tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32094312012-01-30T04:41:12.724-06:00The Ends of the Earth"Digitally Laminating This Day In History With News, Humor, Links and Pics"Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.comBlogger13411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-48571166991440657812008-01-06T17:39:00.001-06:002008-01-06T17:39:20.729-06:00Drivers and Downloads Blogged with FlockPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-32923873301261683522007-11-28T04:21:00.001-06:002007-11-28T04:24:43.194-06:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-24464199763722199992007-08-12T16:40:00.000-05:002007-08-12T16:44:52.899-05:00WTF?????????!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!! He posted something!!!! What a surprise!!!! He must be drunk!!!! (Yep, he is...very much so...thinking about jump-starting the ol' blog, too. Whether or not this comes to pass depends on how he feels tomorrow when he sobers up, however. Watch this space for the exciting details.) YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Listening to some Queen at Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-1061345364979624762003-08-19T21:09:00.000-05:002003-08-19T21:09:24.993-05:00Okay...so the blog's dead. Till further notice, anyway. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-921061602003-04-06T16:10:00.000-05:002003-04-10T15:36:46.000-05:00ARRRRGGGHHH!!!!
Hi folks, the blog's not dead, I'm not dead, just in stasis till I find a place to host my image files or my isp gets off their ass and hooks me back up with some webspace. Hopefully this will take place in the very near future, until then just go on over to MeFi or something, nothing to see here. My sincerest apologies to everyone.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-909103302003-03-18T01:42:00.000-06:002003-03-18T01:42:56.873-06:00Grrr....
Hi folks, just thought I'd check in and say hi...apparently my isp decided to change my username and the number I dial-in to and apparently they've also totally screwed up all the pictures on my blog I've uploaded over the past freaking year and a half. This sucks. I guess I'll have to call them tomorrow and figure out what gives, if my ftp account is still there, if they dumped all Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-905056372003-03-10T23:57:00.000-06:002003-03-12T12:02:28.000-06:00Trivia Time
Howa bout a game of Trivial Pursuit? It's a Flash preview of the 20th Anniversary Edition of the popular quiz game. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-901671502003-03-05T03:27:00.000-06:002003-03-05T03:27:56.200-06:00
Speak & Spell
Someone made a Flash version of the popular Texas Instruments toy you can play with here, either for nostalgia's sake or because you're still a crappy speller and could just use the practice.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-901667352003-03-05T03:11:00.000-06:002003-03-05T03:19:06.000-06:00Superman's Contract Extended
I just thought it was worth mentioning that Jerry Rice was given a six-year extension on his contract to play with the Raiders, that would make him 46 at the end of the contract. What's this guy made of? He's still seventh in receptions at 40 years of age, by the way. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-901664662003-03-05T03:01:00.000-06:002003-03-05T03:28:24.000-06:00Say What?
"I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada."
- Britney Spears, Pop Singer
This and other pearls of wisdom can be found at GoodQuotes.com.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-901657932003-03-05T02:35:00.000-06:002003-03-05T02:35:14.716-06:00Was it Lionel Richie? Argh....
Well, I could write a description of this Flash game, but I may as well save my breath, the title's pretty much self-explanatory - Name That Tune!Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-901328602003-03-04T15:18:00.000-06:002003-03-04T15:20:36.000-06:00
Topher's Breakfast Cereal Character Guide
A detailed look at cereal spokestoons like the venerable Sugar Crisp Sugar Bear (above).Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-901324432003-03-04T15:10:00.000-06:002003-03-04T15:10:21.606-06:00Flash Flash Revolution
A knockoff of Dance Dance Revolution, in which you use your arrow keys to keep time with the beat of various mixes. This one's pretty darn big so if you're not on cable you'd best have some patience.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-899822212003-03-01T22:07:00.000-06:002003-03-01T22:07:22.700-06:00
The Batcycle
One man's endless quest for perfection continues as he attempts to realize his dream of having a reproduction of the TV Batman's "Batcycle", complete with sidecar.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-899671582003-03-01T15:00:00.000-06:002003-03-01T15:00:34.873-06:00Make-a-Flake
Make your own snowflake, by cutting out a paper one in Flash. There were fifty-thousand made, last I checked, in their gallery of user-created flakes and some of them were pretty good, too.
