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  • 101 Things in 1001 Days

    Seen over on LJ originally. The goal is to to do a preset list of 101 things to do in 1001 days. I think the hard part for me with coming up with 101 things. Maybe I should start off with 1 thing in 11 days, where that one thing is coming up with 101 things.

  • Colorize Me

    As seen over on Swirlychick’s LJ, the ColorQuiz. Give it a try.

    200509281758 Gregory+Blake took the free ColorQuiz.com personality test!

    “Takes easily and quickly to anything which provide…”

    Click here to read the rest of the results.

    As usual with these quizzes I take things with a grain of salt. I think the one thing that really rung true for me was the line “Anxious to experience life in all its aspects, to explore all its possibilities, and to live it to the fullest.” This has definitely been a big issue for me post transplant. And I’m still kind of rediscovering myself too, the whole experience has definitely changed me a bit.

  • Win a Lobster!

    We need these in the US. Some of the other vending machines linked to are cool too.

    Japanese lobster-vending machine
    Cory Doctorow:

    ~Edjacob Lobster

    Earlier this week, I blogged a great collection of Japanese vending machines, but this one is even better, sporting, as it does, a coin-operated live-lobster vending machine! Link

    (Thanks, GenkiGecko!)

    Update:Here’s a commercial supplier of coin-op lobster game/vending-machines (courtesy Daniel Drucker)
    [via Boing Boing Blog]

  • Manga and Girls

    Recently the New York Times ran an article about Manga for Girls. In other words: shoujo manga. Even though I might nit-pick on a few points, it’s a pretty solid article.

    Shojo – the word means girl in Japanese – frequently involves a lovelorn teenager seeking a boyfriend or dealing with situations like entering a new school, being bullied or trying to break away from a clique. There are also action stories featuring girls in strong roles as scientists and samurai warriors. (The shojo genre has been called “big eyes save the world,” after the characteristic drawing style of girls with saucer-shaped eyes who are sometimes endowed with supernatural powers.)

    But parents and teachers, who are sometimes happy to see teenagers reading just about anything, might be caught off guard by some of the content of the girls’ favorite books. Among the best-selling shojo are stories that involve cross-dressing boys and characters who magically change sex, brother-sister romances and teenage girls falling in love with 10-year-old boys. Then there’s a whole subgenre known as shonen ai, or boy’s love, which usually features romances between two impossibly pretty young men. [NYTimes: Manga and Girls]

  • Because It Is That Day Again

    ARRRR!

    BOOTY!

    WENCHES!

  • Whipping it. Whipping it good.

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    Wow, grade school kids redo the video for Devo’s Whip It. And it’s pretty cool! [via Boing Boing]

  • Sekrits

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    Nick posted a link to PostSecret. A site where people mail in postcards with a secret on them. Pretty cool. I keep wondering if I have any secrets to share.

  • Snakes on a Plane

    I’ve started reading a few new blogs lately that I’ve found quite enjoyable. The first being Kung Fu Monkey, which is pretty entertaining. Today he points to a new screenwriter blog by Josh Friedman, the credited co-writer of War of the Worlds. Though it’s just a few posts old, it’s quite fun. My favorite post being the one about Snakes on a Plane.

    I ask Agent the name of the project, what it’s about, etc. He says: Snakes on a Plane. Holy shit, I’m thinking. It’s a title. It’s a concept. It’s a poster and a logline and whatever else you need it to be. It’s perfect. Perfect. It’s the Everlasting Gobstopper of movie titles.

    …

    Now out of both loyalty to the sacred bond between studio and screenwriter and also a serious desire to keep getting hired in this town, I will not give away any of the plot details of SNAKES ON A PLANE. But know this. As the great Sam Jackson would say: There are motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane.

    What else do you need to know? How the snakes get on the plane, what the snakes do once they’re on the plane, who puts the snakes on the plane, who is trying to get the snakes off the plane…This is not for you to ponder. There are snakes on the plane. End of fucking story. [I find your lack of faith disturbing]

    Added bonus: comments from Samuel L Jackson on the movie.

  • You Are On The Global Frequency

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    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

  • AOL on Crack

    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]