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ABC News reports that the “Fat Darrell,” a sandwich made from “chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks and french fries,” will be named the best sandwich in the country by Maxim magazine in its upcoming issue; here’s the rest of the list. Mmmm… Fat Darrell…
Print out this coupon and head to your nearest Target (by this Sunday) to receive 25 free digital prints. You might want to make sure that your particular store actually makes prints from digital media, though…
Check out these cool physics movies, which include the simulation of hyperelastic bodies, complex collisions, and lots of other neat stuff.
Got this one in an e-mail today:
How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?
The answer is seven.
- One to deny that a light bulb needs to be replaced.
- One to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions
about the light bulb.
- One to blame the previous administration for the need of a new light
bulb.
- One to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret
stockpile of light bulbs.
- One to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to
pay Halliburton one million dollars for a light bulb.
- One to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the light bulb
while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag.
- And finally, one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a
light bulb and screwing the country.
For those of you that don’t recognize the image above (for shame! ;-p), it is the last scene of Star Wars Episode VI: Return Of The Jedi where Luke and Leia are visited by the ghostly figures of the recently-departed Anakin Skywalker, Yoda, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The original actor that portrayed Anakin has seemingly been digitally replaced with Hayden Christensen, who plays/will play Anakin/Darth Vader in Episodes II and III, and that just blows. I knew that the upcoming DVDs would be the 1997 Special Editions rather than the original versions, which is bad enough. And I have heard rumors of additional revisionist changes (including that Qui-Gon Jinn from Episode I would also be added to the above scene), but this is too much. It’s possible that this is a forgery, but it comes from a fairly reputable source (Slashdot), so it could be the real deal.
I wish George Lucas would get it into his thick skull that he can mess with a classic all he wants, but he should acknowledge his fans and release it in its original form as well as his in his “enhanced” version. I guess I’m quite the geek for ranting about this so much, but so be it…
Yahoo reports that “when state Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort [Washington], there were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.” However, there were other coolers nearby, and according to agents, “he drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer.” I guess prevailing theories concerning ursine indifference to beer brand have now been thoroughly disproven.
DrikoLand co-blogger Shaft reportedly also enjoys Rainier beer, to the surprise of at least one waitress. Sorry, I couldn’t let that opportunity pass… ;-P
The Winnebago Man (QuickTime movie embedded in web page) is a little bit “angry” (use your headphones; the language is NSFW). Just the thing to watch when you think you’re having a bad day… 😉
Wired News reports on a new product offered by the United States Postal Service (USPS): PhotoStamps. The USPS already offered a service that let you print your own postage via its stamps.com site, and this seems to expand on that by letting you the upload your own photo to the PhotoStamps site in order to make custom stamps. Of course, it does cost more to make your own stamps than it would to just buy the same denomination (about $0.85 for a $0.37 stamp if you buy a sheet of 20), but I guess that’s to be expected. Unfortunately, there are some pretty broad restrictions on photo content, which could (perhaps unjustly) prevent some images from getting made into stamps:
You further agree not to use the PhotoStamps website or service:
B. To upload, order for print, or otherwise transmit or communicate any material that is obscene, offensive, blasphemous, pornographic, unlawful, deceptive, threatening, menacing, abusive, harmful, an invasion of privacy or publicity rights, supportive of unlawful action, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, illegal or otherwise objectionable…
That’s too bad, because it probably means you couldn’t make some of the stamps that Boing Boing has come up with, although I think that you could still have some fun with this…
As most of you probably know, the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB) is the site for information on films, with exhaustively comprehensive details about cast credits, directors, trivia, and a whole lot more. I came upon a pretty cool story at LA Weekly that goes into the history of the site, which apparently started as a personal movie database way before the WWW even existed. Col Needham, the creator of IMDB, must’ve made a mint with what started as a hobby…
So is everyone watching Olympics coverage? I know we watched a lot this weekend, but with so much going on during the day this week, I’m sure we’ll miss a lot. If you’re itching to keep up to date, check out the official Athens 2004 Olympic Games site or the Athens Olympic Games Blog, which contains links to all sort of other sites and resources.
