Rules to Live By

A poster on the wall of someone's cube at work. (Click to embiggen.)

Caption Contest

Films and Firearms

IMDB is the premier source for movie information. But sometimes you want specific movie information, especially if you like weapons. For that sort of thing, you need the Internet Movie Firearms Database.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is Andy.

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Activity Corner

• Young elk loves plays in puddle.


• Mexico's creepy "Isla de las Munecas" (Island of the Dolls).


• 20 geek-inspired engagement/wedding rings.


• 25 passive-aggressive office kitchen notes.


• An abridged history of the internet.


• Americans know what happens next week. 10 fascinating facts about Black Friday.


• World's luckiest train track inspector.


• The 3D Mandelbrot set.


• Interesting analysis of Twitter activity.


• Another Amazon.com meme. Once again, it's not the product (the laptop steering wheel desk) itself, it's the customer reviews.


• A review and redesign of NFL helmet graphics.


• Google Image Swirl reminds me of the visual thesaurus. For an example, check out Frank Lloyd Wright.


• These are all over the web, but here's a collection of Google search suggestions.


• The poster dares you not to laugh at the video fail-a-thon.


• I thought I couldn't be surprised by USB heating devices. But then I saw the USB heating kneepads. Charge 'em up and take 'em with you.


• If you have a strong stomach, you might think the homemade chicken plucking machine is pretty cool.


• If you like to play with your cat(s) using a laser pointer, and like to entertain them while you're away, then you need the FroliCat automatic laser toy. Be sure to watch the video.


• Want to have a deep-fried turkey for Thanksgiving, but don't want that huge driveway/back porch event? Then you need the indoor electric turkey fryer.


• You know what's soothing and doesn't look weird at all? An electric head massager.


• Toshiba advertises their new high-definition TV with the awesome space chair project.


• Hardest hockey shot ever!


• "Painting" old school style at the ANSI art show.
  
• A long-lost Beatles album is chronicled at The Beatles Never Broke Up.


• Awesome halftime mascot dance.


• Two girls fail at recreating Risky Business.


• Bacon-flavored popcorn. No more needs be said.


• The mousetrap coffin.


• The decade in 7 minutes.


• Seven sci-fi series that need movie reboots.


• Baby otter playing.


• 12 weird things to do with your cremated remains.


• 50 bizarre purses and handbags.


• 10 cross-dressing disguises that shouldn't have fooled anyone.


• Animated short Pigeon: Impossible.


• The horrible photos of extremely dirty PCs.


• The amazing Madagascar stone forest (article).

Friday Game

Here's a pixelated game of discovery with a rather unique twist. There's no timer, no points, no enemies; just you and the "fog of war" of the unexplored world. Investigate the mystery and wonder of Small World.

Totem Pole

A house in Ballard with its own homemade totem on a pole, made from scrap pieces of wood and the actual telephone/power pole on the street.

Browser Share Update

I was curious this morning what affect, if any, Google Chrome and Safari (iTunes and iPhone) had on the Firefox-heavy number of browsers that are used to access this site. So I ran (electronically, of course) to my sitemeter page and grabbed the current browser statistics:



Of course, Firefox is hanging in there at 50%. Chrome, not too much of a showing yet. IE versions take second place with 26%, but Safari is right on IE's heels at 21%.

Sorry, geeked out there a little bit. Hope you don't mind.

Making Your Day

Perhaps you've already seen this, as it's all over the intarwebz, but it's a collection of submitted vignettes about incidents or events that individuals have truly enjoyed. It's in the vein of Eff My Life and My Life is Average, but (I think) a lot more enjoyable. Check out It Made My Day.

Game Update

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Totally awesome. I've finished the single player campaign, have done a lot of multiplayer, and am playing the Spec Ops missions with Sylvani. So frikkin' cool.

Left 4 Dead 2. Holy crap, so good. I only got in the first (level? chapter? movie?) in the single player last night, but man, what a ride. Melee weapons are exceptionally gory and fun.

