Bullets Don't Spark

This and other movie conventions are explored from a geekish (and somewhat killjoy) page called Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. Included are looks at the dangers of jumping through plate glass windows, falls and space explosions, along with reviews of movies from a strictly-physics standpoint.

Mr. Roger's Commencement Address at Dartmouth

Yahoo! Gets a Makeover

Yahoo, under pressure from advertisers, is changing the look of it's homepage. You can try out the beta version here...I guess it's not that bad, no floating banners flying around the screen or anything too intrusive. I'm sure this is probably just the beginning, though.

Childhood Memories Crushed Again - Hulk Smash!

Well, this is pretty sad...what happens when you hand over The Hulk movie to artsy-fartsy Ang Lee? Bad, scary things, from the sound of it.

As you may or may not recall, in the comic books, The Hulk came into being when mild-mannered nuclear physicist Bruce Banner, attempting to save his young friend Rick Jones from the effects of a bomb test in the desert, was blasted with gamma radiation and subsequently began turning into not-so-jolly giant called The Hulk. Now...maybe I'm no fancy-pants director like Mr. Lee, with his Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon acclaim and such, but I don't see a lot wrong with that origin story. You have a guy selflessly sacrificing himself for a friend, a massive atomic explosion - all within the first few minutes of the film, basically. Sounds good, right?

Well, in Mr. Lee's version, which has nothing to do with the classic Hulk we remember, Banner is bitten by feral, radioactive dogs (created, if I recall the rumors correctly, by Banner's father, The Absorbing Man, a Marvel Comics character that had nothing to do with The Hulk, let alone had any relation to Bruce) and, at some point, battles a giant Hulk poodle. Yes, you read that right - a Hulk poodle. Mad yet?

After the success of Spiderman, any moron could see that there were going to be plenty of superhero comic adaptions made in the near future. What's sad is that most of these will probably be written and directed by people who've never picked up a comic book in their lives, unlike Sam Raimi, who was a life-long Spiderfan and wanted to see things done properly. Aside from a few minor changes, Spiderman was left pretty much as I remembered him and rightly so.

What Raimi seemed to understand and what Ang Lee doesn't, apparently, is that these characters were popular with people around the world to begin with, for good reason - and while I'm not against someone trying to add to their appeal, I think that throwing away the things that made them popular in the first place, in an attempt to make them "better" is foolish and counter-productive. Perhaps Lee's movie will be good and moviegoers who've never read the old comics and children who haven't grown up with The Hulk will enjoy it greatly and I hope that's the case. However, there will be a lot of people out there who are going to be bummed out over these radical and unnecessary changes, the very people who bought all those comic books years ago and made it popular to begin with. They only get one chance at making these movies and if The Hulk tanks, there won't be another one for a long time, if ever.

In worse news, in a particularly pathetic case of bandwagon-jumping, there's going to be a movie based on The Wonder Twins, of Superfriends infamy, possibly two of the lamest characters to ever come out of the superhero trash heap. Apparently some idiot Warner Brothers exec must have seen them on the Cartoon Network for ten seconds and mistakenly thought they were cool and asked around for the movie rights.

At least we can take some solace in the fact that David Koepp, the screenwriter credited with Spiderman, has signed on for round two.

Take That, Art!!!

Documenting what happens when nutcases freak out and desecrate great artworks like religious figures, the Mona Lisa, etc.

Sometimes Older Can Be Better

An article that details one good way to befuddle the current crop of website hackers: old mothballed os's like old DOS variants and AIX...the things are so old the script kiddies can't just dive in and start hacking away, simply because they're too unfamiliar and, in some cases, no documentation exists.

Auto Madness

Some odd little Flash driving lessons.

Behold, Trek Freaks: The Supreme Collector's Item

Whoever gets their hands on this baby is going to be the envy of nerds everywhere. The ultimate geek status symbol, Captain James T. Kirk's authentic captain's chair, is for sale on Ebay. If anyone reading this has a hundred grand or so laying around - I have a birthday coming up, you know.

