Emo Crayons

http://emostudent.com/?p=12
"44 colors, each one as unique as you are, to help you to express your oppression-fed, sorrow-fulled, angst-inspired individualistic creativity."

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath An Extreme Blog: Go England! It ys Rad!

http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/
samedi, mars 25, 2006
internet abbreviaciouns

Oh newfanglenesse! Y have learned the privitees of the manye abbreviaciouns ywritten on the internette. OMG: "oh mine ++DOMINUS++". ROFL: "rollinge on the floore laughinge". IRL: "in reale lyfe." WTF: "whatte the swyve?"
Beinge somethinge of an innovator myselfe, Y presente to yow, churles and gentils alle, the followynge abbreviaciouns. May they serven yow welle in your internette communicacioun:

GP: gentil person
WC: woole customes
XC: Exchequer
BATJG: biggere arsehole thanne john gowere
BSL!: by seinte loy!
OTPBRB: Offe to parliamente, be ryghte back
SNAPFU - BYXCA: supposedely nyce annuitie paymente fuckede uppe by the XC againe
KRBMA: Kynge Richarde II buggynge me againe
AOMSHJDOTBD: anothere of myne servauntes hath just dyede of the blacke death
EISBYMIWATCHDNSTHD: eftsoon I shall be ycleped mad if worke atte the customes house doth not settle the helle downe

Romeo Dev, the world's smallest bodybuilder

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/12/wromeo112.xml
Romeo Dev, the world's smallest bodybuilder
By Tom Chivers and agencies
Last Updated: 3:14am GMT 26/02/2008

At 2'9" and a mere one and a half stone, Aditya "Romeo" Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.

While most dwarfs have large heads compared to their bodies, Romeo is perfectly proportioned, and despite his diminutive stature has triceps, biceps, calves and thighs that would make many a full-grown man blush.

He was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records in 2006 following three months of intense exercise.

Super 10 Function USB Vibrator

http://blog.pcnews.ro/2006/02/05/super-10-function-computerusb-vibrator/
One would've thought this would be a very popular idea, wouldn't it?

This is the actual product page. For some reason, Multiply doesn't want to accept it as a valid URL.

Sushi USB Drives

http://www.dynamism.com/sushidisk/main.shtml
From the product page: "Never again will you have to choose between having sushi or having a USB memory drive--thanks to the USB sushi drive. These USB drives are hand-made-in-Tokyo sushi replicas. The convincing USB sushi drive comes in several flavors."

Angry Alien Productions: 30-Second Bunnies Theatre and other cartoons.

http://www.angryalien.com
In which a troupe of bunnies parodies a collection of movies by re-enacting them in 30 seconds, more or less.

Teen Girl Squad

http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html
"Teen Girl Squad is a crudely drawn comic strip narrated by Strong Bad, using a falsetto voice. It began after Strong Bad received an email asking him to make a comic strip of a girl and her friends. The comic features four archetypal high-school girls, with heavy parody evident in the characters' nondescript names: "Cheerleader", "So-And-So", "What's-Her-Face", and "The Ugly One". The comic strip revolves around their lives (and frequent violent, but comical, deaths devised by Strong Bad)." - wikipedia.org

Milkfat.com

http://www.milkfat.com
Sometime back I was amused by a animated GIF conversation between P. Diddy and Bjork. I found its source in this site, and then some. Lots of animated GIFs you could waste your time watching.

Lorem Ipsum generator

http://www.lipsum.com/
Explains the origin of the Lorem Ipsum dummy text used by typesetters. Also has a Lorem Ipsum generator that could be set to different parameters.

Creation Story for the Digital Age

http://celobox.googlepages.com/god.html
"In the beginning there was the Computer.
Loading Universe Kernel....
And God said
_ LET THERE BE LIGHT!
login: GOD
password: OMNISCIENT
Password incorrect. Try again..."


And that's how it all begun.

arthur and the invisibles

Rating:	★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Science Fiction & Fantasy

the boyfriend was teasing me for dragging him to a free movie screening of arthur and the invisibles. but a free movie is a free movie, and neither of us were particularly rich that day so it's probably a good thing the french film festival was ongoing.

arthur was shown in commercial cinemas a few months ago. i remembered seeing the posters showing the CG animation: cute, but nothing spectacular, really. reviews of the movie said it was disappointing, at the very least, but i didn't really mind; a free movie is a free movie.

arthur and the invisibles (or arthur and the minimoys) was a part-live action, part-computer animated film. the plot was about a boy, arthur, who discovered his missing grandfather's stories of a race of tiny people were actually true. in fact, the minimoys were living within their property (which is on the danger of being turned over to another man who wanted the place demolished). arthur found a way to get into the land of the minimoys in order to obtain the rubies given to his grandfather, which would be enough payment to save their land. when he got there, he was tasked to defeat evil malthazard, after pulling a mystic sword from a stone.

one problem of the movie was the american dialogue: the delivery of the lines in the animated sequences were just too fast. however, it seemed this was because the original dubbing of the film was french, and the animated sequences had the characters' mouths set to move along the french dialogue. apparently, french sentences tend to be shorter than their english counterpart. still, the speed of the delivery of the lines were rather disorienting.

a bigger problem of the movie was suspension of disbelief. at one point in the movie, i ended up looking at the boyfriend and saying, "what the fuck?" after a particularly unbelievable sequence. he had a similar facial expression. after the film, he asked me if the movie's intended audience - kids - could appreciate it. while the computer animation might pique some kid's attention, we both agreed that the movie seemed to be treating kids like they were stupid.

many of the movie elements were so derivative (daryl pointed out how "evil m" sounded so voldemort, plus the pulling the sword out of the stone bit was too predictable for a movie whose main character is named arthur), and some aspects of the movie reeks of wtf-ness (teleporting african tribesmen with european table manners! the bee-gees staying alive playing in a movie set in the 60s! wow!).

a lot of criticism has been made on the 10-year old arthur falling in love with a 1000-year old (in minimoy years) princess; while the movie explicitly stated that 10 human years is roughly equivalent to 1000 minimoy years, the minimoy princess and her younger brother definitely did not act like they were prepubescent kids (there were sequences in the fantasy counterpart of a bar where they seem to have drunk what in human terms to be alcoholic drinks).

the only high point of the movie for us was watching the credits. the princess was voiced by madonna. (whoa!) malthazard was voiced by david bowie. (whoa!) being bowie-the-movie-actor fanboys (we loved him playing nikola tesla in the prestige), daryl and i were surprised that he voiced the main villain. you'd think we'd realize it sooner, huh? so remembering the scene where the princess was alone in confronting the villain gave us a mini-brain aneurysm: it was madonna vs. bowie! and bowie out-madonna'ed madonna.

unfortunately, bowie's villain used a deathtrap.

but like i said, a free movie is a free movie, so i shouldn't be complaining. but i definitely would be complaining a lot if i paid to watch that thing.

STACKOPOLIS

http://www.stackopolis.com
"The most addictive game since Tetris!" - LCLFC

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things

http://www.boingboing.net/

Kawsone.com

http://www.kawsone.com/