Landspeeder for Sale

This driveable and totally boss-looking landspeeder (a street legal Ford beneath the window-dressing) is up for auction on eBay. Think of the looks you'll get and all the nerds drooling and have spastic fits when you pass them by in this baby.

Live, Hot Seamonster Webcam Action!

The official site of Lochness, home of the Lochness Monster, or Nessie, as she's affectionately called, has two webcams - one above and one below the water - for you amateur Nessie hunters out there to view. This guy says he may have caught screen caps of it already, you be the judge.

New Look

I'm going to be playing with the template a little tonight so if things look weird, please overlook it, okay? Hopefully I'll have all the bugs worked out of this stupid thing soon, so bear with me.

Start-up Introduces "Tractor Beam"

BioRyx 200 uses 200 lasers to move and manipulate small particles like cells and sperm.

Those Zany Aussies

Here's a good one: 70,000 Australians upset their census by listing their religion as "Jedi" on the forms. You have to give it to them, the Australians are a madcap bunch.

Case in point: last night I was watching one of those crazy Aussie nature-show guys, not Steve the Crocodile Hunter, but another one - I wish I could remember his name. It was some really gripping television, I have to say. This guy was the craziest human being I've ever seen (with all due respect to to Evel Knievel and Farrah Fawcett).

This guy's batting about a big cobra - teasing it - more or less, like he's daring it to bite him. I have to admit, I was rooting for the snake after awhile - which surprised us all and actually did bite the guy (justifiably, I might add, as he did everything but give it noogies in the course of telling the home viewers how deadly it was and what a mongoose might do if it were in his situation). Dude's no mongoose, however, ballsy though he might be and the cobra bites the assclown right on his hand. Of course, now, it's not fun and games anymore - he's all "Okay, I'm bit, the snake bit me, I'm bit over here!" They give him some antivenom and rush him to the hospital (which is forty miles away, of course) and he's laying there in a hospital bed going "No more, never again, that's it - I'm getting too old for this stuff," and I'm thinking "good move, guy - guess you have a little sense about you, at that."

Two hours later, the guy's right back in the desert, playing chicken with the same monstrous cobra and practically juggling this super-venomous Boomslang. Australians, man - they rock.

Fetch, Boy, Fetch! Goooood boy...OMG, LOOK OUT!

Help this adorable pup catch frisbees and balls in the Flash game Frisbee Dog - but watch out for grenades and spiked discs, which prove fatal for the poor pooch.

"ROTFLMAF", I've Heard - But Who Uses "ILICISCOMK"?

The first abbreviation most of you have probably seen if you've spent more than five minutes in a chatroom anywhere on the web, but the second one and many of these others I've never heard of and are as foreign as the Japanese chat exchange above to me. There are many more examples of chat/email shorthand in this large list from NetLingo - The Internet Dictionary.

BTW (by the way), "ILICISCOMK" stands for "I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat/Spilt Coffee/Crumbs/Coke On My Keyboard", apparently, and if you know that, you've been spending way too much time on the internet - go out and do some fishing or something.

X-treme Candy-making

So I'm sitting here and I'm a little hungry and in the mood for some cookies. I'm browsing around and I come upon this site, pastrywiz.com and though I haven't checked out the cookie recipes yet, I have a feeling this is probably the wrong place to look.

I was thinking along the lines of some plain, old-fashioned peanut-butter cookies - these pastry wiz folks are way harder-core than that. There's a whole section here on sugar blowing. I had no freaking idea what kind of radical things were going on in pastry kitchens these days, nor did I know what sugar blowing was...but these people are melting and shaping sugar with a full-on blowtorch and metal tube like a glassmaker and throwing together things like the sugar-swan pictured above.

There are step-by-step instructions for any of you culinary extremists out there who'd like to give it a shot, but remember - The Ends of the Earth and it's proprietor take no responsibility for any third degree burns you may incur by way of your dangerous pastry thrill-seeking. As for myself, I'm going to wait until tomorrow and buy one of those little rolls of cookie-dough - I may not even bother to cook it.

Pocket Full of Kryptonite

This has to be the coolest Superman action figure I've ever seen - there's only one thing I find kind of troubling...

Check out the Man of Steel's "package" in the larger photo here on the site.

Geez, no need for x-ray vision - Supes is puttin' it on display for all of Metropolis to see.

You Hadda Be a Bigshot, Didya?

On board an outbound flight from Philadelphia International Airport, David Vassallo, 46, bragged to a fellow passenger that he was a federal sky marshall. Only problem was, he was actually a postal worker and the passenger he shot his mouth off to was - you guessed it - a federal sky marshall :)

Save Sheeba!

Well...looks like people have gotten wind of the fact that savekaryn.com was actually a moneymaker. The site, run by a self-described "basket-case" who has very bad spending habits, basically asks you to donate money - getting nothing in return - to help her pay off her credit card debts. Unbelievably, she's raked in enough dough so far to account for half of her original $20,221.40 - all without even getting naked, or even showing her face, for that matter.

Incidentally, here's what she looks like. I'm surprised she didn't go ahead and put her picture on, she's kind of cute and probably would have racked up the full 20 grand by now had she posted it initially...never underestimate the abundance of lonesome dorks willing to throw money at girls on the internet.

At any rate, now that the word's out on Karyn's success, you may as well brace yourself for what I'm sure are to be endless parodies and copycats - errrr...copydogs, rather.

What's Scarier: Poe, Master of the Macabre or Wacko Jacko? How About the Two Combined? Egad!

This is coming from The Star magazine, U.S. supermarket tabloid extraordinaire and the story is so utterly ridiculous as to be impossible, but I'm posting it anyways 'cause it's the funniest. According to The Star's crack reporters, none other than Marlon Brando is coaching Michael Jackson for an upcoming role in which he'll be playing the horror story master, Edgar Allen Poe.

I guess it's not that far fetched. I mean, look at the startling similiarities looks-wise, in the pictures above. They could be twins. And with that ultra-spooky homage to plastic surgery gone horribly wrong that he calls a face, Jackson is sure to bring chills galore to the audience.

Oh God, please let this be true - I smell a cult classic.

The Toast Always Lands Butter-Side Down

In other words, anything that can go wrong, will, as the math-contest winners above can attest.

The origin and history of Murphy's law, along with every permutation of it you can think of can all be found here, neatly categorized under topics like love, computers, commerce, etc.

0wnz0red

Thought I'd plug this piece of science fiction on Salon, 0wnz0red, a story about programmers who take on the ultimate hack: that of their own bodies. Why sleep or exercise when you're the sysadmin. of your body's operating system?

A really kickass bit of writing from Hugo Award winner and resident BoingBoing blogger, Cory Doctorow.

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

A brief history of hacking.

Guard Your Mind!

With MindGuard, the personal anti-psychotronic software for Amiga and Linux:

MindGuard is a program for Amiga and Linux that protects your mind by jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you and what They are trying to make you think.

Was the Moon Landing a Hoax?

Compelling evidence that puts the Fox special and others to shame. This is pretty funny stuff.

Gwyneth and Steve

This is a repost but I came across it again today and had to put it up again, in case anyone missed it, it's just that funny. Gotta love Steve Martin.

Fubbs

A very odd, trippy little website...I really don't know what else to say about it, just check it out for yourself.

Stark, Naked Love!

And the struggle continues...(warning: language).