Category: Web

Whoa Keanu, you gotta check out this experimental video site: http://www.neave.tv
Too cool for words.

I like The Wire a lot (especially the first season), but it’s somewhat overrated – I personally think The Shield is a better series.
Likewise, the British series Spooks is pretty good at times, but it’s very overrated – and to call it “better than 24,” as I’ve seen on a few boards is just a joke – fuck thee not with the JB, yo.

“Just another day in the LBC CTU”

Almost 50 different covers of Garota de Ipanema in mp3 format.
The original, of course, was written by Ricky Martin and performed by Menudo.
I’ve always secretly hoped for a cover by Napalm Death.
(thx bree)

Watch all 18 seasons of the Simpsons for free: LINK

From the desk of Ursula K. Le Guin: A First Response to “Gedo Senki,” the Earthsea film made by Goro Miyazaki for Studio Ghibli.
I think I may want to watch this one sometime (as opposed to the steaming pile that the Sci-Fi channel created a couple years ago)
(wow, 2 gandaaalf-ish posts in a row!)

Yo man, this is the kind of shit I mean when I say Oregon is weird.
That’s not to say that Cali isn’t weird, either, because it is – it’s just less… GANDAAALF!!!
You just know they gotta have a community elvinweed/entshroom patch up in there.

Just modify a laptop PC to run off of these USB-rechargeable AA cells:

Link to USB Cell info page
Of course, with only 1300mA to work with per cell, you will be lugging around a suitcase full of batteries and USB hubs, but I say no price is too steep for your own personal infinity loop, even if it isn’t, really.
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I’ll accept my Nobel money in cash, thank you.

Nico is our Mauritian homie in Bangkok. I like visiting his blog and pretending I can read French every day for a couple minutes, then invariably loading his page through a site like Babelfish in order to see how much I misunderstood (alas, invariably much more than I understood).
Anyway, the title of this post stems from the Babelfish translation of the term, “coup d’etat.” Go check it out yourself here.
That’s right, blow d’etat! I’m writing the screenplay in my head right now – I’m thinking Austrian accents, chained midgets, and trannie crossdressing ladyboy amputees… “Meesta? Ver are ze royal jew-els?”
This is bound to be a hit.
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I think the current strategy of translation-providing machines is to generate nonsensical translations of such entertainment value that we humans forgive them for actually sucking at their real purpose. For instance, I think c’est much fuzzier* is the greatest expression I have ever heard! And a stupid machine thought it up!
*fifth paragraph from the bottom of the page I linked to above, linked again here just in case

Here’s an awesome collection of vintage drug advertisements: LINK

“Please switch off all mobile phones, since they can interfere with the aircraft’s navigation systems. At least, that’s what you’ve always been told. The real reason to switch them off is because they interfere with mobile networks on the ground, but somehow that doesn’t sound quite so good. On most flights a few mobile phones are left on by mistake, so if they were really dangerous we would not allow them on board at all, if you think about it. We will have to come clean about this next year, when we introduce in-flight calling across the Veritas fleet. At that point the prospect of taking a cut of the sky-high calling charges will miraculously cause our safety concerns about mobile phones to evaporate.”

You know what? It would really suck to die on a commercial airliner.
Full article here: Fear of Flying
(thx daisho)