02/28/05 Tycho, of Penny Arcade fame, weighs in on the Kottke thing. Having once been in the position of fantasizing about a full-time webcomic stint, I must say I’m with him. As most online communities, the blog-world is just too self-contained. {0}

It had to happen: The Numa-Numa guy is ashamed of his web-fame, wants it to end. I wouldn’t mind. Hell, I usually make an ass of myself for free… might as well cash in. {0}

Unseen Countdown (fl) Funny bit taken from a defunct long-running UK word-guessing game. {6}

French elevator joke (swf) I’ve got to try this sometime. ptr b3ta {0}

Miss McDonald is Ronald’s self-appointed SO, and roams the streets clad in style. Hadn’t linked this because her pics were MIA, but everything seems ok now. {0}

The Great John is exactly what it sounds like: An oversized shitter for people with fat asses. It looks nifty. {0}

The Winnah! — There were great suggestions for the iPod Engraving Caption Contest, but Mike takes the cake with this beauty: “So… Do you like furries?” (So scary!) It made me LOL. Mike, I’ll be emailing you to send you your prize soon. This was a lot of fun. I might start doing it more often. Thanks to everyone who participated! {3}

02/25/05 Caption Contest: Say you get an iPod, but are no hipster and don’t want to commingle with that crowd/aesthetic. What message do you engrave on the back? Winner gets many gmail invites, bragging rights and 5$ via Paypal / Amazon GC. (idea:rev) Update: Excellent suggestions in the comments. Thanks everyone! Comments are closed and decision is on the way. You’re awesome! {43}

The whole “Pro Kottke” affair is starting to elicit responses, some positive, some critical, some long. Personally, I think he should do advertising. {1}

Super Mario in Post-Its. {0}

Save Toby (fl) Wherein you donate your money to prevent the bad bad man from having Toby-stew (15,000 dlls already donated). This guy is a genius, like the inventor of the Pet Rock. ptr Andrew {2}

The Somerville Gates, a tiny Christo’s Gates parody, has taken off as modern art, and launched its unwitting author into pseudo-stardom. It’s Marcel Duchamp all over again. {2}

Firefox 1.0.1 is out with security and stability updates. {0}

A Scanner Darkly Trailer (qt) I’m usually not a big fan of rotoscoping, but it looks like they pulled it off great. {0}

02/24/05 Romance Novels. Retitled. {0}

Stiffs. “Celebrity Death Pool”. Pick some famous people you think are going to die soon. Whoever gets the most right wins. {0}

OMG, Zach Braff (the dude from “Scrubs” and comedy’s demi-god, sitting at the right of Owen Wilson) has a blog and no one had told me about this? WTF? What we have here is… failure to communicate. {2}

Thundercats video (qt) Complete with crappy video-toaster effects. Im sure rev may have some insight into the quality of those staged fights. {1}

Freed. An interview with Jason Kottke about the blogging thing, Airbag style. Hard hitting! Nonsensical! Ludicrous! {0}

iPod leather cases. I was going to make a sarcastic comment here, but these are actually kind of cool. {0}

Slim-fast ads. Because preying upon women’s worst fears at their most sensitive is ok if you make it funny. ptr elroy {0}

02/23/05 My fave girl Quinne (nsfw), otherwise known as hottest girl EVER, from Suicide Girls fame, has a new pictorial donning (and doffing) Penny Arcade garmenture. If you don’t find that sexy, you’re dead inside. Dead I say! And I really need to subscribe to that site now… {3}

What Year Do You Belong In? 1968. Trippin’ dude! {0}

The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time. I own/owned a fair portion of these. {3}

The iPods have been updated. Better battery, better prices. Perhaps it’s time to get one? {0}

Creative Commies in Maxim. I have that shirt, dude! {0}

02/22/05 “I’m tired of this back-slapping ‘Isn’t humanity neat?’ bullshit. We’re a virus with shoes, okay? That’s all we are.