The Legacy of Jimi Hendrix Lives on - in Google

I just thought this kind of humorous and telling - just for the heck of it, I typed "better than Jimi Hendrix" into Google and you know what it spit back out at me? The first couple pages of search results were all *joke* pages. :) Damn right.

Are You a Good Googler?

Tips and tricks for using the popular search engine.

Planearium

The Mouse Odometer

The Modometer Is a nifty, skinnable application that keeps track of how many far your cursor has travelled, which applications log the most miles/meters and puts together the data in easy-to-grasp ways...for example: "you've travelled half the distance of the Brooklyn Bridge" and similiar distance comparisons.

Science Toys

Science Toys is a website that will show you step-by-step how to put together some pretty nifty little projects, using common materials, spare electronics parts and the like. Build radios, rocket engines and some neat tricks, like the levitating magnet above, which is suspended in midair between two metal plates.

Hulk Smash!!!

A funny, in-depth X-Entertainment review of an 80's Incredible Hulk cartoon episode.

McDonald's Pays Out $10 Million to Hindus and Vegans

Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today, I realize that I'm ranting a little more than usual, but I found one more thing to get upset about that I wanted to share.

The McDonald's corporation just settled a lawsuit brought about by Hindus and various vegetarian groups. Apparently, the fast-food behemoth failed to inform these folks that their french fries were cooked in oil containing beef-flavoring and now Ronald and company are shelling out ten million dollars and offering up formal apologies to all who were offended.

Now, actually, I was aware that their fries contained tallow. I'm not a vegetarian, but I do distinctly recall reading that there was a small amount of the beef-flavoring in their fries, which, at one time, were cooked in pure lard. This was shortly after health-watchdog groups were on their case and trying to get them to convert to pure vegetable oil. Their explanation of the small amounts of flavoring used was that the fries simply wouldn't have that great flavor that they're so famous for. I didn't find this out by digging through piles of documents uncovered by Ralph Nader or The Smoking Gun, either, it was printed quite plainly on one of their little tray placemats at the time, along with some other facts about their food.

Now I have one question for the Hindus, vegans and whoever else was in on this lawsuit: what in the HELL were you doing eating at McDonald's in the first place? Didn't it occur to you that Mickey D's isn't exactly a proponent of vegetarian quisine? Ever heard of a guy named the Hamburgler? It's not exactly a health-food store, okay you morons? Now, more than likely, the money and the apology won't be enough for these whiners...oh no. They'll wind up having to ditch the tried-and-true and, might I add, delicious recipe for fries that everyone knows and loves, just to satisfy a minority of McDonald's customers who probably shouldn't have even been there in the first place and that's just sad. I understand that, especially for the Hindus involved, the fry thing may have been kind of traumatic.

Still though, people, it's Mc Freaking Donald's, okay? Maybe you should have asked what was going on back there in the kitchen, instead of just gobbling down your fries so cluelessly. In fact, what are you there for in the first place? McDonald's is in the business of KILLING COWS, for god's sake. In fact, I would assume that the McDonald's Corporation is responsible for the deaths of more cows than anything else on the face of the earth, so isn't it just a tad hypocritical for you to be there eating in the first place?

I don't see a need for McDonald's to apologize to anyone for this, in the same way that they shouldn't have to bend over backwards to satisfy people who are too stupid to keep from spilling their coffee on themselves, then sue them when they burn themselves. It's bad enough they serve those vastly inferior baked apple pies now, as opposed to the much-tastier fried ones they used to serve, thanks to the health-food police...don't take away my fries, Ronald, I beg of you.

Vampire Wannabe Violates Probation, Steals Vial of Blood

It is my firm belief that there are some people in this world who should just be put down, same as you would a dog that has rabies. For whatever reason, they're just way too messed up for us to ever expect they can be "fixed", placed back into the general population and expected to play nicely with others. You're just going to wind up putting them in prison over and over, at a huge expense to taxpayers and a greater cost to their victims and their victims' families.

I think that a convicted rapist who thinks he's a vampire is a perfect candidate for this kind of solution. 22-year-old Jack Johnson, of Cincinnati, self-proclaimed vampire, violated his probation recently by stealing a vial of blood from a hospital where he was having some medical work done.