If you're feeling more industrious, however, and you'd like to make a real snowflake from good old water and cold air, you can go here and do just that.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-897628842003-02-26T00:59:00.000-06:002003-02-26T00:59:10.030-06:00
An Ad Man, I Am
The advertising work of Dr. Seuss. Link via Boingboing, by the way, as was the arcade cabinet project, it's about the only page I've had the time to browse tonight. I'm about to fall asleep over here, as you can tell by the really lame article title.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-897621912003-02-26T00:40:00.000-06:002003-02-26T00:40:47.060-06:00
So...You Want to Play Donkey Kong?
Two guys are building an ultra-sweet M.A.M.E cabinet, with all the extras. You can see pics of their arcade dream machine and read the logs they're making of their project's progress here.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-897585102003-02-25T23:12:00.000-06:002003-02-25T23:12:08.560-06:00
Your Name in Chinese
Calligraphic Chinese representations of many common names for wallpaper or screensavers.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-894077002003-02-19T21:18:00.000-06:002003-02-19T21:18:37.296-06:00Mirror SytesPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-893415802003-02-18T19:30:00.000-06:002003-02-18T19:30:51.060-06:00
I Say Ketchup, You Say Catsup
In yet another example of the fact that for every oddball obsession there is in this world, there's a website devoted to it, in this case, that obsession would be ketchup. I'm guessing that whoever made this site is probably one of those nuts who'll douse a perfectly good steak in the stuff, something that always makes me cringe when I see it. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-893404542003-02-18T19:09:00.000-06:002003-02-18T19:11:47.000-06:00
Hurt
In case you haven't seen it, Johnny Cash, who's been in very poor health recently, did a video of his cover of Nine Inch Nail's song, Hurt. You can see it here, on Mark Romanek's website, along with several other award-winning videos he's directed. Although the pairing of musical sensibilities sounded a little odd to me at first- NIN and Johnny Cash- it's a perfect fit and a reallyPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-893380742003-02-18T18:25:00.000-06:002003-02-18T18:25:01.266-06:00Should We Be Happy or Worried?
Well, big news in blogging land: Pyra Labs, the company behind this whole Blogger show, have been bought by Google, the internet search behometh. Maybe this will be a good thing, I'm not sure, but I'm thankful, at least, that they didn't sell it to AOL or Microsoft or something, that would have been really scary.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-890854122003-02-14T05:14:00.000-06:002003-02-14T05:26:27.000-06:00
For All you Valentine's Day Lovers Out There...
I'd just like to say this: the chocolate industry is driven by child slave labor and diamond's are over-valued rocks ....enjoy.
As for myself, I plan on spending the holiday as always, curled up under my covers in the fetal position, lights off and curtains drawn, The Doors' song The End playing in an endless loop on my Winamp. Now Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-890836082003-02-14T04:04:00.000-06:002003-02-14T04:05:55.000-06:00
Exotic Sodas
  Outlaw Hemp Butterscotch? White Tail Birch? These are a couple of the out-there sodas profiled here. Only one of the bunch I've ever tried is Vernor's Ginger Ale, which I grew up on. Great stuff and I hadn't thought about it in years, but the stuff does tend to make you sneeze, like they mentioned in their review. Good, good stuff, wish I had a bottle of it. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-890593342003-02-13T17:43:00.000-06:002003-02-13T18:13:57.000-06:00
Happy Valentine's Day...Do You Feel Lucky?
Smith and Wesson unveiled their largest handgun ever this week, the .50 caliber Magnum. You have to wonder if this merely a coincidence or a case of shrewd marketing?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-890242642003-02-13T03:47:00.000-06:002003-02-13T03:47:49.960-06:00Mind Reader
A neat little mind-reading trick.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-890240582003-02-13T03:38:00.000-06:002003-02-13T03:38:14.826-06:00
More Pencil Carving Craziness
I put up a link to this type of thing a few months back, but here's another page of carved pencils I saw on MeFi awhile ago that's even more impressive. Someone's got a whole lot of patience. I wonder how many of these carvings get broken and tossed out before a finished one is completed?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889821082003-02-12T11:37:00.000-06:002003-02-12T11:44:44.000-06:00
Just In Case Anyone Out There Ever Wondered What I Looked Like...
