04/29/05 Dancing autobot (wmv) ad with a crappier car. {0}

Behold the awesomeness that is the Fwapometer. The guy took a pedometer to his hand, wanked vigorously, calculated number of wanks it would take to get to the moon. What’s not to love about this? {2}

Exploding toad update: It’s the birds, man. It’s the fucking birds! The plot thickens… {2}

Ellen Feiss on Tiger release. I love comebacks. Makes me feel good, rooting for the small guy. {0}

Ding Dong Song (wmv) by Gunther & the Sunshine girls. Exploring the boundaries of cheesy… ptr David Ford {1}

04/28/05 New Batman Begins trailer (qt) Was that the scarecrow right there? {0}

Kevin Smith geeks out on ‘Sith’. Warning: Spoilers ahead. {3}

Mystery of Germany’s exploding toads. Can anyone get a video of this? It sounds awesome. Sick, but still awesome. ptr Luna {1}

Apparently, most paedophiles are trekkies. That is quite unsettling. {0}

Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It… What do you think? Are we? {10}

04/27/05 Kama Sutra animated GIFs (nsfw) ptr kottke {4}

Aardvark is an amazingly nifty Firefox extension for Web Devs. {0}

Comparison graph of the a380 and 747. That’s a bigass plane. {1}

God is Great, by which I mean, Very Very Large. {0}

Black People Love Us! Sally, Johnny, and their black friends, yo! {2}

04/26/05 The Firefly Trailer (qt) is out. OMG OMG OMG! {0}

Interview with the Popesquatter (wmv) I love this guy. {2}

I am 8-bit. Awesome exhibit. {0}

Bastard Tetris. Algorithmically chooses the next worst possible piece. This must be a riot. {0}

Dangerous Hacker. This sounds too good to be true, but then Mafiaboy used to ddos himself all the time, so… {3}

04/25/05 A Cappella Nintendo Medley (qt) Awesomeness… going… off… scale! ptr Luna {2}

Propane balloon pyrotechnics. Making propane-filled balloons explode is not as easy as you think. {0}

Steve’s Home Theater is an actual Theater. Very cool, includes stages of construction. ptr David Ford {0}

Asia meets Eminem (wmv) Weeeerd. {0}

04/22/05 PostSecret. Beautiful. {0}

Chinese Watermelon Art/Sculpture. Very nice stuff. {0}

b3ta: Guilty Pleasures. Includes such jewels as “I love to weigh myself before and after taking a dump to establish the weight of my poo”. And you people call me weird… {0}

Wesley Buckaroo. Putting stuff on your cat while he’s asleep. I like the CATamari suggestion… {0}

04/21/05 Adobe + Macromedia FAQ: The english translation. {0}

Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor is offering a GarageBand file for “The hand that feeds” for you to fiddle with it. I’ve downloaded this, and it’s most awesome. {0}

Who Pays $600 for Jeans?. I’ll take “idiots” for $100, Trebek… ptr Luna {0}

QDB: Top 100 Quotes. Always an endless source of amusement. ptr Jeremy {0}

04/20/05 Pope Photoshop thread. So this is what you get when you elect a new pope on the age of the internets… ptr rev.z3n {0}

Pope Smorgasbord (somehow, I think the old Pope would approve of that word): 2001 column on Ratzinger and Martini’s standing on the JPII’s papacy, Sally McKay, papal election pundit, Ratzinger Fan Club (exactly what it sounds like), New Pope and Evil Bilbo — Separated at birth?, Vatican: Feminists suck (expect more of this). Voice opinions on this thread, please (click on the number after this parentheses) {1}

Zombie Smorgasbord: How to Survive a Zombie Attack, Zombie infection Simulation, Zombie fetish! (WTF?) and, of course, Rob Zombie. {0}

Drum Machine (fl) I had already linked this, but it’s so good, it deserves to be relinked. ptr Turumbar {0}

04/19/05 New Pope is Ratzinger (Benedict XVI). Living in a 90% catholic country, this is a very big deal. Too conservative? {3}

From the 30’s to the 50’s: Unrealised Moscow Architecture. Incredible concept drawings. {0}

JoyToKey is a program that converts joystick input into keyboard / mouse input. ptr Zaratus {1}

Underpass Mary. You know, I have this really neat enchilada that resembles the holy spirit… {0}

Google Maps: Airplane Graveyard {0}

04/18/05 A good South Park Character editor (fl) for all your avatar’ing needs. {0}

Aaron Gustafson’s New Select. A really cool idea he showed us at SxSW, with a lovely implementation. Degrades gracefully, too. {0}

Adobe buys Macromedia. This ranks waaay high in the wtf-o-meter. Discussion over at /. {0}

04/15/05 Get Perpendicular (fl) This has to be the most horribly cool way to present a new technology. It’s so bad it bleeds into the other side of the scale, meaning it’s good. ptr Chris Perreault {2}

Want to know what a racist mob of hillbilly motherfuckers looks like? Check the “Minutemen” snapshots. The name they chose just adds insult to injury. These are the minutemen, asses!! {2}

Sci-Fi Covers. Featuring such classics as “Blue Demon y las Seductoras”, this one’s a veritable bombardment of kitsch. Also check out the dude’s Mars Attacks cards. ptr silence {0}