Johnson was serving three year's probation for raping a twelve-year-old girl, which apparently doesn't carry much of a penalty these days, obviously. This creep should have been counting his blessings and being thankful some idiot judge let him back out on the street, instead of placing him firmly in an electric chair and lighting him up like a Holiday Inn sign. Instead, what's does he do? He steals a vial of blood from the hospital to satisfy his Count Freakula need to drink human blood and gets tossed back in prison. Probably he'll be there, or in a psych ward, for another couple years, then they'll release him and maybe, just maybe they'll put him away for good once he finally stabs someone about a hundred times and hangs them upside down on a cross or something. What's the point? You want to be a vampire - okay, you're a vampire, fine. Let's ram a stake through your heart and be done with it already, problem solved.

French Politicians Call for Scream Ban

The recent murder of a 15-year-old girl by her classmate has French politicians up in arms. Apparently inspired by the slasher film, a 17-year-old boy stabbed her and left her for dead.

This is very tragic, of course and I don't want to make light of that fact, but is banning a movie really going to make any difference? Let's face it, if you're wiring is so badly crossed that seeing a hokey horror flick like Scream is going to have that kind of influence on you, probably you're not all that far from snapping anyway. What if this kid hadn't seen Scream? Probably a week or month or year down the road he would have seen some other scary movie, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or something, that would have had a similiar effect. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised, unbalanced as this individual obviously is, if 101 Dalmations would have been enough to make the voices in this kid's head start yelling "Kill!".

What's to be done, then? Do we ban all scary/violent movies? Of course not. There's a lot of stabbing in Shakespeare's works, as well. People getting stabbed left and right, among other things. If the kid had seen a production of Hamlet and then ran off and poisoned or stabbed someone a week later, would they want to ban that, too?

Pakistanis Ready for Nuclear Warfare - Mostly Because the Average Pakistani Has No Clue

It would seem that one reason for Pakistani readiness to fight a nuclear war stems from simple ignorance of exactly what that entails, with the average person on the street having no idea what atomic warfare is all about.

“They know it’s a big bomb but they don’t seem to realise how big a bomb it is or what its after-effects are."

Okay, I have a suggestion: if your population is that out-of-touch with the realities of modern warfare, you should have your nuclear bomb-detonating priveleges revoked.

Behold, the Deep-Fried Twinkie! Arteries - Beware the Crack Cocaine of Junk Food

Since the dawn of time, man has searched for a way to kill himself quickly and easily via the consumption of unhealthy junkfood. At last, it would seem that modern deep-frying technology, mass-produced, preservative-laden sponge cake and old-fashioned kitchen savvy have combined to realize that ages-old dream - culminating in the heart-stopping golden goodness that is The Deep-Fried Twinkie. I'm going out casket shopping, be back later.

Ozzy Demands Contract Signed in Blood or No Deal - MTV Execs Roll Up Sleeves

Ozzy Osbourne, America's favorite TV dad, has hammered out a deal with MTV execs for another round of The Osbournes, the smash-hit reality show featuring the semi-lucid, stumbling Prince of Darkness and his newly famous family. There were, however, a couple of catches.

Firstly, the MTV bigwigs had to consent to signing the new contract in blood (no joke). Secondly, an unspecified amount of psychological counseling for the Osbourne family's ever present pets was thrown in to sweeten the deal. MTV did, however, draw the line at a new house - but with £15million, Mr. Osbourne should be able to purchase a few new throw pillows and a couple paintings with which he can spruce up his present digs.

Was This the Man Behind the 9/11 Attacks?

Apparently, U.S. investigators believe he is. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, said to be at large in Afghanistan, is apparently a high-ranking official in the al-Qaida network and believed to have been involved, if not having masterminded the attacks. He's also wanted in connection with the first World Trade Center bombing back in 1993 and allegedly planning to fly a plane into the C.I.A. headquaters, among other things.

General Mills' Star Wars: Episode II Cereal Gets It All Wrong

Tributemania

Bounty Tributes is a talent agency that specializes in tribute bands for hire. Acts include fake Beatles, Bee Gees and a bogus Kenny Rogers, (pictured above). Their website includes videoclips and info about each act, some of which look pretty awful.