The person above is me. Never talked much about myself on here or felt the need to put up pictures, but I photoshopped this pic the other night and since it sort of fit in with the scheme I figured "what the heck?".
In case anyone's into that sort of thing and is curious about the filters I used for the spacey-stuffPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889137952003-02-11T09:04:00.000-06:002003-02-11T09:06:09.000-06:00Knowing Poe
A look at the literary genius that was Edgar Allen Poe, his life and times, his letters and more.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889123932003-02-11T08:36:00.000-06:002003-02-11T08:36:44.256-06:00
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
It's a rare artist that kicked the kind of ass Leonardo kicked and his work as an illustrator is showcased nicely on this site.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889118502003-02-11T08:25:00.000-06:002003-02-11T08:25:38.166-06:00Hat Tricks
No, we're not talking about hockey, we're talking about tricks you can do...with hats. Yeah, I know, who cares about doing tricks with hats. For some reason, though, I can see my friend Bill getting a charge out of this one as some of the tricks might fall under the category of juggling, although indirectly, at best. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889108932003-02-11T08:02:00.000-06:002003-02-11T08:12:40.000-06:00
Time Passages
Playing With Time takes a look at the world around us in an unusual way, slowing down events too fast for us to perceive- like the blink of an eye or an exploding firecracker- and speeding up gradual processes, like the change of seasons, so we can appreciate what's really going on. The site, which is an offshoot of a travelling museum exhibit, has a lot of amazing Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889100762003-02-11T07:41:00.000-06:002003-02-11T07:48:32.000-06:00
Web Zen
Lots of really great stuff here. This current page focuses on retro-goodies like Pong and other early videogames, old computers, 80's nostalgia items like the Cube and more. Tons of good pics of early machines and some humorous stuff as well. There's more fun to be found in the site's archives, though, so poke around awhile, you can waste some serious time here, great site. (Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889094832003-02-11T07:26:00.000-06:002003-02-11T07:26:14.286-06:00
Grover is Bitter
Event though this sort of thing has been done before on the web (I'm thinking of the now-defunct Bert is Evil), this VH1 Behind the Music-type profile of Sesame Street's Grover is still a pretty funny read.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889011852003-02-11T02:08:00.000-06:002003-02-11T07:29:15.000-06:00Yikes! Celebs Without Makeup
Some downright frightening shots of various Hollywood pretty-persons without their makeup on.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-889004392003-02-11T01:40:00.000-06:002003-02-11T01:44:06.000-06:00
The Digital Needle
This is one of those things where you wonder to yourself, "what got into the guy that he'd even come up with something like this?". A fellow has apparently compiled software that can allow you to transfer audio from old records by scanning the disks' grooves. I doubt there's a huge market for this and there are obviously much better ways to go about tackling the Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-888996062003-02-11T01:10:00.000-06:002003-02-11T01:24:13.000-06:00The Doors of the 21st Century...
Well, from the sound of this merciless review, The Doors reunion sounds like a horrible spectacle. With only two members of the original group performing, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarak, and backed by drummers which seem to be changing from day to day (John Densmore, who's suffering from tinnitus, has been kicked to the curb and is suing) and the former Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-888988882003-02-11T00:50:00.000-06:002003-02-11T00:50:00.986-06:00
Valentine's Gifts You Don't Want to Recieve
Yet another Photoshop contest from the folks at Worth1000.com.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-888857902003-02-10T20:06:00.000-06:002003-02-11T00:47:32.000-06:00Kevin Mitnick, You've Been Hax0red!
Kevin Mitnick, the famous hacker who was recently released from his court-imposed restrictions barring him from using computers or the internet, was apparently amused to find that his own website, a showcase for his new security company, Defensive Thinking, was itself hacked twice in the last few weeks. Look alive, Kevin ;)Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-886972222003-02-07T03:32:00.000-06:002003-02-07T03:52:46.000-06:00And the Beat Goes On...and On....and On...and On....and On...
