:: January 23, 2003
I have decided that I must curb my frivilous web surfing until I get this big list of stuff to do done with. When I come back (in a month or so?), it will be with a redesign, so steal my bitchin code while you still can. My web lent begins ... now ::
:: January 21, 2003
"Earlier in 2002 we were hired by the largest advertising firm in the country to write music for a Pizza Hut commercial. Pizza Hut had hired them to come up with a whole new image to promote their new Pizza, 'The Insider' which had all the cheese inside the crust. In keeping in line with their new cutting edge image, the agency hired Ween to do the music, and we delivered in a big way. Unfortunately, they didn't like a single piece of the 6 tunes we submitted and they had us rewriting the song every day for a couple of weeks before they hired someone else. In my opinion, it is one of the best tunes we wrote all last year."
Indeed! Get your Ween "Where the Cheese At?" jingles here. (via Otis Fodder's 365 Days Project's National Cheese Day celebration) ::
1" scale model Sixties Boy's Bedroom diorama, with hamster (via Muxway) ::
:: January 19, 2003
Hey joiners! Please join Swappingtons, and you don't have to use me as a reference, but if you want to, my member name over there is kmel. That way I get points and can become all I can be. Thank you. ::
:: January 18, 2003
Finally! King of the Hill action figures ::
:: January 17, 2003
The Price Is Right's Greatest Wins! There has got to be some fetish associated with this stuff. (via Defective Yeti) ::
:: January 16, 2003
Researchers at Columbia University are testing the Small World hypothesis (that everyone in the world is connected by around six degrees of separation). I signed up despite my unwillingness to send people e-mail that would be construed as spam, and got assigned to a target lady in Indonesia. Oh, the intrigue! You sign up too, here, Even though the Man will probably use your information to take you and your people down someday. (Via Incoming Signals) ::
Madelyn Murray O'Hair [murdered atheist activist from Austin, and Irving Wallace, patriarch of the Book of Lists] in Hell, at The Morning News ::
:: January 15, 2003
Dear Crack Whore Who Broke Into Our Storage-space-bound Car This Morning,
I hope that the crack you buy when you pawn our Simpsons/Futurama/Yellow Submarine/Mckenzie Bros./Island of Misfit Toys action figures collection is cut with something that makes you very ill. I hope the meat you cook on our barbecue grill is tainted. I hope that my bowling ball pinches your fingers and never gives you a decent frame. I hope that our racquet sports equipment gives you tennis elbow, you crack smoking tennis playing motherfucker. A curse on your head! I SAY GOOD DAY!
Update: The bowling ball was safe after all, hiding under a pile of empty boxes. Bryan found some of our giant foam fingers littering a skank-ass alley near our house -- apparently crack whores don't have team spirit. ::
:: January 14, 2003
Listen to this NPR story and visit these websites [ 1 | 2 ] about shortwave radio transmissions that broadcast strings of numbers, weird underwater-sounding music, and cryptic sentences, which are likely encoded instructions to spies. This global phenomenon will make you believe (or at least think twice about) every conspiracy theory in the world. The fact that this stuff has been broadcast for so long, from so many places, with so little way of knowing where the signals are coming from, who or what they're going to, or what they're saying ... it's completely chilling, but so beautiful and ridiculous too. (Unsurprisingly via Sharpeworld ... who has a particularly terrific song of the week this week as well) ::
Starcade, an early 80s game show involving Geoff Edwards (above) asking trivia questions about arcade games to pimply faced kids then pitting the contestants in hand-to-to hand arcade game combat, is online and on the new and superfluous cable television channel G4!
(via Lots of Co.) ::
:: January 13, 2003
Scrubbles' honey Christopher just began a website dedicated to pictures of animals with their heads stuck in bags of food. Now that's something we can all get behind in these trying times.
And another high quality collection: items containing the word "chum" (via Metafilter) ::
:: January 11, 2003
OSHA's "Fatal Facts" wins for "most innappropriate use of alliteration in a title" and because it has ILLUSTRATIONS! (Via Ultimate Insult) ::
So many losses in the world of entertainment lately: April Winchell got canned last month (fortunately her website marches on, and it will take forever to listen to all the show archives); the Austin Chronicle continues to dig its own grave by firing Ken Lieck; Mister Pants is taking a sabbatical; and Oolong the Rabbit has died. All that is good and righteous in this world is crumbling around me! ::
Until Zoo Tycoon is released for the Macintosh operating system, I will be contented with Flip Flop Flyin's Cheap Zoo ::
:: January 7, 2003
If I was in charge of programming at a jamming funk and oldies station I would make everyone who worked there refer to January as Jamuary and if they didn't they would be sent packing, without parting gifts. Every time we played one of the Jamuary Jams of the Month, the 31st caller would receive a bucket o' jam and every 32nd caller would receive some bread and the name and phone number of the 31st caller so they could go on a date together and then come back and talk about it during February Luv Jams on the Jammin 108.7 KBCK where the jams keep the funk fresh. Dynomite. ::
:: January 4, 2003
Worst Manual Contest Winners (via Kisrael) ::
:: January 3, 2003
Other People's Stories: "Every story on OPS is a story a contributor heard from someone else. These stories have been overheard and misheard, told and re-told and sometimes refined over time. They do not shy from hearsay, gossip, myth or guys we knew in high school. OPS is dedicated to the time-honored tradition of stealing other people©ös material and we therefore recognize our debt to those from whom we©öve stolen and acknowledge that these stories do not belong to us.
New stories will appear every Tuesday and Thursday."
Good art, too.
(via Travelers Diagram) ::
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