larger than life lolcat

on Quincy street in San Francisco...the largest lolcat ;-)

Apparently, Ben Huh from Icanhazcheezburger.com was in town and checked it out.
see Josh's (the artist) site for details.

(picture from laughing squid)

I happen to like grapefruit

"Fuck Grapefruit"

from xkcd.com

meetings

see more song memes

Yes, I did.

see more song memes

Better than Cirque?

saw this on ANTM tonight.... FUERZABRUTA - a very cool performance show which is only showing in Mexico and NYC.

think a more cutting edge Cirque du Soleil.

new rulz.

from icanhascheezburger:

dogs are smart. really.

from cuteoverload:

Writes Maggie C.: "Sheepdogs are trained to obey their master's every word. So when farmer David Kennard decided one of those words would be "Spring", his dogs did not hesitate. They rounded up the flock on the hills of Mr Kennard's north Devon farm and, with a little help from their master, created a picture that reminds us that, whatever the weather, this is officially the first weekend of Spring. The scene did call for a careful scattering of feed to make the sheep form themselves in the shapes of the six letters..."




"...However, it was down to the team of Collies—who everyone knows border on the brilliant—to have the last word. They circled the 200-strong flock and kept them from wandering off-message.

Three of David's five working dogs – Mist, Fern and Jake – were employed to help create the perfect lettering, which took three hours to achieve."

oh lordy

see more crazy cat pics

who's smarter - the dog or the owner?

geeeeenius.

crazy. japanese. 'nuff said.

Japanese Human Art - Why Is My Girlfriend Mad?

cool mashup: outkast vs. sakanaction

cruel...or unusual?

the dog drool is impressive.

smart fish?

or CRAZY guy who trained them. I wonder how long it took to train them?

i heart the japanese - again GENIUS, GENIUS.

I watched this in bed last night and couldn't stop crying because I was laughing so hard. The Japanese are GENIUS.


Japanese game show. I don't think I need to say anything else.

want :: edible hello kitty

Wow. I came across a blog called Hello Kitty Hell and its insane. Its all about this guy's constant battle with the hell that is the ubiquity and cuteness of Hello Kitty. Check out the bento box creations that are waaaay too intense to look at, let alone eat. I think I would pass out if I found these in my lunch-time bento.

Pretty funny site, check it out.

Your What is What?

"My Loony Bun is Fine Benny Lava"

Melody...haunting. Will be stuck in your head for days. Words...hilarious. Who put the goat in there? And the dancing is classic.

want :: slanket

I wouldn't leave the couch - or the house. Its like a wearable sleeping bag. Genius.

My Alma Mater Beat Your Alma Mater

Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing Wins $2M DARPA Urban Challenge

I was at the race last year and it was a blast. I'm bummed I wasn't there to see my alma mater win the prize, but its good enough knowing we beat Staford :-)~




More Info:

• DARPA Grand Challenge
• Tartan Team Photo Gallery
• Wired article: DARPA Urban Challenge posts

so wrong its right

hilarious. perhaps a good Halloween gift for those pesky kids

more cats - strange

ok, I will admit cats are strange. But this one takes the cake. Wait until about 20 seconds into the clip. Whole different cat, my friend,


Cat Confused By Scratching - Watch more free videos

Animal Farm coming to Life

I think I remember reading about this in Animal Farm...'"When cats begin to speak with each other, 4 legs good and 2 legs now bad"

Sign of Armageddon?
Holy crap - they are having a conversation. What are they saying about us? When will the world domination begin? Acck!

japanese insanity

old, but a classic. I still hurt myself laughing every time I watch this.

form + funct-yuuuum

I don't like sweets, but how cool would it be to have our wedding cake be a lego cake?

You, too, can make your own--thanks to Betty Crocker

bonus points: make a Lego Millennium Falcon cake :-)

Is 85 *Really* Better Than 84?

