Damn, this is so cool. I would have loved to have seen this happening. The second picture is the better one I think.
Ten thousand superballs rolling down a San Francisco hill-street
Cory Doctorow:
These photos document the release of 10,000 small superballs at the San Francisco hilltop corner of Filbert and Leavenworth. Wow.[via Boing Boing Blog]
Though I’m sick of all the news surrounding the hidden sex scenes in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas I enjoyed this column over on sfgate.com:
There’s Sex In My Violence!
What’s this lame soft-core porn doing in my ultraviolent “Grand Theft Auto”? I am outraged!…
Suddenly that downloadable patch you installed last night kicks in and there’s, like, a lame and badly animated sex scene, right there, right between the graphic bloody part where you bazooka’d the police helicopter and the part where the gang-banger gets his lame ass beaten with a large handgun, and suddenly you’re like, what the hell? Who stuck this lame badly animated sex in here? Where’d my soul-numbing ultraviolent racism go? I am outraged. [sfgate.com]
After reading about the pilot for a TV show called Global Frequency over on Heath Row’s Media Diet my curiosity went into overdrive. I read up about it some on the net and then hunted down a copy of it. One of the best pilot episodes I’ve seen ever I think.
But what is just as interesting is how this leaked pilot has really generated interest in the show. People are asking “how can we help get this show to TV”. The site FrequencySite has coverage of what’s going on with it (though they don’t suggest you go out and download the show, that would be bad :)). But imagine if a network were smart enough to use this as a way to promote a new show. Especially one that might be a bit of a risk (as this one may be). Then see how strong the feedback is, and they might get an idea of how successful it could be.
Anyways, if you get a chance to see this, definitely check it out. I now kind of hope that it does actually get picked up after all.
Now Playing: Love at First Sight from the album “Black Sea” by XTC
Adrants has links to two videos from AOL promoting their new service AIM mail.
To promote its new AIM Mail, AOL has a couple of strange online videos, created by ATTIK. One has a receptionist drifting into a daydream which consists of superhero midgets…oops…dwarfs…oops…little people giving her a tickle attack. The other has a pair of sushi falling in love only to have one killed by getting eaten. Both end with @aim addresses and no other form of linkage.
Once at the AIM Mail site, there are blogs that promote the videos. The videos can be viewed HERE and HERE. [Adrants]
No real point here, just some links I found interesting today.
Daily Star: “Trainspotting meets A Clockwork Orange!”
Actual line: “This glum, violent drama about a Scottish thug ruined by drink is written and pretentiously directed by Richard Jobson whose approach  Trainspotting meets A Clockwork Orange  is bad enough to drive you to drink in no time.”
Now I’m off to try updating this blog to MT 3.2.
Once again, something from Boing Boing leaves me a bit speachless:
Lapjuicer designed for lapdancers to make juice
This chair is designed to hold a piece of fruit so a lapdancer can grind the juice out of it. Semi-NSFW photos of the chair in action can be seen at the link.
Those damn people at NASA! How dare they? 🙂
Russian astrologer sues NASA over comet experiment
MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian astrologer has taken legal action against NASA for compensation, claiming that the US space agency’s bombardment of the Tempel 1 comet will upset her horoscope and violates her spiritual rights.
The experiment, in which NASA fired a projectile the size of a fridge at the comet Monday, was an attack on “the holy of holies,” Marina Bai’s law suit claims, according to Russian press reports. Her suit, filed at a Moscow court, claims violation of her “life and spiritual values.” [Yahoo! News]
Happy 4th of July everyone. I haven’t been posting much because I just haven’t felt like I’ve had much to say. But the last day or two I’ve been feeling a little bit more talkative and it finally reached critical mass.
My sister and nephew are here visiting for the week, which is nice. My nephew is all about playing Pokemon on his GBA. He keeps wanting to trade with me (Yes, I have it too.) The problem is I haven’t played in months and have no idea how I got different Pokemon. Though he’s since educated me on how to evolve all kinds of various ones (whether I wanted to know or not). He’s a good kid, needs to listen to his mom more, but a good kid.
I also missed my goal of walking around the block. Mostly because the weather was pretty oppressive last week, not the best conditions for pushing myself some. Instead I walked all the way down to the CVS on Friday, which is considerably longer than going around the block.
I’ve also been poking around at dating sites online. I’m kind of curious to hear what sites people like. I think I had a profile on match.com years and years ago, but it’s probably long gone. Anyone have any favorites?
A few years ago I remember a story going around about someone trying to use a $2 bill at a Taco Hell. Snopes doesn’t have any indication as to if it is true or false, but it seems that there are some people out there who still aren’t familiar with $2 bills.
Best Buy Has Customer Arrested For Using $2 Bills
A Baltimore man tried to pay for a Best Buy car stereo installation with $2 bills—and was arrested. Apparently the man was already upset with the Best Buy’s service, so thought he’d stage a minor protest by using the uncommon currency:
“I’m just here to pay the bill,” Bolesta says he told a cashier. “She looked at the $2 bills and told me, ‘I don’t have to take these if I don’t want to.’ I said, ‘If you don’t, I’m leaving. I’ve tried to pay my bill twice. You don’t want these bills, you can sue me.’ So she took the money. Like she’s doing me a favor.”
He remembers the cashier marking each bill with a pen. Then other store personnel began to gather, a few of them asking, “Are these real?”
(Thanks, C0bra!)
More proof that Best Buy is actually “Worst Buy”: Man arrested for paying in $2 bills [Anandtech]
[via Gizmodo]
I’ve seen Gloomy Bear comics, but never an actual one. I want one!
Gloomy bears
It’s a little mean, don’t you think, to give little kids cute stuffed bears to hug while they sleep, dreaming of the day when they will befriend a real bear, not yet knowing that it will never ever happen. I am still not over it. Gloomy bears, designed by Mori Chak are adorable and pink, but the blood stained claws will let your children know that bears are wild animals, not to be hugged if encountered in the woods.
Gloomy bears are $20-$40 at unica. [via Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women]
