Thursday, 08 June 2006
Weird Earls
- An update on the $100 One-Laptop-Per-Child project
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Wednesday, 07 June 2006
Weird Earls
- An exhaustive list of all the merchandising crap being marketed along with Cars (the new Disney excrapaganza)
- The internet's favorite color.
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Thursday, 23 March 2006
Weird Earls
- Here's a line of pre-pixelated clothes suitable for wearing on television shows where the producers don't want to worry about clearing the rights to clothing logos.
- The Smoking Gun brings us Dick Cheney's backstage requirements. Of course, all the televisions need to be preset to the Fox News Channel. No, seriously.
- Texas Police are busting drunks... in bars:
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) -- Texas has begun sending undercover agents into bars to arrest drinkers for being drunk, a spokeswoman for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Wednesday.
The first sting operation was conducted recently in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication, said the commission's Carolyn Beck.
Being in a bar does not exempt one from the state laws against public drunkenness, Beck said.
President George W. Bush has come out in favor of the program, saying "The thing is, when people get drunk to the point of intoxificationism they usually wind up having unprotected sex, which as we all know leads to abortions. We can't have that in a culture of life."
Sen. Ted Kennedy, meanwhile, has pledged to fight the legislation all the way to the Supreme Court.
Okay, maybe I made up the last two paragraphs, but come on. Stupid fucking Texans. - Piss-controlled urinal-based video games
Posted by flow Frazao on March 23, 2006 at 12:21 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0)
Wednesday, 01 March 2006
Weird Earls
- I don't read Japanese, so I have no idea why anyone would spend hours and hours posing and photographing maid dolls re-enacting illustrations from a Japanese army training manual. Maybe I don't want to know why.
- Tom Tomorrow can see into the future. How does he do it? No one knows.
- Scientific consensus about climate change has changed from "probably" due to humans to humans being the "only explanation"
- Choose-Your-Own-Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-Adventure: Rejected Choose Your Own Adventure books
- An extraordinary act of public obedience: A group of kids go on the highway and drive 55 to protest... something.
Posted by flow Frazao on March 1, 2006 at 04:16 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
Stop Direct Marketers
Here are a few tips I've come across to put a stop to the annoying telemarketers/junk mailers/unsolicited credit card offer-ers that make money by pissing people off/wasting paper/exposing you to potential identity theft:
- Stop Telemarketers. Sign up with the National Do Not Call Registry.
- Stop Junk Mail. Register with the Direct Marketing Association’s (DMA) Mail Preference Service. This puts you on ‘do not mail’ list, distributed regularly to all the DMA’s members.
- The DMA counts most of the major bulk mailers among its constituents. Stop Pre-Screened Credit Card Offers. Call (888) 567-8688 or visit optoutprescreen.com.
On a related note, I'm experimenting with Google's AdSense program in order to try to defray some of the costs associated with maintaining this site. If you see some ads around, feel free to click on them and make me a little of that sweet sweet moolah.
Posted by flow Frazao on February 28, 2006 at 03:33 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0)
Saturday, 25 February 2006
Why People Like You Should Not Go On Live TV
I'm not going to spoil it, but let's just say this is a compelling argument for having an early night if you're about to go on the evening news tomorrow.
Posted by flow Frazao on February 25, 2006 at 07:30 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Thursday, 16 February 2006
Weird Earls
Get Yer Food On:
- NY Times food critic Frank Bruni has a new blog.
- Consumer Reports: When Buying Organic Pays (and when it doesn't)
- Moronic, but oddly hypnotizing: Cryingwhileeating.com
- A look at the special Valentine's Day dinner that White Castle was offering.
- Washington Post: How to pick a perfect steak.
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Monday, 06 February 2006
Weird Earls - Art Edition
- Stephen Wiltshire - The Tokyo skyline drawn from memory by an autistic/artistic savant.
- Myranda Didovic - In February 1995, this artist/strange person, working in conjunction with nutritionists at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, took a crap that measured 26 feet in length.