Touching People

A collection of outsider film clips. Highlights include a sauced-up Orson Welles slurring his way through a Paul Masson wine commercial, cutting-room floor footage of Anna Nicole Smith messing up line after line in an apparrently drug-induced haze and some moronic daredevil wanna-be jumping out of a tree and breaking his leg. (Warning: offensive language)

Evel Knievel Set To Take One Last Stab At Killing Himself

This is really something...my childhood hero - Evel Knievel - is getting ready to put on his star-spangled leathers once again and do a jump, at the age of 63. When I was a little kid, Evel was the coolest person on earth. I still have a little die-cast model of his Snake River rocket bike sitting on my monitor.

Evil was the perfect hero for a little boy, for one simple reason: he jumped things - on a motorcycle. More often than not, he nearly killed himself in the process, but he'd go right back as soon as he got well and do it all over again, which, obviously, made him a total god in the eyes of boys everywhere. Evel was a man's man who didn't give a crap about anything except doing his own crazy thing, which often included sailing over rows of buses or flipping his bike on asphalt over and over until he was in a coma for a month.

Now, two decades, 37 broken bones, a divorce, a liver transplant and hepatitis C behind him, Evel's decided it's time to do that "thing" again. The biker legend is planning on a two-hundred foot jump in Primm, Nevada, next spring - set to coincide with the opening of his Evel Knievel Xperience Cafe, a resturaunt offering truck stop food and sporting an Evel theme. The jump would better his previous ones, using a lighter bike and a higher approach speed.

I just don't know if this is a good idea. I mean, Evel, I love you man and I know you're going to do it no matter what anyone tells you, that's just how you are - but this is kind of like when Michael Jordan came out of retirement. You couldn't help but think that Mike wasn't going to be able to live up to his past glories and wonder whether he should be doing it or not. Of course, the worst thing that could come of Mike's comeback attempt was a little humiliation - not massive brain damage and/or death. Still, like I said - Evel is Evel and that's how it's going to be, I'm sure. So good luck, Evel and please don't die. I'm pulling for you, buddy.

One More Reason to Hate My Outdated Computer - Earth Viewer

This just looks flat-out amazing...Earth Viewer is a software program that lets you "grab" the earth with your mouse and zoom in on whatever area of the earth's surface you like, from a moveable model made up of updated satellite photos. We're not talking grainy black and white photos of objects that are difficult to make out, either - like the ones on TerraFly, which I've posted before - we're talking individual buildings and houses, in full color. The picture above will give you an idea of the kind of resolution they're offering.

Unfortunately, my pc just missed the minimum requirements, due to my woefully inadequate 2 meg 3D card. Sigh...will someone please download this thing onto a computer from this century and let me know if it's as great as it looks?

Yet Another Expensive, Impractical Toy I'd Like To Own

The folks at Parksabers make these ridiculously cool lightsabers. Just give me one of these and maybe one of those Green Lantern power battery and ring sets I posted awhile back and all of my prepubescent dreams will have been fulfilled. Okay - so maybe they were actually my dreams from ten minutes ago - still, you have to admit, these things are pretty nifty.

Penguin Warehouse, Inc.

Looking for a pet, but you want something out of the ordinary? Having troubles with that pesky "Batman" character? Maybe you just want to show of your nerdish love of Linux in the most flamboyant way possible?

If any of the above apply to you, then the Penguin Warehouse is just what you've been looking for. Get yourself a real, live, tuxedoed, flightless conversation piece from the penguin professionals. Just remember to bring cash, apparently these comical, waddling birds don't come cheap.

Sonar Challenge by DoubleYou

So maybe you'll never make it to the World Cup, you can always while away some time kicking around this socker ball with your cursor - see how long you can keep it aloft. I posted a game like this once before, but this one's a little nicer, with slightly better graphics and a wacko Japanese-speaking announcer.

iwasted15bucksonthisdomain.com

Let's Post Some Toast

I don't know what's going on lately - if it's something that's been simmering in the collective unconciousness for awhile and has finally decided to make itself known or what, but toast seemed to be making some waves in the net world of late. First, there was the article I found on BoingBoing about the artists who'd assembled thousands of pieces into a mural of a toaster. Then, just a day or so later I was at #!-usr-bin-girl and saw a post with this site: A Moron's Guide to Toast: An Online Humor Resource for Those Who Want Toast.

