Category: Web

Here’s a handy tip for those of you using Skype: As you may know, when you are getting poor call quality, sometimes just hanging up and calling again will improve it. However, when this fails, try hanging up and setting your Skype status to Offline for at least 15 seconds before trying to call again (tech note: this apparently forces connection through a different supernode).
I read about this in a conference dedicated to the book, Skype Hacks, and just tried it the other day – it works!
By the way, if any of you want to chat on Skype sometime, my handle is, predictably, “cosmicbuddha”.
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This is the single most interesting article to appear on kuro5hin in recent memory: How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm – a practical guide
I so want this to be true! I can see it now: Medical tourism in Cameroon… This is a definite a one up on the Nigerian scams, dirt-poor Africans selling shit to sniffly fat westerners!

Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD
Once again, Han Solo is a sneaky bastard who shoots a green alien in cold blood. And that is all that really matters.

Go check out this
AV Club interview with Matt Groening.

AVC: Do you think a Life In Hell cartoon would have taken off the way The Simpsons did?
MG: I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows? One of these days, I’ll get around to animating Life In Hell. I still draw it every week, been doing that for the last 25 years. I’m just now putting together, for the first time, Life In Hell toys. Yes, I’m finally selling out.

My favorite Life in Hell strip is the one where Akbar is on his deathbed confessing how he’s been peeing in the bathroom sink all these years. Since I’m too lazy to find it online, here’s one with Binky:

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BONUS LINK: The “Akbar” font that mimics Matt Groening’s handwriting

I officially announce this the best page to play around with while you’re tied to your computer talking on Skype:
t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m : Visual Composer
I like the Percussion 1 set the best.

The Smashing Pumpkins are going to record a new album. Of course, following the Law of Great Bands That Get Back Together, it will most probably suck. But there is always hope.

Okay this is a pretty fun and useless hack (the most interesting kind, IMHO): 1,024
Upload a jpeg/gif/png (less than 500k in size) and a new graphic is generated. It shows 1,024 people in stadium seating holding up placards that your uploaded graphic is displayed on. The end result looks something like this:

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Yes, Asian Trekkies, that is the king of cool:

(original graphic)

Totally and completely bitchin’: MAO ART
This is the one for me:

Train ceaselessly to prepare to annihilate the invading enemy.

This is not helping my mood any: Cruise vows to eat placenta after birth
Selfish bastard. Everybody knows the placenta is for the mother to eat to replenish essential shit after childbirth, right? Or at least, that’s what my mini-Pekingese bitch did when she gave birth to a litter of pups in my closet.
Fucking wannabe samurai biting my fucking dog.
Now I just feel the need to lash out.
UPDATE: Yes, the title to the previous post is a Family Guy reference, itself a Peanuts reference. Nice catch, FG otakus.

Recently, quite a few people have been asking how to make their own homepages (not blogs). I dug around a bit because I haven’t been keeping up with all the new tools – and I know there must be some kick-ass ones out there now. Well, the solution appeared in my Gmail inbox.
I can heartily recommend Google Page Creator as a starting point. I think literally anyone can make a homepage with this tool; it cannot get any easier, and that is saying a lot. In no time at all, you’ll be authoring inspiring masterpieces that can effect true positive impact on society in general. Or something.
Note: You may have to sign a waiting list to get a Google Page Creator account. It is worth it, and my wait was less than a week.