Beatles Rock Band. The Sergeant Pepper album is out for download. HOW DID I MISS THAT? I'll be downloading it tonight, for sure.

Batman: Arkham Asylum. Wow, need more time to get back to this one, since I'm enjoying it and still haven't finished it yet.

Star Trek MMO beta. Come on, Cryptic, where's my invite?

Walked On

Chipped crosswalk paint and a smushed Pepsi can in the U district.

Caption Contest

I can't spare a square...

Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey has a new "personal" web site, and it's as strange and interesting as the many roles he's played over the years. There's really not much to say, either about him or the site, other than the two seem to fit what you'd expect. It's a weird sort of fun exploring the site (and mind?) that is JimCarrey.com.

Caption Contest Winner

This week's winner is House of Mayhem!

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Activity Corner

Lucky Fridy the 13th edition!

• Dodge Viper logo is an upside-down Daffy Duck.


• If your boobs aren't big enough, get this Chinese inflatable bra. (Possibly NSFW with many bra and cleavage shots.)


• 20 great warning signs. I like #6 the best.


• And, really dumb warning labels.


• Five modified Roombas, a laptop, radio controller, and a whole lotta geekiness results in Roomba Pacman.


• Water drops in super slow-mo, with an explanation of why they do that.


• 10 geeky laws that should exist, but don't.


• All I can say is, wow. The all-inclusive all-you-can-eat buffet guide. Great tips for getting your money's (and your mouth's) worth!


• List of cats with fraudulent diplomas. Srsly?


• Forget garden gnomes, real geeks get a garden Jawa.


• Room- or officemates stealing your food? Protect it from "refrig-a-raiders" with the Fridge Locker.


• Ok, people, you can stop sending me this now, I've already seen it! The Star Trek Enterprise chandelier.


• Artistic Japanese barcodes.


• Add some Christmas spirits to your tree with the ornament flask.


• Hand-painted bacon fingernails.


• Verizon rips off the holiday classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to rip on the iPhone.


• If you haven't seen the clip from the Today Show's Halloween special, here's the Ewok humping Al Roker's leg.


• Are your hands cold =and= you're in the Christmas spirit? Then you need the USB Christmas heating gloves.


• Do you take surveillance video with your iPhone? Check out this iPhone 8x telescope attachment with case and tripod!


• Get a Transformers USB flash drive in either Jaguar or Tigertron forms.


• If you're like me and suck at bowling, then you need the new steerable bowling ball.


• Remember the original ninja cat video? Well, now he's back with a stationary camera so you can see how he does it in the return of ninja cat.


• Tennessee rock slide caught on tape.


• Go to the link and click More to read the description FIRST before you watch the best marriage proposal ever.


• 15 fireplaces for the super rich.


• 10 abandoned bank vaults.


• Memorial Day/Remembrance Day/Armistice Day was this week, and in honor of all our service men and women, check out these videos of dogs welcoming their soldiers home.

Friday Game

Here's what happens when you combine Tetris with a platformer. You have to move your little ninja around, making sure he dodges all the falling blocks, which magically fall perfectly into position. There are a ton of achievements to earn, too.

See how long you can survive while being Tetris'D!

Tyler Tagging

This is the kind of tagging that goes down in the 'burbs, bub!

(And why the dots in the "O"?)

Crazy Cartography

Mankind has long struggled to represent the real world with maps. But not every map is a straightforward representation; they can be strange interpretations, fanciful what ifs, or specifically focused. Travel through the times and spaces of Strange Maps.

Return to Tagger

Apparently, a tagger is trying to mail a metal phone pole somewhere. Wonder what the postage will be?

Caption Contest

Breast exam--you're doin' it wrong.

Peculiar Pictures

It's often hard to tell what's going on in a photograph if you don't know the context. But it's especially bizarre when the pictures come from an earlier time (say, around the turn of the last century) when they were expensive and rare occurrences. You'll fascinatedly look through the specimens on display at Black and WTF?