Month: May 2008

The Webby Awards Winner’s Gallery was “designed as a fun and interactive way to see all of the Nominees and Winners from the 12th Annual Webby Awards.” There’s a lot to see here…

Popular Science reports that HP has discovered the potential “God Particle” of electronics. The article explains that:

The device, a nanoscale component called a “memristor,” requires no power to retain data, which it can store more densely than a hard drive and access about as fast as a computer’s RAM memory—potentially allowing it to replace both components in the future.
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The memristor was theorized in the early seventies by an electrical engineer named Leon Chua, but it took decades before anyone could prove it exists.

The Slashdot thread on the subject is also interesting…

Cynical-C Blog has outdone itself with the post Classic Star Wars Toy Commercials, which includes some great videos.

Great Olan Mills photos circulated the e-mail circuit some time ago, but if you haven’t seen these craptacular photos you should do so immediately!

The creator of Homer Simpson “Untooned” and Super Real Mario World has also done a remarkable job with Jessica Rabbit “Untooned”.

The YouTube video The Making of the Computer Graphics for Star Wars (Episode IV) is pretty cool…

I’m a fan of the current TV shows Two And A Half Men and The Big Bang Theory, both creations of Chuck Lorre. If you’ve seen the shows (as well as some of his other shows not on the air anymore), you’ve probably noticed the “vanity card” message he inserts at the end of each episode. They’re generally personal monologues or unusual anecdotes and are usually worth the read (or listen; some recent ones are audio and require a visit to his site).

I mention this because I came across a Wall Street Journal article talking about it, which intrigued me enough to start perusing his Official Vanity Card Archives.

Campus Squeeze’s list of The 64 Manliest Movies To Date is decent, but missed some good ones, as pointed out in the comments. Omitting both Scarface or Goodfellas shows a serious lack of judgment, in my opinion. What do you think?

By the way, I’ve seen 50 of the 64 movies, for what it’s worth. Time to add to the Netflix queue… 😉

Jason Freeny’s Anatomie Gummi Bär is eerie, but funny…