- Ben Frost - Ben Frost is a painter, performance artist and illustrator who currently lives in Australia
His work explores themes of alienation, dispossession, and perversity that exists behind the facade of contemporary western society. By subverting mainstream iconography from the advertising, entertainment and political spectrum he creates a visual and conceptual framework that is bold, confronting and often contraversial.
- David Hasselhof - There are no words to describe art of this magnitude.
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Sunday, 29 January 2006
Weird Earls (now with visual aids!)
- SuperSizedMeals.com is a blog documenting "foodstuffs of epic proportions". Don't miss the saga of the 100x100 In-n-Out burger. Total calories: 19490
- Proposal: Brad Pitt adapts his appearance to that of whoever he's dating at the time, kind of like how dogs start to look like their owners.
Posted by flow Frazao on January 29, 2006 at 03:25 AM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Sunday, 15 January 2006
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
I'm not usually into this type of thing, but this really has got to be the best blonde joke ever.
Posted by flow Frazao on January 15, 2006 at 09:35 PM in Culture, Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Thursday, 12 January 2006
Weird Earls
- An absolutely amazing photo of a victim of Holoprosencephaly
- Flying anywhere this year? If so, get yo travel on wif GhettoDelta. Bitchez be flyin like a muthafucka. (thx to Josh for the link)
- Only 24 percent of Americans think being overweight is unattractive. In other news, 76 percent of US population is now considered morbidly obese.
- Researchers say recordable CDs have a maximum lifetime of 5 years. And you all laughed when I bought stock in Cuneiform Tablets, Inc. Who's the tech visionary now?
- Black Sergeant was 'Loyal Klansman'
About 25 years ago, Ron Stallworth was asked to lead the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Colorado Springs. Problem was, the outgoing Klan leader didn't know that Stallworth is black.
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Friday, 06 January 2006
Weird Earls
Here a link, there a link, everywhere a link-link:
- Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever
- Microsoft Defends Censoring a Dissident's Blog in China
- Second chord sounds in world's longest lasting concert
- The Cowbell Project. Finally, a searchable database of songs featuring "the dark ring that pounds in the back of your brain and lets you know, it's time to rock".
Posted by flow Frazao on January 6, 2006 at 10:53 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Wednesday, 04 January 2006
Weird Earls
I am the Duke of URL:
- If you haven't watched David Letterman make a fool of Bill O'Reilly, then you're really ought to get your schadenfreude on.
- A long list of buzzwords compiled by a consultant over a few days work at a "local big-box retailer". I wish I could say this were a comprehensive list, but after three years of working in DC I can say for certain that this is but a drop in the bucket.
- Netgear Inc. and Skype plan to introduce the first wireless mobile telephone for Skype.
- Fark.com: Ariel Sharon reportedly alive after surgery. Report that he's actually dead after all is expected in 45 minutes.
Posted by flow Frazao on January 4, 2006 at 06:37 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tuesday, 03 January 2006
Weird Earls
Today's leftovers, fresh out of the thermonuclear discombustulator:
- Ever wonder what a potato going 100 mph would do to a head of lettuce? Now you know.
- In case you need another reason to stop using Microsoft's sucky software, their latest business plan seems to include shutting down bloggers on its MSN Spaces service who criticize the Chinese government. It'd be such a shame to let something like freedom of speech get in the way of big contracts with oppressive governments.
- Wanna be a rock star? Here are some important poses you should master first.
- WARNING: This site contains images. (SFW - sort of)
- And now this from Pluto - something about Julie Andrews, Hitler, and her first born son. If you can make sense of it, let me know.
Posted by flow Frazao on January 3, 2006 at 08:38 AM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Monday, 02 January 2006
Weird Earls
Speaking of wasting time:
- IFILM's Best of 2005 Roundup. My favorite Chinese Backstreet Boys get a mention, and don't miss the preview for Shining.