Christmas is right around the corner....check out ThinkGeek for the full specs on this insane Swiss Army Knife. 85 tools. I don't even think I can *name* 85 tools let alone use them.

good commercial

I actually think this commercial is pretty good - Mountain Dew "Halo 3 Game Fuel" ad

Ridiculously Cool

Can't wait to see BodyWorlds at the Tech. September 27, 2007 -January 26, 2008. Saw the first exhibit in Chicago a few years ago...this one should be even better!

cutest picture evar

heeeeeee!
(picture found here)

halloween is coming up

all the neighborhood dogs will be laughing at your dog....

mental atrophy ahead

i'm going to be busy catching up on season premieres on the weekends....

• beauty & the geek - september 18
• america's next top model - september 19
• heroes - september 24
  
• house - september 25
• ugly betty - september 27
  
• nip tuck - october 30

do not want :: lego lameness

Legos are sacrilegious. They are not meant to be toyed with. haha. I'm all for form+function and incorporating things I love into my everyday life, but these uses/implementation of Legos are just plain LAME.


looks fake! ridiculous

want :: I heart beckham

I don't typically find him that attractive, but yuuummm.

madness

from xkcd:



this was my Sunday night, and about 4 nights last week.....

where's my 12-sided die now?

ok, I took the surveythe following survey at CNN:
What Hobby Best Suits Your Personality?

found at
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/leisure/quiz/index.html

here is the result I got (I'm sure, along with millions of other people who took the quiz)--this is supposed to be what hobbies I should be looking at/relevant to me.

TECH

You no longer buy gadgets to prove you're cool, or on the cutting edge of any new trend. Now you buy the newest gadgets because you need them to hack (modify, upgrade, or otherwise enhance) your ongoing projects. You already enjoy playing video games(ok, true), coding your own Web sites(true again), or setting up a network of Tivos (will 7 Macs do instead?). ******You might like hobbies like building homemade liquid cooling systems for your computers******, creating a customized media center, writing video games or applying your technical skills to upgrading cars.


Good god, if I'm making homemade liquid cooling systems for my computers, I NEED A *NEW* HOBBY.

want :: MareNostrum

This is the MareNostrum - the 9th biggest supercomputer in the world-- and it belongs to the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Its installed in a former chapel oodles of glass and steel.








(pictures from the navel of narcissus)






- 10,240 CPUs
- 20TB of RAM
- 280TB of disk storage
- runs on SUSE Linux.

just plain embarassing

Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 answering a question durig the interview portion of the 2007 Miss Teen USA pageant.

hot :: ladies

Padma Lakshmi
- actress
- writer
- model (Emanuel Ungaro, Ralph Lauren, and Alberta Ferretti and done ad campaigns for Roberto Cavalli and Versus - favorite of photographer Helmut Newton)
- Host - Top Chef (Bravo TV)
- formerly married (just until recently) to Salman Rushdie





Heidi Klum (aka "The Body")
- model
Victoria's Secret, Sports Illustrated,
- mother
- Host - Project Runway (Bravo TV)
- entrepreneur
jewelry designer (Mouawad), Birkenstock, sunglasses
- photo 1, photo 2, photo 3,





to be contiuned tomorrow...

hot :: dudes

Justin Timberlake
- musician
- entertainer
- fashion trend setter
- funny guy (see SNL hosts and Dick in a Box digital short)






Hugh Laurie
- Actor - Dr. Gregory House on House, Jeeves and Wooster, Blackadder, Friends (he was Emily's dad)
- musician (plays piano in scene with Dave Matthews on an episode of House), again plays during Inside the Actor's Studio
- author (The Gun Seller)
- all around funny guy (guest host on SNL - hilarious)




Adrian Pasdar
Actor - Nathan Petrelli - Heroes







Tom Ford
- Designer
former Director, House of Gucci and YSL, Tom Ford Designs
- Tom Ford's Style Rules
- The Man Behind the Brand




Tom Colicchio
master chef and restuaranteur:
- James Beard nominee
- Top Chef, head judge (Bravo TV)
- Craft restuarants





ladies to be posted tomorrow... :-)

just plain wrong

want :: mac+beer = G3 beer server

Genius.

x commercial

Ecstasy Commercial a la zoloft. pretty humorous.

