Month: November 2004

To brighten your Monday morning, I present to you Exit Mundi, a graphic collection of end-of-world scenarios. Enjoy your doom…

Take a look at the scientific adventures of Oh My God It Burns!, in which the writers explore the theory that “a simple Brita water filter can be used to make bad vodka, into good. In our case this meant turning a Vladimir™, into a Ketel One™.” I was surprised at the results…

A Whole Lotta Nothing linked to an article in the New Yorker about intellectual property in which an interesting claim was buried: “The guitar riff from Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ is just a tweaked version of the lick from Boston’s ‘More Than A Feeling.’”

The Dead Parrot Society decided to explore this further and posted an audio loop comparing the two. I know both songs pretty well, and off the top of my head I couldn’t remember anything that similar. However, having heard the clip I can now say that although the riff is not exactly the same, it’s definitely more similar than I had remembered. Listen for yourself…

“President Bush and former President Bill Clinton squeezed through the glass entrance to the library.”

I couldn’t resist the Han Shot First T-Shirt offered by the folks at pVponline (a great online comic, by the way).

For those of you that don’t get the reference, you obviously haven’t been reading my Star Wars DVD rants, in which I have been complaining about the plot and character changes that George Lucas has introduced into the recent DVD release of the original Star Wars trilogy. One of the most egregious is, in my opinion, having Han Solo fire at the bounty hunter Greedo only after fired upon, which is not the case in the original theatrical release. A minor point, perhaps, but a point that I think should be preserved and not forever obscured. So much for my pledge to not post about that anymore; I guess the fact that I’m ordering a T-Shirt from ThinkGeek probably says it all. :-p

Along the lines of some other dancing Transformer posts I’ve made, Gizmodo and Screenhead both post about a commercial featuring a dancing Transformer version of the new Citroen C4 (links directly to MPG video). Carpages UK has some more information on the commercial if you’re interested.

I might as well go whole hog with the “immorality” theme today. Check out The Joy of Sexual Physics, in which topics such as “The wormhole-assisted masturbation technique,” “Ejaculation at the speed of light,” and several others are tackled by Dr John Marshall, Ph.D. I probably don’t need to tell you that the page might be considered NSFW.

Now my blog is really “immoral”… 🙂

The Hoosier Gazette reports that “John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number.” Pathetic…

I guess my blog is “immoral” now too for using the number “69,” although I guess that was never in question… 😉

Back in college, I worked in a book store, so when I came upon this story about artist Chris Cobb reorganizing an entire book store’s collection by color, I was definitely intrigued. Check out the gallery of some of the book shelves in San Francisco’s Adobe Bookshop, which agreed to this chromatic display for one week…