In what has to be the most ridiculous waste of time ever, avante garde composter...ahem, I mean composer John Cage's 639-year-long musical composition was begun on a German church organ Wednesday. Yes, you heard that right. The piece lasts 639 years. Currently, the first three notes of the late author's piece, called As Slow Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-886968502003-02-07T03:15:00.000-06:002003-02-07T03:15:06.563-06:00Paint it Black
Scientists have created the "blackest" black ever, by dipping a shiny surface momentarily in nitric acid. They plan to use this super-black surface, which reflects 10 to 20 times less light than the black paint currently used to reduce unwanted reflections in telescopes, to improve the way we see the universe and allow intruments here on earth, as well as the Hubble, to see Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-885365352003-02-04T10:18:00.000-06:002003-02-04T10:18:19.200-06:00One Word
This site simply presents you with one word, each day, and asks you to write about said word for sixty seconds, after which, you can see what kind of things others were inspired to say and the results can be interesting.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-885354752003-02-04T09:54:00.000-06:002003-02-04T10:03:35.000-06:00
The Days of Wine and Spandex
Denim and Leather celebrates the era of the eighties hair band, when bands like Accept and Motley Crue threatened a worldwide shortage of hairspray and studded belts were a staple fashion accessory. There's an extensive list of the players of the era, along with games, a thesaurous and numerous links to the subject.
Jeff, Phil...I don't know if you Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-885347142003-02-04T09:35:00.000-06:002003-02-04T09:35:57.106-06:00
Neurotic Poets
A site that takes a look into the minds of several poets, such as Edgar Allen Poe (above), whose briliant legacies seem to point out a link between their artistic genius and their troubled mental states and asks the question of whether the two might be linked. Along with Poe, tragic luminaries of prose such as Dickenson, Plath and Shelley are profiled and I noticed, in a Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-885331772003-02-04T09:01:00.000-06:002003-02-04T09:01:53.816-06:00A Journey Into the Mind of a Parrot
I don't know what to make of this site, really...it's about the late budgie parrot, Victor, whose owner claims that not only could his bird talk, but that he understood language and could carry on conversations with a human-like grasp of the ideas conveyed by speech. He's compiled tons of sound files and research data about the bird and seems absolutely Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-885303822003-02-04T07:54:00.000-06:002003-02-04T07:54:26.050-06:00
Do We Really Need This Stuff?
The Museum of Weird Consumer Culture, a tribute to the most perplexing, unnecessary and downright idiot consumer items around, such as the dog diapers pictured above. I don't know, though...I really think the solar-powered milk frother sounds like something everyone should have. I don't know how I've managed to live without it this long, frankly. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-884537302003-02-02T22:13:00.000-06:002003-02-02T22:13:48.330-06:00
Public Domain Photos
A rather large collection of public domain photographs as well as other resources for raw image material for projects you may have in mind. Mostly gathered from N.A.S.A., the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other govt. sources, these images are available for fair-use application with some restrictions applying.
The main site, Grokking the Gimp, is Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-884188962003-02-02T06:07:00.000-06:002003-02-02T06:21:41.000-06:00In Memory of the Columbia
With the loss of the Columbia shuttle and it's crew today, I felt it would be a slight to them not to say something here. It's hard to think of anything to do but express my utmost sympathy for their families and my absolute respect for the people who were onboard.
While watching the reports on the news yesterday morning, I was reminded of something Tom Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-884177862003-02-02T04:59:00.000-06:002003-02-02T04:59:10.216-06:00Barry's Blog
This is old news by now, I realize, but Dave Barry has a blog. I know a lot of folks dig his humor, so if you happen to be one of them and weren't aware of this fact, you might want to swing by and check it out. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-884167052003-02-02T03:48:00.000-06:002003-02-02T03:48:52.106-06:00
Consoles that Sucked
A look at game consoles that didn't make it. Either their price tags were outrageous, their concepts were flawed or they just never really had a good reason to exist in the first place.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-883719992003-02-01T04:00:00.000-06:002003-02-01T04:19:56.000-06:00
When You Just Can't Handle the Thrill-a-Minute Action of Solitaire
For the terminally bored or enthusiasts of the popular time-killer, Jigzone has lots of online jigsaw puzzles of varying degrees of difficulty for you to while away the hours with. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-883717632003-02-01T03:47:00.000-06:002003-02-01T03:52:18.000-06:00A Letter from the Editor
Re: The proposed "new look" of The Ends of the Earth, mentioned in a previous post.
