March 12, 2005
A dancing flash animation of a chalk outline, rotoscoped
Yes, I know that didn't make the greatest description, but you really have to see this to understand it. Via Good Experience.
March 11, 2005
Peerflix, a P2P real world DVD exchange -- with Vancouver offices
Has anyone real tried this? Does it work?
March 10, 2005
Planters Mixed Nuts: It's actually MORE than 50% peanuts! Scandal!
Go, bloggers, go! Let's see if you can take down the big guy this time -- Mr. Peanut!
Track your Amazon sales rank with Books & Writers: Internet Services For Author & Publishers
Susie's book is #5,120 at this moment. That's f-in' awesome!
March 09, 2005
If you do not donate money by June 30, 2005, this man will kill his cute pet bunny and EAT him. Save Toby!
It disturbs me that the Google ads on the site are for girlfriends. Like, because rabbit ransomers make good boyfriends? Or because if you like eating bunnies, you might like to have a girlfriend? I don't understand.
The Official BitTorrent 4.0.0 is now available
The site looks a little less like a student project now.
CNN.com - Food poisoning kills 29 children
Can you believe that tapioca, one of the world's most innocuous substances, is made from a potentially poisonous root?
Rog::Ran::Dom: writes about "Groundhog Day in Brazil" -- you hang a dog from a rope and spin him (correction appended)
It looks horribly cruel, and triggered a rather large debate in Flickr-land about whether one should photograph such things.
Update: This is apparently a wire service photograph from Bulgaria, not Brazil, and even with that correction, the poster notes that this story has not been fully verified. I hope it turns out to be a hoax.
March 08, 2005
A large mushroom cloud of steam and smoke appears over Mt. Saint Helens after a "geological incident"
This is a live Web cam link; it may be dark when you click it.
Scotsman.com opines on why making lists is such an irresistible activity
Just like this list I add to every day.
If you use a RAID array, you won't be able to activate Acrobat 7.0
So you can have your data secure, or Adobe can have its activation system -- and guess who wins? They should put this on the box and on the requirements page (they don't currently), that you are required to have at least one non-RAID drive to use the product.
Paul Ford writes about his cat, this month named Abraham Lincoln
He changes his cats name every month. And why not? He might eventually find the name that makes the cat come when it's called.
March 07, 2005
Interesting business model of the day: Give away a 6-minute short online, but sell a DVD full of extras.
It works because it's a kickass short animated movie, called "More" that will, I guarantee, make you sigh wistfully.
I'm crazy for recommending that you read this, but here's the funniest email newsletter ad I've ever received
Read to the bottom; the movie they're hawking is pretty good, too. Actually, I'm going to post about that as well.
