Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Holy moaning macaroni. Does nobody know about the LAW OF NATURE that states that if you are NOT QUIET in a movie during the show that I will slay you??

Oh yeah, I almost forgot:
If you sprinkle when you tinkle, wipe the gd seat. Sheesh.

If you were like me, you grew up in an era where the USSR was the big bad guy and movies like The Day After scared the pee out of you. You cut your video game teeth on Missile Command and fretted along with Matthew Broderick when he accidentally set the WOPR off on [...]

My four year old did something the other day that was truly sweet. It was the first time she had done something specifically just to make me happy. She and her little sister had been upstairs playing in the bedrooms with a toy vacuum cleaner. A while later she came downstairs and [...]

I hate our mailman. He’s got a chip on his shoulder the size of Enchanted Rock. He does stuff like write “Return to sender, addressee unknown” on our mail. Once with an insurance bill, causing the cancellation of our auto insurance. He likes to leave packages in the grass by the [...]

Every time I see Signs, I can’t get over how incredible it is. The storytelling, acting, score, effects - they were all superb. The police officer’s subdued empathy. The brother’s wish to redeem himself. The father’s acceptance of the inevitable. The change from minor to major key at the turning [...]

Sarah from Tomato Nation is on a quest to Find Don. Don was her “disaster buddy”, whom she spent the better part of the morning of 9/11 with in downtown Manhattan. She would like to find him again and talk to him. If you know a guy named Don, black, trim build, [...]

I’ve just now discovered the Joy of RSS. I fiddled around with my templates and updated my RSS 1.0 template. The 0.91 template is not updated, but it’s available here. If people still use this, let me know and I can tweak it for you. I’ll also put a link over [...]

This photoessay is written by a woman who grew up in the USSR and now rides her motorcycle around the Russian countryside. Her destination? The area around Chernobyl, where a nuclear reactor’s accident in the mid-80s killed hundreds of thousands of people. The radiation levels have subsided enough to make travel possible, [...]

I thought that stuff like this was just what Moral Majority members used as liberal boogeymen to scare poor Timmy to sleep at night. Turns out I was wrong.
Take the Gender Aptitude Test. Know that state universities are using it in class. Be prepared not to get a “good” score unless you’re [...]

Bunch of cool toys:
Typeface art set to music.
Worth1000.com has a “Recreate the Far Side” Photoshop contest.
Original Psycho footage is available with a web gadget that lets you edit the shower scene.
A passive robot which walks like a human being.
Scale subway maps of different cities around the globe.
If you have any spare 3D glasses lying around, [...]