I've been waiting YEARS for this: Dr. Katz - Professional Therapist is FINALLY available on DVD - well, the first season at least. I presume the rest will follow. I didn't realize the show was on for six years.

An enterprising Mac developer has created a tool which hooks into the MacBook Pro's internal motion sensor, and enables you to switch between virtual desktops by smacking the sides of the screen. User interfaces don't really get much more intuitive than that (though it may shorten your laptop's lifespan). Check out the cool demonstration video.

This idea may seem silly, but it's no sillier than using the motion sensor to generate light saber sounds...

Here's a blog that all Ridiculenters should bookmark, RSS feed, del.i.ci.o.us.-i.fy, or do whatever cool kids these days use to keep track of nifty web sites - Strange New Products. Learn about piercing-based eyeglasses, downloadable cameras, and fart-filtering doggie thongs. You'll certainly be seeing more links from this blog in the future...

In this era of HDTV, why would anyone be interested in a display that puts out only 12x7 pixels? Perhaps they would if said pixels were not made of liquid crystal, or plasma, but FIRE! That's what Infernoptix delivers. A few more pixels and you could play Tetris on this thing. Fire Tetris. Yes.

Some guy named Drew actually dared to recreate (and eat) the 15-layer taco from the instant-classic SNL "Taco Town" commercial, and fed it to his (presumably ex-) friends.

How did it taste? Drew says: "It was pretty disgusting, but that's not our fault. We made it correctly. It's just you've never eaten blueberries and pepperoni together for very good reasons."

Check out how this news anchor screws up when introducing a story about a man who climbed Mount Everest, desipte being... well, check out the clip. (requires Windows Media)

The latest trend in homemade video comedy is the remixing of movie scenes into movie trailers of a completely different genre. For example: The Ten Commandments as a teen comedy:



Also be sure to check out:
Fight Club as a romantic comedy.

(from here)

Married to the Sea is a web-site which adds humor-ous captions to old-timey draw-ings. View and enjoy.

President Chimpy McFlightsuit's overall approval rating has now dropped to 29%. Here's the really sad part: His approval rating amongst declared conservatives is below 50%. Perhaps tonight's speech - in which he will propose turning undocumented workers in soylent green - will boost those numbers.

What's cooler than a Spore demo? A Spore demo done by Robin Williams. All I want to know is, when will this game actually come out??? Are we doomed to just seeing it at E3 year after year?

There's this really crazy/cool art project going on, called The 1 Second Film. Basically, a bunch of people are making a movie that's one second long (but with about 90 minutes of credits - including "behind-the-scenes" footage, of course).

They are trying to raise $1,000,000 to make this all happen, and the cool part is that, by donating a dollar, you get to be listed in the credits - and in IMDB - as an producer, alongside Kevin Bacon, Pierce Brosnan, Spike Jonze, Steve Buscemi, and more.

Plus, whatever money they don't actually use in production of the project, and all proceeds generated by it, get donated to The Global Fund For Women. How can you lose? Become a big Hollywood producer today!

Pimpfants: It's a Kids Thang. Now you can dress your little one in ghetto wear! "Baby Beater" tank-tops, T-shirts that say "My Mom is a MILF" (at least, according to this article - I don't see that actual shirt on the site).

Let's say you're the National Center for Science Education, and creationists are constantly harassing you to build a list of scientists who support evolution (the argument being that whoever builds a longer list of scientists on their side "wins"). You don't want to waste time doing this. Solution? Go ahead and build a list, but limit it to scientists named Steve (or Stephen, or Stephanie, or Esteban, etc.). Since roughly 1% of scientists are thusly named... well, you figure it out. Thus was born:
Project Steve

This is all over the internet, but it hasn't been mentioned here, so... here we go.

Steven Colbert provided a brutal, scatching, genius, unrelenting, utterly brilliant speech at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. To berate the President via thinly veiled sarcasm on national TV takes guts. To do it while standing 10 feet from the President himself takes balls of steel. Steve Colbert clearly has the biggest ferro-magnetic testicles of anyone in the world.

Check out the entire speech, in three parts, via YouTube:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

The best part? I bet - no, I guarantee that Dubya had to have at least 3/4 of the jokes explained to him by Karl Rove. I also guarantee that whoever booked Colbert for the event has been fired.

Here's a fun context at Worth1000.com - "Going Postal: Who we'd really like to see on a stamp".

The Wall Street Journal has put up a great collection of film excerpts displaying Hollywood's "interpretation" of how computers operate - especially when hacking is involved. After watching these clips, I am so incredibly glad I've never seen "Hackers (1995)".

Hollywood is so inept at presenting how computers actually work that there was a tidal wave of blog chatter when it became known that The Matrix Reloaded contained a scene in which a hacker actually used a tool actually used by hackers (nmap). Yeah, yeah, I know that ACTUAL computer hacking is very boring visually and the movie folks sometimes need to spice it up a bit, but I've always wondered what what would happen if Hollywood treated medical technology the way they treat computer technology. The TV show ER doesn't "dumb down" the techniques and terminology - it's meticulously researched and the authenticity adds to the drama. They don't need to show animated Cookie Monsters on the heart monitor when someone flatlines to "spice things up".

I rarely get excited about the software that comes with computer add-ons, because it's usually absolute crap, but apparently the new Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP comes with some really wild face-tracking software that enables all kinds of cool, wacky effects. Check out this video from MAKE: