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Baker’s “Racist Cookies” Prompt Furious Reactions
Feb 26th
Who says the evening news is boring?
Meet Ted:
Ted is a friendly neighborhood baker from Greenwich Village in Manhattan. Ted was so stoked by the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency that he decided to bake a tribute in his honour.
Here is Ted’s tribute:
I won’t say anymore – but the video to this story is a thing of beauty – a rare piece of natural comedy genius.
Fear and loathing at the NYC Comicon
Feb 13th
As a self-confessed geek with a lifelong love of all things Start Trek, Star Wars, Conan the Barbarian etc. I figured it was past time that I visited one of the annual conventions for such people. I mean if I like stories about people in capes and masks beating and hacking each other with swords and shit it stands to reason that I should find things in common with other people who like those things?
Right?
WRONG!
Before I get into the meat of this – I should probably say that if you’re looking for insider info about upcoming movies and shit, you’re not going to find it here – and might want to stop reading about now. Nope – its not about that. Instead I’m going to have a bitch about my disillusionment of Geekathon and being cooped up in a crowded meeting hall with a bunch of spotty teenagers and the balding, beer-gutted bespandexed man-children that they inevitably turn into.
So I get to NYC hellishly early on saturday morning after a late night spent watching Mad Max 1 & 2 on and off in between a marathon session of EVE Online and numerous cups of increasingly rancid coffee (something in the coffee brings out the beast in me). I looked not unlike this:
Needless to say I wasn’t in a terribly great frame of mind and after struggling through a line so large that it would have done justice to a Charlton Heston bible epic – I was about ready to go home again. Well maybe not… I had paid $40 for the ticket after all… and at mimimum wage that’s a good 6 hours work to pay off. So I gritted my teeth and plunged into the crowds.
Comicon is basically one big tradeshow for people who want to buy merchandise at special discount prices that still manage to be higher than what you can find online. On the plus side – many of the authors and artists are there so you can get your shit signed (for an extra fee). The down side of this is that to see stuff – you’ve basically got to navigate crowds and make constant apologies for stepping on someone’s cape or making accidental contact with someone’s private parts.
Anyway so yes – I saw some cool shit, a few people from TV shows and movies:
If you look real hard - you might make out Lou Ferrigno in the back
A few people might recognise this guy - John Noble AKA the batshit scientist on "Fringe" and the batshit king from "Lord of the Rings.
Even so I couldn’t help but find the whole thing strangely underwhelming. This might have to do with my going by myself – but I just couldn’t work up the enthusiasm to identify with all the tubby balding guys dressed as Jedis or overweight Batmen. Its not that I don’t like the material – I still enjoy a lot of the stuff I did when I was a kid – Star Wars, Batman, Spiderman, Buffy, Transformers – its all good. I just don’t get why mature adults insist on dressing up in strange costumes to go to an indoor comic sale.
I mean… Ming the Merciless is a cool villain and all, but you don’t see him navigating the dairy aisle at the supermarket or vacuuming his carpet.
I can’t explain why but it made me feel a little dirty, as if everyone around me had some weird sexual fetish and spent their free time wearing oversize diapers and doing coke of a prostitutes buttocks.
I felt a burning desire to reassert my masculinity and to distance myself from the deviants. So without further ado – here is my personal highlight from the NYC Comicon. And what a highlight it is…
Its sleazy I know but can anyone blame me? Look at that.... Just look at it!
I don't know what she's selling and I don't care!
Bookmarks for February 6th 2009
Feb 6th
Links for February 6th 2009
- Bear Hugs: $2 – Neatorama – Zookeepers in Cairo are charging visitors to actually go inside the animal cages. Hugging bears, feeding crocodiles, pestering seals and provoking lions can all be achieved for under ten bucks!
- YouTube – R2S2 – The Steam Powered R2D2 Robot from Crabfu – Crabfu SteamWorks built a really awesome, steam powered R2D2 robot they call "R2S2".
- Trylon Viper – Inspired by the Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica the Trylon Viper can seat two.
- Sci-Fi Channel: Lagoon, Zombie, Aliens – Three posters for the Sci-Fi Channel, spoofing popular horror and science fiction tropes.
- Zuse Z3 at the Deutsches Museum « pagetable.com – The Z3 by Konrad Zuse was the world’s first working digital Turing-complete computer. It did floating point arithmetic, had two registers accessible to the programmer, was microcoded, and clocked at about 5 Hz.
