Got speakers? The Dub Selector at Infinite Wheel is the most fun I have ever had with flash and music. Not you style? Prefer something harder? Try Metalbaby, and rock out with Bad Oyster.

Halfbakery is a site where members submit ideas that just might work...or might not. Other members vote and comment on the feasability. There is a 'random' link on the sidebar, a really good place to start. My favorite half-baked idea so far is the restaurant that serves food designed to alter the smell of your piss.

Damn, this guy loved his car. Look at it when it was wrecked!
Personally, i drive a white Nissan Altima, circa 1997. I've had it since July, and i haven't washed it once.

I just checked my stats, and apparently every loser who managed to misspell ifilm with an 's' on the end has been here. Just like this loser mispelled it below, but I've since corrected it. My favorite referrals are the ones from people looking for porn. I hope you liked what you've seen, weirdos.

I am ashamed of my lack of updates. I have lots of excuses, though. My computer's been down all month, needing a firm kick in the replacement. I'll be buying or building one by next week. Oh, and I was on vacation for awhile. You can read about my life and times here.

So I'm back, I'm updating, but I'm nt yet on top of things, haven't really been doing too much surfing. So I'll raid the blogs I read for content :)

From News of the Dead: Two years ago a tribe of 200 hundred people in the Amazon were given a baby grand piano. Now three piano tuners are going to check on their progress (and tune the piano, which has been sitting in the jungle for 2 years)!

BoingBoing pointed me to: Last year there was a Muppets Week on The Family Feud. Plenty of Muppet action in the blog, but you'll have to wade through mentions of the Dixie Chicks and Louie Anderson.

Not enough? Take a good look at a Pictorial History of Michael Jackson's Face!
Now that's good eatin'!

Herb Zipper: How to be a Cyber-Lovah. It's an informercial from Ifilm. Funny funny shit.

Chief Moose of Montgomery County gained national exposure from leading the investigation against the snipers. He's got fan pages on the net, but this is the most intelligent, thought-out, and productive site. Truly a work of genious for a man who some would say was, well, just doing his job.

Here is the item you've been waiting for, to put on your X-mas and Hanukkah lists: Porn Star Action Figures! Finally, GI Joe can get some noo-kay!

I don't usually like to post links easily found on the front page of Metafilter, but tonight the first post I looked at linked to a page of absolutely breathtaking pictures of some Norwegian Islands in the Arctic Circle. Check out the page here. It's not in english, but you're a smart one, you can figure it out.

I was listening to an episode of This American Life about superheroes. One of the vignettes introduced me to Gone and Forgotten, a website detailing short-run comic book superheroes. Within you can find out about the "real" Superboy (and his Super-Dog, Krypto). Or discover the power of the Bee-Boy!

I grabbed another template to work with. Eventually I'll just have to break down and build my own page, but this design is pretty nice. For now please ignore all the links on the sidebar, they're either dead or came with the skin.

I cannot believe the amount of time I just spent working on a new post, only to have it vanish when I went to change my template.
Well. It was a good post, too, focusing on this animation of a song by Tom Lehrer that lists the elements of the periodic table. You woulda loved it.
Oh well.

The cost of rental housing is increasing, even as unemployment rises, and the Federal Minimum Wage (read: we could pay you more but then again we could also get a machine or a monkey to do your job, so shut up and give Norton those fries) is onlt $5.15/hr. I wouldn't babysit for that little! Anyway, according to this CBS news story, in some places it would take 4 full-time minimum wage incomes to pay rent on a small two bedroom house. Yet another reason I live in a converted carport!

Flash Fun

You are God, and you are pissed. Time to call down your Wrath. Well, Wrath II actually.

I've got a cold, so I've been going around the building here collecting two from every box of tissues I can find. So I've tried out all the major brands, I guess. Well, tonight I gave up and bought my own box. And guess who won amongst the big three (Kleenex, Scotties, Puffs)? Scotties regular. The kleenex were good but dusty, and the puffs were alright but too often filled with lotion - which is nasty on my lips and nose - but the Scotties are hypo-allergenic (I think that means dust doesn't stick to them), strong enough, and at $1.79 were the best choice. So here's my shout-out to Scotties.
Then again, using disposable tissues directly contributes to de-forestation. Man, I hate ethical dillemnas. Hope this cold is over soon!

