Category: Web

Some of this extreme cuisine article is pretty funny until you start to suspect what a stupid redneck twat the author is… In this day and age, he can’t even pull off a convincing Long Duk Dong… Other than that, fine effort, Cletus.

Attention LA area residents: You need to get tickets to see Yoshida Brothers in concert at the Japan America Theater next month. Because it’s like, impossible to get to tickets to see them in Japan. The Yoshida Brothers kick ass.
Of course, they’re just a couple of nimble-fingered biotches compared to me and Adam, but still… They sure can pluck!

Hell, fuck FedEx as well:
MPAA training police dogs to sniff out DVDs
Tips for sending counterfeit DVDs via FedEx:
– Sprinkle coffee grinds in the FedEx Pak/shipping box
– Rip to VCD
– Stuff them inside teddy bears
– Oh yeah, use this new thing called “da internet” instead

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)