"High Quality Daily Amusement"
Friday, April 30, 2004
Unbiased News Reporting
Google News has 566 articles talking about the impending Google IPO. The New York Times says the IPO "may suggest a more general economic recovery that would lift all dinghies." In related news, Ridiculent.com is currently in talks with Credit Suisse First Boston to underwrite our IPO. This is one dinghy that will rise!
Thursday, April 29, 2004
"This auction has taken more hits than that pothead that lives in the next building"
"Personally, I think it looks like a $1200 shower curtain, but what do I know about this." This eBay auction is hilarious.
Monday, April 26, 2004
An Interesting Album...
I stumbled across this album in iTunes: When Pigs Fly - Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear (iTunes Store Link) A couple highlights: Don Ho sings "Shock the Monkey" Lesley Gore sings "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" And, starting out the album, Ani Difranco sings "Unforgettable", in a duet with, none other than... Jackie Chan!
Friday, April 23, 2004
Another "Who's That?" Quiz
Do you know who this is?  Hint: His voice is heard approximately 63,000,000 times a day...
"It's Koolio to put the flow back in your beer!"
As I walk toward the fridge where I store all my beer,
I take a look around and wonder why it's not here.
But I'm sure it's okay, I'm sure it's not broke,
Nechyba must have ordered another Diet Coke.Turn up your speakers for this one. Introducing Koolio. Artis Leon Ivey, Jr. will have a field day with this.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
You Touch my Tralala!
A very odd Flash "game". I'm not sure what it's promoting, but it's very sassy. Safe for work, but you might want to opt for the headphones, just in case. via vowe.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
FanPants
 Some brainiac has "invented" the idea of pants which "provide padding in the form of an oversized buttocks positioned in the seat of the pants". The idea is for them to be worn by afficionados of live sporting events. I've been to live sporting events, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is a large portion of this market who would clearly have no use for such a product, if you catch my drift.
That's an odd way of phrasing it...
I'm not sure if this is an example of someone trying to be playful with personifying software, a German-to-English translation gone awry, or a combination of both.
I was baptized to the name of JaWavedit for being the Wave-Editor
born in Java. That means that I feel at home in the Sun, an Apple,
or a Window. I'm said to be cute and easy to handle.
Star Wars museum exhibit will open in Boston
File this in your "Won't happen for another year and a half" folder: on October 27, 2005, a new exhibit will premiere at the Boston Museum of Science: Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination. The exhibit "will highlight parallels between technologies depicted in the Star Wars films and current developments. How do landspeeders compare with magnetic levitation technologies, or C-3PO and R2-D2 with walking-talking robots on drawing boards today?". Buy your tickets in June. 2005. Last week, the museum unveiled a Naboo Starfighter, which will be on display for the next two years.
Saturday, April 17, 2004
Critical Font Update
Windows XP just informed me of this "critical update":  Of course, I wasn't going to let something like THAT slide by without some investigation. Apparently, this "critical" problem has been acknowledged since December. The issue? The inclusion of a swastika symbol in the font. Microsoft issued an optional tool for removal of the symbol back in December. I'm curious why this is, only NOW, a "critical" update... There is a debate as to whether the swastika symbol should be " redeemed", considering its widespread use as a holy symbol pre-Nazi Germany. I guess we know where Microsoft stands on that issue. Interestingly enough, along with the swastika, the Star of David has also been removed from the font. I guess Microsoft doesn't want to appear to "play favorites".
Thursday, April 15, 2004
Interesting new service from AT&T Wireless
AT&T Wireless has come up with their own solution to the age old problem of "I LOVE THIS SONG ON THE RADIO, WHAT IS IT?!?!" You simply punch in "#-I-D", then hold the song up to the radio speaker. In about 12 seconds, it will display the name of the song on your cell phone (for $0.99, of course). This is all very clever, but it really serves to point out how unbelievably primitive broadcast radio remains. It blows my mind that in the 21st century, we STILL have to find radio stations by entering their wavelength frequency. I wish I had this thing the other day when I heard this really cool song on some college radio station. I patiently waited until the DJ came on afterwards, but instead of recapping the songs he played, the whiny barely post-pubescent DJ went into some asinine "comedy" bit. But, I'm off topic. Anyway, a very clever solution to a problem that really should be fixed much further upstream in the system.
