This would be way easier if they would give the kitties a real whack!
When I was riding my bike to work yesterday, I totally got pooped on by a bird. When I got to work I had to go straight to a morning meeting where this dude I work with said "Oh that's lucky! You should buy a lottery ticket." The guy is from Hong Kong and if you didn't know, it's some Asian thing where they believe getting pooped on by a bird is lucky. Japanese people say the same thing. It's something about the probability of poop landing on you or something dumb. I really don't understand why that doesn't just mean that you're exceptionally unlucky.
So, I took their advice. I bought one of those Lucky For Life scratch tickets. And you know what? I didn't win a damn thing. I was talking to another guy at work about it later and he suggested that maybe I really was lucky because the money I would have won could have ruined my life. I thought that made sense like some cursed monkey paw thing or something. Well, at least it made sense until Jeremy brought up the point that I probably wouldn't have bought the ticket if I hadn't have gotten pooped on in the first place.
This is the Bestiary Book. It's an art project some lady made recently. It works by having a camera read the little bar codes in the the top corners of the page and changing the image that a projector is projecting onto the book. The implementation is kind of lame. She could have totally put video or animations or something. If she did, it would sure beat those lame-ass picture books that used to come with records that narrate the story and blast some annoying noise when you're supposed to turn the page.
But seriously... what's up with augmented reality recently and how did it get so awesome so fast? I only started hearing about it like less than a year ago. It was like some dumb Japanese software you could buy that came with a cube with different black and white patterns printed on each side. I think it was something like if you held up the cube to your web cam, some scantily clad cartoon French maid would appear on top of it. The thing cost like more than $50 though. Now, even the new Star Trek movie has a pretty awesome augmented reality thing on their promo website for free (you can check it out here).
I found these ads on some weird Russian art/media blog. They're print ads for Renault with unfortunate domain names and the tag line "Isn't it awful with things get crowded together?" Click my personal favorite below to go to the Russian blog. The image is kind of hard to read, but this is an actual website for what looks to be some kind of toy consignment store called Kid's Exchange.
Though it's not included in this ad campaign, my favorite classic unfortunate domain name is for a plant nursery named Mole Station. It looks like the original site went down, but you can see the dumb squatter site at www.molestationnursery.com
The MPAA (the RIAA douchebags of movies) released the following instructional video to educational institutions after they requested an exemption for ripping DVDs for classroom use.
What was their legal alternative? Video taping the goddamn TV! Sources say this isn't a joke either.
I'm not sure I understand how this is more legal than ripping. Can't the government just step in already? I wonder how much they have to pay in lobby dollars to still be taken seriously.
So there's this girl that sits next to me at work named Marta. After the first few times I talked to her, I started to notice that she admitted to hating a lot of stuff. It seemed like every time we had a conversation, she would mention at least one new thing that she hates.
After a while, I started to become fascinated by the sheer number of hated items and decided to starting recording them in a list.
I am now putting this list online to allow others to marvel at it's heft.
Anyway, here's the link to that list. I'm calling it:
"Things Marta Does Not Heart-a: a growing list by the todd in toddparty.com"
It includes my opinion and Jeremy's opinion (he actually works with her) for each item.
These 3D projections were done by a company called Easyweb in France that specializes in this stuff.
A while back, me and Jeremy saw something like this in Kobe. They projected different neon colors on like every brick of the front of this old building. It was pretty cool to see up close, but it was nothing like this.
I think it would be cool if you could tow around those projectors and have them project on you. You could project a different outfit like every 5 seconds. You could also accessorizes with stuff like swinging tails and bouncing nipples.
While exploring some mammoth/woolly rhino graveyard in Siberia, a bunch of Russian scientists found this 5,000,000 year old bacterium that was still alive in the soil.
I'm not clear as to why, but they started inoculating mice with it and it had some crazy effects on them. Elderly mice experienced increased physical, mental and sexual activity and it seemed like it extended their life expectancies too. They also got a female mouse of 70 (in mouse years) knocked-up!
While an anti-aging/pro-aging boner, all-in-one solution sounds awesome, I can't help but think this is the beginning of a horny zombie plague (or World War Z with erections). "I Am Legend" totally started the same way.
Anyway, you can read the original article from the Daily Mail UK
P.S. The above pic is not a pic of the bacteria. I think it's cholera. I just picked it because I thought it looked like Viagra bacteria.
After more than 2 years, I finally finished remodeling my basement. It's all my wildest fantasies come true. Anyway I'll probably put a slew of pics related to basement later, but for now, here's a little something I whipped up. Enjoy!
The before pictures aren't actually what I started with. They were taken about 6 months in. I wish I had true before pics to show how nasty it was.
This is the second place winner on Gizmodo.com's "Go Miniman Go Lego" video contest. I personally thought the wining video was kind of lame and I don't think it's fair that they used CG and clay.
I love how everything that moves off the screen gets vivisected. P.S. Sorry the embedded video is so small. You can click the little four arrows icon to full screen it.
