Future Me

I don't know about you, but I love the future me. Fortunately there is now an easy way for me to send my future self an email.

Classic Chewie

I don't care if this is fake, I still love it.

Segway Segway

I saw this at thought it was cool to see how the Segway evolved from a prototype to a finished product. Plus George Oscar Bluth II likes them.

Links and Whatnot

What Should I Read Next?
Enter a book or books you like and it will give you recommended reading.

Populicious
A listing of popular del.icio.us sites.

Mythbusters Episodes
This is a show on the Discovery Channel where two special-effects experts set out to test the validity of the myths and urban legends of popular culture. This site lists all their results.

Fast Track Yourself
A site that gives advice on how to quickly succeed in business.

365 Tomorrows
A collaborative project designed to present readers with one new piece of short speculative fiction each day for one year.

Paper CD Case
Enter disc information and create a pdf that you can print and fold into a cd case.

12 Sided Calendar
Print out a pdf that you can fold into a dodecahedral calendar.

Google Logo Maker
Make words look like the google logo.

Aurgasm
Your favorite music you've never heard.

Rubber Band Sculptures
Reminding me that I have no artistic talent.

Pixsy
Find unique pictures the other search engines miss.

Lost Tonight

Fans of ABC's Lost finally get to see inside the hatch tonight.

If Simpsons Mated

In keeping with the genius of Conan's If They Mated, someone has created a Simpsons version.

Google It

Dan pointed out to me today that if you google the word 'failure', the first site it finds is the biography of President Bush.

Nintendo Revolution

Today Nintendo revealed the controller for its new Revolution gaming system. It's quite similar to a typical remote except that as you move it through the air it controls the game.

Quite a change through the years from this:



to this:

Senile?

By Joe Patten

Random

The internet is great if for no other reason than you can find out things like how to win at carnival games or how to disappear in America without a trace.

Million Dollar Homepage

This site is genius and I'm pissed that I didn't think of it. I'm sure I'm not alone. They are selling off 100 pixel 'blocks' on a website for $100 each ($1 a pixel, get it?), where you can display an image/ad/logo of your choice. Do I love it enough to fork over a hundo? No. But it's still a cool idea.

Tell Me

Have you seen this boy?

Weis Is God

Find a Human

If you are calling your credit card company or cell phone carrier or bank and would like to talk to a human being, check out this list of phone system shortcuts. It's a list of large companies and the direct phone route to a person.

Play on, Player

On the left is the iPod Nano. On the right is the iPod Shuffle.
My birthday is Monday.

Name the Rapper

Can you match these rappers with their real names? (answers below)

Rapper 1. 50 Cent 2. Ol' Dirty Bastard 3. Coolio 4. Chuck D 5. Diddy (Puff Daddy) 6. DMX 7. Snoop Dogg 8. Dr. Dre 9. Eazy-E 10. Everlast 11. Flavor Flav 12. The Game 13. Ice Cube 14. Ice T 15. Jay-Z 16. LL Cool J 17. Method Man 18. Mystikal 19. Sir Mix-A-Lot 20. Nelly 21. The Notorious B.I.G. 22. Master P 23. Q-Tip 24. Redman 25. Busta Rhymes 26. Ja Rule 27. Twista 28. Vanilla Ice 29. Xzibit

Real Name a) Trevor Tahiem Smith Jr. b) Micheal Tyler c) Carlton Ridenhour d) William Drayton e) Eric Wright f) Cordazer Calvin Broadus g) Percy Miller h) Robert Van Winkle i) Christopher Wallace j) Curtis Jackson Brown k) Erik Schrody l) Jonathan Davis m) Clifford Smith n) Tracy Marrow o) Artis Leon Ivey, Jr. p) Jayson Taylor q) Reggie Noble r) Anthony Ray s) James Todd Smith t) Russell Tyrone Jones u) Cornell Haynes, Jr v) Jeffrey Atkins w) Sean Combs x) O'Shea Jackson y) Andre Young z) Carl Mitchell aa) Earl Simmons bb) Shawn Carter cc) Alvin Nathaniel Joiner

Answer key:
1-j, 2-t, 3-o, 4-c, 5-w, 6-aa, 7-f, 8-y, 9-e, 10-k, 11-d, 12-p, 13-x, 14-n, 15-bb, 16-s, 17-m, 18-b, 19-r, 20-u, 21-i, 22-g, 23-l, 24-q, 25-a, 26-v, 27-z, 28-h, 29-cc

So Long, Little Buddy

Bob Denver
1935 - 2005

Good Show

I was fortunate enough to see Coldplay two nights ago at the Germain Amphitheatre (Polaris) in Columbus. It was a great show even though we were on the lawn. I even enjoyed Yellow, and I've heard that song eleventy billion times. It was great to add one of my favorite bands to the list of people I've been fortunate enough to see in concert:

Ray Charles
Stevie Wonder
Phish
The Allman Brothers
Aerosmith
Foo Fighters
Ben Harper
Red Hot Chili Peppers
G. Love and Special Sauce
The Black Crowes
Lenny Kravitz
Galactic
Weezer
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Smashing Pumpkins
Tenacious D
Guster
Travis
Blues Traveler
Ziggy Marley
Gov't Mule
Jimmy Eat World
Phantom Planet
Barenaked Ladies
Cheap Trick
Huey Lewis and the News

Kill Me