    — Bill Hicks {0}

The whole plot of Episode III (spoilers galore!), pieced together with publically available images. Check it before Lucas FORCE CHOKES the dude. {0}

Remember “Man Hands”, that girl who was kissing nekkid Paris Hilton in the hacked sidekick pictures? Eduardo Arcos has the scoop. Her name is Eglantina Zingg, and she’s an MTV Latin America jockey. {0}

Kottke goes fulltime on this blogging thing. Personally, if i was privy to half the traffic he elicits, I’d have sold my soul to Google and other advertisers a long time ago. You’d still love me, right? right? {1}

Just because I want to join the party: Fuck sms.ac. I’ve been getting spammed with invitations by friends who unwittingly joined this. Avoid them. {0}

Just Fucking Google It. Because all smart people use Google. Read the information page for instructions on making your countdown link to a google search. {0}

Free Mojtaba and Arash Day. Bloggers in prison for blogging. {0}

02/21/05 Communist Mario? {0}

Paris Hilton’s Cell Phone Hacked (nsfw) Those are the actual peeled off images (and that girl she’s kissing has MAN HANDS, DUDE!) The Register and Engadget have more coverage of this. ptr kitta {3}

The first newspaper in Scandinavia (1749). I love the header designs of these things. {0}

Unintelligent Design. Sooo, this “intelligent designer” you speak of… Not particularly bright, huh? {0}

Japanese Warning Signs. Wherein oddly misshapen wide eyed boys inform your daily nightmares. ptr Bianca {0}

02/18/05 Newest WB spinoff: Loonatics. I bet people will be lining up to see tired, rehashed, faux-hipped renditions of characters they love. Duck Dodgers is terrific, though. I love the 50’s pop sci-fi look it carries. But these are shite. ptr rev.z3n {0}

“I’d ask for the world’s rarest truffle. Then while they were searching for it, I’d tunnel my way to freedom. Of course, then I’d miss eating the world’s rarest truffle. Quite the quandary.”

    — Dale Gribble (King of the Hill) on what to order for your last meal {0}

Read about the Liger! be amazed by this magnificent mix of Lion and Tiger! Whimper at the lack of photographs in the utterly useless article! Rejoice in the gallery at trainer’s site!. {0}

Jason Little’s Beekeper cartoons are one of the fanciest, quirkiest things to have hit the ‘net in recent times. While you’re there, make sure you check out the 3d abduction comic. ptr Salamastre {1}

The Jefferson Parliament Bomber footage (qt) {0}

Cute link of the week: Cats and ‘puters. A match made in heaven. ptr b3ta {4}

Internet Tennis. Old joke. Great execution. {0}

33 reasons why you shouldn’t post your picture on the internet. I wonder if this started off as a Fark photoshop. ptr Chris Perreault {0}

02/17/05 Now & Then. Famous cartoonists’ drawings, Now and when they were kids. ptr boing boing {0}

Escher’s “Ascending and Descending”, built of LEGO. Has a very nice detailed explanation of the optical illusion too. {0}

Photoshop tip: the Unsharp Mask. I’ve started using this when preparing the images for my posts. {0}

Daria: Digital Art(ist). She’s an autonomous software system making a living as an artist. She reminds me of Sarah. {0}

typographer.org is a blog entirely dedicated to typography. I love it. {0}

02/16/05 Absenter: Union Light and Power Co. A gorgeous set of photographs. {0}

i, robot. A short story by Cory Doctorow. ptr Dave Mansfield {0}

“Women will get sterile just looking at you.” An amusing look at warsie convention getups. ptr el hector {1}

A new trailer (yes, trailer, not teaser) for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is showing at Amazon, and it looks very promising. Loved Marvin, didn’t quite like Zaphod. {2}

March 14th is now officially Steak and Blowjob Day. Now there’s my kind of holiday! {4}

02/15/05 Think your Valentine’s sucked? Steve had it worse. {1}

Vintage Airplane Design Gallery. For those in the Design business, this thing is gold for scrapbook material. ptr cameron {0}

