Westward Ho!

Well, I’ve got my pronunciation of “Chowdaaah” down pat, so I’m heading off to Cape Cod and Boston for the next couple of weeks. This means posting will be even patchier than usual around here. Providing my camera behaves (and I can find internet access in Cape Cod - the nearest Starbucks [...]

Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod

H. pointed me to the awesome Cory Doctorow Visits a Radio Shack. It’s completely hilarious and very well written. My favourite bit:
(AWKWARD SILENCE)
CORY DOCTOROW: Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod.
EMPLOYEE: What?
CORY DOCTOROW: I didn’t say anything. Now, about this cell phone…
The phrase “Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod” has been adopted as [...]

BREAKING: Paramount Drops Cruise - Cinematical

Hooray! Karma finally kicks in!

local6.com - Local News - Live Rattlesnakes Released In ‘Snakes On A Plane’ Theater

10 bucks says this was done as a marketing gimmick

BBC NEWS | Keane singer treated for drug use

Too much ale and pipeweed, heading back to the Shire for some rest

First Person Shooter

I heard the graphics on the Playstation 3 are going to be even BETTER than this

Best Dressed Zombie!

The Xbox Live Gaming Centre up on South William Street will be running a competition to coincide with the European release of Dead Rising next month. Fittingly, the competition is to find the best-dressed zombie.
From their newsletter:
The Xbox Live Gaming Centre is running a best dressed zombie competition to celebrate the launch of [...]

Paging Sheldon Turner


Snakes on a motherfuckin’ Plane

Let me start this off by saying that Snakes on a Plane is a great movie. A full year since I first wrote about it, a full year of anticipation has done nothing to harm this movie, it’s still everything we expected. In fact, it’s more than we expected, since we were [...]

Ninja Loves Pirate

There’s times when I regret having a mac. Reading about a windows-only game involving pirates and ninjas fighting zombies and robots is like all of those times at once.

A mystery wrapped in an enigma machine

Nerdy as hell, but I would gladly put up with the inevitable beatings if I could get this printed on a t-shirt.

More Bruce Schneier facts

Toot toot!

So we’ve all heard about the recent Mel Gibson debacle, right? You know, the one where he revealed himself to be a complete lunatic? Well, not to toot my own horn or nothing, I’d just like to point out that I called this in December of last year. My exact words were
Gibson has [...]

Threadless T-Shirts - Also Sprach Miyamoto

Awesome Kubrick/Miyamoto crossover. I hope this gets printed

Lomo Effect

Thanks to the Tao of Mac for pointing me to this incredible tutorial for using photoshop to give images a Lomo effect.
There’s a delicious irony in using a high-tech piece of software like Photoshop to recreate the look of a cheap, plastic lens.
Before:

After:

Things to keep me occupied on the long weekend

Download the Dead Rising demo from Xbox Marketplace
It’s time-limited to 15 minutes per game, but still. This is one of the games that finally convinced me to buy an Xbox 360. Let’s hope it was worth it.
Go see A Scanner Darkly on Monday
Get a coupon from today’s copy of The Ticket in [...]

Snakes in your Motherfuckin’ Email

More genius internet marketing from those Snakes on a Plane fellas. With this, you can send a personalised Snakes On A Plane email (or phone greeting if you’re in the US) ‘from’ Samuel L. Jackson to your friends.
So good, I’ve even sent myself one.
http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/
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Ireland’s Bee Population in Decline

As someone who is mortally afraid of bees, wasps and other flying, stinging insects, let me be the first to say FUCK YEAH! TAKE THAT YOU LITTLE FLYING BITCHES.

Some days I feel like Kinski, some days I feel like the dog

(click for slightly larger image)
Notes: this picture, ripped from a copy of er… Empire, I think, has been hung up on my bedside table for the past few months. Here’s hoping I’ll be the first hit on google images for ‘kinski gun dog’.