- Zladko “Zlad” Vladcik was to perform his very popular techno-ballad, “Elektronik – Supersonik”
- Check out the pollution scorecard for your zipcode.
- And finally, the early front-runner for Most Unintentionally Funny Headline of 2006.
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Friday, 11 November 2005
Weird Earls
I waste time so you don't have to.
- Today's productivity killer: Mansion Impossible, a real-estate flipping game that will suck the time right out of your watch.
- Three and a half minutes of crazy not enough for you? Check out this one hour analysis of why the US government was behind the 9/11 attacks. I recommend wearing a colander instead of the usual tinfoil hat for added strength.
- A Recursive News photo.
- The Tao of Programming
In the beginning was the Tao. The Tao gave birth to Space and Time. Therefore Space and Time are Yin and Yang of programming.
Programmers that do not comprehend the Tao are always running out of time and space for their programs. Programmers that comprehend the Tao always have enough time and space to accomplish their goals.
How could it be otherwise?
Posted by flow Frazao on November 11, 2005 at 07:01 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Thursday, 10 November 2005
Roundup
- Here is a collection of the coolest background images I've ever seen. Of course, no one in their right mind would use any of them as a background on a web page, but that doesn't make them any less cool.
- Thanks to the Internet Wayback Machine, you can see the very first version of this site. Kind of embarrassing, actually.
- The best/most disgusting e-card I've come across in a long while.
- This is a mildly amusing way to kill a few minutes.
- Looking for a way to save space this Christmas? How about an upside-down Christmas tree?
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Thursday, 10 March 2005
I Waste Time So You Don't Have To
- 10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris.
10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time. The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.
- The most brilliant web comic ever invented. The best part is that there's something to offend everyone, so laff it up you pansyassed liberal bitches.
Oh, and if there are any self-important software engineering types reading this then go read Q.A. Confidential. This guy knows exactly what's up with the Revolutionary Tech Industry of Tomorrowland.
- Here's a gallery of albinos.
- And finally, this is my contribution to humanity for today - a link to VolunteerMatch.com:
VolunteerMatch can connect your good intentions with nonprofit organizations that can use your help. Civic, social, educational, governmental, religious, and political groups list their needs on the site to create a vast database of volunteering activities around the U.S. Just enter your ZIP code to search for volunteer opportunities in your neighborhood. You can sort the results by date, distance, duration, or newness to find the right activity for you.
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Saturday, 26 February 2005
Chasing Winnie
Sorry I haven't updated in a while. The internet connection here has been down and I've been busy with some other stuff. I was going to get down to business today and do some proper writing, but Fiona and I were out in Melbourne until 8 AM so I'm pretty shot.
As an apology I offer you a status update on Kevin, Paul and Winnie from the Wonder Years:
- Danica McKellar —nee Winnie Cooper—has her own web site. It's got a great feature where she answers your math questions. Seriously. She's got a degree in mathematics and co-authored a paper on "Percolation and Gibbs State Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models in Two Dimensions". No, seriously.
- Fred Savage (aka Kevin Arnold) has been in quite a few crappy movies over the past few years. I can personally attest to this, having recently seen the mind-bogglingly craptacular "Welcome to Mooseport" with that guy from Everybody Loves Raymond. My fellow Nintendo Maniacs will most likely agree that nothing will ever top his work in 1989's The Wizard.
- As for Paul, well, at least he's working.
(via MetaFilter)
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Thursday, 17 February 2005
I Waste Time So You Don't Have To
I present these links for your consideration:
- A high-quality trailer for the new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. Judging by the "Do Not Duplicate" sign at the top, I'd say it's not supposed to be consumed by the general public. But we're special so we get to watch it.
- I find this picture of Ronald McDonald (Ronaldette?) attractive. I'm not proud of it, but there you go.