Machined Aluminum Hard Case For Shuffle and normal iPods. This one’s just to see you squirm, Elroy. {1}

CMYK (for Those Who Do RGB). Very interesting article from Dave Shea. {0}

Improv Everywhere: No Pants 2k5. We should start doing stuff like this in my hometown. {0}

Coat with fur that stands on end, delivers electric shock. Very nifty. ptr boing boing {0}

New Overcaffeinated advertiser: Split Reason — Geeky apparel. Go check them out. My faves: the threesome shirt and the mushroom hoodie. {1}

02/14/05 Playboy’s 50 most memorable images (nsfw) Personally, I find the inclusion of Charlton Heston and Nicolas Cage a bit disturbing. They wouldn’t have been my first… or thousandth choice. {0}

My good friend Kari just introduced me to Barbara Adler, a poetry-slammer from Vancouver, and I tell you, I want to make love to her words, I shit you not. Video’s in RealPlayer format, but it’s really worth it. {0}

Geek Love Poem T-shirt over at ThinkGeek. Perfect for your geeky Valentine. {0}

Scans of every MAD magazine cover since the 50’s. Sweet. {0}

You may have seen the Rods footage peddled around by UFO “experts” and other such people. This is a nice debunking, showing how the “rods” are merely photographic artifacts created by fast moving insects. {0}

02/13/05 Awesome Golf GTI Gene Kelly commercial (qt) with updated dancing moves. {1}

02/11/05 Fiendishly difficult image puzzle. I’m stuck at stage 5. Please post your impressions/tips here. (click on the number to comment) UPDATE: We’ve solved this. It was awesome fun (check thread for hints/questions) Thanks: max, luna, nathancolgate and all the others. You people rock! {84}

Secrets of the Rorschach test warning: Reading this will invalidate your Rorschach test answers, and/or allow you to manipulate the results (which may be a good thing). Am I the only person who sees two sherpas in a yodeling frenzy atop a mountain peak in the first one? more importantly, why does the mountain look like a penis? {1}

CafePress Watchdog (nsfw) See some lamer with too much free time bitch about Cafepress’s offensive items! ptr rev.z3n {4}

Next time you’re faced with the decision to invade a token country, ask yourself: what would Jesus do? I just can’t get over the fact that these people keep claiming to “want to be like Jesus”. ‘Cause, you know, he used to carry assault weapons and shoot people left and right, like, all the time. {1}

02/10/05 Happy birthday Mishka! this and this are for you! {0}

I’m really into Alphonse Mucha right now (yeah, I know, short attention span), and just found this great gallery of his work. All images pop, some are huge. {4}

I have been informed that the gorgeous Starman shirt I ordered is discontinued and completely unavailable. Which sucks. If anyone out there could help me locate one of these (or a vintage one at an affordable prize), I might just do naughty things to your ego. {2}

Elektro: Vintage 60’s robot. The 60’s were so cool… {0}

02/09/05 Axe: Feather (fl) Very, err… amusing game. ptr hezkybel {4}

Wired: Photographer Seeks Resolution. Fantastic article about a guy’s incredibly detailed pictures taken with his custom made 6 Gigapixel camera. ptr Godspeed (and I still want to see the naked people, dammit!) {0}

Adobe Studio Presents: Milton Glaser (qt) Yes, you’ve seen his work. You usually love it, too. {0}

Eric Meyer’s advice to blogging progenitors: Be A Parent. Personally, I think the kids should just suck on it, and that we’re too freaking worried about something that might end up being kind of cool. But then again, I’m not a parent. {0}

A very complete collection of Seventies pictures. Raaadical! {3}

02/08/05 A serious AWstats vulnerability is doing the rounds, so if you’re running it, make sure you upgrade your version to 6.3. And try not to screw up your CMS install in the process, like I did (only temporarily). {0}