Well, all this toast talk got me to thinking - if two popular blogs like that are talking toast, what other things regarding it might be out there? Having no life and an ample amount of boredom on my hands, I decided it was up to me to check it out, since nobody else in their right mind was about to. I thought I'd find a couple links, a funny picture or story concerning Murphy's Law, perhaps. Soon, though, as I dug deeper, I found myself peeling away layer after layer of what seems to be a growing movement of toast-worship, a conspiracy of unimaginable proportions, brewing just beneath the surface of the worldwide web as we know it:

For example: there's an inordinate amount of toaster history at sites like Toast.org,Toaster.org and AntiqueToaster.com - who would have guessed that there was a repository of toaster information like this on the web? More importantly, why? It gets worse...

Here's a Quicktime movie chronicling the Surreal Gourmet's Toastmobile project, in which he turned his Winnebago into a giant toaster on wheels (above) and here's a page where you can order your own buttered toast pillow.

Of course, the cunning propagandists of toast, realizing the need to make their cause friendly and appealing to the average computer geek, have attempted tie-ins to popular web culture - hence this Star Wars parody someone made, entitled Toast Wars. Still, as fiendishly clever as these things are, what was the most troubling sign of this upcoming toast-takeover I encountered on my web travels?

It would have to be this, the blasphemous Toast Oracle. Be afraid, people...be very, very afraid - and keep a stick of butter close at hand, you may very well be needing it...soon.

The Merry Prankster

A man who pulls weird little pranks on fast food joints, malls and other places, such as replacing the placards advertising McDonald's apple pies with one he printed himself that features American Pie star Jason Biggs, cinema's most infamous pie lover.

Helicopter Fun

A fun, easy little flash game where you control a helicoptor and try not to smash into obstacles.

wemadeoutinatreeandsomeoldguywatchedus.com

Having, possibly, the weirdest url I've ever seen, this site focuses on bad writing, engrish and the like.

This One's For You, Bill

And because not enough people are making jokes about Robert Blake, a.k.a. Baretta.

The artist who does the web strip Lil Pengy has devoted several strips to the actor-murderer's current troubles, featuring everyone's favorite Baretta co-star, Fred the parrot.

The Toast of the Art World (Best Title I Could Come Up With, I'm Half Awake, Okay?)

This is really nifty - someone took a toaster and by toasting slices of bread to varying degrees of doneness and assembling them in a large mural, made an all-but photographic image of it. The picture above doesn't do this justice, you really need to look at the larger image on the site to appreciate the coolness of it.

Project "Euh?"

This is another site that just sort of defies description...is it just an innocous time-waster or is it Art?

(Apologies to The Everlasting Blort, whom I pillaged mercilessly this morning - sorry guys but if you'd quit posting such weird, cool stuff I'd quit ripping it off)

I Guarantee This Will Freak You Out

It did me, anyways, there's something really, really weird about this thing...check it out.

Beans Around the World

The true tale of a can of S&W black beans as it makes its way across the globe. You'll laugh, you'll cry as you thrill to the adventures of the world's most well-travelled canned side-dish.



Of course, after all those beans, it would be only be fitting to check in with The Farting Doughboy :)

Superhero Hype!

This site is perfect for all you comic geeks who want to keep up with the latest on the upcoming blitz of superhero movies in post-Spiderman Hollywood. Read up on the latest gossip and keep yourself apprised of important info, such as who'll be playing your favorite superhero, who'll direct the upcoming Ghost Rider movie, etc. Also includes message boards, reviews and neat little extras like this italian feature about a Spiderman motorcycle (with pics).

Who the Heck is David Still???

