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| Friday Aug 4, 2006 | All Your Base? Snakes On A Plane? Cobra Commander? Osama Bin Laden? All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us! to Internet by faisal |
| Saturday Jul 29, 2006 | Some of the funniest schwag I got second-hand from the famed San Diego Comic Con was Shana Manion's super-sarcastic "Ask Miss Anthropy" (available from Sugar Free Comics on its own, and anthologized here), which was created as part of 24 Hour Comics, an experimental project created and edited by the one and onlyScott McCloud. to Comics by pyrrhuloxia |
| Guillaume Reymond has come up with a way to play old-time favorites Space Invaders and Pong with a few dozen of your closest friends. to Games by pyrrhuloxia |
| Bird on your head? to Outdoors by pyrrhuloxia |
| Even the very hungry are wary of new foods. But Steve of The Sneeze is fearless. to Food by pyrrhuloxia |
| Tuesday Jun 20, 2006 | The United States Office of Property Disposal thinks you should buy this island (assuming you have the money). It's in the Johnson Atoll, and may well be uninhabitable because of some of the things it's former tennants did to it. to Government by caspian |
| Air Torture... flying to select torture chambers around the world! to Travel by roo |
| Sunday Jun 18, 2006 | With the sudden increase in the price of gasoline, it may be a good idea to replace your rice rocket with a bicycle. to Transportation by caspian |
| Thursday Jun 8, 2006 | Certainly, the Beatles were influnced by Indian music in a positive way. But I wonder if the same could be said for the influnece of the Beatles on Indian music. to Music by fool |
| Doomed internet startup
Wiffiti
has decided that what physical locations such as coffeeshops are missing is
unmoderated comment spam.
Happily, we can sit back and watch this train wreck of a business plan
in action
LIVE on their web page.
to Business by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 7, 2006 | How can
this man fly like that without wings or a glider?
The short answer is
"the ground effect", but
the more you look into it, the
more complicated it gets. to Science by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Jun 6, 2006 | A very odd (and underexplained)
three-dimensional summary of the plot
of Fight Club, using Lego. to Literature by riotnrrd |
| Human beings are
pretty much
just monkeys with
less hair,
so maybe
the ideal diet is
the obvious one.
to Food by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 5, 2006 | I finally understand how people develop odd fetishes like
giant women
crushing cars.
It's all the fault of
advertising.
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jun 1, 2006 | Juggling in a cone. to Entertainment by roo |
| Tuesday May 30, 2006 |
Matthew Wheeler found merely lighting
fires with lenses made of ice was too easy, so he
started
taking photos with them. to Photography by riotnrrd |
| Sunday May 28, 2006 | What is greater than God? More evil than the devil.
The poor have it. The rich need it. And if you eat it, you will die. The answer: nothing. to Religion by fool |
| Friday May 26, 2006 | If you lie and sell someone a broken laptop, make sure it's not still
full of
personal information and
foot-fetish porn. to Humor by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 25, 2006 | I'm sure everyone out there knows about
"Star Wars Episode 1.1:
The Phantom Edit":
a re-edit of George Lucas'
heartbreakily
crappy
1999 "Star Wars" trilogy prequel. This labor of love by an (at the time)
anoymous fan removes much of the hated Jar Jar, redubs the aliens
with better (and
less
racist) dialog and,
overall, did what Lucas' millions of dollars could not: make it watchable.
More importantly,
"The Phantom
Edit" was the first so-called fan edit
to make it beyond the tight knit circle of blackmarket dub vendors
at sci-fi conventions.
A more recent, and in hindsight inevitable, re-edit is
"Matrix Dezionized" which
combines the episodes 2 and 3 of the "Matrix" trilogy
in order to
eliminate some fan-hated scenes (most notably the post-apocalyptic
rave) including nearly every mention Zion, and some (but not nearly
enough) of the incoherent, three-bong-hit philosophy of the Warchoski
brothers.
Other, more obscure fanedits, such as
"Star Trek VII: Kirkless Generations",
"27 days later",
"Jailbird"
(an edit of "Con Air")
and, oddly enough,
"13 Going On 30: Extra Flirty"
follow the same pattern:
disliked scenes are removed, dialog is changed (where possible) and
action is tightened.
Perhaps the most obscure, and least watchable, is
"Hannibalized",
a amateur re-edit of Ridley Scott's slasher flick "Hannibal". Claiming
to have "more Hannibal and less Starling", this edit removed all the
scenes that made softened Hannibal Lecter's character, many of the
character building scenes involving Clarice Starling, and re-included
some of Scott's deleted scenes, such as the infamous
steering
wheel licking scene.
to Movies by riotnrrd |
| Recently, Japanese peripheral maker Keys
Factory ran an
internal staff contest
for non-destructive
DS case
mods. The
rather
uninspiring winner is now available for 980 yen, but
some of the
other entries are
much more
interesting
(if
not exactly
practical).
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 24, 2006 |
Like musicians playing
covers of their favorite songs,
visual artists love to offer their own interpretations of famous characters
from literature
and
cartoons.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Surviving the gauntlet of MCATs and medical school applications does little to prepare you for the daunting task of choosing your M.D. specialty. Undecided students can now refer to this handy guide to determine which medical profession best fits their personality. to Humor by pjammer |
| Tuesday May 23, 2006 |
What do you do if you have a
fetish for
bizarrely elongated
tall girls,
who could
never exist, even with the help of
surgery?
Why,
you use Poser of course!
to Sex by riotnrrd |
| Oddball Comics
gives you
detailed descriptions and analyses of
bad comics that
probably don't
deserve
such meticulous treatment. to Comics by riotnrrd |
| Thursday May 18, 2006 | Jim Woodring
(whose work I am sure you've seen before) has
his own blog,
where he posts the hallucinatory artwork and elliptical
commentary he is so famous for.
to Art by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday May 17, 2006 | Come to Egypt and enjoy the
worst theme park in the world. to Travel by riotnrrd |
| Friday May 12, 2006 | Augh! As if letting
John Ashcroft's eagle soar wasn't painful
enough, now terrifying conservative mummy Orrin Hatch is
getting musical, too.
to Music by riotnrrd |
|
Tourist phrasebooks, unless they are
truly incompetently written, should be terse and
useful above all else.
But then, how can you explain
phrases like these? to Humor by riotnrrd |
| In Soviet Russia, gadgets own you! to Gadgets by riotnrrd |
| Sunday May 7, 2006 | Admit it, like most movie/game/music geeks, even your favorite game, DVD or CD was likely gathering dust a few weeks after you bought them. Sure, you could sell them for less than half what you paid ... but now you can now trade them for fresh content with other movie/game/music fans using LendMonkey, at a dollar a pop. to Commerce by pjammer |
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