Everything is Deeply Intertwingled
I randomly discovered that Subservient Chicken was created by the design firm, The Barbarian Group. The Barbarian Group owns the ThisIsPop.com domain name, which they kindly loaned to me for the music show that my friend Jay and I do. I'm so happy to be so indirectly affiliated with that wacky chicken.
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Wisdom from my inbox
"embeddable bred affidavit template aileen adonis buddhist muskellunge keypunch grindstone adaptive automate dispel brunette junk anodic thyme resemblant brighton diesel roberts perseus grew rid merge inhomogeneous aristotle instantiate chicano drainage."Bet you didn't know that. That should drive the Google ads nuts...
Monday, April 12, 2004
Random Personal Picture Finder
How clever! Let the Random Personal Picture Finder (tm) run a Google image search using randomly generated filenames that match the default filenames given by digital cameras.
Quick! Who are they?
Here are some people that we haven't seen much at all, compared to their 'predecessors'. Can you identify these youngsters? Hint: They're twins, and the one on the right is known as "Twinkle", and she's related to Timberwolf, Tranquility, Trailblazer, and Tempo.
Friday, April 09, 2004
Look, everybody...
It's a camel spider from Iraq. Yowza. (Today on Ridiculent: "Posts That Make You Go Ewwwww")
Eyeball Jewelry
Body piercing too common? Blasé about scarrification? Bored with decorative subcutaneous implants? How about IMPLANTING JEWELRY IN YOUR EYEBALL? For a mere $750, you can have a lovely platinum trinket implanted within your superficial, interpalpebral conjunctiva. Only about 7 of these procedures have ever been performed. And there's only one place, in the Netherlands, that does it. They say: "So far we have not seen any side effects or complications." ...SO FAR.
Subservient Chicken
Okay, this is really weird... at Subservient Chicken, there's a person dressed in a chicken suit, and you give the chicken commands. I tried "walk", "flap your wings", "kick your right leg", "peck at the ground like you're eating", "wave hello", and "do a jumping jack", and the chicken did them all! This is freaky...
Thursday, April 08, 2004
Next time, just click "Negative Feedback", Dude.
Someone on eBay REALLY needs to up the meds.
Happy Easter!
I'm surprised I haven't come up with this idea on my own... Here's an Easter wish for you!
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Cahn't Get They-ah from He-ah
Spotted in Maine by friend and Mainer Adam Beatham... 
Click to Embiggen
Monday, April 05, 2004
Move over, Bill
 Meet Ingvar Kamprad, the new richest guy in the world.
Truly Innovative Technology
I can't find a good brief description of the "Rolex Awards for Enterprise", because their website is a terrible Flash monstrosity but, apparently, it is a very prestigious (and valuable) award honoring innovation in projects that "expand our knowledge of the world, improve the quality of life on earth, or improve the human condition". And what project took away the top $100,000 prize this year? An ingenious new super computer? Some sort of biotechnological marvel? No, this year's winning project involves: - 2 clay pots - Sand - Water - A Cloth To be clear, I am not ridiculing this award, quite the opposite. The true definition of "technology" is "the practical application of knowledge". I think it's great that there's an award which realizes that, amid the mad rush of developing smaller, faster, more powerful "high tech" devices, there is still so much room for innovation in "low technology". What will benefit humanity more, your fancy new "Spam filter", or a refrigerator that not only requires no electicity, but can easily be made by hand in about a day?
Friday, April 02, 2004
$99 Video Player, but...
Yet another perplexing electronic gadget... It's a full-color video player that fits in your pocket. It's $99, but it appears to only play really low budget rap and extreme sports videos... Hmm..
Thursday, April 01, 2004
Google's Plans Moon-Based R&D Center
Want a great engineering job and don't mind relocating? Check out Google's Moon-based Copernicus Center, planned for spring of 2007. Well, we now know where all their IPO cash will be going...
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