How to: fix a stuck pixel

How to Fix a Stuck Pixel on an LCD Screen

I have a feeling this may come in handy. very soon.

holy rollerblade superhero

CRAZY. ASS. STUFF.

keep the little ones interested in reading

...or adults, too.


"The Cave"
would love to see this in the kid's section of my local library.

see Sakura Adachi for more cool designs.

pimpin'

obvious question: where does one buy sheets for this bed?

Draft Vader Crochet Helmet

sing with me, now...
"too much time on my hands...."

kitty to the rescue

How to stop a cat fight. I should use this method.

want :: new imacs+software

(picture from gizmodo - check it out for a hands on review of the new products)

I just got a new mac, but the shiny factor on the screen and keyboard is high enough to make me want to buy. Speculation is the new, glass screens mean TOUCHSCREEN coming soon?

i heart the japanese

OMG.

fastest car doesn't always win

I've been "racing" with other cars to and from work since I bought my new car. My car is only 200 HP and a 4 cylinder engine, so in the spectrum of cars, its not *that* impressive. But its not the speed and power that counts.

I like the feeling of acceleration and speeding down the freeway--but jammed packed during rush hour on the way to work doesn't really let me play. However, coming home at 8 (or 10) pm is a different game--lots of room. I haven't been actively seeking these speed challenges, it just happens. And I should say that I am not engaging in (or endorsing) any type of risky or careless behavior--its just a game, so to say.

Speeding down the freeway just doesn't work. You need to gauge the traffic flow, the freeway on/off ramps, anticipate people' s behavior. Its almost like a 2-way Tetris, where the other pieces also can move/change orientation, affecting how you move. So the boys in their Toyotas, Acuras, etc have no finesse--its purely about speed for them. But being able to move across the lanes, holding back until a space opens up and then speeding past the "opponent" who is stuck behind AND between cars is pure elation. Knowing when to slow down, down-shift, lay back and wait--then move. It pretty much is a game of cat and mouse that requires thinking ahead, being patient and knowing when to strike (and not get pulled over!).

12-sided cyber dice, anyone?

Duels - my latest waste of time. Can't seem to make my avatar a girl. Maybe no place for the weaker sex in Phyrra – City of Duels. heh.

more like me

GirlGeeks!

Homer for Science

Check out the file photo the Xinhua News Agency form China decided to use in it's article on
"Two new genes found for multiple sclerosis"

Click on the link to see the whole effect. Ridiculous.

stangest. video. EVAR.

Its Bjork, so no surprise, I guess.

bandwidth speed - fun with Mr. T

Determine Your Bandwidth Speed With Mr.T.

cat vs. helicopter

I hear you

icon hilarity

from songbirdnest.com - a desktop web player, a digital jukebox and web browser mash-up.

Pure GENIUS

I bought a new car this weekend, a VW Passat - Wolfsburg Edition (mine is metallic gray), and I was amazed by all of the nifty gadgets and features. Albeit, my last car purchase was 8 years ago, but I have been in enough new cars to know the latest and greatest features. However, my absolute FAVORITE feature is the grocery bag hook (see left). It is pure genius. It prevents your grocery bags from rolling around in the trunk, and it is so simple. My only gripe: there is only one hook--why not another one of the other side of the trunk?

selling my cat....

on zazzle :-)

Happy 25th, :-) (Smiley is Quarter Century Young)

The emoticon is 25 years old!

Scott Fahlman, a research professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, created the emoticon while at CMU 25 years ago. "It has been fascinating to watch this phenomenon grow from a little message I tossed off in ten minutes to something that has spread all around the world," said Fahlman.

Read the original Bboard thread in which :-) was proposed.