- Pimp my browser: how to turn Firefox into a blogging machine – Ars Technica – Firefox's rich add-on ecosystem allows us to bend the browser to our will and deck it out with features to do almost anything. If you are a blogger, there are quite a few add-ons that can turn Firefox into a great tool for drafting posts, saving Web snippets, finding topical content, and more.
- Wonderland: Playstation soap – Hand made with olive oil, and shaped like a playstation controller.
- Robin Hood’s "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 13 Languages – Waxy.org – There's something enchanting about these localized versions of Roger Miller's "Oo De Lally" from Disney's Robin Hood from 1973.
- StarWars.com | Checklist: 10 Star Wars Superweapons – the past 30 years of Star Wars storytelling has become a graveyard littered with the carcasses of unthinkable superweapons. Well, maybe not too unthinkable, since the bad guys keep coming up with them. Here's a primer on some of the doomsday devices that have plagued our heroes since '77.
- Topless Robot – The 12 Best UFOs That Ever Invaded Movie Screens – In the mid-1940s and the 1950s, scores of people began to report seeing mysterious flying discs in the sky. It could have been mass hysteria caused by the trauma of going through one massive war and the fear of another, but Hollywood was happy to capitalize on the paranoia. Aliens ships descended on the cinema and have continued blowing up Washington, D.C. to this day. Here are the 12 best UFOs that have ever invaded movie screens.
- Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pornography – The List Universe – Erotica has existed since man first was able to think. A once large industry has now burst out as a giant in entertainment due to the Internet. Most people with access to the net has seen pornography either intentionally or accidentally. This list takes a look at some of the more obscure facts surrounding pornography.
- The Top 10 Songs That Killed Hip-Hop – Hip-hop just may be the most popular music genre on the face of the planet and for good reason. It’s raw, real and unpredictable. But in recent years the music revolution that started in New York over twenty five years ago has been dying a slow death. For some reason, wannabe hip-hop artists with little talent have decided to pervert the genre by manufacturing bubblegum garbage for the masses. If hip-hop isn’t dead yet, it is definitely in critical condition.
Engine Sentai Go-Onger: Possibly the best TV show in the world. Ever.
Feb 6th
This TV show comes from Japan.
Japan, mysterious and magical land of Nintendo, Godzilla, Mazinger, School Rumble, and fish-flavoured ice-cream – amongst other things that have improved all our lives beyond measure.
The show is called Engine Sentai Go-Onger which roughly translates to Engine Squadron Go-Onger. At least that’s what Wikipedia has to say about the show.
The motif of this series is animals, the motor industry, and (what else?) environmentalism. That’s good enough for me to rank it somewhere between Sesame Street and Carl Sagan. And instead of muppets, there’s talking, fighting robots. Footage of this show is going to be used for the new Power Rangers RPM series in the US. And it kinda looks a little like Power Rangers, which may be a little deceiving at first.
The awesome clip shows how a giant robot ist formed out of a dozen or so other talking vehicles. Sort of like Devastator from the Transformers TV show (and isn’t Devastator going to be in Revenge of the Fallen?), but much, much cooler. More awesomer.
This giant robot can take on any other robot there ever was: any Transformer, Mazinger, Mazinger Z, Mazinkaiser, that big one with the drill, Goldorak, any EVA, all of the GoBots, Robby … any other robot is doomed to fail. Fail and die. Or at least go home crying, like a little bitch.
The Death Star might have a chance. A small one.
This is not Thomas the Tank Engine:
via Botropolis
Wikipedia Entry on Engine Sentai Go-onger
Bookmarks for February 3rd 2009 through February 5th 2009
Feb 5th
Links for February 3rd 2009 through February 5th 2009:
- Яolcats – English Translations of Russian Lolcats
- Real-Life WOW speak – Ok, the guy is probably exaggerating for the purpose of the news report, but if he’s not, I predict that he’ll eventually get dumped by his hot reporter girlfriend.
- 140 Characters » How Twitter Was Born –
- Half a terabyte of public domain video, free for the downloading – Boing Boing – Public.Resource.Org released a 1/2-terabyte public domain stock footage library. This is 438 high-resolution MPEG2 files we obtained from the federal government. The footage ranges from WWII Disney productions to Army training films to Fish and Wildlife Service documentaries of wilderness areas.
- YouTube – Cheech and Chong : Best Story Ever – Cheech and Chong give us their Best Story Ever and surprisingly it has to do with an arrest and jail.
- ‘AOTS’ Hosts, Olivia Munn And Kevin Pereira Dive Into Gigantic Pie! – G4tv.com – Worth watching just for Olivia Munn in a maid's costume… yummy!