Well, I really did intend to put up a new template, in fact, I worked on the thing, off and on for probably six or seven hours over the past few days. However, when it came time to put it into action, I looked at it, looked at the template I have now and just really liked this onePatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-883707982003-02-01T02:57:00.000-06:002003-02-01T03:33:48.000-06:00Beware of Xupiter, the Browser Tool from Hell
    Some evil programmers whose website resides on Hungary have created a particularly nasty little download that installs itself without your permission and hijacks your browser, periodically changing your start page to the Xupiter.com homepage. Surfers who've been unfortunate enough to have downloaded Xupiter say it's incredibly hard Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-883700202003-02-01T02:22:00.000-06:002003-02-01T02:22:38.926-06:00
Acno's Energizer
A neat little Flash game of the cutesy-character-who-has-to-solve-puzzles-to-get-to-the-next-level variety. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-877384122003-01-20T12:26:00.000-06:002003-01-30T23:00:40.000-06:00Update Regarding My Lack of Updates:
Okay, here's the thing, I hate having this screwed up travesty of a webpage on here, all scrambled up like it was put in a blender, so there's a whole new look on the way, may keep it awhile, may change it back to something resembling this, not sure yet. At any rate, I have some things I need to burn to disk so I can just reformat this stupid computer Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-875804972003-01-17T02:10:00.000-06:002003-01-17T02:10:53.713-06:00Welcome to the (HTML) Jungle
Well, as many of you have probably noticed, my site's all weirded out. I'm not exactly sure what I've done to wreak such havoc on my page, but I'll try and get things sorted out soon. I may well just end up starting over and redesigning the whole thing or at least try and put things together like they were, I sort of let things get out of hand here and it's Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-873000112003-01-12T03:55:00.000-06:002003-01-12T03:55:05.693-06:00
Stop the Presses!
Virtual Journalist...do you have what it takes to make it in the reporting biz?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-872996882003-01-12T03:36:00.000-06:002003-01-12T03:39:14.000-06:00
Celebrities Eating!
A site devoted to one thing and one thing only: pictures of celebrities eating. I haven't seen all the celebs included yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the gallery of munching superstars, like J-LO (above, enjoying what appears to be a tasty burger), is woefully lacking in snapshots of Calista Flockheart or Kate Moss.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-872995082003-01-12T03:27:00.000-06:002003-01-12T03:27:22.006-06:00Holy Cow, Dig What's in Store for Playstation 3!
The next incarnation of the popular gaming console, slated for 2005, will supposedly incorporate new chip technology nicknamed "The Cell", a supercomputer-on-a-chip that IBM and other companies shelling out 400 million dollar's worth of money to the project predict will be able to perform a whopping one trillion+ calculations in a second, Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-870529962003-01-07T03:50:00.000-06:002003-01-07T03:55:28.000-06:00
Busted!
A great big pile of celebrity mugshots, such as this glamorous shot of ZsaZsa Gabor.
Needless to say, such luminaries as Robert Downey Jr. and Nicki Sixx of Motley Crue fame, have more than one. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-870527782003-01-07T03:39:00.000-06:002003-01-07T03:43:39.000-06:00
Fly Guy
This is just the coolest little Flash cartoon I've seen in awhile. Be sure and explore all the areas and interact with the things you find on your as you fly around - especially the little UFO - personally, I thought that was the best bit.
A very original and entertaining flight of fancy.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-869702352003-01-05T13:28:00.000-06:002003-01-06T14:19:14.000-06:00Taking Criminal Stupidity to Breathtaking New Heights
A man robbing a bank, upon finding out the bank was closed and there was no money to be had, steals a clock radio and a bunch of candy. The police track him down by following the empty wrappers left behind. What was the candy? Dum-Dums, of course.
