Vuvuzella’s on Amazon
Own your own piece of World-cup craziness: your own vuvuzella! On sale now at Amazon for $6.99
Or watch the video:
Or the Techno remix:
Theta!
It’s not quite as amazing as the Virgin Mary appearing in a piece of toast, or the various appearances of Jesus in foodstuffs, but I think it’s cool.
Behold! I found an onion ring that was shaped just like the greek Theta!
Goonies 25th Anniversary at Astoria
I went out to Astoria with some friends for the Goonies 25th Anniversary festival. Goonies was filmed in Astoria and a few scenes down the road at Ecola State Park. You can still visit the original house:
The Goon-docks were the festival headquarters – where I picked up an exceptional hoodie to commemorate the event:
I missed it in the morning, but the actual actor who played Sloth was there in costume at the opening of the new film museum. The ‘museum’ just happens to be the old jail that one of the Fratelli brother’s escapes from at the opening of the movie. Just the same as it looked in the movie 25 years ago.
Also on hand, “Chunk” Jeff Cohen, Goonies director Richard Donner, Sean Astin who played the lead character Mikey, and Corey Feldman “Mouth”. While I didn’t see any of the actors due to the fact each of them showed up at different events over the long weekend – it was great fun seeing all the fans dressed up and living the dream. In all, about 2500 fans showed up.
Details and a really active forum with pictures/etc here:
http://goonies25thanniversary.com
Holy sh– time to save up some money
The most amazingly awesome (and ridiculously overpriced) potato guns I’ve ever seen: http://ultimatespudgun.com
Best jobs in America
Interesting how many computer jobs there are. Looks like I’m #12 – but I’m not entirely sure about the ‘low stress’ part. It’s definitely better than it was in the dot-com era though…
UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010
A video tour outside and inside of this really amazing building/sculpture composed of gigantic, clear-plastic rods sticking out like a porcupine. First time I’ve seen any video/images of the inside.
UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010 by Thomas Heatherwick from Dezeen on Vimeo.
I’ll take one of these Alex…
After seeing the local spinna–face walking around various art scenes (saw him semi-regularly at last Thursdays on Alberta – then all over); I must admit this guy beats him. Oh – how sweet. I’d love to make one of these and just walk around…
Saturn’s hexagonal ring explained (partly)
The hexagon ring discovery a few years ago on Saturn was fascinating, but this possible solution from some fluid dynamics folks appears even more so. Their basic premise is that they can duplicate the flow by spinning a ring under the surface of the water. This would imply the pattern is created by some kind of high-speed storm running around the pole below the visible cloud layer.
A particularly interesting part of the article is that they can make other shapes too by varying the speed of the underlying spinning ring/storm. My question is since it was a scale study – how fast would the winds in that storm be running? As it is, wind speeds on Saturn are already known to reach 1,800 km/h – and that’s crazy fast (~Mach 1.5).
Local Portland guy beats Asteroids record that has stood for over 27 years
I met this guy when he was attempting his 2006 world record attempt at the local Ground Kontrol just a dozen blocks down the street from my place. I just walked in on a weekend and he was the only guy in the place playing. I chatted with him a bit while he was playing and he seemed pretty friendly. Glad to hear he made it this time. He had gotten about 20+ hours into it the last time when the machine overheated and crashed on him.
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/04/asteroids-record/
Go watch his actual gameplay here:
http://www.justin.tv/johnmcallister#r=P29FTM8~
Sleep talking man’s comments blogged by wife
http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.com/
Produces pearls like:
“Elephant trunks should be used for elephant things only. Nothing else.”
“It’s CHICKEN and you LIKE IT. Lentil-loving, bean burger-sh*tting wanker.”
“Put it down! Step away from the yam. Step away!”
“I can’t control the kittens. Too many whiskers! Too many whiskers!”
“Don’t leave the duck there. It’s totally irresponsible. Put it on the swing, it’ll have much more fun.”
“Since when did my underwear look good on you? Take it off. Take it off your face.”
“I demand compensation in cola bottles. Lots of fizzy cola bottles. In one lump sum.”
“Put the lobster down. Put it down!”
“Robots making sweets? But they’ve got no taste buds! Metal smarties.”
“Oh, we’re going to be late for the pogo ballet, stop it!”
“So many spoons. You can’t have any. Cock off!”
“I’ve got a badger, a dog, a cat, and a sack. Now that I’ve got ’em you can f* off. All mine.”
“Look. Look at my left foot. Look at my left foot. Smack you in the face!”
“It’s definitely time to get up. Yes. My dog needs a new tutu.”
“I love the fact you’re a moose. Yes. So soft, so soft.”