This site lets you send emails to your friends under the guise of one "David Still", artist. There are pre-written letters you can pick, you just fill in the blanks - or you can write your own. Better still, you can answer replies from people who've answered the mysterious Mr. Still's missives.

Stupidest Thing I've Ever Seen - The Popcorn Fork

There's something very wrong with this world when someone's trying to make money selling a specialized popcorn fork. Personally, I think I can live with the buttery fingers.

Object Lessons

Is a catalog that offers some truly unusual items, such as the flaming bible above that shoots out real flames when opened. Also available: gelatain molds in the shape of brains or hearts, magic lightbulbs and more.

Black Market Babies

Don't want to go through all the fuss and hassle of adoption? Too lazy to go out and steal a baby? Well, thanks to the folks at Black Market Babies, you don't have to, with their easy-breezy online catalog, you can have the baby of your choice in no time.

Black market giant panda bears are also offered, for the animal lovers among you.

U.S. Department of "Duh" Urges Americans to Leave India

No kidding, that never would have occurred to me, were I in India. Of course, though, there'll be a bunch of morons who stay behind. That's a given. Personally I'd have gotten out of there a long time ago, I'd certainly be hitting the road now that it looks as though India and Pakistan might be smoking, radioactive craters any day now.

Editorial Note:

Well, I'd planned on posting a lot more stuff today, I realize I've been slacking lately. I did, at least, manage to fix some links and add a couple new ones in my links section.

One in particular, ..:Temas da Vida:.. was long overdue and I'd like to give a shoutout to Renato, the webmaster. Sorry Renato, I'm a lazy piece of crud, what can I say?

Messing with my template is like pulling teeth for me, otherwise I'd have revamped the whole thing a long time ago, probably.

Arafat Cheese Puffs

The big snack-treat hit on the streets of Egypt these days are Yasser Arafat Cheese Puffs (no joke). Egyptian citizens like the one above are snatching up the brightly colored bags, which feature a cartoon of Arafat with the cheese puffs at his feet (again, no joke) and each bag bought promises not only bite sized morsels of cheesy-goodness, but finance for a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, with the added benefit of sticking it to U.S. goods manufacturers, whose products many Egyptians are calling to boycott.

Weird Vending Machine Items

Everyone's seen vending machines filled with candies or sodas or snacks...but there are a lot of other things that have been sold from vending machines - panty hose, liquor, bait and perfume, from the machine pictured above. Bet that was some great smelling stuff :P

Principal Denies Young Woman's Hard-fought Right to Graduation Walk

If you've read this blog for awhile, you know that two of the things that really tick me off are idiotic public school officials and lawyers. Here's a great example: A girl who'd been paralyzed in a car wreck in 1999 worked for two years to realize her dream of walking across the stage at her graduation commencement.

When the time finally came and she was ready to do it - using her walker - the principal pulled the plug on the idea, citing concern for her safety. Sounds more like he was just scared she'd fall and the school would get sued, even though she'd offered to sign off on liability if anything happened.

The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Yes, apparently they're serious.

Priest Creates Questionable Boy's Wrestling Federation

Okay, the Catholic church has been taking it pretty hard these days in the media, so probably the last thing on earth they needed was some nutty priest making a website selling videos of young boys wrestling and posing suggestively in speedos, sporting names like "Bad Brad", "Latin Heat" and "Hardkore Kid".

In a time when the church is desperately trying to avoid bad publicity, I'm sure their officials had to down a few alka-selters when this particular padre decided to let his freak flag fly on the net.

Newsflash: Korn Frontman Jonathan Davis is a Total Freak

Okay, maybe that's not exactly a huge revelation, but Davis's latest undertaking is bound to raise some eyebrows - he's planning on opening a museum devoted to his vast collection of serial killer memorabilia.

Beer Can Chicken

Well, it's getting warmer everyday and that means it's time to grill, so here's a recipe I came across while I was browsing on Amazon the other day, a novel little item called "Beer Can Chicken".

I haven't tried this yet but it sounds pretty good. The underlying principle of it is you put the beer can up the chicken's rear *ahem* cavity and the boiling beer tenderizes your bird from the inside out, as well as making a nifty little presentation.