Another criminal mastermind steals a snake-handler's bag from his car at a trafficPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-867159072002-12-30T17:13:00.000-06:002003-01-02T11:01:04.000-06:00
Speaking of the Dark Ages...
I can still remember being eleven or twelve and seeing an Intellivision console for the first time, at a local K-Mart. Oh, the awe with which I regarded this wondrous machine. This, my friends...this was the powerhouse of home gaming at the time (1982?) - edging out Atari console slightly, from a graphics standpoint.
By edging out, what I mean to say Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-867141882002-12-30T16:21:00.000-06:002002-12-30T16:21:47.000-06:00
Still More Uses for the Cube
I've posted articles pertaining to a lot of Rubik's Cube stuff so I may as well post this one, featuring various artworks made by arranging groups of the famous puzzle-toys to form images and shapes, like the Pac-man mosaic above.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-867134132002-12-30T16:00:00.000-06:002002-12-30T16:00:01.983-06:00
Hubcap Creatures
Amazing-looking sculptures of fish, made from...well...hubcaps. Not much else to say, pretty neat handiwork, though. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-867131722002-12-30T15:53:00.000-06:002002-12-30T16:00:25.000-06:00
Lord of the Peeps
Someone went to an awful lot of trouble to act out The Lord of the Rings with marshmallow peeps. What is it about those little peep things people on the net find so intriguing? Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-867127162002-12-30T15:41:00.000-06:002002-12-30T15:43:38.000-06:00
False Advertising
A large gallery of advertisment parodies.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-866374042002-12-28T16:40:00.000-06:002002-12-30T16:00:52.000-06:00Clonaid
Well, cloning is back in the news as some nutty group claims to have produced the world's first human clone, a female, identical in every respect to her 30-year-old mother. I think just the fact that the organization is named "Clonaid" should make all this very, very questionable. Still kind of spooky, though, as I'm sure someone's going to do it soon, regardless. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-863730312002-12-21T15:56:00.000-06:002002-12-30T16:01:14.000-06:00'Tis the Season...
Well, I guess you noticed I couldn't resist tossing up some cheesy javascript snow on the old blog, just couldn't help myself, what can I say? I'm like one of those guys that goes nuts and turns their home into a zillion-kilowatt spectacle, like this guy, at heart. What the heck, it's only for a week or two and I used as much restraint as possible. I mean, I could havePatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-863707222002-12-21T14:35:00.000-06:002002-12-21T15:31:05.000-06:00
Kiss Your Face
I can't tell you how completely worthless, yet good, it is, that someone took the time out of their existence to photoshop the band KISS's makeup onto the faces of other, sometimes not-so-obvious celebrities, as well as the obvious ones. Kiss Your Face does just that and though - unfortunately - they don't do requests, if seeing Andy Griffith and Jean Simmons wearing the Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-862215672002-12-18T09:29:00.000-06:002002-12-19T16:35:15.000-06:00
Flatbed Florals
Artist Katina Matson's beautiful imagery, created by arranging flowers on a flatbed scanner, then fine-tuning and printing the resulting scans with inkjet printers. The originals must really be something...the examples on her page are referred to in the introduction as "low-res", but are still nice-sized pictures, full of depth and color and life.
Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-860309292002-12-15T09:14:00.000-06:002002-12-15T21:27:18.000-06:00R.I.P., Emily Post
My friend Phil and I are in a chicken joint in Guntersville the other day, right? We're getting the stuff to go, so the waitress gives us our drinks and we sit down and have a seat on this large bench in front of the register. I'm drinking a Dr. Pepper out of one of those big, white, styrofoam cups - with no top on it. I planned on grabbing one and a straw on the way Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-858858542002-12-12T03:28:00.000-06:002002-12-12T03:32:01.000-06:00
Hef: Tthe Videogame
Well, sounds like a good enough idea to me. In a planned videogame (likely to come with an M rating), players will be able to take on the persona of Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine magnate and perennial partier, as they build up their own magazine empire and strive to live out "the ultimate Playboy lifestyle".