- The Internet Is Terrible » Blog Archive » This was too awesome not to share – Hamster mugshot. WTF?
- Japanese face slimmer will definitely not work as advertised – Got a fat face? Well, you could go on a diet to try to slim that sucker up, or, if you're lazy, crazy and Japanese, you could get the Japanese Face Slimmer. Essentially, it's a mask you wear that smushes your face with the goal of slimming it up.
- Gallery: A Second Serving Of Classic, Reimagined Game Covers – The kids at Something Awful took matters into their own hands to design classic game covers
- Pizza Pro 3000: Finally, A Manlier Pizza Cutter – Geekologie – The Pizza Pro 3000 by Fred is a pizza cutter designed to look like a circular saw.
- Bacon Stupidity – for the entire month of February, 2009, Michael J. Nelson will eat nothing but bacon. Nothing, my friends, but bacon.
- The Official Star Wars Blog » One Death Star for $15 Septillion?! – Add it all up, and we have a figure of exactly:
$15,602,022,489,829,821,422,840,226 and 94 cents. - The 13 Most Misery-Inducing Action Figures from the Star Wars Prequels – The year was 1999. Nerds everywhere were convinced that Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace would bring meaning to their otherwise worthless lives. So great was the anticipation that fanboys considered buying stock in Hasbro to profit from the billions the company would surely make once toys from the flick were released.
Christian Bale vs. Bill O’Reilly
Feb 5th
Commandsheep goes Comic Con
Feb 5th
One half of the dynamic duo that makes your life worth living with great and witty posts, geeky news and star wars nerdism (yes, I am talking about this blog) is going to the New York Comic Con this weekend. Yay.
Just imagine: Amongst you, the ordinary visitor, will be one of the superstars of the internet! Taking pictures! Having a snack! Collecting crap in a plastic bag! Standing in lines for autographs! Sweating! Pure awesomeness, I tell you!
Someone will be there, taking pictures and looking at geek girls in sexy costumes. On the other hand, that’s what a million other people are doing, too. Except me. I will spent my weekend all by myself, writing some sort of big essay that has, so far, eaten 4 years out of my internet loser life.
So there are probably going to be pictures on this very blog at some point. Probably. And some sort of report.
Citizen journalism at its finest. Need I say more?
Christian Bale is a lovely person
Feb 5th
You probably have already heard (again, we’re number one for old news!) that Batman actor Christian Bale went bonkers on the set of Terminator 4 and threw a tantrum.
Not because Batman he suddenly realised that the Terminator franchise has been squeezed to death by the previous movie and the horrible TV series (except that strangely hot Summer Glau Terminatrix chick), oh noes, something much more sinister happened: The director of photography walked on the set and was distracting Batman Christian Bale. Batman Poor guy couldn’t concentrate on the scene (probably something really important like pressing a button in front of a bluescreen) and had no other choice than to voice his anger. Also, I hear he had an upset tummy from eating too many bean burritos from the lunch van.
Now with stuff like that happening in the times we live in, sooner or later it goes viral on that internet thing the kids use. And then it gets mashed, remixed and put on youtube for the rest of us.
Final proof that threats, swearing and danceable beats mix so well together:
What the fuck is it with you?
You can get a free mp3 of the song here.
Update the site ASSCLOWN!
Feb 5th
Oh it looks like there were no updates since last Friday.
Almost a whole week without any cool news, gadget stuff, stupid images or viral videos. What happened?
Lazyness. And stuff. Real life. Meh.
So there is, of course, no excuse for this miserable posting behaviour. Especially since there are at least two random people visiting this site. Every day. Oh yes, we are slowly building a strong random readership sent out there. BTW, if you are a real person, leave a comment, will you?
How about some old news? As many of you know, Super Bowl is like really important and stuff. And it happened again last Sunday. Apparently the whole world was watching, except me.
The best thing about this testosterone driven sports event is, of course, the commercial breaks. They give the audience some time to reflect upon what they just saw (yeah, right), go for a much needed wee, make manly grunting noises and get a couple of more beers from the fridge. Like many things, Super Bowl is just another cheap excuse to get drunk during the middle of the day.
The commercials are always a big hullabaloo for anxious ad executives that want to high-five themselves for coming up with the bestest idea for the ads.
Here’s a couple that made me laugh. In no particular order. I know that this is old cheese for most of you – but do I look like I care? Didn’t think so. Maybe just one more thing: MacGruber should be made into a TV series. Seriously. This could easily be the new LOST or HEROES. Trust me, I watch TV and know this.
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