Oh, while looking for the links I came upon this article by fantasy author Larry Niven about Superman's procreative abilities.

Remember the Mueller Invitational? That was the website where you could rank the women through 64 brackets to see whom you thought was the hottest? Well, they've got a website now instead of that huge excel spreadsheet, and there's two other tournaments: "classic dames," and toons! Yup, Jessica Rabbit vs. Betty Rubble. How can you decide? It takes awhile to load, but for time-wasting, it's priceless. You can also check the results, and see who the favorites are.

One Instant a Year

Diego Goldberg has photographed his family every year since 1977. It's fascinating to see how these people aged, and how their children grow from weird little babies (aren't all babies weird?) to weird little grownups (aren't all grownups weird?). (thanks Bones

Get ready to feel old: This year marks the 20th Anniversary of the A-Team. To celebrate, maybe a movie starring Jack Black?At the A-Team Resource Page you can find out everything you never really cared about the A-Team, including what happened to Amy, the chick from the first season?
Had enough? Can't take any more of that crack commando unit (don't we have them in Baltimore?)? Why not kill one of them?

Everything you wanted to know about the Pygmy Shrew. Fun, educational, and horribly sad, if you only click on one link today, your finger will cramp.

Neiman Marcus' new Christmas Catalog has the ultimate action figure: You. And it's only $7500! (found at BoingBoing)

I missed WWE Raw this week, and I know you did too. The best write-up and review I've found is at the ProWrestling Torch. James Guttman is funny, cynical, and a fan, though sometimes his standards are too high. Check his latest Raw review out and see what you missed. The Torch also has a column describing what happened that wasn't shown on tv, and reviews of other federations (there's other wrestling??).

CD Mix of the Month Club

I'm always looking for new music, especially these days when my tastes are ever-expanding and changing. And one of the best ways to hear new music is through someone els'e mix tape.
Josh, writer and overlord of Crabwalk.com has been trading mix cds every month since December with strangers from the internet (just like you). You can sign up at his site, and then you send a disk to him, and he sends one back to you. Josh has an diverse taste in music, so you're bound to hear something you already like as well as something you'll grow to love. I'm signing up tonight and getting my mix on this week. (via Daily Candy)

The Stanford Prison Experiment was conducted a month before I was born, in August '71. The psychologists created a "prison" in the basement of the Psych Building and drafted 24 volunteers. Some became prisoners, some guards. These were normal college guys. It's amazing to see how within 6 days they completely became their roles. In such a short time the prisoners forgot about the experiment and started losing their identities; they came to believe that they really were their prison numbers. The slide show ends with a post-study discussion, and there is RealVideo of a meeting between one of the prisoners and one of the guards.

It reminds me of something Timothy Leary said in his book Info-Psychology about Charles Manson. Manson had spent his entire life in completely authoritarian situations...from a troubled homelife to juvenile hall, to prison. Then, at 28, when he'd spent most of his life behind bars of some kind or other, he was released. Free. What happens when the slave becomes his own master?

And another thing: isn't it weird that experiments like this are no longer allowed but "reality" games like Survivor are? (found via boingboing)

An online cartoon strip. Funny. Read.

Adam Foley has written a satirical article about how way too many people I know feel about being shut out of Phish NYE tix.

Remember Adam Curry, the MTV VJ with the hair? He was their standard rocker vj from 1987-1995. Well, he's been involved with the internet for a long time now. When I lived in Boulder in '94 I remember reading that MTV was suing him for domain rights. He's got a weblog in which he records some of his experiences with rockers. Check out the last two paragraphs in this one about Ozzy.

If you thought the old Superfriends cartoon was cool, apparently you were way wrong.

And if that's not enough for you to waste valuable paper-writing and Diablo-playing time, then check out this Foolprood Guide to Making Any Woman Your Platonic Friend.

Wired's main story this month is an article on real bionic eyes!

Slate has an interesting article that I don't quite agree with called "How Deadheads Ruined the Grateful Dead."