No word yet on whether gamers will collect Viagra Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-858853062002-12-12T03:07:00.000-06:002002-12-12T03:32:14.000-06:00I Thought This Had Already Happened
Spam estimated to overtake real email in 2003. Speaking as someone who gets about 50 pieces of utter garbage in my inbox everyday I would have figured this was already the case, guess I'm just unlucky.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-857199982002-12-09T03:40:00.000-06:002002-12-10T14:09:35.000-06:00
Quoth the Raven...
A really original 404 page.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-857195212002-12-09T03:18:00.000-06:002002-12-09T03:20:48.000-06:00
Lights Aren't Just for the Tree Anymore
If you really want to impress your holiday guests this year, how about some Litecubes? Litecubes are plastic recreations of ice cubes with cooling gel inside that lights up like a glowstick and illuminates your drink. They come in various colors and, Lord knows why, I thought they looked pretty cool, though.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-857191222002-12-09T03:00:00.000-06:002002-12-09T03:14:24.000-06:00
Belter
A spiffy, full color version of the arcade classic, Asteroids.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-857186622002-12-09T02:40:00.000-06:002002-12-09T03:43:40.000-06:00
A Little Holiday Cheer
Here's a few obligatory seasonal posts. First off, I made a couple desktop designs in the spirit of the season, pictured above. If you'd like to use them, just click here for the one on the left and here for the one on the right. They're both 800x600 but I may put up other resolutions in a day or two, so if you're on a different resolution just mail me and I'llPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856366842002-12-07T06:44:00.000-06:002002-12-07T06:44:28.000-06:00Did I Post This Already?
After a year of blogging stuff like this, sometimes I ask myself that question, when posting things. What the heck, I will again, it's kinda cute. A Flash kitten that's really curious about your cursor. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856363712002-12-07T06:27:00.000-06:002002-12-07T06:28:37.000-06:00The Life Waste-O-Rama Quiz
I normally don't link to a lot of quizzes, but this one was pretty out there...this guy hates tv and his quiz makes some dramatic points. I love the theme music, it gives it this weird air of sincerity. It's a must-see.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856357252002-12-07T05:47:00.000-06:002002-12-07T05:47:39.000-06:00
This is Kind of Tasteless, However...
It was also pretty funny :P Elmo's Got a Gun.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856355922002-12-07T05:39:00.000-06:002002-12-07T05:47:23.000-06:00
Superfood
Who could ever forget grocery items like Captain America bottled water? Huh? Oh well, this, and an assortment of other superhero-themed snack treats can be found here.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856351382002-12-07T05:08:00.000-06:002002-12-07T05:08:58.980-06:00Wind Walkers
Strange, esoteric sculptures that walk when a gust of wind comes through, modeled on computer by the artist before being built, these wooden legs and bodies will soon be walking on their own, he hopes, by saving the energy so they can walk regardless of windspeed.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856292382002-12-07T00:28:00.000-06:002002-12-07T00:28:44.716-06:00
Super Monitor, the Future of Procrastination
If anyone has twenty grand laying around, please, feel free to send me one of these 180 monitors...the thing's huge and shaped to immerse you in your pc and hooks up easily to any computer. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856279372002-12-06T23:47:00.000-06:002002-12-06T23:48:41.000-06:00The Halifax Explosion
Approximately 9:04 on December 6th 1917, in Halifax, Candada, the Imo and the Mont Blanc, both carrying explosives for the war effort in Europe, brushed into one another and set off the second-largest man-made explosion history, with deference to the bombings in Japan.
The explosion and resulting tidal-wave caused the destruction of a fifth of the city and resulted in Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-856275852002-12-06T23:37:00.000-06:002002-12-06T23:52:55.600-06:00
The Gumball Bandit and Other Tales of Idiocy
I love the stupid crook stories and it seems there are always plenty in the news. It's funny, because not only is some criminal-type always out there getting caught doing something stupid, without fail it seems that someone always comes along to top the last one in terms of sheer foolishness.