(Caution: boiling beer is hot, like I have to tell you that, so if you burn the hell out of yourself making this, it's all on you, okay?)

The Physics of Hell

An insightful theory on the thermodynamic properties of the bad place, as proposed by a University of Washington engineering student, in response to an extra-credit question on his mid-term exam.

59 Mistakes That Cost Hitler WWII Victory

Mistake number 57: Kept Colonel Klink in command.

Tax Man

A Maryland man filed his tax returns in Indiana - 164 times - netting him $372,909 in refunds. Hey, it could have just been an honest mistake, right? I mean, those forms are kind of confusing.

Fred Durst Reduced to a Pathetic, Grovelling Shell - Yeah!

Fred "Sucks" Durst has sunk so low he's now begging former Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland to return. In the immortal words of Nelson, Springfield bully and social commentator: "Ha, ha!"

World's First Computer Bug (Literally)

Found in 1947, by IBM.

Wee on the Web

Guimp.com proclaims itself to the smallest site on the web. After looking at it, I'd have to agree.

The Jackie Kennedy Onassis Garage Sale

Photoshop Contest

This site gives you a pre-selected image to fiddle with however you like in Photoshop and submit. Discuss, compare and see how your work stacks up against the other entrant's mad skillz.

Photoshop Contest - Can you picture that?

Live, From New England, it's...a Gorilla!

Okay, you know you're bored when you have nothing better to do than sit and watch the antics of some zoo gorillas for awhile. I was in just such a place today, if you have nothing better to do, you may as well, too. Beats slitting your wrists.

Handheld Gaming Nostalgia

Who could forget the first wave of handheld videogames? Probably you've owned some of these - chances are they're broken in the bottom of your closet, maybe they're in a landfill somewhere or maybe they're still stashed away in a "contraband" box in your old principal's office. At any rate, the proprietor of The Handheld Game Museum has made it his mission in life to document each and every last one of them.

Philson Air Guitar

Learn Air Guitar the easy Philson way - impress your friends, learn new air "chops" and be a star in your own mind!

Man Attempts to Sell His Soul - On Ebay

Senior Prank Shocks, Disgusts

This beyond weird...towards the end of the high school year, pranks by seniors are pretty common, right? This one went way, way, way over the line, though.

"Over the line" being defined as 300 students eating lunch having raccoon urine-filled balloons thrown at them in a full-blown lunchroom riot, with teachers and workers being hurt and the school's television monitor system being taken over in order to show pictures of faculty members' faces attached to famous bodies such as Hitler's.

School officials say they're worried that next year's class will feel a need to "top" this little episode. God help them if they do.

What the Heck? More Flash Games...

Here are a couple of neat ones...Mad Shark and Hub.Lo.

Super Fighter

Yet another Flash game, this one a fighting game. (Note to dial-up users: this takes a good while to load up.)

You can also get downloadable versions from superfighter.com.

Full Time Killer

A stylish Flash shootout game.

Aaron's Photos: Trip to Google

A photographic chronicle of a man's trip to Google's headquarters, showcasing such sights as the kickass videogame emulator shown above, their huge cereal containers and other weirdness.

Deepcold

Space program secrets of the Cold War.

Deepcold

It's Official: This is the Coolest Thing I've Ever Seen

The Moller Skycar.

Spin

A really far-out Flash animation.

How Messed Up is This?

You'd think someone would beg dude to stop working out once he got this freakish. Wow.

Kartoo

A freaky search engine with Flash graphics, Kartoo shows your results as a kind of map. Interesting, though I don't see it replacing Google just yet.

File Trading Companies Dropping Like Flies

Looks like Audiogalaxy is the latest p2p program to fall under the weight of the legal fees necessary to keep up with the RIAA's barrage of lawsuits. Kazaa, as well, is calling it quits, it appears, though they've sold their network to foreign interests who won't recognize the RIAA's copyright lawsuits, so you may not notice if you use Kazaa or Kazaa Lite.

D-Day's Untold Stories

A multimedia presentation from National Geographic - 60 years after the battle, soldiers recount their experiences of the battle that turned the tide of the war for the Allied Forces.