- Tonya Harding looks beefy:
A substantially larger Tonya Harding is trying to be a professional boxer: "Tonya Harding has a migraine. She's been sick for months with bronchitis and the flu. Now she has to meet the press to promote her upcoming celebrity boxing match. Interview rules are set by the promoter and Harding's new manager, who is also her godmother. There are to be absolutely no questions about Nancy Kerrigan. A reporter from Philadelphia introduces himself, and his first question is about Kerrigan. "I'm going to stop you right there," says Harding. "That was 11 years ago."
- If you find yourself wondering if a 15-foot tsunami of molasses ever killed 21 people in Boston in 1919, then the answer is "Yes."
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Wednesday, 01 December 2004
Places of Peace and Power
You have got to see this guy's site. He's my new hero:
Martin Gray is an anthropologist and photographer specializing in the study of sacred sites and pilgrimage traditions around the world. Traveling as a pilgrim, Martin spent twenty years visting and photographing over 1000 sacred sites in eighty countries.
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Thursday, 18 November 2004
Some Strange Photos Of Cameron Diaz and JT On the Attack
Seriously, I would not fuck with these two. Check out Justin Timberlake all up in that dude's grill.
Posted by SmooveJ Zao on November 18, 2004 at 03:18 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Saturday, 16 October 2004
The Super Sizing Of Star Wars
On the left, Star Wars action figures from back in the day, on the right... you get the idea
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Saturday, 18 September 2004
Weekend Roundup
Check em out:
- If you've ever been a high school senior in America, you have to see this.
- Bored and in the mood for grotesquery? Take a gander at some of the heaviest people who ever lived.
- The 50 weirdest Guiness World Records.
- And finally, in case you've missed it here's George W. Bush's campaign ad if he were running against Jesus.
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Thursday, 15 July 2004
Win A Gmail Invitation
GMail.com is giving away gmail invites. Don't you want to be one of the cool kids?
Posted by SmooveJ Zao on July 15, 2004 at 11:42 AM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (69) | TrackBack
Friday, 09 July 2004
Antarctican Currency
Antarctica has it's own currency:
Who knew?
Posted by flow Frazao on July 9, 2004 at 02:21 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Wednesday, 30 June 2004
An Argument Against On-Street Parking
When I returned, to my dismay, someone had taken my parking spot.
Begrudgingly, I parked somewhere else.
Then, around 2:00 AM, I was awoken by a loud rumbling sound, followed
by a crash. It happened again, and again, and again...
I went outside, and this is what I found... "
Unbelievable.
Posted by flow Frazao on June 30, 2004 at 04:18 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Tuesday, 29 June 2004
The War on Terra Randomizer
- If you say that music by Elton John is "okay"...
- If you don't think of your genitals as a dirty little secret to snicker about...
- If all of Canada can count their votes in three hours and we can't even do it in a month...
- If the Daily Show is a more credible news source than actual news sources...
- If we don't get four weeks of vacation just like the rest of the civilized world...
And my personal favorite:
- If the US topples the secularist Middle Eastern government that was standing in the way of fundamentalist control of the entire region...
...then the terrorists have already won.
Posted by flow Frazao on June 29, 2004 at 06:23 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
Friday, 28 May 2004
Funny Shit
Not much time for blogging lately, but here's some funny stuff to check
out:
- McSweeney's Internet Tendency: PROS AND CONS OF JOHN KERRY'S TOP TWENTY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES
- BUSHGAME.COM - The Anti-Bush Online Adventure. Help Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man defeat George Bush and Voltron.
Posted by flow Frazao on May 28, 2004 at 02:17 PM in Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Monday, 24 May 2004
What's That Up In the Sky?
It's a bird!
It's a plane!!
It's SUPER BUSH!!!
Yes, this is real. The ad linked to above was actually paid for by the Republican National Committee. I suppose this is the way the RNC views our President. Unfortunately, here's how the rest of the world sees him:
As a recent Kos diarist put it, "Finally, a leader that combines the intellect of Dan Quayle, the paranoia of Richard Nixon, and the physical dexterity of Gerald Ford."
Posted by flow Frazao on May 24, 2004 at 04:24 PM in Funny Bush, Weird Earls | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack