archived stuff

Older links and things are collected here.

a scanner darkly trailer

God, I really want to see this movie now. (link to Boing Boing)

cartoon themes!

This is great. Check it out! Curious George, even!

their srimech is also a weapon..

From b3ta again. If you've ever watched Robot Wars, this is frickin' awesome. Even if you haven't...

woohoo! greenlight!

I finally managed to get an Intelligencer article up on Fark! Kinda disturbing story, though.

'"Loving" pet cat goes on rampage, shot dead by police after 20 minute stand-off'

It'll be up around 10 tonight.

maoist review of sim city

Peronally, I think Sim City would be a better game if you could nationalize factories...

japanese warning signs

This is meant to be a sign illustrating all the things you can't do at a family restaurant.

Okay, no 10,000 yen bills, no smoking for underaged pimps I can understand, but do they really need to put up a "no bitch-slapping" sign? I'd figure that would just be understood...

Lots of other neat stuff in this gallery, actually.

groupware bad

"So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?" How, indeed.

(Mad props to Joel on Software. Mostly posted for Eric, but you have to admit, that's an awesome quote).

waterloo green energy research

From today's UW Bulletin. I love this stuff. There are some neat ideas in here...

straight outta compton

B3ta says it better than I can: "He's painstakingly lip-synced the folk version of Straight Outta Compton, featured in a recent newsletter, to the original NWA video. The result is strangely moving and makes us all nostalgic for the days of the LA riots." Wow.

teaching effective english

Here we have lovely scans of a book intended (I suppose) to teach Japanese how to talk dirty in English. It seems to be intended for truly sensitive guys. You find gems like "You have more hair than I imagined. But I have nothing against hairy girls. So don't sweat it."