Night on Dipshit Mountain Posted by condour at 03:09 PM August 31, 2005

On his new blog, Andrew notes a certain similarity between certain Fantasia characters and certain leaders of the free world.

Groucho'd look great in one of these Posted by condour at 08:36 PM August 30, 2005

It's not too late. To be a member.

Exercising with google maps Posted by condour at 08:20 PM August 28, 2005

Gmap Pedometer will give you distance between two points on a google map. Great for us New Yorkers, for whom driving directions results are seldom helpful, due to one-way streets.

Today talk, tomorrow the OS. Posted by condour at 09:26 AM August 24, 2005

Here it is... Google's answer to aim. It's a jabber client.

And here's my theory: Google is playing. They want to see if they can pull an entire market away from an ingrained frontrunner. How do you beat AIM, with its huge marketshare, when interoperability keeps everyone in one place? We shall see. Maybe this'll be the first project to tank.

So no personal spaceships, but... Posted by condour at 08:53 PM August 21, 2005

It's about goddamn time someone outdid Star Trek in the sliding door department. Leave it to the Japanese to come up with a door this cool.

The $250,000 challenge Posted by condour at 01:14 PM August 19, 2005

If you can provide empirical evidence that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, BoingBoing will pay you $250,000.

Later, Fay Wray will bite off his head. Posted by condour at 12:06 PM August 18, 2005

So I'm sitting minding my own business, doing a little work, when I look out my office window, and see this:

Thing nearly gave me a heart attack. Minutes later, he flew off between the buildings, back toward earth.

Got Milky Way? Posted by condour at 08:10 AM

Cosmologists have known for decades that there's a restaurant at the end of the universe. But now it seems there's a bar at the center of the galaxy.

The mistake will require costly corrections of astronomy textbooks and humorous "You Are Here" t-shirts. At least this was caught before we met our extraterrestrial neighbors, who would probably see it as a major social gaffe, not unlike arriving at a party with one's fly unzipped.

According to the tireless nerds of slashdot, this phenomenon was suspected for quite some time. At least we're not a cluster galaxy. Those guys are losers.

An Open Letter to the Kansas School Board Posted by condour at 11:44 AM August 12, 2005

And if that Shark versus Octopus video has you questioning the basic tenets of Biology, take heart in Bobby Henderson's theories of spaghetti monster-based design.

Shark vs. Octopus Posted by condour at 11:40 AM August 11, 2005

My inner 12-year-old, while disappointed with mankind's inability to get past low Earth orbit, is very happy with this Shark-versus-Octopus video. As Bob said, guess who wins?

Sprawling Postmodernist Novels Posted by condour at 11:23 AM August 03, 2005

Wow! Ask.metafilter.com answers the question What sprawling postmodernist novel should I read next? Having read a little Murakami, Eco, Wallace and Delillo myself (but only the least obscure choices of each, save Eco), this post will remain in my bookmarks for some time.