get bored or frustrated way before you could identify any actual buildings. Someone, though, has the determination needed to reconstruct Hogwarts (based on what is seen in the Harry Potter movies) out of matchsticks.
Matchstick Marvels will be taking you on an enchanted trip to J. K. Rowling’s world of Harry Potter this year. Acton will be displaying his matchstick version of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at the Matchstick Marvels museum in Gladbrook, IA. The model is based on Hollywood’s version of Hogwarts seen in the Harry Potter blockbuster movies. When finished in December of this year, it will contain over a half-million matchsticks held together with 15 gallons of carpenter’s wood glue.
Check back at the site periodically for updates on the building. All construction is expected to be finished by December 2006.
[tags]Hogwarts rebuilt with matchsticks[/tags]
Gitmo inmate “art” in Disneyland
(via the whole damn web – Neatorama is one resource)
An artist out in California managed to sneak into Disneyland this past holiday one night and set up a Guantanamo Bay inmate inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride. The inflatable doll was dressed in prisoner orange with shackles on his arms and legs. I’m sure Disney executives didn’t find this funny, but I see the humor in it.
Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.
The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland’s security staff shut down the ride and removed it amid fears over public safety.
[tags]Disneyland Guantanamo Bay prisoner art[/tags]
How to stop mouth-breathing
Sadly, this device to stop mouth breathing won’t stop mouth-breathers.
HOW TO STOP MOUTH BREATHING!
You can make sure that you breathe through your nose during the day, but one-third of your time you are asleep.
The Davis Chin Supporter scops mouth breathing and thereby prevents snoring, also the various throat and ear troubles directly due to mouth breathing. It’s fine mesh canvas or linen fits like a glove and washes like a handkerchief. It will add to your good health and spirits. Measure size around crown of head and point of chin. By mail, postpaid, Cotton $2.00, Linenâ€â€$3.00, Meshâ€â€$4.00.
CORA M. DAVIS
Dept. P. C. 507 Fifth Avenue
NEW YORK
Ad originally from the March 1922 issue of Physical Culture magazine. Information taken from the post at the Modern Mechanix blog.
[tags]How to stop mouth breathing, No longer mouth breathing != no longer mouth breather[/tags]