Here's a perfect example: Terry HubbelPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-855335602002-12-05T06:20:00.000-06:002002-12-05T06:20:31.000-06:00
Blammo!
If there's anything cooler than high-speed photography of bullets plowing through various types of objects, I've yet to see it. Some good stuff here, like the above pic of a .444 Marlin blasting it's way through a Coke. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-855334032002-12-05T06:14:00.000-06:002002-12-05T06:14:40.973-06:00
Ultimate Go-Kart
Okay, I really want one of these - go-karts fitted with gas turbine engines, another idea whose time has come.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-855330392002-12-05T06:01:00.000-06:002002-12-05T06:35:37.000-06:00
Catch Michael Jackson's Babies
Michael's flipped out and he's tossing his kids off the balcony, how many can you catch? Don't let Wacko Jacko distract you by acting weird and throwing records at you. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-855293782002-12-05T03:13:00.000-06:002002-12-05T06:36:13.000-06:00
I'd Like to Be Under the Sea...
Some really pretty vr panoramas from the ocean's depths. Requires Quicktime and may take awhile to load, dial-up folks (doesn't everything, these days?).Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-854718462002-12-04T01:57:00.000-06:002002-12-04T02:04:34.000-06:00
UFOs in History
I'm not sure I'm a believer in UFOs one way or the other, but this is pretty interesting stuff, anyway. Old master paintings depicting unidentified flying craft? 16th century woodcuts depicting strange glowing spheres in the skies above Basel, Switzerland? Freaky stuff. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-853740492002-12-02T06:56:00.000-06:002002-12-02T06:56:43.430-06:00The Color of Money
Well, doesn't seem like that long since they gave our U.S. paper money denominations makeovers and they're already at it again - this time they're adding some color to the Jacksons, with Lincoln and Franklin next in line for the updated approach.
Better hang on to a few old ones if you still want to be able to do the 9/11 $20 dollar bill trick. You know, I almost Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-853727142002-12-02T06:06:00.000-06:002002-12-02T06:06:11.673-06:00
Don't Refresh That Webpage! You're Liable to Miss Them Filing for Divorce
Ah...Las Vegas. Just when you think it's as gaudy and tacky as humanly possible, they raise the bar another inch. Now, not only can you have a quickie Vegas wedding, but you can do it on webcam, so the entire internet can watch you make what could possibly be the stupidest, most impulsive mistake you've ever Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-853720712002-12-02T05:41:00.000-06:002002-12-02T05:41:22.013-06:00A Message from the Editor
Hi there. I didn't really have anything important to say, I've just always wanted to use the phrase "a message from the editor" on here somewhere - it sounds so official.
I was just thinking I'd start using spaces and write in normal paragraphs, instead of just hitting enter and moving on to the next block of words. I mean, it takes maybe three seconds of Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-853710122002-12-02T04:53:00.000-06:002002-12-02T04:53:45.086-06:00'Cause There Can Never Be Enough Flash Mini-Golf Games
Here's one more, from Nabisco.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-853705252002-12-02T04:28:00.000-06:002002-12-02T04:28:34.536-06:00
Some Software Is Better Left Unwritten
The folks at Something Awful Photoshopped these funny, fictuous, rejected software packages. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-853691302002-12-02T03:18:00.000-06:002002-12-02T03:18:19.856-06:00
Match Head Artworks
I was looking at Boingboing awhile ago and they'd posted this site. Pretty neat, the guy makes sculptures out of match heads and then sets them ablaze. His website includes pictures of various things he's done as well as clips of the actual lighting of the sculptures. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-852013952002-11-28T02:11:00.000-06:002002-11-28T02:11:06.593-06:00
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!
Here's hoping all of you reading this have a happy turkey day and don't get too drunk and fat. Might I suggest a turducken? Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-852007962002-11-28T01:47:00.000-06:002002-11-28T01:47:57.013-06:00Here's a Couple of Flash Games for the Heck of it and Because I'm too Tired to Blog Right Now
Crab Ball and Tempest 2000. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209431.post-852005072002-11-28T01:35:00.000-06:002002-11-28T01:35:03.083-06:00I Feel Good!Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00763106142393615163noreply@blogger.com0