But it’s boring the hell out of me and my Illustrator skills are kinda crusty. In the meantime, this is the most entertaining website I’ve seen in eons: INCREDIBOX
Category: Web
Your internet pass is revoked
Some pimply-faced expert got in my face about the educational value of e-learning: “What’s wrong with books? Don’t you know what books are? Books are like the internet printed on paper!”
Just, wow.
What makes the cat woman crazy and other assorted links
- How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy: “…he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain.”
- Iron Giant: One of America’s great machines comes back to life.
- MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES ‘GOOD DAY’
- See how Japan has rebuilt in the 11 months since the earthquake and tsunami
- And Max’s favorite link this month: color, a color matching game
84 likes, 130 dislikes
In October of 2010, I uploaded a video about bringing a cockroach back to life with a bug zapper to YouTube. It only had a few thousand hits for the first year, but then suddenly took off probably due to the pop culture zombie phenomenon, plus a hundred 12 year olds on YouTube calling me stupid and explaining that what was shown in the video wasn’t really reanimation (thanks for clearing that up you little shits).
Anyway, this is my first YouTube vid to go over 100,000 hits, so I thought I’d brag about it. Check it out to see what our front yard used to look like.
Cockroach Reanimation with Electro-stimulation
New Google TOS & Privacy Policy
Quite a few people have asked what I think of the new, unified Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. The short answer is that it’s nothing to worry about.
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If you are smart, you use Gmail above all other free email services because it works the best. You probably use a bunch of other Google services as well. However, Google is a successful corporation that does not place your interests above their company interests. It is entirely conceivable that they may screw you some time, in some way. Until it happens, just enjoy the amazing shit they provide to you at no charge.
Besides, Facebook is already screwing you much harder than Google could even dream of.
Tasty Links for the New Year
In no particular order:
Smoke Screening
Charles Mann is shown by Bruce Schneier just what a joke our airport security has become and makes a case that “the continuing expenditure on security may actually have made the United States less safe.”
The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
Summary: Way more supply than demand, doctors.
List of animals with fraudulent diplomas
Surprisingly, this is not an alternate title for the previous link.
Best wedding photos ever
A full viewing of Shaun of the Dead would have made it the best wedding reception ever.
The Magna Carta Essay
Before the internet taught us that there’s no such thing as copyright or intellectual property, just how the hell did students finish their assignments?
Reconsidering Star Wars IV in the light of I-III
A “tongue-in-cheek alternative reading of the Star Wars saga”(link and quote from Kev)
Why are we not equal?
Living overseas, you might be surprised how many websites and web services (in the US and Japan especially) are closed to the rest of the world. Of course, there are easy ways around this, but if your personal blog is denying me access because I’m visiting from another country? You, sir, are a dumbass, plain and simple.