Monthly Archives: May 2006

links for 2006-05-31 Jar Barf- via YouTube

No bloggery. I’m takin’ the night off. Expect a link dump on Wednesday at the normal time.

links for 2006-05-30 Sean Connery > Lex Luthor- via YTMND.com I find this funny. I do not know why. World War II Poster Collection- viaNorthwestern University Library “The Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at Northwestern University Library has a comprehensive collection of over 300 posters issued by U.S. Federal agencies from the […]

At the gym we go to there are a line of television sets directly in front of the treadmills, and each one plays a different program. Most gyms I’ve worked out at have the same set up: rows of treadmills, stair-steppers, stationary bikes, and elliptical machines all facing a row of muted, close-captioned televisions. You […]

links for 2006-05-29 Ceiling Cat Anyone looking for a Christmas gift for me? “I was standing on my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped, hit my head on the sink and when I came to I had a revelation…A vision…A picture in my head. Of this:” Superhero/Renaissance Art mashup photoshop contest- […]

I know that I post this just about every Veteran’s Day and Memorial Day, but everything I try to write about either holiday sounds trite and false. For a days like Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day, you really need to hear from a voice of experience; someone who actually knows what it feels like to […]

links for 2006-05-28 The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time- via PCWorld.com AOL’s number one! Yay for AOL. That’s in your FACE Prodigy and Compuserve. William Shatner blows $20K for a contestant- via YouTube Shatner screws up on $25,000 Pyramid and then proceeds to go ballastic. A Walk Around the Giza Pyramids “A three […]

In my review of X-men I stated that I thought the movie suffered under Brett Ratner’s direction. I claimed that Ratner either doesn’t care about character driven movies or he lacks the skill to properly direct one. Of course, the ticket sales for the movie pretty much indicate that audiences don’t really give a damn […]

links for 2006-05-27 Robot Chicken’s “Ode to the nutshot”- via YouTube Not much to say about that one. Stewart/Colbert in ’08! Get your shirts now. Seth Roberts’ Shangri-La Diet in Detail. I’ve read several articles on this, and it is simultaneously the most crazy and logical thing I’ve heard regarding weight loss. I’m not gonna […]

Short review: Meh. The fighting was kinda cool. Long review: One of the aspects that made the first two X-Men movies work so well derived from Bryan Singer’s meticulous attention toward character driven storylines. As neat as the CGI segments and fighting looked the characters were what actually mattered in the first two movies. Even […]