Frogger Jeep Commercial (qt) Clevah. {0}

04/14/05 Save Ophelia!!! comes to us in the very respectable tradition of Save Toby. {3}

Popup Test. Test your blocker/browser. {0}

Juggling DDR (wmv) Amazing video. {3}

Insanity Test. I failed this miserably. ptr cameron {2}

Bovine Unite.com. Udderly flabbergasting. {0}

04/13/05 How to make a Coin Ring. Pretty cool for those DIYers out there. {3}

Professional photographer travels US snapping pics with cameraphone only (fl) I’ve been drooling over this all day long. ptr kottke {3}

Great free cellphone themes. I’m currently using the Apple Panther one for my t610. {0}

For the one or two people in the world who don’t yet know this: Mac OS X Tiger arrives on April 29. I’m salivating a bit right now… {0}

Tables vs CSS: Pros and Cons. Sadly, this doesn’t look like a joke. For my own take on this argument, read my Sitepoint article on the subject. {4}

04/12/05 Heavens Above tells you where to look for passing satellites over your hometown. A lot of these can be seen with the naked eye. {0}

Sebastiao Salgao’s animated gallery (fl) {0}

Maddox on Unintentionally sexual comic book covers. Nice. {0}

Confessions of an eBay opium addict . Gripping tale. {1}

04/11/05 Date4Dud is, apparently, a blog by a guy who got billboards to get a date. Smells of guerilla marketing to me. More details in related Fark discussion. {1}

I-Mockery: Crazy Mexican Monografias. I grew up using these for schoolwork. Always thought they were a bit creepy… {0}

Night Watch Trailer (qt) This looks promising. {1}

A friend of mine is in a bit of an economic jiffy, so I jokingly told him to join the Foreign Legion. He replied with this link and this one. Apparently they’re still very active. Awesome. Btw, if you have any work pointers in Mexico, throw them in his general direction, will ya? He’s a most cromulent programmer. {0}

FF6 spoof featuring classic consoles against the evil that is the Sony PSP (fl) It doesn’t get any geekier than this. ptr rev.z3n {1}

Nine years in slammer for US spammer. I hope they put him in pound me in the ass prison. ptr Chris Perreault {1}

04/08/05 Gibby’s Game Room. Ok, that’s a bit much. {2}

Half Life 2: Aftermath. A new expansion pack set for release this summer. Can’t wait… {0}

Once you go Mac (qt) you never go back. God, I’m turning into Elroy… {1}

The Thumb-sized Heart of TK the Cat. Paul Ford writes good… {0}

04/07/05 How to tie a tie. Bro, this one’s for you. {0}

History of the Olympic mascots. {1}

I just read Slaughterhouse Five, and I highly recommend it. It talks about the Bombing of Dresden in World War II. {4}

‘Star Wars’ fans wait at wrong theater, refuse to move to the one that’s actually showing the movie. This is not the theater you’re looking for… move along ptr lorena {5}

04/06/05 The lovely Molly asks: Where is your Feed? and builds a comprehensive pertinent table. This woman is awesome. I must have proposed to her about six times at SxSW… {0}

Terri Schiavo’s Blog. So wrong, yet so funny… such is the dichotomy of life… ptr waxy {0}

Sin City Comic-to-Screen Comparison. I can’t wait until this movie is released here. {0}

COLOURlovers :: loving colours since 1981. It’s the spelling that sold me. {1}

My childhood, seen by Google Maps. Lovely idea. {0}

Instructions for making a Duct Tape Wallet. I might just try this… {0}

“As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

   — Godwin’s law {0}

04/05/05 A Pirate On Campus. Cool prank. Includes emails from Dean and Prankster. {0}

The Daily WTF. Discussions of IT follies. Thoroughly geeky, LOL funny if you’re a developer. {0}

Gabe, from Penny Arcade has posted cool step by step pictures of his newest Cardboard Tube Samurai artwork. {0}

04/04/05 “Be my Macropatron”. A good approach. I should try it. ptr Zeldman {0}

New Gorillaz Video (asf) Cool. {0}

I caught my ex’s new boyfriend sucking his own dick. Heartwarming story. Very moving thread. {1}

Steve don’t eat it: Huitlacoche. Ok. This one hit too close to home. I must say here: Huitlacoche is very good, and tastes great in quesadillas. Whiny gringo… {5}

Overcaffeinated. Courtesy of Spelling with Flickr {2}

04/02/05 Swim boy, Swim!. Guy buys fish off market, frees it in East River. {1}

04/01/05 My experience at SxSW… This picture about sums it up. The internet is so bad to me… {0}

Zug: Fool the Media. Guerilla tactics of Media manipulation. {0}

The first annual Bottom Line Design Awards. Rewarding good holistic design. {0}

Photo Matt Answers. Explanation on the uncouth SEO articles that popped up in the Wordpress site. I’ve met the guy, and I can attest that he’s a real nice person. He doesn’t deserve this crap. {0}

Running Bat (qt) Yes. They run. Look quite hideous while doing it, too. {0}

Boring Boring: A Directory of Dull Things. I love April 1st. {0}