The All New PowerBook G5 {0}

BlogAid running total: $8209.83 dlls. Hope it helps. {0}

Superbowl Commercials. I liked the FedEx one. Also GoDaddy’s. {0}

PMS Advisory System (swf) ptr rev.z3n {0}

iPod World (qt) They’re taking over! run for your lives! ptr elroy {0}

02/07/05 I’ve recently gotten back big time into the Robinson / Harris Starman (is Jack Knight the coolest person ever or what?), so I’ve been frantically looking for t-shirts with the astrology logo on the back, and was disappointed to find that they had gone the way of the dodo, until I ran across Hill City comics t-shirts, which has a very nifty one (on its way as I type this) {2}

Shmoo Group Finds Domain Spoofing exploit for non-IE browsers. This is pretty serious. {0}

Fark VideoEdit: Re-enacted movie scenes done on a low budget. Some very cool stuff in there. {0}

iPod Shuffle RAID set. Utterly useless. Totally cool. {0}

Superheroes turn bad, assault burger stand guy. This is so unlike them, you know? {0}

02/06/05 Zombie Infection Simulation (java) Because you can never have too many zombies. {0}

The Gallery of Regrettable Food provides annotated scans on fun! recipe books. Personally, I found the Coffee jello particularly brilliant. ptr Bianca {0}

Science Fiction Authors Hoax Vanity Publisher into accepting Atlanta Nights, a novel so awful that it contains the sentence: “Juice streamed from the ham in rivulets like saliva drooling from the fierce jaws of a wild dingo poised over the dead carcass of its prey in the dingo-eat-dingo world” ptr Godspeed {1}

02/04/05 The Saga of Bloodninja. Seriously. Do people actually do this stuff? I’d like to hear from anyone who has ever had cybersex. Let me know how that works. {2}

I Choo Choo Choose You card from that Simpsons episode. Aww, crap! It’s that time of the year again! Screw you, happy couples! {0}

numanumaye (fl) This guy falls slightly short of being another Star Wars Kid. ptr hezkybel {1}

Brazilian shaving collage video (qt) Don’t worry, all of it is safe for work, and quite funny. ptr take a guess {3}

Coolest image you’ll see today: Red star exploding, and background article. This happened 20,000 years ago, which confirms my notion that Earth is a backwater hole of the galaxy. {5}

02/03/05 Big Little Books. They’re comics! They’re books! They’re a joyless synthesis of both! {0}

NAO Design. The Badonkadonk guys. They have a lot of nifty stuff in their portfolio. ptr rev.z3n {0}

What if caribbeans took life as seriously as the rest of the world? (wmv) Great Malibu Rum ad. ptr luna {0}

Unleashed (qt) Jet Li is… freaking awesome. TO THE MAX! {0}

Appleseed trailer (qt) omg! omg! omg! {0}

02/02/05 Fifty ways you know you’re an asshole. Apparently, I’m not that much of an asshole. The ones that got me: 24, 25, 37, 38, 43, 46, 48. {2}

The Amazon Badonkadonk user reviews are quite entertaining. ptr Salamastre {1}

Waxy investigates the A9.com mention on The O.C.. “The O.C.”. Bah. I was here like, way before they started, dude! {0}

Guess her breast size ptr el hector {0}

Quick reminder: Bloggie voting is almost over, just in case you haven’t yet voted for your favorite blogs. Or, you know… for me. {0}

Mohel transmits herpes to babies during circumcision, uses his mouth as part of the process. I could make a really tasteless comment here, you know? But I won’t. {0}

I’m testing new ad space in Overcaffeinated’s home page. Please let me know if you find the ads/design annoying or see any problem. I can turn off the “network ads” that show up by default if they are silly or useless, too. {0}

How to make a Life Poster. Very cool. {2}

Flickr color picker. Quite freaking useful, you know? {0}

02/01/05 Mad Tv: Edited version of The Sopranos (qt) Funny! {0}

Japan Rope (nsfw) S&M rope, knots tutorials. ptr who else? {2}